David Beaty wasn't just going to take any quarterback he could find. The new Kansas coach needed a perfect fit, and he and his staff found one at the last second in Vero Beach, Florida.

Carter Stanley, an unranked quarterback with one other FBS offer, happened to already know Kansas' offense and was ready to commit. After losing their projected starter in spring ball, could the Jayhawks give the true freshman a chance to play right away?

Our summer series of weekly Q&As with incoming Big 12 freshmen continues with Stanley, who enrolled in June.

How exactly did Kansas discover you?

Carter Stanley: It was pretty crazy. I obviously had really no connection with Kansas before. It was middle of January and I'm getting ready to take my finals, I wake up on a Friday morning and see Coach Beaty followed me on Twitter. Then I talked to Coach [Kevin] Kane later that day and he said he'd come down and watch me throw. He recorded me throwing that day, and a few hours later they offered and I committed on the spot. They told me if they offered they really needed me to commit. They gave me the rundown of what their plans are and it sounded really intriguing.

Do you wonder where you would've ended up signing had Kansas not found you?

Stanley: I definitely think about it sometimes. I think something else would've probably opened up. But who knows what would've happened? At the end of the day I'm thrilled with the position I'm about to be in. I think Kansas has some great things going on and their offense couldn't be any better. It's the exact same offense I ran in high school.

That's a pretty crazy coincidence. Why was it the exact same?

Stanley: I've ran this system, really, for four years under Coach [Lenny] Jankowski at Vero Beach. It's awesome. It's the offense every quarterback wants: fast, up-tempo, throwing the ball a ton every game. This time last year, Coach Jankowski went out to Cal for spring practice and watched them play. Coach [Rob] Likens, who's now the OC at KU, was on Cal's staff last year. Coach Jankowski came back and installed the same system. It was incredible. When I was out there at Kansas for the spring game, I didn't know the signals yet but I'd watch the plays and recognize the exact same plays we ran here at Vero.

Exactly the same? Same concepts and verbiage and all that?

Stanley: Same terms and the same reads on the plays. I sat in with them on a film session and Coach Likens was telling them the same stuff that my coach told me back here.

You witnessed Michael Cummings' injury at the spring game. Did that make you wonder if you'll have to play this season?

Stanley: Yeah, I saw that play live. That's obviously a terrible deal for Michael and a totally unfortunate thing. Obviously it went in my mind that there's even more incentive to work hard and be ready for whatever might happen.

How many seasons were you the starter at Vero Beach?

Stanley: Just my senior season. Freshman year, I was kind of a smaller guy and wasn't the starter on my freshman team. Sophomore year, I started on JV and then got called up to varsity. My junior year, I was behind an all-state quarterback in Dalton Stokes, who's now at Valparaiso. I knew I had to make the most of it going into my senior year if I wanted to play college football. So I worked hard and we had a fun season.

I'm guessing having so little game tape made your recruiting process much harder.

Stanley: Yeah, it definitely did. I had to do some stuff that normally other guys don't have to do. I had to email a lot of coaches and go to a lot of camps and get highlights of practices and workout sessions. So that was different. After the season ended, I thought the college interest would be automatic. But it took a while, about a month, for it to really heat up. Some schools came along. UConn offered in early December and that sparked more interest. It took a while, though.

I'd look on the websites to see which quarterbacks were committed and looked at teams that didn't have a quarterback. I'd reach out to those schools and send the film I had and try to get my name in with those guys. But at the end of the day, it was pretty random.