Mike Gundy’s admiration for legendary Kansas State coach is well documented, and now Gundy has some of Snyder’s own blood on Oklahoma State’s coaching staff.
Oklahoma State on Wednesday announced Gundy is adding Sean Snyder, Bill’s son, as the Cowboys’ punters and kickers coach. Sean served as Kansas’ special assistant to the head coach this past season. He has also spent time at Illinois, USC and, of course, Kansas State.
“Sean brings years of experience with kickers and punters and special teams concepts,” Gundy said in OSU’s release. “We’re really excited about what he brings to our coaching staff.”
Sean was an All-American punter under his father, earning his All-American status in 1992 by averaging 44.7 yards a punt. Snyder’s 43-yard career average was a school record. He actually started his college career at Iowa, redshirting in 1988 before playing two games in 1989 and transferring to K-State.
He then served as a part-time assistant in Manhattan during the 1994 and 1995 seasons before stepping into the director of football operations role from 1996 to 1998, assistant athletic director for football operations in 1999 and 2000, associate athletic director in 2001 and senior associate athletic director from 2002 to 2010. He then got back into a more specified coaching role, serving as the Wildcats’ special teams coordinator and associate head coach from 2011 to 2018 and a special teams analyst in 2019.
Sean went out to USC in 2020, where he spent two seasons as the Trojans special teams coordinator before returning to the Midwest as Illinois’ special teams coordinator and specialists coach for the 2022 season.
Gundy often praises Bill Snyder’s special teams ideologies — often referring to special teams yardage as hidden yards. Gundy has also gone as far to call Bill the “best college coach ever.”
Sean coached four Big 12 Special Teams Players of the Year at K-State and led a special teams unit that set or tied eight team records and 20 individual records.
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