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Did Kansas put an End to the Ron Prince Era??

Yes fellow Jayhawks our worst nightmare has come true.  By putting a beatdown to our instate rival Kansas State Wildcats the Jayhawks may have ultimately shot themselves in the foot.  Today the Wildcats Ron Prince, a great ally to the Jayhawks, has announced that 2008 will be his final season at Kansas State. 

My how quickly things change.  Bill Snyder left the cupboard bare, K-State ignored the past and went for Ron Prince and now has it in fact become a basketball school?  Of course most of this is sarasm but it is certainly another interesting twist in the soap opera of Kansas State athletics.  Also makes you curious about the future of self declared best quarterback in the Big 12 Josh Freeman as well as the Power Towel...Bring it to every game...or leave it at home, whatever you want is fine.

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I just want to follow this up...

by saying I truly am being sarcastic I would never wish this on anyone and truth be told I’m not sure it’s the right move. Now where does this rank in terms of openings, and who will they go after? We’ll see how it pans out it’s always tough to follow a legend and unfortunatly for Prince he had to attempt to follow the one and only legend at Kansas State Bill Snyder…tough job for anyone.

Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.

by Denverjhawk on Nov 5, 2008 5:52 PM CST   0 recs

One more thing...

don’t look now but rumors are swirling that Bill Snyder wants his old gig back…I’m trying to make a Joke here there is a lot of smoke around this one and where there’s smoke…..

Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.

by Denverjhawk on Nov 5, 2008 8:05 PM CST   0 recs

I'm not going to look it up

but isn’t he like 17-18 in his career there? That is not really a great measure of how good a coach someone is. I know it’s somewhat of the exception, but look at our own, Mark Mangino. I guess the difference is that KU fans and administration were more patient because we hadn’t had a good history.

I think he should have been able to have one more year to show more improvement. Like you said, K-State was pretty bad when Prince took over, he didn’t have much to work with.

by I need more Esteban on Nov 5, 2008 10:22 PM CST   0 recs

I don't think any of them would argue with you on that fact...

the problem many have on the K-State side is that the program has clearly gotten worse and headed in the wrong direction…head over to Ralphie Report they have an interesting comparison between prince and hawkins questioning whether hawins should go but the K-State blogger steps in and I would tend to agree to say that it is clear that while Hawkins is building something w/growing pains…Prince’s pains are due to tearing something apart even more.

Some people are like Slinkies...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.

by Denverjhawk on Nov 6, 2008 8:06 AM CST to parent up   0 recs

yeah

I definitely don’t think 84 Juco guys was a good step either….if he had gotten about half the juco guys he got and gone with younger guys to develop, then I think things would’ve been a lot brighter for the future.

by I need more Esteban on Nov 6, 2008 9:52 AM CST to parent up   0 recs

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