If recruits are coming for a game, we couldn’t ask for a better matchup and excitement around a particular game. Crowd will be electric.
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Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
Scrooge-"Are there no prisons?". "Plenty of prisons..."
Scrooge-"And the Union workhouses." . "Are they still in operation?". "Both very busy, sir..."
"Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
Scrooge- "If they would rather die," "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
The AD and coaching world is a very small fraternity. Relationships are huge everywhere. I've seen it first hand with some of my work with the Final Four. I doubt there are many coaches hired by ADs where there wasn't either a direct connection or strong referral connection. It appears Coach Klieman has several solid connections throughout college athletics so if it wasn't Gene Taylor at KSU it could have very well been somewhere else. But the fact Taylor was there very likely played a huge role in this being the next landing spot.
Gene mentioned something at Klieman's introductory press conference down in Manhattan today that I thought was interesting. He said that when Klieman interviewed for the job at NDSU he told Gene (paraphrasing) "I'm not just going to when one more championship, I'm going to win multiple more championships". That appears to have stuck with Gene and I'm sure that resonated with him when Klieman interviewed for the K-State job so if Klieman said something like "I'm going to win Big 12 championships here" it holds a little more weight than it would've coming from another candidate who doesn't have that previous relationship with the hiring AD.
I'm sure Gene could've passed along favorable recommendations on Klieman to other P5 ADs, like Iowa St's AD for instance, if they had an opening but it would be tough for any other AD to have the background to go to bat for Klieman like it appears Gene Taylor did.
Hail the BISON!!!
"You should host seminars on how to behave on opposing fan forums. Charge a pretty penny toward that Bison tailgating rig. " from Milkman 1/6/2016
Maybe we lose 1 or 2 recruits. Not going to break our program. Recruits choose the school and the coach. I don’t blame them for stepping back and reconsidering their choice if something changes. It’s their life.
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