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KU athletic director Sheahon Zenger says 'perfect storm' causing football assistant coaching departures

WACO, Texas — Sheahon Zenger has never seen a discouraging situation bring David Beaty down.

Not when Beaty took over the downtrodden Kansas football program in late 2014. Not when he spiraled to a winless season in his first campaign as Jayhawks coach. And, more recently, not as he’s lost four key assistant coaches from his staff since the turn of the new year — and three in the last two weeks.

Zenger, the KU athletic director, says it simply isn’t in Beaty’s nature.

“I’ve never seen David Beaty disheartened a day in his life,” Zenger told The Capital-Journal before the KU basketball team’s game Tuesday night at Baylor.