Fw: Elliott Hired as Defensive Coordinator at Kansas State

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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
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<Elliott Hired as Defensive Coordinator
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< 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.
<