All the preparations are being made for universities to begin directly paying their student-athletes next school year. The federal judge overseeing the key lawsuit in the matter hasn’t yet approved the settlement agreement between the NCAA, universities and aggrieved student-athletes, but ...
KU needs another $300 million worth of development around its football stadium to create a true “gateway” to wow potential students and attract new dollars critical for the next generation, university leaders told the Journal-World. An upscale Marriott hotel, a mix of restaurants and ...
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 ...
