One of four Kansas State football players to run 23 miles-per-hour prior to the 2025 season, junior cornerback Donovan McIntosh has added a little size to his 6-foot-3 frame and has increased his weight from 187 pounds to 195 pounds over winter conditioning — a product, he says, of the intense weight training regimen instituted by new Director of Strength and Conditioning Jeremy Jacobs and his staff.
John Cooper knows Kansas State. Because Lon Kruger recruited John Cooper to K-State. Cooper, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, grew up watching Rolando Blackman. He played in elite basketball camps in Ahearn Field House. When Cooper opted to play at Wichita State, the 18-year-old freshman came off the bench to play against Mitch Richmond. And Steve Henson. And Will Scott. During Cooper's senior season at Wichita State, he played in one of the first games in Bramlage Coliseum.
Andrej Kostic stands inside the sixth floor press box at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on a beautiful, cloudless April afternoon, and the native of Belgrade, Serbia, stares at the football field below — and he's utterly blown away.
There they were, Avery Johnson, Wesley Fair and a few others — "the Wichita boys" — wearing a lanyard around their neck and an official Kansas State recruit credential, standing together on the sideline to watch a Kansas State football game at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. It was Fair's first time inside the stadium, and the stadium was electric, and during the football game, Fair began to daydream.
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