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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Life Cycle of a Great Song at Bramlage

« on: February 28, 2015, 08:07:43 PM »

1.  Find a song that we like.

2. Shirt Tucks and Students love the song and everyone is having fun.

3. The song then gets played at the KU game and is turned into Anti KU chant.

4. Shirt Tucks turn against it but athletic department doesn't realize it.

5. Song gets more loud and profane and athletics finally realizes it.

6. Song is retired for a few years until existing students leave.

7. New songs are brought into the picture and over time they will be !@#$@#   up too.

We just retired Sandstorm for a while and it makes me sad.... but just remember it will always be in our hearts...

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Ashes, Ashes, It has burned down!!!

« on: February 18, 2015, 07:52:35 PM »

oscar Weber is the walking dead at this point. Currie will probably get him through this year but in 12 months we will be getting a new coach. 

 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Tim Fitzgerald just called us out on "The Drive" + Bonus Content + Underwood

« on: January 18, 2015, 11:45:46 PM »

Tim Fitzgerald on the Drive. January 18, 2015 last 30 seconds of the show.


"In a strange turn there's been a segment of fans at Kansas State who have never really given oscar Weber a chance and every time things turn south they jump on it immediately. It is part of social media, a fringe element can all find each other and suddenly they have a club of people that believe in the same thing no matter how silly it can be, they listen to each other, they repeat the same thing over and over and convince a few other people and pretty soon we are all convinced that there is a big segment of fans who believe this stupid idea that oscar Weber should be fired after going to the NCAA tournament in 2 straight seasons."


 

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Kansas State Football / KSU vs. Auburn What the Hell was that?!!?

« on: September 19, 2014, 05:47:57 PM »

The mighty Tigers came to the Plains of Kansas and squeaked out a W on the road. Bizarre game all the way around. Obviously very disappointed in the result and this virtually kills our shot of making the Inaugural Playoff.


The Good 

Good Loud Crowd

Defense Played very well and held Auburn to 2.8/ rush!!!!!

Overall we held them to 4.7 yards per play. Auburn averaged 8.5 yards per play in conference play last year.

The defense continues to make personnel adjustments that seem to be working. I liked Green and Dakorey Johnson playing more. Green had 5 tackles one of them for loss.  Johnson had an interception, 6 tackles (2 for loss).

The Bad

Cantele who I considered a really good college kicker, had the worst game of his career.

They stopped our run and held us to 1.3 yards per rush


The Future
This team realistically has a shot of making one of the big bowls (Peach, Cotton, Sugar or Fiesta) and winning the Big 12Unfortunately we cost ourselves a chance at the playoffs.

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Kansas State Football / KSU vs. The Basketball School Called Iowa State: Farmageddon Edition

« on: September 06, 2014, 06:59:44 PM »

My dreams of the college football playoff were almost destroyed by Farmageddon.
Waters, Lockett and company pulled it out in the end.
I award no style points for the performance but if we start playing better I will forgive them.


The Good

Waters rushed for 138 yards on 20 carriers!!!!  (6.9/carry)
Jones rushed for 75 yards.  (5.8/carry)
Lockett with 6 receptions and 136 yards.
Defense held ISU to 2.8 yards per carry. (4.6 per play)
Offense got 6.7 yards per play.
No turnovers.
Randal Evans nifty interception.

Special Daniel Sams Update
74 yards on 10 carries!!!
3/9 passing with 59 yards!!!
Almost helped McNeese beat the Huskers at Home

The Bad

Gave up a punt return for a touchdown.     
10 penalties for 77 yards. (many of them very costly)     
Didn't finish drives in the first half. (should have flushed the Cyclones in the first half) 
Had several drives where we played back in our zone and they picked us apart.   
Allowed Richardson to get way too comfortable throwing the football, when we started using CB blitzs and 5 man rushes it seemed to be much better.   
Reverse pass for a touchdown.


Farmaggeddon

We survived the near calamity that was farmaggeddon. If we keep winning pollsters will forget all about this. We are 1-0 in the Big 12 with a road win.

