Monday was a home game of sorts for Kansas coach David Beaty, who grew up in nearby Garland, Texas.
Back home at Big 12 media days, Beaty took every opportunity to praise the high school football — and the high school football coaches — in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It was, no doubt, a subtle bit of recruiting. But for Beaty, a former high school football coach himself, it is a topic that strikes a chord.
“We are located right now in one of the finest, most fertile grounds for high school athletes in the country,” Beaty said, “and those athletes are coached by some of the finest high school coaches in the country.