This looks like a good one!  But then, what do I know?  Joyce Nesmith
-----Original Message-----
From: Mitzi Frieling <MFrieling@K-State.com>
To: MFrieling@K-State.com <MFrieling@K-State.com>
Date: Monday, January 07, 2002 8:06 AM
Subject: Elliott Hired as Defensive Coordinator at Kansas State


>IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>Date: January 5, 2002
>Contact: Doug Dull, Sports Information Director
>
>Elliott Hired as Defensive Coordinator
>
>        MANHATTAN, Kan. - Bobby Elliott has been hired as the new
>defensive coordinator at Kansas State University, head football coach
>Bill Snyder announced Saturday.
>        Elliott, 48, has served for the past two years as the
>associate head coach, secondary coach and special teams coordinator
>at Iowa State University. He was also the Cyclones' secondary coach
>in 1981-82 after spending the previous year as special assistant to
>Iowa athletics director Bob Bowlsby.
>        "First, I am grateful to Dan McCarney for allowing us the
>opportunity to approach Bobby about the position on our staff,"
>Snyder said. "Dan hated to lose him, but being a long-time close
>friend of his, he did not want to stand in the way of Bobby's
>professional advancement. I greatly appreciate Dan's genuine concern
>for Bob.
>        "I have followed and admired Bobby Elliott for many years
>since our time together at the University of Iowa," Snyder continued.
>"He has always impressed me as a truly great football person, a great
>teacher, motivator, technician and recruiter, and an even greater
>person and family man who has overcome tremendous adversity in his
>life.
>        "Bobby fits in very well with the other talented defensive
>coordinators we have had over the years. We are also excited about
>having his wife, Joey, the children, Jessica and Grant, with the
>Wildcat family. They are truly special people and faithful supporters
>of Bob.
>        "I'm also excited that the legendary Bump Elliott and his
>wife will be frequent visitors to Manhattan on game day," Snyder said.
>        He is a 1975 graduate of the University of Iowa, where he
>earned a B.S. in history.
>        A former academic All-American as an Iowa defensive back,
>Elliott was named assistant head coach under Hayden Fry at Iowa
>during the summer of 1998. He was the Hawkeyes' defensive coordinator
>from 1996-98, capping a 12-year stint as an assistant coach at Iowa.
>Snyder and Elliott were assistant coaches under Fry between 1987 and
>1988.
>        Elliott joined the Iowa staff in 1987 and coached the
>defensive secondary for eight years. He took a year off from the
>gridiron and spent the 1995 football season as executive director of
>the University of Iowa Alumni Association.
>        Early in his career, Elliott was a graduate assistant on Bob
>Commings' 1976 Iowa staff and was the secondary coach at Kent in
>1977. He served as defensive coordinator at Ball State for three
>years (1978-80).
>        Elliott and his wife, Joey, are the parents of a son, Grant
>and a daughter, Jessica.
>