Q&A with Bill Snyder

The problem with miracles is you never know where to look for one. Here's a clue. Take I-70 west, approximately two and one-half hours from Kansas City, turn right on exit 313 and head eight miles north to find home to one of the real miracles in the history of college football . . . Manhattan, Kansas. The stories of the turnaround have been told over and over again, but to put it plain and simple, Bill Snyder -- the quiet, professorial, unassuming and non-self-promoting head coach of what is now the K-State powerhouse -- deserves to mentioned in the same breath as Bryant, Hayes, Warner, Rockne, Stagg, Schembechler, Paterno and all of the greatest of all-time. Until 1989, the football team at Kansas State University never even got close to good. Consider that in the 92 years of football B.S. (before Snyder), K-State was 299-511-39 (.369). To put it another way, if the Wildcats had