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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: ksunews construction update master thread

« on: November 07, 2012, 04:16:25 PM »

This is the latest presentation by the firm hired to do long term KSU master plan.  Click on the Nov 5-7 slides link in the left hand column.  Pretty interesting.  I like where they are going with it.

http://www.k-state.edu/masterplan/

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Kansas State Football / Re: A scenario that is concerning (maybe)

« on: October 29, 2012, 04:50:18 PM »

I hate it too.  And I hate the thought of playing Louisville. 

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Kansas State Football / A scenario that is concerning (maybe)

« on: October 29, 2012, 04:43:09 PM »

There is something I've been wondering about and hoping someone here might know the correct answer.  Say all four of Bama, Oregon, ND and the Cats finish undefeated...or really it can just be us, ND and Bama.  Say ND and their media hype snakes their way in past us to play Bama.  Who would the Fiesta choose to play us?  They have first choice of the at larges.  In this scenario ND and Bama obviously play in the championship.  Oregon would go Rose.  Florida State is tied to Orange.  Sugar I believe would take the next SEC team correct?  They are tied to doing so even if they lose Bama right?  So let's say it's Georgia for argument sake.  Whatever team comes from the BIG scrapheap goes Rose. 

Who would that leave for us?  The SEC would already have two in and can't have a third correct?  This rule has not changed?  So we have the following as candidates at this point.....Clemson?  Louisville?  Boise? (I will blow a gasket if our reward for this season is playing a Boise team that doesn't belong), Stanford?  USC?  I mean the pickings get real slim in a hurry with Ohio State being ineligible.  Stanford and USC aren't bad options but Standford was just there and both them and USC could have multiple losses.  The thing that could suck is if the Big 12 sends two to the BCS, our #2 will likely go Sugar to play a better opponent than what we would get in the Fiesta. 

If my assumptions are correct and we do indeed get left out of the title game, I would much prefer Oregon go instead of ND because then we would almost assuredly get to play ND in the Fiesta in what would be a huge game.  That being said, let's just go to Miami on Jan 7th.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Suprised this hasn't shown up here yet....ESPNU Road Trip...

« on: October 24, 2011, 12:08:34 PM »

Meh....who reads pinned threads anyway.  I shall rephrase the topic to surprised this doesn't have its own thread.  

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Kansas State Football / Suprised this hasn't shown up here yet....ESPNU Road Trip...

« on: October 24, 2011, 11:30:39 AM »

is coming.  Cool show if you haven't seen it yet.  K-State needs to represent on this...

http://twitter.com/#!/ESPNURoadTrip

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Carribean all-inclusive advice

« on: April 25, 2011, 01:41:37 PM »

I've been to all inclusives and non in Mexico and Jamaica.  Choosing between the two definitely depends on what you are aiming for.  Here's my opinion.

All inclusives are definitely more relaxing because everything is taken care of and you don't have to worry about carrying around a damn thing except your room key.  Total stress free days.  There is less culture, but nothing is stopping you from taking trips out and about.  They also have on site travel guide people that will set everything up for you on a number of different excursions.  There are usually a decent amount of things to do on site too.  

Food ranges from ok to excellent.  Basically the more you pay, the better the food will probably be.  The average food is still ok, but if you are looking for great meals, I would spend more on a nicer resort.  The average places like a Riu keep their prices reasonable by keeping the food very average, however, the food is not THAT bad.

Mexico is risky these days and getting worse.  

I personally love Jamaica and had no problems with service or food (as long as you stay somewhere reputable you'll be fine).  I prefer it to Mexico, but it is more expensive.  Just a great vibe in Jamaica.  

Based on what you are saying, I would go high end all inclusive and just kick back for a few days.....

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Nique

« on: January 13, 2011, 01:44:09 PM »

Despite his shortcomings, Dom was a tonesetter.  He set the tone for the defense, for the transition game, and for the JYC attitude.  That's what we miss about him.  He was the lead "Doberman" (amirite Mitch?).

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Inbounds plays - would love to see a stat

« on: December 21, 2010, 12:43:40 PM »

In and of itself FT% is more important...I agree.  But when you put poor FT shooting on top of no points from inbound plays and throw in poor execution of offense and transition....you lose a lot of scoring.  I'm nitpicking with this, but it seems so easily correctable.  Inbound plays really aren't that hard to learn.  One of these days our little lob in thing is going to cost us too. 

