The Firing Line: Focus on Prince and Glenn
October 7, 2008 by admin
Filed under Coaching Scoop, Featured
“The Firing Line” at Football Rumor Mill focuses on coaches around the country who are in serious jeopardy. The latest edition centers on Kansas State Coach Ron Prince and Wyoming Coach Joe Glenn…
Kansas State
It’s starting to look that way. After Texas Tech thrashed the Wildcats 58-28, a purple-clad rooter saw K-State President Jon Wefald going up the ramp to see coach Ron Prince in the locker room and bellowed: “Whoever hired him should have to fire him.” Wefald, who saved football at the school 20 years ago by borrowing millions of dollars and hiring Bill Snyder, was instrumental in choosing the thinly experienced Prince to succeed Snyder. The leather-lunged fan might have been speaking for many regarding Prince, whose hubris has worn thin in his third season. Prince has upset Texas twice, but is 0-6 against Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. And since last November, the Wildcats are 3-6 and in that stretch have allowed point totals of 73, 49, 45, 38, 37 and 58. The signing of 19 junior college players last February has proven to be no fix at all… So what’s next? The future looks murky. Wefald, who has moved football into such a prominent place at the school, has announced his retirement. K-State also has no separate athletic director. Bob Krause, the school’s vice president for institutional advancement, curiously was named to oversee athletics when Tim Weiser left for the Big 12 office. After K-State worked so hard to produce “the Miracle in Manhattan” turnaround, the school cannot afford to backslide very far. Repairing this program after the Herculean efforts to build it the first time may take a long, long time. – Omaha World-Herald
Wyoming
It was another lost weekend for the football team at the University of Wyoming… The Cowboys dropped to 2-4 for the season with a 24-0 loss at New Mexico on Saturday…
In the first six games this season, Wyoming has been outscored 153-72, including 91-3 in three Mountain West Conference contests… It hasn’t been a lot of fun for UW head coach Joe Glenn, his staff and his players as well as the Cowboy Nation. – Laramie Boomerang
