First week on the job, I would want my head coach out in western rough ridin' kansas
Not only out in western Kansas but out in western Kansas trying to lock up walk-ons. Snyder is so rough ridin' far in their heads.
It's fun to laugh, but getting over on KSU for the minimal number of Kansas studs — heralded or not, juco or h.s. — is pretty much what it boils down to. Sure, you actually have to develop them once they get on campus, but there is simply not room enough for two good FBS football programs in this state.
I think the point is that if Beaty is going to go mine for a walk-on program that rivals KSU, he needs to be doing it in JOCO and Wichita. Once you get west of Salina, it's pretty dark purple.
If you're going to spend that level of time on something so low reward, you need to be doing it in areas where you have support so the going is easier.
Besides, it's not like we're sitting on some sort of gold mine of untapped talent here in Kansas. Snyder basically has a "successful" walk on program for two reasons:
1) He's a complete system coach, especially, on defense, and it's not hard to get a five-heart-try-hard kid to play gap/assignment sound football. We have better athletes sitting on the bench, but we choose to play these kids because our style of defense depends more on being assignment sound than actually having talent. I mean, for Christ's sakes, look at how much better it was when we replaced Will Davis (not a walk on, but should be) with Johnson and Green for Schelly. It was night and day.
2) The whole reason Snyder plays these guys is to foster competition. It sets the tone that only the most 16 goal-sy type players get to the field. It's more of a culture thing than an ability thing.
If Beaty is stupid enough to think that there's just a bunch of DITR's out in Kansas, and he can just play them like any other coach, he's a drool on his chin idiot. We're stupid for even doing it at the level we do, and we're competent at it.