I am glad that we have time to work on some things before Auburn comes into town.

To make myself feel better I will remind myself that Nebraska and Iowa almost fell to worse teams at home today.

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Kansas State Football / KSU vs. Brad Underwoods adopted temporary school Good and Bad status report.

« on: August 30, 2014, 11:57:38 PM »

It was a pretty solid victory for the 2014 edition of the Kansas State Wildcats. I enjoyed the game very much and I came away satisfied with almost everything going on.

The Good

Tailgating was solid. Good crowds, Good temperatures for an opening game, good food and saw plenty of friends

Stadium was well prepared, sound seemed good, band was pretty good for an opener, crowd was pretty fired up at the start of the game.

Water is a stud and seemed to be running everything pretty well. I thought he really spread the ball around and made a lot of good decisions.

Play clock was well managed and we only had a couple close calls.

Running back situation impressed me overall. I liked what Robinson, Charles Jones and Leverett brought today. By my calculations the Running backs averaged about 5.6 yards per carry.

It was nice to see a lot of backups in the 4th quarter.

Defense stopped the running game and only allowed 69 yards for the game.

Only 3 penalties

Only 1 turnover

5.9 yards per play on offense

Only 1 punt

Overall I thought the receivers did a good job of getting open and caught most of the passes thrown at them.

Also 37 minutes of possesion compared to 22 minutes for SFA.

The Bad

Schellenberg with only one tackle. He needs to get better at his angles.  He needs to put himself in a position to make plays. Secondary overall wasn't very impressive.

Lockett playing so little makes me sad and a little bit worried

It is too bad that Oklahoma State couldn't have knocked Florida State out of the playoff picture today.

Football season is here

I love it.

K-State is still in the hunt for a playoff spot   

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / KSU vs. Flood Aggie, Good, Bad, Maybe Ranked for Monday?

« on: March 02, 2014, 11:57:34 AM »

K-States Home Court dominance continues. A pretty solid crowd witnessed a team outlast a pretty good Iowa State team.

The Good

    K-State played 10 players successfully vs. Iowa State who played 7 guys (Naz Long for only 7 minutes).
    Shane was 4-6 from 3 point land
    6 Wildcats were perfect from the free throw line (Westicles, Foster, Johnson and Johnson, Thomas, Lawrence
    DJamer was also perfect from the field 5-5 ( I do not want to hear this crap about redshirting him next year)

The Bad

    We lost rebounding by 7. We were not blocking out very effectively for much of the game.
    The officials were not very good.
    Nino was the only Wildcat not to score


Maybe Ranked for Big Monday?

    The pollsters might give us some love just in time for a primetime matchup on Big Monday.
    With a win at Gallagher Iba we can probably move up 2 seeds in the tournament.
    After rushing the floor on Saturday will the Cowboys be ready for us on Monday?
    I am looking at a #6 seed for the Cats if we can split this week and a #5 seed if we can get to the Big 12 tournament Championship.
   

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / KSU Vs. Lawrentucky Good, Bad, Inspired

« on: February 10, 2014, 11:20:42 PM »

Since the Northern Colorado fiasco, Kansas State University Basketball is undefeated at home. oscar Weber moves up to 1-4 against the squawks and removes a very large monkey from his back.


The Good

We outhustled KU
Our fans are better than KUs fans
Our university is better than KU.
I am retired from the I hate oscar Weber Fan Club.


The Bad
Southwell getting trapped under KU's basket and not calling timeout to prevent the easy steal layup for KU


Inspired

We played inspired today. Momentum is a big thing and we have lots of it. Do we want to make a run in the Tournament?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Big 12 Mid Term grades: 2014 oscar Hoops edition

« on: February 02, 2014, 11:29:29 AM »

Looking at Big 12 Conference stats midway through K-State's season. My opinions of their roster quality and how they are being coached.  http://www.big12sports.com/ViewContent.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=10410&CONTENT_ID=855748

Baylor  Roster grade (B+)   Coaching Grade (F)

    Last in free throw attempts and free throw %.
    9th in FG %.
    9th in Turnover Margin

They are 2nd in rebounding margin because of their height but they are not using their 7 footer inside to score high % shots and draw free throws.  No tournament for the Bears. Bill Self would be hunting for a 3 or 4 seed with that team.

