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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


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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.
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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.

[Ira Hayes]

How did Wefald get a 2007 Fiesta Bowl ring? 

[MadCat]

I hope you don't mind me using this as a male genitals ring.

[Ira Hayes]

Wefald may be the worst judge of character I've ever met.  The thought doesn't seem to cross his mind that some of the people he meets might be ingenuous dirtbags.

Or worse.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Wefald may be the worst judge of character I've ever met.  The thought doesn't seem to cross his mind that some of the people he meets might be ingenuous dirtbags.

Or worse.

Wefald is a dirt bag himself. It's not surprising that he associates with other dirt bags.

[0.42]

Wefald also basically told every grad student to go eff themselves, which is awesome because graduate studies often help with a university's level of academic prestige and the amount of external funds they get and all that. Awesome dude.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Didn't Wefald also want to eliminate the architecture program?

[gokatgo]

How did Wefald get a 2007 Fiesta Bowl ring? 

Fitz is gonna be soooo pissed when he finds out K-State didn't play in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl

[r-a-b]

Didn't Wefald also want to eliminate the architecture program?

Yes.

[chunkles]

Didn't Wefald also want to eliminate the architecture program?

Yes.

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[sonofdaxjones]

Expensive dinners and bottles of wine charged off to athletics, expansive use of the University Jet for personal agendas, wanting to dump the College of Arch, diverting funds so he could shop his Negro Baseball book/paper,  costing the athletic department millions with fool hardy contracts and of course the legal fees that go with it, stuffing his croonies pockets with hundreds of thousands of dollars for things like "consulting fees", potential malfescance with KSU Research entities and KSU owned entities and on and on and on and on . . .

That's Jon Wefald.

But hey, he's still pulling down $100K plus a year from K-State.

[r-a-b]

During his tenure he also presided over the worst 20 year stretch of K-State basketball in the history of our school as his neglect and abandonment of our once proud program for Snyder's football team left us on life support until Huggin's arrival.  And of course good ol' Dr. Jon, in typical Dr. Jon fashion will be quick to take all the credit for hiring Huggins and just as quick to absolve himself of all responsibility for the Altman, Asbsury, and Wooldrdidge eras that almost killed men's basketball here.

You know, as Jon re-writes his history, I hope he recalls that proud period of time as well.

[j rake]

I thought it was a nice gesture by Wefald. 

[Dugout DickStone]

Expensive dinners and bottles of wine charged off to athletics, expansive use of the University Jet for personal agendas, wanting to dump the College of Arch, diverting funds so he could shop his Negro Baseball book/paper,  costing the athletic department millions with fool hardy contracts and of course the legal fees that go with it, stuffing his croonies pockets with hundreds of thousands of dollars for things like "consulting fees", potential malfescance with KSU Research entities and KSU owned entities and on and on and on and on . . .

That's Jon Wefald.

But hey, he's still pulling down $100K plus a year from K-State.

I've read a portion of his Negro league book.  It rough ridin' sucks.

[sonofdaxjones]

I was pretty much okay with the Weefer for his first 10 to 12 years, then I started hearing a lot of thing as the top of the school was transformed into a bunch of yes men and he ran the place accordingly, basically doing as he pleased, retelling the same tired stories and taking a lot of credit he didn't deserve.

[ew2x4]

Didn't Wefald also want to eliminate the architecture program?

Yes.

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I know, right??

[pissclams]

How did Wefald get a 2007 Fiesta Bowl ring?  

 Fitz, you Encyclopedia KStateo, you

[steve dave]

Jon Wefald is the ultimate EMAW villain. 

[chunkles]

Didn't Wefald also want to eliminate the architecture program?

Yes.

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I know, right??

yeah, terrible.
Although, I'd probably be more successful now in something like hotel and restaurant management or marketing.  eff you anyway mr. wefald for not pulling the trigger.

[Panjandrum]

Jon Wefald is the ultimate EMAW villain. 

I can't rough ridin' stand him.

[michigancat]

Everything about that story is plain rough ridin' weird.

[Cire]

Everything about that story is plain effing weird.

probably didn't even happen.

[CNS]

simple.  weef wants to be remembered fondly  he is buying an advocate who happens to have the ear of a lot of alumni who believe everything they read when posted on gpc.

[ew2x4]

Didn't Wefald also want to eliminate the architecture program?

Yes.

<<<<

I know, right??

yeah, terrible.
Although, I'd probably be more successful now in something like hotel and restaurant management or marketing.  eff you anyway mr. wefald for not pulling the trigger.

Tell me about it. Staring down the barrel of round number 6. Maybe 7? Losing track by now. Should have been a dentist or something.

[mcmwcat]

for personal reasons I will not share

blackmail?