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Kansas State Football / Re: Gross football coaches you would talk yourself in to

« on: November 01, 2017, 12:51:14 PM »

Not a fan of guys who have THAT much of a history and it is still pretty bad on average.  Give me a young guy with promise or an Andy Reid / Les Miles type who is consistently good even if it seems like he can't win the big one.

I'm all for a young, successful MAC coach. Those guys seem to most consistently move up to P5 schools and have success.

You are mostly correct, however:



 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Gross football coaches you would talk yourself in to

« on: November 01, 2017, 12:41:46 PM »

would take rich rod i think

His record is a bit oscar-y, but he's a much more palatable personality IMHO.

Only one winning conference season (2014) since leaving WVU. The Pac 12 South has been down most of his tenure at UofA too.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Gross football coaches you would talk yourself in to

« on: November 01, 2017, 10:50:30 AM »

Petro brought up Rich Rod yesterday. Thoughts?

He was on track to get fired until about a month ago. Still might if the last 4 games don't go well? 

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: General NFL thread: 2016 the age of kneeling, or sitting, or whatevs. FOOTBALL!

« on: October 31, 2017, 10:49:07 AM »

It may or may not matter for this coming Sunday vs KC, but it will definitely have an impact over the course of the entire 6 games. McFadden is made of glass and Morris isn't nearly the same kind of explosive runner.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: General NFL thread: 2016 the age of kneeling, or sitting, or whatevs. FOOTBALL!

« on: October 31, 2017, 09:03:41 AM »

I think my highlight as a sorta Cowboys fan this season will be Romo being the BITB at color in the NFL.

I know Washington is very banged up right now, but yesterday sucked me back into thinking we can go 10-6 and make the playoffs. 

Me too.

That Broncos loss is an embarrassment.

Please disregard. The Zeke ruling has me back to looking at 2018 draft boards and who will be available in the 13th-17th range.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: General NFL thread: 2016 the age of kneeling, or sitting, or whatevs. FOOTBALL!

« on: October 30, 2017, 11:13:40 AM »

I think my highlight as a sorta Cowboys fan this season will be Romo being the BITB at color in the NFL.

I know Washington is very banged up right now, but yesterday sucked me back into thinking we can go 10-6 and make the playoffs. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Gross football coaches you would talk yourself in to

« on: October 30, 2017, 08:34:54 AM »

[you] is the best. I'm glad we are all getting along so well here at gE.

Well done, mods. 

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: MLB master thread(non-Royals related) (no longer the official Mets thread)

« on: October 30, 2017, 08:33:28 AM »

LOLMETS

https://twitter.com/KevinCooney/status/924833075913248770

Other than Game 7 the 2014 WS was kind of boring. 5 of the 7 games were blowouts.

2015 at least had a few entertaining games.

But nothing compares to what is going on with the Dodgers and Astros.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Sky Guy ! Or Delton Dude ?

« on: October 30, 2017, 08:23:31 AM »

Winters, please note that [you] and I have already given Skyler "The Truf" Thompson a nickname. #Truf

Hell yes! Big 12 defenses can't handle The Truf!

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Gross football coaches you would talk yourself in to

« on: October 30, 2017, 08:20:00 AM »

Matt Campbell

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk

Not even a little gross, well he could use some dental work, but he's not gross.

How mad would ISU fans be if he left them for Nebraska?

Please let that happen!

[you], I hope you're having a great day!

Thanks, man. Let's all have a great week!  <-- (coffee, not beers)

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Kansas State Football / Re: next year?

« on: October 26, 2017, 12:22:03 PM »

8-4

Who's QB?

No idea, but Tech, OU, OSU, and TCU all have to replace their QB too. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me

« on: October 26, 2017, 11:45:52 AM »

I'm always amazed that PFT has kept up his anonymity for this long.

https://www.facebook.com/eric.sollenberger

Well I'll be damned.

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Kansas State Football / Re: next year?

« on: October 26, 2017, 09:43:45 AM »

8-4

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me

« on: October 26, 2017, 09:27:14 AM »

I'm always amazed that PFT has kept up his anonymity for this long. The sunglasses, the alias, all of it. Everything he presents to the public via social media and podcast is obviously just a character, but at some point that all ends right? Especially as he becomes more semi-mainstream.