Iowa State   Roster Grade (B-)  Coaching Grade (B)

    +3.25 Turnover Margin,
    1st in Assists
    1st in steals
    2nd in 3pt attempts but  only 8th in 3pt %
    4th in FG %

Undersized team but gets steals and takes care of the ball. Shoots lots of threes but isn't making that many of them in conference play. Should make it to the tournament but shouldn't go to far.

Kansas   Roster Grade (A)  Coaching Grade (B+)

    1st in FG%
    3rd in FG% defense
    1st in rebounding margin with +7.5 per game.
    Only weakness is -3.5 in turnover margin

Kansas should probably make it to an elite eight but is actually vulnerable because of their turnover issues (which is why I dropped their coaching grade some). Hopefully someone takes  advantage of this. If you can hang with them on rebounding and take care of the ball, a team may have a shot.


Kansas State Roster Grade (B-)  Coaching Grade (B-)

    -1.67 in Turnover Margin
    10th in Steals
    5th in Rebounding margin
    2nd in Field Goal % defense
    2nd (tie) in Field Goal %
    9th in free throw % 5th in attempts

Kansas State is a good team as shown by Field Goal % and FG % Defense. This is not a complete team as shown by turnover margin, steals, blocks, free throw %. I expect to go to the tournament and lose early. Iowa State and Kansas State are pretty much Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.


OSU  Roster Grade (B+)  Coaching Grade (B-)

They are pretty average in everything. Best stat is probably +3.12 in turnover margin. They lost a key guy in Cobbins and Ford can't keep Smart in line. They will probably go to the tournament and lose early.

OU    Roster Grade (B-)    Coaching Grade (B-)

Average team that is too dependent on the three ball.  Steve Henson has them shooting the highest free throw % in the conference (77.5%).  They will probably go to the tournament and lose early.

Texas  Roster grade (B+)  Coaching Grade (B+)

    1st in Blocked shots
     3rd in Rebounding margin,
    1st in FG % defense
    2nd (tie) in FG% offense
    8th in free throw % and 4th in attempts

I expect Texas to go to the Sweet Sixteen and possibly further if Felix continues to get better. They ignore the three ball and can pound it inside on a lot of teams. They should be highly seeded and they are trying to take advantage of their strengths. Didn't see this one coming.


Texas Tech   Dont Care

TCU              Don't Care

West Virginia  Roster (C+)    Coaching (C+)

Not a great year for Huggins but it does appear to be getting better. He really needs a 7 footer but his guards are pretty good. The schedule gets tougher for the Eers and I don't think he will get to the tournament.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / KSU vs. WVU: Good, Bad, Country Roads Take Me Home

« on: January 19, 2014, 12:48:58 PM »

The Weber Haters continue to squirm as the team continues to improve and dismantled a Bob Huggins led West Virginia team.


The Good

    We shot 54.9% from the field!!!
    42.9% from three.
    22 assists compared to 5 for WVU
    Nino continues to be a factor (6 rebounds and 5 points)
    Big Gip made up for the OU game (20 points, 6 boards, 3 assists, 1 block)
    Shane was 4-8 from three with 20 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.
    Foster with 15 points  (13th in Big 12 average scoring)
    WVU shot 32.7% from the field

The Bad

    DJamer continues to struggle (5 minutes, 5 fouls, 2 turnovers)
    The officiating was awful. Probably the worst officiated game I have seen in several years. They were doing makeup calls 3 minutes into the game.

Country Roads Take Me Home

Students are coming back to their second home in Manhattan Kansas and have some fun games to look forward to.

