David Beaty, in four years at Kansas, has repeated the catch-phrase often.
When the KU football coach talks about “dealing in reality,” he means there’s no point in pretending a challenge doesn’t exist, or in imagining that it will be easy to overcome. It’s best simply to embrace what’s ahead, put your head down and go to work to make things better.
The coach admits, though, that the words have taken a bit of a different meaning in recent weeks.
His own changing reality is this: Beaty’s seat has become hotter than any other FBS coach.