Nice hire. He's every bit as good if not better than Frank Martin. I would say better.
Sarcasm? I'm guessing not. You'd rather have a guy that just got fired from
Illinois than a guy that did so well in
Manhattan, KS, that he was hired away? There's a reason Frank Martin left that place and it starts with the guy that just hired Weber.
Frank Martin got a job at a tough place to win and then proceeded to win. Ask Dana Altman about winning at KSU, a coach that has succeeded everywhere else he's been...heck ask Lon Kruger why he left his alma mater. Martin had proven and sustained success in a very strong Big 12. In my lifetime (I'm 37) KSU basketball has been good for a total of about ten years. About 4 under Kruger in the Mitch Richmond/Steve Henson days. And then the year under Huggins, and the following Martin era, about 6 seasons total. That speaks very highly, IMO, of Frank Martin. A guy that players evidently LOVE to play for.
Weber pulled a Frank Haith and inherited a very nice squad from Self and had early success and then went into the tank. Although we don't know what Haith will do at Mizzou (may continue to do very well) we do know what happened with Weber at Illinois.
I'll put it most simply this way - 100 Div-1 coaches led their team to the postseason this year, either in the NCAA or NIT. And KSU went elsewhere to hire their coach. Hell, the coach at Norfolk State (or wherever, I don't know) would at least have been a decent gamble in terms of manufacturing excitement. If you spend 5, 6, seasons at 90+% of "BCS" schools you better be on the 'upswing' towards the end of that 5th/6th season, or else you shouldn't be considered for another "BCS" job. Include Jeff Capel in that too. Mid-major? Sure. That's where any of these fired coaches should go back to prove themselves again.
