Kansas City Star · Apr 6, 2017
Sam Mellinger: The Bruce Weber conundrum at Kansas State
College basketball coaches who make the NCAA Tournament do not often require votes of confidence from the boss, but for lots of reasons, Bruce Weber is in an awkward situation at Kansas State so that’s exactly what happened.
Weber knew it was coming, too, but shortly after the story appeared in the Manhattan Mercury he said he got something else from interim athletic director Laird Veatch:
An apology.
“He didn’t really want it to be a vote of confidence,” Weber said. “It was just supposed to come out that I’m the coach and all that stuff. He called me right after, and said, ‘I’m sorry that’s the wording.’ ”