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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Football => Topic started by: Cartierfor3 on September 23, 2012, 09:38:30 AM
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NOT SORRY FOR POSSIBLE LUKE!
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/22/3828941/k-states-not-so-impossible-dream.html (http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/22/3828941/k-states-not-so-impossible-dream.html)
The old legend and the young folk hero are the new story of the new Big 12, nothing impossible for them now, two men among the country’s best at what they do, pulling their Kansas State football program to what has the smell of the best season in school history.
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Weird Robert with the Ballard's finger. :thumbs:
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Really good article by smellinger
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2 Kleins 1 Photo
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guuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Everyone go find articles saying very nice things about us!
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Really good article by smellinger
Here’s what it means: a symbolic national announcement that K-State is for real, and if you don’t believe in this team, it’s your own stupid fault.
IT'S YOUR OWN STUPID FAULT!
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Coach, that's the jankiest ass smile I've ever seen. You need to ease up on the broccoli.
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This bunch isn’t just fun to cover like the 2011 well-mannered group that stole hearts in a surprise season. This is the same group of nice boys, but a streamlined, faster version, a legitimate Top 10 team, a serious national dark horse that, with a quarter of the season complete, has proven it belongs in every conversation behind Alabama, LSU and Oregon. But, then again, why limit anything at this point? That would be a disservice to the example set by the 2000 Sooners.
http://curtiskitchen.com/for-k-state-now-no-limits/
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Looks like Willie has a fro.
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
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National college football writer, Stewart Mandel
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/stewart_mandel/09/22/kansas-state-oklahoma-week-4/index.html
"Their offense is very sophisticated, way beyond the normal eye could ever imagine," said Oklahoma defensive coordinator Mike Stoops. "They are persistent and they execute very well and that makes them who they are."
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
You guys gotta watch this one. Its with sideline video. On Collin's touchdown it looks like Harper is just standing in the endzone waiting for him. Then, right before Hubert's touchdown, you can see Snyder looking right over Collin's shoulder because of the angle. Its glorious.
Butthurt shots of the crowd? OH YEAH!
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From the Tulsa World...
http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/sportspost.aspx?OUKansas_State_rewind_This_wasnt_an_upset/12-17064
THIS WASN'T AN UPSET
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
You guys gotta watch this one. Its with sideline video. On Collin's touchdown it looks like Harper is just standing in the endzone waiting for him. Then, right before Hubert's touchdown, you can see Snyder looking right over Collin's shoulder because of the angle. Its glorious.
Butthurt shots of the crowd? OH YEAH!
Ya, that was a pleasure.
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Meanwhile, the Gronk family strutting around on ESPN looking EMAW
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
You guys gotta watch this one. Its with sideline video. On Collin's touchdown it looks like Harper is just standing in the endzone waiting for him. Then, right before Hubert's touchdown, you can see Snyder looking right over Collin's shoulder because of the angle. Its glorious.
Butthurt shots of the crowd? OH YEAH!
the cutaway to Stoops brothers pissed on the sideline :love:
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I had forgotten how much of a Pelini that Mike Stoops is.
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newsok.com has some pretty fun articles. Love reading opposing team's stuff. The excuses, the panic, there is just not much like it.
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
3:48 LE sighting :blush:
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
3:48 LE sighting :blush:
LE IS KENNY STILLS?
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I love when Pete declares that lukeing is allowed.
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I love when Pete declares that lukeing is allowed.
Its anarchy
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
3:48 LE sighting :blush:
LE IS KENNY STILLS?
Ha, I don't wear dresses like that fruity dude.
Look for purple. I was shooting an elite video at that moment.
Proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0Yd9nQ6s8&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0Yd9nQ6s8&feature=plcp)
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
You guys gotta watch this one. Its with sideline video. On Collin's touchdown it looks like Harper is just standing in the endzone waiting for him. Then, right before Hubert's touchdown, you can see Snyder looking right over Collin's shoulder because of the angle. Its glorious.
Butthurt shots of the crowd? OH YEAH!
I like how Walker pulls up Buttdozer after his fumble and it looks like he says something to him.
