How NCAA rule change allowed Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy to add Sean Snyder

STILLWATER — With the hiring of a legendary coach’s son on Wednesday, Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy took his first step into one of college football’s least talked-about rule changes.

While so much of the conversation over the last few months has focused on everything from the still-evolving world of name, image and likeness to the new uses of technology now being allowed in the sport, the elimination of coaching limits has flown under the radar.

Late last month, the NCAA Division I council approved a proposal to remove the limit on the number of on-field coaches, which had been capped at 10. Now, the analysts and other ancillary staff who fill out a college football team’s support staff are allowed to be involved in on-field coaching.

Less than a month into the realm of unlimited coaches, Gundy hired Sean Snyder to work with the team’s kickers and punters. Snyder is the son of legendary Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, and served alongside his father for several years.

Snyder was at Kansas State for nearly 30 years, concluding after the 2019 season. He was the team’s punter from 1990-92, then held a variety of football and administrative roles from 1994-2010. He then moved into his role as the special teams coordinator and associate head coach from 2011-18 and as a special teams analyst in 2019.

Since then, he spent two seasons as the special teams coordinator at USC in 2020-21, one season in the same role at Illinois, and last year, he served as the special assistant to the head coach at Kansas, where he also assisted the Jayhawks’ special teams.

Snyder’s hiring comes a few months after Gundy and athletic director Chad Weiberg worked to provide raises for the program’s 10 position coaches, plus strength coach Rob Glass.

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Author : The Oklahoman

Publish date : 2024-07-18 10:08:47

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