After McDougald became the first Jayhawk to sign with the Chiefs, two more former Jayhawks followed his footsteps to Kansas City, just 40 minutes west of Lawrence. Kansas quarterback Dayne Crist and defensive end Toben Opurum, both captains for Kansas in 2012, receive an invite to Kansas City’s mini-camp. Crist will be behind quarterbacks Alex [...]
If you’re holding your breath to see who will start at quarterback for Kansas against Oklahoma on Saturday, grab another taste of air. On Monday morning’s teleconference coach Charlie Weis held off the decision for a while longer, saying that he needed to study both Dayne Crist and Michael Cummings further before giving an update [...]
For a moment, the Kansas football team looked like it had some magic. The team stormed back from a 20-point deficit and cut Oklahoma State’s lead down to six. Sadly, a roughing the kicker penalty caused the game to be over, and Kansas lost 20-14. But, hope is not lost. With the offense hardly posing [...]
MANHATTAN, KAN. — For three possessions the Kansas Jayhawks football team looked like it had it figured out for Saturday’s contest. Before the interceptions from senior quarterback Dayne Crist, before freshman Tre’ Parmalee’s kick return blunders and before Kansas dug itself into a 40-point deficit, the Jayhawks appeared as good as their counterpart for this [...]
After three years of futility against the in-state rival, Kansas coach Charlie Weis needed to try something different if he wanted to give his team any chance in the 111th Sunflower Showdown. So Weis changed up his practices by making it full contact for everyone—even the quarterbacks. “Everything was full speed, including going against my [...]
During the bye week, Kansas football coach Charlie Weis didn’t take any breaks while prepping his players for the Sunflower Showdown with a three-game losing streak in their rear-view. Weis visited the history between Kansas and Kansas State with his players. He stressed the importance of this rivalry to give them pride going into Saturday’s [...]
When football coach Charlie Weis declared that senior quarterback Dayne Crist would play for the football team, many thought Crist would be the second-coming of former quarterback Todd Reesing. Some thought that he would be the missing piece to the team. Only problem is that the piece is still missing. After four games, the former [...]
DEKALB, ILL. – Kansas fans who were waiting for senior quarterback Dayne Crist to lead the Jayhawks to victory will have to show more patience. Since joining the Jayhawks, Crist has had only one game in which he completed more than 50 percent of his passes — and it wasn’t during Saturday’s 30-23 loss at [...]
It’s not Dayne Crist’s fault he’s not Tom Brady, the three-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback under offensive coordinator Charlie Weis. It’s Charlie Weis’ fault for not realizing the difference. Weis, who talked all offseason about the changes he’s made since his mostly failed tenure at Notre Dame, has spent the first three weeks of the season [...]
Quarterback Dayne Crist meets with the media as the team prepares for NIU on Saturday.
KANSAS Offense: The jury is slowly filing back in with a verdict on quarterback Dayne Crist, and it looks like he could be found guilty of fraud. The once highly touted quarterback has completed 33 of 64 passes for just 313 yards — an average of five yards per completion. Crist has also been easily [...]
Two weeks into the season, as Kansas fans were supposed to be singing the praises of starting quarterback Dayne Crist after two particularly easy non-conference home games, it’s been the running game that has carried the offense and kept the Jayhawks from staring down an 0-2 record as Big 12 play begins Saturday afternoon against [...]
For Kansas Football it is time to regroup. Yet again. This season was destined to be a difficult one from the start, but losing to Rice on Saturday now makes it more difficult than previously imagined. Looking at the schedule, Kansas fans knew they only had a few opportunities to grab victories this year, and [...]
A football game can end one of three ways: a team scores winning points as time expires, the clock runs out on a team’s comeback bid, or the team with the lead moves the chains enough to run out the clock. On Saturday, the Kansas football team could’ve clinched its second win of the season [...]
Holding on to a narrow two-point lead with 4:47 left to go in the game, senior quarterback Dayne Crist lofted a pass to junior receiver Chris Omigie in attempt to keep Kansas on the field and extend its drive. Instead of completing the pass, Rice’s cornerback Bryce Callahan jumped up and intercepted the ball at [...]
The off-season hype surrounding Kansas quarterback Dayne Crist was larger than any Kansas recruit in years. The former 5-star high school recruit had graduated from Notre Dame and was looking for a fresh start with Charlie Weis, the coach who recruited him in 2009 but never coached him for an entire season. Crist battled knee [...]
