Les Miles’ quarterback secret lasted about as long as possible, all the way up to a few minutes before his Kansas football team made its season debut Saturday night, when senior Thomas MacVittie was finally announced as the starter in KU's eventual 38-23 loss to Coastal Carolina. Miles went ...
The first snap of the 2020 Kansas football season was taken by KU senior Thomas MacVittie at 9:21 p.m. on Saturday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium and it led to a routine completion to Takulve Williams for no gain in KU's eventual 38-23 defeat to Coastal Carolina. Everything that ...
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Junior cornerback Corione Harris’ eight-month suspension from the Kansas football team, dating back to a January arrest, finally reached a resolution this week, as head coach Les Miles reinstated the defensive back. In a statement to the Journal-World on Friday afternoon, Miles said ...
Recent history indicates that the second year of a head football coach’s career at Kansas has been critical to his staying power. Turner Gill was fired after going 2-10 in his second season. Charlie Weis made it just four games into his third season after posting a 4-20 mark with two ...
There should be intriguing matchups across the board in KU’s season opener against Coastal Carolina, which is slated for a 9 p.m. kickoff on Saturday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. But let’s turn our focus to the trenches for the purpose of this blog. Specifically, I want to take ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles decided not to publicly name a starting quarterback ahead of his team’s season debut Saturday night versus Coastal Carolina, maintaining in interviews that the competition would last through this week. Miles even claimed the Jayhawks might play both Thomas ...
No college football player has to play this year, in the midst of a pandemic. But Kansas receiver Andrew Parchment wanted to anyway. With his eyes set on a future in the NFL following what will be a truncated 10-game season at KU, Parchment wasn’t interested in opting out. He hopes to use ...
It didn’t take long for Robert Jackson to realize that KU freshman cornerback Karon Prunty had a bright future. Jackson was only Prunty’s head coach for one season at I.C. Norcom High School in Portsmouth, Virginia. Jackson took over the program in the offseason, and only needed to see ...
Coastal Carolina head coach Jamey Chadwell knows his offense is going to have to be better if his team wants to knock off Kansas for the second year in a row. The Chanticleers needed just two scores in a 12-7 win at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium a season ago, marking their first-ever ...
Les Miles isn’t the only head coach headed into this Saturday’s Kansas football opener keeping his quarterback plans to himself. Coastal Carolina coach Jamey Chadwell told reporters during his Wednesday video press conference he has decided on a starting QB, but will not announce the ...
Former University of Kansas All-American and Super Bowl 50 champion Aqib Talib has decided to call it a career. Talib, who starred with the Jayhawks for three seasons from 2005-07 and won Super Bowl 50 with the Denver Broncos in 2016, playing alongside fellow former Jayhawk Chris Harris, ...
After an offseason that felt like it lasted like six years, it is officially game week for the Kansas football program. KU obviously didn’t wait until now to start preparing for Coastal Carolina, as you can bet that Les Miles’ staff has done their due diligence ahead of the rematch ...
Pooka Williams Jr. is the undisputed star of the Kansas football offense. If you ask some of the Jayhawks, though, the preseason All-Big 12 running back has more than just a backup or sidekick in Velton Gardner. Even though Gardner is entering his sophomore season having not yet carried the ...
Maybe the Kansas football offense won’t feature a lot of Torry Locklin early in the season. Or maybe Les Miles doesn’t want Coastal Carolina spending time preparing for Locklin. Either way, KU’s head coach downplayed this week his team’s interest in running plays out of a Wildcat ...
I know Kansas football coach Les Miles said Monday that he could see the Jayhawks playing both Thomas MacVittie and Miles Kendrick in KU’s season opener on Saturday night against Coastal Carolina. In fact, I’m well aware that [Miles even went as far as to call it “a good possibility” ...
Year 2 of the Les Miles era is set to begin this weekend when Kansas hosts Coastal Carolina for a rematch of KU’s most forgettable performance from the 2019 campaign. The Jayhawks, who suffered a 12-7 defeat at home to the Chanticleers last season, are favored in the 2020 season opener by 6.5 ...
Barring any unexpected developments between now and Saturday night, it seems most of the Kansas football team’s starting lineup for the upcoming season opener is set. The Jayhawks unveiled their first public depth chart of 2020 on Monday, and only two starting jobs on offense remained ...
The Kansas football team’s quarterback competition could carry over into actual games instead of reaching a conclusion during this week’s practices. Backtracking from what he said less than a week ago on the matter, head coach Les Miles stated during his Monday video press conference that ...
Kansas Athletics Director Jeff Long said Friday that the department would undergo another round of furloughs and salary cuts as it continues to struggle with cash flow amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The department announced a sweeping round of furloughs and pay reductions in May that Long ...