Kansas football: Les Miles wants to stay with one QB for whole season
Kansas football head coach Les Miles has commented that he’d like to stick with one quarterback for the duration of the 2020 season, which is certainly a good goal to have.
The Kansas football team has struggled at the quarterback position in previous years, but they did pretty well last season. Carter Stanley started every game of 2019, and he wasn’t too shabby either given the fact he had limited experience prior to taking the starting role. Kansas Jayhawks head coach Les Miles has said that he would prefer to keep start only one quarterback this season similar to last season.
Miles recently said in a press conference:
"“I think the advantage would be with the guy we put on the field to stay that way. There are some opportunities for us to play both quarterbacks, but I don’t know that that’s necessarily in the works at this time.”"
Sticking with one quarterback offers numerous advantages for the Jayhawks. Obviously whoever the starter is, likely either Thomas MacVittie or Miles Kendrick, won’t have to constantly worry about being replaced after a bad series or two and they’ll be able to get into a rhythm.
From a strategy perspective, MacVittie and Kendrick are two very different quarterbacks. MacVittie is a standard pro-style QB standing at six-foot-five, while Kendrick is a dual-threat style QB standing at five-foot-ten. It probably wouldn’t be easy on offensive coordinator Brent Dearmon to switch between the two for playcalling, not to mention all of the other communication issues that can arise.
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If Kansas is going to play their best this season, they’ll need to stick with a single QB. Rarely do two-quarterback systems work well, and it’s not an experiment the Jayhawks should be trying during this 2020 season if they can help it.