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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Volleyball
« on: December 18, 2022, 09:37:51 PM »
Preparing for the volleyball equivalent of Pete Hughes...
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Kansas State Football / Re: what if avery johnston is a complete badass??
« on: December 14, 2022, 12:33:25 PM »
We can - and have - won despite being 7th-10th in recruiting rankings in the conference. The difference with this class is that while we're still 7th-8th, the gap is much, much narrower than it was when our classes were ranked in the 40s-60s and everyone else was inside the top 30.
If we can recruit classes inside the top 30-35 consistently, we're going to be very well positioned to compete for league titles/playoff spots on an annual basis.
If we can recruit classes inside the top 30-35 consistently, we're going to be very well positioned to compete for league titles/playoff spots on an annual basis.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« on: December 09, 2022, 10:46:37 AM »https://www.deseret.com/2022/12/9/23501592/conference-realignment-fcs-teams-will-reportedly-join-fbs
FCS schools wanting to form a new FBS football-only conference
Crazy... Tarleton (Beasley's a coach there) just moved up from DII to FCS two years ago and 20 years ago, Utah Tech (then "Dixie State") was a JUCO competing against Butler, Garden City, etc. North Alabama and Central Arkansas were both DII schools in the last 20 years too.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Come here and give mama some Suga (Bowl) hot tips
« on: December 09, 2022, 08:47:51 AM »Everyone should go to the WW2 museum - it's an amazing facility.
But... their approach to telling what happened is very rah-rah America and I found that a bit off-putting. I was there a few weeks ago (after having not been for about 10 years when they were transitioning from being the D-Day museum) and I'm walking by a video in one of the galleries and the hyped-up narrator says something like, "And then the American WW2 aces gunned down the Japanese and added more kills to their tallies!" This wasn't an old timey video - it was done when they did the expansion in the last few years and was too over the top. I immediately thought of Team America ("America Eff Yeah!").
That, in a nutshell, is indicative of their approach to telling the WW2 story. It's a very deliberate choice and they have executed on that choice very well. But, it's a stark contrast to other museums - the WWI museum in KC or the newly renovated Truman Museum are good local examples - which take a more contemplative approach and even challenge/question many of the decisions made - both by the U.S. and other nations.
so you'd prefer a "rah rah Nazi Germany" type of museum
Yep, exactly.
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Kansas State Football / Re: 202x Coaching Carousel
« on: December 08, 2022, 03:58:19 PM »ftr, Feldman has the following candidates on his list
Current HC:
Dino Babers
Troy Calhoun
Jason Candle
Kane Wommack
Current AC:
Todd Monken
Jim Leonhard
Herrone Moore
Ryan Walters
Brian Hartline
Wildcards:
Kevin Sumlin
Dan Mullen
https://theathletic.com/3980562/2022/12/07/purdue-coach-candidates-jeff-brohm/
Leonhard would be fun for all sorts of reasons
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Kansas State Football / Re: Come here and give mama some Suga (Bowl) hot tips
« on: December 08, 2022, 12:11:19 PM »
Everyone should go to the WW2 museum - it's an amazing facility.
But... their approach to telling what happened is very rah-rah America and I found that a bit off-putting. I was there a few weeks ago (after having not been for about 10 years when they were transitioning from being the D-Day museum) and I'm walking by a video in one of the galleries and the hyped-up narrator says something like, "And then the American WW2 aces gunned down the Japanese and added more kills to their tallies!" This wasn't an old timey video - it was done when they did the expansion in the last few years and was too over the top. I immediately thought of Team America ("America Eff Yeah!").
That, in a nutshell, is indicative of their approach to telling the WW2 story. It's a very deliberate choice and they have executed on that choice very well. But, it's a stark contrast to other museums - the WWI museum in KC or the newly renovated Truman Museum are good local examples - which take a more contemplative approach and even challenge/question many of the decisions made - both by the U.S. and other nations.
