Kansas football hires Texas staffer as new director of operations

By Matt Tait     Jul 8, 2020

New Kansas football director of operations Tory Teykl.

The University of Kansas football program has hired a new director of football operations from one of the premier programs in the Big 12 Conference.

On Wednesday, a Kansas Athletics spokesperson confirmed to the Journal-World that Tory Teykl had been hired as an assistant athletics director for football operations. Teykl comes to KU after three full seasons in the same position at the University of Texas under UT coach Tom Herman.

Prior to that, the 2007 Texas A&M graduate and native of Rosenberg, Texas, spent eight years working at the University of Houston, four of them in football operations. She received a masters degree in sports management from Texas A&M in 2009.

Upon hiring her to join him in Austin after leaving Houston in December of 2016, Herman called Teykl “great in her role, totally aligned with our coaches and critical to the success of our program.”

Before getting involved with football at Houston, Teykl worked in marketing, eventually becoming Houston’s director for marketing and promotions in 2011.

According to Teykl’s LinkedIn page, her duties at UT included coordinating the program’s daily operations, summer camps and team travel plans and working as a liaison with UT’s compliance staff and academic services.

Mike Huff served as Kansas football’s director of operations in 2019, during Les Miles’ first year in charge of the program. Huff is still with KU, but he has been reassigned to a role in administration, according to the Kansas Athletics website.

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.