The Central Kansas Catbackers golf tournament, dinner and auction — featuring Kansas State head football coach Bill Snyder as the guest speaker — will be held today and this evening at The Club at StoneRidge.
The golf tournament will be played under a 4-person scramble format with a 12:45 shotgun start.
At 5:45, there will be a social at the Club at StoneRidge, followed by a dinner at 6:30. A program, raffle and auction will be held thereafter, starting at 7:15.
Snyder, the architect of the greatest turnaround in college football history, is entering his 21st season at Kansas State this fall.
The Wildcats are coming off a 10-3 campaign, where they finished No. 8 in the Bowl Championship Series standings and earned a berth in the Cotton Bowl.
The 72-year-old Snyder retired after the 2005 season only to return as head coach prior to the 2009 campaign after Ron Prince was fired.
When Snyder was hired at Kansas State for the first time in 1989, he took over the losingest program in NCAA Division I-A — a cumulative record of 299-510 for a .370 winning percentage over a 93-year stretch.
Prior to Snyder’s arrival, the school had been to only one bowl game (1982 Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.), had not won a conference championship since 1934 and had enjoyed only four winning seasons in the previous 44 years.
Snyder, who also inherited a 27-game winless streak, won only one game in his first season in 1989, but the Wildcats improved to 5-6 in 1990.
By 1993, Kansas State had captured its second nine-win season and the team’s first ranking in the final top 20 poll, capped by a victory over Wyoming in the Copper Bowl in Tucson, Ariz.
The 1993 bowl berth was the first of 11 consecutive bowl games for Kansas State, one of just seven schools to do so.
 
NOTEWORTHY
• During the 1998 campaign, Kansas State had an undefeated 11-0 regular season and first-ever No. 1 ranking, just 10 years after being named as the worst program in the country by Sports Illustrated.
The Wildcats lost to Texas A&M in the Big 12 championship game in double overtime that season, thus being denied a shot in the national championship game.
• In 2003, Kansas State upset top-ranked Oklahoma 35-7 in the Big 12 championship game and played Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.
• In 2011, Kansas State won its first seven games — its best start in 12 years — en route to a 10-3 finish. Snyder was honored for the Woody Hayes National  Coach of the Year award, as well as picking up national coach of the year honors from the Sporting News, Rivals.com and CBSSports.com. He was also named as the Big 12 Coach of the Year by The Associated Press and Big 12 coaches.
• Kansas State has 13 players on Phil Steele’s 2012 preseason All-America and All-Big 12 teams. Senior linebacker Arthur Brown was named as a second-team All-America selection, while Tyler Lockett, a sophomore kick returner, was a third-team pick.
Both Brown and Lockett were listed as first-team preseason All-Big 12 picks by the publication, joined by defensive back Nigel Malone.
• Tight end Travis Tannahill and defensive end Meshak Williams were second-team all-conference selections. … Kansas State placed a total of seven players on the third team in quarterback Collin Klein, running back John Hubert, defensive tackle Vai Lutui, linebacker Tre Walker, safety Ty Zimmerman, kicker Anthony Cantele and punter Ryan Doerr. … Rounding out the selections was center B.J. Finney, who was named to the all-conference fourth team.
• Brown was named the Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year in 2011 after collecting a team-high 101 tackles  — 9.5 for losses — along with 2.0 sacks and one interception.  … Lockett, the lone freshman named to the 2011 Walter Camp All-America Team, was tops nationally during the regular season with a 35.2-yard kickoff return average. An All-Big 12 selection by the league’s coaches and the Associated Press, Lockett ranks first in school history in average ahead of William Powell’s 34.6-yard mark in 2010. … Klein tied the Big 12 overall record and NCAA mark for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with 27 last year and also earned first-team All-Big 12 honors as an all-purpose player by numerous publications. … Malone was also a Walter Camp All-America pick in 2011.

2012 KANSAS STATE
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Sept. 1 — MISSOURI STATE
Sept. 8 —  MIAMI
Sept. 15 — NORTH TEXAS
Sept. 22 — At Oklahoma
Oct. 6 — KANSAS
Oct. 13 — At Iowa State
Oct. 20 — At West Virginia
Oct. 27 — TEXAS TECH
Nov, 3 — OKLAHOMA STATE
Nov. 10 — At Texas Christian
Nov. 17 — At Baylor
Dec. 1 —  TEXAS