Kind of reminds me of Ryan Nanni from SB Nation a few years ago. He didn't stop being funny (IMO) the day he stopped being Celebrity Hot Tub.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me

« on: October 26, 2017, 09:20:20 AM »

these guys seem like douchebags, I will not consume any of their content if I can help it

It's part of their shtick. But yeah, this show probably isn't for you.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Mr Robot Needs A Thread (Spoilers)

« on: October 26, 2017, 09:15:36 AM »

Bump.

Episodes 1 and 2 were kinda meh, but the missing Tyrell story may be the best episode so far. Esmail's ability to weave real life events into the writing is incredible.

Irving may be my new favorite TV character on any show, not just this one.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Any good Bret Bielema stories from his one season here?

« on: October 26, 2017, 08:58:22 AM »

https://twitter.com/TuskToTail/status/923545435247177728

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Four way stops, U-turns and other things that piss you off about idiot driver's.

« on: October 25, 2017, 10:07:00 AM »

I'm not sure that intersection would be a good candidate

The proximity to Westloop is probably an issue 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Re: Football Recruiting Thread

« on: October 25, 2017, 09:22:59 AM »

i don't think we'll see in stadium beer sales anytime soon because they don't want a bunch of drunk idiots spilling beer on little kids, which i don't blame them #family. 

Many of the schools that allow beer sales in the stadium have reported a decrease in alcohol related incidents. The belief is that it curbs binge drinking.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Four way stops, U-turns and other things that piss you off about idiot driver's.

« on: October 25, 2017, 08:26:27 AM »

Big fan of the DDI here. The one at US77/I70 is great. Hopefully MHK adds one at the Seth Child/Anderson intersection as well.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?

« on: October 24, 2017, 02:05:58 PM »

what's the best non-chase card to get right now with a relatively low spend ($3k)?  Cap One Venture a good card to get?  they're offering 50k miles which i guess is $500, haven't non-chased before though.

that cap one is decent if you don't mind hitting your 5/24 for $500. the 60k AA barclay cards are very nice with no spend requirement.

60k for one purchase sounds pretty amaze.  assuming that's to fly America and maybe a few of their travel partners?  do these points expire?

think I found my next card then. how hard is it through AA website to see how often it looks like flights out of mhk are blacked out then?

I've never known a AA award flight to be blacked out, but the miles required may vary anywhere from 12,500-40,000 for a one way flight.

The AA award map is a helpful tool if you want to see where you can go with your current balance of miles: https://www.aa.com/awardMap/home.do

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: How Many Credit Cards Do You Have?

« on: October 24, 2017, 09:05:30 AM »

what's the best non-chase card to get right now with a relatively low spend ($3k)?  Cap One Venture a good card to get?  they're offering 50k miles which i guess is $500, haven't non-chased before though.

that cap one is decent if you don't mind hitting your 5/24 for $500. the 60k AA barclay cards are very nice with no spend requirement.

60k for one purchase sounds pretty amaze.  assuming that's to fly America and maybe a few of their travel partners?  do these points expire?

AA miles don't expire unless your account is inactive for 18 months. If you are going a long time without flying American then just make a transaction on the Aviator card and the clock resets.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me

« on: October 24, 2017, 09:02:26 AM »

How do the stoolies feel about this?

I feel bad for Big Cat, PFT, and Hank, but ultimately this is not a big deal. The ESPN show was only going to be a watered down 22 minute version of their podcast.

They will get another shot at TV eventually and will probably work better on something like Comedy Central, one of the FOX's, Spike, etc. anyways.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Re: Football Recruiting Thread

« on: October 23, 2017, 03:57:30 PM »

I drink a beer in the parking lot most games and can count on one hand the number of times I've missed kickoff in the past 5 years. If you are in one of the main lots 20 minutes is plenty of time to walk to the car, chug a beer, and then walk back in.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Jacob Pullen appreciation thread.

« on: October 18, 2017, 07:37:26 PM »

He is Two Way Contract candidate under the new roster rules. The Sixers still have one TWC available to use.