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LAWRENCE — Hip replacement surgery last month didn’t prevent Charlie
Weis from becoming an action figure.
As surgeons reshaped Weis’ gait, Weis was doing the same to the Kansas football roster, and the results came into focus on Monday.
Gone are at least 10 players, including some of the most productive on the offensive side from last season.
Weis said six have been dismissed, including running back Darrian Miller, the team’s second leading rusher with 559 yards, and safety Keeston Terry, the team’s fourth leading tackler. .
They’re gone for unspecified reasons, Weis said, but there was a common denominator — they didn’t abide by Weis’ rules.
“I don’t care who they are, I don’t care if they were all-stars,” Weis said. “There’s a right and wrong way of doing things.”
“In every one of the players’ cases … these were clear-cut. They were gone, and I was fighting to give them opportunities to be able to stay. Then they decided not to take advantage of the opportunities.”
Also getting the boot is quarterback Brock Berglund, who didn’t play as a freshman for personal reasons. Three other players remain in school but aren’t in the program, among them last year’s starting quarterback Jordan Webb.
The future of Webb, who would have entered his senior season, grew uncertain when Kansas signed Dayne Crist, the former Notre Dame quarterback. Crist has graduated but has one year of eligibility
remaining, and Weis had that kind of situation in mind with the players approaching their final year but essentially cut from the roster.
“Rather than have a kid be miserable that their status has changed … we want to give them the opportunity to do the same thing,” Weis said.
“They can graduate and be able to play again without sitting out.”
Also, Weis said some walk-ons were no longer part of the program.
The news conference at the university’s football complex also served to introduce the program’s high profile newcomers: Crist, his potential successor Jake Heaps from Brigham Young and Justin McCay, the former Bishop Miege standout wide receiver who spent two seasons
at Oklahoma.
McCay wanted to return closer to home, and Kansas will make an appeal that McCay won’t have to sit out a year under NCAA bylaws. Already, McCay’s pause was reduced from two years to one. Transferring within
the Big 12 is two-year sit, but Oklahoma forgave a year if McCay transferred to Kansas, Kansas State or Missouri because of what Weis
described as a “hardship.”
If the NCAA grants the appeal, McCay would have three years of eligibility.
“I wouldn’t call this a second chance, but more of an opportunity,” McCay said.
Crist, considered one of the nation’s top pro-style quarterbacks out of high school, signed with Weis’ Irish as they were coming off a Sugar Bowl season. But Notre Dame slumped and Crist’s progress was slowed by injuries. He won the starting job last season but wasn’t a
good fit in Brian Kelly’s up-tempo system and was benched after the opener.
With a year to play, he selected Kansas over Wisconsin and reunited with the coach who recruited him to Notre Dame.
“It was a very tough decision,” Crist said. “When I started thinking about leaving and taking my fifth (year) elsewhere, he was the first person I called.”
Heaps also lost his job this season, midway through his sophomore year. He had started 10 games as a freshman and there had been talk of
his NFL prospects. He’ll spend next season absorbing the offense while sitting out.
“None of us expected to be sitting here today in Kansas when we all committed to other places,” Heaps said. “You don’t go in expecting that it’s not going to work out, but at the end of the day things happen for a reason.”
Transfers weren’t the only introductions on Monday. Weis said he expects to name his final assistant coach, who will oversee linebackers, but the end of this week.
And players’ names will return to the back of the jerseys.
“Don’t ask me what color,” Weis said. “But yes we will put the names on the backs of the jerseys.”
