Mark Mangino is returning to the sideline, three years after his ouster as the coach at Kansas.
Mangino was announced Friday as the new tight ends coach and assistant head coach at Youngstown State, his alma mater. The Penguins are coached by Eric Wolf… Continue reading
K-STATE WILDCATS
MATCHUP: #2 Kansas State (10-0, 7-0) at Baylor (4-5, 1-5)
KICKOFF: 7 p.m. Saturday, Casey Stadium, Waco, Texas
RADIO: KTOP-FM (102.9)
TV: ESPN
LINE: K-State by 11.
CATCHPHRASE: Trap game.
Bill Snyder would disagree with that. There are… Continue reading
LAWRENCE — Tanner Hawkinson is on the verge of making Kansas football history. Barring some unforeseen change or injury, Hawkinson will start Saturday against Iowa State and break the KU record for consecutive games started with 47.
Hawkinson came to… Continue reading
Kansas is still struggling to keep it close against more skilled teams. By Andrew Curtis Charlie Weis is now more than halfway through his first season as head coach of the football program at the University of Kansas. You can certainly make the argument that KU’s defense is better. That’s undeniable. But the offense has taken a few steps backward, resulting in only one win to date, against FCS opponent South Dakota State. KU arguably should have won the first three games, but blew 4th quarter leads to Rice and Northern Illinois. While Kansas has been competitive against quality teams like TCU and Oklahoma State and for a half on the road against national title… Continue reading
LAWRENCE — Well, are you convinced?
That was the stated goal for Charlie Weis in his Kansas debut — first of all to win, but also to show that KU has some new muscles to flex.
The Jayhawks accomplished the most crucial part, beating South Dakota St… Continue reading
By Andrew Curtis It’s finally that time of year. Three things are inevitable: School is back in session, the leaves are beginning to change colors and the Kansas football program is set to begin its 123rd season. It’s safe to say that the Jayhawks enter the 2012 season with the most optimism since 2009, when Mark Mangino was still at the helm. The Turner Gill era was, well, if you want to call it an era, nothing short of abysmal. In my first three years at KU, the football team managed to get embarrassingly worse. A program that had won an Orange Bowl just a couple years before managed to just 10 wins in 3… Continue reading
If improvements on the football field mirror those in the classroom, Charlie Weis could achieve a quick turnaround at Kansas.
Grade-point averages released Monday by KU showed a marked improvement from the football program, which raised its teamwide GP… Continue reading
DENVER — Highly touted quarterback Brock Berglund won’t rush to make a snap decision on his next school.
Since being granted his release from The University of Kansas in January, Berglund has been roaming the country in search of just the right cam… Continue reading
LAWRENCE — Maybe Michael Reynolds will make a huge impact on this year’s Kansas defense. Then again, maybe he won’t.
But what’s clear in listening to coach Charlie Weis and defensive coordinator Dave Campo is this: The Jayhawks still need to im… Continue reading
The tone is purely Kansan, though the characters who provided some of the material were not.
Speaking to the Downtown Rotary Club last week, Sheahon Zenger was in his element.
He read an essay from Paul Harvey, he related the heroics of Civil War colon… Continue reading