Comments on: I GOT FIVE ON IT - Ulla Pomele

By: B Moe

B Moe — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:53:30 +0000

Good on Prince for not leaning on the ancient past to sell the present.

And, sorry to say…the Miracle in Manhattan is now yesterday’s news.

By: J-Mart

J-Mart — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:10:50 +0000

Yep, me and Brian Butler are steering the disinformation train. I haven’t mentioned him on this blog because he has nothing to do with anyone at K-State. Why would you bring him up? I found it amazing he had no context of what K-State had accomplished. Call me crazy, but if I’m going to spend my next two years somewhere, I’d like to have some idea of past success - if there was some. That was my point. There was nothing sinister. I found it disturbing at the time. Not so much now. But I stand by what I wrote.

By: ItGetsOld

ItGetsOld — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:26:16 +0000

Jmart - You’re killin me man, you and your buddy Brian Butler are really getting that dis-information train rolling where K-State football is concerned. How you could pull out an angle in that interview of negetive context is amazing, truly amazing. I got your disturbing right here.

By: Felix Rex

Felix Rex — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000

I can see your point, because I found it a bit curious, too. But what kind of shelf-life does past success have with recruits? How impressed are they with a 2003 title that happened under a different coach, especially given our downward spiral since then?

I also think that Prince (right or wrong) may be a little reluctant to cite Snyder’s accomplishments while simultaneously trying to escape his shadow.

Oh well, at least that “immediate playing time” pitch worked.

By: J-Mart

J-Mart — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:19:47 +0000

Felix Rex, I just figured at some point the current coaching staff would have taken the time to inform a recruit about the heights to which the program soared before the current coaching staff arrived. That’s how I felt when I wrote it, obviously. Truth is, after reading some of the comments, maybe I’m wrong - and that’s OK, too.

By: WuTangForever

WuTangForever — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:00:38 +0000

Ron Prince character, that’s rich! Ask Joe Caprioglo and that Wichita kid what they think of RP’s “character?”

By: Felix Rex

Felix Rex — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:56:59 +0000

JMart-

What exactly about this interview is disturbing?

By: Barn

Barn — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:15:06 +0000

JMart…

While it might be of note that Coach Prince and staff did not lean heavily on the Bill Snyder era to sell KState to Ulla Pomele, if you step back a moment and look at the entirety of things, it’s actually an encouraging thing.

Yes, we are all extremely proud of our program under Coach Snyder and that success is what we’re working to get back to. However, I think it speaks volumes about how Coach Prince and his staff are going about recruiting to know these kids well enough to understand what to focus on with each individual recruit. Take, for example, Wade Weibert. Now there’s a kid who grew up with Coach Snyder’s teams and has commented on wanting to help return the program to that level. So, with him you lean hard on the success and history of the Snyder years. With someone like Pomele…or perhaps a Bubba Brown…who probably don’t know much about KState history, it’s simply not going to have the same effect on them. There will be other, more vital aspects of the current team situation (like playing time) that will have far greater appeal.

I say kudos to Coach Prince and his band of merry travelers for their tireless efforts to secure what could be a VERY special class for Kansas State Football.

Barn, O.G.

By: K-Rock

K-Rock — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:48:41 +0000

He doesn’t know about the “Miracle in Manhattan”? That sucks! We need to be living in the past and not moving on past that period of time, which was a full decade ago! 1998 4EVER! Maybe we can all borrow Uncle Rico’s time machine.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:57:50 +0000

Can he run? Can he tackle? Is he assignment sound? If the answers are all Yes, then I don’t care what he knows or doesn’t know about K-State tradition.

Welcome aboard, Ulla. Your new nickname is “Ulla the Butcher.”