All this talk of the Wooldridge years in the Big 12 POW thread has gotten me to thinking... Wooly might not be a great coach or a great recruiter, but while KSU fans were busy second-guessing and questioning his every move, he was quietly getting the best of all of us.
Here's a guy that pulled himself out of the hellhole that is Oklahoma and would later hop-scotch around lesser-known colleges, slowly but surely building a resume good enough to catch an unassuming (and underperforming) major university like K-State off guard.
You can liken it to the situation with Prince: Once you've coached in the big leagues—regardless of performance—you've got a meal ticket for life.
So here's Wooldridge who took KSU for probably in the neighborhood of $1.5m (not counting health insurance and neck brace costs) and is now living it up in sunny California, at a school where they probably pay him decently and if he can ever manage to put together a winning season, they'll probably name the gym after him and put his statue out front.
Dude is probably golfing his ass off right now, remembering how he let all the criticism at KSU slide like water off a duck's back, because he knew the whole time—better than anybody—that he wasn't getting the short end.
Genius.
