48 hours with the winless Kansas Jayhawks

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Beaty doesn't want to make excuses. But the reality is this: Beaty has 67 scholarship players and 47 walk-ons. When he first arrived at KU, there were 40 players on scholarship. Everyone else has 85.

"Our numbers are equal to probably the worst sanctions in NCAA history without the death penalty," Beaty said.

It's as if he's trying to start up an expansion team, building at a turtle's pace in the Big 12 rat race. Beaty won't ever bring this up, but he must wonder: How many of the 67 could go line up with those Longhorns and actually fit right in?

Of the 70 players on this week's travel roster, 31 underclassmen, including 13 true freshmen. Thirty of the 70 came to KU as transfers, and 21 showed up as walk-ons.

Kansas' travel roster has only eight upperclassmen it signed out of high school. For the Texas game, only five were healthy.

Those upperclassmen have never won a road game. Kansas hasn't won outside Lawrence since Sept. 12, 2009, at UTEP. Beaty says he wants to end that streak "as bad as I want to breathe." Beaty doesn't complain. He knew what he signed up for at KU.
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http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14106043/48-hours-scenes-kansas-jayhawks-uphill-rebuilding-efforts
 


They have to let Beaty stick around for awhile. Bringing in a new coach every 2 or 3 years isn't going to get things turned around.
 

And who can forget the beatdown Kansas gave the Gophers in that Arizona bowl game after the 2008 season? Was Mangino (spelling?) partly responsible for the sanctions, before getting canned for abusing his players?
 

Nomellini said:
And who can forget the beatdown Kansas gave the Gophers in that Arizona bowl game after the 2008 season? Was Mangino (spelling?) partly responsible for the sanctions, before getting canned for abusing his players?
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I have never seen the highlights to that game, How bad was it?
 


Nomellini said:
Was Mangino (spelling?) partly responsible for the sanctions, before getting canned for abusing his players?
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I don't think Kansas was actually sanctioned recently. Their current scholarship numbers are just a reflection of how poorly they recruited.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
I don't think Kansas was actually sanctioned recently. Their current scholarship numbers are just a reflection of how poorly they recruited.
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Yup. Too many JUCO loaded classes as a result of too many coaches in short succession trying desperately to save their jobs.
 

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