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IT SAYS OPTIMUS KLEIN RIGHT THERE AT THE BOTTOM! :fatty:
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IT SAYS OPTIMUS KLEIN RIGHT THERE AT THE BOTTOM! :fatty:
Yes it does PurpleCat yes it does :grin:
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
3:48 LE sighting :blush:
LE IS KENNY STILLS?
Ha, I don't wear dresses like that fruity dude.
Look for purple. I was shooting an elite video at that moment.
Proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0Yd9nQ6s8&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0Yd9nQ6s8&feature=plcp)
LE, I WAS RIGHT ABOVE YOU THEN!! great vid
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
3:48 LE sighting :blush:
LE IS KENNY STILLS?
Ha, I don't wear dresses like that fruity dude.
Look for purple. I was shooting an elite video at that moment.
Proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0Yd9nQ6s8&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0Yd9nQ6s8&feature=plcp)
LE, I WAS RIGHT ABOVE YOU THEN!! great vid
Glad we could share this unbelievable moment. So blessed.
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
3:48 LE sighting :blush:
LE IS KENNY STILLS?
Ha, I don't wear dresses like that fruity dude.
Look for purple. I was shooting an elite video at that moment.
Proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0Yd9nQ6s8&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0Yd9nQ6s8&feature=plcp)
LE, I WAS RIGHT ABOVE YOU THEN!! great vid
Glad we could share this unbelievable moment. So blessed.
So blessed, were you in that section the whole game?
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No, was in a sea of red a section over about 26 rows up in endzonefunzone south
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Big 12 football: A new No. 1
Let’s see, a win in Norman, a rout of Miami. No Big 12 can match that. The ‘Cats have struggled against lesser foes, but there’s not many lesser foes in the Big 12.
http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2012/09/23/big-12-football-a-new-no-1/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Collin Klein, powered by Mike & Ikes and Hot Tamales.
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Collin Klein, powered by Mike & Ikes and Hot Tamales.
That was rough ridin' strange, wasn't it? I mean, it's a whole array of movie theater candy. Between he and bill, do we have the only movie theater food eating athletes?
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Collin Klein, powered by Mike & Ikes and Hot Tamales.
That was rough ridin' strange, wasn't it? I mean, it's a whole array of movie theater candy. Between he and bill, do we have the only movie theater food eating athletes?
Movie theatre food because they put on a show. :cheers:
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i've wondered for a long time who's candy that is.
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currie can't even put enough in the budget for rough ridin' twizzlers? jfc.
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currie can't even put enough in the budget for rough ridin' twizzlers? jfc.
LEARFIELD :shakesfist:
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Yes the players have to buy their own stacks. Gotta stay in the black.
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Oklahoma vs. Kansas State: Old dogs and their old tricks can still win football games
In truth, K-State stung the Sooners with a slick tailback (John Hubert gained 130 yards on 23 carries) and some timely Klein passes, and even those Klein keepers have about 4,000 wrinkles, designed by Snyder, that drive defensive coaches batty.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-vs.-kansas-state-old-dogs-and-their-old-tricks-can-still-win-football-games/article/3712497?custom_click=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GlnW9Miso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GlnW9Miso)
Loved watching OU's intro video in their stadium. Was pretty cool.
Love it even more now that we went in there and kicked their ass. :ksu:
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I'll luke this or whatevs, but I enjoyed this:
http://www.kansas.com/2012/09/22/2500645/bob-lutz-k-state-win-shouldnt.html#storylink=omni_popular
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K-State is all kinds of bad news.
<- should be forum header
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/66527/what-we-learned-in-the-big-12-week-4-4 (http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/66527/what-we-learned-in-the-big-12-week-4-4)
:ksu:
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K-State is all kinds of bad news.
<- should be forum header
absolutely not
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The game is Lukeplaying on Fox Sports Kansas City RIGHT NOW. :ksu: Zimmerman just dropped the pick 6 :cry: but I think it will turn out alright...
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I'll luke this or whatevs, but I enjoyed this:
http://www.kansas.com/2012/09/22/2500645/bob-lutz-k-state-win-shouldnt.html#storylink=omni_popular
Its pretty much impossible to not Luke Lutz' stuff. Everything that dude puts out has already been written before. More like Bob Lukz.
