Coaching football at Kansas these days must be like clean-up after a hurricane. The mess is everywhere, so many places to start, and sometimes the mind overloads and you find yourself obsessing over a broken windshield while the houses around you continue to crumble.
This is David Beaty’s life now, prioritizing the cataclysmic problems of his program from the merely embarrassing, and so it is that the man who walked in telling everyone he needed help found himself apologizing about taking too much on.
Beaty was proud of the men he’d convinced to work with him on college football’s greatest challenge, and still is, but at some point in the last week or so he found himself as the program’s head coach and offensive coordinator, as well as coaching the KU quarterbacks and punt returners.