Shehan Jeyarajah

And, I mean, Kansas State,

is higher than I might have expected.

They're in like the low 30s, I believe.

So this is a team that I think that has more talent than people realize.

I think they brought in a really good offensive transfer class.

I've got some questions on defense just because of how much they turned over after changing head coaches.

But, I mean, this is a team that I think will be really fun right from the get-go and has a chance to maybe pull some upsets.

Yeah, I mean, this is one of, I feel like, the tougher teams in the Big 12 to really try to project.

And, you know, obviously they've been a program that, for better or worse, for the past four or five years have been defined by Jalen Daniels, and he's gone now.

And there's not necessarily an obvious player waiting in the wings.

I know that they really like Zeke Marshall over there.

I know that Cole Ballard has some snaps under his belt.

But, like, it's going to be different than what it was.

And I think that, you know, you're excited certainly about the fact that Andy Kudelmicki is back in the building to kind of help bring that offense along.

But defensively, they just haven't found very many answers over the past couple of years.

And some of them certainly, I think, are personnel related, but I don't think that they're all personnel related either.

So this is, I think, a pretty pivotal moment for Lance Leifold and that program.

Like you said, I mean, they are in a much, much, much better place than they've ever been, but...

you know, the question kind of becomes, are they ever going to go back to that 8-9 win range that they were at just a couple years ago?

I don't think that this is the year that you see it, but I would love to see some growth to at least be heading back in that direction.