The hope has to be that Snyder realizes when its time to leave and retires without waiting too long. Guys like Snyder don't get fired; see Paterno, Bowden, etc.
Today was not the year to do that (IMO), but it could be next year.
He won't retire unless he feels like Sean is going to take over, IMO. We're in a Bowden situation here.
I find it ironic that you mention those two names, and Bill was having a conversation with those specific two guys right around the time he retired the first time, and they told him not to do it.
Bill will be here until he's 80, if for no other reason than he wants his "family" to have a job at KSU.
Things could get super interesting in a see-how-mediocre-we-can-become-without-firing-Bill way. I mean, no one will come work for him that has any real chance at becoming an elite coach because Sean. so, if this is what happens, we are in for a game of chicken between an AD who has had crazy success and has been looking for another job and the coach that 90% of fans believe has earned the right to burn it down at his whim.
What is going to happen is that he will out wait currie. currie will get his other gig in the next few yrs, Bill will become the AD, Sean the HC, then Bill will retire a yr or two later once he has a Sean friendly AD locked up.
Bill won't become the AD. Schulz wouldn't go for that. Nor do I think he wants it.
Sean won't ever be the coach. I think Bill really knows that deep down. I firmly believe that Bill is still here because he brought all of these guys back, and now he can't leave because he has no one on his staff that is a no brainer to promote. Because of that, he knows he asked all of these guys to leave their decent gigs (Smith, Dimel, Joe Bob, etc.) to help him rebuild, and he knows that the second he steps down, they're all looking for jobs outside of KSU, including Sean. I think he urged Joe Bob and Smith to leave for that reason.
He's just going to hang out and play figurehead until the majority of them are ready to retire. Mo, Del, and Hayes will just walk out with him and hang it up. Dana may have a shot at coaching at a lower division school for a few years until he is ready. Seiler and Coleman got big breaks via KSU, so they're now set to continue coaching for the rest of their lives. The only guy that is really screwed is Sean. So, Bill is going to stay until his crew is taken care of, and then he'll go.