But... their approach to telling what happened is very rah-rah America and I found that a bit off-putting. I was there a few weeks ago (after having not been for about 10 years when they were transitioning from being the D-Day museum) and I'm walking by a video in one of the galleries and the hyped-up narrator says something like, "And then the American WW2 aces gunned down the Japanese and added more kills to their tallies!" This wasn't an old timey video - it was done when they did the expansion in the last few years and was too over the top. I immediately thought of Team America ("America Eff Yeah!").
That, in a nutshell, is indicative of their approach to telling the WW2 story. It's a very deliberate choice and they have executed on that choice very well. But, it's a stark contrast to other museums - the WWI museum in KC or the newly renovated Truman Museum are good local examples - which take a more contemplative approach and even challenge/question many of the decisions made - both by the U.S. and other nations.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Come here and give mama some Suga (Bowl) hot tips
« on: December 05, 2022, 12:25:43 PM »
Lunch: Willie Mae's for the best fried chicken ever.
Dinner: Cochon for all sorts of good food options.
After Dinner: Three Muses on Frenchman is an under-the-radar place with some interesting fusion food and good (and not overwhelming) live music.
Dinner: Cochon for all sorts of good food options.
After Dinner: Three Muses on Frenchman is an under-the-radar place with some interesting fusion food and good (and not overwhelming) live music.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Volleyball
« on: December 01, 2022, 08:38:00 AM »She isn't the target.Hope it’s Dawn #WintheDawnDay
UNLV will *probably* lose tomorrow night to Wazzu. If they don't, then they'll very likely lose to San Diego on Saturday. So, would be great for Mean Gene to have this thing wrapped up by the end of the weekend.
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If that's true, that's unfortunate.
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Kansas State Football / Re: What are your Dallas plans?
« on: November 30, 2022, 09:53:56 PM »Yeah, I won't have a car while I'm down there but if my north McKinney bro decides to come back to the "Deep ellum hood" with us after the game and crash in our hotel I will make sure he parks in a secure lot.Ended up booking a hotel by deep ellum/Baylor medical center (was $200 cheaper than any hotel in downtown ft worth) for me and a bro.
My other bro who is going to the game with us (married with kids) lives in far north McKinney and said "Pack a bullet proof vest, deep ellum is kind of shady"
I'm assuming he is just your typical mid 30's white suburbanite with kids who is afraid of going anywhere outside of his bubble but please tell me if I'm wrong. It's not like we are going to be out till 2am, just some drinks and dinner on Friday then maybe some day/evening drinks and dinner after the game.
As long as your car is parked in a safe, private place, you'll be fine. I IRL know 2 people who have had their cars stolen because they parked in neighborhood streets. There is crime, but it's property crime, not battery/assault/murder etc.
Thanks!
Pretty sure I know the hotel you're staying at (because there are oddly few in that immediate area and even fewer that are reasonably priced) and I have stayed there before - it's perfectly fine and just a few blocks away from Deep Ellum. Will be interesting to see how many K-Staters hang there vs. the Jerry World area.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Volleyball
« on: November 30, 2022, 12:11:09 PM »Hope it’s Dawn #WintheDawnDay
UNLV will *probably* lose tomorrow night to Wazzu. If they don't, then they'll very likely lose to San Diego on Saturday. So, would be great for Mean Gene to have this thing wrapped up by the end of the weekend.
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Kansas State Football / Re: 202x Coaching Carousel
« on: November 29, 2022, 12:33:32 PM »If I was an Iowa State fan, I'd be praying for someone else to hire Campbell.
I don't think that he's as good as they think he is. I also don't think that they'll do any better.
That's a bingo - look at their history. They've had one coach leave there with a record above .500 in the last 80 years. Arguably, McCarney is their all-time third best coach (behind oscar and Campbell) and he was 56-85 overall and 27-68 in league play (5 bowls in 11 years and one season with more than seven wins).
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Volleyball
« on: November 29, 2022, 12:29:06 PM »
Similar to what Dax said, if we could just be competitive in half of our sports, I would take that at this point (competitive to me being defined as making a sport's version of the NCAA tourney most years and occasionally competing for a Big 12 title). That's really not too much to ask and we have peer programs that accomplish this regularly.
