We’ll get to the sports in a second, but we’d be remiss to not mention the passing of former K-State President Dr. Jon Wefald on Saturday, April 16th. Dr. Wefald came to Kansas State University in 1986 as the 12th president, and dealt with declining enrollments and a lack of enthusiasm at the university in his early years in Manhattan. He, of course, was the president that approved the hire of Bill Snyder, and pushed for money to improve the football facilities at K-State.
But he wasn’t just an athletics president. During his 23 years at K-State, he oversaw major growth on the academic side, seeing enrollment increase from 16,000 to over 23,000 during his time (and before online students could rapidly inflate those numbers).