The similiarties between this guy and Croom are close. Bill Snyder took KSU to big heights and then started to come down and lose control of the program, like Jackie did with us. Then they hire this guy, who talks a good game, but cant get the job done.
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Summary:
The Kansas State football program is in a state of disrepair just five years removed from winning the Big 12 Conference championship, and the man responsible for such a drastic downfall needs to be shown the door. Ron Prince, now in his third season as the successor to the legendary Bill Snyder, has taken a program that had risen from the depths of the college football world to become one of its most successful programs in the 1990s and early 2000s and smashed any resemblance of its once rock-solid foundation. To put it bluntly, Prince doesn't belong as a Division I head coach, and this season is exposing that very fact. Prince came from a program in Virginia that had experienced marginal success under Al Groh, whom Prince constantly credits as his mentor. Prince was an assistant coach at a weak BCS school for less than five years before he smooth-talked his way into the job as K-State's coach, and as K-State fans are now painfully finding out, Prince talks a good game, but he has shown little ability to coach one. Prince might have succeeded had he been humble enough to hire assistants that had the experience he lacked and the knowledge necessary to field a competitive Big 12 program. But Prince, being arrogant, hired friends and cohorts from college football afterthoughts like Cornell, South Dakota State and Hofstra, thinking his master plan was good enough to overcome his staff's shortcomings… The harshest comparison I could make would be one all fans in this area could remember. Ron Prince is K-State's version of Terry Allen, the completely inept Kansas football coach who preceded Mark Mangino. Kansas State football is in need of a change, because if Ron Prince is allowed to further his destruction of the Wildcat program, it might take nothing short of the second coming of Bill Snyder himself to lift the program back up again.
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Summary:
The Kansas State football program is in a state of disrepair just five years removed from winning the Big 12 Conference championship, and the man responsible for such a drastic downfall needs to be shown the door. Ron Prince, now in his third season as the successor to the legendary Bill Snyder, has taken a program that had risen from the depths of the college football world to become one of its most successful programs in the 1990s and early 2000s and smashed any resemblance of its once rock-solid foundation. To put it bluntly, Prince doesn't belong as a Division I head coach, and this season is exposing that very fact. Prince came from a program in Virginia that had experienced marginal success under Al Groh, whom Prince constantly credits as his mentor. Prince was an assistant coach at a weak BCS school for less than five years before he smooth-talked his way into the job as K-State's coach, and as K-State fans are now painfully finding out, Prince talks a good game, but he has shown little ability to coach one. Prince might have succeeded had he been humble enough to hire assistants that had the experience he lacked and the knowledge necessary to field a competitive Big 12 program. But Prince, being arrogant, hired friends and cohorts from college football afterthoughts like Cornell, South Dakota State and Hofstra, thinking his master plan was good enough to overcome his staff's shortcomings… The harshest comparison I could make would be one all fans in this area could remember. Ron Prince is K-State's version of Terry Allen, the completely inept Kansas football coach who preceded Mark Mangino. Kansas State football is in need of a change, because if Ron Prince is allowed to further his destruction of the Wildcat program, it might take nothing short of the second coming of Bill Snyder himself to lift the program back up again.
