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Former Wildcat Michael Smith has mixed feelings about Liberty Bowl

MANHATTAN

Michael Smith had made up his mind. He was going to transfer from Kansas State to Tulane. The decision was final.

Smith was so serious about leaving K-State after one winless season as a walk-on in 1988 that he flew home to New Orleans after the team’s final game and outlined his intentions to his parents. The Wildcats were switching coaches, from Stan Parrish to a stranger named Bill Snyder, and Smith saw no reason to stay in Manhattan.

Then Snyder called Smith on Christmas morning, and, as Smith says today, the rest is history.