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So what is the answer? What has Snyder actually been looking for?

Bill Snyder was the quarterbacks coach at Iowa before coming to K-State. He was most well-known for tutoring Chuck Long, the man who set all but one of the Hawkeye passing records by the time he graduated in 1985. Snyder was a passing guru. He brought that to K-State in 1989, and every team from 1989 to 1996 featured a heavy passing attack on offense. In the early 1990’s when Nebraska and Colorado and Oklahoma were romping over the nation with power running attacks, Snyder saw the best way to beat defenses built to stop those offenses was to do something completely different, to throw out of 3 and 4 receiver sets, to play up tempo, and1994-1996 was much of the same, going 9-2 in the regular season with May, Brian Kavanaugh, and Matt Miller leading spread passing attacks in their year’s, but none of them could beat Nebraska or Colorado. Four-straight seasons of 9+ wins. For Wildcat fans that was more than any had ever dreamed before.

The 1997 recruiting class went well for Bill Snyder and his staff. He raided the junior colleges, then a foreign concept for a major-division program, looking for elite talent to complement the pieces already in place. Several highly talented players came to K-State that year, but none bigger than Michael Bishop. Bishop, a Galveston, TX native came to K-State from Blinn Junior College where he had just led the Buccaneers to two-straight 12-0 records and NJCAA national