It began with Kansas football offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Brent Dearmon, barefoot in his basement, standing next to a white board and saying, “Hello, Twitter.” The video featuring Dearmon, posted to the team’s Twitter account this past week, served as an introduction to ...
The Big 12 Conference lost two large revenue streams when the coronavirus pandemic canceled college basketball’s postseason tournaments, and the financial outlook of the league could look far worse if football games are lost in the fall. Commissioner Bob Bowlsby revealed during a media ...
Bryce Torneden isn’t the biggest, fastest or most coveted pro football prospect coming out of the University of Kansas this year. In fact, it’s a near certainty that Torneden, a three-year starter in KU’s secondary, won’t be selected in the 2020 NFL Draft. But after arriving at the ...
KU’s athletic director says the university is already talking about contingency plans in case the coronavirus pandemic that canceled the NCAA’s winter and spring championships affects the 2020 football season, too. “Certainly there’s some question about the September football season ...
Kansas Athletics Inc. says it has evidence that former football coach David Beaty broke NCAA rules while at KU, and that it has spent “several hundred thousand” dollars in the court battles tied to Beaty’s lawsuit against the university, according to recently released court documents. In ...
By this point of March, the Kansas football team was supposed to be four practices into its spring schedule. At least that was the plan before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. Instead, spring football as the Jayhawks know it will be lost, and it remains unclear when they will next ...
You don’t expect to hear the words “incredibly awkward times” come from the mouth of a college administrator with three-plus decades of experience who prides himself on having seen just about everything. Yet, Monday afternoon, on a Zoom videoconference from his home office, there was ...
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow, University of Kansas Athletics Director Jeff Long said on Monday afternoon that neither any athletes on KU teams nor staff members within the department have tested positive for COVID-19. “Candidly, I only know of one or two student-athletes ...
Even before University of Kansas football coaches secured a verbal commitment from hometown Lawrence High prospect Devin Neal this weekend, the program’s 2021 recruiting class looked to be ahead of schedule. In fact, KU had four high school prospects committed as juniors in 2019, more than a ...
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there hasn't been a lot of positive news as of late. Schools have been forced to move online, sports have been canceled and social gatherings have been limited to 10 or fewer people. For a brief moment, at least in the city of Lawrence, Devin Neal changed ...
Lawrence High’s two-sport standout Devin Neal will be staying home at the next level. Late Friday night, Neal announced his verbal commitment to the University of Kansas via his personal Twitter account. Neal, who graduates in 2021, plans to play both football and baseball for the Jayhawks ...
Years before he joined the Kansas football staff, Brent Dearmon worked behind the scenes at Auburn as an analyst. Those two seasons are a span Dearmon remembers fondly, and it’s not just because that job helped catapult his coaching career. “I was around a guy named Nick Marshall for two ...
Like college coaches in every sport throughout the country, the Kansas football staff quickly figured out in the past week or so that all of its recruiting plans for the immediate future would have to be scrapped. Instead of holding back, the Jayhawks pivoted and innovated. For head coach Les ...
According to multiple reports Wednesday, including one from ESPN’s Josina Anderson, former Kansas cornerback Chris Harris Jr., has agreed to a free agent deal with the Los Angeles Chargers. Harris, who turns 31 in June, enjoyed nine standout seasons in Denver after entering the NFL as an ...
Chris Harris Jr. has been looking forward to this week for what seems like forever. “Oh yeah, I didn’t get recruited in high school. I didn’t have a lot of teams coming at me out of college. I didn’t get drafted. Now, to have multiple teams hit me up, it definitely feels good,” ...
The plan was for Hakeem Adeniji to stick around Lawrence for a couple of more weeks. The former Kansas football offensive lineman would use his college town as a home base of sorts leading up to the NFL draft. That was before everything went haywire. Just like most of the sports world, the ...
The most crucial portion of the Kansas football team’s offseason was just days away from starting up when the entire sports world came to a breakneck halt. The Jayhawks were scheduled to start their first spring practice of 2020 at 3:40 p.m. on St. Patrick’s Day. That was before the threat ...
A lot is riding on the University of Kansas' 149-page, often blistering, denunciation of the NCAA allegations against the school’s vaunted basketball program. If KU’s appeal ultimately fails, the men’s basketball program could be facing a postseason ban — beginning next season — ...
Updated at 9:36 p.m. The University of Kansas on Thursday responded to NCAA allegations of recruiting violations by arguing that the organization’s evidence in the case is not credible, and it did not acknowledge that any violations took place in its men’s basketball program. The ...
Fresh off a productive and potentially career-making trip to Indianapolis for the NFL pre-draft combine last week, Hakeem Adeniji still wanted to show scouts a little more at the Kansas football program’s annual pro day. Adeniji’s performance on the larger stage went so well that he ...