Kansas University football fans were clamoring for change last fall while the Jayhawks were struggling through their sixth straight losing season.
Change is what they’re getting.
KU has eight new coaches, who will oversee 24 new players wearing new uniforms when the new season starts Aug. 31 at Iowa State.
First-year coach Mark Mangino and his staff also are enjoying recently renovated offices at 8-year-old Parrott Complex. The football offices were painted prior to recruiting visits in January. During spring break, the area was recarpeted and new cabinets were installed. Those improvements cost $41,600, according to chief financial officer Susan Wachter. New furniture was added at a cost of $117,500.
“After eight years and having 125 football players through there every day, we needed new carpet and to spruce up the furniture,” said associate athletic director Richard Konzem. “We want it to continue to be a first-class place to work and to show recruits when they come in, just as we would with all our facilities. This is the third football staff that’s been in those desks and chairs. When a new staff comes in, you want to freshen things up.”
The baseball offices in Allen Fieldhouse were renovated about five years ago. Konzem said the athletic department would like to improve the track and field program’s fieldhouse office next, but there was no timeline for when that might happen.
“We get a lot of traffic through this building with 500 student athletes,” Konzem said of the painting and carpet. “It’s just something you routinely do.”
The football offices aren’t the only area of Parrott receiving a makeover. Sometime in May or June the business office will move across the hall into the media work room. The Williams Fund offices will then move from the second floor to the old business office.
Wachter said the new business office will require new carpet and improved lighting, but she didn’t know the estimated cost yet. The expanding Williams Fund will need additional furniture.
“We’re doing what’s necessary,” she said. “There won’t be a lot of sprucing up.”
The move is necessary because three employees from the KU Endowment Association are working with the Williams Fund on KU First, the university’s $500 million fund-raising effort launched in September.
The Williams Fund’s second-floor office has room for three people, so the three KU Endowment employees are scattered about Parrott and the fieldhouse.
“It’ll help fund-raising to get everyone under one roof,” Konzem said.
It also will help to have a Williams Fund director. Konzem said KU is about halfway through the interview process in its search for a successor to Scott McMichael, who resigned Aug. 10 and entered a diversion agreement after being accused of embezzlement.
Konzem, who has been overseeing the Williams Fund since McMichael stepped down, will stay in that office along with director of student-athlete life Gary Kempf. Meanwhile, the media likely will be moved to the Dolph Simons Room, adjacent to Hadl Auditorium, on basketball game days.
KU First’s $500 million goal includes $45 million for athletics.
“If we could endow our scholarships that would really take pressure off the annual giving,” Konzem said. “Then you could use that for more operating money. If you could endow a coach’s position, that assures their salary and you can get that out of your annual operating budget.”
Kansas University football fans were clamoring for change last fall while the Jayhawks were struggling through their sixth straight losing season.
Change is what they’re getting.
KU has eight new coaches, who will oversee 24 new players wearing new uniforms when the new season starts Aug. 31 at Iowa State.
First-year coach Mark Mangino and his staff also are enjoying recently renovated offices at 8-year-old Parrott Complex. The football offices were painted prior to recruiting visits in January. During spring break, the area was recarpeted and new cabinets were installed. Those improvements cost $41,600, according to chief financial officer Susan Wachter. New furniture was added at a cost of $117,500.
“After eight years and having 125 football players through there every day, we needed new carpet and to spruce up the furniture,” said associate athletic director Richard Konzem. “We want it to continue to be a first-class place to work and to show recruits when they come in, just as we would with all our facilities. This is the third football staff that’s been in those desks and chairs. When a new staff comes in, you want to freshen things up.”
The baseball offices in Allen Fieldhouse were renovated about five years ago. Konzem said the athletic department would like to improve the track and field program’s fieldhouse office next, but there was no timeline for when that might happen.
“We get a lot of traffic through this building with 500 student athletes,” Konzem said of the painting and carpet. “It’s just something you routinely do.”
The football offices aren’t the only area of Parrott receiving a makeover. Sometime in May or June the business office will move across the hall into the media work room. The Williams Fund offices will then move from the second floor to the old business office.
Wachter said the new business office will require new carpet and improved lighting, but she didn’t know the estimated cost yet. The expanding Williams Fund will need additional furniture.
“We’re doing what’s necessary,” she said. “There won’t be a lot of sprucing up.”
The move is necessary because three employees from the KU Endowment Association are working with the Williams Fund on KU First, the university’s $500 million fund-raising effort launched in September.
The Williams Fund’s second-floor office has room for three people, so the three KU Endowment employees are scattered about Parrott and the fieldhouse.
“It’ll help fund-raising to get everyone under one roof,” Konzem said.
It also will help to have a Williams Fund director. Konzem said KU is about halfway through the interview process in its search for a successor to Scott McMichael, who resigned Aug. 10 and entered a diversion agreement after being accused of embezzlement.
Konzem, who has been overseeing the Williams Fund since McMichael stepped down, will stay in that office along with director of student-athlete life Gary Kempf. Meanwhile, the media likely will be moved to the Dolph Simons Room, adjacent to Hadl Auditorium, on basketball game days.
KU First’s $500 million goal includes $45 million for athletics.
“If we could endow our scholarships that would really take pressure off the annual giving,” Konzem said. “Then you could use that for more operating money. If you could endow a coach’s position, that assures their salary and you can get that out of your annual operating budget.”
