Bill Snyder: My Football Life and the Rest of the Story

＂When Kansas State hired Bill Snyder as its head football coach in 1988, the Wildcats had one of the worst programs in college football and hadn’t won a conference title since 1934. Little could anybody predict that Snyder would soon engineer a total transformation in Manhattan, Kansas. From his humble beginnings in St. Joseph, Missouri, Snyder rose to greatness, bringing K-State up from the ashes to a No. 1 ranking, six 11-win seasons in a span of seven years, and one Big 12 Championship. He still wasn’t finished. After a three-year retirement, Snyder returned to lead the Wildcats to another Big 12 title. In 2015, he became just the fourth person in college football history to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as an active coach.＂--

Bill Snyder earned National Coach of the Year honors 14 times and was named Big 8/Big 12 Coach of the Year eight times over his 27-year career as Kansas State head football coach. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015. A member of nine different Halls of Fame, Snyder lives with his wife, Sharon, in Manhattan, Kansas, and has five children (Sean, Shannon, Meredith, Ross, and Whitney); 10 grandchildren (Tate, Katherine, Matthew, Sydney, Gavin, Kadin, Tylin, Alexis, Lou Ann, and Dean); and five great-grandchildren (Pearce, D.J., DeClan, Murphy, and Sawyer).

D. Scott Fritchen is an award-winning sportswriter. Fritchen covered Kansas State from 1993 to 2019 and wrote the book Expect to Win: Stories about Kansas State Football Coach Bill Snyder, His Program and His Players. Fritchen’s work has appeared in Powercat.com, the Associated Press, Athlon Sports, The Kansas City Star, The Dallas Morning News, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, KentuckyDerby.com, Rivals.com, and 247Sports.com.