Wabash is Billy Madison, you all are the auditorium full of high school students. His feel good story did nothing to answer the original question. If 'keeping things in perspective" means missing the tournament two years in a row means we are looking for your replacement and I missed the legend at the bottom in fine print then I will retract my statement.
I’m not stupid enough to conveniently forget the 20 years before Frank took over at K-State.
In fact, I remember that time quite well and it was real. I personally lived the Asbury, Wooldridge era. After Kruger abandoned the program we were the effing laughing stock of the conference. During the Altman, Asbury, Wooldridge span we went to two NCAA appearances and lost both times in the first round. Two times in twenty years. Under Frank we’ve gone to the NCAA tournament 3 of the past 4 years and may go this year if we put our act together. Under Altman, Asbury, Wooldridge we lost to KU twenty consecutive times on our home court by an average margin of 24+ points and the Bram was half full of blue and red. Frank has beaten KU 2 of the last 4 years at home, once when they were the #1 team in the country.
Frank has won more times on the road in conference over the past 5 years as head coach than the prior three coaches combined in a two decade span.
The guy has never not finished in the top 4 of the league, has won more games than effing Jack Hartman in the same span.
So, get real.
Keep the expectations high, but don’t discount what you are drawing the comparison to. Frank isn’t perfect, he has plenty of faults, but it is absolutely asinine to assert that he can’t coach and the reality is he has done a tremendous job at K-State.
