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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: "Players ERA Festival" NIL Regular Season Event in Vegas

« on: May 09, 2024, 09:43:23 AM »

RedBird IMI is an investment consortium majority funded by the United Arab Emirates. It is headed by former CNN CEO Jeff Zucker. FrontOffice Sports first reported on the event in March. An official announcement should land in the next 10 days, according to a source.

Broadcast rights are yet to be formally secured; the games are expected to be distributed on a streaming service instead of traditional linear television.

isn't this the LIV golf playbook ?  It's just Middle East oil money buying into an industry under the Player centric camouflage

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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is NOT going through a rough patch. Cheer on our hawk brothers here!

« on: May 08, 2024, 08:25:30 PM »

this brings up the age old question, is an overbeak or underbeak worse?

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats

« on: May 06, 2024, 11:36:15 AM »

Also, this happened...

https://twitter.com/DScottFritchen/status/1787279756817264868

I cooked Bill Murray Bananas Foster back in 2008 at Coco Bolo's. He just came in by himself, sat down at the bar, had a couple of beers then ordered Bananas Foster.

was Bananas Foster on the menu?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: QuikTrip

« on: May 05, 2024, 11:59:16 AM »

ethanol free 91 at QT is the BITB

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: May 02, 2024, 05:01:35 PM »

it's our last water polo season (probably) and gearing up for summer tournaments there is drama as there usually is. Since there aren't enough girls at any one club, clubs will join forces to create more competitive teams. Anyway my daughter's club and another club were merging and planned to have an A team and a B team. At least that's what one of the coaches thought. There were 3 or 4 combined tournaments with one team and eventually the other coach (who was going to lead the A team in summer tourneys) thought it was going to be one big team with a huge bench while my daughter's coach thought there would be an A and a B team (so weaker players from both clubs could play a lot at an appropriate level).

The two team would have worked brilliantly EXCEPT the A team coach and/or his weaker players decided that his weaker players would not play on the B team, despite the fact that they clearly should based on ability. Which led to my daughter's coach pressuring my daughter (who was clearly an A-teamer) into playing with the B team to guarantee the weaker players of his club would have an opportunity to play on a more competitive team. Like, he tried to tell her she were depriving the weaker players of a chance to play at all and that the A-team coach didn't want her or have space for her when the A coach flat out told her he wanted her on the team and told them that they were depriving the weaker players of a chance to play. Really not cool.

anyway she is playing with the a-team in a couple of weeks and she will have a lot of fun (hopefully)

I forgot to add that for many kids and parents NONE OF THEM had any of this communicated to them at all until rosters were sent out TWO WEEKS before they needed to be locked for the ENTIRE SUMMER. Everyone just thought there would be some clear communication from them but it never came. These two bozos are some of the worst communicators I've ever seen. They're trying to be diplomatic while also being petty and trying to be competitive while also protecting their own clubs. I also forgot to mention that the A-team coach brought in some ringers from outside the region (which didn't bump my daughter from A but definitely bumped some others)

This whole situation sucks. You know who it sucks the most for? The kids that these idiots think they are looking out for.

do the coaches have daughters on these teams?

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Noah smith, liar or dumbass?

« on: April 30, 2024, 03:37:17 PM »

  at the big jump in the MTN time zone - seems too much to solely post covid remote workers

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: April 30, 2024, 02:44:33 PM »

is that a collector's price or a price based on a self serviceable tractor for actual farm use? i would be leery of a buying a car, bike or boat that old with those few of hours if i wanted to actually use it.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2023

« on: April 27, 2024, 01:17:34 PM »

From the school




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that basketball set up is crazy, they must just count the baskets on the side goals during little kid hoops

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Noah smith, liar or dumbass?

« on: April 22, 2024, 02:51:01 PM »

There are plenty of cheap houses in a lot of the flyover town that really thrived decades ago.  Fewer houses in the big metro areas.

Small town America kind of dying is an impact on the current housing situation that I don't see discussed very often.  A lot of our boomer parents that got these low cost homes lived in places like Norton, Kansas.  You too could buy a low cost home in Norton, Kansas!

my understanding from folks that grew up in Norton size towns in western KS is that only old & small houses are cheap and that the newer & larger homes are quite expensive as thre is a limited number of them and most come with a sizeable piece of property

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions

« on: April 22, 2024, 07:42:45 AM »

Tater weighs 60 lbs !?!?!

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: April 19, 2024, 05:37:58 PM »

maybe the KSU cats and the AZ cats are chasing the same big in portal and the AZ Wildcat beat writer predicting Murphy to KSU is an attempt to sway this other big.  Hell, maybe it was Kaluma

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Master Political Social Media Thread

« on: April 16, 2024, 12:08:33 PM »

 

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Wacky's World / Re: Wacky Ban

« on: April 16, 2024, 11:59:31 AM »

He’s still an active and quality poster on kso.

does he get in the same kind of "arguments" on kso?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Future schedule update...

« on: April 16, 2024, 11:56:38 AM »

hopefully the 2031 game is played in September, i have heard the weather is elite in the PNW at that time of year

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Kansas State Football / Re: Ireland Pak 2025

« on: April 16, 2024, 11:10:02 AM »

can't wait for Stupid Fitz posts in the travel thread

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Kansas State Football / Re: Greg Sharpe; pancreatic cancer

« on: April 16, 2024, 08:33:24 AM »

his voice, enthusiasm and professionalism made him the gold standard for a team employed php guy for me.

 IIRC his wife was on the TV side of WIBW so the split was incredibly complicated for him.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread

« on: April 14, 2024, 07:32:55 PM »

if we don't want to be the world police China is happy to take the job

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Post Your IRL Crimes ITT So The Feds Can Come Bust You

« on: April 09, 2024, 06:21:14 PM »

the real crime here is charging for a middle school track meet

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: April 06, 2024, 08:56:16 PM »

limited sample size but his stats vs high majors are good

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Coaching Carousel Master Thread (MAYBE FEATURING THE KSU CATS?)

« on: April 06, 2024, 08:19:58 PM »

How has Painter been at Purdue for as long as he has? No one tries to hire him away just because it's his alma mater? He's won the Big Ten 4 of the past 8 years and is only getting paid $3.67 million. Surely somewhere like Kentucky or UCLA could lure him away.

if i remember correctly, he about left 10 years ago but decided to stay. He's had some tourney issues which prob scare some.

Painter leveraged the hell out of Mizzou before they hired Haith

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS

« on: April 02, 2024, 01:15:26 PM »

Schrodinger's rice

no bilocation, no conviction

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: March 23, 2024, 09:27:08 PM »

What are the absolute coolest things to do in Minneapolis?

the very enjoyable meals i have had at Stanley's Northeast and Young Joni lead me think NE Minneapolis is the cool part

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: March 21, 2024, 07:09:05 PM »

need finnister to get after the biscuits and become
a power guard

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Coaching Carousel Master Thread (MAYBE FEATURING THE KSU CATS?)

« on: March 21, 2024, 05:30:05 PM »

grease the zerks at the minimum

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Master Dudes Thread

« on: March 21, 2024, 09:33:40 AM »

a team with a 3 guard, 2 big line up like 2021 Baylor did not have a guy like Kaluma