Beaty has a plan, and he's sticking to it
Kansas head coach David Beaty didn’t have it scripted to start his first season without a win. But he did have a plan when he took the job at Kansas and he isn't going to alter it after one year on the job.
Beaty has been to Kansas two different times. So Lawrence wasn’t an unfamiliar scene to him and he had a head start knowing about the program. He is going to stick to the plan he had over a year and a half ago when he landed at Kansas for the third time.
“The first thing is you create a plan when you come into a place,” Beaty said. “I think you have to survey it and we had an advantage because we have been at KU before. We knew the environment and knew the conference. It isn’t my first time in the conference. If this is your first time in this conference it may take you a little while to get used to it. It is different on the field. It is a fast conference and built on speed. I think it is the fastest conference in the country.”
Beaty has seen the successful and down times in the Kansas football program. His first stop was in the Mark Mangino era when he was the wide receivers coach. In his first year the Jayhawks won eight games and a bowl game against Minnesota. His next stint came with Turner Gill for one season.
“The way we stay the course is we continue to work the plan,” he said. “Not to sound like I’m on my high horse but we understand and know what our plan and vision looks like. We are consistently in the process of working that plan as we go through it. Eventually the byproduct will be what we all want.”
The odds-makers in Las Vegas have already released preseason win totals. College football fans everywhere look down their team’s schedules and try to predict how many wins could come in 2016. Not Beaty, he isn’t thinking past week one.
“Our goals are very simple, one game at a time,” Beaty said. “The most important game in our program’s history is Rhode Island in the first game. The next game after that will be the most important game ever. And the next one the same. That’s how we treat it.”