I'm not trying to be a Frank basher by starting this thread.  Frank is the best thing to happen to KSU hoops since the 80s.  To me it just baffles me why we wouldn't try to score off some of these sometimes.  We have guys we can lob to and we have some good shooters.  Why not try to take advantage? 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Inbounds plays - would love to see a stat

« on: December 20, 2010, 02:35:10 PM »

Disagree FAN....while I agree that it's important to not turn it over, I think you are losing some very good opportunities to score when all you do is lob it in over your four across line up EVERY time. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Who has improved since last year?

« on: December 20, 2010, 02:31:15 PM »

Agree on your point on McG sd....if he had played as much last year as he is this year we might have seen the same results.  I would still argue he is at least slightly improved.  He seems more confident this year and better on D.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Inbounds plays - would love to see a stat

« on: December 20, 2010, 02:26:49 PM »

I don't know what the percentages are for most teams, but I know ours sucks.  This I do know.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Inbounds plays - would love to see a stat

« on: December 20, 2010, 02:15:26 PM »

I'm sure this stat would be impossible to find, but I would love to see a comparison of the % of times we've scored off an inbounds play vs the rest of college basketball.  We are probably in the 1% range in the amount of times we score.  That might be too high.  What would the rest of college basketball be?  8%?  10%?  Really good teams probably get to 15-20%? 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Who has improved since last year?

« on: December 20, 2010, 01:57:35 PM »

Pullen - Hard to say he has improved, but also think it's hard to tell with the lack of Denis, position differences, and opponent focus on stopping him.  Just hope he can find his groove soon. 

Kelly - Haven't seen improvement thus far, but he has at least shown flashes (ok maybe only Duke....a flash).  Was hoping for at least what we got last year...which was pretty good by the end of the year.  I think we're still going to see it from him, but I don't know that he has gotten any better. 

Samuels - Can't say he's shown any better than last year, which is disappointing because he took huge strides from FR to SO.  Was hoping his perimeter game would develop and we could play him at the 3 some.  So far though, pretty much the same inconsistent performer, though he is playing a little better and might be getting ready to make a move.  And he is fouling way less, which is a big positive. 

Judge - Pretty obvious answer here at this point.  It's all about confidence with him.  Stay with it Wally.  It'll come at some point.

McGruder - Pretty solid improvement.  Love the rebounding.  Good shooter most of the time.  Now just needs to develop his ball handling skills and be more consistent.

Irving - Also think he has improved.  J looks better, ball handling has been solid.  Needs more PT. 

JHR - Improvement is there.  Moves better, has gained weight, looks more confident.  Still not someone who can be a consistent performer for us, but at least he's on the right path.  Would prefer to see him get minutes over Asprilla.

Russell - Really didn't see enough of him last year to evaluate improvement.  Skills and athleticism are there.  He just needs to stop pissing Frank off every time he plays.  Shoots too much too soon and doesn't get into the flow of the game before getting yanked. 

Vic - Definitely better, but still shouldn't be seeing very many minutes.

Newbies - can't evaluate improvement, but can based on expectations

Asprilla - Definitely not as good as advertised.  Not 6'10" either.  He is a relatively average role player that shouldn't start.   Art Alvarez's player descriptions should always be toned down by about 50%. 

Spradling - Better than advertised, but for this year if he is playing as much as he is playing, this team's ceiling isn't going to be very high.  Athletically he just can't get us into offense well enough and can't lead us to any fast break points, which is huge considering how poorly we've been executing on offense.  I think we need to play Irving and Russell more and live with their mistakes because for us to get anywhere this year it's going to have to happen with them.  Those two and Curtis were the only ones who could athletically compete with a team like Duke on the floor.  (Jake & Jamar can too.....they just had bad games that night)  Still a fan of Spradling, but he just can't be our featured point guard like he is now....at least this year.

Southwell - Needs work.  Not ready.

Williams - See above. 

Myles - Haven't seen enough, but doesn't appear to have enough game to contribute yet. 


