Even if we never experienced Jim Wooldridge, Ron Prince would have never gotten the lee-way that Wooldridge got. A couple of reasons. #1...it's kstate basketball. In the late 90's and early 00's it was incredible how little people cared because our football team was competing for BCS bowl games every year. Can you imagine Prince going 2-6, 3-5, 2-6, 3-5, 3-5, 3-5 and keeping his job? Not going to happen....kstate fans will NOT allow us is become crappy in football. #2...he's a black man. People have the tendency to think black coaches that are unsuccessful early on are "dumb" and don't work hard. This isn't just kstate fans, it happens everywhere. Does anyone here actually think Wooldridge was a hard worker? I sure as hell didn't/do not. This is a good thing though, I don't think it'll take long for us to see if Prince is right for the job or not.
Oh, and JP is not referring to you guys. FAN supported canning wooly after year 5 (fan's shortcoming was his pre-march 23rd huggins hatred) and slimz pretty much realized the end was near when we went on our patented 6 game conference losing streak in the heart of the conference schedule. It was the fans that "knew" wooldridge personally and come off impressed...or just hated Tim Weiser with a passion and would write letters to the mercury using the defense of "he's a class guy" while we couldn't even beat friggin Mizzou. The Jim Wooldridge fans 1st, then kstate fans type.
