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Re: Media loves us, knows to respect us, talks about us being awesome thread
« Reply #75 on: August 06, 2014, 01:12:54 PM »
:zzz:

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2014/8/5/5951537/demystifying-kansas-state-wildcats-jake-waters-tyler-lockett-bill-snyder

this guy set out to write thinking mans football stuff, without having the brains to do it

I'd love to see _FAN break down this article

The personnel/recruiting/culture stuff is pretty typical (and has some truth to it), but apparently the state of Kansas has no high school with more than 100 students.

I have no idea why the writer chose that particular play to highlight what Snyder's ball control passing game is all about. It would've made much more sense to focus on the amount of passing vs running that took place as Waters took over (around 55% passing or more) compared to what we did with Klein, etc. My breakdowns are a bit more complex than a national guy is going to get into, but he could've looked at games where Waters played the majority of the snaps (Texas Tech and forward) and done a decent rough comparison.

That sounds like hard work.  Why not just trot out a bunch of stuff about hard work and staying at the office a lot?

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Re: Media loves us, knows to respect us, talks about us being awesome thread
« Reply #76 on: August 06, 2014, 01:24:53 PM »
He's done a couple other in depth Kstate articles that were better...that i can't find. But i did find this one.

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2013/10/18/4849408/kansas-state-baylor-bill-snyder-art-briles-spread
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« Reply #77 on: August 06, 2014, 03:33:40 PM »
He's done a couple other in depth Kstate articles that were better...that i can't find. But i did find this one.

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2013/10/18/4849408/kansas-state-baylor-bill-snyder-art-briles-spread

That one was really well done.

Another thing he could have done (same author for both articles) is compare how differently we attacked Baylor with mostly Sams (no Lockett, 2/3 run) to how we attacked teams later in the year with mostly Waters (lots of Lockett, nearly 2/3 pass).

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Re: Media loves us, knows to respect us, talks about us being awesome thread
« Reply #79 on: August 13, 2014, 09:17:30 AM »
http://espn.go.com/college-football/ Front page!  :emawkid:

My company blocks ESPN  :frown: What does it talk about?
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« Reply #80 on: August 13, 2014, 09:18:40 AM »
http://espn.go.com/college-football/ Front page!  :emawkid:

My company blocks ESPN  :frown: What does it talk about?

Old values and stuff. 

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1. Kansas State head coach LHC Bill Snyder is 74 years old and still preaching old-school values. His players listen, he said, because "I explain to them how fortunate they are … that somebody cares about them to be so demanding to make certain they are doing the right things." That's not his only old-school notion. Snyder's opinion about the business of intercollegiate athletics, circa 2014: "We have gotten to the point where money has taken over college athletics, football and basketball in particular. Money, TV, the whole ball of wax. I mean this in a tamer way than it sounds, but we have virtually sold out."
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« Reply #82 on: August 13, 2014, 09:22:43 AM »
http://espn.go.com/college-football/ Front page!  :emawkid:

My company blocks ESPN  :frown: What does it talk about?

COACHING VALUES (Front page: Snyder and Sumlin side by side)

Kansas State Coach LHC Bill Snyder's old-school values and Kevin Sumlin's recruits at Texas A&M are among today's topics for todays 3-point stance(front page).

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1. Kansas State head coach LHC Bill Snyder is 74 years old and still preaching old-school values. His players listen, he said, because "I explain to them how fortunate they are … that somebody cares about them to be so demanding to make certain they are doing the right things." That's not his only old-school notion. Snyder's opinion about the business of intercollegiate athletics, circa 2014: "We have gotten to the point where money has taken over college athletics, football and basketball in particular. Money, TV, the whole ball of wax. I mean this in a tamer way than it sounds, but we have virtually sold out."

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« Reply #83 on: August 13, 2014, 09:29:27 AM »
http://espn.go.com/college-football/ Front page!  :emawkid:

My company blocks ESPN  :frown: What does it talk about?

COACHING VALUES (Front page: Snyder and Sumlin side by side)

Kansas State Coach LHC Bill Snyder's old-school values and Kevin Sumlin's recruits at Texas A&M are among today's topics for todays 3-point stance(front page).

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1. Kansas State head coach LHC Bill Snyder is 74 years old and still preaching old-school values. His players listen, he said, because "I explain to them how fortunate they are … that somebody cares about them to be so demanding to make certain they are doing the right things." That's not his only old-school notion. Snyder's opinion about the business of intercollegiate athletics, circa 2014: "We have gotten to the point where money has taken over college athletics, football and basketball in particular. Money, TV, the whole ball of wax. I mean this in a tamer way than it sounds, but we have virtually sold out."

