Old Friends Meet Again

[Harry]

"Bill Snyder has meant so much to college football for a long time and thanks to the administration at Kansas State they got him back on the sidelines where he belongs," McCarney said Tuesday during his weekly news conference. "He's left an amazing imprint in college football for generations to come."

Snyder and McCarney know each other well and go further back than just their days on opposite sidelines in the Big 12 where Snyder was 9-2 against McCarney. The former Iowa State coach and Snyder were both assistants on Hayden Fry's staff at the University of Iowa — working together from 1979-89.

"When I went to Iowa with Hayden Fry, Dan was there at the time and Hayden hired him," said Snyder, who was an assistant at North Texas from 1976-79. "We were all impressed with him. He was our defensive line coach at the time and stayed with us throughout the period of time I was there. He's an excellent recruiter and awfully good with the players, very focused and a very intense football coach, and really a good guy."

McCarney, who is 6-8 at North Texas, remembers his time coaching along Snyder fondly.

Read more: http://www.themercury.com/K-StateSports/article.aspx?articleId=1c40af7174314d1bbfd09336aeda7761

[Sweet Dee]

McCarney improves his record in Manhattan against Snyder and the Mean Green nation riots in Denton!