For at least the past few decades, and probably a lot longer, college athletics — particularly football — has been more or less defined by a facilities arms race. Bigger, better, nicer, newer has been the currency for national relevance and a requirement for competitive programs. And ...
When you’ve covered Kansas football as long as I have, you’ve heard about, seen and written about all kinds of different recruiting approaches from the long list of head coaches and assistants that have come through Lawrence. From a Kansas-first approach or heavy reliance on junior ...
When news broke this week that [ESPN had turned down a massive rights package offered by the Big Ten Conference — $380 million per year for seven years —][1] my thoughts immediately turned to the Big 12. Without the Big Ten in the mix for the first time in nearly 40 years, ESPN is going ...
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold has plenty to worry about between now and the Sept. 2 season opener against Tennessee Tech. But the one concern that likely will not go away by then, no matter how sharp his players look or how solid his depth chart appears, is the importance of support for ...
On Wednesday morning, at the indoor practice facility adjacent to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, KU football coach Lance Leipold jokingly shouted to media members in attendance that junior Jalon Daniels was the team’s quarterback. It came off as a joke because Leipold had basically ...
For months, Kansas football strength coach Matt Gildersleeve pushed the Jayhawks to dig deep for every rep, throw up as much weight as they could and sculpt their bodies into athletic specimens. So it goes during the college football offseason. With that being the goal of the past eight ...