Kansas football assistant coach Taiwo Onatolu shares his spring update
Check out what Kansas football defensive ends coach/special teams coordinator Taiwo Onatolu had to say Thursday as the Jayhawks’ spring continued.
LAWRENCE — The way Finn Lappin tells it, playing college football in the United States wasn’t always the path he intended to take.
Lappin, who’s from Melbourne, Australia, grew up playing Australian rules football. Then, taking the professional route there didn’t pan out. So, he went for a tryout with Prokick Australia, which trains Australian athletes in how to play American football, and things took off for him from there.
But regardless of how Lappin ended up at Kansas, after previously playing at McNeese State, the redshirt senior punter is grateful for the opportunity to be playing for a Big 12 Conference program. Playing for a power conference school wasn’t the be all and end all for his decision to transfer to KU, but he wanted to get the most out of this chance and this helped make his choice a “no-brainer.” He called this his last year, and finding a place like Kansas was important to him.
“It was sort of like a challenge to me, last year, was to be the best punter I could be and to just see where it could take me,” Lappin said in April during spring ball. “And, like, in my wildest dreams I wouldn’t have imagined being able to play at Kansas. But, here we are, and I’m loving every second of it.”
Kansas found itself in need of a punter after Damon Greaves elected to transfer to another Big 12 program, Colorado, and in Lappin brought in someone defensive ends coach/special teams coordinator Taiwo Onatolu praised for seemingly never being flustered. Greaves finished the 2024…
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