Charlie Weis

Weis looks ahead at Topeka gathering

Topeka ? Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis kicked off the summer preview party circuit at the 6th Avenue Ballroom in Topeka on Wednesday evening, and his message to the KU fans in attendance was one of continued progress within the program.“Going into the third year, it’s ...

Weis: Reveal of KU’s starting QB all about timing

Five days after naming sophomore Montell Cozart his starting quarterback for the 2014 season, Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis shed some light on why he chose to call off the race at the end of spring drills.“No one forced our hand,” Weis said Tuesday morning during a ...

Weis testing KU’s less-experienced quarterbacks; Heaps still in race

When the Kansas University football team hit the field Tuesday for the sixth of 15 spring practices, it did so with the knowledge that 2013 starting quarterback Jake Heaps would sit out a significant portion of the competitive drills. Heaps, a senior who is competing to be the Jayhawks’ ...

Pierson returns to Jayhawks’ lineup for spring football

Plenty of elements contributed to the offensive struggles of Kansas University’s football team during the 2013 season. The loss of Tony Pierson to injury might have been one of the biggest.“Remember now,” KU coach Charlie Weis said Monday during his pre-spring meeting with the media, ...

Column: KU fans, coaches face tests in 2014

Tough challenges face local athletes, coaches, administrators, announcers and fans involved directly or indirectly in Kansas University sports in 2014.A sampling: 1 . Offensive coordinator/O-line coach John Reagan inherits a KU football offense that for the past two seasons combined has ...

Weis: KU offensive coordinator Reagan will decide gameplan, starters

Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis on Thursday made it clear that KU fans would see a different offense under newly hired offensive coordinator John Reagan.“It’s his,” Weis said of the freedom he’s given to Reagan, a former Kansas assistant who worked under Mark Mangino and ...

Charlie Weis sorry to see Mack Brown leaving Texas

On Saturday, Texas football coach Mack Brown announced that the upcoming Alamo Bowl against Oregon on Dec. 30 would be his last game as coach of the Longhorns.Sunday, the man who spent the past 16 years as the face of the blueblood program and led Texas to the 2005 national championship ...

Opinion: Road trips trouble for KU football

My wife joined me on the road trip to beautiful Boulder. We ate at a delicious steakhouse in Denver with good friends.I not only was covering a perennial national-title contender in basketball, but a football team that was on a 28-7 tear, including an impressive 9-5 record in games played away ...