Next, we look at when Klieman is taking the job. It should be tomorrow. Instead, apparently, it will wait until, well, we don’t know, when NDSU is done with the playoffs.
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As I referenced, the Wildcats are in desperate need of an infusion of talent and could use their head coach hitting the pavement and knocking on doors to find said talent. For the coach to not be starting immediately, especially with concerns about who and who won’t be on staff next season, it will be difficult to sell recruits coming down a super vital stretch run when the recruits don’t know who their position coach is going to be.
I don’t like the move. I don’t mind it I guess, but I don’t like it. Kansas State, as much as a coach on the sidelines, desperately needed an infusion of excitement, anticipation, and yes, recruiting momentum to recapture fan base subjected to boring and at times bad football. Kansas State doesn’t exactly, on paper, appear to be any better and likely will be a worse team next year than this campaign that ended in heartbreaking fashion in Ames a few weeks ago.
Klieman will have perhaps an unfair burden, taking over a team headed in the wrong direction and a fan base not excited with the decision. A slow start for the Wildcats in 2019 and perhaps 2020, and a hire that looks good on paper may never really get off the starting line.
I want Kansas State to win. I went to school there, graduated from there, and do things my degree has no impact on, which makes me well, I guess an American based on what people are doing with degrees these days.
Gene Taylor has taken an enormous risk in hiring an FCS coach to take over the program. Hopefully he understands that if it doesn’t work, and quickly, it won’t be just his friend that’s out of work, he will be as well.