Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Lance Leipold Signs Contract Extension Through 2029 with Kansas Jayhawks Football: REACTION

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

Reacting to Lance Leipold signing a contract extension through 2029 to stay the head coach at the University of Kansas for the Jayhawks football team. What this means for Leipold, him turning down Nebraska, and what it means for the investment into the KU Football program by Travis Goff and donors. Bonus episode of Locked On Jayhawks.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Underdog FantasySign up on underdogfantasy.com with the promo code LOCKED ON and get your first deposit doubled up to $100!SimpliSafeWith Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnCollege to learn more.UpsideDownload the FREE Upside App at https://upside.app.link/locked to get $5 or more cash back on your first purchase of $10 or more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And this is a bonus edition of the show kind of late night action here. The reason why Lance leipold has just agreed to a contract extension with kansas football the report was had by pete thamel of espn kansas and head coach lance leipold have agreed to terms on a new contract which includes an extension through the 2029 season the new deal is structured to keep leipold at kansas for the long term we've got that tweet from from Pete Thamel scrolling across the bottom. You can listen to this anywhere you get your podcasts, or if you're watching, you can see that on our YouTube page.

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That's $5 or more cash back on your first purchase of $10 or more using promo code locked. Okay. So obviously the news, the extension through 2029. Obviously we had the one-year extension earlier in this season, and that did not rule out the fact that he could have been hired by someone else. Lance Leipold, that is. But the fact that this is occurring right now, and we don't have the numbers on this as of yet, at least while i'm

kind of recording this um but the fact that this is happening now amidst when all these other schools are about to make their hires like there's been some scuttlebutt about nebraska that they're going to be announcing their hire this upcoming monday i don't know if that's true or not but you know they're obviously looking to make their hire known pretty soon here, right? Wisconsin, I think, just put up the job opening for the head coaching position and that they put a deadline on that of the 25th or the 26th or something like that. So they're going to be making their head coaching decision known soon. That one seems like it's going to be Jim Leonard, the interim head coach, DC. Those are the two schools that really stood out for the Lance Leipold stakes. I'm, I don't know, maybe other openings reached out as well,

but those were the two that had the tie-ins because you have Lance Leipold's wife being from Omaha. He spent time as an assistant coach for like over a decade in the Omaha area, which is obviously nearby Nebraska, including being an assistant at Nebraska. And then obviously the Wisconsin one spent so much time at Wisconsin Whitewater, got his startup as a GA at Wisconsin. But the big one is Nebraska. And the fact that this is coming right now basically tells you that, you know, he is not going to be hired somewhere else. You feel very confident in saying that because why, if you were a head coach that was going to take a job somewhere else, would you sign an extension and then a week later go somewhere else? Right. That doesn't happen. And honestly, should this be that much of a surprise?

Probably not. Like all along the way, Lance Leipold left breadcrumbs that said, hey, I'm not leaving. Whether it was appearing on like different podcasts or shows and like hinting at it or saying that, you know, we want to build something long-term here. Like different quotes that he gave along the way. And I'm just kind of paraphrasing on stuff that he said there, told you that he was going to be in it for the long haul. But the reason that, and I think it was fair to still have hesitation. Like, you know, you've seen other coaches in college football say things and then all of a sudden they're gone. Like remember Lincoln Riley just last year?

Like, no, I haven't had contact with USC. Later he's the USC head coach because he didn't technically have contact but some of the back channels did like his agent might have talked to you so it was just technicality so that's why you're always careful until you actually know what's going to happen but how about this this comes from Michael Swain of fog.net and 24 7 sports we had Michael on the show about a week or two ago Lance Leipold has agreed to a new contract with Kansas I can confirm Pete Thamel's report. It's through the 2029 season.

I've heard Leipold said no to Nebraska late last week and his representatives ironed out the final aspects of the extension with KU. It comes with major commitments to infrastructure. It will also give Leipold a handsome raise. So, a lot to unpack there. The first part, and maybe the the most notable he said no to Nebraska think about that guys Kansas has a really freaking good football coach he has turned around this program he might win big 12 coach of the year national coach of the year I don't know he might

not the fact that you know Sonny Dykes at TCU is undefeated makes it kind of hard but in a lot of normal years he would win big 12 coach of the Year at the very least. You have this guy in tow. He has turned around your program. He has gotten you to a bowl game. And he turned down a school that he had ties to that you can say what you want about Nebraska not being good now, and they're not. That is, for a lot of people, a dream job. I mean, that's a school that sells out each and every game they have all sorts of money to pay for nil stuff including what's going to be

coming in as part of their big 10 tv contract i mean it is unbelievable he said no to nebraska to stay at kansas that is loyalty that is absolute loyalty and i i think i i mean next year pack the booth man pack the booth because man. Pack the booth. Because he stuck around for you. You got to stick around for him. Like, that's just kind of how this works. I'll be interested to see who Nebraska hires now. I know, you know, Chris Kleiman was certainly a name that got brought up a lot.