Right now, we're clearly in the bottom half of the league in soccer (Dib just needs 4-5 more years), volleyball, baseball, women's golf, tennis and rowing. Track has also been slipping from Rovelto's typical output.
I still don't understand why 5 years isn't enough to determine that a coach can't meet the aforementioned competitive baseline and then move on if they can't. Coaches are proving in virtually every sport that you can take a doormat and turn them into a contender in 2-3 years.
Right now, we're clearly in the bottom half of the league in soccer (Dib just needs 4-5 more years), volleyball, baseball, women's golf, tennis and rowing. Track has also been slipping from Rovelto's typical output.
I still don't understand why 5 years isn't enough to determine that a coach can't meet the aforementioned competitive baseline and then move on if they can't. Coaches are proving in virtually every sport that you can take a doormat and turn them into a contender in 2-3 years.
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Kansas State Football / Re: 202x Coaching Carousel
« on: November 29, 2022, 09:23:08 AM »They’re saying Williams will be retained on staff.
Why would he want to be on Hugh Freeze's staff?
Access to escorts paid by the state?
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Kansas State Football / Re: What are your Dallas plans?
« on: November 28, 2022, 10:07:16 PM »Where is everybody getting their tickets? Through K-State? Secondary market? I assume K-State’s sections will be on the visitor’s side, right?
K-State allotment sections are: 136-139, 142, 240-244, 442-446. Given the small size of the TCU fanbase and K-State being 8 hours away, my guess is that if you buy in the upper deck, you'll probably have plenty of room to move around. I bought tix on Stubhub a week ago and there were loads and loads of options at all levels.
As for things to do, skip the dumb alumni stuff and just go to Deep Ellum. Pretty cool neighborhood with breweries, bars, good food, etc. Of course, it's also worth remembering that Dallas is home to a Medieval Times...
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Volleyball
« on: November 27, 2022, 12:21:41 PM »
It's Dawn Sullivan or bust.
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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: We have a real game tonight. Tangs v Alfords. Ty greg!
« on: November 22, 2022, 09:57:08 PM »Mad props to greg for putting the game up then single handily fighting off the FBI who tried to cut his feed in the 2nd half.
In Greg's defense, the Caymans must have had an internet failure because the dumbasses like me who paid $30 on Flo Sports to watch these games also lost the feed...
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Kansas State Football / Re: Dillion's Bowl brought to you by Sunflower Kansas
« on: November 21, 2022, 01:03:13 PM »
Brando is not good, but Spencer Tillman is the absolute dumbest/laziest announcer in sports. I had the misfortune of being in the booth with him for a game when he was paired with KSU alum Craig Bolerjack (also not the sharpest tool in the shed) and Tillman was unbelievably bad. No preparation, no understanding of game flow, no clue who is who on each team or key personnel, etc. And, no interest in becoming more informed during the course of the game.
Tillman is the equivalent of creating an AI robot that just randomly spits out football cliches/phrases with no situational understanding/context.
Pairing him with a geriatric/doesn't care anymore Brando is a really bad twosome. It's why they've been the undercard of announcers for nearly a decade.
Tillman is the equivalent of creating an AI robot that just randomly spits out football cliches/phrases with no situational understanding/context.
Pairing him with a geriatric/doesn't care anymore Brando is a really bad twosome. It's why they've been the undercard of announcers for nearly a decade.
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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing west virginia hurt the image of our program?
« on: November 21, 2022, 12:26:04 PM »
The Zen man was 10-for-19 on field goals at Butler CC with a career long of 44 yards, so the fact that he's perfect so far at K-State (including a 50+ yarder) is a wee bit unexpected (and cause for minor celebration).
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: November 15, 2022, 11:53:32 AM »
We're going to find out what we're made of when No. 4 Iowa comes to Bramlage on Thursday. They just gave up almost 90 to Drake in OT, but I'm not sure we can keep up unless a couple of our players are on fire.
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Kansas State Football / Re: How good is Will Howard???
