Kansas football: The long march from the bottom begins
By Phil Poling
Kansas football is the exact opposite of KU basketball. One dominates and the other, well, gets dominated. Can David Beaty tip the scales in 2018?
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Head football coach David Beaty is 3-33 during his tenure at Kansas. He’s won as many games at the helm as the team won the season before he arrived. He took over prior to the 2015 season, but didn’t post a win on the field until the following year when the Jayhawks won two games.
The team’s win total was cut in half from 2016 to 2017, and there aren’t many believing in the Jayhawks running up to 2018. Vegas is giving Kansas comically-low odds to win the Big 12.
It isn’t all bad with the Jayhawks, though. They’ve got a top wide receiver in the Big 12, their toughest non-conference opponent will likely be Rutgers, and of course, Dorothy let us know, “There’s no place like home.”
What should we expect from Beaty in his fourth season at the helm of the program? More wins than losses in the non-conference? Winning a few Big 12 games? To do either, Kansas will need to get stops defensively, so let’s start there.