Mike Alden is playing chess while we play effing checkers.
Step 1: Open the Miami Job
Step 2: Get a decent coach with a super low buyout
Step 3: Watch KSU crumble when Frank leaves
Step 4: RE-take over spot as "second in the north"
Step 5: Profit.
Prolly has had this planned out since Oregon offered Anderson.
You're not giving them enough credit. Here's how it really went:
Step 1: Create instability in the Big 12 by talking of move to Big 10, thereby creating uncertainty for KU and KSU and their future.
Step 2: Nebraksa moves to Big 10, leaving MU as Big 12 "north" football power.
Step 3: Open the Miami Job
Step 4: Get a decent coach with a super low buyout
Step 5: Watch KSU crumble when Frank leaves
Step 6: RE-take over spot as "second in the north"
Step 7: Profit.