Not yet, KU fans. Despite all kinds of momentum suggesting it might be, and a fun and flashy new offense to play with, Kansas football under Les Miles is not quite ready to beat Kansas State, even with a new coach leading the Wildcats. Instead of snapping a 10-game losing skid and partying ...
The head coaches for both teams were new. The crowd was a sellout at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium for the first time since 2009. But the result was much of the same. Kansas State dominated in every aspect of the game on its way to a 38-10 victory over Kansas Saturday afternoon. The ...
For a decade now, winning one Big 12 game has been not even a norm, only a ceiling, for the Kansas football program. Even Mark Mangino, who finished 50-48 as the Jayhawks’ head coach, only led KU to a single conference victory in 2009, his eighth and final season in charge. In the nine ...
— Kansas (3-5 overall, 1-4 Big 12) vs. No. 22 Kansas State (5-2, 2-2) • 2:30 p.m. kickoff, David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium • Game-time forecast: 51 degrees, mostly sunny, 0% chance of rain • TV: FOX Sports 1 • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our ...
Joe Dineen felt confident roughly a decade ago that the oldest of his three younger brothers, Jay, possessed the fire required to play linebacker. Jay didn’t prove this to Joe on a football field, though. Joe’s revelation came in the basement of their parents’ home in Lawrence. Joe’s ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/oct/26/330091/ There was a lot to like about Carter Stanley’s first touchdown strike in KU’s 37-34 win over Texas Tech last weekend. Stanley linked up with receiver Stephon Robinson for a 48-yard touchdown late in the first half to help pull the ...
The Big 12 Conference reminded football fans Wednesday evening that it frowns upon them celebrating their favorite team’s victory on the field. A few days after such postgame parties spilled out of the bleachers and onto the playing surfaces at three different venues, the conference office ...
It might have been easier than some would expect for Kansas State’s football players to flip the page this week and move on from a victory over Big 12 powerhouse Oklahoma. According to Wildcats head coach Chris Klieman, the way their in-state rival Kansas Jayhawks are playing had something ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles, happily reciting some statistics from his team’s just completed victory over Texas Tech on Saturday night, had to stop himself after reading the stat line for Stephon Robinson Jr. “Oh, my goodness,” the giddy coach remarked, after saying the numbers out ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2018/nov/10/327740/ It is no secret that this year’s Sunflower Showdown has a little bit more juice to it than previous years, and that’s a credit to how both teams have played as of late. Kansas (3-5, 1-4 Big 12) is coming off its first conference win ...
The NCAA took a major step Tuesday toward allowing college athletes to cash in on their fame, voting to permit them to "benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness." The nation's largest governing body for college sports and its member schools now must figure out how to allow ...
It’s not often that a Kansas football game in November is greeted with anticipation in the days leading up to it. With the Jayhawks winning three or fewer games each of the past nine years, a late-season malaise became the norm for many within the fan base. Something about this season, and ...
Although his head coach, Les Miles, described Carter Stanley being named the Big 12’s Offensive Player of the Week as “wonderful,” the Kansas football team’s starting quarterback went out of his way to downplay the honor. “It was a fun weekend,” Stanley replied, when asked Monday ...
According to KU's annual Equity in Athletics report, at the University of Kansas the average salary of head coaching positions of men’s teams is over $1.5 million more than that of the head coaches of women’s teams. The report, which was due Oct. 15 to the NCAA, was recently requested and ...
Kansas senior safety Mike Lee didn’t agree with the call, but there was no looking back after it happened. With 7:21 left in the first quarter, senior Bryce Torneden was ejected for targeting with his helmet while in punt coverage. The officials sent Torneden to the locker room after a ...
Incognito no longer, a couple of Kansas football specialists found themselves directly in the middle of the limelight as the Jayhawks and their fans alike rollicked Saturday night on the field at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. There would have been no party at all at the fourth ...
A little more than an hour after the entire Kansas football team celebrated its last-second victory over Texas Tech with a swarm of fans on the turf Saturday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, quarterback Carter Stanley tried his best to recall the “blur” of the frenzied scene to ...
An already shorthanded Kansas defense lost an integral player within nine minutes Saturday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. After a lengthy review, senior Bryce Torneden was called for targeting with the helmet after making a play in punt coverage. He was ultimately ejected at the ...
In the days leading up to his Ring of Honor ceremony Saturday night, it wasn’t an interception or some type of game-swinging takeaway that stood out to former Kansas football safety Darrell Stuckey, as he reflected on his days in the Jayhawks’ secondary. In fact, when asked earlier this ...
The entire Jayhawks roster had one thing in mind once the game clock expired Saturday night: chasing down the man who just made their 37-34 victory over Texas Tech possible. Impossibly the man of the night just seconds after the Red Raiders blocked his 40-yard field goal, junior KU kicker Liam ...