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

« on: June 12, 2025, 09:31:58 PM »

Helluva second day (scored more points than anyone else). Fourth best mark in school history and top 40 mark in the world this year.

He's met the minimum standard for the world championships (but not the auto standard), so an outside chance he could make it and compete for Sweden.

Men have a good chance to score in the triple jump as well and with a good finish, could place in the top 25 or so. The women have only one chance to score points left (high jump).

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: It's time we have a conversation about Bill Self

« on: June 06, 2025, 12:26:14 PM »

If you don't know about John McLendon, you should. https://kuathletics.com/news/2021/10/8/a-tribute-to-coach-john-mclendon

thanks for this

That included a mention of the "National Industrial Basketball League" which I didn't know had existed. Pretty interesting in that it was still a direct competitor with the NBA even though it was semi-pro - the NBA was on pretty shaky ground in the 50s/early 60s. Several eventual NBA all-stars played in the league (including Bob Boozer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Industrial_Basketball_League

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: June 04, 2025, 04:48:53 PM »

his ceiling is Matt Siebrandt

Would take!

Hopefully we have a Quentin Buchanan on this roster too! 

The other JC prodigy - Travis Reynolds - was way better...

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: June 04, 2025, 12:25:48 PM »

FWIW... Matt Thomas (Iowa State) is the leading scorer on the team at 12 ppg. David McCormack is 4th at 10 ppg.

Perhaps that's a window into the level of competition and/or what we might expect with respect to output from Rapieque. No idea about the quality of play in that league, but his team seems to be historically good, but appears to be pretty bad this year - record of 5-29 this season.

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

« on: June 01, 2025, 05:02:57 PM »

In a season full of bad pitching decisions by our coaching staff, starting Duke today instead of Quevedo might be at the top of the list.

We probably lose either way, but likely in a less embarrassing fashion.

Going to need to focus a lot of attention on shoring up the pitching via the portal.

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

« on: May 31, 2025, 05:16:57 PM »

Wasn't pretty (especially the continued suckitude of our pen), but a win is a win - something our friends in Lawrence won't experience in NCAAs this year.

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

« on: May 30, 2025, 11:06:17 PM »

Disappointing end to the season, but there are some nice, young pieces to build around.  To make the tournament with pitching as bad as ours is actually quite promising for the future.

We still have one more game to lose!

Also, we'll lose about 50% of the core of this team going into next year.

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

« on: May 30, 2025, 08:57:49 PM »

This game is a microcosm of our season. We actually get a decent start from our pitcher (2 ER in 5.1 IP) and instead of leaving him in with 2 runners on and 1 out in the fifth, we bring in a reliver with a nearly 9.00 ERA in the last month of the season and a 3-1 game becomes 6-1 in one swing and it's over. For added giggles, our pitching choices then result in 4 more runs through the 7th (including a WP that was so bad it scored 2 runs).

Offensively, plenty of chances, but could never get a key hit. And, of course, that included some horrendous at-bats with runners in scoring position (Dardar striking out on a truly awful pitch that bounced in front of the plate with runners on 2nd/3rd in the 6th was particularly bad).

We gave UTSA their first ever NCAA tourney win today and maybe we'll do it again with HCU tomorrow.

This team just seems like it's ready for this season to be over.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 26, 2025, 09:53:54 PM »

https://x.com/AdamZagoria/status/1927064861902540912

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

« on: May 26, 2025, 12:16:40 PM »

If we didn't play like dogshit on the road, this regional actually would set up decently.

UTSA played six Q1 games all year (3-3) and their pitching doesn't look too great given who they've played (don't walk a ton, but also don't load up on Ks and they give up a ton of HRs). IF our bats show up (and they didn't last week), this could be a high scoring game given that our starting pitching has been terrible in the last 3 weeks.

Zero expectations, so any win will be great.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: May 23, 2025, 06:24:41 PM »

https://x.com/TiptonEdits/status/1926040089437614360?t=1rXc8Buh2dWJXdLBgWcFlQ&s=19

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

« on: May 21, 2025, 11:01:03 PM »

All the hallmarks in one game - good first inning to take the lead, total meltdown by starting pitcher (sixth consecutive poor start by our starting pitchers), dipshittery on the basepaths to take away runs, poor at-bats throughout the game (especially with runners on base), lazy/careless errors in the field...

Maybe this team just needs to feel like its back is against the wall to perform. We'll find out next week.

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

« on: May 21, 2025, 12:48:44 PM »

If you told me at the beginning of the year we'd make the tournament I would've taken it.  We lost a lot from last year and had lots of question marks heading into this season in terms of production.

Kind of wild that it’s only our sixth appearance all time

I still think Hughes is a boob who makes bad baseball choices. But, credit is due - he basically turned over the entire roster this year and is going to make the tourney. For me, that's the baseline - we have program limitations (weather/location/nearby talent pool, etc.) and if we can make NCAAs 3 out of 5 years, that's good enough (though obviously would love to be better).

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA

« on: May 21, 2025, 12:40:50 PM »

https://x.com/ErnestScribblr/status/1924835528173658492

Not that it would matter, but the Dems should just start asking these middle school civics questions to these dipshits in every hearing just to reinforce how stupid and unqualified they are (and, this is arguably one of the most qualified people currently serving in Trump 2.0).

I guess I don't have someone who pops to mind as being particularly qualified in this administration, but what are Noem's qualifications?

Former red-state governor. Has undergone all of the cosmetic treatments that the M-a-L crowd goes in for...

