KU football team pumped not pouting about Andrew Wiggins joining Jayhawks

By Matt Tait     May 14, 2013

Minutes after the nation’s No. 1 prep prospect, Andrew Wiggins, announced that he was heading to Kansas, many KU fans and national writers took to Twitter to share their joke about Jayhawk fans having yet another reason to wish for football season to pass quickly.

True or not, don’t expect the members of the KU football team themselves to be too upset about it. In fact, more than a dozen Jayhawk football players also jumped on Twitter following Wiggins’ announcement to share their excitement over the newest big-time basketball recruit landed by Bill Self.

Here’s a sample:

**Head coach Charlie Weis:**
@CoachWeisKansas
*Congrats to Coach Self, staff and team. Wow. Welcome Andrew to the Jayhawk family. Rock Chalk!*

**Wide receiver Josh Ford:**
@Ambition_8
*congrats to #KUbball and @CoachBillSelf on signing the #1 recruit in the nation Andrew Wiggins #RockChalk*

**Safety Isaiah Johnson:**
@TheRealIsaiahJ
*Damn KU just picked up the number one basketball player!! #BIG I feel like #kufball and #kubball will do some exciting things this year !! #rockchalk*

**Defensive end Michael Reynolds:**
@M_Reynolds55
*Big recruiting classes for #kufball and #kuball this year !! #JayhawkNation*

**Quarterback Jake Heaps:**
@jtheaps9
*Great day to be a Jayhawk! Congrats to @22wiggins on his decision. A great feeling knowing where your going to be playing ball!! #RockChalk*

**Defensive tackle Marquel Combs:**
@TheReal_92
*KU Basketball is about to (be) crazy this year !!*

**Linebacker Marcus Jenkins-Moore:**
@KU_Jenk
*Damn.. Bill self a Wizard how he put this class together! Big time Football recruiting class! Big time Basketball recruiting class! Great day to be a Jayhawk*

**Assistant coach Dave Campo:**
@davecampo2
*Congrats to Coach Self and staff on a great recruiting year!!! Rock Chalk!!!”*

**Linebacker Schyler Miles:**
@SchylerM32
*WIGGINS TO KU!*

**Defensive back Dexter McDonald:**
@Dex_Mac
*Wiggins got 80.3K followers lol how can you not get a check thts already official lol*

**Defensive tackle Keon Stowers:**
@KeonStowers98
*Wiggins to KU lets go!!*

**Linebacker Victor Simmons:**
@Twosevn
*Dude isn’t even here yet and already got a fake account.*

**Long snapper Reilly Jeffers:**
@ReillyJeffers
*@22wiggins hey welcome to the family #rockchalk #kubball and #kufball*

The list goes on and on. So, as you can see, there’s not a whole lot of animosity from the football players about their basketball counterparts signing the best prep player on the planet.

In fact, they seem pretty excited to welcome him to town and, from December through March, to watch him play in Allen Fieldhouse.

One of the biggest reasons I think these guys aren’t worried about Wiggins’ arrival — other than the fact that the football team largely is made up of pretty good dudes — is the fact that these guys are realists. They understand, embrace and accept that in order to get people interested in what they’re doing on Saturdays this fall, they have to go out there and win games.

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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.