Kansas State assistants furthered Princes demise

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:27:49 PST

There were a lot of reasons for the collapse of the Ron Prince era, but the biggest might have been his lack of quality assistant coaches. Tim McCarty, who was Ron Prince’s offensive line and assistant head coach, announced Thursday that he would return to Division II school Eastern Central University in Oklahoma. McCarty coached at ECU in 2004 and 2005, compiling a 9-11 record. McCarty is not taking a job as an offensive line coach at some other BCS school. He is not even taking an assistant job for a Division I-AA team. He’s heading back to Division II.
Now, there’s a chance that McCarty and his family really like ECU and that McCarty is taking this job for reasons other than money or recognition.
However, doesn’t that paint a bad picture of the man who was the Wildcats assistant head coach? Prince’s second in command doesn’t have enough ambition to go after a BCS job elsewhere?

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