FAYETTEVILLE -- Even more than Bret Bielema, Jesse Branch appreciates the job Bill Snyder has done and continues to do at Kansas State.
Bielema, whose Arkansas Razorbacks play Snyder's Wildcats in the Jan. 2 Liberty Bowl, coached two years for Snyder at Kansas State.
Branch coached two different K-State tenures in the 1960s and 1970s long preceding Snyder.
In one sense it enables Branch -- a Razorbacks letterman and former Arkansas assistant coach and associate athletic director as well as a head coach at Southwest Missouri State and Henderson State -- to appreciate Snyder's work even more than Bielema can.