Today, Leavitt's past looms in distance  USF's coach learned a
lot not far from where the Bulls play today.  Published
September 23, 2006  The visiting sideline at Kansas' Memorial
Stadium is a familiar place for Jim Leavitt.  As a defensive
back at Missouri, he played his final college game at Kansas in
1977, losing 24-22. He returned to Lawrence four times as an
assistant, and he'll be there as a head coach tonight for USF's
kickoff at 7 with the Jayhawks.  But for Leavitt to truly come
back to Kansas, he would have to drive 85 miles west on
Interstate 70 to Manhattan, home of Kansas State, where Leavitt
coached from 1990-95.  If there's a model for what Leavitt has
built in a decade at USF, it's there, and many see a lot of
longtime Wildcats coach Bill Snyder in Leavitt.  "Jim really has
tried to emulate Coach Snyder, as much as anybody that came out
of that tree," said former Houston and Wyoming coach Dana Dimel,
who coached under Snyder from 1987-96.  "We were a bunch of
young guys that just fed off each