With Big 12 Conference expansion a constant topic, a book arrived this week that spends a portion of its 348 pages on the origins of the league and its complications. Former Kansas State University president Jon Wefald details his 23 years on the Manhattan, Kan., campus that ended with his retirement in 2009.
Two of the nine chapters in The Transformative Years at Kansas State: The Years of President Jon Wefald from 1986 to 2009 are devoted to athletics, Wefald’s thoughts on the hiring and rehiring of Bill Snyder, the so-called “secret” contract agreement with football coach Ron Prince, his role in helping recruit athletes and the admission of one of his two biggest mistakes during his tenure: “My huge mistake in letting (athletic director) Tim Weiser leave KSU.