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Title: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: catzacker on May 17, 2007, 10:42:54 AM
Not good news from Frankie. 
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ksu_FAN on May 17, 2007, 10:43:49 AM
I heard from a player "don't worry".  HTH
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: KSUHuggins on May 17, 2007, 10:46:10 AM
English Translation?
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: yosh on May 17, 2007, 10:47:31 AM
Oppenheimer not coming?  :confused:
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ksu_FAN on May 17, 2007, 10:48:05 AM
Oppenheimer not coming?  :confused:

I'd say its a maybe at this time with a lean toward no.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: yosh on May 17, 2007, 10:50:54 AM
Oppenheimer not coming?  :confused:

I'd say its a maybe at this time with a lean toward no.

 :curse: 
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: catzacker on May 17, 2007, 10:51:09 AM
Kent, Ohio > Manhattan, KS.

Kent freaking Ohio.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ksu_FAN on May 17, 2007, 10:54:53 AM
Kent, Ohio > Manhattan, KS.

Kent freaking Ohio.

But not necessarily to Josh.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: chum1 on May 17, 2007, 10:56:22 AM
I guess the package player he was supposed to be brining in is wavering.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: yosh on May 17, 2007, 10:58:34 AM
He's staying because of a player?
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: catzacker on May 17, 2007, 10:59:16 AM
Kent, Ohio > Manhattan, KS.

Kent freaking Ohio.

But not necessarily to Josh.

His wife must have drinking buddies in Kent.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: chum1 on May 17, 2007, 11:00:28 AM
He's staying because of a player?

No, we're not taking him because he's not delivering the goods.  Only reasonable explanation.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: sys on May 17, 2007, 11:42:32 AM
this has sucked all the fun out of the hill/gtown thing.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ECN on May 17, 2007, 11:51:49 AM
to the phog!
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: michigancat on May 17, 2007, 11:57:25 AM
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Rusty, Jeffrey_Martin, CatRoch, KSUHuggins, jerskineksu913 and 4 Guests are viewing this topic.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ~WabashRoll~ on May 17, 2007, 12:10:22 PM
Great day.  Benneck leaves, VD is playing in Europe, and Oppenheimer is out because the wife won't come to Manhattan.

Why am I not surprised in the slightest.  After all, WE ARE.....K-STATE!


Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: yosh on May 17, 2007, 12:15:39 PM
Blurb from the KC Star:

Also, Martin said Josh Oppenheimer is not yet an official member of his staff as one of his assistants. “We’re still trying to figure out if he can overcome some family issues,” Martin said of Oppenheimer, who has been an assistant at Kent State.

Martin said he is “still interviewing folks” for the assistant job.




Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ECN on May 17, 2007, 12:32:15 PM
whats with these &@#%ing wives and manhattan.

god i hate wives.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: catzacker on May 17, 2007, 12:38:46 PM
whats with these &*$@!ing wives and manhattan.

god i hate wives.

Women are pretty dumb.  We never should have let them vote. 
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: doom on May 17, 2007, 12:40:57 PM
End women's Suffrage!  anyway.  Remember one thing.  Even if we didn't get this guy or Vdub, we still have the top recruit in the nation and Bill Walker.  Life is good.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: JTKSU on May 17, 2007, 12:49:26 PM
End women's Suffrage!  anyway.  Remember one thing.  Even if we didn't get this guy or Vdub, we still have the top recruit in the nation and Bill Walker.  Life is good.
Yeah, we sure have gotten spoiled with this class.  Imagine three years ago, we would have been estatic with a Sutton, Brown, or Pullen and now we are bitching because we don't see any other top 100 guys to add to our (already) number one recruitng class.  Makes me appreciate the years I spent in Manhattan watching a team that probably didn't have one guy that would play any significant minutes on our current squad.  Well, Manny Dies would be a welcome addition to this team.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: Pete on May 17, 2007, 12:58:07 PM
Kent, Ohio > Manhattan, KS.

Kent freaking Ohio.

Did Neil Young ever sing a song about K-State?  No.  We can't be expected to compete with that.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: michigancat on May 17, 2007, 01:00:36 PM
Kent, Ohio > Manhattan, KS.

Kent freaking Ohio.

Did Neil Young ever sing a song about K-State?  No.  We can't be expected to compete with that.

