Former ESPN and CBS college football reporter Brett McMurphy reports today that K-State had an agreement with Jim Leavitt to become its head-coach-in-waiting and head coach in 2018. Quoting from McMurphy’s report:
Jim Leavitt had a verbal agreement last year to become Kansas State’s head coach-in-waiting and become its current coach in 2018, but KSU coach Bill Snyder nixed it because he wanted his son Sean as his replacement.
Sources said Kansas State’s top officials, including president Richard Myers, and the school’s highest-profile boosters were all on board with Leavitt, then a Colorado assistant, joining KSU's staff and then replacing the legendary Snyder after the 2017 season.