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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

« on: October 28, 2011, 08:46:47 AM »

I think GP is just lashing out because he's right back to mediocrity again. 

They had a nice little run, but the guy has hit his glass ceiling at mu.  They can recruit, but they can't make the next step.

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Kansas State Football / Re: This week's GridIron

« on: October 28, 2011, 06:37:27 AM »

If someone only watched that segment right after halftime they would think ku came back and dominated the game.   

LOL

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Kansas State Football / Re: Are all of these things true?

« on: October 27, 2011, 08:46:34 PM »

It's been the same talking points forever.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Beasley ----

« on: October 27, 2011, 07:28:25 PM »

This is great . . . really like what this means for K-State basketball.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

« on: October 26, 2011, 07:29:43 AM »

Sean Snyder 

Bret Bielema 

Dan Dimel 

Jim Leavitt   

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Kansas State Football / Re: K-State will beat OU

« on: October 25, 2011, 06:08:30 PM »

ku vs mu .  . .

TSC all the way 

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread (Renderings on page 53)

« on: October 25, 2011, 02:47:17 PM »

Let's just put huge fans around the video board to counter-act the force applied by high winds.

I agree . . . really big ones, huge.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread (Renderings on page 53)

« on: October 25, 2011, 02:17:22 PM »

I suspect if you re-did the entire structure up there, you could have a larger videoboard, and less surface area than what's up there now.  Huge speaker housings, advertising signs, full matrix scoreboards all create wind loading.  

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Kansas State Football / Re: Screenshot Thread***Official***

« on: October 25, 2011, 01:11:30 PM »

Winner

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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

« on: October 25, 2011, 11:16:07 AM »

I think mu was afraid of ku's national presence being equal to if not greater than Notre Dame's . . . that pretty much put mu over the edge right there.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread (Renderings on page 53)

« on: October 25, 2011, 10:26:16 AM »

Again, "wind loading" and "weight" is PowerTuck cover story, for: Piecemeal and Cheap.   

Sony Jumbotrons were extremely heavy, LED video boards are much lighter.  Large speaker cabinets are essentially giant wind catchers and with huge PA speakers still inside they are extremely heavy as well.   Take all of that out, and start over, instead Weiser would only pony up for taking out the old Sony JumboTron and installing a similar sized LED video board in the same frame, and putting in a new scoreboard beneath.

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Kansas State Football / Let's make sure that tainted Gatorade makes it to the OU sideline . . .

« on: October 25, 2011, 08:03:17 AM »

to keep things going and going and going.

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?161648-Rumor-Food-Poisoning

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Kansas State Football / Re: Lawrence Kansas Thoughts:

« on: October 25, 2011, 07:52:23 AM »

Drove thru ku's campus this last summer, first time a awhile, it's gone downhill. 

Then went on up to Manhattan, and took in the Beach/(Freshly Powerwashed) McCain/Danforth Chapel/Anderson Hall corridor and all of its elite-ness.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread (Renderings on page 53)

« on: October 25, 2011, 06:27:38 AM »

All I said was they could put a bigger board on the North End relatively easily, and I didn't say it had to be a godzillatron, just one that was easier to see.   I am also not saying they need a bigger board on the South End, just a technology upgrade, and moving the existing boards to baseball and track helps them.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread (Renderings on page 53)

« on: October 24, 2011, 08:43:16 PM »

New video board in the N. Endzone is a must...it's like watching a 23" tv.

No actually it's not.  Very fre stadiums have two big video boards and I can't think of a single 50,000 seat stadium with two.  Complete waste of money to have two big boards for a stadium the size of BSFS.

Its a waste to have 2 boards at all. One huge one in the N. Endzone would be better. Currently the one in the N. Endzone is too small for the people on the south side of the bowl to see it so they have to crane their neck around and look behind them. Steupid planning.

Stupid planning?  At the time that video board went up in the NEZ it was top of the line.  They should have planned decades into the future and built Vanier so that it would one day be able to hold a 7500 square foot video board?

