MANHATTAN
Michael Smith had made up his mind. He was going to transfer from Kansas State to Tulane. The decision was final.
Smith was so serious about leaving K-State after one winless season as a walk-on in 1988 that he flew home to New Orleans after the team’s final game and outlined his intentions to his parents. The Wildcats were switching coaches, from Stan Parrish to a stranger named Bill Snyder, and Smith saw no reason to stay in Manhattan.
Then Snyder called Smith on Christmas morning, and, as Smith says today, the rest is history.