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I'll throw this in here. Flipped to FSKC to turn the royals game on. Not on. Cat replay is. 8:03 left in the 3rd.
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I'll throw this in here. Flipped to FSKC to turn the royals game on. Not on. Cat replay is. 8:03 left in the 3rd.
Great scoop lukestater
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http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8419248/kansas-state-wildcats-beat-oklahoma-move-ahead-big-12-title-race-ncf
anyone have access?
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I'll throw this in here. Flipped to FSKC to turn the royals game on. Not on. Cat replay is. 8:03 left in the 3rd.
Thank you.
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http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8419248/kansas-state-wildcats-beat-oklahoma-move-ahead-big-12-title-race-ncf
anyone have access?
Is Kansas State for real?
KC Joyner [ARCHIVE]
ESPN Insider | September 24, 2012
Coming into the 2012 college football season, the Kansas State Wildcats were not receiving very much respect.
It wasn't that easy to figure out why, either. The Wildcats were returning 18 starters (including special teams) from a team that finished second in the Big 12, won 10 games and earned a berth in the Cotton Bowl in 2011, and yet they were slotted sixth in the Big 12's preseason poll by a panel of media covering the conference. The surprise that last year's team was seemed to carry into 2012. The pollsters essentially said, "OK, now prove it."
LHC Bill Snyder's group may not have received much respect, but that changed to some extent after Saturday's 24-19 upset against the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman; the win vaulted the Wildcats to No. 7 in this week's AP Top 25, which is the highest ranking of any Big 12 team.
Even with that ranking, there may still be doubters who lean toward their preseason assessment of Kansas State and believe that this program, which had finished better than .500 only two times in the six seasons preceding last year, is still a ways away from vying for conference supremacy. There are some who might say Saturday says more about what Oklahoma is not than what Kansas State is.
That might seem reasonable at first glance, but after taking a closer look at the game tape and metrics, it is clear that these Wildcats are not just a flash in the pan -- they are a legit top-10 team and true contenders for the Big 12 title.
The victory against the Sooners wasn't just a case of Oklahoma giving the game away with inopportune turnovers -- the Wildcats actually outplayed OU almost across the board.
The Wildcats' rushing attack was graded out as having good blocking (very roughly defined as when the offense doesn't allow the defense to do anything to disrupt a rush attempt) on 30 out of 40 rushing plays, which is an amazing 75 percent good blocking rate (GBR). Even the best college teams normally post GBR totals in the 50-55 percent range, and those marks include games against creampuff opponents. That Kansas State did this against one of the strongest run defenses in the conference speaks volumes to its collective run-blocking ability.
What makes the performance even more impressive is that it allowed Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein to post 4.6 yards per carry (YPC) on 17 rushes. That may not sound like a high-powered achievement until realizing that Klein's 3.6 yards per carry total last year was the lowest among FBS ball carriers with at least 200 rush attempts. Klein obviously has more rushing talent than his 2011 YPC total suggests, and sneaks diminish the average, but these numbers just add more heft to the idea that the Kansas State run-blockers really asserted themselves against OU.
Another notable aspect of the Wildcats' offensive showing against the Sooners is that Klein averaged 7.1 yards per pass attempt (YPA) despite gaining only 47 yards on eight vertical passes (defined as passes thrown 11 or more yards downfield). That equates to a 5.9 vertical YPA, which is well below the double-digit YPA bar that serves as the rule of thumb of acceptable productivity at this depth level.
The low vertical YPA shows Oklahoma was able to take away downfield throws but Kansas State just worked around it. Klein completed 11 of 12 short passes for 102 yards (short passes being defined as aerials thrown 10 or fewer yards downfield). That equals 8.5 yards on average on every dink and dunk throw, or nearly a first down on every pass.
Klein also did a fine job of protecting the offense by not making any bad decisions (i.e. mental errors that lead to turnover opportunities). There was only one pass Klein threw that the Sooners had any sort of chance of picking off, and that was due to a very good play by Oklahoma defensive back Javon Harris. The Wildcats also gave up zero sacks, had zero fumbles and had to throw only one pass away, so their negative plays on offense were almost nil. They dominated in the category that's never really been given a better name than "the little things."
