Tim Fitzgerald

They'll buy in at that point.

If you're not, they're just going to be abandoning you because they don't really have any connection to the team.

They don't know the players.

They're not invested emotionally.

And that's another upside to what his plan is.

His plan is to try to build a program where players aren't leaving.

You're not signing 12 new guys a year.

You're signing four, plus your recruits, you know, and

By the way, K-State fans just found out you can recruit players out of high school and add them to your roster.

It's something new, I think.

So we've seen him do that with two players he had signed for Belmont.

But because so few kids are getting actual power-level scholarships now, there's pretty darn good talent going to the Valley and other places.

to be developed, to be stolen through the portal later on.

And I think he just wants to skip the middle step and bring them in right away.

Nobody warned me he'd be this much like Bill Snyder.

I feel...

We learned almost nothing out of spring football.

The submarine went under.

We have no idea where it was.

They did a bunch of stuff and came back up and said, practice is over.