and was completely shocked. I just couldn’t fathom how could anyone do this to their athletic department. This is an absolutely crazy story.

Maybe this wasn’t satire after all…

it reaks of fraud and Prince’s lawyer should be disbarred for purposely not including our lawyers, after Wefald made it clear everything should go through them in the original contract. This is what’s wrong with our country, dishonestly gets rewarded and us honest people get f*****d and our money stolen.

but it would seem to me that there is no way this contract could be seen as valid. If I go to a buddy of mine and have his lawyer draw out a contract that says my employer will pay him 3.2 million dollars and then I sign it, I’m pretty sure my buddy won’t be seeing that money. As mjk said, Prince’s lawyer should be disbarred for this. Someone (and by this I mean Prince, his lawyer, and Bob Krause) will probably end up in jail for embezzlment and fraud.

I wonder what Prince’s current employer thinks of all this….

Krause is just really stupid and signed it. I know how close he and Wefald are, but it makes no sense that a guy who (as much as I don’t care for him) did so much for KSU to know about it and let it go knowing full well his reputation was going down when it came out. What would be Wefald’s motive? That I can’t figure out…..

This secret contract was signed the day last season started, Aug 8 I think.

A wise, old friend who knows everyone any everything about KSU can’t explain it to me. He only said “it smells.” He also said from the start that Wefald and Krause were crooked and noone listened. My thought is why give Prince more money if you want to be rid of him? Unless Prince knows something and you want to keep him quiet. I was being a little facetious when I said he was “stupid,” but this was moronic, as rydonmf said, or it was hush money. Hush for what is the question? The great thing is now that it is in the open, the chance of us finding out the reason is better.

This seemed to come out of nowhere. How long have we know that Prince signed a new contract for a longer time and more money? Didn’t that happen before the season? Where was Wefald then? Right now I have to many questions to even get my head around this… We’ll just have to wait for more details and I’m sure we will never get the whole story…..

…so apologies that this is my first opportunity to comment.

After reading through K-State’s petition, I’m not especially thrilled with any of the arguments we’re making. If discovery turns up friendly facts, we may get lucky. If it doesn’t, this could be a disaster waiting to happen.

Wild One, first of all, thanks for signing up and commenting. However, I don’t think your unbudging position that Krause is merely taking the fall for this is justified by the facts as we know them at this point. From the facts we have right now, Krause, and only Krause, signed the MOU with Prince and IPP, LLC. Wefald is denying involvement because he has to and he can, at this point. That divides those who don’t know for sure what happened into two camps. One is the side that believes Wefald’s story and believes that Krause just went off the deep end. You argue that this is unjustified because the two are joined at the hip and Wefald meddled in the athletic department to a ridiculous extent anyway. All true, and no less an authority than Curtis Kitchen at 810 WHB agrees with you.

However, I can turn that very same argument on its head, plausibly, and no less an authority than Jeffrey Martin, the journalist who broke the whole story in the first place, believes that Wefald had no involvement whatsoever. Again, you argue that Krausefald were joined at the hip, so surely Wefald continued to meddle in the athletic department after Krause was installed. But is that so certain? Maybe Wefald just wanted to get Tim Weiser — not one of “his guys” — out of there so he could get Bob Krause — clearly one of “his guys” — in there. Once he got his crony in there, was there really any need to meddle? At that point, couldn’t he just say “go to work, Uncle Bob.” Further, because Bob Krause had zip, zero, zilch, nada experience as an athletic director, I can imagine a scenario where he thought something like this might work. Rest assured, an experienced AD like Tim Weiser never would have been so stupid.

I’m not taking a position one way or the other at this point. We don’t have enough facts, and the arguments on both sides are too good for me to say I think one side is better than the other. As unsatisfying as it is in the present, time will have to tell the story here.