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Kansas State Football / Re: Starkville Roll Call
« on: July 18, 2019, 08:26:54 PM »
Quote from: SkinnyBenny on July 18, 2019, 07:16:32 PM
Also what are the weird liquor laws?

It's been 10 years since I've been there, so they might have caught up to the rest of the world (like Kansas), but the rules were all over the place. Restaurants couldn't serve booze past a certain time (maybe 11 p.m.?) even though they could stay open past then, still serve food, etc. The times that the liquor stores were open/closed changed by day of the week. No booze sales on Sundays. The best part - at one point (and this still may be true), the booze rules were different on weekday football games (as in if MSU plays on a Thursday - when booze sales normally stop at X time - they change to Saturday rules so that sales hours were longer).

Bottom line - stock up and plan on drinking in your hotel a lot vs. relying on the "bar" scene (which is microscopic compared to most college towns).

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Kansas State Football / Re: Starkville Roll Call
« on: July 17, 2019, 12:53:49 PM »
Starkville is just the worst. It's like Stillwater... except fewer things to do and odd liquor laws.

I do like their stadium - it's kinda weird and different.

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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is hurting
« on: July 15, 2019, 12:52:51 PM »
The whole thing is painful,  but the 2:00-3:00 portion is particularly rough.


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Kansas State Football / Re: way too early depth-chart predictos
« on: July 05, 2019, 12:48:00 PM »
Just curious - seems like Kaltmayer would be the guy at RT since he's started there before instead of shifting Mitchell to RT (has he played there before)?

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: 2019 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship MASTER THREAD
« on: May 22, 2019, 09:05:51 PM »
Back to the calling games stuff... not a "call" but Smoller deserves credit for creating (and constantly using) the worst nickname in the history of broadcasting:  Quinn "I've Got" Cravens "For Taters"

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: May 21, 2019, 09:30:12 PM »
I don't get Wacky's massive hatred for Brad Hill and calling him a dumpster fire is a bit much, but Hill clearly needed to go. Now, Ritch Price on the other hand - that guy's cumulatively been paid millions by KU and has done less than Hill. That Price has nearly 20 years at KU with one top-3 league finish, 3 NCAAs in nearly 20 years, a .400 league record, etc. - pretty amazing.

Barring a magical run through the Big 12 tourney, you could give Hughes a "B-minus" for the season. He didn't inherit much beyond Brennan and Thompson, but 8th place in the conference, a losing season - still not great. We'll see what he does with his own players...

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: May 17, 2019, 12:53:11 PM »
If the Cats can win one game during the series at KU this weekend, it will be only the fourth time in the last 10 years that the last-place finisher in the conference wasn't either K-State or KU (and, the second time in the last seven years that Texas will finish in last place).

So, there's that.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: May 09, 2019, 01:27:28 PM »
Quote from: WackyCat08 on May 09, 2019, 01:21:21 PM
To me, it's hard to compare the hire. I just have no idea what our actual coaching options were. I would have thrown the kitchen sink at Rob Vaughn. An up and comer cat, who's already the head coach at Maryland.

That would require a bold move from our AD and that's something that hasn't happened since Huggins was hired. They could have thrown money at Vaughn, an assistant at a proven ACC/SEC school, etc. Instead, Gene settled for the guy that Castiglione said was (paraphrasing) "a good guy, but couldn't win enough for a program like Oklahoma."

Such a K-State thing to do and that's why the hire stinks. But, who knows, maybe Hughes will prove the doubters (and his prior track record) wrong.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: May 09, 2019, 01:15:06 PM »
Quote from: WackyCat08 on May 09, 2019, 01:11:53 PM
If he gets us to the big 12 tournament, I'll take it for his first year.

I still think he was a poor hire, but, yes, making Big 12 in his first year would be an acceptable season (not great, not terrible - acceptable). If he can talk Brennan and Thompson into staying next year and find some decent bullpen help, he should have a good chance to move up in the standings.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: May 09, 2019, 01:08:28 PM »
Quote from: Dugout DickStone on May 09, 2019, 12:06:42 PM
yeah, there is really no way to know what this guy's winning % would look like in this conference.

Interestingly, Hughes has a chance to finish better at K-State in his first year than he did in his first year at OU (28-27 overall, 8-16 in conference - 8th place).

Improvement!

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 29, 2019, 03:14:01 PM »
Quote from: Dugout DickStone on April 29, 2019, 12:37:45 PM
OU had scouted the “that Coach doesn’t win baseball games” part of our squad and we didn’t see it coming.  How did they know?

I still don't like the hire, think it was small timey, won't work out long term, etc. But, for a team picked unanimously to finish last in the Big 12, they're probably exceeding expectations (Tied for 6th with 3 series left to play - at Baylor, home vs. WVU, at KU).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 29, 2019, 12:31:57 PM »
Quote from: sonofdaxjones on April 29, 2019, 10:42:23 AM
Looked like a crap ton of no shows for "sold out" games, and they really blew a great chance and starting pitching performance yesterday.

