MANHATTAN
Everything about Bill Snyder is different during Kansas State’s spring football game.
He wears a suit instead of a windbreaker, he observes more than he coaches, he lets his quarterbacks call every play, and he talks into a voice recorder instead of a headset.
For the most part, players say they like the laid-back coach they encounter each April. Still, the sight of Snyder speaking into his voice recorder can be scary.
“When you are younger and you see that, you know that you either did something bad or good,” senior safety Dante Barnett said, “You want to know what he said right then and there, but you just never know.