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  • Apparently, coacheshotseat.com doesn't think much of the hiring of Bill Snyder. (H/T Tim Griffin).

    I will say this. I have no use for someone's opinion if they can't find the "Enter" key on their keyboard.
    Kansas State – We could have gone either way on the firing of Ron Prince, but bringing Bill Snyder back to Kansas State? No, we cannot understand that move by KSU. OK…Bill Snyder was a great football coach, but that was in another time and another place. Snyder put up some great seasons at K-State, but in his last two years, which happened to correspond to the rise of Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Missouri in the Big 12, Snyder went 4-7 in 2004 and 5-6 in 2005. There is a reason that Bill Snyder was fired after the 2005 season and that reason has not changed and we believe K-State will regret hiring Snyder because he will not move the football program forward in what has become a much tougher Big 12. Instead of Bill Snyder, we would have hired Buffalo’s Turner Gill, Oklahoma’s Brent Venables, Illinois Mike Locksley, Missouri’s Dave Christensen or even Dennis Franchione over bringing back Bill Snyder and we believe Kansas State will regret this coaching move.

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I have no use for someone's opinion...

…when they don’t do their research. We’ll never know exactly what went down between Tim Weiser and Bill Snyder, but the official word was that Snyder retired in 2005. This guy says he was fired, and I’d love to hear it if he has the “real” story on that.

Also, the demise of Snyder’s teams in 2004 and 2005 did not coincide with the rise of UT, OU and TTU. Oklahoma had already won a national title in 2000. Mack Brown had the Longhorns winning 10+ games for several years by that point. Texas Tech was a lot better than its typical 6-6 season, but it wasn’t like they were anywhere near the heights Snyder’s teams pre-2003 had experienced. The demise in 2004 and 2005 was due to one thing and one thing only: excess loyalty to bad assistant coaches. It had nothing to do with UT and OU and Tech getting better. And don’t get me started on Mizzou. They had Brad Smith, but they were still years from achieving any kind of ‘threatening’ success.

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by TB on May 1, 2009 10:02 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

+1

No ukans?

Hail to the Purple, Hail to the White
Wildcat in spirit, Wildcat in fight
Hail Alma Mater from sea to sea
Onward forever, Hail Victory!

by MadCat on May 1, 2009 10:31 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I feel dumber...

after that article. Good points TB, I didn’t even know where to begin except with a stiff drink. Hiring an assistant with no proven experience is light years better than the guy Barry Switzer called the best coach in college football history. I digress….

Wildcat for life

by mjk7166 on May 1, 2009 10:16 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I have no use for someone’s opinion if they can’t find the “Enter” key on their keyboard.

Amen. God invented paragraphs so more people would read the Bible (or something like that).

Hail to the Purple, Hail to the White
Wildcat in spirit, Wildcat in fight
Hail Alma Mater from sea to sea
Onward forever, Hail Victory!

by MadCat on May 1, 2009 10:33 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Does This Guy Get Paid To Write?

I seriously doubt if there was a cover up in Snyder’s firing. Last time I checked everyone on his list was still shining Snyder’s shoes. Turner Gill might eventually prove to be a great coach, but he still has a pretty short track record.

by powercat on May 3, 2009 9:00 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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