January 23, 2014

Official: Taylor joins KU program
KUAD Release
Taylor officially joins KU program

LAWRENCE, Kan. - Kansas football head coach Charlie Weis announced Thursday that tight end Kent Taylor has signed a grant in aid to join the KU football program immediately. One of the top tight ends in the nation coming out of Land O'Lakes High School in 2012, Taylor spent his first two collegiate seasons playing at the University of Florida.

Taylor saw action in six games during his freshman season at Florida. He made his first career catch at Vanderbilt in 2012 and scored a touchdown on a five yard reception in Florida's 2012 Sugar Bowl win over Louisville. Taylor redshirted during the 2013 season.

A consensus four-star recruit, Taylor was rated as the No. 1 tight end in the nation by Rivals.com and Scout.com in 2012. He was rated the No. 10 player in the state of Florida by Rivals.com and the No. 54 prospect on the Rivals100 national list as well as No. 73 overall in the nation by Scout.com.

As a senior, Taylor helped lead his Land O' Lakes High School squad to a 7-3 record, while recording 30 catches for 480 yards with five touchdowns despite missing the first month of the season with a broken left hand. Taylor, who was coached by Brian Wachtel at Land O'Lakes, was named an Honorable Mention All-American by Sports Illustrated and was selected to compete in the 2012 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.

So can he play right away?

@laytrionjones: Just commited to kansas

Good day.

Weis is killin it.

ROFL

If you want to be a dick, go do it somewhere else.

Oh, and D.J. Williams to Kansas, bitch.

That's him! thanks!

Darious Crawley, WR, to Kansas. Rivals 3 Star.

Apparently we beat out Michigan State for the young man.

Rivals Link

Scout Link

Kid had offers from Kansas, Michigan State, Iowa State and others.

Another advantage to recruiting Texas. Why would anyone ever leave that recruiting pipeline is beyond me.

Looks like KU got a commit from the #1 JuCo running back in the country, De'Andre Mann. 5'10", 205#, 3 star.

News to me. We are loaded at WR.

You're loaded at WR? Your leading WR last year had 48 catches for 676 yards. Your next best WR who is returning had 22 catches for 233 yards and 0 TDs (you can add his 1 catch for 9 yards the previous season if you want to calculate career numbers).

If you're loaded, it's because you're drinking...as you should be. Happy birthday.

Yeah, but it's next year man.

Next.

Year.

I meant recruiting class. No way we'd accept that guy.

But our sophomore WR did tie Todd Blyths TD record last year. We also have a 4 Star WR that transfered in and sat out last year will be a sophomore. Oh then 4 star Lazard coming in as a freshman.

Let's see if Mangino works some magic with the OL last year that was mostly all new guys and had about 8 different lineups because of injury. That's what destroyed us... Oh and a dumbshit OC.

Plenty of talent is in place.