Shortly after Bruce Weber arrived at Kansas State, a coaching colleague advised him to become friends with Bill Snyder.
The colleague was Roy Williams, and the North Carolina basketball coach was rather insistent.
“You better go talk to him,” Weber remembers Williams saying six years ago. “He has done the greatest job in college sports history.”
Williams got an up-close view of Snyder and his K-State football teams while he was coaching basketball at KU. Weber took him up on his advice and quickly got to know Snyder. Over time, they developed a strong working relationship.