Now contrast each of these items to Oklahoma's totals in the same categories.
The Sooners' offensive blockers gave their ball carriers good blocking 62.5 percent of the time, which is a good mark but not quite as good as the Kansas State total.
Oklahoma did best the Wildcats in vertical YPA (138 yards on 13 passes, or 10.6 vertical YPA) but lost some of that lead due to lower productivity on short passes (6.6 YPA on 24 passes). The Sooners also saw their overall YPA fall even further due to three throwaway passes and three miscommunications between quarterback and wide receiver that prevented completions. All totaled, Kansas State ended the game with a YPA lead of 7.1 to Oklahoma's 6.9.
Sooners quarterback Landry Jones also cost his team with a bad decision that nearly led to an interception, which went along with another near interception that occurred on one of the miscommunication throws. To put it another way, Oklahoma may have lost the turnover battle 3-0, but if Kansas State had done a better job of catching all of the passes Jones threw to it, the Wildcats easily could have won the turnover battle by five and kept the game from being as close as it was.
This win was not a fluke, and since it occurred in Norman, a site where Stoops' Oklahoma squads were 14-0 against ranked opponents prior to this game, it shows the Wildcats are capable of beating any team in this conference at any venue. That ability will be needed when Kansas State takes road trips to play the West Virginia Mountaineers (Oct. 20), TCU Horned Frogs (Nov. 10) and Baylor Bears (Nov. 17) later this year.
None of those matchups will be easy since all of those teams are currently ranked in the Top 25, but given how those programs have played of late (West Virginia struggled to beat Maryland, TCU barely got past Kansas and Baylor was almost upset by Louisiana-Monroe), there is a good chance that the Wildcats could come away with wins in all three contests if they play at the level they reached against Oklahoma.
Given the fact the Big 12 is not likely to see a team go unbeaten in conference play, the Wildcats could even lose one of those games and still walk away as the conference champion if they were to win a home contest against the Texas Longhorns in the last game of the year.
In other words, Kansas State is a lot closer to winning its second Big 12 championship than the preseason
pundits thought.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--forde-yard-dash--figuring-value-in-the-head-scratching-world-of-college-football.html
Kansas State (19). Reason to like: Wildcats have played two quality opponents and looked great both times. Crushed Miami at home, upset Oklahoma on the road – the most impressive road win in the nation thus far. Reason to doubt: Sooner or later someone will force the nation's No. 105-ranked passing attack to win through the air. Then what? Next major test: Oct. 13 at giant killer Iowa State. Toughest schedule stretch: K-State closes at TCU, at Baylor, home against Texas. Current Dash ranking: No. 2. Dash prediction: Getting the victory in Norman looked like the toughest task on the schedule, so the odds of going 12-0 certainly went up. But the Big 12 looks too tough to get through unbeaten.
LHC Bill Snyder (11). Earlier this month Kansas State gave 72-year-old Snyder a bump up to $2.2 million a year. That will go a long way in Manhattan, Kan., but it's still a pretty small price to pay for the guy who built the program out of nothing from 1989-2005, then came back three years later and resurrected it. After beating Stoops in Norman on Saturday, it doesn't seem right that the wily codger is earning less than half as much as "Big Game Bob."
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http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8419248/kansas-state-wildcats-beat-oklahoma-move-ahead-big-12-title-race-ncf
anyone have access?
Is Kansas State for real?
KC Joyner [ARCHIVE]
ESPN Insider | September 24, 2012
Coming into the 2012 college football season, the Kansas State Wildcats were not receiving very much respect.
It wasn't that easy to figure out why, either. The Wildcats were returning 18 starters (including special teams) from a team that finished second in the Big 12, won 10 games and earned a berth in the Cotton Bowl in 2011, and yet they were slotted sixth in the Big 12's preseason poll by a panel of media covering the conference. The surprise that last year's team was seemed to carry into 2012. The pollsters essentially said, "OK, now prove it."
LHC Bill Snyder's group may not have received much respect, but that changed to some extent after Saturday's 24-19 upset against the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman; the win vaulted the Wildcats to No. 7 in this week's AP Top 25, which is the highest ranking of any Big 12 team.
Even with that ranking, there may still be doubters who lean toward their preseason assessment of Kansas State and believe that this program, which had finished better than .500 only two times in the six seasons preceding last year, is still a ways away from vying for conference supremacy. There are some who might say Saturday says more about what Oklahoma is not than what Kansas State is.
That might seem reasonable at first glance, but after taking a closer look at the game tape and metrics, it is clear that these Wildcats are not just a flash in the pan -- they are a legit top-10 team and true contenders for the Big 12 title.
The victory against the Sooners wasn't just a case of Oklahoma giving the game away with inopportune turnovers -- the Wildcats actually outplayed OU almost across the board.
The Wildcats' rushing attack was graded out as having good blocking (very roughly defined as when the offense doesn't allow the defense to do anything to disrupt a rush attempt) on 30 out of 40 rushing plays, which is an amazing 75 percent good blocking rate (GBR). Even the best college teams normally post GBR totals in the 50-55 percent range, and those marks include games against creampuff opponents. That Kansas State did this against one of the strongest run defenses in the conference speaks volumes to its collective run-blocking ability.
What makes the performance even more impressive is that it allowed Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein to post 4.6 yards per carry (YPC) on 17 rushes. That may not sound like a high-powered achievement until realizing that Klein's 3.6 yards per carry total last year was the lowest among FBS ball carriers with at least 200 rush attempts. Klein obviously has more rushing talent than his 2011 YPC total suggests, and sneaks diminish the average, but these numbers just add more heft to the idea that the Kansas State run-blockers really asserted themselves against OU.
Another notable aspect of the Wildcats' offensive showing against the Sooners is that Klein averaged 7.1 yards per pass attempt (YPA) despite gaining only 47 yards on eight vertical passes (defined as passes thrown 11 or more yards downfield). That equates to a 5.9 vertical YPA, which is well below the double-digit YPA bar that serves as the rule of thumb of acceptable productivity at this depth level.
The low vertical YPA shows Oklahoma was able to take away downfield throws but Kansas State just worked around it. Klein completed 11 of 12 short passes for 102 yards (short passes being defined as aerials thrown 10 or fewer yards downfield). That equals 8.5 yards on average on every dink and dunk throw, or nearly a first down on every pass.
Klein also did a fine job of protecting the offense by not making any bad decisions (i.e. mental errors that lead to turnover opportunities). There was only one pass Klein threw that the Sooners had any sort of chance of picking off, and that was due to a very good play by Oklahoma defensive back Javon Harris. The Wildcats also gave up zero sacks, had zero fumbles and had to throw only one pass away, so their negative plays on offense were almost nil. They dominated in the category that's never really been given a better name than "the little things."
Now contrast each of these items to Oklahoma's totals in the same categories.
The Sooners' offensive blockers gave their ball carriers good blocking 62.5 percent of the time, which is a good mark but not quite as good as the Kansas State total.
Oklahoma did best the Wildcats in vertical YPA (138 yards on 13 passes, or 10.6 vertical YPA) but lost some of that lead due to lower productivity on short passes (6.6 YPA on 24 passes). The Sooners also saw their overall YPA fall even further due to three throwaway passes and three miscommunications between quarterback and wide receiver that prevented completions. All totaled, Kansas State ended the game with a YPA lead of 7.1 to Oklahoma's 6.9.
Sooners quarterback Landry Jones also cost his team with a bad decision that nearly led to an interception, which went along with another near interception that occurred on one of the miscommunication throws. To put it another way, Oklahoma may have lost the turnover battle 3-0, but if Kansas State had done a better job of catching all of the passes Jones threw to it, the Wildcats easily could have won the turnover battle by five and kept the game from being as close as it was.
This win was not a fluke, and since it occurred in Norman, a site where Stoops' Oklahoma squads were 14-0 against ranked opponents prior to this game, it shows the Wildcats are capable of beating any team in this conference at any venue. That ability will be needed when Kansas State takes road trips to play the West Virginia Mountaineers (Oct. 20), TCU Horned Frogs (Nov. 10) and Baylor Bears (Nov. 17) later this year.
None of those matchups will be easy since all of those teams are currently ranked in the Top 25, but given how those programs have played of late (West Virginia struggled to beat Maryland, TCU barely got past Kansas and Baylor was almost upset by Louisiana-Monroe), there is a good chance that the Wildcats could come away with wins in all three contests if they play at the level they reached against Oklahoma.
Given the fact the Big 12 is not likely to see a team go unbeaten in conference play, the Wildcats could even lose one of those games and still walk away as the conference champion if they were to win a home contest against the Texas Longhorns in the last game of the year.
In other words, Kansas State is a lot closer to winning its second Big 12 championship than the preseason
pundits thought.
enjoyed this :thumbs:
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Ya, it's nice to see a media outlet get, besides goEMAW.com _Fan Frames/Analysis.
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Sorry if luked
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--forde-yard-dash--figuring-value-in-the-head-scratching-world-of-college-football.html
Fun shots at Stoops:
Bob Stoops (7). A year ago, with his team ranked No. 1, Oklahoma gave Stoops a new contract worth $34.5 million over seven years. Since then the Sooners have gone 10-4, and just 6-4 against Big 12 competition, including the upset loss to Kansas State Saturday. Stoops is a very good coach, but he hasn't been a national championship coach since 2000 and hasn't been close to a national championship coach since 2008.
LHC Bill Snyder (11). Earlier this month Kansas State gave 72-year-old Snyder a bump up to $2.2 million a year. That will go a long way in Manhattan, Kan., but it's still a pretty small price to pay for the guy who built the program out of nothing from 1989-2005, then came back three years later and resurrected it. After beating Stoops in Norman on Saturday, it doesn't seem right that the wily codger is earning less than half as much as "Big Game Bob."
Also of :horrorsurprise: note: Ohio St.'s pres has spent $64k on bowties and bowtie related things since 2007.
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Thanks for the merge.
also:
Kansas State (19). Reason to like: Wildcats have played two quality opponents and looked great both times. Crushed Miami at home, upset Oklahoma on the road – the most impressive road win in the nation thus far. Reason to doubt: Sooner or later someone will force the nation's No. 105-ranked passing attack to win through the air. Then what? Next major test: Oct. 13 at giant killer Iowa State. Toughest schedule stretch: K-State closes at TCU, at Baylor, home against Texas. Current Dash ranking: No. 2. Dash prediction: Getting the victory in Norman looked like the toughest task on the schedule, so the odds of going 12-0 certainly went up. But the Big 12 looks too tough to get through unbeaten.
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Not really a recap, but at least it's coverage, and pretty entertaining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQ23NInW7s&feature=player_embedded
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Luking allowed mother rough riders!
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2012/9/25/3406646/bill-snyder-has-it-coming (http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2012/9/25/3406646/bill-snyder-has-it-coming)
:billdance: :bill: :billdance:
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Luking allowed mother rough riders!
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2012/9/25/3406646/bill-snyder-has-it-coming (http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2012/9/25/3406646/bill-snyder-has-it-coming)
:billdance: :bill: :billdance:
printing, framing, and hanging on wall.
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http://newsok.com/article/3712439 (http://newsok.com/article/3712439)
WITH VIDEO!
Stoops: You guys played great.
Snyder: I know.
xfd
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http://vimeo.com/50030261
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http://vimeo.com/50030261
1. Their stadium is oddly designed.
2. Cool to see everyone sit down and stand up.
3. I was actually following along with the game. :D
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Hadn't seen this posted yet.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:8423077
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http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/OU/article.aspx?subjectid=92&articleid=20120925_29_B1_NORMAN429202
I guess maybe we out talented OU :dunno:
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hopefully, when snyder retires again, he stays in MHK and jumps at every chance he's afforded to hop into the spotlight and discuss the strengths/weaknesses of our team and our next head coach.
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hopefully, when snyder retires again, he stays in MHK and jumps at every chance he's afforded to hop into the spotlight and discuss the strengths/weaknesses of our team and our next head coach.
He did this to some extent the first time. Not near to the level of switzer though
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/stewart_mandel/09/26/bill-snyder-kansas-state/index.html#ixzz27bEKY1zV (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/stewart_mandel/09/26/bill-snyder-kansas-state/index.html#ixzz27bEKY1zV)