Glenn Campbell?


 
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Glenn Campbell - Manhattan Kansas



Manhattan, Kansas ain't no place to have a baby

When you got no man to give it his last name

And her folks back in Manhattan didn't want her or her bundle

So she took her child and caught an evenin' train



She found a job in Denver washing dishes in a diner

At least it buys her baby milk to drink

He once told her she was pretty but the only ring it got her

Was the ring of grease that runs around the sink



Yes she lay beside him gentle

'Cause he told her that he loved her

And he made her dance before the music played

But at least she didn't beg him

She'd rather wash her dishes

It makes her feel as if her hands are clean



At night she stands there thinkin'

'Bout the man back home in Kansas

And how her folks just turned away the shame

She stares down through the soap suds

Reaches down and pulls the drain plug

And watches as Manhattan drains away



Yes she lay beside him gentle

'Cause he told her that he loved her

And he made her dance before the music played

But at least she didn't beg him

She'd rather wash her dishes

It makes her feel as if her hands are clean



Yes it makes her feel as if her hands are clean
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: The42Yardstick on May 17, 2007, 01:05:14 PM
to the phog!

 :'(
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: Pete on May 17, 2007, 01:07:12 PM
Hey, I'm not going to say one bad thing about Glen Campbell...the Rhinestone Cowboy...come on, that's solid country gold.

However, I doubt Op's old lady is a big country oldies fan.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ksu_FAN on May 17, 2007, 01:21:12 PM
End women's Suffrage!  anyway.  Remember one thing.  Even if we didn't get this guy or Vdub, we still have the top recruit in the nation and Bill Walker.  Life is good.
Imagine three years ago, we would have been estatic with a Sutton, Brown, or Pullen and now we are bitching because we don't see any other top 100 guys to add to our (already) number one recruitng class.  Makes me appreciate the years I spent in Manhattan watching a team that probably didn't have one guy that would play any significant minutes on our current squad.  Well, Manny Dies would be a welcome addition to this team.

Thought I'd check 3 years ago.  Curtis Allen, Fred Peete, Clent Stewart. 

Estatic over Sutton?  Yes.

Brown or Pullen?  Not so much.  Stewart/Allen (on paper) rated better than Brown/Pullen, FWIW.

And Peete was viewed pretty highly, better than Gilbert anyway.  Plus we beat out OSU and OU for him.

Samuels would've been a pretty intriguing prospect then, but not estatic.

Again, the thing that makes this class is 2 top 10 players.  That was literally inconcievable 3 years ago.  Otherwise, the recruits we're getting are about the same as Wooly. 

But the real difference maker IMO in recruiting is those Top 50 kids (and top 10, but those are incredible).  My key for long term is to see if we continue to get top 50, let alone Top 10 kids.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: sonofdaxjones on May 17, 2007, 01:23:29 PM
Somebody tell her that Manhattan is just like Carolina Coastal towns . . . she'll leave Ohio in a minute, every other freaking Ohio resident does.

 :banghead:
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: michigancat on May 17, 2007, 01:35:15 PM
Again, the thing that makes this class is 2 top 10 players.  That was literally inconcievable 3 years ago.  Otherwise, the recruits we're getting are about the same as Wooly. 

Yeah, it's stupid to analyze the 2007 class without Walker and Beasley included.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: KSt8er on May 17, 2007, 01:35:43 PM
if he buckles to her wants now he'll be doing it forever, and in OH no less.  If he doesn't have the nads we're better off moving on.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ksu_FAN on May 17, 2007, 01:43:23 PM
Well, they've been in Pittsburg (2 seasons), Newark (DE, 2 seasons), and Chicago (3 seasons) before Kent (2 seasons).  Its possible she doesn't want to be in another small college town, but its also possible she's tired of moving (and their kids) after the last 10 years.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: Jeffrey_Martin on May 17, 2007, 01:55:49 PM
Well, they've been in Pittsburg (2 seasons), Newark (DE, 2 seasons), and Chicago (3 seasons) before Kent (2 seasons).  Its possible she doesn't want to be in another small college town, but its also possible she's tired of moving (and their kids) after the last 10 years.


