Any hope for a career coach at K-State is probably idealistic. There has been one good coach retire from K-State ever in Jack Hartman. At the end of Jack's tenure K-State was struggling badly. 4 straight years of no postseason, 3 games over .500 overall, and 18-38 in conference play. Every other successful coach left for somewhere else. Jack Gardner went to Utah. Tex Winter went to Washington. Lon Kruger went to Florida. Frank went to South Carolina.
Granted, Tex had a fairly long tenure of 15 years here, but he still left for somewhere else (and never made a trip to the tournament again in stops at Washington, Northwestern, and Long Beach State.)