Booth Breakdown: A far-out look at the Texas Longhorns July 5, 2023 The Big 12 Conference announced Wednesday that its 2023 preseason all-conference football team, voted on by media members, includes KU junior quarterback Jalon Daniels as its offensive player of. What a difference a year has made for Kansas football - at least in terms of public perception. Daniels named preseason Big 12 offensive player of the year three other Jayhawks honored July 5, 2023 įootball Kansas picked to finish an unprecedented ninth in Big 12 media poll July 6, 2023įor the first time in 13 years, Kansas has not been picked to finish last in a preseason Big 12 Conference football poll.īeginning with the 2011 season, the first Big 12 campaign following the departures of Colorado and Nebraska, the media poll had projected the Jayhawks in last place. From 2012 until now it survived with just 10, a number that made it one of the smallest leagues in the Football Bowl Subdivision.Īs a result of a move nearly two years in the making, however, it will. The Big 12 Conference has for years neither been especially big nor contained 12 schools. 14-team Big 12 will yield one odd year of scheduling June 30, 2023 It’s essentially like if the former Week 4 of the NFL preseason, in which teams were composed of almost exclusively rookies and last-chance veteran backups seeking the spotlight. The NBA Summer League is one of the most thorough preseason evaluative periods afforded by any American sport. Former Jayhawks looking to stand out in this year’s NBA Summer League July 3, 2023 It will therefore be a significant adjustment for KU to have four. It's easy to forget with the near-daily developments in the conference-realignment news cycle, but Kansas hasn't actually had a new league opponent for 11 years, since TCU and West Virginia first joined the Big 12 back in 2012. “We want that football stadium to appropriately reflect KU’s commitment to athletics and KU’s argument for remaining in a Power Five Conference … But financially it doesn’t make sense to make that type of investment in something that is only used seven days per year.” The plans call for more than 2,500 “club seats,” which would be a type of “premium seating that would include additional services - perhaps concessions and other amenities - as part of their ticket.” The plans also call for about 55 new suite-level seats in the stadium ( LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD, 6/22).Men's Basketball Surveying the Big 12’s newest men’s basketball squads July 4, 2023 will make for a much better fan experience.” KU Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications and Public Affairs Karla Leeper said, “We love football. A KU spokesperson said that the university is “open to the idea of decreasing the seating capacity of the stadium” because leaders are “confident that improvements to the stadium. An outside consultant hired by the is recommending a “55,000-square-foot conference center, a 175-room upscale hotel and even a 2,500-seat concert and event venue” for the stadium site, but the consulting group is also recommending that KU “shrink the size of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium to 39,839 seats,” a drop of a little more than 7,000 seats from the stadium’s current official capacity. has “big plans to turn the area around its football stadium into a hub for conventions and tourism,” but it may need to make its football stadium the “smallest in the Big 12 to do so,” according to a front-page piece by Chad Lawhorn of the LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD.
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