As University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff ascertains which coaches across the country are interested in the KU football vacancy, the man currently running the program, interim head coach Emmett Jones, is thrilled to be a contender for the position. “Just being a candidate, I’m ...
Throughout a winless 2020 season, the Kansas football team’s offensive line suffered through so many losing battles at the point of attack that the Jayhawks rarely were able to avoid blowout defeats. While no one is denying those issues existed, the hope among KU’s O-linemen this year is ...
First-year KU Athletic Director Travis Goff on Thursday informed KU’s donors that he was [beginning a national search to find KU’s next head football coach.][1] In an email sent out Thursday afternoon, Goff expressed his appreciation for the job interim head coach Emmett Jones and his ...
A national search for the next head football coach at the University of Kansas is back on — this time with a different athletic director in charge. Still in his second week on the job as KU’s new AD, Travis Goff announced in a letter emailed to donors Thursday evening that he is initiating ...
Starting next season, major college football and basketball players will be permitted to transfer one time before graduating without being required to sit out a year of competition. The NCAA Division I Council voted Wednesday to change the long-standing rule that has often deterred players in ...
The Kansas football defense could end up relying a lot on a pair of relatively new inside linebackers this year. Between former safety Nate Betts switching positions during the offseason and Taiwan Berryhill moving inside late during his freshman year, the Jayhawks hope those two can bolster a ...
When the University of Kansas parted ways with Les Miles in early March, the football team’s players didn’t know what the future would hold. And while the coaching transition remains unfinished more than a month later, Sam Burt said he and other veterans did their best to make the process ...
The Kansas football team’s incoming freshman class will have one fewer member than expected. Andrew Simpson, a Class of 2021 linebacker who signed with the Jayhawks this past December, announced Wednesday he had been granted a release from his letter of intent. “I look forward to another ...
In a program mired in uncertainty, few aspects of the Kansas football team’s 2021 season feel more settled than the running back position — even if the Jayhawks don’t want to reveal the particulars of how new offensive coordinator Mike DeBord wants to make use of the backs. “I can’t ...
It won’t be called “Late Night Under the Lights,” and there will be no postgame Rick Ross concert, but there will be fans at the first Kansas football spring game in two years. KU announced Tuesday night that the May 1 open scrimmage will kick off at 6 p.m. at David Booth Kansas Memorial ...
As much as the Kansas football team leaned into getting its youngest prospects onto the field in 2020, only a select few true freshmen, including cornerback Duece Mayberry, actually played in every game. Though he didn’t start at all this past fall, Mayberry is grateful to bring so much ...
The hope leading up to the 2020 season was that Lawrence Arnold, even as a true freshman, would take on a complementary role within the Kansas football offense sooner rather than later. An injury to the young receiver, however, kept Arnold sidelined much of the schedule, hindering his chances ...
Now a third of the way through the 15-practice spring schedule, interim Kansas football coach Emmett Jones left Saturday’s session convinced the Jayhawks are on the right track. “A lot of flying around, a lot of energy. Guys getting after each other, plenty of physicality going on. Guys ...
A couple of weeks into spring practices, some of the Kansas football team’s more experienced players already are spotting promising traits and signs from their young teammates. It’s even happening on the offensive line, where age and size traditionally make for the most effective ...
In the early stages of what very well might be a lengthy quarterback competition for the Kansas football team in 2021, a number of contenders are getting their chances to make their case for the job. Sophomore Jalon Daniels, who started in six of nine games for the Jayhawks in 2020, said ...
New University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff made his second appearance at a KU football practice on just his third day on the job Thursday. And this time Goff addressed the players to conclude his visit. Super-senior Chris Hughes told reporters following the latest closed practice, ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — In a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit, an associate athletic director at Louisiana State University accuses university officials of retaliating against her for reporting racist remarks and inappropriate sexual behavior by Les Miles, the former head football coach at ...
Whether it’s Emmett Jones or someone else leading the Kansas football program when the season begins in September, the Jayhawks will be taking a youthful roster into their 2021 schedule. Even counting the eight players who used the NCAA’s blanket waiver for an extra year of eligibility, KU ...
While new University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff has a strategy and some possible scenarios under consideration for the future of the KU football program, Goff described himself Wednesday as “open-minded” about the team’s head coaching vacancy. Goff, on his second day running ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2021/apr/05/332356/ Travis Goff was formally introduced as the new athletic director at Kansas Wednesday morning at the Lied Center. Goff, who is a 2002 graduate of the University of Kansas and native of Dodge City, is the fifth AD hired by Kansas since the ...