They should have put it where everyone could see it in the first place.

It was my understanding that structural limitations of Vanier forced them to put it in the South EZ.  If we were to put it in the NEZ, we would have had to do that stupid looking thing Iowa State did.

New LED Technology is much lighter.  The old tuck myth strikes again.   Once they got past weight they went on about "wind loading" . . .  well they left the entirety of the old speaker system up there, that weighs a lot, and by design if the wind is howling from either the north or south they catch a lot of wind.   The real answer is that that they cheaped out 5 years ago.   They can take everything down that's up there now, use the even newer, thinner LED panels and put up a videoboard that's much larger than what's up there now.  Certainly not a mega godzilla tron, but a board that's at least double the size of the one now in terms of viewable area.  

I think within the next couple of years, they need to look at moving the existing boards to the baseball stadium (larger one) and track (smaller one) and start over from scratch in the football stadium.  

Also, they need to replace the videoboards on the scoreboard in Bramlage, they likely won't replace the whole thing because they just spent a boatload of money re-doing the timing and scoring system/panels.

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Kansas State Football / Re: With the full understanding that most of the guys on TB and Phog . . .

« on: October 24, 2011, 02:47:14 PM »

Sure it was brutal, because it was done in era when K-State (as well as most D1 schools) was really trying in football, not playing in an 18,000 seat stadium with a $450 recruiting budget, or with a temporary press box that was in place for 35 years.   So under those circumstance, a losing streak like that is extremely hard to take.

yeah, we've dominated ku football in the modern era. however, that 4/5 streak under mangino was pretty brutal.

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Kansas State Football / Re: With the full understanding that most of the guys on TB and Phog . . .

« on: October 24, 2011, 02:44:40 PM »

Against Missouri, lets roll back the clock to 1970, a mere 41 years.  

MU 22 KSU 18 Ties 1

Again, I know that most MU fans were shining Don Faurot's cleats, and that the last 20 years really don't count.  But K-State has held their own against MU for 41 years.

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Kansas State Football / With the full understanding that most of the guys on TB and Phog . . .

« on: October 24, 2011, 02:34:34 PM »

suddenly all become 79 years old when they start talking about all time records, or that the last 20 years really don't count. 

But lets roll back the clock. 

Lets start with the Gov's Cup given away every year since 1969 in the "Sunflower Showdown": 

K-State 22  KU 19  Ties 1

That's FORTY TWO YEARS 

KU's longest winning streak during the short time frame of FORTY TWO YEARS is 5 games.    K-State longest winning streak during the extremely short time frame of FORTY TWO YEARS is 11 games. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread (Renderings on page 53)

« on: October 24, 2011, 10:15:01 AM »

The boot is firmly back on the throat of our in-state rival.

Do Not, under any circumstances let this project slip in any way ADJC and UPKS, do not be complete and total non strategic F-ups like your predecessors.

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Kansas State Football / Re: What if Bob Stoops was not white?

« on: October 23, 2011, 09:30:34 PM »

Thanks for being just a little too mean for ku Mangino.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Validate us everyone . . .

« on: October 23, 2011, 08:58:35 PM »

Their tucks absolutely eat this $hit up.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Lawrence Kansas Thoughts:

« on: October 23, 2011, 08:53:20 PM »

They have a lot of great tucks in that fanbase.

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Kansas State Football / Re: It's enjoyable, like a nice snack, like an appetizer . . .

« on: October 23, 2011, 05:57:12 PM »

Yeah, it's really kind of amazing. 

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Kansas State Football / It's enjoyable, like a nice snack, like an appetizer . . .

« on: October 23, 2011, 05:55:04 PM »

      1   2   3   4    T
#11   KSU   7   24   21   7   59
   KU   0   14   0   7   21

But really, you still need that main course to come soon.

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Kansas State Football / Re: So, what do we have to do to beat OU . . .

« on: October 23, 2011, 05:48:59 PM »

Wow, what a huge win it was a Tech.  Dang.