Still think this team can make some noise this year, but they need to get it figured out and hopefully soon.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: The beauty of the RPI - ours will be worse this year

« on: November 18, 2010, 10:40:57 AM »

For the record, this is not meant to be a complaint or a comparison.  Just for info and HRPIIQ discussion only.  I'm not concerned about our RPI hurting us.  To be honest my hope is to take a proactive approach to educating the LRPIIQ population of our fanbase (i.e.  :powerespect:) about how the RPI works so they're not bitching about it later this season. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / The beauty of the RPI - ours will be worse this year

« on: November 18, 2010, 10:20:43 AM »

Last year's RPI = 

Perception of this year's schedule = 

Reality of this year's schedule (in terms of RPI) = 

While we have a couple more elite level games this year (and really only Duke is for sure assuming we play them), on a whole our schedule is much worse in terms of having a quality RPI.  We will have a solid RPI just due to how good we're going to be, our conference schedule, and those elite games, but it's going to be knocked down considerably because of all the crap teams on the schedule.  Playing those 200+ rpi teams really drag you down.  Last year we really only had four teams that fit this mold (Loyola, Western Illinois, South Dakota & Ark Pine Bluff (and they actually finished at 183)). Teams like Boston, Cleve St & IUPUI were good mid RPI teams.  This year we have what will probably be seven poor RPI teams (Presb, TX Southern, Alcorn, Loyola, UMKC, N Fla, Sav St (don't know if Emp St counts)).   Hopefully James Madison ends up being middle tier. 

Will be interesting to see how many of our fans complain about our RPI this year when there is such a perception that we have such a great schedule.  It won't matter for getting into the dance like it used to, but it may come into play for seeding.  This is the biggest weakness with the RPI.  You could play six teams and beat all six...one set by 20...the other by 40....you're still the same team either way...but your RPI plummets because of it. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Surprised this topic has not been brought up yet....

« on: November 11, 2010, 04:13:04 PM »

Stormie has just gotten so "hard". 

I think this board is more suited to analyzing something like a pregame spectacle.

GPC would just immediately jump in and start lambasting for thinking our pregame isn't the best in country because honestly, we can't possibly have any areas that need improvement. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Surprised this topic has not been brought up yet....

« on: November 11, 2010, 02:14:26 PM »

Pregame videos, sequencing of activities, line up announcements, etc.  Why have these important aspects of our "best fan experience in the country" not been analyzed yet?  I'll start. 

Why do they insist on starting the Bring on the Cats song so early?  We have boring standing and clapping for like 2-4 straight minutes with nothing happening.  Should wait till like about 40 seconds before the team should come out.  I still like the song and intro ok, but it just starts too early and drags on too long.  They got the timing down much better towards the end of the year last year.  Did nobody take notes on when to start this?

Love the Last of the Mohican's song video.  I think the new video they play right before they announce the starting line up is only ok.  A little slow right before the game starts.  Would prefer faster song and faster and more exciting highlights.  Need to attend another game to remember if in game announcer voices are used for some of the highlights.  A little Gus Johnson from the Xavier game would do nicely. 

Students did a GREAT job showing up the first game.  Second game not as good, but still way ahead of last year's pace.  As noted in another thread, where are the newspapers students??

I know we've only had exhibition games and more electricity will come with better games, but I had higher expectations for our pregame build up this year.  We are preseason #3 in the COUNTRY and a big time program now.  Maybe the pregame buildup people are in their exhibition season still too? 

Thoughts?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Ell

« on: September 17, 2010, 03:35:03 PM »

Perhaps we can lift the Curse of Ell by getting him back to town for a game and showering him with a nice, appreciative, standing O?  Maybe then all will be forgiven for the scholarship yank and OB can get another good QB again.

On another note, the train recipient was not white, but black.  A common misconception.  I had several sistas complaining to me about this white girl letting these football players run the train on her...well....they were wrong.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Practice Facility

« on: July 19, 2010, 01:44:34 PM »

FYI the Rec expansion had a max cap of $18.8 million and the lowest/accepted bid came in at $15.9 million.  The majority of the bids came in under.  Great time for construction. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: If anyone has a session 3 ticket they're looking to unload...

« on: March 09, 2010, 05:06:58 PM »

I happen to have one extra ticket to session 3 that I may have available if my bro in law doesn't buy it (which I should find out about tonight).  What would you consider the "right price"?  This is an upper level ticket in one of the corners.  You would have to sit by me, which in and of itself is worth at least.....hundreds of dollars.  In all seriousness though, what are you looking to pay?