By Ned Seaton
Chris Klieman had decided he was done. It was the Monday after the last football game of the season, and after talking to his family over the weekend, he had told his boss he just wanted a couple of days to make sure.
Then he made a phone call.
To Collin Klein.
It was the K-State football coach handing the job to the next K-State football coach.
“Collin and I talk frequently, anyway, but I think it’s pretty well known he was going to take another job,” Klieman told The Mercury recently in an extended phone interview. “I mean, he was up for a lot, and Collin was, in my mind, ready to take that next step. And I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, if I’m getting out, and I don’t want him to take a job and then I get out, that wouldn’t be very good. So, yeah, we had a good conversation. I’m gonna keep that conversation between Collin and I, but we had a good conversation.”
