Message-ID: <21094514.1075840395530.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:35:38 -0800 (PST) From: j.nesmith@prodigy.net To: j.nesmith@prodigy.net Subject: Fw: to lift your spirits Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "JOYCE NESMITH" @ENRON X-To: JOYCE NESMITH X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Carson, Mike\Deleted Items X-Origin: CARSON-M X-FileName: mike carson 6-25-02.PST Isn't this great! We've come a long way. I know you will be interested in this information! Joyce -----Original Message----- From: Mitzi Frieling To: MFrieling@K-State.com Date: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:31 PM Subject: to lift your spirits > >http://www.athlonsports.com/article.php3?story_id=1289 > >No. 7 Present Day Program: Kansas State > >Athlon has ranked the Top 10 college football programs of the present day. >In order to best determine the current health of a program without merely >copying the final 2001 polls, both of which (AP and Coaches) are identical >from No. 1 through No. 14, we have examined a time depth of from five to ten >years. This will also serve the purpose of weeding out the possible "flash >in the pan," a one- or two-year phenomenon. The program must demonstrably >stand on solid ground. Win-loss records, success against highly ranked >opponents, conference domination and repeatedly high rankings all were taken >into consideration. And now, without further adieu, here are our findings. > >No. 10 Present Day Program: Oklahoma >No. 9 Present Day Program: Oregon >No. 8 Present Day Program: Virginia Tech > > >No. 7 College Football Program of the Present Day >Kansas State > >Some coaches are synonymous with their schools' rise to prominence. >Florida's Steve Spurrier and Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer are two such >coaches. Add Bill Snyder to the list. > >In 1989, Snyder took over as head coach of the worst program in >major-college football. Kansas State was mired so deeply at the bottom of >the all-time winning percentage list that as recently as 1996, after winning >28 games in the previous three years, the NCAA Football Records Book still >ranked the Wildcats dead last at .394. But in the most recent standings, >K-State stood at .422, fourth from the bottom and climbing steadily. > >Snyder came to Manhattan from Hayden Fry's staff at Iowa in 1989 with Kansas >State stuck in an 0-26-1 rut. Snyder's first campaign in as the Wildcats' >head man wasn't much better at 1-10, but the one win was one more than they >had registered in almost three years. > >In the 35 years previous to Snyder's arrival, the Wildcats won 97 games. In >the 13 years since, they've won 105. They are one of only two Division I-A >programs to have won 11 or more games in each season from 1997-2000 (Florida >State is the other), and they posted nine or more wins eight straight years >from 1993-2000. > >The Wildcats' 6-6 mark this season is their worst since 1992. From >1993-2000, they never finished lower than third in the Big Eight/Big >12-North standings. They won three straight Big 12 North championships in >1998, 1999 and 2000. That's the same division as Nebraska. > >In 1997, Kansas State posted the first 11-win campaign in its history and >followed it up with three more. In 1997 and '98, the Wildcats strung >together a 20-game winning streak, including an 11-0 regular season in 1998, >before dropping the Big 12 championship game to Texas A&M 36-33 in double >overtime. Following the 1998 season, Snyder was named National Coach of the >Year by consensus. > >During the 1990s, Kansas state posted a 63-6-1 record at KSU Stadium, the >fifth-best home record in the nation during that decade. > >In 93 years of football competition before Snyder, K-State had played in one >bowl game - the 1982 Independence Bowl. The Wildcats have now been bowling >nine straight years. In 1993, Snyder's fifth year in Manhattan, came the >school's first bowl win, a 52-17 shellacking of Wyoming in the Copper Bowl. >In the 2001 Cotton Bowl, the Wildcats mugged Tennessee 35-21 in a game that >wasn't as close as the score indicated. > >The health of the Kansas State program promises an upswing in 2002 from this >year's disappointing showing. A dozen years ago, a 6-6 record would have >been considered a crowning achievement at K-State. These days it is a >disaster, and it still gets the Wildcats into the postseason. > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com >