Won't be sorry to never see Gregory, Valentine, or Banks play again. Or Houlik or Pomele. God bless them for getting an opportunity to play Division I football instead of NAIA division 3, but they're just not cut out for it.
They were more cut out for it than you or I were I guess (excuse me for assuming you were never a D1 starting football player in the Big XII) ... I'm just a mere fan. Every football player that passes, catches, carries, or returns a football will fumble the football at some point. It's too bad that KV's career will be defined by one; he doesn't deserve it. Despite being over-matched he proved to be the second most reliable running back on this team.
To be melt-down in this fashion and hating on the players is pretty bush-league imo. I guess I'm not sure how you're expectations got so warped in the first place. All in all, this season was a lot more fun than I EVER expected.
Guess I don't understand this post. We're not allowed to point out, unless we played the game ourselves, that K-State football will only improve if we get players who are more physically gifted than these guys?
I appreciate the effort all these guys gave. They certainly did better than I expected them to do this year.
That being said, they all have at least one major deficiency in their game that has hurt us at least once this year, whether it's lack of height, lack of strength, lack of athleticism, lack of size, or lack of speed. Bless them for performing as well as they did given their physical limitations, but the fact of the matter is that we will only become a better football team if we replace them with players who have fewer physical limitations.
Heart, effort, and coaching can only get you so far. If you're 6 inches too short to pull in the pass, or don't have quite enough arm strength to get the throw far enough downfield, or can't run quickly enough to cover the receiver coming across the middle, or aren't big or strong enough to hold on to the ball by the goal line, there's not much you can do to improve except to replace those players with players who can. Eventually, you've got to be able to make a big play, and what we saw the last couple of weeks was the difficulty in making big plays when there's not much margin for error given physical limitations.
It's why folks around here harp so much on the question of whether Snyder will be able to recruit better players. He may be able to coach circles around a Pinkel or a Pelini, but if those guys are lining up with a substantial talent advantage, you're still going to lose most of the time.
Again, thanks to the players for their hard work. But we're not going to get better unless we bring in guys with fewer physical limitations.
