Tim Fitzgerald

And probably the gap between production and the money won't add up.

Production will be fairly close, money not.

And I think that's what K-State's being asked to do.

But I think KC Alexander –

wants to go find the guys, develop the guys, pay them at that point to stay, and limit the number of guys he's got to bring in every year through the portal and probably not go find that really expensive piece unless there's a special circumstance.

Maybe they've got all the pieces, but they just need the power forward that's really good, and someone says, let's go get that guy.

I don't know, but I think he's going to just start constructing from the ground up, coaching, developing, and worry about the money later.

I think it's very fair.

And a great majority of them, or a number of them, were players he's familiar with, either from the Missouri Valley that played him or he recruited them elsewhere.

You know, they ended up at Colorado State or wherever.

So he knew a lot of these guys, had existing relationships, and then brought them in here.

We'll see if it works.

I mean, I honestly don't know.

People keep asking me, are they going to be good?

And I'm like, they could be pretty good, or they could be absolutely awful.

You know, it just doesn't come together.

They don't develop quick enough.

and basically you're playing a junior varsity in a very high varsity league.

But I don't see that happening.

This guy can not only X and O, he knows how to coach in practice, which honestly, bluntly, has not happened much in Manhattan over the last four years.