Two days before Bob Huggins was introduced as the new head coach at West Virginia last Friday, Garth Gardiner, a 1989 K-State graduate and close friend of Huggins and his assistant Frank Martin, already was preparing for the future."I looked Frank in the eye on Wednesday, and I said, 'If Huggs leaves, you gotta stay. It's the only way we can survive this thing,'" Gardiner said.
And then they embraced.