![]() ![]() ![]() He guided Southern Illinois to the 2002 Sweet 16, then spent nine years at Illinois, where he was named AP Coach of the Year in 2005. He's one of just 10 Division I coaches to take three schools to the Sweet 16, and he's been to 13 NCAA Tournaments overall. He's now 497-302 in his 24 seasons as head coach. He finished 184-147 overall at the school, including five NCAA trips and a share of two Big 12 titles. The Wildcats finished 14-17 this year, but his 184 wins are the third most in Kansas State history. Weber, a member of the NCAA ethics committee, also said he had vowed not to cut his hair until the programs were punished for their involvement in a high-profile FBI investigation into payments for recruits, "and obviously it's still growing." He made all my family teachers and coaches." My dad came over on a boat, didn't get a high-school degree. He was quiet but said, 'You're hired.' He had never met me. I said, 'Coach I'm running Rick Majerus's camp and I can't leave again, either you hire me or you don't.' God, if I had known what coach Keady was about at that time, I would have never said that, but I didn't know how mean he was or how tough he was. I remember going back to camp (in Milwaukee) and calling (Keady) on a pay phone. "I had my leisure suit on, I was ready for my interview, and he wasn't there. "I've never driven nine hours in my life," he recalled. He drove nine hours to Western Kentucky to interview with then-coach Gene Keady, but Keady forgot about the interview and wasn't on campus. I hope I get to continue, but we'll see what happens."Īt the press conference, Weber told the story of breaking into college coaching, with his desire to be a graduate assistant. Weber's reflective press conference late Wednesday after his team's 73-67 loss to West Virginia went viral, seeming to portend that he had coached his final game at KSU. His development of young men on and off the court, while representing K-State in a first-class manner with the highest level of integrity is unmatched in today's game and something all K-Staters should take great pride in." "With two conference championships and an Elite Eight run in 2018, our program reached exceptional levels of success under his direction. "Coach Weber has provided selfless leadership to our basketball program and university for the last decade," Kansas State Athletic Director Gene Taylor said in a release. They all went on to become successful coaches. More: Bruce Weber and his brothers used to watch Al McGuire conduct Marquette practices. His tenure included a run to the Elite Eight in 2018, and it followed a successful run at Illinois where he reached the national championship game in 2005. ![]() Weber, 65, just completed his 10th year at Kansas State, a season that included a 64-63 loss to Marquette earlier this year. Weber has exhibited at venues including the 1987 Whitney Biennal in New York City, Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, the Florence Biennale, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Parco Exposure Gallery in Tokyo, Fahey/Klein in Los Angeles, Galeria Corso Como in Milan, and the Russell Senate Building in Washington, DC.Bruce Weber, a graduate of Milwaukee Marshall High School and longtime college basketball coach, announced he was resigning from his post at Kansas State, one day after his squad was eliminated from the Big 12 Tournament. His photographs are in the permanent collections of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Moret han 15 books of Weber’s work have been published. His photographs have since appeared in Vanity Fair, American Vogue, Interview, Italian Vogue, and GQ, among many others. ![]() In the late 1970s, Weber began photographing ads and commercials for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. He participated in his first group show at The Floating Foundation of Photography in 1973 and had his first solo exhibition at Razor Gallery in New York City a year later. Thanks to Diane Arbus, he was introduced to and studied with Lisette Model at The New School for Social Research in the 1960s. Weber initially pursued theater at Denison University in Ohio, then turned to filmmaking at New York University. Bruce Weber, born in rural Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1946, became the preeminent photographer of the fashion industry in the 1980s and continues to be one of the world’s most popular and influential photographers. ![]()
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