Turner Gill

KU football coach Turner Gill visited Wichita Wednesday night. Gill gave Jayhawk fans a look at the incoming recruiting class. New Athletic Director Sheahon Zenger was also on-hand. The event was supposed to happen February 8, but a snowstorm delayed the event until this week. Similiar events took play in Lawrence and Topeka, with the final one schedule for Thursday in Kansas City.

The losses are mounting at Kansas and the seat is growing hotter for coach Turner Gill. The Jayhawks (2-5, 0-4 Big 12) have lost four in a row and face another tough game Saturday with a road trip to Texas (4-2, 1-2). After a 59-21 loss at home against Kansas State last week, athletic director Sheahon Zenger said the team is evaluated on a week-to-week basis. He also said a complete evaluation will not be made until the season. Gill says his team is making strides on offense from last year to this year.

Former KU head football coach Turner Gill has been hired by Liberty University to become their new football coach. Gill was fired from KU two and a half weeks ago after disastrous run as the head coach with the Jayhawks, compiling a 5-19 record in two seasons, winning only one Big 12 game. His contract was bought out by KU and athletic boosters. He had three years remaining on a contract that guaranteed him $10 million in salary. KU has since hired former Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis to lead the Jayhawks.

By Eyewitness Sports (LAWRENCE, Kan.) CBS Sports reports University of Buffalo coach Turner Gill is in the running for the position of head football coach at KU. The interview was supposed to happen Sunday. Neither Buffalo nor the University of Kansas has confirmed the report. Gill led the Bulls to the Mid-American Conference title last season. The team finished 5-7 this year with a new quarterback. Gill has at least one connection to KU. His daughter attends school there.

The University of Kansas fired head football coach Turner Gill on Sunday. Gill just finished the second year of a 5-year contract that was worth $10 million. Gill released this statement Monday morning: “I would like to thank the University of Kansas for the opportunity to be its head football coach. On behalf of our staff, I want to thank the players for putting their heart and soul into this football program the past two years. I hope nothing but the best for all their future endeavors, both on and off the field.” Gill, 49, was hired away from Buffalo in December 2009 by former athletic director Lew Perkins to replace Mark Mangino.

There are plenty of storylines surrounding the annual Border War between Kansas and Missouri. Gary Pinkel will be back on the sideline for Saturday's game at Arrowhead Stadium after serving a one-game suspension following his drunken driving arrest. Turner Gill will be on the Kansas sideline for what could be the final time. The second-year coach has been under fire all year. Although athletic director Sheahon Zenger has said he won't make a decision until after the season, there are rumors Gill could be coaching for his job. Topping it all off is the fact that Kansas and Missouri could be playing for the final time.

Kansas coach Charlie Weis is ready to get his new team on the field. The Jayhawks play their annual spring game on Saturday, and there is plenty riding on the outcome. It's the first chance for high-profile transfers such as Dayne Crist to impress in a game environment, and the first opportunity for dozens of other guys to lay claim to a roster spot. Weis is in his first season as the coach at Kansas. He was hired to resurrect a recently winning program that had fallen on hard times under Turner Gill, who was fired after a 2-10 season.

New coach, new quarterback, new attitude - and the same kind of early season loss to a middling opponent that got Turner Gill fired last season. Now, it's up to Charlie Weis, Dayne Crist and everyone else in the Kansas program to prove these aren't the same old Jayhawks - that their late-game collapse Saturday against Rice isn't a precursor of struggles yet to come, beginning this weekend against No. 16 TCU. Crist almost bristled Tuesday when...

Former Kansas State linebacker Vantz Singletary has been hired as linebackers coach at instate rival Kansas. The Jayhawks announced the hiring Friday. Singletary has 20 years of coaching experience, including a stint on Kansas coach Turner Gill's staff in Buffalo during the 2008 season. He spent the past two seasons as inside linebackers coach for the San Francisco 49ers, who fired his uncle - Mike Singletary - as head coach in January. Singletary graduated from Kansas State, where he played linebacker and defensive tackle during the 1987 and 1988 seasons.

McNeese State opens the season at Kansas and the underdog Cowboys want to avoid falling into a quick hole on Saturday. The Cowboys are coming off a 5-6 season and are expected to be one of the top FCS teams in the country. A year ago, they visited Missouri and got drilled 50-6. Kansas was 3-9 last year in Turner Gill's first season as head coach, including an ugly 6-3 loss to Division II North Dakota State in a season opener the Jayhawks spent the rest of the year trying to forget.

