27 DAYS TO KICKOFF: Brad Duncan
by BracketCat on Aug 7, 2011 12:00 AM CDT
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#27 Brad Duncan |
Position: Fullback Previous College: None Projection: Scout Team Status: Walk-On |
Bradley Thomas Duncan (b. July 14, 1991) is the grandson of Joan Friederich, the longtime administrative assistant to the head football coach who predates both Bill Snyder and the Vanier Football Complex in which she currently works.
On a team that features Kevin Lockett's son, Junior Seau's nephews and Snyder's grandson, he'll fit in pretty well.
Duncan was a three-year letterman at Rock Creek High School, where he played alongside fellow freshman Taylor Godinet for one season. Duncan played on both the offensive and defensive lines. He redshirted in 2010.
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He's not on scholarship...
…but could we have more nepotism on this squad?
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If It Were Truly Nepotism
Then he would be on scholarship instead of having to walk on. Simply being on the team doesn’t in any way mean there will be favoritism played and based on HCBS’s past history, it’s even likely that he will go out of the way in the other direction to ensure that there isn’t even a perception of favoritism.
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Are you sure?
Snyder’s history shows me that he’s all too prone to favoritism and nepotism. Sean Snyder is a freaking assistant on our staff right now, despite the fact that he’s never been an assistant…anywhere. His grandson is on scholarship, Stan Weber’s son is a walk on, and BracketCat could probably name you five more examples. I don’t care if they’re walk ons, the idea of walk ons should be to bring on players who could be contributors in the future, not to give a jersey to the sons of prominent figures around the program.
I’ll fully admit that I have no knowledge of the skill level or recruiting rankings surrounding any of these players, and it’s entirely possible that they’re fully deserving of being walk on football players at K-State. But if they’re just above-average high school players who are walk ons because of who their relatives are, then it’s ridiculous what Snyder is doing with this program. You are more than welcome to set me right by showing me that these are the type of guys who could be contributors at some point. I’m not above changing my mind, but I need a reason to do so.
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by TB on Aug 8, 2011 9:26 PM CDT up reply actions
How many walk ons actually become real contributors in their careers?
You need someone to get slaughtered on the scout team afterall. Besides why couldn’t Sean Snyder be an assistant? Everyone’s a first time assistant at some point and you really can’t say that he doesn’t know a little bit about football. Bill Snyder is his dad afterall and he’s kind’ve on the Ring of Honor.
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All that is true...
…but the usual path to becoming an assistant at a BCS program is to put in your time at lower levels and to prove yourself. Sean Snyder has been an administrator his whole life. Almost nobody gets their first chance at being an assistant coach at a Big 12 program. Just because he was a good punter and is Bill Snyder’s son isn’t enough for me to assume he’s going to be a successful assistant coach.
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by TB on Aug 8, 2011 11:27 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Theres really not much to go on to assume he wouldn't be though...
Is all I’m saying; just because he hasn’t coached it well thats a good reason I suppose to doubt but he has been around football all that time. Maybe as an administrator, still he’s constantly been involved with football.
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I hope he does well, because that's good for K-State
But how many other BCS schools give assistant coaching positions to family members of the head coach when the family member has no coaching experience?
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by TB on Aug 9, 2011 12:13 AM CDT up reply actions
I see your point
but for me this is more of a wait and see thing.
Sean Snyder has been around football his entire life, so he knows the game. That is one key part of being a coach.
Another key pert of being a coach is leadership. I don’t know much about K-State football operations under Sean Snyder’s leadership, so I can’t really judge one way or another on that. If he is a good leader then I think he will be a good coach. If he isn’t a good leader then I will fully support his removal.
He does have a shorter leash than other coaches as far as proving himself, but I still think we give him the benefit of the doubt until he proves otherwise. Additionally, I think Snyder’s loyalty to KSU gives him quite a bit of leeway in this matter. He could have walked in ‘93. He could have walked in ’98. He didn’t, and I love him for that.
I also agree with your point that you can’t argue that Snyder is not showing any favoritism. I just don’t think favoritism is a bad thing if it is handled correctly, and there is nothing at this point in time that definitively shows it is being handled incorrectly.
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by ChrisP Wildcat on Aug 9, 2011 8:21 AM CDT up reply actions
This is true.
Even a real up-and-comer like Archie Miller (the new head basketball coach at Dayton), who worked for his big brother Sean at Arizona for two years, spent 5 years as an assistant at various places before his brother hired him at Arizona. And Archie Miller actually seems to have some coaching ability to go with his family ties.
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