Two games into the season, Kansas football coach Les Miles is downplaying any concerns he may have about the team’s defense. “I think as this continues we’ll continue to build,” Miles said this week, pointing to the defensive unit’s “good character.” While the defense isn’t ...
Kansas might have had a true freshman quarterback in the Big 12 opener, but the offense was still much of the same — at least personnel wise — in a 47-14 loss to Baylor this past weekend. The Jayhawks utilized five different personnel groupings for the second game in a row, making sure the ...
At about 2 a.m. this past Sunday, KU football coach Les Miles was rewatching his team's 47-14 loss at Baylor. He noticed Pooka Williams Jr. watching, too. “He was looking over his head coach’s shoulder,” Miles recalled, “and watching the game on the computer.” It had been a few ...
Depending on how the next few days of practices play out — and the health of one of the Jayhawks’ offensive veterans — the Kansas football team might go back to rotating quarterbacks when it takes on No. 17 Oklahoma State this week. Head coach Les Miles still wasn’t ready to name a ...
John Hadl, one of only three players in the history of football at the University of Kansas to have his number retired and a decades-long leader in Kansas Athletics' Williams Education Fund, has received the highest honor bestowed by the KU Alumni Association. The Fred Ellsworth Medallion, ...
Kansas suffered a 47-14 loss to Baylor in the Big 12 opener this past weekend, which wasn’t too surprising given the recent results between these two teams. What was interesting was looking at statistics from that game, using NCAA Premium Stats on Pro Football Focus. PFF’s grading system ...
College football’s most unenviable streak kept plummeting, clunking into a new low of a milestone this past weekend, as the Big 12’s often clobbered travelers, the Kansas Jayhawks, lost the program’s 50th true conference road game in a row. Often more inadequate than competitive when ...
Jalon Daniels has taken a lot of snaps at quarterback during his life, but until Saturday night he had never called out the snap count or led an offense as a starter in college. As such, the true freshman from Lawndale, Calif., spent quite a bit of the spring and summer preparing for ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles started and stuck with true freshman quarterback Jalon Daniels in the Jayhawks’ 47-14 loss at Baylor. Nevertheless, KU’s quarterback situation going forward remained more murky than transparent late Saturday night. If an injury to senior QB Thomas ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles had another quarterback surprise for the Jayhawks’ opponent Saturday night in Waco, Texas. After waiting until minutes before the season opener to name a starting QB earlier this month, Miles’ choice for the job in KU’s second game wasn’t only different, ...
An unexpected change at quarterback only afforded the Kansas football team a fleeting spark in Waco, Texas, Saturday night. True freshman quarterback Jalon Daniels led the Jayhawks down the field for a touchdown to launch into the Big 12 opener and his first career start at Baylor’s McLane ...
The bleachers inside David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium won’t look quite so empty at the KU football team’s next home game. After the Jayhawks played their Sept. 12 opener without any fans, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Friday the team’s Oct. 3 matchup with Oklahoma State will ...
— Kansas (0-1) vs. Baylor (0-0) • 6:30 p.m. kickoff, McLane Stadium, Waco, Texas • Game-time forecast: 84 degrees, mostly sunny, 0% chance of rain • TV: ESPNU • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Visit KUsports.com for our live coverage and follow our team on Twitter: @KUSports, ...
In a year when eliminating bowl games would be not only justifiable but also welcomed, the NCAA now sits on the brink of watering them down even further. The NCAA’s Division I Football Oversight Committee on Thursday [recommended waiving the requirements for bowl eligibility during the 2020 ...
As if 2020 weren’t already bizarre enough, it could conclude with the ever rebuilding Kansas football program bowl eligible — technically. The Jayhawks haven’t won enough games to be automatically considered for a postseason invite since 2008, but the Division I Football Oversight ...
If it were up to Baylor football coach Dave Aranda, the Kansas coaches would already have plenty of the Bears’ footage to study heading into the first weekend of Big 12 competition. That’s because BU’s first-year head coach was eager to lead his players onto the field in Waco, Texas, ...
Putting a consistently competitive product on the field continues to be the preferred scale of progress for the University of Kansas football program. And while that means week-to-week improvement in the eyes of head coach Les Miles, his bosses are looking at it from a slightly larger ...
The Kansas football team lost some depth in the secondary Wednesday, as reserve safety Julian Chandler became the second member of the program to opt out of playing this year. Chandler, a 6-foot, 182-pound senior from Houston, announced his decision via Twitter, three days ahead of KU’s ...
To some extent, it is like another opener for the Kansas football team. It might even be more difficult in terms of preparation. KU’s coaching staff at least had an idea of what to expect from Coastal Carolina prior to an eventual 38-23 loss in the season opener, which was thanks in large ...
Don’t get Takulve "TK" Williams wrong. The junior receiver was happy to make his first career start for the Kansas football team in the season opener. It’s just that Williams’ most productive college game to date didn’t exactly meet his standards. “I feel like I didn’t play that ...