Two Buffalo players follow Gill to KU

By Matt Tait Jun 13, 2010

Jon Goering

Kansas head coach Turner Gill gathers with the team during spring practice on Sunday, March 28, 2010.

A pair of University of Buffalo football players appear to have followed their former coach to the Midwest.

KU officials have confirmed that linebackers Darius Willis and Nick Sizemore have enrolled at Kansas University and appear poised to join Turner Gill’s KU football program this summer.

Jeffrey Reinhart, of the Lancaster (Pa.) New Era, reported Wednesday that Sizemore, a 6-foot-1, 218-pound linebacker-turned-fullback, had been released from his scholarship by Buffalo and had enrolled at KU.

Sizemore will be a sophomore at KU and will have three years of eligibility remaining. Because of NCAA transfer rules, he will not be eligible to play in games this fall but will be allowed to practice with the team.

Same goes for Willis, 6-3, 240, who also left Buffalo to follow Gill to Kansas.

Willis, a sophomore-to-be who played in just four games in 2009, has indicated on his Facebook page during the past couple of weeks that he is now a Jayhawk.

Willis, originally from Houston, received interest from Colorado, Texas A&M and Iowa State before ultimately signing with Buffalo.

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.