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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: May 14, 2018, 01:55:05 PM »
Their baseball stadium is roughly 526,397 times better than any baseball stadium in the state of Kansas, including CAB.

The odds of any rational human picking the Missouri state job over the KSU job cannot be calculated.  It is akin to being hit by a meteorite and struck by lightning while riding a unicorn

but good on them for pissing their $$ on a stadium

They play in the St. Louis Cardinals double A affiliate stadium, they didn't spend any money on it but its not their stadium either.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: May 07, 2018, 02:15:31 PM »
He's not a troll, 09emaw. He's just not laying in bed with the coach who's 3-18 in conference like you are.

How am I laying in bed with him? I stated he should be replaced as well.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: May 07, 2018, 02:02:04 PM »
Texas will F us up

We already played and took the series from Texas, but I'm glad such invested fans such as yourself knows what is best for the program going forward.

To be clear I also feel that Brad should be replaced, I just cant stand trolls who don't know what they are talking about.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 28, 2018, 12:03:43 AM »
I know Brad, I like Brad but I think we all can agree its time for new blood because it hasnt been working. While I confidently say that I watch more Kstate baseball than anyone else on this blog and I can say this season was going to be a struggle no matter who our coach was because of the age of our team and transfers the past few seasons and injuries to the pitching staff (our ace pitcher has been out amongst some of our top relievers), but we havent played well since 2013.

I have respect for Brad and he has led us to the most successful run in school history but looking ahead at potential names that could be looked at, here is who i think we could target.

Rob Vaughn, former Kstate catcher current Maryland HC. He is the youngest HC of all power 5 schools in his first year at Maryland. Maryland has struggled and were predicted to finish as one of the top teams in the big 10 in the preseason but are currently close to the bottom. Young, strong recruiter, from Texas. HC experience though limited.

Mitch Gaspard, current associate HC at KSU, former HC at Alabama and Northwestern State. Had some good years at Bama but resigned under pressure after the 2016 season also did well at Northwestern State is well liked by the current players and would be a seamless transition.

Andy Sawyers, current HC at Southeast Missouri State 2nd season, was a Kstate assistant two seperate times, played college ball at Nebraska. Good recruiter. Finished his first season at semo over .500 and his team struggled early but has played well in conference play.

Mike Clement, current assistant coach at Ole Miss, assistant at Kstate during big 12 title year that set all kinds of batting records. Never been a HC, was also an assistant at A&M, originally from Texas.

Those are the coaches with Kstate ties that will be considered, being that this will be Gene Taylors first hire at Kstate idk how important HC experience or ties to Kstate are to him. I think it is important to get someone who understands the unique challenges that K-State faces in the Big 12 conference. KU and WVU are the only other schools that face similar difficulties in the conference. KU could also be in the market for HC at the end of the season.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 17, 2018, 10:09:50 PM »
Im remaining neutral and dont have an opinion that Ill share on this site. One thing I did find interesting when looking up numbers, is that Vaughn makes $180,000 a year as Maryland HC and must live in the greater DC area. Brad makes $300,000 a year and lives in Manhattan. If we are looking for a new coach at the end of the season you would think that would certainly be a factor for a guy like Vaughn.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 17, 2018, 06:45:54 PM »
shutout by Indiana and their inherent warm weather advantages

I bet you're a joy to have at parties.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 14, 2018, 08:46:46 PM »

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 12, 2018, 03:41:40 PM »
http://www.kstatesports.com/news/2018/2/12/complete-home-baseball-schedule-to-be-broadcast-on-multiple-platforms.aspx

For those of you that cant make it to games in Manhattan you should have plenty of chances to catch the cats by online streaming.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 11, 2018, 04:43:47 PM »
Yes they do. I see youre not going to let this go. You asked me my opinion and I gave it, there is a lot of things that go into success of a program. If recruiting was the only thing that mattered LHC LHC Bill Snyder shouldve been fired a long time ago. Im not making excuses, im not advocating to save Brads job or to fire him. I said I believed that the lack of retention in the 2014 and 2015 class who would be juniors and seniors this season was a large reason for our recent struggles and I stick by that.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 11, 2018, 03:33:00 PM »
Baseball recruiting is a different demon than other sports because of the MLB draft. I don't believe that you can make an assumption about the recruiting solely based on our record. Did you know Willie Calhoun, who will be the starting second baseman for the Texas Rangers this years was signed to be a Cat? We lost Jake Webb last season, Cole Duensing the season before, signed Gunner Halter in 2016 but he exited so he could become eligible for the draft earlier. Kasey Ford was a top 300 recruit in the nation. Recruiting hasn't been our issue it has been retention.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 11, 2018, 03:05:01 PM »
I never said Hill's job is safe in fact I said how important it was for him to win games this season. I never said that we were going to win a ton of games this year. IDK what you believe in his recruiting rankings but K-State's recruiting is in similarly line in of that of Kansas, northern schools are at a natural disadvantage and it is difficult for them to compete in a Texas based league. Fan support has never been terrific as well.  The real problem is that we had a mass exitus from the classes of 2014 and 2015, in programs such as Kansas State you have to rely on upperclassman to compete, another problem is that kids these days want immediate playing time and if they don't get it they will leave. JUCO baseball is not as taboo JUCO Football or Basketball and many kids took off. Their is not a single kid on the team from the class of 2014 and only two from the class of 2015.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 11, 2018, 12:11:27 AM »
Pitching wise is an interesting mix, the only left handed pitcher on the roster is starting leftfielder Will Brennan who will likely see very little time on the bump because of his bats value. Left handed pitching is on the way as the cats have signed 4 LHP in the 2018 class but they wont help us this season. 

