Life of Fitz | Conor Riley in Manhattan, Kansas

One of the top offensive line coaches in the country, Conor Riley, is in his sixth season at K-State in 2024, tutoring the Wildcats' offensive front and first serving as the program's offensive coordinator. He was the interim coordinator for Kansas State's victory over NC State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl before being elevated to the full-time role in early January. A 2003 University of Nebraska Omaha graduate, Riley began his collegiate coaching career at UNO as a student and graduate assistant from 2003 to 2005. He left his alma mater to become the offensive line coach at Concordia University-St. Paul in 2006. The Omaha native enjoyed a standout high school career at Creighton Prep. He began his collegiate playing career at the U.S. Air Force Academy, then transferred to Kansas before heading to UNO in 1999. After redshirting his first season, Riley was named the North Central Conference's outstanding lineman twice in his three-year career. Following his senior year, he earned 2002 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and Daktronics All-America first-team honors. Riley was a second-team Division II All-American as a junior in 2001. He and his wife, Christy, are the parents of two daughters, Cate and Claire..
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Tim Fitzgerald is a sports journalist who writes, does TV, radio, daily TH-cam videos, and is a long-time podcaster. He has served as publisher of GoPowercat.com, a website that focuses on Kansas State sports, for more than 25 years. Fitz also has metastatic Stage Four prostate cancer, so during the initial stages of the pandemic, his doctors advised him to stay home and lay low. Now, after a brief period of remission, Fitz is back in the fight for his life, but this podcast lives on. Welcome to his life and the Life of Fitz podcast.

[@andreworwig8099]

Love this! Listening to this just reminds me how proud I am of my alma mater and the people that are associated with it. You hear people say “K-State is a special place” all the time, and it almost becomes cliche or taken for granted. It truly is a special place with special people and a special culture. There’s no place like it. Been reading your stuff going back to the old weekly Powercat Illustrated publications my Dad would get when I was growing up, and have always been a fan of yours, Fitz. Thanks for all you do for us as fans and K-State! Sending prayers your way, keep fighting!! 💪😼

[@LifeofFitz]

Thank you for your support!

[@billneywick9946]

Enjoyed the podcast 👌

[@Wildcatjan1987]

I love the video! It's my jam!!! Great job!!

[@johnhaertling6575]

Outstanding show and interview!

[@jjh31]

What a great interview! Glad to hear us old dogs haven’t been forgotten.
I was in Coach Snyders 2nd recruiting class and got to indure the subpar facilities (Brandenbury) our 60yd x 50yd indoor non climate controlled indoor 😅 and a turf field with a 4ft crown with lines and logos painted with latex paint. But we bought into Coach’s vision of what we could achieve and made us all strive to create a culture of improving everyday and being accountable. In doing so we became the foundation for what KState has continued to be. Now those young athletes get to walk into state of the art facilities that we could’ve only dreamed of. As well as be mentored by coaches who have their best interests at heart. Both my kids are KStaters now and it amazes me how much the University and Manhattan itself have flourished. Whenever I enter Manhattan now, I often catch myself thinking, would this place be what it is today, if we hadn’t done our part 34 years ago🤔?
GO CATS!

[@kenneaderhiser7768]

Is the typewriter in the background on the desk the one vibrating down the crows nest table when Ahearn was rocking?

[@LifeofFitz]

Lol. Nope. It's my dad's Royal typewriter that was in his home office my entire childhood.

[@Purplefiend]

Absolutely awesome show!!! Loved the Watts reference and stories. I was at the game he injured that you referred to and I used to work with his mom- fabulous family.

[@bige2012]

I worked at Blueville for 3 years while at K-State!

[@RonBrown-vj9vf]

Atta boy Fitz! Loving these videos.

[@Gomercat]

Great historical book about the wonderful people in the Midwest in WW 2: Bob Greene- Once upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen.
Gomercat

[@kenneaderhiser7768]

Good news. Dublin is a work trip, I get to stick the costs to the GPC man.
Bad news, I’m the GPC man

[@GoPowercat]

Nailed it. Lol.