The point is that once you have hired a coach, the administration needs to get behind that coach and give him a shot to either succeed or fail before pulling the trigger and firing him. Otherwise, why would a top-flight coach even consider coming here knowing that we didn't even give the previous coach a fair chance? And guess what! My expectations were nothing but a guess, and not a basis for firing a coach with a winning record. I knew there was a chance he could actually exceed expectations just like he did in the first go-around. Do you have any concept of how Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) K-State would have looked to the nation if we had actually fired Snyder at the end of last year?
A top-flight coach doesn't give a crap about the circumstances in which the previous coach was let go.
I don't think that is always the case. And there wasn't ample evidence to believe LHC Bill Snyder was not a top-flight coach anymore at the end of last year. I think that
any coach we hired in 2008 would have been in rebuilding mode for at least two seasons considering the circumstances with all the jucos from Prince's last class screwing up the scholarship numbers, etc. And I'm not saying that Snyder is above criticism. But there was certainly no logical reason to fire him. Very seldom does a school fire a coach after a winning season, and when they do it is normally a very big school with extremely high expectations because of its proven ability to recruit at a high level. Nebraska fired Frank Solich in 2003 after going 9-3, but look where that got them. It turned out to be a huge mistake which cost them years of mediocrity. I think at a place like K-State loyalty and patience matter, especially after the guy literally saved our school from being kicked out of the Big 8.