Examining the all-time Bill Snyder team for Kansas State football
College Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Snyder had two stints at Kansas State and goes down as a legend at the school. So what would an all-time Bill Snyder team look like?
Bill Snyder was the head coach at Kansas State from 1989 to 2005 when he retired. However, the once great program Snyder built up was torn down in just four years in another coach's hands. So in 2009, Bill Snyder chose to come out of retirement and take over the program again until 2018 when he entered back into retirement.
Snyder has a 215-117 record at Kansas State with two Big 12 championships in 2003 and 2012. Along with being named to the College Football Hall of Fame, coach Snyder received a long list of awards including:
- 1998 AP Coach of the Year Award
- 1998 Big 12 Coach of the Year
- 1998 Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year Award
- 1998 Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award
- 2002 Big 12 Coach of the Year
- 2011 Big 12 Coach of the Year
- 2023 Big 12 Coach of the Year
The Saint Joseph, Missouri native may not be coaching at Kansas State anymore, but he is still very much a part of the school. The biggest way his coaching years are remembered is whenever any Kansas State fan walks into the football stadium and sees big letters that read "Bill Snyder Family Stadium."
So let's take a look at Bill Snyder's head coaching career at Kansas State and just for fun, let's put together an all-time Bill Snyder team.