When Bill Snyder arrived as head football coach at Kansas State University prior to the 1989 season, he inherited the worst NCAA Division I football program on planet Earth. In 93 previous
seasons, the Wildcat football record was a miserable 299-510-40. The program had earned exactly one league title, that coming in 1934, well before Snyder was born. In the years just prior to
Snyder's arrival, the Wildcats had slumped to their worst, even by K-State standards. The program had lost 13 games in a row, and except for one tie, and had not rung the victory bell in 27
games. Seventeen years later, Snyder's orchestration of the greatest turnaround in college football history defines the American dream of achieving the unimaginable. This is his story, from
Bill Snyder's unique viewpoint, of the process by which he helped transform a program considered the laughingstock of college football into one that won 136 games over seventeen years including
eleven bowl appearances and seven seasons of at least ten wins and became a household name in college football circles. It's also the story of Snyder's own triumphant journey, one that forced
him at a young age to deal with his own lack of discipline and academic shortcomings in a single-parent family, one that saw him climb to the top of big-time college football, and one that
ultimately brought him face-to-face with the toughest decision of his life.
