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Title: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 25, 2015, 09:18:30 AM
March 25th, 2010 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVEIeD91vIc)

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Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: 0.42 on March 25, 2015, 09:20:07 AM
christ, _FAN. why?
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 25, 2015, 09:20:17 AM
 :bawl:
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: BIG APPLE CAT on March 25, 2015, 09:21:34 AM
Don't do this to yourself
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 25, 2015, 09:23:06 AM
christ, _FAN. why?

Perspective I suppose.

I mean, I try not to get so emotionally attached that I get depressed by K-State basketball lows, but today is a disappointing day. The realization that 5 years ago exactly I enjoyed probably the best moment I ever have as a K-State fan puts that into even more perspective.

Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: ltrain on March 25, 2015, 09:23:46 AM
Jake   :bawl:
Denis   :bawl:
'Tay's hair  :drool:
Gus  :D
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Cartierfor3 on March 25, 2015, 09:24:36 AM
might as well be 100 years ago. everything that was built has been systematically destroyed
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: 0.42 on March 25, 2015, 09:26:35 AM
christ, _FAN. why?

Perspective I suppose.

I mean, I try not to get so emotionally attached that I get depressed by K-State basketball lows, but today is a disappointing day. The realization that 5 years ago exactly I enjoyed probably the best moment I ever have as a K-State fan puts that into even more perspective.

might as well be 100 years ago. everything that was built has been systematically destroyed

yeah we're all basically wandering around dazed and aimless in a post-apocalyptic basketball hellscape at this point
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: bballfan on March 25, 2015, 09:27:12 AM
 :bawl:
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 25, 2015, 09:29:08 AM
Don't get me wrong, the program at this point is in really bad shape, but I've seen it worse. I think its a bit much to say destroyed. I will still get back up and remain hopeful for the future, even next year as crazy as that sounds.

I suppose today feels like a rePeete for some of us, which incidentally happened 10 years ago this to this season. I remember being really disappointed when that happened as well (it wasn't until May), but I didn't know what it was like to be a decent program at that point either.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Lucas Scoopsalot on March 25, 2015, 09:53:44 AM
I love Gus Johnson. Do you think he could coach better than oscar?
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: ednksu on March 25, 2015, 09:54:45 AM
SCREW YOU FAN!!!!  :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: :bawl:
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on March 25, 2015, 09:56:23 AM
kstate does not care about basketball. john curie did not hire huggins or frank and wouldn't have. he lucked into money to build the btf because of our elite 8 run and built it. the end.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 25, 2015, 10:39:55 AM
Has there been a bigger dereliction of their job responsibilities to turn that into what we have now in 5 years?  Outside of ku football I can't think of a bigger and quicker fall and ku football had nowhere near the foundation.  We were in fantastic shape, the talk of the country, they were putting up a spanking new BTF that was the best in the conference.  Just great buzz everywhere.

And it is literally all gone now except the BTF
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 25, 2015, 10:43:36 AM
We aren't anywhere near KU football. Yet.

JMHO.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: meow meow on March 25, 2015, 10:58:49 AM
We had an actual program in place.  A home court advantage that national people would talk about as being the best in the country.  A style of play that teams feared.  An actual brand.  What's our rough ridin' brand now?
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: #LIFE on March 25, 2015, 11:00:24 AM
We had an actual program in place.  A home court advantage that national people would talk about as being the best in the country.  A style of play that teams feared.  An actual brand.  What's our rough ridin' brand now?

(https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/4fpc4U6kkUnJdWrnfO_ZFCQn_eU=/0x76:463x385/730x487/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/7021887/20120309_jel_bl2_431.0.jpg)
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 25, 2015, 11:02:33 AM
We aren't anywhere near KU football. Yet.

JMHO.

True, I will concede that.  We are in a bad spot now compared to where we were though.  It's almost like that EMAW talking point we like that on the eve of that S16 game against KU in 88 we were the better program. And what happened after were very dark days.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Skipper44 on March 25, 2015, 11:05:04 AM
we skipped the Gill part of it and jumped right to the big name retread part. 
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: PIPE on March 25, 2015, 11:11:47 AM
Thanks fan.......not!