The weekend starting rotating rotation to start the season will be Friday sophmore Kasey Ford, Saturday Junior Gabe Littlejim, and Sunday senior Justin Heskett, our midweek starter is likely freshman Quinton Potter, and our closer will be sophmore Tyler Eckberg.  Key relievers will be Jared Marolf, Hudson Treu, Brogan Heinen, Mitch Zubradt.

Kasey Ford 6'6 290 heads the rotation, the sophmore worked his way from the backend of the bullpen last season to being the Sunday starter the last month of the season, he finished the season with a 4.03 ERA but had a 2.73 ERA as a starter and was first freshman in Kstate history to be named Big 12 pitcher of the week for throwing 7 scoreless innings against Kansas. Kasey throws in the mid 90s and has been developing his secondary pitches, he is the best pro prospect on the team and should be able to keep us in games. Also a team captain.

Gabe Littlejim is a transfer from seminole juco in oklahoma, the brother of sophmore pitcher Caleb, he finished last season at Seminole with a 5-4 record and a 4.5 ERA, that leauge in generally high scoring. I have not seen Gabe pitch, I will next week so I really cant say much about what he brings.

Justin Heskett was last years friday starter will be moved to the sunday sport this season. The former JUCO transfer from California finished the season with a 4.80 ERA and a 5-3 record.  Justin will not blow you away with his fastball but he has good placement of the baseball, he struggled toward the end of last season but his ERA is a little inflated from his last start of the season when he gave up 7 earned in 2 2/3, when on Justin is a quality starter that should do well in the sunday slot.

Sophmore closer Tyler Eckburg finished the season with the best ERA on the team last year and had secured the closer role from 10th round draft pick Jordan Floyd. Eckburg is a junk ball specialist that will hit about 90 on the gun gets people out with his breaking stuff. Eckburg averaged slightly over a strikeout an inning a year ago.

Sophmore Jared Marolf is a ground ball specialist that also does not have a blazing fastball but puts good movement on every pitch he throws, finished the season with a 4.03 ERA, should get quite a few innings of work thsi season.

Junior Mitch Zubradt is a quality pitcher that throws low 90s has had some injury issues throughout his career but has a chance to play pro ball, he had a slight dip in production from his freshman year but that could be contriubted to less of a workload he had as a sophmore due to injury, strong strikeout pitcher.

Junior Brogan Heinen moves from the starting rotation back to the pen where he was his freshman year when he enjoyed a successful season, he struggled last season when moved into the starting rotation and went from sunday starter to midweek starter last season hopfully he has a quality season in long relief for us.

Senior Hudson Treu was tried out as a starter last season when we were trying to figure out who our sunday starter would be but he is better as a reliever and will stay in that role this seson, his numbers were not eye popping last season (5.54 ERA) but he made some big pitches in big spots.

Quinton Potter, freshman from Moorepark, California, he had a 7-0 record with a 1.72 ERA as a senior, even more impressive with the quality of prep baseball in california, Potter throws low 90s and has the best chance of working his way into the starting rotation at some point this season if one of the starters struggles or gets injured.

