Kansas State coach Bill Snyder:

On returning at age 69 (he will be 70 when K-State faces MU on Nov. 14 in Manhattan):

“My doctor says things are a go, so I’m on go. It’s a demanding thing, for every coach, regardless of age. I’ve got a lot of good people around me. Ten of top 13 assistants either played or worked for me at Kansas State or both. It makes life a little bit easier.

Other coaches who have come back haven’t always had success, does that matter:

“Don’t know that it will be different than what others have experieneced. That wasn’t purpose behind re-entereing. It had something to do with people of Kansas State, the K-State nation so to speak. What outcome will be, I have no idea. If we can settle the waters down, it will have been worth the effort.”

Compare buidling process to his first time at school in 1989:

“Program has come a long way since that time. We had 47 players, this was when you could have 95 on scholarship. We’re a little above that today. An amazing transition. We never did get the program back to a full complement of scholarships in my tenure. We’re really in much better shape today. We don’t have 85 but can get there in a heartbeat. You have issues whether you’re a new coach on the block or what. Aren’y as many today as there were 20 years ago.”

On Carson Coffman (Chase Coffman’s brother) at QB:

“Carson came out No. 1 from spring practice. Will go into fall as No. 1 but expect it to be very competitive. We have four young men competing. He’s making transition like everyone from one system to another. But he handles it very well.”

Is he different now than he was before:

“Less hair, no dark tint to it whatsover. If you’re around it every single day, you don’t see the changes. I see myself every day, not that I enjoy it, so if I’m different then I don’t know it. I’m not approaching this endeavor any differently than before.”

Has game changed:

“Emphasis, certainly has. Sitting in capital of change in terms of offensive football in the Big 12. As you look at football on national scope, only so many ways you can line up 11 guys on either side. Creates only so many variables. Game of football has been around a long time and what goes around comes around. Just the emphasis changes.

“Outside of the field, cyberspace has taken on different (emphasis). The speed of recruiting process has changed rather dramatically last four years. We maybe have 130 offers exteneded, 15-17 commitments, never been in that position (at this time of year). Here are young guys who haven’t played as a senior yet and they are in your program already. Pretty consistent with what’s going on everywhere. I get up every morning, and get this blackberry out, and these recruiting services have a story on every recruit over the age of 4 and what he had for breakfast that day and so on. So recruiting is so very, very visible and national right now. It’s a change for me, and everybody.”

Will he be as demandng as he was before of his assistants:

“If I can stay up with pace, then yes. iI wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything I didn’t do.”