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.
Asbury was an absolute homerun hire at the time. As a matter of fact Asbury taking the KSU job wrecked his career a hell of a lot more than Asbury's tenure wrecking KSU basketball. He could have found a much better job than the one he took. At the time the job here looked much better than it was, because the past history wasn't very far in the past. People like to put the demise of the basketball program at the feet of Wefald, but the fact is EVERYONE gave up on KSU basketball; Wefald, the AD, the old people boosters like Dax, everybody. People neglected basketball for football because it was something that we had over KU. We had no shot at being better at basketball, but we did at football. It started before Asbury arrived, the death knell for Kansas State University's interest in basketball came on October 25, 1995.
Asbury was a much better coach than K-State was a program and it was pretty stupid of both parties to have a coach come from Malibu, CA to Manhattan, KS in 1994. Manhattan in 1994 was VERY SHITTY.
