LAWRENCE
Michael Cummings is still here.
This perhaps is the first thing you notice about the veteran Kansas quarterback, on his third coach and entering his fifth season after outlasting a long list of failed transfers and unproductive signal-callers. Cummings is still here after signing with Turner Gill. That was four years ago. He is still here after being buried on the bench for most of Charlie Weis’ tenure. He is still here, still competing for the starting quarterback job under first-year coach David Beaty.
Cummings, a 5-foot-10 quarterback from Killeen, Texas, finished last season as the Jayhawks’ starter under interim coach Clint Bowen.