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Wally’s World Burnham’s blueprint, philosophy built dominant ISU defense

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Burnham builds ISU defense

By Jake.Calhoun @iowastatedaily.com

Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Wally Burnham, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, has coached for 48 years, with the last four seasons spent at Iowa State.

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With a hunched back and eyes asymmetrical on his face, one would think 48 years of coaching have taken too much of a toll on Wally Burnham.

Now in his fourth year at Iowa State, however, Burnham is still going strong as the team’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.

Through five games this season, Burnham’s defense has given up one fewer yard per play and almost 80 fewer yards per game than the past three seasons combined.

In some respects, Wally Burnham is a mad man. That’s why his players love him.

“Coach Wally, he’s an old school

coach — one of those tough-love coaches — but he’s willing to help you if you’re willing to get better,” said junior linebacker Jeremiah George. “When you have a coach like that who’s passionate, you’ll do anything for him.”

Despite his modest demeanor and appearance — very rarely will he be seen not wearing shorts — Burnham’s resume contains some eye-popping bullet points.

Burnham served as an assistant to Bobby Bowden, college football’s all-time winningest coach, at Florida State from 1985 to 1993. It was there that Burnham helped the Seminoles win a national championship in 1993.

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Wally Burnham Defensive coordinator, linebackers coach (fourth year at Iowa State) Alma mater: Samford (1963) Hometown: Pell City, Ala. Experience coaching: 48 years Coached numerous NFL players, including Hall-of-Fame defensive back Deion Sanders, perennial Pro Bowl linebacker Derrick Brooks Served as an assistant coach to Bobby Bowden at Florida State from 1985 to 1993 (Won a national championship in 1993) Served as the defensive coordinator at South Carolina (1994-98) and South Florida (2001-08) before coming to Iowa State

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Quick facts: Kansas State Location: Manhattan, Kan. Type: Public Founded: 1863 Enrollment: 24,378 Student-to-faculty ratio: 19-to-1 Nickname: Wildcats Mascot: Willie the Wildcat The Wildcats play at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, which seats 50,000.

The school’s town of Manhattan, Kan., is nicknamed “The Little Apple” in reference to Manhattan, N.Y., which is known as “The Big Apple.”

Kansas State has 14 varsity sports. Unique among them are the exclusive women’s sports of equestrian and rowing.

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around in his 20 years there, posting the school’s first-ever bowl victory in 1993 with its first and only BCS bowl appearance coming 10 years later.

Woods’ father, Earl, played baseball at Kansas State and was the first African-American baseball player in the Big Seven in 1952.

Famous alumni include actress Kirstie Alley, environmental activist Erin Brokovich, chief White House photographer Pete Souza and comedian Eddie Griffin.

Kansas State was an original member of the Big Eight before it became the Big 12 in 1996.

Coach Bill Snyder has turned the program

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Snyder’s overall record is 163-83-1, which is almost 34 percent of the program’s total wins.

While Kansas State trails Iowa State 49-42-4 in the rivalry between the two, Snyder is 16-4 against the Cyclones. His last loss to Iowa State came in 2005.

A common rallying cry (and hashtag) of unity for K-State fans is EMAW, which stands for “Every Man A Wildcat.”

Kansas State’s main rival is Kansas. The two face each other every year in the “Sunflower Showdown,” which Kansas leads all time 64-41-5.

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Iowa vs. Michigan State

No. 13 Texas vs. No. 15 Oklahoma (in Dallas)

No. 17 Stanford vs. No. 7 Notre Dame

No. 10 Oregon State vs. BYU

TCU vs. Baylor

No. 3 South Carolina vs. No. 9 LSU

Jake Calhoun, sports editor (23-19)

Iowa State — This will be the year Iowa State finally gets over the hump in Farmageddon. Plus Bill Snyder is really old.

Michigan State — The Big Ten has so much derp in it this year I honestly can’t take it anymore.

