Henrhilds, Kansas University’s versatile football running back-tight end-wide receiver, might not return for his junior year.
An Internet rumor fueled by a call to a Kansas City-area radio sports talk show holds that Childs plans to transfer away from KU.
Childs’ father, Henry, said nothing had been settled yet.
“Right now, I don’t think I can say anything,” Henry Childs said Friday night, hours after a caller to a KC radio station declared Henrhilds’ bags were packed. “Right now, a lot of things are up in the air, so I’d better keep my mouth shut. He needs to talk to his coach again. By the first of next week, we should know for sure.”
Henrhilds, a 6-foot-2, 215-pounder from Shawnee Mission West, rushed for 180 yards and a TD last season. He also caught 16 passes for 168 yards and another score and led KU with 20 punt returns. He averaged 11.3 yards per return and scored a punt-return TD. Childs also averaged 16.2 yards on four kickoff returns.
Henry Childs said playing time was an issue with his son, who was listed as KU’s second-string tailback coming out of spring drills.
Kansas assistant athletics director Doug Vance said that, as of Friday, Childs had not asked for a release from his scholarship. If he transfers to another NCAA Div. I-A school, Childs would have to sit out a year before competing again.
