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Breakdown: KU’s successful iso running play, and how to build off it

Welcome back to "Breakdown," where we'll look at some KU plays each week and try to go a little more in-depth into why they did or didn't work. For this blog, I have consulted a Div. II offensive assistant coach, someone we'll just call "Coach." This week, I've put together some of KU's ...

The Sideline Report with Royce Woolridge

**Jesse Newell:** I read for a while you had a 4.0 GPA in high school. **Royce Woolridge:** Oh yeah. **JN:** Did you continue that? Was it 4.0 at the end? **RW:** Well, see what happened was, senior year came and you start to get a little bit lazy. So I would say toward the end, ...

Cliff’s Notes: Turner Gill press conference, 11/2/10

Here is the Cliff's Notes version of Kansas football coach Turner Gill's comments at his weekly press conference today. If you want to get live updates from each week's press conference, be sure to follow us on Twitter (@kusports). Full audio has been posted. • **Gill says KU defintely ...

Breakdown: Toben Opurum learning on the job at defensive end

Welcome back to "Breakdown," where we'll look at some KU plays each week and try to go a little more in-depth into why they did or didn't work. For this blog, I have consulted a Div. II offensive assistant coach, someone we'll just call "Coach." This week, I pieced together film of each ...

The Sideline Report with Tyrel Reed

**Jesse Newell:** Do you still talk to Cole? **Tyrel Reed:** I talk to Cole pretty much every day, or every other day at least. I’ve got a MacBook, and we’ve both got Skype now, so we kind of video chat. He shows me his house, and we kind of hang out that way. **JN:** What’s ...

Cliff’s Notes: Turner Gill press conference, 10/26/10

Here is the Cliff's Notes version of Kansas football coach Turner Gill's comments at his weekly press conference today. If you want to get live updates from each week's press conference, be sure to follow us on Twitter (@kusports). Receiver/running back D.J. Beshears has been removed from ...

Breakdown: Is Jordan Webb improving?

Throughout Kansas' offensive struggles this year, we've constantly been told by coach Turner Gill and offensive coordinator Chuck Long that freshman quarterback Jordan Webb is improving each week. Is that improvement visible from an outside coach's perspective? That's what we'll look at ...

KU straw poll: Which players will emerge in 2010-11?

I made it around to 10 (of the 15) Kansas men's basketball players during 45 minutes at media day last week and was able to ask them their opinions for an anonymous poll. Players were allowed to vote for themselves. The results are below. **Question: Who will be this year's most improved ...