KU, ISU, Baylor, Texas

West Virginia fans are going to have to find ways to spend their money at home because they are not going to the NCAA tournament. K-State fans need to open up new lines of credit for March Madness.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / KSU vs. OSU Good, Bad, Beautiful 2014 Home Edition

« on: January 05, 2014, 02:29:31 PM »

Inspiring WIN versus a stout OSU team. Packed house with GA getting bought up by mostly non students (semester break). I do have to give a shout out to the hardcore students that go to every game, sit in the front rows, cause a couple of the GA sections to stand the whole game, and start good chants like "Your a Flopper". The Boy Scouts of America were in the Octagon of Doom and these types of games help K-State enrollment 10 years down the line.


The Good

Held OSU to 40.4% from the field  (season average of 49.6%)

Held OSU to 3-14 (21.4%) from 3pt% (season average of 37.5%).... good job guarding Forte!!!!

Gipson was 4-4 from the free throw line and several were huge.

We won rebounding by 1
   
We are 1-0 in Big 12 play!!!

The Bad

We shot 36.7% from the field.  (OSU statistically has the best defense in the conference so it isn't that surprising)
   
We shot 5-21 (23.8%) from 3pt  (this is frustrating and I think it will improve at some point)

The Beautiful

Only 8 Turnovers!!!!!!!!
+2 in Turnover Margin
Freshman Jevon Thomas with 5 assists on 2 weeks of practice
We are in first and are making the doubters squirm (especially Andrew Von Lintel).

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Powercat Exchange is a huge ripoff and an embarrassment to the University!

« on: December 04, 2013, 05:38:29 PM »

The Athletic Department has designed a web exchange with the sole purpose of ripping off our own Season Ticket Holders and casual attendees.  The consequences of this are that the basketball team gets even less support than they should and harms the atmosphere in Bramlage.

If a Season Ticket holder puts a ticket online for a for price of $20, he is only going to get 90% of that back ($18).

The Consumer is required to have a $25 dollar membership (lasts for one athletic year).
The consumer is required to pay a $5 transaction fee.
The consumer is required to pay a 20% fee on the value of the ticket (in this case $4).

In actuality the consumer is paying $29 for a ticket and the season ticket holder is receiving $18.

That of course is excluding the membership fee of $25 (which of course makes the cost to the consumer much higher and prevents entry by users that are only going to a couple of games).

For an administration that says they want to fill Bramlage, they are not helping themselves out with this system!!!!!!!

You have to have cheaper tickets for most of the December Games or we are never going to even come close to filling the place up.

I suggest Alumni and Students send emails to  John "Hidden Fees" Currie and get this problem resolved.



P.S.

The baseball season ticket package is a pretty good deal.  $100 gets you Wichita State, Nebraska, Cal State Bakersfield, KU, OSU, Texas, Creighton, Air Force and some other games.

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Kansas State Football / KSU VS. Baylor Good, Bad, Making Sense

« on: October 12, 2013, 10:18:17 PM »

50,000 Purple clad fans followed their football team into Fort Snyder and tried to defend our home from the Bair Raid. It wasn't always pretty or smart but we put up one hell of a fight.   

The Good

The Fighting Snyders have not given in and neither have the fans. We need more leaders but Mueller and Sams gave us a lot today.

Sams had 7 passes and Waters had 15 passes. This makes sense doesn't it?
Sams had 30 carries and Waters had 10 carries.  This makes sense doesn't it?

Without Lockett and Thompson we were run heavy and had 58 rushes (5.6 yards per rush) with 22 Passes (5.4 yards per pass).  This makes sense doesn't it?

When these things start making sense, it means the coaches are starting to make more sense and I get a lot happier

The Bad

Sams made an awful decision on his last drive and should have thrown it away. If he was trying to throw it away, it is almost worse because it would be a horrible throw.
Lockett and Thompson didn't play......   Our return game and Waters passing game will greatly suffer until one or both returns.

It was an awful coaching decision to go for two in the 2nd half and an awful choice for Sams to use a timeout when we can just take a delay of game and kick the extra point. 

Pre Game
When we have all those Harleys out there, we have to have them all rev up at once. Willie needs to give them a signal and have them rev up. Then Willie can tackle some guy in a green suit and we can try to have the loudest K S U cheer ever!!!!


