It’s time to move on to basketball, folks. Sure, there are four football games remaining, and bowl eligibility is still in play. But the optimism has drained out of all but the most zealous supporters at this point, and no matter what happens in November, the prevalent feeling seems to be that the team is just playing out the string. Hopes and dreams were dented at the hands of Mississippi State, diminished by West Virginia and Texas, and demolished once and for all by Oklahoma.
Basketball is the new hope. Who had that written in the collective consciousness of K-State fans a year ago?