LAWRENCE — When David Beaty was a high school coach, plying his trade at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, he possessed a particular belief about rebuilding football programs. If one of his teams featured a strong corps of sophomores on the varsity, Beaty says, it would bode well for the future — even if that meant some painful lessons in the short term.
“If you played a lot of sophomores on the varsity and they got a lot of experience, typically, those teams were pretty good by the time those kids hit their senior years,” Beaty said this week.