The Cats open the season with a difficult weekend tournament in Myrtel Beach against ranked opponents South Alabama and Indiana along with Virginia Tech and Coastal Carolina.  Cats also have likely NCAA tournament teams Mercer and College of Charleston on their schedule along with a road series at Old Dominion, with a young team I believe we need to be patient and not waive the white flag to soon. In all honesty this team is built for 2019 but Hill does not have the luxory of waiting until 2019 I believe the most important thing this season is to develop younger players and show improvement.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 10, 2018, 01:02:16 PM »
We're less than a week away from the start of baseball season and so I'll give my season preview and Ill do my best to keep everyone updated through out the season. I strongly suggest people try to attend ball games though, the team always needs your support.  This year's baseball team has been picked to finish last in the Big 12 in the pre-season rankings, yes that sucks, that being said nothing irritates me more than people who do not follow the team making blanket statements like "we suck" "were shitty" I do not mind criticism but at least give intelligent criticism. I say this because I'm not going to bother posting about the team if that is the only response anyone has, I'd rather have no response at all. This is the final year of Brad Hill's contract, while 2014 to the present has certainly not met anyone's expectations, he did lead us to the best years in K-State baseball history from 2009-2013.  I do not know if there is a magic number of wins that will keep his job, so we will see how the season plays out.

We lost a lot of seniors from last years team that was better than their 29-26 record indicated and this team is much younger than last years team. In addition we lost catcher Josh Rollette to the MLB draft who signed for a bag of peanuts, all kidding aside Rollette was not the greatest defender and struggled at the plate for much of last season but had a great freshman campaign and great last month as a wildcat, being a draft eligible sophomore I believe he should've returned for his junior year but he decided to begin his pro career. During the off season we lost talented wildcat Bryce Ward who made the all big 12 freshman team in 2015 but dealt with injuries throughout the course of his career and decided to hang it up.  This team is led by the sophomore class, all three team captains are sophomores.

Lets start with position players, some of the positions have not been cemented and competition will continue during non-conference season to see who become mainstays in the lineup.

The catcher position appears to be heading into the season with competition still ongoing between RS Junior TK Mcwhertor and sophomore Connor Rule. Mcwhertor red shirted last season after under going tommy john surgery and is a juco transfer from California, he appears to be in the lead heading into the season and will get the first opportunity, Mcwhertor has the better arm of the two while Rule is more athletic. Rule played a decent amount last season and was the superior defensive catcher on the team over Rollette. McWhertor hit .303 in the JUCO ranks but I don't know what he can do at the plate yet at the Big 12 level. Connor hit .222 last season in only 45 at bats, I heard that he had a really good fall at the plate and that number should improve.

First base loses two year starter Jake Scudder to graduation and the Washington Nationals organization. Another position where competition will rage on into the season between Freshman John Sorenson and Senior Trent McMaster with McMaster looking to get the first shot. McMaster hit .238 last season in only 42 at bats but had a nice summer in the Prospect league batting .318, originally from Topeka he transferred in from Coffeyville CC.  John Sorenson comes from Fort Collins Colorado where he was named 5A player of the year last season has never had a college at bat obviously but has played well enough to challenge the senior.

Second base appears to be one of the few infield positions that is locked down with Oklahoma freshman Brett Owen, don't let his lack of size fool you 5'9 170, this kid was a high school all American last year as he hit .571 and had 17 homeruns, coaches are expecting similar results from Owen as they did from last years freshman Will Brennan and Cam Thompson who were freshman all americans.

Speaking of Cam Thompson, he makes the switch from center field to his more natural position in the middle infield as the starting short stop, perfect game named him pre-season all conference as a short stop. Thompson hit .314 last season and started every game for the cats. He played his summer ball in Alaska where he had some struggles but was named team MVP for the fall.  Cats look to rely heavily on Thompson, a team captain.

Third base is another battle between Manhattan native and Fort Scott transfer Jake Biller and Arizona JUCO by way of Tulane transfer Rainer Ausmus  Rainer, a Texas native batted .381 in Juco last season and played summer ball in Alaska appears to be in second as of now to Biller who reminds me a lot of Josh Eithier from last years squad, Biller batted .222 but only had 18 at bats last season for the Cats but was told he had a strong summer in Colorado summer league.

Outfield seems pretty set to start the season, Will Brennan returns to leftfield where he batted .350 last season with a .453 OBP. Will returns to be the leadoff man for this team as we was most of last season. Will along with Thompson won a ton of awards for his performance last season 2nd team all big 12, freshman all big 12, freshman all American. Brennan does not hit for power but is great at getting on base and has wheels on the base pass once he does, he has a great eye for the baseball as he drew 34 walks last season in 49 games to go along with his 64 hits. Played summer ball in Alaska where he was named an all star, also a team captain.

