A report that Bill Snyder broke Kansas State’s plans to make Jim Leavitt the next football coach is a bombshell around K-State, for many reasons, but the most important might be this:
Dagnabbit, what in tarnation was the school’s leadership thinking?
According to the report by Brett McMurphy, a former college football writer for ESPN, school leaders including president Richard Myers wanted to hire Jim Leavitt as an assistant with a $3 million payment if he wasn’t named head coach by Jan. 1. Snyder, according to the report, wouldn’t go for it because he wants his son Sean to replace him.