The University of Kansas doesn’t have plans to eliminate any of its money-losing Olympic sports despite great uncertainty about whether the athletic department can afford to pay student-athletes in the future, KU’s chancellor said. The future of those programs — which range from big ones ...
Kansas Athletics plans to take on $115 million in new debt to cover construction work that currently is underway on the university’s football stadium, a KU official has confirmed. That’s a big number, but perhaps not the most surprising number coming out of the football stadium project ...
There’s a chance that when construction work on KU’s football stadium renovation concludes in August that the university will immediately start another major construction project to rebuild the east side with a hotel and other amenities. But Chancellor Douglas Girod told me recently that ...
Future development around KU’s football stadium — currently undergoing a partial $450 million renovation to add a conference center and other amenities — has recently become more complicated. Soon, local governments may be asked to ease some of those complications by providing financial ...
Seats are on track. Beds are not. That may be the simplest update for the University of Kansas’ approximately $450 million Gateway project by the university’s football stadium at 11th and Mississippi streets. Work to add new premium seating, concessions and a host of other bells and ...
We know there are some national championship coaches who roam the halls of Kansas Athletics. But, are there any championship-caliber budget cutters? Forget coaches with the clipboards and clickers. We need the accountants with calculators and cash flow sheets. The success of the Kansas ...
