LAWRENCE – Good for David Beaty.
Good for those who tailgate near Memorial Stadium and then actually attend Kansas football games.
Good for everyone connected with KU. No winless season to fret. Not after the Jayhawks throttled Rhode Island 55-6 at home Saturday night.
The victory hardly alleviated concerns. Really, it proved little considering the Championship Subdivision Rams struggle to compete at their lower level.
They muffed a punt early in the first quarter, gifting Kansas its first touchdown after stopping the Jayhawks’ first possession on downs.
Yet whatever the gift wrap, whatever the bow, whatever the mismatch created by the scheduling coup that brought Rhode Island this far – for a $500,000 guarantee -- to grant Beaty his first victory as KU’s coach, the Jayhawks needed the charitable Labor Day lambaste.