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Kansas State Football: 5 possible candidates to replace Bill Snyder

By Quinn Douglas

AUSTIN, TX - OCTOBER 07: Head coach Bill Snyder of the Kansas State Wildcats greets Tyler Burns #33 before the game against the Texas Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on October 7, 2017 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
AUSTIN, TX - OCTOBER 07: Head coach Bill Snyder of the Kansas State Wildcats greets Tyler Burns #33 before the game against the Texas Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on October 7, 2017 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /
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GLENDALE, AZ – JANUARY 03: Collin Klein #7 of the Kansas State Wildcats looks to pass against the Oregon Ducks during the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl at University of Phoenix Stadium on January 3, 2013 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
GLENDALE, AZ – JANUARY 03: Collin Klein #7 of the Kansas State Wildcats looks to pass against the Oregon Ducks during the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl at University of Phoenix Stadium on January 3, 2013 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) /

5. Collin Klein

A former star quarterback for Bill Snyder in the early 2010’s, Collin Klein has quickly risen up the coaching ranks since his playing days. After bouncing around the NFL mini-camps and the CFL for a couple of years, Klein returned to Kansas State in 2014 as a defensive quality coach, graduate assistant, and assistant director of recruiting. He spent two years in that position before being hired as quarterbacks coach at Northern Iowa in 2016 under Mark Farley.

Klein spent one year in Cedar Falls before returning to Manhattan last season to become quarterbacks coach. Prior to this season, Klein was also named co-offensive coordinator along with Charlie Dickey following the departure of Snyder’s long time offensive coordinator Dana Dimel to become the head coach at UTEP.

Klein’s hire would be an outside shot, but to be a co-offensive coordinator at a Power Five football program before you turn 30, definitely shows he is a bright football mind and could be a very successful coach in the future. Whether that comes at Kansas State is yet to be seen but the Wildcats would be foolish to not at least give some thought about him.

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