When Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder was hired by then-Athletic Director Steve Miller in 1988 he was warned, \"Kansas State is flat on its back. You must have heard it\'s one of the toughest jobs in the country. It\'s not. It\'s the toughest.\" From 1946 until Snyder arrived in 1989, the Wildcats only had four winning seasons. Today, it is considered one of the top college programs in the nation, and no one questions who is reponsibile: Snyder. Here\'s Snyder on what makes Snyder successful:\"Sure, I\'m a stickler for the details. How else can you be sure something won\'t jump up and bite you?\"\"What people across the country have done is look at Kansas State and say if you can do it there, you can do it most anywhere. I don\'t know if it\'s true. But the message we want to send is that there\'s so much out there in life to achieve and you shouldn\'t place limitations on
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