Now that all of the introductions, handshakes and pleasantries have subsided, new University of Kansas Athletic Director Travis Goff can fully immerse himself in the job of finding KU’s new football coach. And the place he should start is on the telephone. If it were me sitting in the ...
We’ve waited two full years to see another NCAA Tournament bracket, and now that it’s finally out, here’s a quick look at eight teams that could win six games in the next three weeks, some obvious and others not as much. 1: Gonzaga There are going to be brackets out there that do not ...
In 2018, four Big 12 football programs were searching for new head coaches at the same time. Kansas was one of them. The Jayhawks were the first to start looking and also became the first to make a hire, as Jeff Long snagged Les Miles in November of that year before KU’s 2018 season had ...
Anyone can make a coaching candidate list. And if you look right now you’ll find no fewer than 25 such lists out there that correspond to the suddenly vacant football job at the University of Kansas. We’ll have our list, too. And it likely won’t be the last one we make, depending, of ...
Plenty was made, in 2018, about University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long so quickly zeroing in on Les Miles and conducting yet another KU coaching search with Miles as the shiny, fancy focal point. Today, [with Miles and KU parting ways][1] in the wake of allegations of sexual ...
There are a couple dozen different reasons why Clint Bowen being named the next football coach at Lawrence High makes sense and should be celebrated. But one of those reasons, which Bowen hopes will tie him to some of the great Lawrence High coaches of the past, makes Bowen a dream hire for ...
Now that we know KU offensive coordinator Brent Dearmon is leaving the program, it’s imperative that the Kansas administration moves as quickly as possible in finding his replacement. After all, with February suddenly right around the corner, spring football is not that far off, and the ...
Everybody seems to have an opinion on why the College Football Playoff got it wrong this year or why the system is broken. I just have a question: What’s new? Sure, there have been seasons when it has been much more clear who the four best teams in college football have been. But there ...
Fort Myers, Fla. — If someone had told me a year ago that I would be watching No. 6 Kansas play top-ranked Gonzaga five miles from my Fort Myers, Fla., home, I would have pinched myself. The dream would have been too good to be true. If that same someone also had told me that I would be ...
Dream seasons aren’t supposed to end the way the Lawrence High football team’s did on Friday night. After a wild start that gave you the feeling that the Lions really might be destined to become the first LHS football team since 1995 to bring home a state championship trophy, things went ...
Spoiler alert for the quickly approaching college basketball season: David McCormack is not Udoka Azubuike. No one should expect McCormack, now a junior in the Kansas front court, to suddenly be able to pull off everything Azubuike did a year ago just because he is stepping into the sizable ...
For nearly three full quarters of Saturday’s 38-17 loss to West Virginia in Morgantown, W.Va., the Kansas football team did all that its disgruntled fan base has ever asked it to do. It competed. Before Leddie Brown’s 87-yard touchdown run put the Mountaineers up 24-10 with 3:37 to play ...
In a year when eliminating bowl games would be not only justifiable but also welcomed, the NCAA now sits on the brink of watering them down even further. The NCAA’s Division I Football Oversight Committee on Thursday [recommended waiving the requirements for bowl eligibility during the 2020 ...
Putting a consistently competitive product on the field continues to be the preferred scale of progress for the University of Kansas football program. And while that means week-to-week improvement in the eyes of head coach Les Miles, his bosses are looking at it from a slightly larger ...
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 ...
It’s easy, on Aug. 20, for anyone on the Kansas football team to say in a mostly empty room that they’re going to be smart and safe during the upcoming season so the Jayhawks can actually play football this fall. But it’s something else entirely to ask those same guys, and dozens like ...
In a world where so much is still unknown about the COVID-19 virus that has derailed the 2020 college football season, let me share with you one certainty — this thing is on the players now. With the Big 12 moving forward with a 10-game season this fall, it’s the players who will decide ...
It’s astonishing to me how college football, which operates under the NCAA umbrella and has done so gainfully and successfully for decades, can be so segmented during a time when conferences need to come together to find a way to play during the pandemic. There’s no one to blame but NCAA ...
I’ve long been a believer that baseball, in the world we currently live in, is in need of a tweak or two that brings a little excitement and urgency to the ballpark. And it appears as if Major League Baseball is on the brink of delivering that. At least temporarily. No, the decision to ...
ESPN’s recent Michael Jordan documentary “The Last Dance” revived arguments among fans about who the greatest basketball player of all time really was — and one of the greats who often shows up in those conversations went to Kansas. Wilt Chamberlain’s college career was certainly ...