Kliff Kingsbury and David Beaty routinely texted back and forth, but there was something different about Kingsbury’s message to Beaty after a game on Oct. 16, 2010.
The current head coaches at Texas Tech and Kansas, respectively, had just finished a game coaching against one another — Kingsbury for Houston, and Beaty for Rice.
With less than four minutes remaining on third-and-eight at the Houston 13, Rice quarterback Nick Fanuzzi found Vance McDonald in the right corner of the end zone to give the Owls a 34-31 lead.
“It was a little corner route on a three-by-one set,” Beaty said Monday at his weekly press conference.