Bob Stoops knows he was in the minority, but he believed Kansas State would become a winner under head coach Bill Snyder.
Though the Oklahoma coach admits today that he may have been a bit naïve when he first arrived in Manhattan in the spring of 1989 as an assistant on Snyder’s first coaching staff at K-State.
After all, Stoops was only accustomed to winning at Iowa, where he and Snyder worked under Hayden Fry.
Never mind the fact that Snyder was taking over a program that was riding a 27-game winless streak and was labeled by many as the worst job and worst football program in America.