Dodd sucks. This isn't central Kansas. This is northeastcentral Kansas. Get it right, DD. Terrible article. 
Or just northeastern Kansas will work. It's in the northern third of the state and the eastern third of the state.
More importantly, Dodds saying KSU was adrift for "
decades in irrelevancy" is a stretch. It has been precisely 2 decades since we last played to go to the Final Four (1987-88). After that, we went back to the NCAA tournament in 4 of the next 8 years. Prior to that, of course, we were a regular. So, to use the term "decades" is Dodds stretching to bash KSU (no surprise).