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Class guy. First coach to take two different schools to Final Fours.

Also was a heck of an athlete at K-State in early '70s in both basketball (two-time Big 8 POY) and baseball.

Wasn’t Robert McCullum on his staff at one point?

(03-25-2021 08:08 PM)Broncos83 Wrote:  Wasn’t Robert McCullum on his staff at one point?

Getting close

Clayton Bates played on Kruger's Final Four team at Florida.

A long time friend going back to 9 year old little league, Jim Molinari, was an asst the last couple years at OU. Kruger was an upper classman and his roommate at Kansas State Mol's freshman year and they have been very close ever since.

More ties than I thought...from Wiki:

K-State, Florida and Illinois....

McCullum got his start in coaching in the high school ranks before taking his first college coaching job at South Alabama in 1983. After a one-year stint with the Jaguars, McCullum moved on to Samford for the 1984 season before returning to South Alabama, where he stayed as an assistant until 1987. He then joined the staff at Southern Illinois from 1988 to 1989 before becoming an assistant coach under Lon Kruger at Kansas State in 1990. McCullum followed Kruger to Florida where he was an assistant from 1991 to 1996, and once more worked under Kruger at Illinois from 1996 to 2000.