It’s not that we, or anyone in the media, roots against Kansas State. In fact, at times, it’s fun to wish well on a school and program so clearly dwarfed by their chief rival and in-state competitor.
We also aren’t rooting against Bruce Weber, despite the fact that the media hasn’t given him a break since 2005, when he and Bill Self’s former players fell in the National Championship–his final great season at Illinois.
So, again, it isn’t personal. But at some point, Weber has to run his own program. He’s got to recruit his own players and find some real success with them.
After tying for the Big 12 crown his first year in Manhattan, things have quickly gone south at Kansas State. From attrition, to a completely lack luster display on the court, no traction has been made at his most recent stop. Losing Marcus Foster, one of the most dynamic freshmen in the county just two seasons ago, certainly didn’t help things.
At this point, Weber has lost so much ground with the Wildcats, like finishing with a losing record just one season after making the Big Dance, that it’s tough to see how he can find a way to crawl out from the whole he’s currently in.
Again, we don’t like rooting for coaches to fail. We like to see them succeed, but for Weber and his KSU program, the damage has been done and it looks like it will take something quite special, and unexpected, for them to regain the stature they had under previous head coach Frank Martin, and Bob Huggins before him.
