As their college careers came to an end this past November, the seniors on the 2018 Kansas football team closed a chapter of their lives just as a new one was opening for the program. Out went standouts Daniel Wise, Joe Dineen and Steven Sims Jr., and in came renowned former LSU coach Les ...
Daniel Wise arrived Wednesday at the Kansas football team’s indoor practice facility with one very specific goal in mind. Sure, the 6-foot-2, 279-pound NFL hopeful wanted to impress scouts with his position drill work, too, but Wise resolved long before KU’s pro day to use the showcase as ...
Following his team’s sixth spring practice Tuesday evening, University of Kansas football coach Les Miles didn’t reveal much about the status of any position battles, but he couldn’t hold back a detail regarding the program’s upcoming spring game. Fielding questions from reporters on ...
Former University of Kansas football coach David Beaty, who recently filed a lawsuit against KU, said Tuesday that the university's claim that he refused to cooperate with an investigation into possible NCAA violations is "verifiably false." In a statement through his lawyers to SB Nation, ...
College football’s FBS leader in solo tackles in each of his final two seasons at the University of Kansas, Joe Dineen was vexed. The NFL invited 337 prospects this year to attend its annual scouting combine in Indianapolis, and the Jayhawks’ first-team All-Big 12 linebacker didn’t make ...
As head coach Les Miles and his Kansas football staff continue building for the program’s future, the Jayhawks’ 2020 recruiting class picked up another offensive addition on Monday. Da’Vonshai Harden Jr., a standout dual-threat quarterback at Topeka High, announced on Twitter his ...
The Kansas football team had a few recruits visiting campus during its first scrimmage of spring football on Saturday. Not too long after the practice session ended, one of them was ready to commit to head coach Les Miles and the Jayhawks. Will Huggins, a 6-foot-6 tight end at Shawnee ...
After getting the previous week off for the university’s spring break, the Kansas football team got back to its spring practice schedule Tuesday afternoon and, unlike the first two sessions from earlier this month, the Jayhawks got to wear some shells and do some hitting. “Today was the ...
Kansas City, Mo. — After spending a little more than 10 minutes clapping, cheering and enjoying the scene inside the Power & Light District’s KC Live! block Thursday evening, a throng of mostly crimson and blue-clad fans crescendoed when a man they immediately recognized rambled ...
Growing up in New Orleans, it’s true that Corione Harris dreamt of one day playing football for Les Miles. He just never figured that would happen for him at Kansas. While many KU fans felt exhilarated this past November when Miles was hired to take over the football program, Harris was ...
The David Beaty era at the University of Kansas may have ended on the field in November of 2018, but the athletic department that fired him hasn’t heard the last from its former embattled head football coach. Beaty filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Kansas Athletics Inc., on ...
Even though the man who recruited him to the University of Kansas left before Thomas MacVittie ever had a chance to work under the assistant coach’s tutelage, MacVittie wasn’t afforded the time to ponder what might have been. Les Miles made sure of that. Once Chip Lindsey, KU football’s ...
When Les Miles met with media members shortly after the conclusion of his Kansas football team’s first spring practice on Wednesday evening, the program’s first-year coach didn’t want to reveal too much about his offensive philosophy at this early stage of the offseason. However, Miles ...
It was just some special teams review. A chance for offensive linemen to go over a formation and walk through their assignments. A minor yet necessary part of the first day of spring football practice. And there was Les Miles, former head coach at powerhouse LSU, right in the thick of it, ...
While almost all of the 90-plus players listed on the Kansas football roster suited up Wednesday, sans shells and pads, for the first day of spring practice inside the program’s new indoor facility, running back Pooka Williams was nowhere to be seen. KU football coach Les Miles said ...
They’ve met him, spent time around him inside Anderson Family Football Complex and even sprinted through conditioning drills as his watchful eyes observed. But now, players in the Kansas football program will get to find out what it’s like to truly be coached by Les Miles. The first of ...
After spending the three months since the end of his final collegiate season preparing for the stage, former University of Kansas standout Daniel Wise finally got to show NFL coaches, general managers and scouts what he has to offer. Sunday was the day for defensive linemen to sprint, jump, ...
You’ve seen him eat grass. You’ve seen him steal the national championship trophy in a Dr. Pepper commercial. And soon you’ll have a chance to watch Les Miles rappel down the side of a building. The Kansas football program’s new high profile coach will be 80 feet up, on the rooftop of ...
“Hawk Talk” isn’t just for University of Kansas coaches anymore. The radio show that typically allows fans to hear from KU men’s basketball coach Bill Self, football coach Les Miles or women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider is adding a new voice to its lineup. Beginning this ...
A Junior Day weekend designed to introduce targeted high school prospects to the University of Kansas football program turned out fairly successful for new head coach Les Miles and his staff. A day after the Jayhawks gained their first commitment for the Class of 2020, another high school ...