Like, could you imagine that? Could you imagine this? Okay, I'm just going to draw this up. This is the perfect Saturday night, Sunday, Monday, whatever you want to talk about. And to be clear, I'll have my KU, K-State preview coming on Thursday's show. We're going to do that on Wednesday. It'll come out on Thursday, so you can listen to it or watch it on Thursday or Friday. I think it's going to be tough sledding for Kansas against Kansas State

after the way they've struggled in run defense, and Kansas State has a really, really good defense. But hypothetically, could you imagine a weekend where Kansas beats Kansas state Chris after Lance light pulled an ounce of the stain and Chris climbing takes the Nebraska job. Like that would be the greatest weekend in Kansas football history since the orange bowl win.

Honestly, like seriously, I mean, you're, you're talking about 15 years, 14 years of the best week. So we'll see. We'll see.

But anyway, I just thought that was interesting. But again, he said no to Nebraska. I want to unpack this a little bit more in just a second here. But first, this episode of Locked on Jayhawks is brought to you by BetOnline. BetOnline.net is your number one source for sports betting information, stats, news, and analysis. Get the latest odds and trends for every professional and amateur league out there from football to basketball to soccer, esports. You got it all at BetOnline.net.

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in these conversations going back to the realignment stuff and would the big 10 ever invite kansas well if travis goth like knows something internally that in a few years that is a possibility then maybe you say hey look we're going to be in that conference too and we're going to have all that media money in a few years but i think more more than anything, what this was is I'm guessing Travis Goffin, by the way, he deserves a raise as well and a contract extension, probably was able to get enough donor support and booster support to say, hey, we're not only willing to pay you like one of the top coaches, we're not only going to bump your pay and give you an extension,

we're willing to play ball and give whatever you need. You want facilities? You want NIL money money you want more players coming here check write the blank check let's do it and think about this if you are one of those top boosters for ku that you know has has invested so much in this program whether it has been facilities or past coaches or just donating in general are you sitting there as lance Leipold is having this great season saying, well, this is great. I hope we don't lose him. Are you sitting there and saying, I've spent all this time and money

and effort to try to help turn around the Kansas football team. And now we are finally arriving at that destination. I'm just going to let that disappear. No, you're going to say, I'm going to do everything in my power to keep this going and to make sure we retain that guy in Lance Leipold and make him happy any way we can. And so that's the important part here. How can KU not just like for Lance Leipold, I don't view him as being someone who's like, oh, I have to be making this amount of money. I have to be making more than this guy, or I need this amount of money to do this with my house.

No, I think for him, it is more about how can I best build my program? And so for him, I think it is most about just, you know, what resources are you going to provide me? Are you going to improve the stadium and the practice facilities, which obviously Kansas did make the announcement that they are going to be working on the stadium. Are you going to give me a nice pool of NIL money for the current guys so that we don't have to worry about them transferring or for guys to come in so that we can better recruit people those are as important as anything and the fact that kansas made this agreement we

haven't seen the details or whatnot but that would signal that kansas is ready to invest in football just as lance leipold has invested in this program he turned down nebraska he's invested kansas donors are invested and you should, too, because this really exciting news. Now we're going to hear about it a bunch on the TV broadcast. So there's a positive thing to talk about that they might bring up on game day or big noon or on the Kansas Kansas State broadcast. But really exciting stuff. Kansas will retain their head coach and Lance Leipold, and they fend off Nebraska and Wisconsin along the way. All right.

That's going to do it for this bonus episode of Locked Jayhawk. Coming up on tomorrow, we'll have back to normal stuff. We're going to have our NC State preview. It's going to actually come out at midnight tonight as opposed to normally comes out a few hours after that. It'll come out at midnight if you want to catch up on the NC State preview and then we will have our nc state recap and the kansas kansas state football preview in the next episode it's only going to be i guess

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