I think the program is in OK shape tbh. The only real issues I have with Klieman are the WR room and LB room. On WRs, I get that the pace of this offense may scare some kids away, but in order for the offense to work, there's gotta be some level of "legit threat" at WR, and Malik just hasn't been that guy over the last three years (due to injury or whatever other issues have been in his way). I like our true freshman Garcia, and think Garber may blossom some day too, but man we've had some pretty tepid WR play over the last few years. Elevating that position ever so slightly would be huge for the offense. We'll obviously need an answer at QB moving forward...whether it's Will (or whoever) taking a massive step forward or hitting the portal, but I think our OL progression will continue to make life a little easier for whoever is playing QB for K-State.
Daniel Green was gangbusters the first three games of the year -- looked like he'd taken a MASSIVE step in the offseason into a potential first team all-conference guy, but his time in the OSU game was glaringly bad. Pretty bad game against OU too. I still maintain fletcher doesn't have the range to cover in space that he's gotta have to defend against Big 12 spreads. So that's really what we had, Green/Fletcher, and walkons. We supplemented by moving Henny and Wayne Jones down, and added Munoz from the portal. That's a pretty risky lack of action there and (predictably) so far, it's been about the weakest position through the first 2 games of Big 12 play. Which is saying something! Because the safeties have been shockingly bad too through the first 2 big 12 games. 3-3-5 hasn't solved our Big 12 defensive woes, it seems. But i'm not giving up on them yet -- hopefully the OSU/OU games were apparitions. We do miss Duke quite a bit i think -- man it would be nice if this team had Wyatt Hubert.
Anyway, to succeed, you need to be a good recruiter or a master roster manager, and CK hasn't really proven to be either yet, which is a concern. Hopefully that gets better and I think it can.