LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas Head Football Coach Charlie Weis and his staff hit the ground running upon being hired in mid-December, collecting a total of 20 signatures for its 2012 football class released Wednesday.
KU received signatures from 17 players on Wednesday, in addition to the three players who were previously announced as mid-year transfers in Dayne Crist, Jake Heaps and Justin McCay. In all, the Jayhawks inked 11 offensive players and nine defensive players.
Weis and his staff put together one of the top quarterback classes of all-time with Crist and Heaps both rated as five-star players by Scout.com as high school seniors and City College of San Francisco signal caller Taylor Baty joining the mix on Wednesday as a three-star prospect.
KU signed junior college All-Americans in running back Taylor Cox and defensive lineman Jordan Tavai. Tavai was one of four defensive linemen to join the Jayhawks on Wednesday as Keon Stowers and Ty McKinney arrive in Lawrence by way of junior college and Tyler Holmes comes to KU straight from high school.
Six players from the state of Texas are going to become Jayhawks, including Dallas-Ft. Worth area natives Courtney Arnick, Holmes and McKinney; Houston area natives Greg Allen and Ty’ree Williams and Waco area native Jordan Smith.
Kansas signed three players from the California in Los Angeles area players Crist and Tavai and San Francisco area native Baty.
KU’s Sunflower state signees include Brian Beckman (Blue Valley West) and Tre Parmalee (Bishop Miege), both of Overland Park.
2012 Kansas Football Signees
Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Exp. Hometown (Previous School)
Dayne Crist* QB 6-4 235 Sr. TR Canoga Park, Calif. (Notre Dame)
Jake Heaps* QB 6-1 200 Jr. TR Issaquah, Wash. (BYU)
Justin McCay* WR 6-3 220 So. TR Kansas City, Mo. (Oklahoma)
* Already on campus this spring
Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Exp. Hometown (Previous School)
Greg Allen DB 5-11 190 Fr. HS Houston, Texas (Alief Taylor HS)
Courtney Arnick LB 6-2 205 Fr. HS Dallas, Texas (Carter HS)
Turner Baty QB 6-2 220 So. JC Redwood City, Calif. (City College of San Francisco)
Brian Beckman OL 6-6 315 Fr. HS Overland Park, Kan. (Blue Valley West HS)
Charles Brooks TE 6-6 240 Jr. JC St. Louis, Mo. (Scottsdale CC)
Sean Connolly OL 6-7 290 Fr. HS Kirtland Hills, Ohio (St. Edward HS)
Taylor Cox RB 5-11 206 Jr. JC Mill Creek, Wash. (College of the Siskiyous)
Josh Ford WR 6-3 190 Jr. JC Landover, Md. (Arizona Western CC)
Tyler Holmes DL 6-3 280 Fr. HS Garland, Texas (Sachse HS)
Schyler Miles LB 6-2 220 Fr. HS Tampa, Fla. (Berkeley Prep HS)
Ty McKinney DL 6-3 310 Jr. JC Athens, Texas (Trinity Valley CC)
Nasir Moore DB 6-1 185 Jr. JC Suwanee, Ga. (East Los Angeles College)
Tre Parmalee WR 5-10 170 Fr. HS Overland Park, Kan. (Bishop Miege HS)
Jordan Smith TE 6-5 240 Fr. HS McGregor, Texas (Reicher Catholic HS)
Keon Stowers DL 6-3 280 So. JC Rock Hill, S.C. (Georgia Military College)
Jordan Tavai DL 6-3 290 Jr. JC Redondo Beach, Calif. (El Camino CC)
Ty’ree Williams DB 6-0 189 Fr. HS Stafford, Texas (Dulles HS)