Making Sense

We are making much better playcalling decisions and those decisions gave us an opportunity to win against a very tough opponent despite having 2 of our playmakers on the sidelines. I am very hopeful that we can win 5 of the last 6 and get a badly needed bowl game victory. 

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Kansas State Football / KSU Vs. WaterPistol Pete: Good, Bad, Ugly

« on: October 06, 2013, 05:39:34 PM »

 

Pistol Pete doesn't pack much of a pop these days, but it didn't matter as the Cats commit just about every mistake imaginable in a very ugly offensive game. I am not sure that the Cowboys are any better than the Longhorns but the Cats did  make some important improvements over their previous appearance.

The Good  
Waters only carried the ball once for a 6 yard sack/fumble  .
Sams ran the ball 27 times at 4.4 yards per carry and 1 Touchdown. Sams was 15/21 (71%) and had a nifty 8.6 yards per attempt.
Hubert actually had a productive game getting 4.3 yards per carry on 7 carries.

Defensively we did a lot of good things.  OSU only scored 33 (avg. 39.2)   
Britz and Daily made a play to score a defensive touchdown on the blocked Field Goal

We held them to 3.4 yards per carry (avg. 4.3) and also held them to 6.1 yards per pass (avg. 7.9)   


Considering all of the turnovers and penalties on offense, are defense played pretty well but not great.

The Bad
I don't even want to really get started because I can write a book on all of the idiotic coaching  and player decisions that are occurring pre snap.
In general we are not even thinking about the situation that we are in and apparently the coaches are not telling the players what situation we are in. 

Let me just start with Thompson and Lockett being out of the game. One would think that with our two best Wide Receivers out of the game we would make more of an effort to give the ball to our running backs (we have more than one), fullbacks, tight ends and that we would use less 5 receiver sets.  If anything I think we used more 5 receiver sets.   

Also Thompson and Lockett being out had a very big negative impact on our return game. Why are we trying to return very questionable punts/kicks? Fair Catches and Touchbacks should be used almost exclusively when we don't have a real return man out there.

The Ugly
12 penalties for 92 yards. False Starts, molesting the punter, and of course the standard Illegal Forward Pass on a kick return

We lost the turnover margin by 3 or 4 (depends on if you count a blocked field goal touchdown as a turnover).

Sams has a great attitude but he made a lot of really poor decisions and his interception into quadruple coverage was very bold and daring.


The Future
Thankfully we play 5 of the last 7 at home and I think our very talented team might be getting better.

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Kansas State Football / KSU Vs. Texas Good, Bad, So Stupid

« on: September 23, 2013, 06:39:58 PM »

This years rendition of the Sacred Chisholm Trail Rivalry didn't go as planned. I am reminded of the great quote from Dennis Green, "They are who we thought they were and we let them off the hook."  After an initial 3 and out, Texas was ready to lay down (just as expected, ask Tre Walker). Had we only Passed with Waters or Ran with Sams on the first drive, we would have ended Texas's season and Mack Brown's Career.


The Good

Tyler "just can't stop it" Lockett had 13 Receptions for 237 yards. Sams ran for 6.0 yards per carry. Waters completed 63% of his passes and averaged 9.2 yards per pass. Blake Slaughter played a very strong game with 10 tackles (6 Solo) with 3 Pass Break ups and a QB hurry. Overall the defense didn't play great but it wasn't bad. Texas averages 6.3 yards per play on the year and we held them to 5.6 on Saturday. Texas is averaging 32 points per game and they scored 31. Our defense also had 3 three and outs and only gave up 3 points on the first two drives. The defense played more than well enough for Texas to get freaked out by our offense which should be super studly right now.

The Bad

Sams didn't throw.  Waters ran 18 times averaging 1.4 yards per carry. Our coaches must be high.   Collin Klein is special and is not on our team anymore. If we coach to our current players strengths, we can win games (probably most of them).  Our cornerback Roberts had serious problems with coverage and KU got lucky and won a game.

The Stupid

It is Simple Math. Sams averaged 6.0 yards per carry and Waters averaged 1.4 .  Essentially we are losing 4.6 yards for every time Waters runs the ball.    If you take 10 of Waters carries and give them to Sams you should gain 46 more yards per game.   Those additional 46 yards could easily be 3 first downs and an additional 9 plays to work with. Those 9 plays should get you more touchdowns.
Ole Miss averaged 6.0 yards per carry and won by 21.  Sams averaged 6.0 yards per carry and barely played.

I can make the same case that Waters should throw the ball 10 more times instead of running it. Collin Klein averaged 8.7 yards per pass last year and Waters is averaging 9.5  (obviously Waters interception rate need to go down but on Saturday he didn't throw a pick).

Either one of the above solutions should be tried before we panic and give up on the season. The fact that we haven't tried it yet makes me want to panic.We have to trust our QBs to be able to throw the football. I don't feel like the coaching staff trusts either QB and I don't know why.

 

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Kansas State Football / Ranking the QBs in the Big Twizzelve

« on: September 08, 2013, 03:48:42 PM »

Stats from ESPN.   Yards per Passing Attempt.

1. Bryce Petty       16.fizz y/a (1st Nationally) 80% Completion  (3rd)

2. JW Walsh          8.buzz y/a (36th)               77.8%  (7th)

fizz. Jake Waters       fizz.fizz y/a (22nd)              71.7%  (20th)

4. Mayfield (TT)      8.7 y/a (34th)              71.1%  (23rd)

buzz. Richardson (ISU) 7.fizz y/a                       68.8%   (36th)

fizz. David Ash           fizz.fizz y/a                       62.fizz%

7. Milliard               fizz.fizz y/a                       60.fizz%

8.  Boykin               8.fizz y/a                      60.0%

fizz. Jake Heaps         buzz.buzz y/a                        50%

buzz. Knight  (OU)       4.fizz y/a                        43.8%

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Kansas State Football / Waters Arguably the Best QB on Friday Night

« on: August 31, 2013, 10:00:24 AM »

Fridays Games

Yards per pass
Information from ESPN Box Scores

Arizona           6.7
N. Arizona       4.9

NDSU              5.5
Kansas State     9.7

Southern          7.4
Houston            6.7

Texas Tech        6.9
SMU                 6.3

Florida Atlantic   3.7
Miami               6.5

Western Mich     4.0
Michigan State   3.1

Samford            6.2
Georgia State     7.7

Morgan State      11.6   10 attempts
Army                     12.6   8  attempts

We could still win the Big 12.  We will know a lot more after next week.

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Kansas State Football / K-State vs. Bizon Good, Bad, Ugly.

« on: August 31, 2013, 08:56:08 AM »

That was probably the most frustrating football game for me since 2003 Marshall ever. Bison come into our joint, act like they own the damn place and pretty much do. Thankfully this game didn't mean anything unless we go undefeated from here on out.


The Good

I like the way the pressbox looks. The Bison were impressed by our (Pregame KSU Wildcat Chant).

We had the best Wide Receivers and the best throwing Quarterback on the field. Waters looks like a legitimate Big 12 quarterback that is just not completely settled in yet. Lots of great throws hitting guys in stride on a deep route. Both Quarterbacks completed 21 passes but Waters had 115 more Passing yards than Jensen.

The Bison were scared to kick to us and we had decent field position on kickoffs.

Tailgating was fun.

The Bad

Putting statues up for people that haven't died or at least retired is a bad idea.

What in the hell was going on with the sound at the stadium. The Bison were chanting during the Pledge of Allegiance because no one could hear the announcer.
The Statistical Scoreboard didn't work the whole game.

Overall atmosphere was pretty weak (especially for being as packed as it was). I guess maybe everyone was hot but it was a weak effort. I was hoping for the crowd noise to be the loudest ever and it wasn't.

The Ugly  Our playcalling was awful. We were getting 9.7 yards per pass play. Keep passing the ball. Most of our passing plays that went wrong were on 3rd and long when there was little doubt that we were passing. More throws on first down would have made a huge difference.

