We're not entitled to everyone in Kansas, and I have never said kids should be loyal to K-State.
But as far as K-State goes, this is not just a one here, one there situation, this is a now a trend, a long term trend.
This staff has a horrific close rate on in-state kids desired by other schools.
What else infuriates me is all of this, "well, they've got T. Boone Pickens" Bullshit. T. Boone Pickens Stadium fka Lewis Field was an absolute dump, that was literally crumbling to the ground. While they were literally trying to keep the place from crumbling to the earth in a steaming pile of rusted, twisted steel. We could have been building all the player facilities they have now, and it wouldn't have taken $200 f_cking million dollars. But instead, we let LHC Bill Snyder rule, and instead what we got was a minuscule cosmetic addition to the North Side of Vanier, the remodeling of a handful of areas, a bunch of flat screen TV's and some new carpeting and fixtures (just enough money was spent to NOW make it very hard to justify tearing the whole place down and start over, LHC Bill Snyder couldn't be happier). Its nice, that's it, its nice, its not a head turner, it isn't going to wow any kid . . . and despite all the stamping, stomping and screaming by the Powertards, when you package the winning, aggressive recruiters/young coaches with state of the art facilities, K-State is going to lose more times than not. All this BS about "Great People" is just lip service BS from most of the kids to make us or most K-State fans feel better about themselves. Its 2012, and kids want 40 sets of uniforms and Ipads in the lockers, and Taj Mahal dressing rooms . . . and apparently they want it rammed down their throats by relentless recruiters who don't play the "go whatever way your internal intrinsic values tell you to go" . . . 18 years have to be sold and sold HARD!
