He was our friggin LB's coach in 2003, and our HC just won the big 12! No one was discussing a Snyder retirement at that point. Our program was on cloud nine at the time.
So what . . . he went from being our LB coach, straight to the DC and Assistant Head Coaching job at Wisconsin, with a clear succession plan in place. It's not like Wisconsin sucked before he got there. They just did a better job of having a clear plan of succession plan in place, the value of having a head football coach/AD.
Props to Alvarez and Wisconsin for having such forethought.
Proving that:
1. Snyder did KSU no favors by up and retiring seemingly out of nowhere.
2. The idea of giving a football coach total control and running an athletic department where many important decisions run right though the head football coaches office isn't always a good thing.