New Kansas coach Lance Leipold has nowhere to go but up.

“I think there’s no simple quick fixes in building a program or in rebuilding a program,” said Leipold, who coached at Wisconsin and Buffalo. “Keep looking forward. I think whether it be success or when programs haven’t had success, you can’t spend any time looking in the rearview mirror.”

Even though the coaching staff is new, they have worked together before. “I think the stability and consistency within our staff that we’ve been able to have at both those previous stops have been very impactful to our young men, that they have the same voice within the same schemes of doing the same things…

“Right now we’re walking into some situations where a guy is on his fourth position coach. That’s hard to build consistency when things are starting over. Again, that’s going to be the plan. I’m very confident that we’ll be able to do that with staff stability.”