Toe

It's like Braids vs Ponytails in here.

Where's the Bob Diaco option?

Plaid well indeed.

A couple people in this thread are reminding me of K-State fans reacting to the Klieman hire. Maybe that would be a more appropriate program for them to follow...

@GSG http://www.k-statefans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6038

This is sort of a Bo hire for Maryland, I guess? He was a coordinator there for a while, then interim HC, then off to be a coordinator at a national championship-winning school for a few years, and then they finally hire him back as full-time HC. In any case, most of the fanbase seems pretty happy, from what I've seen on the Internets.

So, a lot of people were wondering who Miles would bring in as his OC. Well, he's bringing in Chip Lindsey, who was just let go by Auburn. This season, Auburn is #72 in scoring offense and #94 in total offense. So there's that. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/auburn-parts-with-offensive-coordinator-chip-lindsey-who-joins-les-miles-at-kansas/

Interesting that it's heavily dominated by B1G West players.

@Redux 'Official'

@Slow yer Roll His wife has heart problems, and apparently it's getting bad enough that he decided to step away from football.

I'm wondering if maybe a few months ago the school administration just cut a deal to let him coach this year since it was close to the start of the season and that he would be gone after that.

He's 56, BTW. Wouldn't be surprised to see him resurface somewhere at some point...

The Dark Age of Cornhusker Football that began with the outbreak of WWII was the same length: Biff Jones's last conference championship was in 1940 (which was also Nebraska's first bowl game appearance in the Rose Bowl), and Bob Devaney's first CC was in 1963.

@suh_fan93 Carlisle itself is an interesting subject, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indians_football

(edited above post instead)

Love him or hate him, there's no denying what he did for K-State. In case anyone doesn't know just how bad the Wildcats were when Snyder was hired, here's a little refresher. Just before Snyder started his first season, Sports Illustrated ran an article on K-State football titled Futility U, which called the Wildcats "America's Most Hapless Team." After 93 years of playing football, K-State had fewer than 300 all-time wins, dead last in Div I-A. Post-World War II their most successful decade was 1968-77; their record during that time was 38-70. Between WWII and 1988, K-State ranked last in the country in both scoring offense and scoring defense, and they'd had only four winning seasons in that period. In Snyder's first season, they won exactly one game. That was a big deal, because they hadn't won any at all in the previous two seasons. In his second season, they went 5–6 - a win count K-State had only reached only twice in the previous 17 years. By 1993, they made their second bowl game ever, resulting in their first bowl victory. That became the first of 11 straight bowl appearances - one of only seven teams to reach that mark in that period. 1995 was their first 10-win season, and first top ten finish ever (#6 AP, #7 Coaches). 1998 saw their first #1 ranking. In 2003, they won the Big 12 Championship, their second ever and first since 1934 (a record for longest gap between conference titles).  https://www.kstatesports.com/news/2018/12/2/football-bill-snyder-announces-retirement-from-kansas-state.aspx

Just reading through some of Bartoo's other recent tweets.... "prude" Which would have been a lot higher if we didn't have Bethune-Cookman on the schedule. They brought down the average big time, we went from like #3 SoS to #26 the week we played them.

Well, Frost wants a bigger roster to build depth - and thus better players on the field - right? Supposedly a lot of what's being considered is just to be able to handle that many players, like having more lockers available.

Dude looks like he should be twirling his mustache and cackling about his evil plan.

@ColoradoHusk I mean, we need better pass rushers all around, so...

Apparently played some DE in HS. Hopefully picked up some pass rush skills there.