David Beaty (American football)
David Beaty (born October 26, 1970) is an American football coach from Garland, Texas. He is the head coach at Denton High School in Denton, Texas, a job he started in 2025. He was the head coach at the University of Kansas from 2015 to 2018 and has coached at Rice, Texas A&M, and Texas, among others.
Beaty’s coaching career includes roles as a wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator. He was Kansas’ wide receivers coach from 2008 to 2009 and its offensive coordinator in 2011. He also coached at Rice (passing game coordinator and WR coach, 2006–2007; WR coach in 2010) and at Texas A&M (co-offensive coordinator and WR coach in 2012; WR coach in 2013–2014). Before moving to college football, he coached high school football in Texas.
Kansas hired Beaty as head coach on December 5, 2014. In his first season (2015), the Jayhawks went 0–12, the program’s first winless season since 1954. In 2016, Kansas earned its first conference win and its first win over an FBS team in overtime, beating Texas. Kansas extended Beaty’s contract through 2021 with an annual salary of about $1.6 million. In 2018, Kansas beat Central Michigan on the road (31–7) and Rutgers (55–14), but the school announced Beaty would not return after the season; he finished the year as head coach.
After Kansas, Beaty served as a consultant for the Texas Longhorns in 2019. He later sued Kansas over a buyout, and the case was settled in June 2020 for about $2.55 million. In 2022 he worked as a consultant for the Houston Gamblers, and in 2023–2024 he was the wide receivers coach at Florida Atlantic. In 2025 he became head coach at Denton High School.
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