Fanatic . . . Bill Snyder walked into the worst football program in the country, this is beyond question. Mark Mangino walked into a situation that wasn't great, but was no where near the worst football program in the country. Bill Snyder didn't get to avoid the power teams in the conference every two years. Bill Snyder NEVER went two full seasons as Mark Mangino did and only played 1 final top 25 team during the regular season. Snyder played the National Champion 3 times in his first 6 years at K-State, he played a national championship game participant 5 times in his first 6 years at K-State.
Terry Allen played games against 3x's as many ranked opponents during his 5 years at ku, than Mark Mangino did during his first 5 years at ku. Terry Allen inherited a program that all but been abandoned by Glen Mason for nearly 18-24 months. Mason didn't give a f_ck anymore about ku and it showed, and his not giving a f_ck about ku started nearly 2 years prior when ku "fans" wouldn't even fill up a stadium for a nationally ranked team and he tried to bail before ku's Aloha Bowl game. So all of this blather about how things weren't that bad when Terry Allen took over at ku is just a bunch of typical ku revisionism. Mark Mangino walked in the door of a program that had won 40% of its games in the previous 6 or 7 years . . . Snyder walked in the door of a program that had won 15-20% of its games in the previous 6 or 7 years . . . in the previous 30 games prior to Snyder at K-State, K-State won . . . NONE OF THEM, 0-29-1 (.000). ku was 11-19 in its previous 30 games prior to Mangino (.366).
Like I always say, this is not difficult to understand.
Plus, I never said Mangino isn't doing a good job, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the job Snyder did at K-State, not yet.