For What it's Worth on February 1 -- Bill Snyder signs a new five-year deal that will keep him coaching at Kansas State until the age of 78. That's a sentence that wouldn't have been believed four years ago. Lest we forget--- The 2005 retirement of Bill Snyder was generally accepted as the right thing by K-Staters after he went 9-13 in the last two seasons of his first tenure. His return after three forgettable years from Ron Prince at the Wildcat helm was widely looked upon as a stop gap. Four years later, there's nobody else the Wildcat Nation would stand for on its sideline.

New coach, new quarterback, new attitude - and the same kind of early season loss to a middling opponent that got Turner Gill fired last season. Now, it's up to Charlie Weis, Dayne Crist and everyone else in the Kansas program to prove these aren't the same old Jayhawks - that their late-game collapse Saturday against Rice isn't a precursor of struggles yet to come, beginning this weekend against No. 16 TCU. Crist almost bristled Tuesday when...

Kansas coach Charlie Weis is ready to get his new team on the field. The Jayhawks play their annual spring game on Saturday, and there is plenty riding on the outcome. It's the first chance for high-profile transfers such as Dayne Crist to impress in a game environment, and the first opportunity for dozens of other guys to lay claim to a roster spot. Weis is in his first season as the coach at Kansas. He was hired to resurrect a recently winning program that had fallen on hard times under Turner Gill, who was fired after a 2-10 season.

Charlie Weis is guaranteed $2.5 million annually over the course of his five-year deal with Kansas, along with incentives that could push the total over $3 million. A copy of the contract, which is dated Dec. 9, was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. Weis' base salary is $230,000, though he is also in line for an additional $2.27 million in "professional services rendered," which includes educational, promotional and public relations duties. According to the Topeka Capital-Journal , Weis also gets the use of two university vehicles, a $2 million life insurance policy, six season basketball tickets and reimbursement of travel expenses for Weis' wife and two children for away football games.

Former KU head football coach Turner Gill has been hired by Liberty University to become their new football coach. Gill was fired from KU two and a half weeks ago after disastrous run as the head coach with the Jayhawks, compiling a 5-19 record in two seasons, winning only one Big 12 game. His contract was bought out by KU and athletic boosters. He had three years remaining on a contract that guaranteed him $10 million in salary. KU has since hired former Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis to lead the Jayhawks.

Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach is the new football coach at Washington State. The school said Wednesday that Leach had agreed in principle to a five-year contract. He will be introduced next Tuesday at a news conference in Pullman. Terms of the contract were not immediately available. The 50-year-old Leach posted an 84-43 record at Texas Tech, leading the Red Raiders to 10 bowl appearances in 10 seasons. He was fired in 2009 amid allegations he mistreated a player with a concussion.

The University of Kansas fired head football coach Turner Gill on Sunday. Gill just finished the second year of a 5-year contract that was worth $10 million. Gill released this statement Monday morning: “I would like to thank the University of Kansas for the opportunity to be its head football coach. On behalf of our staff, I want to thank the players for putting their heart and soul into this football program the past two years. I hope nothing but the best for all their future endeavors, both on and off the field.” Gill, 49, was hired away from Buffalo in December 2009 by former athletic director Lew Perkins to replace Mark Mangino.

There are plenty of storylines surrounding the annual Border War between Kansas and Missouri. Gary Pinkel will be back on the sideline for Saturday's game at Arrowhead Stadium after serving a one-game suspension following his drunken driving arrest. Turner Gill will be on the Kansas sideline for what could be the final time. The second-year coach has been under fire all year. Although athletic director Sheahon Zenger has said he won't make a decision until after the season, there are rumors Gill could be coaching for his job. Topping it all off is the fact that Kansas and Missouri could be playing for the final time.

Kansas won't have to look far Saturday to find an example of a program that has clawed its way to respectability. Baylor was one of the worst programs in college football when Art Briles took over. With a win over the Jayhawks, they could become bowl eligible in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1991-92. The Bears were 31-94 over the 11 season before Briles arrived. The Jayhawks won the Orange Bowl just a few years ago. But at 2-7 and without a Big 12 win this season, time is running out for coach Turner Gill to engineer an upset victory and perhaps salvage Year 2 of his own rebuilding project.

Freshmen tailbacks Malcolm Brown and Joe Bergeron combined for 255 yards rushing and four touchdowns as Texas ended a five-game home losing streak in the Big 12 with a 43-0 romp over Kansas on Saturday night. Texas rushed for 441 yards as a team against the worst defense in the country. Brown reached the 100-yard mark by halftime and his 635 yards this season already are the most by a Texas player since 2007. Freshman quarterback David Ash got his second consecutive start for Texas (5-2, 2-2 Big 12)