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Bill Snyder rarely goes after or gets five star prospects to come to Kansas State yet he has his team in the Top Five of the BCS. The current starting defense reflects his ability to identify talent that others have missed.

One of the major themes of the book Moneyball was in essence that Billy Beane was trying to exploit market inefficiencies. One could make the same case that is simply what Bill Snyder has been doing all along in Manhattan with the K-State football program.