LAWRENCE – Early last week, in the first days of an off week, Kansas football coach David Beaty gave his staff a simple directive: For the next two days, they were going to track every mistake. Every wrong hand placement. Every missed assignment. Every time a player used poor technique. Every little detail on every single play. OK, they couldn’t log everything, of course, but Beaty says they came pretty close.
“We did some unique things,” Beaty says.
The focus on the nitty-gritty stemmed from a desire for better execution, but one specific goal appeared obvious: Fixing a porous defense.