K-State plays the first game of the Chris Klieman era against Nicholls State at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on August 31st, 2019. Here are 10 fun facts I found out about Nicholls State. 1) Nicholls has two “Ls” in it. I typed it twice with one “L” until I went to their website and saw I was spelling it incorrectly! 2) They are located in Thibodaux, Louisiana. 3) Their graduation rate is 41%. I thought this was low, so…
I am a proponent of a 16 team college football playoff system. I’m sitting here watching some bowl games on New Years Day that are completely meaningless to me other than the fact that I enjoy watching college football. A selection committee picked four teams to participate in a playoff and those games were not competitive for the most part. New Years Day used to be the day of college football bowl games. Most bowl games were played on New…
Last night KU basketball and Oklahoma football played games at almost exactly the same time. Of course both won, which surprised nobody who follows this league. The Big 12 has become downright boring. Oklahoma has won the football championship 11 times since the year 2000, including the last three titles, and will win their fourth straight after beating Texas in the Big 12 championship next weekend. Kansas has won or tied for the basketball championship the last 14 seasons. We…
Seth Littrell has been mentioned by some fans as a candidate to replace Bill Snyder at Kansas State. Littrell is 40 years old and is currently the head coach of North Texas in Conference USA. Littrell played running back at Oklahoma from 1998-2001. He’s had assistant coaching stints at Kansas, Texas Tech, Arizona, Indiana, and North Carolina before landing the head coaching gig at North Texas in 2016. Here is his head coaching record at North Texas: He made a…
Brent Venables is often mentioned as a candidate to replace Bill Snyder at Kansas State. Venables is 47 years old and is currently the defensive coordinator at Clemson. He played at Garden City Community College in 1989-90 and at Kansas State for Bill Snyder in 1991-92. He became a grad assistant at K-State in 1993 and served in that capacity until 1995. He became linebackers coach in 1996 and coached linebackers at K-State until 1998. From 1999-2003 he was linebackers…