photo by: Nick Krug

Kansas offensive linemen Jacob Bragg, left, and Larry Hughes (73) go head to head during practice on Tuesday, April 11, 2016 at Memorial Stadium.

When Kansas University’s football team opens camp during the first week of August, second-year head coach David Beaty will have one major expectation about the new-look Air Raid offense.

“Oh, they better know it all,” Beaty said. “Every bit of it. If they don’t, then we have no shot. Because what we do is so simple, it’s complex. There’s no reason why they wouldn’t know it. And they know it.”

Much like the first offense under Beaty, which was installed, run and called by offensive coordinator Rob Likens, who maintained that title this season but will no longer call plays, the new incarnation of the tempo-based offense was installed quickly.

Day One, Day Two, Day Three. Rinse and repeat. Over and over and over this spring.

It’s that type of installation system, which exposes players to three looks at the three phases of the offense in every nine-day period that has Beaty expecting his players to know it inside and out by now, rust or no rust.

“We’re on that now, and that stays that way the entire year,” Beaty said. “So we’re basically done installing. Everything’s in. It was in after three days.”

The focus now, of course, shifts to fine-tuning, polishing and developing the players within the offense.

“We’re just continuing to do it over and over and over again and fine-wine it. We’re trying to get everybody to understand where everyone’s gonna be. We need to know your thought before you know your thought.”

One aspect that could stall the progress of KU’s new offense is the uncertainty at its most important position. Junior Montell Cozart and sophomore Ryan Willis appear to be the top contenders to start at quarterback this fall. But red-shirt freshman Carter Stanley, along with others, also could factor into the race. Each day that passes without a clear-cut starter represents a delay toward moving forward full-speed ahead.

With that said, Beaty has been encouraged by the reports he has received from both players and strength coaches about the summer workouts.

“We can’t do much with ’em in the summer,” Beaty explained. “But they’re out there going through stuff on their own. They’re out there throwing and working routes and going through seven-on-seven three or four times a week. And I know, just from hearing and talking to our quarterbacks after meetings, that things are going well.”

That helped set the bar for his expectations for two weeks from now, when the Jayhawks open preseason camp on the 2016 season. And because his players will get just a short time to return home before reporting to camp — three days at the end of the month — Beaty fully expects the carryover the team enjoyed from spring to summer to transition seamlessly from summer to camp.

“These poor dudes, they don’t get much time off any more,” Beaty joked. “So I’m hoping that they can catch their breath because we’re gonna hit it running.”