Kansas Football 2023 Season

[InfiniteJ]

Got another one...

[Back2Lawrence]

Is that a picture of the car they bought him with his preemptive NIL money?

[pdub]

Got a couple good corners then.
Borderline 3/4 star dudes in Jalen Todd and Austin Alexander.

Nick Marsh, a borderline top 100 dude/4 star WR, has KU in his top 6, and I think he's currently in Lawrence visiting.

[NewtonHawk11]

Got a couple good corners then.
Borderline 3/4 star dudes in Jalen Todd and Austin Alexander.

Nick Marsh, a borderline top 100 dude/4 star WR, has KU in his top 6, and I think he's currently in Lawrence visiting.

Yeah. Think he's coming this weekend. Rivals has him as like 54th in the country. We are pretty shallow at WR after Grimm and Arnold.

[Shirley]

Kansas has landed five new commitments this week following the Jayhawks' first official visit weekend. Michael Swain and Kevin Flaherty are here to break it all down.

[NewtonHawk11]

Another one. 4 star safety.

[NewtonHawk11]

Georgia, USC, OU, Arkansas and others were on his offer list.

Big get.

[surly]

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Power 5 teams with the longest drought of not winning 9 games in the regular season

Iowa State- Never

Vanderbilt- 107 (1915)

Indiana- 55 (1967)

Purdue & Maryland- 19 (2003)

Cal- 16 (2006)

[pdub]

Wait.
Iowa States never won 9?
Haven’t they played football for over 100 years?

[twocoach]

Wait.
Iowa States never won 9?
Haven’t they played football for over 100 years?

Not in the regular season. They've won 8 and a bowl game before.

[pdub]

That’s kinda not great.

[KUTradition]

Another one. 4 star safety.

add 4* DE Dakyus Brinkley to the mix

Kansas coach Lance Leipold and his staff are continuing their program-changing efforts in the offseason, putting together a strong 2024 recruiting class that on Tuesday received a potentially historic commitment for Jayhawks football. Four-star defensive end Dakyus Brinkley committed to Kansas on the Fourth of July, choosing the Jayhawks while also holding offers from 11 other Power Five schools including Baylor, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Texas and Texas A&M.

Brinkley's current 247Sports Composite rating of 0.9114 is the highest all-time among Kansas signees in the internet recruiting services era began (2002), and if he does goes on to sign with the Jayhawks during the early signing period in December, he'll beat out Pooka Williams Jr. (0.9055) and Corione Harris (0.9052) for that honor. 

[NewtonHawk11]

JD just named Big 12 preseason OPOY.

[surly]

https://big12sports.com/documents/2023/ ... n_Team.pdf

2023 Preseason All-Big 12 Football Team
Offensive Player of the Year: Jalon Daniels, Kansas, QB, 6-0, 215, Jr., Lawndale, Calif.
Defensive Player of the Year: Jaylan Ford, Texas, LB, 6-3, 236, Sr., Frisco, Texas
Newcomer of the Year: Treshaun Ward, Kansas State, RB, 5-10, 194, Sr., Plant City, Fla.
Offense
Pos Name School Ht Wt Class Hometown
QB Jalon Daniels 2 Kansas 6-0 215 Jr. Lawndale, Calif.
RB Richard Reese 3 Baylor 5-9 175 So. Bellville, Texas
RB Devin Neal 3 Kansas 5-11 210 Jr. Lawrence, Kan.
FB Ben Sinnott 1! Kansas State 6-4 245 Jr. Waterloo, Iowa
WR Brennan Presley 3 Oklahoma State 5-8 175 Sr. Tulsa, Okla.
WR Xavier Worthy 2!^ Texas 6-1 164 Jr. Fresno, Calif.
WR Jerand Bradley 3 Texas Tech 6-5 215 So. Frisco, Texas
TE Ja’Tavion Sanders 1 Texas 6-4 241 Jr. Denton, Texas
OL Kingsley Suamataia BYU 6-6 315 So. Orem, Utah
OL Mike Novitsky 2 Kansas 6-5 305 R-Sr. Victor, N.Y.
OL Cooper Beebe 1! Kansas State 6-4 335 Sr. Kansas City, Kan.
OL Kelvin Banks Jr. 2 Texas 6-4 318 So. Humble, Texas
OL Zach Frazier 1@ West Virginia 6-3 310 Jr. Fairmont, W. Va.
PK Griffin Kell 1 TCU 6-0 193 Sr. Arlington, Texas
KR/PR Phillip Brooks 1 Kansas State 5-8 171 Sr. Lee’s Summit, Mo.
Defense
DL Dontay Corleone Cincinnati 6-2 318 R-So. Cincinnati, Ohio
DL Ethan Downs 2 Oklahoma 6-4 263 Jr. Weatherford, Okla.
DL Damonic Williams 3 TCU 6-2 320 So. Torrance, Calif.
DL Byron Murphy II Texas 6-1 300 Jr. DeSoto, Texas
DL Jaylon Hutchings 3 Texas Tech 6-0 305 Sr. Forney, Texas
LB Collin Oliver 2 Oklahoma State 6-2 235 Jr. Oklahoma City, Okla.
LB Johnny Hodges 2 TCU 6-2 240 Jr. Darnestown, Md.
LB Jaylan Ford 1 Texas 6-3 236 Sr. Frisco, Texas
DB T.J. Tampa 2 Iowa State 6-2 185 Sr. St. Petersburg, Fla.
DB Cobee Bryant 1 Kansas 6-0 175 Jr. Evergreen, Ala.
DB Kobe Savage 2 Kansas State 5-11 207 Sr. Paris, Texas
DB Kendal Daniels 2 Oklahoma State 6-4 213 R-So. Beggs, Okla.
DB Josh Newton 1 TCU 6-0 195 Sr. Monroe, La.
P Mason Fletcher Cincinnati 6-7 215 Jr. Melbourne, Australia

[InfiniteJ]

Jalen is actually a Senior this year, right?

[ChicagoHawk]

Jalen is actually a Senior this year, right?

Yep, and should still have a Super Senior year too if he chooses.

[surly]

four jayhawks, one sooner.

[NewtonHawk11]

Jalen is actually a Senior this year, right?

Yep, and should still have a Super Senior year too if he chooses.

Unless he's a top 5 QB in CFB, he'll likely be back. And he'll be a perfect mentor for Marshall, the borderline 3/4 star dual-threat QB from Michigan.

[NewtonHawk11]

This year should be fun. 17 of 22 starters returning. All coaches are back. A really good recruiting class in the works. A decent schedule with some fun home games like Illinois, BYU, UCF, OU, Tech and kstate.

And we have 5 players on the preseason All-Big 12 team. KU maybe had 5 total in the last decade. A top half predicted finish.

[InfiniteJ]

Gotta have a good season for a few reasons, one being to keep that 2024 recruiting class intact.