Oklahoma — The only other thing happening at the Texas State Fair is the fistfighting over whose belt buckle is bigger.

Notre Dame — Lou Holtz would beat the living sap out of the Stanford tree in a boxing match.

Oregon State — Katherine wouldn’t let me make the joke I wanted to. It was funny. Really funny. You know why.

Baylor — TCU’s woes will continue to be exploited as Casey Pachall begins focusing on his “pottery” (rehab).

South Carolina — Wally Burnham coached at South Carolina, and this is Wally’s World after all. #wallysworld

Dean Berhow-Goll, assistant sports editor (27-15)

Kansas State — Unfortunately for CyclONE Nation, I believe Collin Klein and co. will bring Iowa State back down to earth.

Michigan State — Too much defense from Michigan State. They’ll have what they need to stop Weisman.

Texas — David Ash is underrated and the Sooners are struggling mightily.

Notre Dame — Manti Te’o is the next big thing. The Golden Domes will keep working their way into BCS contention.

Oregon State — Oregon State is incredibly battle-tested. I don’t think Jimmer plays quarterback anymore does he?

Baylor — No Casey Pachall, no leader. Baylor has a lot of underrated firepower.

South Carolina — The Old Ball Coach has got one heck of a ball club.

Potential national title contender.

Alex Halsted, assistant sports editor (25-17)

Iowa State — Every year the Wildcats seem to slip past the Cyclones. Now Iowa State finally gets them at Jack Trice.

Michigan State — It’s hard to predict any Big Ten game, but I once thought Michigan State was one of its top teams.

Texas —Hook ‘em Horns.

The Longhorns do what UTEP couldn’t for the state of Texas and beat the Sooners.

Notre Dame — For the first time in awhile, the Irish might live up to their expectations.

Oregon State — I’ve seen one BYU game this season, and it was painful.

Baylor — After owning the nation’s longest winning streak last week, a losing streak starts with this game.

South Carolina —The Gamecocks took down the Bulldogs last week and continue their roll with the Tigers this week.

Stephen Koengisfeld, sports online editor (29-13)

Iowa State — Paul Rhoads said this was his best team he’s had so far. They’ll need to be to beat the Snydercats.

Iowa — With all the offfield troubles, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ferentz locks Weisman in a room for the entire week.

Oklahoma — Even 26,000 square feet of high-def Longhorn Network isn’t going to be enough for the Longhorns.

Notre Dame — No Luck for Stanford in this one. In more ways than one.

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Baylor — In real life, a horned frog versus a bear would not be as good of a fight as this private school matchup.

LSU — What a neat game this will be!

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Iowa State — ISU is on a roll with a win over TCU on the road. The Cyclones are ready for a home victory over a ranked team.

Iowa — Iowa will be rested after a bye week and ready to beat the Spartans.

Texas — Texas will rebound following the loss to West Virginia.

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Baylor – Baylor will take advantage of TCU’s inexperienced quarterback.

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Editorial

Kansas State serves as sister school

During postgame interviews after Iowa State’s seven-point loss to Kansas State last December, ISU running back Jeff Woody said the two teams were part of “sister” schools.

“It’s like looking at a reflecting pool,” Woody said after that game on Dec. 3, 2011. “One side or the other it’s almost identical rushing yards, passing yards, total yards, first downs — everything is identical. If there are two more evenly matched teams in the country I’d like to see them.”

While their records last season might not have been too reflective of each other — Kansas State went 10-2 en route to a Cotton Bowl appearance while Iowa State made it to the lower-ranked Pinstripe Bowl at 6-6 — those say little about these two teams as a whole.

The rivalry — cleverly named

“Farmageddon” — has seen some competitive play in the past few years. While Iowa State has not beaten Kansas State since 2007, it has lost by an average of 5.75 points in those four losses.

“They’re similar to us in a lot of ways,” said ISU receiver Josh Lenz.