Man, what a game
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: CHONGS on March 25, 2015, 11:13:41 AM
We aren't anywhere near KU football. Yet.

JMHO.
I disagree. KU football will likely make (wnd win) a non-shitty bowl game well before we win a tournament game again.

Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: deputy dawg on March 25, 2015, 11:16:28 AM
we skipped the Gill part of it and jumped right to the big name retread part.

This!  Never drew that commonality between Sheahon and Currie.  Now I'm scared.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: meow meow on March 25, 2015, 11:24:51 AM
We aren't anywhere near KU football. Yet.

JMHO.
I disagree. KU football will likely make (wnd win) a non-shitty bowl game well before we win a tournament game again.

I disagree.  We only need to get to 7th place to make the tourney potentially, and then anything can happen to win a game.  KU football has been an embarrassment, especially since it went to a round robin.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Skipper44 on March 25, 2015, 11:29:59 AM
We aren't anywhere near KU football. Yet.

JMHO.
I disagree. KU football will likely make (wnd win) a non-shitty bowl game well before we win a tournament game again.
That isn't a totally apples to apples comparo as 3 shitty noncons and 3-6 in conference gets KU in a bowl game versus an equally mediocre opponent.  TCU pretty much put the exact equivalent in BB this season by going undefeated vs a bad noncon (that actually had 3 P5 schools and a tourny team in Ole Miss) and 5/15 and they didn't even get an NIT bid.

I guess after looking at it that way I have to agree.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: CHONGS on March 25, 2015, 11:30:28 AM
Who wins a tournament game first KSU or Nebraska?

My money would be on Nebraska.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: michigancat on March 25, 2015, 11:32:45 AM
That video made me really happy!
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 25, 2015, 11:33:23 AM
We aren't anywhere near KU football. Yet.

JMHO.
I disagree. KU football will likely make (wnd win) a non-shitty bowl game well before we win a tournament game again.
That isn't a totally apples to apples comparo as 3 shitty noncons and 3-6 in conference gets KU in a bowl game versus an equally mediocre opponent.  TCU pretty much put the exact equivalent in BB this season by going undefeated vs a bad noncon (that actually had 3 P5 schools and a tourny team in Ole Miss) and 5/15 and they didn't even get an NIT bid.

I guess after looking at it that way I have to agree.

We were one of TCU's top 3 wins after Oklahoma State and Ole Miss. This year's TCU was pretty much Wooly's 05 team.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Skipper44 on March 25, 2015, 11:40:05 AM
NU should be good next year, they don't really lose much and get KU transfer Andrew White eligible next season.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: CNS on March 25, 2015, 11:44:28 AM
We aren't anywhere near KU football. Yet.

JMHO.

"You see that pile of crap out there?"
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Mr Bread on March 25, 2015, 12:02:34 PM
NU should be good next year, they don't really lose much and get KU transfer Andrew White eligible next season.

Not really losing much from a 13-18 team and adding a guy that basically hasn't played college ball would make me feel great as a nubb fan.  #getchodicksoutnubbers
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: CNS on March 25, 2015, 12:05:59 PM
NU should be good next year, they don't really lose much and get KU transfer Andrew White eligible next season.

Not really losing much from a 13-18 team and adding a guy that basically hasn't played college ball would make me feel great as a nubb fan.  #getchodicksoutnubbers

Retitle thread to "5 yrs in the future..." and you could see KSU and NU being similar.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Skipper44 on March 25, 2015, 12:12:01 PM
NU should be good next year, they don't really lose much and get KU transfer Andrew White eligible next season.

Not really losing much from a 13-18 team and adding a guy that basically hasn't played college ball would make me feel great as a nubb fan.  #getchodicksoutnubbers
well, I would much rather have Shields and Pettaway coming back and White was 52 RSCI

Also how does the Big Ten do scheduling, is there any rhyme or reason to this?
Nebraska’s 2015-16 Big Ten Opponents
Home-and-Home: Indiana, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers
Single-Play Home: Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State
Single-Play Away: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State, Wisconsin
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 25, 2015, 12:20:09 PM
NU should be good next year, they don't really lose much and get KU transfer Andrew White eligible next season.

