For now, she sits upon a purple throne — a purple padded folding chair in the corner of Bramlage Coliseum — shortly after noon on Tuesday after practice.
In his introductory news conference as Kansas State men's basketball coach, Casey Alexander, hired last Friday after a successful seven-year run at Belmont, admitted that there would be an adjustment in making the jump from a mid-major program to the powerhouse Big 12 Conference, which is considered one of the best leagues in the nation each year.
On his 75th mission, just five days before the end of his tour in 1967, Charlie Plumb was shot down over Hanoi, forcing him to eject and parachute into enemy territory, where he was taken prisoner, tortured, and spent the next 2,103 days in North Vietnamese Prisoner of War camps.
The man of the hour stands inside the third-level theater room at the Vanier Family Football Complex. He's been in the building for several hours now. Early-morning workouts cause him to reset the alarm clocks — because he just wants to evaluate how the current players are doing. Yes, 36-year-old Greg Svarczkopf doesn't miss a thing involving the current members of the Kansas State football team — even though his official role on the football staff is Director or Recruiting.
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