these are ku fans we are talking about. ku football fans for God's sake. In no particular order, here are some of the things that ku fan has believed in the past few years:
Dennis Franchione is going to leave Alabama to take over ku because he grew up in Kansas and was always a ku fan, he considers it his "dream job".
Terry Donahue is going to leave UCLA to take over ku because he was a GA there in the 60's and John Wooden told him what a great place Lawrence was (because JW poured concrete on the FB stadium)
John Cooper is going to leave Ohio State to take over ku because he is fed up with the critics and he was a GA there in the 60's
Mark Mangino is a serious candidate for the Notre Dame opening.
Mark Mangino was THE reason KSU built their program under Snyder, forget about Stoops, Stoops, Leavitt or Snyder himself, it was ALL Mangino
Terry Allen is an awesome coach because he beat KSU while at Northern Iowa
Darren Sproles is going to be no better than David Winbush
Todd Reesing is a legitimate Heisman candidate.
The list goes on, and on, and on...
Therefore, it is absolutely no surprise that they believe Gary Patterson, a KSU alum, would seriously consider taking the ku job.