KU FALL SPORTS PREVIEW
Sunday August 27, 2023
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Jayhawks aiming to keep up the good work By Henry Greenstein hgreenstein@ljworld.com
Welcome to the most scrutinized Kansas football season in recent memory. The Jayhawks have put together their best campaign in 13 seasons, have begun to and will continue to modernize their football facilities, and have secured a place in a stable conference amid the galeforce winds of conference realignment. The anticipation for 2023, a season in which KU will determine whether it remains a factor in the Big 12 Conference or slumps back to the bottom, has gradually
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ramped up since the Jayhawks walked off the field at the Liberty Bowl in December. Many of the core players remain intact from that triple-overtime loss to Arkansas, so many that KU ranks among the top schools in the country in terms of returning production. The questions now become whether its offense can continue to thrive as it did in 2022, and perhaps become even better, and whether the defense can take a significant
enough step forward from its lackluster showing last year to keep the Jayhawks in more competitive games. Quarterbacks: Jalon Daniels enters his junior season with skyhigh expectations and preseason all-conference offensive player of the year honors, and the Jayhawks will be hoping he can start and finish a complete campaign for the first time in his college career. The dual-threat quarterback from Lawndale,
California, has come a long way since getting thrown to the wolves as a freshman in KU’s winless 2020 season. “A lot of guys never recover from that, whether it be being sacked or throwing some interceptions, whatever, and his personality and perseverance is really neat,” KU coach Lance Leipold said. “… And now (we) watch as he’s handled success and notoriety and all the other things now in college football that come with it, that’s challenging.”
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