I'm sorry, you're wrong. If all these players TRULYy busted their ass, the combined record the past two years would not have been 9-13. Last I checked, success on the football field is measured by wins and losses, not about "busting ass".
Mann - Busted ass his career in purple. He left it on the field. He was a player the younger guys could look up to...
Clary - Busted ass his first two years, then he checked out.
George - Can't really tell if he busted his ass. He'd make some plays, and then get a personal foul at a crucial moment. If he truly busted his ass, he would have had 10 sack his senior year. So, I made up my mind. He didn't bust ass.
Sims - Busted ass his entire career, but too many knocks to the head and his leg injury limited him his last two years. Yet, he was still way better than Butler through all that. Unfortunate for Ted...
Saba - If he would have busted ass, he wouldn't have eaten himself into trying out for the d-line his senior year. Oh yeah, wasn't he the highest rated FB his senior year in HS???
Porter - Didn't bust his ass enough to be a solid contributor. I still have visions of Joel Klatt juking him and making him hang in the air as he ran by Porter in Boulder in '04... Joel Klatt???
Dennis - Yeah, I'd say he busted ass to a certain degree, but he just never got over the hump to be a serious threat game in and game out.
Look, I'm not ungrateful -- I'm just calling it like I see it. K-State football allows me to enjoy every Saturday in September, October and November... win or lose. What I do know is these guys had more talent than players on Snyder's early teams. Yet, they lived off of being on the team that won the Big XII championship and that was apparently good enough for some of them. "The Foundation" and subsequent teams BUSTED THEIR ASSES to raise the standard of K-State Football. It's not my fault that guys whose eligibility ran out in 2005 -- who had more talent and potential than many of Snyder's others teams -- pissed away their opportunities to play in bowl games. These guys didn't cheat me as a fan, they cheated themselves, their teammates and the players before them.
