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Kansas State hires old coach


Last updated Nov. 24, 2008, 3:52 p.m.
Reported by Kyle West
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Kansas State University announced on Monday that Bill Snyder would come out of retirement to coach the Wildcats next season.

Snyder becomes the 34th head coach for the program after serving as the 32nd head coach from 1989 to 2005. In 1989, he inherited a team that had not won a game in two and a half years. He proceeded to lead the Wildcats to 11 consecutive bowl games beginning in 1993. The program became nationally recognized, as Snyder won National Coach of the Year awards in 1991, 1994, and 1998 while 45 different players were named All-Americans.

When Snyder retired, he had amassed 136 victories in 17 seasons at a school that had won only 137 games in the previous 54 years.