Kansas State Football: Identity crisis plagues Wildcats

Another area the Cats have struggled recruiting is the junior college football player. During the late 80’s and well into the 90’s, the junior college recruiting scene was non existent.

That changed when Bill Snyder arrived, as many of the top junior college football programs in the country could be found in Kansas, places like Garden City, Independence, Butler, Hutchinson, Ft. Scott, and Dodge City became a fertile recruiting ground for the Wildcats, often landing impact players from these programs.

The first run was aided by the likes of Michael Bishop, Josh Scooby, Quincy Morgan, Darnell McDonald, and others. However, since Snyder has come back, something has changed with recruiting at the junior college level. It’s okay now.

For decades, if not forever, major programs stayed away from junior college players, leaving programs like Kansas State to find players that, at least out of high school, would never have considered going to Manhattan.

"Plenty of other programs are after those prospects now, too- Matt Hall, KStateOnline"

As mentioned above, the Wildcats don’t usually get involved in protracted recruiting battles against other schools, meaning the pipeline so vital during the Snyder 1.0 tenure has all but dried up. The Cats are seeing some JUCO transfer success, as Kevion McGee and Daquan Patton have seen significant minutes. That’s about it though.