Sounds like someone knows what they're talking about. PM me, please.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: catzacker on May 17, 2007, 02:02:49 PM
Well, they've been in Pittsburg (2 seasons), Newark (DE, 2 seasons), and Chicago (3 seasons) before Kent (2 seasons).  Its possible she doesn't want to be in another small college town, but its also possible she's tired of moving (and their kids) after the last 10 years.

She knows she married a basketball coach, right?  It's not like he's an accountant for Ford Motor Company. 
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: KSt8er on May 17, 2007, 02:12:52 PM
Well, they've been in Pittsburg (2 seasons), Newark (DE, 2 seasons), and Chicago (3 seasons) before Kent (2 seasons).  Its possible she doesn't want to be in another small college town, but its also possible she's tired of moving (and their kids) after the last 10 years.


I would not doubt this is exactly what is driving the decision and I appreciate all that having a family involves, especially in his line of work.  That said, as the above post states, he's a college basketball coach and if moving up is at all his intent then moving is a necessity.  In that it seems more likely that moving (or not in this case) is not what is truly driving this decision.   If it is then his Mrs has slit his sack.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: michigancat on May 17, 2007, 02:16:32 PM
Well, they've been in Pittsburg (2 seasons), Newark (DE, 2 seasons), and Chicago (3 seasons) before Kent (2 seasons).  Its possible she doesn't want to be in another small college town, but its also possible she's tired of moving (and their kids) after the last 10 years.


I would not doubt this is exactly what is driving the decision and I appreciate all that having a family involves, especially in his line of work.  That said, as the above post states, he's a college basketball coach and if moving up is at all his intent then moving is a necessity.  In that it seems more likely that moving (or not in this case) is not what is truly driving this decision.   If it is then his Mrs has slit his sack.

Ass.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: chum1 on May 17, 2007, 02:17:26 PM
Again, the thing that makes this class is 2 top 10 players.  That was literally inconcievable 3 years ago.  Otherwise, the recruits we're getting are about the same as Wooly. 

Yeah, it's stupid to analyze the 2007 class without Walker and Beasley included.

Ah yes.  Heaven forbid GPC West take a hard look at anything that might compromise the way they wish to view their coaches.  Maybe GPC West could use a blog from which they are able to make atrocious inferences about coaches and recruiting, too.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: catzacker on May 17, 2007, 02:20:04 PM
Again, the thing that makes this class is 2 top 10 players.  That was literally inconcievable 3 years ago.  Otherwise, the recruits we're getting are about the same as Wooly. 

Yeah, it's stupid to analyze the 2007 class without Walker and Beasley included.

Ah yes.  Heaven forbid GPC West take a hard look at anything that might compromise the way they wish to view their coaches.  Maybe GPC West could use a blog from which they are able to make atrocious inferences about coaches and recruiting, too.

Take a hard look then, chum.  The only historical evidence is one class with 2 top 10 players. 
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: chum1 on May 17, 2007, 02:21:25 PM
I think you've identified a trend.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: michigancat on May 17, 2007, 02:22:34 PM
Ah yes.  Heaven forbid GPC West take a hard look at anything that might compromise the way they wish to view their coaches.  Maybe GPC West could use a blog from which they are able to make atrocious inferences about coaches and recruiting, too.

We had the number one PF/SF recruit in the country commit last June and a Top 10 SG/SF commit in June.  You don't think that could have affected our chances of landing additional top 100 recruits at the 2-5 positions, do you?

It's also stupid to use the 2007 class alone to evaluate the coaches' recruiting ability, too (good or bad).

FWIW
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: JTKSU on May 17, 2007, 02:25:39 PM
The three years back reference was arbitrary, not meant as that class in particular.  However, even without Beas and BW, a class with one four star and four three stars would still have made us very pleased.  (that class included two three stars and a no star)  The nice thing is, we now basically have a team of guys rated three stars and above, whereas previously we would have a starting line-up of three star guys, and a bench full of one and no star guys.  
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: KSt8er on May 17, 2007, 02:27:46 PM
Ass.

I get it, you're saying that since it is for only an assistant job/pay that that is why he's not willing to move.  Now that makes sense.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: catzacker on May 17, 2007, 02:28:44 PM
I think you've identified a trend.

