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Tom Keegan: Pick your favorite next KU football coach from this list of 17 names
Jeff Long held a very candid press conference Sunday night in the wake of the announcement that David Beaty would coach the final three games of the season for Kansas and won’t be retained.
Tom Keegan: Beaty's failure to execute his own blueprint led to demise
So nervous at his introductory press conference that he twice said “Texas” when he meant “Kansas,” David Beaty still was able to articulate his plan for rescuing a football program flailing in quicksand. He could not execute his blueprint because he so quickly abandoned it. In three games shy of four seasons on the job, he didn’t move the program forward an inch and has a 6-39 record. By Tom Keegan
Tom Keegan: Coaching change would energize fanbase
The sun eventually popped out of the clouds Saturday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, but the outlook for Kansas football remained the same: indefinitely gloomy. The final scoreboard read Iowa State 27, Kansas 3. The color scheme in the stands and the loudest roars from the crowd painted an even more damning view of the state of the program. By Tom Keegan
Tom Keegan: KU forward Dedric Lawson already looks like a pro
Dedric Lawson easily could have passed for an NBA veteran Tuesday night, stopping by his perennial powerhouse school, giving teenagers the thrill of running with them as he treats them as equals.
Tom Keegan: Even Bill Self wonders what preseason No. 1 really means
Kansas carries college basketball’s No. 1 preseason ranking into Tuesday night’s season-opener vs. No. 10 Michigan State in Indianapolis, and its 16th-year head coach posed an interesting question about the ranking.
Tom Keegan: Snappy Wirtel family on both sidelines and in stands Saturday
The better the long snapper, the less likely anybody is to recognize his name.
Tom Keegan: Udoka's time will come, just not Thursday
The day before Kansas played Emporia State at Allen Fieldhouse in the exhibition opener, coach Bill Self spoke in interesting fashion about the contrasting styles of his two tallest starters, Udoka Azubuike and Dedric Lawson.
Tom Keegan: Gap between KU and K-State narrowing in two sports
Kansas has the better basketball program, Kansas State the superior football team. It’s been that way nearly every year for more than a quarter of a century.
Tom Keegan: Jury rules Adidas defrauds KU, strangely happy news for 'victims'
Kansas City, Mo. — Adidas, apparel partner of the University of Kansas athletic department, was found guilty of defrauding the university, and it was the best news the nation’s No. 1-ranked college basketball program had heard in months.
Tom Keegan: Daylon Charlot finally put on stage
The euphoria of the Kansas football fan base when David Beaty landed a pair of Alabama transfers reached offseason levels that it hadn’t experienced since Charlie Weis’ rapid-fire announcements of a pair of five-star quarterbacks transferring to KU.
Tom Keegan: Even No. 1 preseason ranking can't lift cloud hovering over KU basketball
News broke Monday that Kansas earned the distinction as preseason No. 1 in the Associated Press men's college basketball poll.
Tom Keegan: Why does Carter Stanley keep drawing the short stick?
If you found watching Kansas football on television even more excruciating than usual Saturday, consider how lucky you were compared to redshirt junior quarterback Carter Stanley.
Tom Keegan: Does Kansas have a clean basketball program?
It’s reached the point where the issues that need to be addressed with the Kansas basketball program have grown beyond what’s provable and what may or may not lead to an NCAA violation.
Tom Keegan: For KU tight ends past and present, it's all about catching opportunities
The Associated Press released its midseason All-American team Tuesday afternoon, and not surprisingly, one of David Beaty’s Kansas recruits made the first-team offense.
Tom Keegan: Stormy texting puts KU basketball on center stage at trial
What you make of the Monday revelations from the trial on corruption in college basketball very well could depend on what the giant letters in fancy font at the top of the framed diploma on your wall spell.
