That’s two weeks in a row where the Kansas football team fell into a 14-0 hole to open the game but managed to crawl out of it to win on the road. Pro tip: Stop doing that. There’s no doubt that the Jayhawks felt some measure of comfort after going down to Houston 14-0 during Saturday’s 48-30 Kansas victory. After all, much like the Kansas men’s basketball team relied on the memory of its its ...
Saturday afternoon will mark the latest memorable chapter in the storied volleyball careers of former Kansas All-Americans Ainise Havili and Kelsie Payne. Already with their faces on the outside of the building, Havili and Payne now will have their jerseys hanging inside Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena. The two former teammates and close friends who own multiple school records will be the first two players ...
Asked Tuesday how he felt about his offense’s explosiveness through two weeks of the 2022 football season, Kansas coach Lance Leipold borrowed a favorite phrase of offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki’s to keep things in perspective. “Statistics lie and liars use statistics,” Leipold said. “And you can skew these things to look a lot of ways you want. But for us to have that type of production and ...
Kansas offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki likes to equate giving up sacks in football to a plane crash. To be fair, KU’s OC borrowed the philosophy from a chapter in the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, but he still believes it nonetheless. The chapter is called “The ethnic theory of plane crashes” and its principle theme is pretty simple. “It’s usually a series of little things that ...
It’s amazing what winning can do in sports. Laughed at and mocked for the better part of the last decade, the Kansas football program is getting some serious love after its 2-0 start to the 2022 season. I supposed that’s what happens when the bar is so low and people have grown accustomed to writing you off before the season even begins. No one’s writing off this Kansas team, however. At least not ...
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold, whose name has surfaced on media lists projecting possible candidates to replace Scott Frost at Nebraska, had little to say about the connection during Tuesday’s KU football press conference. Asked at the start of his regular weekly meeting with the media if he had seen the lists or had any had any reaction to them, Leipold smiled, shook his head briefly and said, “No. ...