Thats our Bill!  :billdance:
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Re: Media loves us, knows to respect us, talks about us being awesome thread
« Reply #84 on: August 13, 2014, 10:37:12 AM »
http://espn.go.com/college-football/ Front page!  :emawkid:

My company blocks ESPN  :frown: What does it talk about?

What in the world......  :sdeek:


Because people are so much more productive when forced to look at ESPN, twitter, facebook, etc on their phones rather than via company workstations.

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« Reply #86 on: August 14, 2014, 06:53:28 PM »
http://espn.go.com/college-football/ Front page!  :emawkid:

My company blocks ESPN  :frown: What does it talk about?

What in the world......  :sdeek:


Because people are so much more productive when forced to look at ESPN, twitter, facebook, etc on their phones rather than via company workstations.

 :lol:

Facebook and Twitter aren't blocked.
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« Reply #87 on: August 14, 2014, 07:40:56 PM »

http://espn.go.com/college-football/ Front page!  :emawkid:

My company blocks ESPN  :frown: What does it talk about?
It mentions how awful your company is.


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Re: Media loves us, knows to respect us, talks about us being awesome thread
« Reply #88 on: August 18, 2014, 09:57:51 AM »
@PaulMyerberg: No. 17: Kansas State http://t.co/7A8aCN0Bqf Same rules apply as always: Sleep on Cats at your own risk.

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« Reply #89 on: August 18, 2014, 10:56:59 AM »

@PaulMyerberg: No. 17: Kansas State http://t.co/7A8aCN0Bqf Same rules apply as always: Sleep on Cats at your own risk.

That was a good read.

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« Reply #90 on: August 18, 2014, 10:59:30 AM »


@PaulMyerberg: No. 17: Kansas State http://t.co/7A8aCN0Bqf Same rules apply as always: Sleep on Cats at your own risk.

That was a good read.
He does a great job on those. Amazing that they are that in depth(and generally correct) for every team in FBS. He used to run a site (presnapread) and just do that himself them USA today hired him and hopefully he got PAID for it.

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« Reply #91 on: August 18, 2014, 11:58:38 AM »
how on earth can that guy know everything?  :sdeek:

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« Reply #92 on: August 18, 2014, 01:17:11 PM »


@PaulMyerberg: No. 17: Kansas State http://t.co/7A8aCN0Bqf Same rules apply as always: Sleep on Cats at your own risk.

That was a good read.
He does a great job on those. Amazing that they are that in depth(and generally correct) for every team in FBS. He used to run a site (presnapread) and just do that himself them USA today hired him and hopefully he got PAID for it.

It's pretty amazing that he seems to know just about as much about the Cats as the people that post here every day do.  I remember reading his write up on KU a couple months back and he had them nailed to a T. 
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« Reply #93 on: August 18, 2014, 01:24:18 PM »


@PaulMyerberg: No. 17: Kansas State http://t.co/7A8aCN0Bqf Same rules apply as always: Sleep on Cats at your own risk.

That was a good read.
He does a great job on those. Amazing that they are that in depth(and generally correct) for every team in FBS. He used to run a site (presnapread) and just do that himself them USA today hired him and hopefully he got PAID for it.

It's pretty amazing that he seems to know just about as much about the Cats as the people that post here every day do.  I remember reading his write up on KU a couple months back and he had them nailed to a T.

Yeah, he has the hawks at 112/128 teams. Him not having them lower than that sort of makes me question his judgement but, by and large, his work is a pleasure to read.

*I used "by and large" because this guy is so smart regarding our cats and LHCBS that he decided to include a "by and large" in his KSU write up. Great stuff.
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« Reply #94 on: August 18, 2014, 01:30:52 PM »
He called Mueller the reigning Conference Defensive Player of the Year. Usually I'd brush it off as a writer not knowing much, but was Mueller awarded that by someone?

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« Reply #95 on: August 18, 2014, 01:35:56 PM »
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I think what my friend Mitch is trying to say is that true love is blind.

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« Reply #96 on: August 18, 2014, 01:46:36 PM »
this guy is really great at expressing how awesome tyler lockett is.

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« Reply #98 on: August 18, 2014, 02:40:56 PM »

this guy is really great at expressing how awesome tyler lockett is.

That was not lost on me either.  Made me feel terrific.

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