“We don’t [have] a lot of big-name guys, but we play as a team, we come out and execute, and we get things done. I’d say they’re pretty similar in that case too.”

The botched extra point at Arrowhead Stadium, the intentional fumble on the fourth-down stand in an effort to keep the drive alive going for naught — all have bred fresh contempt in the minds of Cyclone fans.

As Woody put it last year, familiarity breeds contempt.

Both schools are located in the college towns of Ames, Iowa, and

Manhattan, Kan., both of which each have populations of roughly 50,00060,000. The schools are land-grant institutions that house more than 20,000 students each and are leaders in academia.

Interestingly enough, both schools are famously known as agricultural schools. This, of course, explains the seeds that were planted

by Bill Snyder and Paul Rhoads that grew into successful football programs.

When Snyder came to Kansas State in 1989, he took over a program that had an overall winning percentage of .370 and had not won a bowl game in its history.

Snyder has since gone on to set countless milestones while winning 66 percent of his games.

Rhoads’ first year at Iowa State came 20 years after Snyder’s at

Kansas State but was capped off with a victory in the Insight Bowl.

With Rhoads, Iowa State has experienced the rough nature of the Big 12 Conference, but the woes of losing records in the conference have been overshadowed by the monumental upsets year after year — Iowa State just recently beat No. 15 TCU, which marked the first time in program history that the team had beaten a ranked team three consecutive seasons.

While Rhoads has Iowa State headed in the right direction, it is still miles behind what Snyder has built at Kansas State simply because of Snyder’s longevity at this point.

Kansas State might be a 6.5-point favorite to win Saturday, but expect a close game because both teams are going to be ready to play.

With the implications a win on

Saturday could have for Iowa State — a winning conference record, a probable ranking in the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2005 and a 50th victory against Kansas State — there’s no way it’s going to roll over that easily.

“When it comes down to it, this kind of game, it’s a ground-andpound game,” said ISU linebacker A.J. Klein. “It’s a very physical football game, and I think we’re going to see the exact same thing come Saturday.”

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File photo: Randi Reeder/Iowa State Daily Wally Burnham gets fired up after a successful play during the Sept. 8 Cy-Hawk game at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. With 9-6, Iowa State defeated Iowa for the second year in a row.

Burnham has coached numerous players that have gone on to successful careers in the NFL, including Hall-of-Fame defensive back Deion Sanders and perennial Pro Bowl linebacker Derrick Brooks, among others.

In Burnham’s time as a defensive coordinator before arriving at Iowa State, his installation of the 4-3 defense at South Carolina and South Florida paid dividends.

Burnham’s defense at South Carolina saw massive improvements in the highly competitive Southeastern Conference, while his defense at South Florida ranked in the top 30 in six of his seven years there.

All those accolades were thanks to Burnham’s defensive philosophy that paralleled that of head coach Paul Rhoads, who served as a defensive co-

ordinator at Pittsburgh and Auburn, of making the offense work for everything and not conceding easy gains.

This similarity, among others, compelled Rhoads to give Burnham a call when he became the ISU football coach prior to the 2009 season.

“I’d coached against him for a number of years,” Rhoads said. “In doing that, I’d seen the way his defense has played: That’s with energy, that’s with passion, that’s with speed and that’s with effectiveness — namely against spread offenses that I knew we were going to have to defend in this league.”

Upon arriving in Ames, Burnham said the talent level on defense at Iowa State was thin after the departure for former coach Gene Chizik.

Serving as the third defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for some of those players was tough at first, but not impossible for Burnham.

“You had to settle the team down and you had to win their confidence that you were going to be here, you were going to stay with them,” Burnham said.

Burnham made the most with the unit he had in 2009 — which ranked 99th nationally in total defense. Recruiting players with speed, Burnham said, was the first objective of building the defense, which now ranks 28th overall nationally.

