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Kansas football coach Lance Leipold outlines thoughts before opener<\/p>\n

Check out everything Kansas football coach Lance Leipold had to say Thursday as the Jayhawks continued to progress toward their 2025 fall opener.<\/p>\n

LAWRENCE \u2014\u00a0Ahead of Kansas<\/a> football games for the upcoming 2025 season, the school will be required to provide availability reports for Big 12 Conference games.<\/p>\n

The Big 12 released the news Wednesday, and connected it to men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams as well. Regarding football, the final report will come 90 minutes before kickoff. Preceding that, there will be daily reports that come out starting three days before each game.<\/p>\n

But does KU football<\/a> coach Lance Leipold support these reports, which are going to be detailed at Big12Sports.com? With football, there\u2019ll be designations of being available, probable, questionable, doubtful, or out.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what he had to say Thursday:<\/p>\n

RELATED: How healthy is Kansas football as season opener against Fresno State draws closer?<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked about it in our meetings in late May; we knew it was kind of going there,\u201d Leipold said. \u201cWe talked about some different thoughts on when and what categories. I haven\u2019t seen the final one yet of how it\u2019s going to be labeled. We know why it\u2019s being done, for the other impact of things that happen in this country and worldwide. So, it\u2019s there. As long as it\u2019s balanced for everyone, and where it\u2019s at, I think it\u2019ll be \u2014 it\u2019ll work out fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Leipold alluded to why people know why it\u2019s happening, he later clarified that he does mean sports gambling. Moving past that, two things that are on his mind are ensuring the system they put in place is used correctly and what the consequences could be for it being done incorrectly. He recalled how close the timing was to kickoff back in 2023, when it became clear the day of the game, quarterback Jalon Daniels couldn\u2019t play, and how Kansas<\/a>\u2019 listing of Daniels\u2019 status would have been evaluated.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks open their 2025 season with three-straight non-conference games, two at home against Fresno State (Aug. 23) and Wagner (Aug. 29), and one on the road against Missouri (Sept. 6). Big 12 play is set to begin with a Sept. 20 home game against West Virginia. Eight more conference games follow that matchup as the regular season plays out.<\/p>\n

Speaking generally, KU redshirt senior offensive lineman Kobe Baynes acknowledged the way the sport has been going would lead to a decision like this from the Big 12 \u2014 which follows the likes of the Big Ten Conference and Southeastern Conference in this regard. He pointed to an example from the 2024 season, although he didn\u2019t go into too many specifics, where his team expected one thing about an opponent that turned out to be different come game day.<\/p>\n

Time will tell what this all means for the Big 12 this fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the league is doing a really good job of just trying to get everything fair for the game,\u201d Baynes said. \u201cAnd so, I\u2019m excited for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. He was the 2022 National Sports Media Association\u2019s sportswriter of the year for the state of Kansas. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas football coach Lance Leipold outlines thoughts before opener Check out everything Kansas football coach Lance Leipold had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[20377,55611,620,634,64,35070,63,1018,45064,485,55617,35069,35077,707,4762,42499,1791,596,55612,619,21278,15142,1412,55614,55613,55618,704,55616,45063,55615,324,44,1787,323,335,1792,55610,85,635,2177,45060,39,6620,21279],"class_list":["post-70642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-20377","tag-55611","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-au","tag-audience","tag-australia","tag-big","tag-big-10-hub","tag-california","tag-california-state-university","tag-ccj","tag-ccj-audience","tag-college","tag-college-sports","tag-conference","tag-content","tag-football","tag-fresno","tag-hub","tag-jayhawks","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-kansas-jayhawks-football","tag-ks","tag-ks-content-sharing-sports","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-big-12-conference","tag-ncaa-big-ten-conference","tag-ncaa-southeastern-conference","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-of","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sharing","tag-southeastern","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-state","tag-ten","tag-top-stories","tag-university","tag-university-of-kansas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}