KMAN Sports Director John Kurtz recorded his thoughts on former K-State basketball coach Frank Martin Monday. Martin, who took over the reigns of the Wildcats after Bob Huggins left Manhattan for West Virginia after one year in the Little Apple, has South Carolina in the Final Four following the Gamecocks’ defeat of Florida in the Elite 8 Sunday.
Martin took K-State to the Elite 8 in 2011, but left for South Carolina after the next season.
Excerpts of Kurtz’s thoughts on Martin include:
“The wound has always been there, but it was scabbed.”
“It is ripping that scab off, that is what’s happening to K-State fans right now.”
“You can’t look anywhere in the college basketball world right now without seeing Frank on TV.”
“It’s gonna hurt, and this is the time for K-State fans to vent. Over the five years, you’re not doing it every single day, but this is the time when it hurts. This is the time when the scab’s been ripped off. You should be able to vent. Now, I will advocate (on) venting… does that mean you need to tear down the current coaching staff, the program, the players that are in it right now? No. Look. You can still want K-State to win moving forward and root for the players and the program right now at the same time. This doesn’t have to be an either/or.”
Kurtz’s full take on Martin and his KSU connection can be listened to below:
