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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: Today at 12:17:07 PM »
A lot of you owe Pete and apology

I'm going to let Mean Gene's upcoming lifetime extension for Hughes do the talking for me

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Coach Clark towed the line and didn't give me much.  I know he's not the happiest but them making the tourney will make him happy he didn't say more to me.  Gene and CK didn't have a problem having an early bloody.  They spent most of their time with the big donors so didn't get a ton of time with them.  I did however like "sped".  He's damn funny and glad we have him recruiting.  The courses were amazing!

Clark toed the line when one of the biggest dipshit ADs of all-time (Max Urick) forced him to travel 80 gazillion miles during that 1999 season because he couldn't even raise $2.5 million to build a modest baseball stadium.

So, not terribly surprising.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 27, 2024, 08:36:57 PM »
TCU was better than us by almost every measure (KPI, RPI, beat us 3 games to 1, etc.). But, they didn't have someone on the committee and we did. We're in and they're out.

Thanks Casey Scott!


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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 26, 2024, 08:53:22 PM »
Due to bid stealers, Baseball America now has us as the first team out.

Interestingly, their last 3 teams in all have lower RPIs than KSU (44): James Madison (45), Georgia Tech (46) and Indiana (56).

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Just wondering what the 2.7 billion dollar NCAA settlement does to KU's stadium plans?  Many schools are changing or dropping their stadium plans.

KU could actually drop a couple of women's sports and still meet Title IX standards as well as the NCAA mandated minimum of 14 sports to be D1. Obviously, blowback would be significant, but do they really need an underwhelming swimming and/or rowing program?

Of course, who knows if those requirements will still be in place in the future.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 24, 2024, 11:21:58 AM »
Drop to #47 in RPI on #43 in KPI.

Baseball America and D1baseball.com both have us as one of the last 4 teams in.

Sweaty weekend ahead for Hughes...

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 23, 2024, 09:21:07 PM »
Gene isn't making any move, my brotha, so might as well hope for the tournament and a lucky run.

why not?  There is not objective measuring stick that pete hughes doesn't suck

It's because of that dipshit extension Mean Gene gave him

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 23, 2024, 12:26:28 PM »
Good news, we’re getting the living crap kicked out of us. Like we love.


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“Mr. June" Pete Hughes knows exactly what he's doing

Yes, he'll be spending his entire postgame press conference complaining that if the name on the purple jerseys was "Texas" that there's zero question this team would be in the NCAA tourney.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 22, 2024, 12:39:32 PM »
Needed a gem from Boerma and we got it (at least by our standards).

I "think" if we can beat TCU tomorrow, we're back on the right side of the bubble. Lose and who the hell knows.

Wentworth threw 34 pitches yesterday, so perhaps he gets the start tomorrow and then he goes as long as he can before we go with Dean. Only bad part is TCU roughed up Wentworth a couple of weeks ago (6 ER in 3.1 innings). But, Dean held his own in that same game (1 run on 3 hits in 4.2 innings).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 22, 2024, 08:13:06 AM »
KU threw their mid-week starter with a 5+ ERA and we scored 1 run. After that, they threw  mediocre arms until the 9th when they put in their closer and we still couldn't plate more than 1 run - largely because our situational hitting is terrible (10 LOBs).

We threw our bad mid-week starter for 3 innings and then our best pen guys the rest of the way. And, we still lost.

We'll face WVU or TCU tomorrow (we lost the series to both 1-2). The only way we don't lose is if Boerma throws a gem and/or the sleepy bats we've had for the last month wake up.

Lose tomorrow and it'll be surprising if we make the tourney because we'll likely have an RPI in the 50s and three of the four other Big 12 bubble teams (Cincy, TCU, UCF) will have better RPIs with KU potentially surpassing us as well.

From the fun fact department - it would be interesting to know if an NCAA head coach has ever had at least one player who would become a first round draft pick on his teams for five straight years and fail to reach the NCAA tourney a single time. In Hughes' case, it's 2019 & 2021 (Wicks - no tourney in 2020) and 2022, 2023, 2024 (likely Culpepper).

Our RPI isn't going to be in the 50s.  We've been in the middle 30s for 2 months.

We're at 44 (and falling) in the NCAA RPI and at 48 (and falling) in the D1baseball.com RPI.

Today is quite likely a must-win game.

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Kansas State Football / Re: 2024 Season Prediction Thread
« on: May 21, 2024, 12:32:27 PM »
I think we go 11-1, win the CCG, get a bye, win that game, lose semis to UGA or w/e by 2+ TDs. We use that as motivation for our year next year when Avery wins Heisman and we go 16-0

I would consider sacrificing my first born to make this happen.


Have we obtained any receivers that can run routes and catch balls yet? I feel like that's going to have a bigger impact than our OL this year.

I think it largely hinges on Johnson being healthy and the Penn State transfer being more like he was in the MAC and less like he was in the Big Ten last year.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 21, 2024, 12:27:27 PM »
KU threw their mid-week starter with a 5+ ERA and we scored 1 run. After that, they threw  mediocre arms until the 9th when they put in their closer and we still couldn't plate more than 1 run - largely because our situational hitting is terrible (10 LOBs).

We threw our bad mid-week starter for 3 innings and then our best pen guys the rest of the way. And, we still lost.

We'll face WVU or TCU tomorrow (we lost the series to both 1-2). The only way we don't lose is if Boerma throws a gem and/or the sleepy bats we've had for the last month wake up.

