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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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NEW ORLEANS, LA – DECEMBER 16: Head coach Seth Littrell of the North Texas Mean Green reacts during the second half of the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl against the Troy Trojans at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on December 16, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
NEW ORLEANS, LA – DECEMBER 16: Head coach Seth Littrell of the North Texas Mean Green reacts during the second half of the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl against the Troy Trojans at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on December 16, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /

2. Seth Littrell

One of the hottest names in the college football coaching carousel for the 2018 offseason has been North Texas head coach Seth Littrell. Littrell turned around a perennial doormat program in the Mean Green and had them in the Conference USA Championship Game in 2017 and had them in second in their division in 2018, behind the upstart UAB Blazers. Littrell currently holds the best winning percentage for a North Texas head coach since Hayden Fry.

Littrell has served many Bill Snyder disciples in his coaching career. He played running back at Oklahoma under Bob Stoops and was a member of the 2000 National Championship team that included ex-Snyder assistants such as Mark Mangino, Mike Stoops and Brent Venables. Littrell then served as a grad assistant for Mangino at Kansas for two years and then running backs coach at Texas Tech under Mike Leach for three seasons. He then bounced around as a coordinator at Arizona, Indiana and North Carolina before coming to North Texas in 2016.

Littrell would bring the current Big 12 philosophy of scoring points and scoring them fast to Manhattan. That idea alone is enough to entertain the Kansas State fanbase as it has been a while since the Wildcats offense was one of the top producing in the country, likely dating back to the days of Michael Bishop. Littrell would be a great fit at Kansas State and in the Big 12 Conference.

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