“In the Big 12, you play in open space all day,” Burnham said. “You’ve got to have players that can make plays in open space, so that means you’ve got to have speed, you’ve got to have athletic ability — all those kind of things that go into those kind of players.”

One of the speedier players Burnham and Rhoads hooked was Jake Knott, a defensive

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BURNHAM.p10 >> back-turned-linebacker who has become one of the standout defensive players in the nation thanks to Burnham’s coaching.

Coming from Waukee High School as Rhoads’ first recruit in 2009, however, Knott was not very highly touted.

“You could probably ask anybody when I first came in here if I was a good linebacker or not,” Knott said with a chuckle. “I think anybody would have probably told you there’s no chance.”

Knott recently amassed 300 career tackles in Iowa State’s 37-23 win against TCU last weekend, becoming the first Cyclone to do so since Matt Word in 2002 and the 14th overall in school history.

Knott’s counterpart and fellow three-year starter A.J. Klein is another player who Burnham sculpted into a dom-

inant force.

Key among Klein’s achievements was his reception of the CoKnott Defensive Player of the Year award last season.

Klein currently has 283 career tackRhoads les and tied the NCAA record for most interceptions returned for a touchdown by a linebacker this season with four.

The formula for player development concocted by Burnham has become a blueprint with the development of players like Knott and Klein but has been applied to everyone he coaches.

“He creates a consistency

and love and passion for the game that kind of spills over onto everybody else,” Knott said. “When he does that, you come in to work.

“He’s a guy that you’re trying to impress every single day — doesn’t matter if you’re a true freshman, a fifth-year senior — you want to impress him or else he’s going to make sure you know about it and that you weren’t impressive.”

The development of Knott and Klein was easy to facilitate, Burnham said, because they were coachable and took the initiative to learn every day since they arrived on campus.

One player who struggled at the beginning was George.

However, Burnham said George’s development started with making him coachable and thus making him a runstopping force.

“A guy like Jeremiah had to realize that we’re here to help him,” Burnham said. “That’s

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when you start taking coaching is when you realize when we correct a kid, we’re giving constructive criticism and not getting onto him, not downgrading him. You have to win that confidence that, ‘Hey, if you listen to me long enough and keep working, things will work out.’”

George’s proverbial light bulb turned on this past spring, spurring him to make 23 tackles in five games played — three as a starter — this season.

While 48 years of coaching might seem like enough to many, Burnham said he does not foresee himself calling it quits any time soon.

“I have no idea,” Burnham said when asked how many years he thinks he has left in him. “As long as the good lord blesses me and keeps me healthy and Paul doesn’t fire me, I might be around for a while.

“Who knows.”

Burnham’s national rankings for defense at Iowa State 2012 (through five games) Overall: 28th (out of 120) — 1,690 yards allowed, 4.57 per play, 338.0 per game Run Defense: 30th — 579 yards allowed, 3.35 per play, 115.8 per game Pass Defense: 56th — 1,111 yards allowed, 10.38 per completion, 222.2 per game

2011 (13 games) Overall: 95th (out of 120) — 5,557 yards allowed, 5.68 yards per play, 427.16 per game Run Defense: 98th — 2,515 yards allowed, 4.54 yards per play, 193.46 per game Pass Defense: 73rd — 3,042 yards allowed, 12.62 yards per completion, 234.0 yards per game

2010 (12 games) Overall: 87th (out of 120) — 4,899 yards allowed, 5.54 per play, 408.25 per game Run Defense: 93rd — 2,236 yards allowed, 4.37 per play, 186.33 per game Pass Defense: 64th — 2,663 yards allowed, 11.19 per completion, 221.92 per game

2009 (13 games) Overall: 99th (out of 120) — 5,406 yards allowed, 5.82 per play, 415.85 per game Run Defense: 86th — 2,154 yards allowed, 4.35 per play, 165.69 per game Pass Defense: 102nd — 3,252 yards allowed, 12.09 per completion, 250.15 per game

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