We had some boneheaded mistakes like the shotgun snap to no one and Hubert being on the wrong side of Waters.

I am fine with Waters at QB but we need to change up our play callling if we are going to do it. Don't waste his accurate arm and get him beat up. If you want to do that play Sams.

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Kansas State Football / Grading the North Dakota State Bison Game (Bison Not Allowed)

« on: August 24, 2013, 03:31:42 PM »

When we bring in these weak minor league teams to LHC Bill Snyder Family Stadium, it is important to have a quality grading system that can impartially categorize and grade the level of dominance. Throw this rating system out for Big 12 play. This is only for pretender schools that hide behind wins over KU, Minnesota and CSU

Offense 

Rushing           A: 7.0 yards per carry,   B: 6.2,  C: 5.5, D: 4.5, F: Less than 4.5

Completion %   A: 70%  B: 65%  C: 60%  D: 55%  F: Less than 55%

Turnovers        A: 0, B: 1, C: 2,  F: 3 or more

Defense

Rushing            A: 2.0 avg. or less,  B: 2.5, C: 3.5, D: 4, F: 4.1 or more

Passing %        A: 48% or less, B:53%, C: 58%, D: 60%, F: above 60%

Turnovers        A:  3 or more, B: 2, C: 1, F: 0

2010  Missouri State
K-State Offense    6.0 ypr, 70% Completion, 0 turnovers    C, A, A,= B-
K-State Defense    4.0 ypr, 48% Completion, 1 turnover     D, A, C,= C-
Total Team Grade   C

2011  Eastern Kentucky
K-State Offense   3.1 ypr, 62%, 5 turnovers        C, C, F,=  D-
K-State Defense   .4  ypr, 35%, 2 turnovers        A, A, C=   B-
Total Team Grade  C

2012 Missouri State
K-State Offense   8.1 ypr, 68%, 0 Turnovers       A, B, A,= B
K-State Defense   3.7 ypr, 51%, 2 Turnovers      D, B, B,= C-
Extra Credit   Thompson 89 yard punt return TD
Total Team Grade  B-

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Kansas State Football / How is Mack Brown going to Screw up on Sept. 21st 2013? "THAT'S OUR MACK!"

« on: July 06, 2013, 12:34:57 PM »

Not sure why but I have been thinking about this a lot today.

My initial thought is that Texas will have an effective running game and then Mack will get cutesie and try to throw the ball. Zimmerman makes them pay by getting a couple of interceptions and K-State Wins 28-17.

My second thought is that Texas forgets that our QBs can run and our offense is unstoppable and puts up 350 yards rushing and only throws 4-6 passes for the game (2 Tyler Lockett 40 yard touchdowns likely). Then Mack freaks out and Zimmerman gets 2 interceptions when Texas starts to exclusively throw the ball.

This information is from ESPNs box score for last years game.

*Kansas State is outgained by Texas for the 4th straight time. And for the 4th straight time, Kansas State won the game. Texas outgained the Wildcats by 189 yards tonight in Austin, but still lost 17-13.
 
Turnover Margin for K-State Against Texas
2011  +2
2010  +5
2007  +4
2006   Even 


 

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / K-State Withdrawal Syndrome (K SWiS)

« on: June 02, 2013, 12:13:42 PM »

I was recently informed of a newly diagnosed medical condition that is becoming widespread and that has been a personal problem for 12 years. It is kinda like HIV. Lots of people get infected with it and don't realize it is a problem until much later in life.

This illness has been Identified as K-State Withdrawal Syndrome or K SWiS for short. This disease normally takes hold in Mid January after Football Season. Fortunately Mid January cases are relatively mild and only mildly reduce quality of life. In recent years this disease has afflicted more people in March and has been much more severe. This year the March illness was very mild and by May many had fully recovered and were living even better than normal.

We are expecting a Mid June Case of K SWiSS (The extra S is for Serious) and it is expected to absolutely floor people.  Stay tuned for further developments and possible immunizations.

In the mean time prayer is your only answer.   

