David Beaty came to his Signing Day press conference prepared.
The Kansas football coach knew he was going to be asked about going heavy on junior college players — the Jayhawks signed 11 in Wednesday’s class — after that approach set KU’s program back a few years when Charlie Weis tried it in 2013.
“There are going to be a lot of people that say, ‘They’re going to sign a lot of junior-college guys and it’s going to perpetuate the problem,’” Beaty said, “but that’s a lie.”
The coach was ready to explain.