Snyder hopes Prince points K-State in the right direction
In 1989 former Hayden Fry assistant
Bill Snyder was given his first chance at a head-coaching job when the Kansas State Wildcats came calling. In the previous three years, the Wildcats had won a combined 2 games (tied another), and had only been to one bowl game in the school’s history. Let’s fast-forward to 2005, Snyder now has the stadium named after him, a Big 12 championship (2003), 136 wins, and a slue of bowl victories.
Replacing him is the offensive coordinator at Virginia,
Ron Prince who graduated from high school only 20 minutes up the road. Prince is the third youngest coach in Division 1-A and will change up his offensive strategy from that of Snyder’s, but refuses to reveal it until the first game. Expectations are high but not as high as they could’ve been given the recent lack of success for the program.
The Wildcats have been on a downhill slide since winning the Big 12 title, losing 14 of their last 23 games. But don’t expect the folks of Manhattan to be sympathetic. They want results and a winning team right away and they should with opening games against Illinois State and Florida Atlantic, but two weeks later they travel to Louisville. That is when the hardships will begin for the Prince Era.
