Athlon had the Big 12 Head Coaches give opinions on each team in the conference. Two a days is a time we all get excited but we must remember we are practicing against ourselves and are just starting year 2 of a 3 to 5 year process of adding talent and implementing a system. Here were the thoughts on KU:
"There’s not much to evaluate; they’re just going to go through another year and try to survive.”
“I think they’re still two or three years away from being competitive, but David [Beaty] has some time before anyone is going to expect him to start winning games. He has to just rebuild and recruit and get it going the right direction. It was so bad when he took over — there was no way to get it turned around overnight. When your scholarship numbers are low and the ones you’ve got aren’t very good, you really just have no chance.”
“The concern I have for them is he’s also had to rebuild his staff this year because they lost some assistants, and that could be an issue.”
“I actually thought the freshman quarterback [Ryan Willis] played pretty well for them, but his biggest problem is if you don’t have much talent around you it’s tough to build the confidence of a young quarterback. He doesn’t have a lot to help him, and they’re just not very good up front on either side of the ball.”
“They had one transfer linebacker [Marcquis Roberts] last year coming in from South Carolina who played pretty well for their defense, but they don’t have many Big 12-level guys.”
“Even though the secondary was really young, nobody caught my eye as a potentially good player in the future.”
“It’s just a tough situation. Signing Day is bigger for them than any Saturday right now because they have to get faster and more skilled.” -
"There’s not much to evaluate; they’re just going to go through another year and try to survive.”
“I think they’re still two or three years away from being competitive, but David [Beaty] has some time before anyone is going to expect him to start winning games. He has to just rebuild and recruit and get it going the right direction. It was so bad when he took over — there was no way to get it turned around overnight. When your scholarship numbers are low and the ones you’ve got aren’t very good, you really just have no chance.”
“The concern I have for them is he’s also had to rebuild his staff this year because they lost some assistants, and that could be an issue.”
“I actually thought the freshman quarterback [Ryan Willis] played pretty well for them, but his biggest problem is if you don’t have much talent around you it’s tough to build the confidence of a young quarterback. He doesn’t have a lot to help him, and they’re just not very good up front on either side of the ball.”
“They had one transfer linebacker [Marcquis Roberts] last year coming in from South Carolina who played pretty well for their defense, but they don’t have many Big 12-level guys.”
“Even though the secondary was really young, nobody caught my eye as a potentially good player in the future.”
“It’s just a tough situation. Signing Day is bigger for them than any Saturday right now because they have to get faster and more skilled.” -
