Collin Klein, who was the quarterback to lead Kansas State to its last 4-0 start in 2012, will try to duplicate the feat for the Wildcats — this time as their head coach — as they visit Cincinnati for their Big 12 Conference opener at 6:00 p.m. Saturday at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nearly 10 months after Jordan Peterson slapped on a purple quarter-zip with a silver Powercat and a gray ballcap that read "CATS" and sat at a table at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, many of the characteristics that the 39-year-old first-year Kansas State defensive coordinator envisioned for the Wildcats' defense are coming together, as K-State nears its first Big 12 Conference season of the Collin Klein era.
Kansas State enters the Big 12 Conference season unscathed and rides ample momentum as the Wildcats embark upon their first road test of the Collin Klein era at unbeaten Cincinnati on Saturday night at Nippert Stadium.
Five days before Avery Johnson did the feat, Kansas State head coach Collin Klein, one of the best dual-threat quarterbacks in school history, currently a 37-year-old offensive dynamo whose achievements during his playing days are mentioned alongside Michael Bishop and Ell Roberson, stands at a podium during his weekly news conference at the Vanier Family Football Complex. Visions of the young man he recruited to K-State years ago, who was regarded as the No. 1 high school dual-threat quarterback in America, that smiling young man with gold locks down the road at Maize High School, come into focus — along with snapshots of his many exploits during his development in purple and white.
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