Not really losing much from a 13-18 team and adding a guy that basically hasn't played college ball would make me feel great as a nubb fan.  #getchodicksoutnubbers
well, I would much rather have Shields and Pettaway coming back and White was 52 RSCI

Also how does the Big Ten do scheduling, is there any rhyme or reason to this?
Nebraska’s 2015-16 Big Ten Opponents
Home-and-Home: Indiana, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers
Single-Play Home: Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State
Single-Play Away: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State, Wisconsin

They should be decent, but they also should have been this year. They lost one guy from the previous year's NCAA team and this year they were terrible.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on March 25, 2015, 12:21:45 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: CNS on March 25, 2015, 12:22:24 PM
:cry:
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 25, 2015, 12:24:06 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:

Things can change rather quickly for programs like ours (and theirs).
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on March 25, 2015, 12:41:55 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:

Things can change rather quickly for programs like ours (and theirs).

yep. it was pretty smart of them to fire mcdermott after only four years and go take a chance on another guy.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Sandstone Outcropping on March 25, 2015, 12:57:36 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:

Things can change rather quickly for programs like ours (and theirs).
Remember Bobby Knight talking about how Virginia Tech would not face a more physical or intense team than Kansas State at the start of the 2010-11 season when the #3 ranked Cats were featured on ESPNs college hoops tipoff special. Heady times.

 :bball:
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 25, 2015, 01:13:09 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:

Things can change rather quickly for programs like ours (and theirs).

yep. it was pretty smart of them to fire mcdermott after only four years and go take a chance on another guy.

yup.  Firing a coach who everyone can see will not succeed is a pretty smart move.  Both for the schools and the coach.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: michigancat on March 25, 2015, 03:02:47 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:

Things can change rather quickly for programs like ours (and theirs).

yep. it was pretty smart of them to fire mcdermott after only four years and go take a chance on another guy.

yup.  Firing a coach who everyone can see will not succeed is a pretty smart move.  Both for the schools and the coach.

even better is recognizing that coach will not succeed (because he just got fired at a very similar job) and not hiring him in the first place. Yet here we are.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 25, 2015, 03:34:09 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:

Things can change rather quickly for programs like ours (and theirs).

yep. it was pretty smart of them to fire mcdermott after only four years and go take a chance on another guy.

yup.  Firing a coach who everyone can see will not succeed is a pretty smart move.  Both for the schools and the coach.

even better is recognizing that coach will not succeed (because he just got fired at a very similar job) and not hiring him in the first place. Yet here we are.

Tom Izzo though
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: The Big Train on March 25, 2015, 03:47:57 PM
that is still the craziest basketball game i have ever seen, MHK and aggieville were rough ridin' nuts that night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vcKK02qDfI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREFeKjjzmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSVpdCPMCaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUJN_FdigtA
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: michigancat on March 25, 2015, 03:54:22 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:

Things can change rather quickly for programs like ours (and theirs).

yep. it was pretty smart of them to fire mcdermott after only four years and go take a chance on another guy.

yup.  Firing a coach who everyone can see will not succeed is a pretty smart move.  Both for the schools and the coach.

even better is recognizing that coach will not succeed (because he just got fired at a very similar job) and not hiring him in the first place. Yet here we are.

Tom Izzo though

yes, you (and Izzo) bring up good points
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on March 25, 2015, 03:58:06 PM
here's the bottom line though. every AD/GM/High school principal/whatever is going to make an occasional bad hire. the goods one recognize it fairly quickly, fire the guy and move on. eventually you are going to do this enough that you'll stumble into someone great like baylor football did with briles and then you do whatever you can to keep that guy happy. time will tell what kind of AD currie is.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: nicname on March 25, 2015, 04:19:41 PM
here's the bottom line though. every AD/GM/High school principal/whatever is going to make an occasional bad hire. the goods one recognize it fairly quickly, fire the guy and move on. eventually you are going to do this enough that you'll stumble into someone great like baylor football did with briles and then you do whatever you can to keep that guy happy. time will tell what kind of AD currie is.

