Show Posts
1
Kansas State Football / Somedays I want to punch retards square in the face.
« on: January 19, 2011, 04:30:02 PM »Quote
FITZ
ADMIN
Post #12069
Manhattan, Kan.
MyFanPage
Add Buddy
Some days you will never forget Reply
________________________________________
Not for the Leavitt situation, but for my lunch with President Wefald. He's working on a book about the history of Kansas State (it's going to take him years) and wanted to discuss my 2001 book on K-State football history that he is using for research. We spoke for 90 minutes about history, K-State history and, of course, K-State football and basketball.
We too easily forget all that a person does right once something goes wrong, and I know after years of amazing service, he retired with some controversy. However, President Wefald saved the Kansas State athletic department and university from the Missouri Valley, and so radically reformed the academic standards at the university that only my generation and older (pre-Wefald) can fully grasp what he did.
And I will never forget what he did for me next, for personal reasons I will not share, he then slid across the table his 2007 Fiesta Bowl ring for me to keep. He told me how to have his name removed and mine put on it, and I told him I would never do that for without him, the ring would never exist.
Link: K-State 35, Syracuse 18 ... 1997 11-1 season
Posted on 1/19 4:08 PM | IP: Logged
BClayMoore
GoPowercat Ring of Fame member
Post #21714
Everywhere, USA
MyFanPage
Add Buddy
Re: Some days you will never forget Reply
________________________________________
________________________________________
Originally posted by FITZ:
Not for the Leavitt situation, but for my lunch with President Wefald. He's working on a book about the history of Kansas State (it's going to take him years) and wanted to discuss my 2001 book on K-State football history that he is using for research. We spoke for 90 minutes about history, K-State history and, of course, K-State football and basketball.
We too easily forget all that a person does right once something goes wrong, and I know after years of amazing service, he retired with some controversy. However, President Wefald saved the Kansas State athletic department and university from the Missouri Valley, and so radically reformed the academic standards at the university that only my generation and older (pre-Wefald) can fully grasp what he did.
And I will never forget what he did for me next, for personal reasons I will not share, he then slid across the table his 2007 Fiesta Bowl ring for me to keep. He told me how to have his name removed and mine put on it, and I told him I would never do that for without him, the ring would never exist.
________________________________________
BINGO.
I don't care how Wefald left, the man was a savior, and should be remembered as such. A miracle worker.
Today is one of those days.
As far as Jon Wefald and his officious, crony laden fiefdom, he can made his bed, and he can lie in it. He nearly single handedly put our athletic department on the brink of financial ruin with his outlandish and incompetent management of it. He fired an athletic director so as to fill the position with an unqualified chum to carry out his whims and execute completely inappropriate contract dealings that left the university open to tremendous amounts of exposure and hurt the credibility to the school. He set the football program back a decade by personally hiring Ron Prince. And possibly has put us in a position that we may never recover from by meddling with the hire of Gary Patterson and performing the ultimate act of cronyism by putting LHC Bill Snyder back in the head coaching position so he could stand at the podium once more at the end of his victory tour and look like a hero.
If one actually wanted to write the real (not revisionist) history, it could be said that Jon Wefald destroyed more in his final five years during his drunken, self serving power trip at Kansas State, than he built in the prior twenty.
How suprising that Tim Fitzgerald can’t see this pompous buffoon for what he is.
What a fool.