Not saying I agree with it, but a former governor serving in a cabinet level position regardless of qualifications specific to that department is fairly common on both sides. And, she actually ran a state government (as opposed to being a TV talking head). So, I'd say she's toward the top with Rubio, Burgum, etc.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Biden (interim) Dictator

« on: May 20, 2025, 10:10:25 PM »

The reality is that Nixon is the only president for whom the 25th could have ever conceivably been applied to, but he resigned before it could happen. We know this because there were arguably viable opportunities to invoke it (Reagan, Trump, Biden) and it didn't happen.

Would be an interesting hypothetical as it relates to Biden given his rapid cognitive decline, but I think it's still pretty unlikely even if he had stayed in the race and won. Obviously, it ain't happening with Trump 2.0 no matter what happens in the next 3+ years.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA

« on: May 20, 2025, 09:59:59 PM »

https://x.com/ErnestScribblr/status/1924835528173658492

Not that it would matter, but the Dems should just start asking these middle school civics questions to these dipshits in every hearing just to reinforce how stupid and unqualified they are (and, this is arguably one of the most qualified people currently serving in Trump 2.0).

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

« on: May 20, 2025, 09:30:15 PM »

D1 baseball has us as a two seed in Eugene going into the Big 12 tourney, so we're safely in barring something incredibly bizarre happening.

Oregon would be tough (very good pitching with loads of Ks and not loads of walks; pretty good power hitting team), but they also played a pillow soft non-conference schedule aside from Oregon State (whom they did go 4-0 against in Eugene). They also lost a series to one of the worst P4 teams in the country (Ohio State) and also had some other bad losses for a top 8 NCAA seed.

The Big Ten is only going to get 3-4 teams in this year (Big 12 should get 7-8), so Oregon's record might be inflated a bit, though they did go 5-1 against the other Big Ten teams that will make the tourney (UCLA & USC).

All that said, our starting pitching was absolutely dreadful last weekend (8.3 IP, 16 runs allowed) and if it doesn't get better, it's not going to matter who we play.

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

« on: May 12, 2025, 08:29:21 AM »

We're up to No. 36 in RPI (up from 44 last week). Cincy is one spot ahead of us at 35 with KU at 34. Arizona and ASU both had big drops last weekend - Zona from 26 to 41 after a baaaaaaad series loss at home to Utah (worst team in the league) and ASU from 39 to 45 after dropping a game at home to Houston.

Considering what's happened to us in the Hughes era (frequently on the bubble and missed the tourney every year except last year), it'd be in our interest to NOT be the last team in the Big 12 in consideration for an at-large (though, a team in the 30s should be safely in). With WVU and the Arizona schools somewhat face-planting in the last few weeks, the "Big 12 sucks" sentiment will receive a boost with only TCU/WVU having chances at top 16 seeds (and hosting a regional).

KU plays at WVU this weekend, we're at Cincy, Arizona's at Houston and ASU is at Okie state. If we can avoid the sweep (tall order given our struggles on the road) and at least 1 of KU/Arizona/ASU drop the series, we should be ahead of at least one of those teams entering the Big 12 tourney.

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

« on: May 09, 2025, 08:45:48 PM »

Un-effing-believable

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

« on: May 06, 2025, 06:40:52 PM »

First team listed on "Last 4 In"...

If we could win the series against WVU and avoid a sweep next weekend at Cincy, I think we're safely in.

Lose both series (2-4 or worse) and flip a coin (barring a long run in the Big 12 tourney, which is now single elimination).

https://d1baseball.com/stories/2025-d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-may-6/

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: May 06, 2025, 12:41:49 PM »

I would love to see us dump a crap load of $$$ into an Olympic sport (comparatively speaking) and become dominant in that sport. I don't even care what it is - just pick one and go all-in (times 10).

I mean, Youngstown State won the 2025 NCAA bowling championship. Their head coach makes $50,000 a year. We couldn't spend $1 million a year and completely own that? Same thing with rifle, beach volleyball (ocean adjacent TCU just won that), water polo, etc, etc.

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

« on: May 03, 2025, 06:20:52 PM »

Guess they knew Sheffield (and Guyette) had good outings in them today...

No midweek game and rest up for WVU - season is probably on the line. Win that series and we should be safely on the right side of the bubble.

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

« on: May 02, 2025, 10:54:28 PM »

PBP: "Putz is from Loch Lloyd - I'm from Missouri/Kansas City and I've never heard of this place."

Color guy: "He went to Bishop... I'm not sure how to say this, I'm going to guess... 'Mee...juh'"

PBP: "Yeah, I don't know how you say that either. And, apparently, Loch Lloyd is just south of Kansas City - who knew?"

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

« on: May 02, 2025, 10:37:39 PM »

And tonight I learned that the run rule only applies on get away day. Whadda ya know!

The really ought to change it - maybe in games 1-2, it's more than 10. But, this is getting a bit silly (though, it's good for us to try and cycle through as many of their arms as possible tonight)

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

« on: May 02, 2025, 10:17:46 PM »

Despite some early dipshittery on the basepaths (and the fact that we're turning a pitching staff that wasn't particularly good at striking out batters into a universal Nolan Ryan), you'd think it'd be easy to be happy being up 16-3 going into the bottom of the 7th.

But, what do we do - we decide to put in our only reliever (Arther) who hasn't been destroyed multiple times in the last few weeks. Wouldn't it be a great time to get some of the younger arms some innings - I mean, even as bad as our pen is, surely a 13-run lead is safe? And, also, our Sunday starter didn't make it out of the first inning last week and then we decided to throw him again on Tuesday in the 9th. So, guessing we're probably going to need some bullpen arms (like, you know, our best one) tomorrow.

Our coaching staff is so bloody stupid...