LAWRENCE
On a Tuesday in April, Kenny Perry strolled through the front doors of Little River High School, a Class 2A school that sits at the corner of Prairie and Waverly streets in a quaint farming community 20 miles west of McPherson, Kan. Perry, a first-year assistant football coach at Kansas, was there on business, a goodwill mission during the spring recruiting season.
In the span of days, Kansas coach David Beaty had ordered his staff to canvas the state, attempting to hit every high school in Kansas that fielded a football team. This is how Perry, a native Texan, found himself in a hallway at Little River, a school that plays eight-man football and rarely spurs much interest from Division I head coaches.