photo by: Mike Yoder

Kansas football coach David Beaty holds a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 3, to discuss the Jayhawks' 2016 class of signees.

Now that a new recruiting rule has gone into effect, a football program might as well be on the winning side of the rule change, even if it’s a minor one. David Beaty’s social media-conscious coaching staff is on the winning side of it.

As of Monday, college coaches in all sports are allowed to click “retweet” and “like” on the Twitter accounts of recruits and allowed to share recruits’ content on other social-media platforms. Coaches still can’t directly comment on the posts, but are allowed to show they are paying attention to the recruits’ via social media.

Every little bit helps and Kansas certainly needs any help it can get in trying to climb out of the Big 12 basement.

Beaty (1,809 tweets), walk-around guy Rob Likens (1,539), offensive line coach Zach Yenser (1,321) and defensive line coach Michael Slater (967) are particularly active on Twitter.

Losing five assistant coaches after his first season, only one via demotion, certainly wasn’t ideal for Beaty, but he seems to have rebounded well and put together a staff that so far seems to have good chemistry, solid recruiting contacts and a strong work ethic.

Yet again, I have said something nice about Kansas football. Your turn.