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It's Patterson!
Havs:
http://plixi.com/p/67384647
"storm"nut:
--- Quote from: wabash909 on January 01, 2011, 07:45:51 PM ---Oh, if FITZ had just done what he does best and "sat on the story" while Gary finished the season and notified his team and administration on the terms he wanted to after the bowl game...
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Patterson was not happening for more than one reason It's Patterson, or Not.
"storm"nut:
--- Quote from: sonofdaxjones on January 01, 2011, 08:53:38 PM ---Gee Rams do you think somebody may have been using Fitz??
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Someone did but not for the reason you think
Panjandrum:
--- Quote from: Pete on January 01, 2011, 09:06:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rams on January 01, 2011, 08:40:46 PM ---I suspect that OB swooped in at the last second and Wefald pulled the trigger and told Patterson to go eff himself cause his old buddy was coming back...but what the hell do I know? :dunno:
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Loads, I'd say.
That's actually pretty close to the insidery grumblings of the "true story." However, there are also grumblings that the Fitz announcement accelerated the moving pieces and didn't allow for cooler heads to prevail...forcing one path instead of the other. Also, at least one rumor I heard has it that one of Fitz's "sources" was Frank....which is hilarious if you have listened to Frank spin a recruiting yarn in person before. The truth resides someplace between Fitz single handedly ruining us, and Krause being our hapless, would-be savior....but regardless of those conclusions it all still comes back to Wefald.
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I'd say this is probably the most accurate summation. The true villain in all of this is Wefald. I've never spoken with him on the subject, but all of the tea leaves that you read say he was pretty much set up and only reported what he was told from someone high up. I'm in the minority here, but I'm almost positive that he went to 'press' with word from either Krause or Jack Vanier, which is probably about as good as you're going to get, so I don't really fault Fitz for his sources. I do fault him for the timing. But that's a whole other thing I'm not going to get into.
I think it's pretty obvious from anyone that really followed this thing that the whole rough ridin' mess was Jon Wefald's fault. He was the one that jammed Prince down our throats, he was the one that forced Weiser out (good or bad move is debatable) in favor of promoting a lackey to help promote his agenda, he knowingly approved all of those sweetheart deals (and I refuse to believe otherwise), and he found some way to eff up the Patterson deal by jamming Snyder back down our throats.
The day that piece of crap left Kansas State, I couldn't have been happier. I know a lot of the tards, especially the old ones, will defend him and say how great he was for our university, but when you Gump your way into a great football program for about ten years, enrollments and donations will go up. There were a lot of aesthetic things that are better about the school, and Hale library is very nice, but Schulz has shown more vision in one year than Wefald did in his last ten. And he has shown a propensity to stay the eff out of the way when it comes to athletics.
All I could think about last night as I watched the Rose Bowl was how much I hated Jon Wefald. I really can't think of any single person affiliated with this university that I despise more.
Panjandrum:
--- Quote from: ELL3 on January 01, 2011, 10:11:03 PM ---
--- Quote from: slimz on January 01, 2011, 07:27:02 PM ---Congrats to former* K-State head coach Gary Patterson and his TCU team for their Rose Bowl win. Gary, it may have sucked the way things went down with K-State a couple of years ago, with Snyder butting in and all when you were set to come home, but at least you now have a bigger win on your resume than Snyder has or will ever have, and you didn't have to put up with his shadow over you to accomplish it.
* For about an hour.
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Snyder did beat an undefeated number one ranked team by 28 points and win the Big 12 title
More impressive than beating the number five ranked team in a bowl game
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I'd rather have a win in the rough ridin' Rose Bowl.
Are you serious?
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