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / The importance of Rebounding Margin in Big 12 College Basketball

« on: April 08, 2013, 07:29:43 PM »

Rebounding Margin Leaders in  Big 12 play.  These are the teams that have out rebounded their opponents the most in the last  14 years.
In parenthesis is their final conference ranking.

2013   Kansas  +6.6   (t-1st)
2012   Kansas  +5.1   (1st)
2011   Kansas   +6.7   (1st)
2010   Kansas  +5.6   (1st)
2009   Kansas  +8.2   (1st)
2008   Kansas  +10.2  (t-1st)
2007   Kansas  +9.2    (1st)
2006   Texas     +8.5     (t-1st)
2005   OU/OSU  +4.7    (t-1st, 2nd)
2004   OSU        +4.2     (1st)
2003   Texas      +7.6     (2nd)          *KU was 2nd in rebounding margin +6.6 and was the conference champion that year.
2002    Kansas   +6.9     (1st)
2001    ISU/KU    +4.9     (1st, t-2nd)
2000    Kansas   +6.8      (4th)              *KU shot 29.4% from three that year


Going back to Y2K, There have been 16 leaders in rebounding margin in 14 years.   The leader in rebounding margin has won  a share of the conference 12 of 16 times.  Of the remaining 4 teams, KU was the only team to not finish 2nd.

Our height issue is still a concern for me..... I hope we fix it.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / KSU vs. LaSalle Good, Bad, Ugly

« on: March 22, 2013, 06:57:19 PM »

oscar Weber and the Wildcats squandered a golden opportunity to make a nice run in the Big Dance.


The Good

Jordan Henriquez was an incredibly great mismatch and we got a lot out of it. 12 Rebounds, 17 points, 5 Blocks, 2 turnovers, 3 fouls on 28 minutes!!!!!!

Shane Southwell was 7-10 from the field and was the obvious hot shooter of the day (obvious to all except for Angel and oscar). Put him down for 17 points, 4 rebounds, and assist, a steal, a block and 1 turnover in 38 minutes.

We only had 9 turnovers and outrebounded them by 4.


The Bad               

This was truly one of the worst coaching performances I have ever seen. We should have won the game by 20 even with Rodney and Angel having bad games. Shane was Hot, JO was hot and there were likely one or two guys on the bench that could have been hot but we will never know.

We only forced LaSalle into 8 turnovers. DJamer didn't play   .   Nino only played 2 minutes   . Diaz none    and Omari none   . When you are playing that bad in the first half you have to try different things. Different players and/or different defenses. Our bench was left on the bench and it is the most important part of this years success. We won most of our games because somebody randomly would step up and be ready to play bball. You try things and some will fail but some may work and the momentum may change.

Angel had a horrible game and played 36 (Reminder I love Angel but you can't let any member of the team play that bad and get 36 minutes when other reasonable options are available).   

The 2-3 Zone would have prevented LaSalles easy buckets and given JO more energy to play more minutes, which we needed from him today. More minutes and more targets. LaSalle only played 7 people (just like us) and we never went with the two post lineup.  Diaz and JO could have torn them up on offense and then played zone on defense. The rim would have been protected and we force them to shoot threes. We should have fouled out 2 or three of their players and COASTED to a victory.       

The Ugly

4 Seed at Bramlage East loses to a staggeringly inferior team and some people are waking up to the realization that we hired a really bad basketball coach.

 

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Kansas State Football / Will our dual Conference Champion Status help Football Recruiting

« on: March 11, 2013, 10:56:40 PM »

We just don't get enough 5 stars in Football according to rivals.... I am wondering if those 5 star athletes that enjoy watching good basketball are more likely to sign up now.   

I also can't figure out if we are a football school still or if we were always a basketball school in remission or if we are an indecisive group that switches back and forth.......   

Here's to 2013 K-State Sports 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Respect America Thread!!!!

« on: March 05, 2013, 10:42:50 PM »

I am concerned that oscar should respect America more and have our basketball team ready for the National Anthem on TIME!!!!!!

Does anyone else agree?


The fact that we got no pregame tunnel dance was also another kick to the nuts!