I'm confused as to your expectations.  Are you expecting 2 top 10 players every year, and anything less is Wooly-like?
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: ksu_FAN on May 17, 2007, 02:32:49 PM
The three years back reference was arbitrary, not meant as that class in particular.  However, even without Beas and BW, a class with one four star and four three stars would still have made us very pleased.  (that class included two three stars and a no star)  The nice thing is, we now basically have a team of guys rated three stars and above, whereas previously we would have a starting line-up of three star guys, and a bench full of one and no star guys.  

I don't get into the star rankings as much anymore beyond the 4 and 5 star guys.  I seriously don't know how rivals does their rankings anymore, there is no way Peete shouldn't have been a 3 star player if Gilbert is.  IMO Gilbert and Brown being 3 star players is a bit of a reach considering who recruited them.  In those cases (3 star and below) I look more at who was offering kids besides us and if they made anyone's Top 100-150 rankings.  
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: yosh on May 17, 2007, 03:06:08 PM
The three years back reference was arbitrary, not meant as that class in particular.  However, even without Beas and BW, a class with one four star and four three stars would still have made us very pleased.  (that class included two three stars and a no star)  The nice thing is, we now basically have a team of guys rated three stars and above, whereas previously we would have a starting line-up of three star guys, and a bench full of one and no star guys.  

In 03-04 we had five 4-star players (Massey, Hayden, Martin, Richards & Willingham) the only players below 3 stars were Tim Ellis (way underrated by rivals, was the best player on the team that year), Tyler Hughes and Schyler Thomas.  We were coming off three straight classes with multiple 4-star players in them.  This class (minus BW and MB) would have merely been an average class for the time. 

Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: chum1 on May 17, 2007, 03:39:36 PM
We had the number one PF/SF recruit in the country commit last June and a Top 10 SG/SF commit in June.  You don't think that could have affected our chances of landing additional top 100 recruits at the 2-5 positions, do you?

Outstanding.  Tell me, which players were chomping at the bit to take the places of Beasley and Walker had they not come?  You know, the real impact players.  The top-50 guys that FAN is talking about.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: yosh on May 17, 2007, 03:47:13 PM
We had the number one PF/SF recruit in the country commit last June and a Top 10 SG/SF commit in June.  You don't think that could have affected our chances of landing additional top 100 recruits at the 2-5 positions, do you?

Outstanding.  Tell me, which players were chomping at the bit to take the places of Beasley and Walker had they not come?  You know, the real impact players.  The top-50 guys that FAN is talking about.

There were only 2 top 50 players unsigned when Huggins quit.  Are you upset that the coaching staff couldn't get Patrick Patterson?    :confused:
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: michigancat on May 17, 2007, 03:49:47 PM
We had the number one PF/SF recruit in the country commit last June and a Top 10 SG/SF commit in June.  You don't think that could have affected our chances of landing additional top 100 recruits at the 2-5 positions, do you?

Outstanding.  Tell me, which players were chomping at the bit to take the places of Beasley and Walker had they not come?  You know, the real impact players.  The top-50 guys that FAN is talking about.

The perfect example would be Herb Pope, who, IIRC, was reluctant to join Beasley and deal with a top 5 player at his position.  It likely affected DeJuan Blair's decision, too.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: chum1 on May 17, 2007, 07:56:10 PM
We had the number one PF/SF recruit in the country commit last June and a Top 10 SG/SF commit in June.  You don't think that could have affected our chances of landing additional top 100 recruits at the 2-5 positions, do you?

Outstanding.  Tell me, which players were chomping at the bit to take the places of Beasley and Walker had they not come?  You know, the real impact players.  The top-50 guys that FAN is talking about.

The perfect example would be Herb Pope, who, IIRC, was reluctant to join Beasley and deal with a top 5 player at his position.  It likely affected DeJuan Blair's decision, too.

I guess you can indeed analyze the class without Walker and Beasley after all. 
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: fatty fat fat on May 17, 2007, 08:31:12 PM
you got him mjrod.
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: rundown87 on May 17, 2007, 09:01:02 PM
someone send him an email with the link to manhattan being top ten places to retire to.  then tell him to print it off and show the bitch
Title: Re: The Manhattan Project exploded?
Post by: sys on May 18, 2007, 10:50:26 AM
I don't get into the star rankings as much anymore beyond the 4 and 5 star guys.

justin young has openly stated on the bball recruiting forum that he has no interest in evaluating beyond the top 150.  not sure if the other guy feels the same.