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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 »

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 »

02 and 03 guys I don't remember at all:

Larry Reid
Travis Reynolds
Frank Richards
Jarrett Hart

I'm getting old 

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 »

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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Kansas State Football / Re: goEMAW SOURCES: WHAT WE KNOW, WHEN WE KNOW IT

« on: December 10, 2018, 07:06:03 PM »

Hughes and Klieman have got to be just about the most underwhelming first two hires for any AD in a P5 conference in a long time. About as "we give up" as you can get.

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Kansas State Football / Re: goEMAW SOURCES: WHAT WE KNOW, WHEN WE KNOW IT

« on: December 10, 2018, 05:07:31 PM »

It won't happen, but would be cool if Brown was HC and Klieman was DC since the wife of Brown's current DC (Vic Koenning) supposedly won't live outside of the south. Klieman could still probably double his salary in this scenario.

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Kansas State Football / Re: goEMAW SOURCES: WHAT WE KNOW, WHEN WE KNOW IT

« on: December 09, 2018, 01:07:19 AM »

A year featuring an incredibly low overall turnover among power 5 coaches should significantly benefit any of the "middle of the pack" power 5 schools - there is a significant amount of seasonality/timing to this whole charade. Quite literally, as it's shaped up, K-State couldn't have asked for a better time to seek a new football coach with respect to other openings across the country.

In most years (hardcore reality), K-State wouldn't have a solid chance at guys like LittreLL or Brown or Norvell or Clark (just for JRake). Yet, there's a decent possibility K-State chooses Klieman - a guy who exactly zero Power 5 schools would legitimately consider as a head coach (for reasons articulated to the nth degree).

Gene Taylor made an absolute dogsh!t/give-up/woe-is-us hire in his first attempt at K-State (our current baseball coach).

Why expect anything different for football?

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Kansas State Football / Re: NEAL BROWN: IS HE THE ONE?!? (fingers crossed?)

« on: December 08, 2018, 02:39:50 PM »

If Hawkins is the builder and Peterson the sustainer, maybe focusing on the sustainer isn't a bad plan.

This is a great post, fsd

It was Dirk Koetter that built it, then Hawkins, then Peterson...

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Kansas State Football / Re: goEMAW SOURCES: WHAT WE KNOW, WHEN WE KNOW IT

« on: December 08, 2018, 12:04:36 PM »

Definitely fair to credit Leavitt for building USF from nothing. But, he also had the benefit of an NFL stadium and could have built his entire roster recruiting within 100 miles of Tampa - two enormous luxuries.

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Kansas State Football / Re: goEMAW SOURCES: WHAT WE KNOW, WHEN WE KNOW IT

« on: December 08, 2018, 11:54:56 AM »

Leavitt record in conference games: 25-26 (from the mighty Conference USA and Big East). After he had 5 years to build up the program, they were in CUSA for two years and then the Big East for 5. He had losing conference records in three of those seven years and never won more than four conference games in the Big East. He won more than eight games in the regular season one time after they joined a conference (the year they rose into the top 5 and absolutely cratered down the stretch).

The very definition of meh.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Bill Tribute Thread For Sentimental Qatz To Share Fun Memzys (No gE'ing Allowed)

« on: December 02, 2018, 02:10:19 PM »

Dusting this one off...

As most people know, the weekly Bill press conferences are pretty much a waste of everyone's time because Bill never actually answers any questions with any amount of substance. So, what typically happens, is most "reporters" don't even bother to ask questions and it's usually the same 3-4 people that ask most of the questions. As we can all probably guess, one of those people is Fritchen.

I can't remember for certain, but I think it was back in 99 during the press conference before K-State played at Nebraska. As Fritchen is prone to doing, he asked this incredibly long-winded question that took about an hour for him to spit out. It was basically something like "Bill, can you talk about what it's like being in a stadium like Nebraska's with 80,000 fans, a historic stadium, they're all yelling before the game, you're underneath the stadium and you can hear them yelling and you're trying to get your players ready for the game (it goes on and on and on and then ends with) can you tell us what you're actually doing right before you take the field?"

