Beaty was asked about his friendship with Kingsbury and how the two first got started working together...
COACH BEATY: Kliff took the job as the offensive coordinator at Houston when I took the job leaving here to go to Rice as the offensive coordinator. We played him at Rice, and we did not have a great team, but we were coming on offensively. We were doing okay.
We played those guys there at Rice, and I think we won that game on a last second play. We threw a little corner route out of a three-by-one set. I'll never forget that.
After the game, I got another text from him. We had routinely texted back and forth, but the text was a little different. It was like, hey, man, you did a great job. Man, congratulations. And that's hard for a guy that him and Summy were favored to win that game, and we were able to come back with that victory. He's that type of a humble guy.
I'm going to tell you this, there's so many things -- he's such a good looking dude. That's kind of something people talk about all the time. But, man, if you knew this guy -- I don't know if I know five humans better than Kliff Kingsbury. I really don't. He's a humble, hard working, Blue collar, up at 4:30 every morning working out, grinding. We'll be up there at Sunday morning. He's there at 6:00 a.m. Sunday morning. Most guys are coming in a little bit later than that or a lot later than that.
He's a hard working, quiet, needs no applause guy. He's a guy that, as much as he's been in the media, he doesn't require that. He's a very humble guy. If I learned anything, I thought I worked hard. This dude works. He's quiet. If you're a good dude, man, he loves you. He's one of those guys.
Really, I think I got the call from him because of that game, to be honest with you. I think he was impressed with maybe some of the things we did in the passing game that day.
COACH BEATY: Kliff took the job as the offensive coordinator at Houston when I took the job leaving here to go to Rice as the offensive coordinator. We played him at Rice, and we did not have a great team, but we were coming on offensively. We were doing okay.
We played those guys there at Rice, and I think we won that game on a last second play. We threw a little corner route out of a three-by-one set. I'll never forget that.
After the game, I got another text from him. We had routinely texted back and forth, but the text was a little different. It was like, hey, man, you did a great job. Man, congratulations. And that's hard for a guy that him and Summy were favored to win that game, and we were able to come back with that victory. He's that type of a humble guy.
I'm going to tell you this, there's so many things -- he's such a good looking dude. That's kind of something people talk about all the time. But, man, if you knew this guy -- I don't know if I know five humans better than Kliff Kingsbury. I really don't. He's a humble, hard working, Blue collar, up at 4:30 every morning working out, grinding. We'll be up there at Sunday morning. He's there at 6:00 a.m. Sunday morning. Most guys are coming in a little bit later than that or a lot later than that.
He's a hard working, quiet, needs no applause guy. He's a guy that, as much as he's been in the media, he doesn't require that. He's a very humble guy. If I learned anything, I thought I worked hard. This dude works. He's quiet. If you're a good dude, man, he loves you. He's one of those guys.
Really, I think I got the call from him because of that game, to be honest with you. I think he was impressed with maybe some of the things we did in the passing game that day.
