It's still early, but this has gone well for K-State in the sense that people have to assume this is the easiest place in the world to win. Hire a fired coach who failed at his last job? He gets a conference championship in his first year and finishes in the top half of the conference a year they were projected to go, what 8th? Fire a coach that was very successful, even got to the Elite 8 in his 3rd year coaching? Well turns out he apparently can't have success at any other school.
Who wouldn't want to coach here? 
We were predicted to finish 5th along with Oklahoma. Still, a much better season than us Cat fans were expecting (and the rest of the world after we lost to Northern Colorado).
