There always seems to be some girl who is clearly better than others, and everybody wants her. That's not much difference. Kittley has managed to build a juggernaut in several ways. Our program is built mainly on people that have been with us for four years. Plus, when we did start winning, it made it a lot easier to recruit - but that's still never easy.
Success breeds success and people certainly want to be part of a winning program.
That, to me, meant winning the national championship, and I'm glad Cecil had faith in me. As a track coach, Kittley knows his situation is unique from football or basketball coaches. A kid can come up to him and tell him he's decided to play football at Kansas State because he wants to be on TV every Saturday afternoon. In our situation, we can't compete in Division I against a lot of people, but there are quite a few teams that we can compete with. We've also got as good of a track schedule as anyone in the nation.