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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY. DECEMBER 8, 2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"David Beaty is well respected in the football community and brings KU great vision, passion and energy. He has a bright football mind and is known as one of the best recruiters in the nation."
Sheahon Zenger, University of Kansas athletic director
David Beaty is the 38th head coach for Kansas football.
FACT OF THE DAY
- ESPN
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many 1,000-yard receivers has Beaty coached at Kansas and Texas A&M?
A: Three. (Mike Evans, Kerry Meier,
Dezmon Briscoe).
- ESPN
THE MORNING BREW
Beaty not flashy, but the right guy for Kansas
The Kansas Jayhawks have found their next head coach. No, it's not Jim Harbaugh.
It's not Bo Pelini, either. Kansas has hired former Texas A&M wide receivers coach David Beaty to lead the football team for the foreseeable future.
Beaty may not be the most attractive name in the college football coaching community, but he might just be the right one for the Jayhawks. Beaty has a history in Lawrence, as he was the wide receivers coach under Mark Mangino during the 2008 and 2009 seasons. He was also Kansas' co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach in 2011.
He will also not demand a ridiculous amount of money. There have been reports that Beaty's initial contract is $800,000 with added incentives. This relatively cheap contract can allow Kansas Athletic
Director Sheahon Zenger to spend a decent amount of money to build a solid staff around Beaty.
Clint Bowen, who served as interim head coach for the Jayhawks this past season, will stay on as defensive coordinator and assistant head coach. Bowen brought a ton of energy to the Jayhawks during his tenure and has been incredibly popular with the team.
A Texas native, Beaty has had success with the wide receivers who he has coached at Kansas and Texas
A&M. At Texas A&M, he coached wide receiver Mike Evans to 2,499 yards and 17 touchdowns. At Kansas, Beaty coached wide receiver Dezmion Briscoe to 2,744 receiving yards and 24 touchdowns.
Beaty knows how to work with receivers and with contributors like wide receivers Nigel King and Rodriguez Coleman, Jayhawk fans should see a lot of production from the wide receiving corps in the future.
Beaty also has age on his side. At 44 years old, Beaty can stay at Kansas for as long as he wants without worrying about age slowing him down. As long as he consistently produces positive results, Beaty can produce a great legacy at Kansas.
Just like Bowen, Beaty has also shown a deep love for Kansas and the
city of Lawrence. He has witnessed the best and worst of Jayhawk football and understands what it takes to build a successful football team. As he said during his introduction to Kansas fans at halftime of Friday night's men's basketball game against the University of
game against the University. Florida, "I won't sleep until we can give you something to be proud of."
Yes, Beaty does not have the name recognition or track record of someone like Jim Harbaugh or Bo Pelini. But what he does have is a deep love for the University of Kansas and reportedly an infectious energy with a way of getting the most out of his players. Jayhawk fans should be encouraged that the right guy is finally in charge.
This week in athletics
— Edited by Ben Carroll
Monday No events
Tuesday No events
Wednesday
Men's Basketball
Georgetown
6 p.m.
Washington, D.C.
Thursday
Women's Basketball
Purdue
6 p.m.
West Lafayette, Ind.
Friday
No events
Saturday
Men's Basketball
Utah
2:15 p.m.
Kansas City, Mo.
Sunday
Women's Basketball
- Arkansas State
2 p.m.
Lawrence
Season-best swims highlight USA Winter Nationals
Madison Hutchison, a freshman from Wichita, swims the 150 yard backstroke at the Jayhawk Open on Saturday.
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Kansas swimmers Chelsie Miller, Hannah Driscoll, Bryce Hinde and Lydia Pocisk suited up for their biggest meet of the season at the USA Winter Nationals and churned out season-best results.
Miller, a junior, finished third in the preliminary heat of the 400-yard IM, but surged back in the finals, swimming two seconds faster to receive the silver medal. Miller touched the wall with a time of 4:10.01, just .14 of a second behind the winner.
Miller placed 21st in the 1,650-yard freestyle in 16:34.48. Miller swam in the same heat as Stanford's Katie Ledecky, the current American record-holder in the event. Ledecky out-swam her old American record, and Miller finished 1:21 behind her.
Miller's times in both events pegged her as the fastest
in the Big 12.
Driscoll, a freshman, finished the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 51.18. She finished 48th and swam the fastest time by a Jayhawk all season.
Hinde, a junior, cut nearly five seconds off her season-best time and finished 33rd overall in the 200-yard breaststroke at 2:16.54. Hinde's time sits in the top-five swims in the conference and is getting close to her career best swim she had at the end of last season. Pocisk, a freshman, followed suit and finished 59th with a time of 2:19.10.
The four KU swimmers weren't the only ones at the meet who have been coached by Clark Campbell. Former Jayhawk Danielle Herrmann made an appearance and finished in the top 10 in three events over the weekend. Herrmann swam at Kansas from 2005-09.
Back in the Robinson Natorium, the rest of the Jayhawks competed in the Jayhawk Open
— a meet where scores weren't kept, but the times were competitive.
Sophomore Yulduz Kuchkarova's 54.24 time narrowly missed the pool record in the 100-yard backstroke set by Sam Corea of Denver earlier in the season. Despite Corea holding the record with a time of 54.13, the poolside record board hasn't been updated and still shows Iuliia Kuzhill's old record of 55.12.
"I was really happy when I saw the 55 hanging up," Kuchkarova said. "I was like 'I went a 54. I beat it. Oh wait ...' I remembered the girl from Denver had gone faster, so I knew I didn't really beat it."
She wasn't done. Kuchkarova still had the 200-yard version to go.
"Coach Jen (Fox) talked to me and told me I was ready for the 200 record, even though I didn't think I was," Kuchkarova said. "it gave me the courage, and I just went for it."
She didn't just go for it, she succeeded, beating Kuzhill's four-year-old pool record by half a second, etching her name into Kansas history with a 1.57.83 finish.
Several other Kansas swimmers chalked up season-best times as well.
Juniors Haley Molden and Laura Bilsborrow and freshman Madison Straight all finished with season-bests in the 500-yard freestyle, along with Molden winning the event.
Seniors Deanna Marks and Caroline Patterson, sophomore Gretchen Pocisk and
freshman Anna Peirano also achieved season-best times in the 50-yard freestyle.
Kansas returns to competition on Jan. 10, 2015, at the UCLA/ San Diego double-dual in Los Angeles.
— Edited by Drew Parks
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