Coach Bill Snyder’s announcement Monday he’s in treatment for throat cancer brings back personal memories to me that offer confidence he will bounce back as K-State football’s head man.
My own throat cancer diagnosis nearly two decades ago came the very week Snyder- coached K-State played in the 1998 Big 12 Championship. Although alarmed, I attended the game in St. Louis. Had they beaten Texas A&M they would have played in the national championship. Of course, they lost and I was doubly depressed.
I had my treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, which helped develop Coach Snyder’s treatment, and I have lived a full life the past 18 years without complications other than a dry throat.