Bill pauses for about 10 seconds (probably mocking the fact that Fritch took five minutes to ask a question) and then Bill says, "What's that game that the youngsters like? Chutes and Ladders? Is that what it's called? That's what we do."

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Kansas State Football / Re: Someone explain to me what happened after 2003

« on: November 29, 2018, 10:11:30 PM »

Two major factors - Bill played musical chairs at QB in both 2004 and 2005 and they couldn't seal the deal in close games (lost 4 games by 10 points or less in 2004 and lost three Big 12 games by a combined 7 points in 2005 - two of those games were won on FGs in the final minute).

If you flip 1-2 games to Ws in those years, Snyder probably wouldn't have retired.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Volleyball

« on: November 26, 2018, 09:04:11 PM »

No tourney - third time in last six years and fifth time in the last 10. While Bill holds the athletic department hostage, Taylor should be finding Suzie's replacement (starting with a call to Dawn Sullivan).

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread

« on: June 30, 2018, 10:21:38 PM »

Is that good?

Currently, No. 11 dual-threat QB and No. 197 overall recruit in the country in ESPN rankings...

Last time we had a top 200 recruit out of high school? Probably looking at Lamark Brown, Ell Roberson, Monty Beisel, Chris Boggas - somewhere in there. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: JUCO Football

« on: August 26, 2017, 04:52:44 PM »

The other piece of this is that the Kansas JUCOs started a scheduling agreement with the Iowa JUCOs a few years ago (technically, they aren't in the conference, but their schedules are basically all Kansas JUCOs plus the Iowa JUCOs). The Iowa JUCOs didn't have the restrictions the Kansas JUCOs had (no out-of-state roster limits, full scholarships, etc. - the Kansas JUCOs only covered tuition/books, not room/board, which was paid out-of-pocket by the student-athletes).

So, when the Jake Waters-led upstart program Iowa Western won the national title in 2012 (only a few years after creating the program), it spooked some of the Kansas coaches. It's not terribly crazy for them to think it's not fair that three schools that are practically conference members have a completely different set of rules.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: track

« on: June 09, 2017, 10:43:58 PM »

Reality is that winning NCAAs with a leading height of 7-3 isn't fantastic, but give Christoff Bryan credit because he missed his first two attempts at 6-11.75 and rebounded to win the NCAA title. That said, he has the talent to jump much higher. On the women's side, a top 10 team finish is still quite possible (freshman Nina Schultz could finish top 3 in the Heptathlon tomorrow).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: K-State Track

« on: May 15, 2017, 08:23:21 PM »

Track and Field News bases its rankings on how they think individuals for schools will score at the national meet. They haven't updated since the weekend, but they had K-State tied for 9th in their last ranking. But, to get to the national meet, you have to qualify via regional meets and there are always some top 10 athletes who don't make it (injured, have a bad day, etc.)

https://trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/formcharts

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015

« on: May 13, 2017, 09:35:51 PM »

Brad about to miss the league tournament for the fifth time, about to finish outside the top 5 in the league for the 11th time in 14 seasons, lowered his career Big 12 winning percentage to .375 (132-217-3) after today's loss.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015

« on: April 09, 2017, 09:13:23 PM »

Brad's career win % in Big 12 play = under 40% (and falling).

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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

« on: October 20, 2016, 10:49:54 PM »

Mizzou wants everyone to know that it was Boren/Dodd's fault:

https://missouri.rivals.com/news/zero-trust-inside-mizzou-s-move-to-the-southeastern-conference

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Players you forgot played for K-State Basketball

« on: February 21, 2016, 12:24:43 AM »

Brian Gavin.

Missouri state player of the year, top 100 national recruit... 2.4 career ppg.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015

« on: February 18, 2016, 09:04:15 PM »

Hi Kid In the Hall, did you know that UCR made a promotional Jim Woolridge baseball card a few years back?

And he looked like enormous boss in it?

Oh yea

The infamous error card...



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