After watching his team grind through 12 consecutive weeks of relentless pursuit of football relevance, Kansas football coach Lance Leipold opened the Jayhawks’ bye week with a simple message. “What I said to them this morning was, ‘If you want to have an opportunity to play in December or January, you have to play well in November,” Leipold said Monday. “We have that opportunity to play in one of ...
In five halves of football in relief of injured starter Jalon Daniels, Kansas quarterback Jason Bean has completed 48 of 78 passes (61.5%) for 759 yards, nine touchdowns and three interceptions. By Kansas standards, that’s pretty darn good. By Daniels standards, it’s merely OK. Two things can be true when looking at KU’s quarterback play since Daniels was injured late in the first half of the ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team played a so-called secret scrimmage against Illinois at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri on Saturday and a few details have started to emerge. One question, though: Is it really a secret if everyone knows about it? "Kind of," is the answer to that question. It’s against NCAA rules for KU or Illinois to promote the game or publish stats or a final score. ...
As the weeks go by and the losses start to mount, the significance of Kansas holding on to win against both Duke and Iowa State becomes even more clear. No matter how rough it gets or how many losses the Jayhawks take, those two wins, which both hung in the balance late in the fourth quarter, guaranteed that they will always enter their next game of the season needing just one more win to become bowl eligible. ...
It’s a battle of once-ranked teams that have lost back to back games this weekend in Waco, Texas, and the stakes are high for both teams. Kansas, which remains one win shy of becoming bowl eligible for the first time in 14 seasons, either will snap its two-game losing skid, pick up that elusive sixth victory and head into its bye week riding high at 6-2 or the Jayhawks will see their losing streak reach ...
Kansas football offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki said this week that the offense the Jayhawks run was designed in some ways because of the skill set of quarterback Jason Bean. After all, it was Bean, and not 2022 starter Jalon Daniels, who won the QB job during Year 1 of the Lance Leipold era at KU, and, as such, Kotelnicki and the rest of the position coaches on offense put in a system that took ...