Lose tomorrow and it'll be surprising if we make the tourney because we'll likely have an RPI in the 50s and three of the four other Big 12 bubble teams (Cincy, TCU, UCF) will have better RPIs with KU potentially surpassing us as well.

From the fun fact department - it would be interesting to know if an NCAA head coach has ever had at least one player who would become a first round draft pick on his teams for five straight years and fail to reach the NCAA tourney a single time. In Hughes' case, it's 2019 & 2021 (Wicks - no tourney in 2020) and 2022, 2023, 2024 (likely Culpepper).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: K-State Track
« on: May 20, 2024, 09:37:47 PM »
Would have been nice for Fritch to get some commentary from some of the athletes Rovelto coached over the years...

Regarding the new hire, I'm hoping we see something better from Mean Gene than we've seen with some of the other Olympic sports (baseball being the worst example). I'd love to see him go for a top assistant at one of the premier programs. With the potential for elimination of partial scholarship sports in the next few years, there's a huge opportunity for programs around the country to become true players in track/XC.
Is there an assistant somewhere with connections to Jamaica? They could lure elite talent here and turn KSU into a cradle of sprinters.

I'm not sure we have the climate for that...

If it were me, I'd hire the best throws coach at a premiere school and go all-in on throws and multi-events with a lighter emphasis on middle distance/distance.

We may be "High Jump U" right now (though, frankly, we haven't really been for a while), but that all goes out the window when Rovelto leaves. And, hitching your wagon to athletes who, for the most part, only score points in one event isn't typically a recipe for success at the conference/national level (as it relates to competing for team titles).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: K-State Track
« on: May 20, 2024, 04:50:42 PM »
Would have been nice for Fritch to get some commentary from some of the athletes Rovelto coached over the years...

Regarding the new hire, I'm hoping we see something better from Mean Gene than we've seen with some of the other Olympic sports (baseball being the worst example). I'd love to see him go for a top assistant at one of the premier programs. With the potential for elimination of partial scholarship sports in the next few years, there's a huge opportunity for programs around the country to become true players in track/XC.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 17, 2024, 08:26:04 PM »
Two runs on six hits against a team with a 7+ ERA and an opp. BA of .314 in Big 12 play...

Oh, what the hell - a win's a win.

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Pt 1: What the hell was Mean Gene thinking when he hired Pete Hughes?
Pt 2: What in the eff was Mean Gene thinking when he gave Pete Hughes an extension?
Pt 3: Why does Mean Gene hate K-State alum/heart throb Rob Vaughn?
Pt 4: Will Mean Gene fire Pete Hughes from the golf course and let you listen on speakerphone?

I actually might be able to get some of this info from Coach Clark.  We'll definitely have some drinks together.  #3 is cued up my friend.

 :billdance:

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 17, 2024, 04:32:23 PM »
We have two wins (both at home) over No. 17 Oklahoma State - those are our only top 30 RPI wins (vs. 7 losses). And we were outscored 41-75 in those games.

It's a bit of apples/oranges, but not many teams would get an at-large bid to the b-ball NCAA tourney with a 2-7 record against top 30 in RPI.

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Pt 1: What the hell was Mean Gene thinking when he hired Pete Hughes?
Pt 2: What in the eff was Mean Gene thinking when he gave Pete Hughes an extension?
Pt 3: Why does Mean Gene hate K-State alum/heart throb Rob Vaughn?
Pt 4: Will Mean Gene fire Pete Hughes from the golf course and let you listen on speakerphone?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: May 17, 2024, 12:09:12 PM »
Probably an awful guess, but if we played today...

Starters:
PG - Dug
OG/Wing - M Jones
OG/Wing - CJ Jones
Stretch F - AA
F/C - DNG

Rotation:
Castillo
Hausen
Fall

Limited PT:
Rich, Manning, Mobi

Would be nice to see major improvements from Manning and Rich, but I'm not optimistic (especially since Manning's already been in the program two years with seemingly minimal improvement).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 16, 2024, 09:56:34 PM »
And if our other all-american/upcoming first round draft pick makes a routine play in the 8th, it doesn't get to extras.

Enjoy the roller coaster of Pete Hughes baseball - it's all we have at this point.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: May 16, 2024, 02:42:31 PM »
So, the lightly recruited JUCO player has an agent.

Strange times, strange times...

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: K-State Track
« on: May 12, 2024, 07:30:33 PM »
10th for the men and 11th for the women.

Time for Rovelto to step aside...

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Kansas State Football / Re: 2024 Season Prediction Thread
« on: May 10, 2024, 08:28:26 AM »
Utah didn't beat a single team that finished the year ranked in the top 25 and had two wins against teams that finished with winning records (UCLA & USC, both 8-5). And, they lost by 14+ points to three of the four teams they played that did finish the year ranked.

I think they'll finish in the upper third, but seems odd to me to predict them as the champs given that they'll be in a new conference, playing in new stadiums, dealing with different travel scenarios, etc. coupled with the fact that they weren't particularly great last year.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: K-State Track
« on: May 09, 2024, 03:23:31 PM »
K-State doesn't have anyone entered in the Men's decathlon at the Phillips. What is going on?

Don't know about that, but this is nice

https://twitter.com/KStateTFXC/status/1788653857049833931

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: May 09, 2024, 03:19:44 PM »
Not sure what happened (injury, etc.), but Jones missed the last month of the season (5-6 games or so).

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