LAWRENCE
Jason Phillips had good reason to want to return to coaching in 2016.
“You can only play so much golf,” Phillips, the Kansas receivers coach, said with a laugh. “My handicap got as low as it was going to get.”
After spending three years as SMU’s co-offensive coordinator and receivers coach from 2012-14, Phillips took last year off. He read often, golfed even more and made sure that dinner was prepared for his wife, Kimberly, every night she returned to their Houston home.
He still had a longing for more professionally.
“I missed the locker room,” Phillips said.