Jules Sikes

Head coach, Kansas, 1948 to 1953

College career35-25

Program liftNo. 159tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

6-6 against his rivals. Just 1-5 against Don Faurot.

Rivalry record

6-6

50.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

7-11

38.9% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-4

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Kansas State5-183%

Missouri1-517%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Don Faurot1-5

6 meetings, 1948–1953

’48 L’49 L’50 L’51 W’52 L’53 L

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0-4 0.0%

Power Program

1-4 20.0%

National Program

13-11 54.2%

Regional Program

15-6 71.4%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1948-1953) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least7Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 7 — his 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 7 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1954	R5.52	Estimated
1953	R2.17	Estimated
1953	R4.43	Estimated
1953	R6.70	Estimated
1951	R3.30	Estimated
1951	R5.46	Estimated
1950	R5.57	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.