Notebook: Beaty not improving the scholarship situation

Tom Keegan takes a dive into the roster and calculates that KU will have just 37 players on scholarship in the spring of 2019; Beaty said earlier this week at media days that he inherited a team with 39 scholarship players.

Benton Smith breaks down more of Beaty’s comments regarding the low numbers of verbal commits for 2019 so far.

The Big 12 has a new coordinator of officials, and he discussed some of the upcoming rule changes for 2018.

Scott Chasen’s countdown of the top-20 wins in the Bill Self era is now complete, and to no one’s surprise, #1 was Memphis in 2008.

In other news...

Perry Ellis will play professionally in Germany in 2018-19.

Larry Fedora put on quite a show at ACC media days.

Manny Machado is officially a Dodger.

I would make a joke about the US Men’s National Team, but they didn’t qualify for these news and notes.