Props to Ron Prince for closing his three years at Kansas State with a win. Well done, sir. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
But now on to other pressing matters, such as his replacement. A lot of people have wondered why I didn’t chime in more during this search, which is nearing its conclusion. The problem was there was a lot of misinformation out there, and verifying anything these days has been almost impossible.
What we do we know? Well, here’s what I know:
I’ve been told Gary Patterson has a meeting tomorrow with his athletic director at TCU. I know Bob Krause has called a meeting today with the Wildcats.
Here’s what I think I know:
I think there are people who conduct coaching searches who are friends with people close to Patterson, and the people who conduct coaching searches are letting it be known that the TCU coach isn’t interested in K-State because of the instability and uncertainty of the administration – but Patterson might be curious about other vacancies elsewhere.
I think the timing of Prince’s firing bothered the target K-State zeroed in on all along, and that target told the administration he wouldn’t provide a definitive answer until the season was completed, until there was an actual opening at K-State.
I think the target provided an answer either last night or this morning, and I believe the target will “meet” with the Wildcats tonight, not that they haven’t already met Bill Snyder.
Yep, Bill Snyder.
I don’t believe there was any real contact between the administration and Patterson. I honestly don’t. Maybe I’m naive. Maybe I don’t have enough sources. All I know, or all I think I know because this has been the wackiest coaching search I’ve been involved with, is that I expect a press release to be issued later this evening alerting the media to come to the Vanier Football Complex for a big announcement tomorrow.
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If this is true, it will cause some real consternation amongst the true believers. I’ve said all along that we were in a better position than almost any other school, though, and I still believe it. When your “worst case scenario” is one of the greatest living college football coaches, that ain’t bad. I’m only afraid of it sending the signal that noone else can win at KSU.
D-O-O-M
Your colleague, Jason Whitlock, as we all know, made a pretty good case for naming Snyder. That being the lack of stability with a new president coming in and an athletic director who came up through the ranks of administration, and may well be interim. I do not know. Like him or not, our AD jumped on our coach when it was apparent that no progress had been made during this year. In my view, he earned a good grade for that. I like Prince. The question is can he develop a team. I will be very interested in where he goes and what he does.
Snyder is a stable choice. He is respected. Assuming that he makes good hires for his assistants, we will be better next year.
Gug
I think the fans deserve to know the truth on this deal. Who was contacted and why they did or did not take the job. I’m tired of this administration “protecting” us by treating us like mushrooms. They keep us in the dark and feed us bullcrap. I don’t think we’ll ever know the truth and we’ll be left with swapping myths and legends just like 3 years ago. We better hit a home run with the new President and AD.