Former Kansas football star running back Pooka Williams will be back in Lawrence this week, hoping to prove himself as an NFL prospect at the Jayhawks’ pro day on Friday. Due to the pandemic, there won’t be an NFL Scouting Combine in 2021, making the pro days hosted by individual college ...
The Kansas football coaches picked up another three-star prospect for the Jayhawks’ 2022 recruiting class on Monday night, when Texas prep Jacobe Chester announced his decision to commit to KU. Chester, listed as an athlete by Rivals, is a potential defensive back at the college level, and ...
Now the head football coach at the University of Kansas, Les Miles during his tenure at LSU faced allegations of sexual harassment and reached a settlement with one former student intern, according to reports that surfaced on Wednesday. Miles years ago reached a settlement with a former LSU ...
Kansas football will have a new outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator in 2021, and former Bowling Green assistant Jake Schoonover will handle both of those roles. Head coach Les Miles announced Monday the hiring of Schoonover, who replaced Chidera Uzo-Diribe as a defensive ...
Pending might be the best way to describe the Kansas football program’s current quarterback situation, leading up to the start of spring practices in late March. Now that the QB group has a new position coach — Mike DeBord, Les Miles’ latest offensive coordinator — the starting job for ...
In the days leading up to and following February’s National Signing Day, the Kansas football program continued to add preferred walk-ons to its list of additions for the 2021 season. Just this past week, Landon Nelson, a cornerback from West Des Moines, Iowa, announced his commitment to the ...
Considering the dearth of victories experienced by the Kansas football program in recent years, KU predictably ended up at the top of an unflattering list that examined costs across FBS programs. An analysis of college football spending from 2014-18 published by AthleticDirectorU.com found ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles was in the middle of talking up the program’s 2021 signing class when unprompted he brought up a particular incoming freshman who is already on campus. “The Missouri lad,” Miles would go on to call the young quarterback during a recent phone interview with ...
Barring another unforeseen global catastrophe, the Kansas football team’s calendar will return to normal in 2021. The Big 12, after altering its teams’ schedules this past year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, plans for its programs to play 12 regular season games again this coming fall. The ...
After more than two decades of coaching at the collegiate level, Clint Bowen is coming back home to take over the high school program that he once played for. Bowen, a Lawrence native who graduated from Lawrence High in 1990, was named the new LHS head football coach on Monday. He becomes just ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles and newly hired coordinator Mike DeBord still have some time to lay the foundation for the Jayhawks’ new offense before the players get their first cracks at running it during practices. After missing out on spring football completely due to the COVID-19 ...
There won’t be an abundance of Brent Dearmon buyout money available for Kansas football to use when it’s paying the man Les Miles hired to replace his former offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. According to a settlement agreement between Kansas Athletics Inc. and Dearmon, who ...
Although a number of seniors from the Kansas football program’s 2020 roster decided to transfer elsewhere, the Jayhawks are set to bring back eight players for an extra senior year. KU coach Les Miles confirmed with the Journal-World on Thursday that offensive linemen Chris Hughes, Malik ...
While Kansas football coach Les Miles feels upbeat about the entirety of the Jayhawks’ latest signing class, he couldn’t downplay the significance of topping it off on National Signing Day with the addition of four-star receiver Quaydarius Davis. “It’s tremendously important,” Miles ...
Lawrence High senior Cole Mondi knows the challenge that he now has in front of him to carve out a role at the collegiate level. Even as a preferred walk-on, there is no guarantee that Mondi ever sees the field for a single snap as member of the Kansas football program. He understands that he ...
The latest offensive coordinator brought in by Kansas football coach Les Miles, Mike DeBord signed a two-year deal that will pay him $600,000 a year. The agreement, which expires in February of 2023, calls for Kansas Athletics Inc. to pay DeBord — an offensive analyst at Michigan in 2020 and ...
New Kansas offensive coordinator Mike DeBord recognizes the image projected by a little gray hair, a mostly bald head and a birthday in the 1950s. But he’s pretty comfortable addressing it. [Speaking Wednesday on a Zoom call to introduce him as Les Miles’ newest hire,][1] DeBord was ...
According to Kansas football coach Les Miles, he’s been “chasing” Mike DeBord as a potential assistant coach for the past few years. The pursuit finally ended this week when the two former Michigan assistants reunited with the Jayhawks. Miles said during a Wednesday video press ...
With the pandemic reducing in recent months the number of Big 12 games played in both football and basketball — as well as the number of fans in seats — Kansas Athletics Inc. is now expecting a roughly $30 million revenue hit as a result. KAI chief financial officer Pat Kaufman shared ...
At previous points during his recruitment, Dallas Skyline High receiver Quaydarius Davis was committed to nationally prominent college football programs USC and Texas. When National Signing Day for the Class of 2021 finally arrived on Wednesday, though, the four-star prospect became the ...