At his weekly news conference, Kansas State coach Bill Snyder tried to say as little about his football team as possible. He said some areas were good. He said some areas were not so good.
That’s the type of guy he his. He’ll talk in generalities, but rarely single anybody out. He went so far yesterday as to say he didn’t think he had any “star players” on the roster.
I would argue that Brandon Banks and Nick Stringer are “star players,” but Snyder might also want to keep his eye on Daniel Thomas.
Of all the new faces on this team, he’s probably the best candidate to become a “star player.”
Thomas, as you’re likely well aware, came to Kansas State as a highly touted four-star recruit who could play quarterback or running back.
He ran for 618 yards and six touchdowns and threw for 450 yards and two scores last season at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
Coming into Saturday’s season-opener against UMass, he is the most talked about player on the team (other than the quarterbacks) and the talk about him is very good.
I’m not going to bore you with every glowing word that was said about him on Tuesday, but the basic assessment is that he bulldozing people in practice.
Fifth-year senior Courtney Herndon said this about him: “Dan Thomas, he has impressed me. He’s the complete back you want to have. I’ve seen him do some real damage out on that field. I really like Daniel Thomas and his game. He is a complete player. He has speed, power and ability to shake. He as all of it.”
Because of all that, he will start at running back on Saturday.
I know I’ll be watching him.
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SMELLIS!
I printed your blog post 10 times! (Ran out of toilet paper.)
Oh yes, more classy remarks from ksuNONfans posters. You idiots say more negative things about KSU players and coaches every day than this beat writer ever did…………
I’d just like everyone to know, someone at the Eagle is deleting my negative comments.
I guess they just can’t take it.
Please write with less “catchphrases in quotes”.
And are you dumping grammar and overall cohesiveness just for the blog?
Please, go ahead and bore us with the glowing words of others. Less of you, more of people close to the program would be a good thing.
Leave the guy alone, find something better to do with your time. It was somewhat amusing for a couple days, but now you all are looking like a bunch of idiots.
Ummm…. Dan Thomas never played at Butler County.
Hey, here is my “links to show how much Smellis doesn’t do a good job at his job”.
http://www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3062&SPID=212&DB_OEM_ID=400&ATCLID=204772595&Q_SEASON=2009
He ended up spending the last year at Butler Community College to work on his academic eligibility, but the hype around him grew all the same.
Probably because he ran for 618 yards and six touchdowns and threw for 450 yards and two scores while there.
That is an amazing offensive total especially considering he never played a down for Butler, you moron.
Please give this job up, I know you have total backing from the Eagle for all your mistakes, weak questions and weak writing. So, just do the right thing and quit on your own. Let someone else have a shot, you have hacked it to death.
Chuckle. RLCoach is going to make Kellis cry. Maybe he should have hired a couple of his Jayhawk Lounge fact-checkers to help him with his job.