David Beaty signed up for a whale of a rebuild at Kansas, and his first season of repairing a broken program was about as difficult as it could be. Several key players were kicked off the team or retired before the team even reached fall camp. Five quarterbacks had to take snaps in games because of a rash of injuries. A team with fewer than 65 scholarship players had little experience or depth to rely upon.
In the end, the Jayhawks went down in infamy as the first 0-12 team in the history of the Big 12. The conference losses came by an average margin of 35 points.