Bill Snyder takes a different approach to spring games

K-State head coach Bill Snyder is a different coach in the spring than he is in the fall.

Everything, from his attire to his play-calling, is different. However, that has no influence on his effectiveness in reaching his players.

In lieu of wearing a headset like he does during regular-season games, Snyder uses a voice recorder to make observations about the game.

“I kind of take it as a practice and record what I think: good, bad or indifferent,” Snyder told the Wichita Eagle. “Then we address that at halftime, after the game, and next week in our meetings and so on.”

While his players can't hear the content of the recordings, it nonetheless gives them a prodding to perform at the highest level.

“When you are younger and you see that, you know that you either did something bad or good,” senior safety Dante Barnett said. “You want to know what he said right then and there, but you just never know.”

“By now, I think we just take it as something he is always going to do,” linebacker Will Davis added. “You don’t know whether what you did was good or bad, but if he is looking at you with a scowl on his face and talking into the microphone at the same time, you better fix what you just did because it probably wasn’t too good.”