« on: November 15, 2022, 11:43:14 AM »michael bishop getting 9.2 Y/A with only 50% completion percentage is completely bananas. just bombs away 24/7
https://youtu.be/jjUF-q1ke1M?t=352
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2022 midterm elections
« on: November 10, 2022, 02:46:18 PM »Have you every gone to see the mined land / superfund sites?Pitt! Forgot PittSEK native shop talk... Pittsburg is an interesting example of a formerly entirely blue area that's now purpleish, but likely on it's way to being red. It was a huge union area in the early/mid 20th century due to coal mining being the major industry and those democratic leanings held fairly strong through the early 2000s even though coal mining had basically evaporated. But, in the last decade or so, it's gone from being one of the only reliably blue counties in the state to more red than blue.
Also, Big Brutus is pretty damn cool.
SEK is a great example of what Thomas Franks talks about in his book "What's the Matter with Kansas:QuoteGrandstanding leaders never deliver, their fury mounts and mounts, and nevertheless they turn out every two years to return their right-wing heroes to office for a second, a third, a twentieth try. The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to make our country strong again; receive deindustrialization. Vote to screw those politically correct college professors; receive electricity deregulation. Vote to get government off our backs; receive conglomeration and monopoly everywhere from media to meatpacking. Vote to stand tall against terrorists; receive Social Security privatization. Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated then ever before in our lifetimes, in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.
Nope, but it's funny - my former pro union turned maga uncle from pburg was up in KC a few weeks ago and somehow all the strip mining came up and I asked about swimming in the strip pits (a very common thing for SEK people). He said he did it all the time 40-50 years ago (he's 75) and I asked him if he was worried about any issues coming from that. He just stared at me blankly and asked why he should be worried and I didn't want to set off an argument, so I let it go.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2022 midterm elections
« on: November 10, 2022, 01:47:54 PM »Pitt! Forgot PittSEK native shop talk... Pittsburg is an interesting example of a formerly entirely blue area that's now purpleish, but likely on it's way to being red. It was a huge union area in the early/mid 20th century due to coal mining being the major industry and those democratic leanings held fairly strong through the early 2000s even though coal mining had basically evaporated. But, in the last decade or so, it's gone from being one of the only reliably blue counties in the state to more red than blue.
Also, Big Brutus is pretty damn cool.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread
« on: November 10, 2022, 01:39:13 PM »Gen Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, just said the Pentagon believes 100,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine.I believe he estimated similar casualties for Ukraine. It has been an incredibly violent conflict.
In 20 years (1955-1975) the US lost 58,000 soldiers in Vietnam.
No idea if accurate and while that is enormous by American standards (this being a greater pace of military deaths than either WW2 or WW1), it's a drop in the bucket compared to Soviet standards (2ish million in WW1 and 9ish million in WW2). That region has always had a different viewpoint on military casualties that's persisted over centuries.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2024 Dem Candidate
« on: November 09, 2022, 02:43:25 PM »
True story - I worked with Fetterman on a community improvement project when he was mayor of Braddock about 10 years ago. Didn't work super closely with him, but he was pretty involved and the project was successful as part of his attempt to revitalize a horrifically depressed town (if anyone wants an example of a formerly legit town that completely went to crap after all the middle class manufacturing jobs left, Braddock is a great example).
Back then - I'm sure he's been compromised at this point - he was quite genuine, forward-thinking, no-bullshit, etc. and he was very engaging when he was invited to address our entire organization at a retreat. Didn't follow his career too closely after that, but in thinking about how he was back then, it's surprising he is where he's at now (hence the compromise comment).
Back then - I'm sure he's been compromised at this point - he was quite genuine, forward-thinking, no-bullshit, etc. and he was very engaging when he was invited to address our entire organization at a retreat. Didn't follow his career too closely after that, but in thinking about how he was back then, it's surprising he is where he's at now (hence the compromise comment).
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2024 Dem Candidate
« on: November 09, 2022, 12:49:57 PM »
I wish Booker had more traction. He's not too progressive (relative to the other options) and is for pub things like school vouchers. Given the shitshow that is leaders in the dem party, it's odd to me that he hasn't been able to break through.