Alas, poor Wooldridge

[sigma7]

Whoever had "one hour, fifteen minutes" in the post-season Jim Wooldridge Death Watch takes the pot. (Edit: better story from the KC Scar courtesy patchsassy!)

(Sorry. K-State sports thing. Everyone else, carry on.)

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[querldox.livejournal.com]

6 seasons and no NCAA bid at all while in a major conference that regularly gets bids if you can finish with a .500 conference record? Yep, time to get a new one.

Admittedly I'm spoiled in my alma mater not getting a bid only twice since they started letting more than one team from a conference play, but if you can't get a bid after three years where you had teams consisting solely of your recruits in a power conference, you ain't cutting it.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

They've already started designing the page for tomorrow.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/14058780.htm

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Hell, they could've designed this last night. Just a question of after which game in the tourney.

Sad. He's a decent guy, at least, which is a lot more than you could say about Asbury.

Hell, I believe there were...what, three of us in the newsroom when Asbury got canned, rewil?

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

Google rules. :)

I think it's the difference of the first half of the season compared with the second half. Had we converted some of those games where we lost by 1, 2, 3 points, he probably wouldn't be needing those extra boxes.

[rewil.livejournal.com]

I don't think missmiah was there ... I do remember the early morning call to NBratko, though. And the daylong slog of news, and the Chinese food, and Kinders' utter trooperness. Good times, man.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nothing as abysmal or ludicrous as the Pasco Fiasco of '03, but a very consistent ability to yank defeat from the jaws of victory -- well, maybe it's not as much about losing as it is not winning. Semantics, I know.

I have heard one interesting name dropped in the mix as the post-Wooly that would give the day a full-circle kind of feeling....

[adele87.livejournal.com]

This is the K-State basketball coach right?

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

We were discussing the possiblitity of Mike Davis earlier this month in the newsroom.

I think he would be awesome. Although it might make next year's K-State/Texas Tech game sufficiently awkward.

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

Don't remember if I was there or not, of course since I never really gave a rat's tushy about the coaches or the sports I very well may have been and managed to block it out.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

Icon love. :)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Well, if we look at the team in terms of arrests, convictions and assaulting sports columnists, we've actually improved quite a bit....

coaching thread starts .... NOW

[daethkow.livejournal.com]

Hey, maybe you could get Dana Altman to replace him!

/get him OUT OUT OUT of the Missouri Valley
//Creighton sucks.

Re: coaching thread starts .... NOW

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Much as I feel your Altman pain, I can't see him ever returning to the scene of the crime.

If K-State puts enough money together, they might land Mike Davis, though, and I find his biggest flaw and greatest strength to both be perceived that he's not Bobby Knight. They will have to move fast, though, and I can't imagine they haven't already put out feelers.

Interesting question: when was the last time K-State replaced both their football and basketball coaches in the same year?

And has any DI college ever replaced white basketball and football coaches with African-Americans in the same year?