The Garland, Texas, native now returns to his high school football coaching roots. Beaty was a head coach at North Dallas and Irving MacArthur before starting his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Rice. He replaces former Denton head coach Billy Miller.

As the Kansas Jayhawks gear up to face in-state rival Kansas State in Saturday’s Sunflower Showdown, Wildcats head coach Jerome Tang didn’t hold back on his respect for the Jayhawks’ defensive intensity.

Denton ISD’s Board of School Trustees approved the hire of David Beaty to be Denton’s new head football coach and athletic coordinator at a board

Former Kansas head coach David Beaty is now the head coach at Denton (Texas) High School, the school announced Tuesday. The Denton job represents a return to the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Beaty, a Garland,