It was over when they got to our bullpen on Sunday. Probably should have rolled the dice and kept Wicks in since our pen is so unreliable.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 26, 2019, 12:05:07 PM »
Will Pete get his revenge? Or, fall on his face? 

Fun fact! - if K-State wins tonight, it's all-time record will be 1,856-1,856.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 19, 2019, 12:44:15 PM »
Certainly the last week has been positive. What's a killer is all the horrible losses this year: Cal-Northridge (2), Cal Baptist, San Francisco, Old Dominion (2), Texas Rio Grande Valley, Canisius (and that doesn't count losses to completely mediocre teams like Wichita State, Creighton, etc.). Flip half of those games and we might have an outside shot at NCAAs. As it is, they'll be an albatross unless this semi-miracle run continues. 

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 15, 2019, 12:31:11 PM »
Wicks is definitely a stud... Hopefully we can build on the Texas series and get out of the Big 12 basement with TCU at home this weekend.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 13, 2019, 10:02:22 AM »
Quote from: WackyCat08 on April 12, 2019, 09:51:31 PM
Brad Hill’s record in Big 12 play: 138–230–3

And Hughes was .375 in conference play at VA Tech and under .500 at OU (where he made NCAAs one time in 4 years after taking over for a program that had made it 9 of the past 10 years).

Hill needed to go - there's no question. The issue is our small timey AD replaced him with an equally mediocre coach.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: April 12, 2019, 08:48:07 PM »
Even completely setting aside Hill's D2 success, he achieved more at K-State than Hughes did in his 19 years at BC, Va Tech and  a relative historical baseball power in Oklahoma. Hughes never won a conference title, never made a super regional and made 3 NCAAs in 19 years (Hill made 4 NCAAs, 1 Super and won a conference title in in 15 years).

We can say Hill was done, lost the team, couldn't recruit anymore, etc. and that's fine. But we basically took out the trash and brought in a bigger bag of trash.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Coaching Carousel Master Thread (MAYBE FEATURING THE KSU CATS?)
« on: April 08, 2019, 08:51:35 PM »
Rick Barnes is a whopping two years younger than Kruger (64 to 66).

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Coaching Carousel Master Thread (MAYBE FEATURING THE KSU CATS?)
« on: April 03, 2019, 09:13:03 PM »
Funny that Dixon would get the UCLA job after being brought up in the Ben Howland coaching tree.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: K-State Track
« on: March 11, 2019, 09:49:13 PM »
Quote from: BMWWcat on March 11, 2019, 12:14:26 PM
Did Nina Shultz quit the team?

Transferred to Georgia

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: kso_FAN stats and charts and stuff
« on: March 05, 2019, 12:48:33 PM »
Quote from: Poster formerly known as jthutch on March 05, 2019, 11:39:18 AM
02 and 03 guys I don't remember at all:

Larry Reid
Travis Reynolds
Frank Richards
Jarrett Hart

I'm getting old  :frown:

Reid - legitimate all-league caliber PG his senior year on a bad Wooly team

Reynolds - Junction City's finest (next to Quentin Buchanon); Big 12 role player at best, starter for us until kicked off the team his senior year

Richards - JUCO PG who couldn't shoot

Jarrett Hart - started at OU, transferred to JUCO, then two years at K-State. Decent wing player

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« on: February 19, 2019, 10:36:07 PM »
The reno will help take the sting off new coach Pete Hughes missing NCAA play for the 17th time in his 20 seasons as a head coach.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Coaching Staff - might as well get this started...
« on: December 28, 2018, 01:32:37 PM »
Love the Malone and Anderson hires from a recruiting standpoint (Malone for Texas, Anderson for JUCOs). Monachino hasn't recruited for nearly 15 years since he left Koetter's staff at Arizona State, but he'll be able to sell that NFL experience and his title with the Ravens.

Overall, the staff is better than I would have thought Klieman could piece together (with the exception of Messingham, who is trash).

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Kansas State Football / Re: Coaching Staff - might as well get this started...
« on: December 23, 2018, 02:07:53 PM »
At Iowa State, Messingham's offenses were 65th in S&P in 2012 and 88th in 2013 before he/Proud Paul were fired. Unlike Klieman, Messingham has already proven he can't cut it at the DI level.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: December 21, 2018, 09:25:44 PM »
Quote from: KITNfury on December 20, 2018, 08:18:10 AM
I had no idea who Taylor Braet was until this year and after watching two vids on Twitter, I want to be BFF with him.

Braet's dad was the DL coach at Butler CC for decades. Probably put 10-15 players into the NFL (certainly more than Mo ever did...).

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