LAWRENCE
Last winter, in the weeks after David Beaty took hold of the controls at Kansas, the first-time head coach compiled a list of options. It was already late in the recruiting process, and to cull together a respectable class, Beaty was going to have to channel Usain Bolt during the final weeks before signing day in early February.
He started with what he knew: the state of Texas.
In those chaotic days, Beaty passed along a name to new receivers coach Klint Kubiak, who had just arrived from the Minnesota Vikings. The name was Steven Sims.