Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor still has most of the emails, the ones essentially accusing him of hiring "his drinking buddy" when he named Chris Klieman the Wildcats' head football coach on Dec. 10, 2018.
Taylor and Klieman had worked together at FCS powerhouse North Dakota State, which wins national championships at the rate most people pay taxes.
All Klieman did in his five seasons as North Dakota State's head coach was win four FCS national titles. But that was hardly the narrative when he made the rare jump from the FCS ranks to being a Power 5 head coach.