rounding out the outfield will be seniors Kyle Barfield and Hanz Harker, both of which were part time starters last season as juco transfers. Barfield appeared in 40 games with 20 starts last season and hit .291 and had a nice summer the Jayhawk league, he should take over the full time duties in right field, where he nearly taken over completely at the end of last season.
Harker should be the everyday centerfielder, he will be unavailable the first weekend of the season but should be back after that. Harker appeared in 51 games and batted .246 with 34 starts a season ago. I expect both Harker and Barfields numbers to increase after getting a season in the big 12 under their belts and becoming everyday players.
Drew Mount, a juco transfer from California started his college career on the San Jose State football team will start the season as our centerfielder in place of Harker but should be our everyday DH. Mount is an athletic specimen that hit .333 and 9 hrs last season in the california juco ranks will provide much needed power to our lineup.
Other freshman that should see some playtime are Jordan Maxon and Dylan Watts. Maxon was the Kansas 4A player of the year last season but will be hurt by being a catcher with 2 older talented catchers ahead of him, he should also get some play time in the outfield. Watts, a DFW area recruit, was a Texas All State 6A player can play almost anywhere on the field and should get some opportunities at some point.

I did a full break down of the pitchers as well but some reason that didn't load and I lost it. Don't feel like re writing it today but will before the season starts.

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Kansas State Football / Re: New Defensive Coordinator
« on: January 26, 2018, 11:13:15 PM »
Only way we MIGHT get Venables or Leavitt is if we attach a HCIW title and Bill will never agree to that because that would eliminate Sean. Another interesting name is bret bielema im not sure how I would feel about that. Ill bet on Blake Seiler being promoted.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: December 18, 2017, 10:17:40 PM »
Lost Defensive Tackle target Zach Peterson to Iowa State, not a huge shock since he is from Iowa.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: August 25, 2017, 04:44:36 PM »
Future baseball schedule: The cats will open the season with a tough tournament in Myrtle Beach, SC playing one game each against South Alabama, Indiana, Coastal Carolina, and Virginia Tech.  They will bus north after that and play at Elon (one game) and then play at Old Dominion (three games).  Cats have a conference bye to end the regular season and will play at the University of San Francisco. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 20, 2017, 06:02:34 PM »
Any word on if he is a graduate transfer? Would be great if he was.

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https://twitter.com/vdamone42/status/887431268539011072

That's strange, according to Bryce Brown, Chris Harper, and a few other disgruntled former players, everyone hates LHCBS and the "family" mantra is this for show.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 17, 2017, 01:26:40 PM »
I hope he has the type of impact Arthur did for us.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 17, 2017, 01:03:15 PM »
Congrats to the young man, but I'm not getting too excited.  In 15 career games at UVA he had 2 tackles and its not like UVA is so stacked that he was buried on the depth chart either.

For consideration...



Little bit of a different situation Arthur was one of the most highly recruited players in the nation out of high school so the talent was there, Gallon was lightly recruited.  plus miami had a lot better talent than UVA to compete for playing time.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 05, 2017, 02:16:36 PM »
Congrats to the young man, but I'm not getting too excited.  In 15 career games at UVA he had 2 tackles and its not like UVA is so stacked that he was buried on the depth chart either.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: June 16, 2017, 12:22:58 PM »
Former K-State catcher Rob Vaughn has been named the head baseball coach for Maryland. At 29 he is one of if not the youngest head coaches of a power 5 program in the country.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: June 14, 2017, 10:57:25 PM »
From what I read Jake Webb is signing with the Pittsburgh Pirates, no word on what his bonus will be yet. Hard part about recruiting in baseball is that you need to recruit good players but not to good that they will leave for the minor leagues before ever making it to campus. I'm very familiar with the MLB draft process and I wouldn't recommend players signing out of high school unless they are at minimum $500K signing bonus. I've seen to many kids sign for what seems like a lot of money at the time that is pretty much gone after they pay taxes and buy a new truck (which they all do). MLB teams promise them the allure of playing in the bigs, but the truth is only 11-13% of kids drafted in the range Webb was drafted in will ever put on a big league uniform and less than 4% of kids drafted in his range play in the bigs for 3 seasons or longer. Good luck to the young man, I hope he is informed of the risks and I wish him well.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: June 14, 2017, 06:14:29 PM »
Senior LHP Jordan Floyd was drafted in the 10th Round by the Royals.

Senior 1B Jake Scudder was taken in the 16th round by the Nationals.

Senior LHP Parker Rigler was taken in the 31st round by the White Sox.

Draft eligible Sophmore Josh Rollette was taken in the 39th round by the Indians, i doubt he signs.

Incoming Freshman RHP Jake Webb was taken in the 19th round by the Pirates, lets hope he decides to put the draft off for a few years to pitch for the cats.

Congrats to all players that were drafted, definetly an exciting day for all of them.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Corey Sutton
« on: June 06, 2017, 08:10:06 AM »
Whose Facebook page?

Chris Harper's

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