Yes. Your post about the athletic department not caring enough about basketball is the one that scares me the most. It looks ugly now, and will be worse next season, but it has been proven that all it takes for a program like K-State's to succeed is to put the money and effort into place.

The team will most likely be awful next season regardless of who is the head coach. The AD can do a number of things. They can fire oscar now. But unless they've got a sure thing waiting in the wings right now, this would be a bad move. Or they could just ride it out another year while oscar finishes off burning down the place. This lets them save face and limit worry from potential head coaches available at the end of next season.

I have no confidence that K-State won't have a losing record again next season. The lame duck is in full effect. The saddest part of it all is that none of this needed to happen. Curries didn't have to be an overly compliant micro-manager who couldn't get along with a successful head coach he inherited. Frank didn't need to clash so hard with his AD that he was willing to leave the program that he built for an SEC bottom feeder. That's what started all of this.

Maybe oscar was the viable best option available at the time. It doesn't even matter now. The only thing that matters is how committed they are and who they hire going forward. It all comes back to what you said earlier, and that's the scary part. It's hard to have any confidence that the people in charge of the AD are at all committed to winning basketball.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: manpow5 on March 25, 2015, 06:56:55 PM
What dollar figure would we have to put out there to get Wichita State's coach?
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: wetwillie on March 25, 2015, 07:22:59 PM
What dollar figure would we have to put out there to get Wichita State's coach?

10 million
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Katpappy on March 25, 2015, 09:57:19 PM
remember five years ago when we all used to laugh super hard at iowa state basketball?  :lol:
Why would that be, is it because they beat us like a stick at the end of the season most years.  :whistle1:
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: JohnCurrie is Weird/Gross on March 25, 2015, 10:52:20 PM
That video made me really happy!

Me too! I remember exactly where I was watching it.  So many stomach punch, jump up and down, stomach punch, then sheer bliss moments.  Will absolutely never forget it.  If you would have told me oscar would be coaching K-State two years from then I would've said yeah John Currie is weird and gross.

We had a great coach, look at Sys' signature and that tells the whole story on how we got here.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Stevesie60 on March 26, 2015, 01:41:37 AM
My heart rate still rises significantly when watching highlights of the 2OT game. Will we ever see a Final 4 while Currie is here?
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Trim on March 26, 2015, 01:44:52 AM
I spiked one of those rolling chairs at pumphouse and one of the wheels detached and went shooting across the floor.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 26, 2015, 09:11:04 AM
Tom Izzo though

yes, you (and Izzo) bring up good points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylve3oFV5oY
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Trim on March 26, 2015, 09:22:04 AM
Tom Izzo though

yes, you (and Izzo) bring up good points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylve3oFV5oY

:lol:
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Lucas Scoopsalot on March 26, 2015, 11:18:00 AM
"That guy is a tough sumbitch"
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Johnny Wichita on March 26, 2015, 11:25:54 AM
called the 2nd best sweet 16 game since 1979

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/ncaa-tournaments-25-greatest-sweet-16-games-since-1979/ss-AAa0byQ#image=25
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: kso_FAN on March 26, 2015, 11:31:40 AM
10 years ago... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmrvVQFGFlY)
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: michigancat on March 26, 2015, 11:38:02 AM
10 years ago... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmrvVQFGFlY)

holy crap, didn't realize what a comeback that was.

If oscar loses this game, do we hire him? Something to think about...
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Stevesie60 on March 26, 2015, 11:38:47 AM
10 years ago... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmrvVQFGFlY)

Wow.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: nicname on March 26, 2015, 11:42:35 AM
10 years ago... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmrvVQFGFlY)

While it's hard to argue that Weber has been anything more than a mediocre high major coach, his highs are really, really high for a coach of that perceived caliber.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Trim on March 26, 2015, 11:58:27 AM
Our players don't look like their players.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: nicname on March 26, 2015, 12:04:43 PM
Our players don't look like their players.

Our players don't look like our old players. Neither do their offer and interest lists.
Title: Re: 5 years ago....
Post by: Trim on March 27, 2015, 12:26:51 PM
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/elite-eight-memories-the-heart-stopping-2005-arizona-illinois-showdown-10-years-later/

:lol: