One of the differences Saturday was K-State junior running back Daniel Thomas, a Floridian by way of a junior college in Mississippi who is not exactly up to date on his ku-KSU rivalry knowledge.
"He doesn't know anything about Kansas,'' Snyder said.
In other words let me teach this youngster what he needs to know.
Thomas, who pounded out 185 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries, didn't disagree, but said he's learning.
"Everybody told me that I'd learn to hate them once I got here and everything,'' Thomas said. "And that was true. Just watching them and hearing everything about them, I pretty much hate them.''
In other words Coach is pretty effective at getting the message across. He understands what this game really means.
Thomas said he and the rest of K-State's team were incensed to learn about some red and blue paint that was sprayed and brushed on cars and on the sidewalk in front of the Sports Complex north of the playing field early Saturday morning.
Fortunately, it was a water-based paint and easily washed away
"Oh, yeah, Coach Snyder told us about the paint,'' Thomas said. "That got everybody hyped up. That was pretty bad on ku's part.''
I'm no sleuth, but I am capable of looking at evidence and developing a theory.
The paint, allegedly, was spread around 5 a.m., before almost anybody in Manhattan — except for a bespectacled coach with a legendary work ethic — was up and around.
It was Snyder, by all accounts, who informed his players about the paint incident before Saturday's game, and judging from what Thomas said, it helped incite the team.
It would not be the most outlandish motivational tool ever used by a football coach. And the paint was gone by the time the players arrived at the stadium.
There is certainly enough to at least ask Snyder about his whereabouts at 5 a.m. Saturday, isn't there?
Bill Snyder is totally mind-fracking the entire ku fan base and the media....He's in their head and the voices are just echoing off their skulls....I think all future flyovers should be black helicopters.
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http://www.kansas.com/sports/lutz/story/1046152.html#ixzz0WHiUO9PrSeriously how can anyone doubt the completeness of this guy....He understands the importance of this game and he drives it right on home to that team....He will bury them....
