re: K State over Auburn

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I'd like to hear your opinion on Steve Spurrier.

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I almost used him in my Snyder post. He's done a fantastic job everywhere he's ever been, but even the job he's done at South Carolina pales in comparison to what Snyder's done at K-State.

Spurrier's raised Carolina to a level of sustained success they've never had before - but they'd been successful (as in 7+ win seasons and bowl bids) in the past with multiple coaches. Holtz had three winning seasons in the five years before Spurrier arrived. K-State had four in the 50 years prior to Snyder.

Similarly, at Florida he took over the program and immediately turned them into title contenders but that program had only experienced only 3 losing seasons in the last 30 years.

The job he did at Duke was on a par with what Snyder's done, but Spurrier didn't stay at Duke long enough to demonstrate the ability to sustain success in that environment (not saying he couldn't, I suspect he could have done so).

Snyder took over a program that had been junk for its entire existence and made it a very consistent winner. If that wasn't enough, the minute he retired, the program went back to being junk. Snyder came back, and it is that same consistent winner again.

Could he come to a major SEC program and consistently win like Miles, Saban, and Spurrier have done? I don't know, but to do what he's done in Manhattan, Kansas (who's metro population is 2/3rds that of Auburn-Opelika, less than half that of Tuscaloosa and Gainsville, and 1/9th that of Baton Rouge) has been amazing.