Kansas University football fans were clamoring for change last fall while the Jayhawks were struggling through their sixth straight losing season.
Change is what they’re getting.
KU has eight new coaches, who will oversee 24 new players wearing new uniforms when the new season starts Aug. 31 at Iowa State.
First-year coach Mark Mangino and his staff also are enjoying recently renovated offices at 8-year-old Parrott Complex. The football offices were painted prior to recruiting visits in January. During spring break, the area was recarpeted and new cabinets were installed. Those improvements cost $41,600, according to chief financial officer Susan Wachter. New furniture was added at a cost of $117,500.
“After eight years and having 125 football players through there every day, we needed new carpet and to spruce up the furniture,” said associate athletic director Richard Konzem. “We want it to continue to be a first-class place to work and to show recruits when they come in, just as we would with all our facilities. This is the third football staff that’s been in those desks and chairs. When a new staff comes in, you want to freshen things up.”
The baseball offices in Allen Fieldhouse were renovated about five years ago. Konzem said the athletic department would like to improve the track and field program’s fieldhouse office next, but there was no timeline for when that might happen.
“We get a lot of traffic through this building with 500 student athletes,” Konzem said of the painting and carpet. “It’s just something you routinely do.”
The football offices aren’t the only area of Parrott receiving a makeover. Sometime in May or June the business office will move across the hall into the media work room. The Williams Fund offices will then move from the second floor to the old business office.
Wachter said the new business office will require new carpet and improved lighting, but she didn’t know the estimated cost yet. The expanding Williams Fund will need additional furniture.
“We’re doing what’s necessary,” she said. “There won’t be a lot of sprucing up.”
The move is necessary because three employees from the KU Endowment Association are working with the Williams Fund on KU First, the university’s $500 million fund-raising effort launched in September.
The Williams Fund’s second-floor office has room for three people, so the three KU Endowment employees are scattered about Parrott and the fieldhouse.
“It’ll help fund-raising to get everyone under one roof,” Konzem said.
It also will help to have a Williams Fund director. Konzem said KU is about halfway through the interview process in its search for a successor to Scott McMichael, who resigned Aug. 10 and entered a diversion agreement after being accused of embezzlement.
Konzem, who has been overseeing the Williams Fund since McMichael stepped down, will stay in that office along with director of student-athlete life Gary Kempf. Meanwhile, the media likely will be moved to the Dolph Simons Room, adjacent to Hadl Auditorium, on basketball game days.
KU First’s $500 million goal includes $45 million for athletics.
“If we could endow our scholarships that would really take pressure off the annual giving,” Konzem said. “Then you could use that for more operating money. If you could endow a coach’s position, that assures their salary and you can get that out of your annual operating budget.”
Kansas University football fans were clamoring for change last fall while the Jayhawks were struggling through their sixth straight losing season.
Change is what they’re getting.
KU has eight new coaches, who will oversee 24 new players wearing new uniforms when the new season starts Aug. 31 at Iowa State.
First-year coach Mark Mangino and his staff also are enjoying recently renovated offices at 8-year-old Parrott Complex. The football offices were painted prior to recruiting visits in January. During spring break, the area was recarpeted and new cabinets were installed. Those improvements cost $41,600, according to chief financial officer Susan Wachter. New furniture was added at a cost of $117,500.
“After eight years and having 125 football players through there every day, we needed new carpet and to spruce up the furniture,” said associate athletic director Richard Konzem. “We want it to continue to be a first-class place to work and to show recruits when they come in, just as we would with all our facilities. This is the third football staff that’s been in those desks and chairs. When a new staff comes in, you want to freshen things up.”
The baseball offices in Allen Fieldhouse were renovated about five years ago. Konzem said the athletic department would like to improve the track and field program’s fieldhouse office next, but there was no timeline for when that might happen.
“We get a lot of traffic through this building with 500 student athletes,” Konzem said of the painting and carpet. “It’s just something you routinely do.”
The football offices aren’t the only area of Parrott receiving a makeover. Sometime in May or June the business office will move across the hall into the media work room. The Williams Fund offices will then move from the second floor to the old business office.
Wachter said the new business office will require new carpet and improved lighting, but she didn’t know the estimated cost yet. The expanding Williams Fund will need additional furniture.
“We’re doing what’s necessary,” she said. “There won’t be a lot of sprucing up.”
The move is necessary because three employees from the KU Endowment Association are working with the Williams Fund on KU First, the university’s $500 million fund-raising effort launched in September.
The Williams Fund’s second-floor office has room for three people, so the three KU Endowment employees are scattered about Parrott and the fieldhouse.
“It’ll help fund-raising to get everyone under one roof,” Konzem said.
It also will help to have a Williams Fund director. Konzem said KU is about halfway through the interview process in its search for a successor to Scott McMichael, who resigned Aug. 10 and entered a diversion agreement after being accused of embezzlement.
Konzem, who has been overseeing the Williams Fund since McMichael stepped down, will stay in that office along with director of student-athlete life Gary Kempf. Meanwhile, the media likely will be moved to the Dolph Simons Room, adjacent to Hadl Auditorium, on basketball game days.
KU First’s $500 million goal includes $45 million for athletics.
“If we could endow our scholarships that would really take pressure off the annual giving,” Konzem said. “Then you could use that for more operating money. If you could endow a coach’s position, that assures their salary and you can get that out of your annual operating budget.”