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Kansas State Football / Re: Status/Twitter/Whatever steve dave Wants To Talk About Thread

« on: April 29, 2025, 03:18:23 PM »

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

« on: March 03, 2025, 11:19:52 AM »

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/43623233/sources-espn-ok-option-televise-acc-sports-36

ESPN picks up ACC options, "sources" seem to be floating that this will keep FSU Clemson in the league for now. We shall see.

FSU and Clemson deciding to stay because ESPN picked up that option doesn't make the least bit of sense to me. ESPN was always going to pick up that option because it's an amazing deal for them. It's more years of the shitty deal that FSU and Clemson wants to be out from under.

Looks like they are staying put for now.  I assume this is all just a pause and that we will see movement in 5 or 6 years.

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/1896584556150759540

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/1896610215220674824

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Kansas State Football / Re: Future schedule update...

« on: February 05, 2025, 02:20:51 PM »

i hope we have some fans show up in ireland, but the sense I get is that no one will be there.

i wish they were doing this game somewhere cool like australia or the galapagos archipelago

Ticket sales are going well, we essentially have only upper deck seats left on our side. I'm going!

Agreed, bought my tickets yesterday and only upper deck was available, and they weren't cheap.

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

« on: January 31, 2025, 08:11:43 AM »

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/43623233/sources-espn-ok-option-televise-acc-sports-36

ESPN picks up ACC options, "sources" seem to be floating that this will keep FSU Clemson in the league for now. We shall see.

FSU and Clemson deciding to stay because ESPN picked up that option doesn't make the least bit of sense to me. ESPN was always going to pick up that option because it's an amazing deal for them. It's more years of the shitty deal that FSU and Clemson wants to be out from under.

https://bsky.app/profile/adavidhalejoint.bsky.social/post/3lh25pvplk42l

This is a long 🧵 that talks about some of that.  I think the interesting point he makes in there is that 2031ish is a major inflection point for college football. If a breakaway, superleague or something is going to happen that is the most logical time based on all the contracts ending around that time. Even if Clemson/FSU win their lawsuits an exit would still be expensive. Given that there is a realistic chance the whole business model blows up into something different in 6 years there is a chance they would be better off to just wait until then.

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

« on: January 30, 2025, 11:21:34 AM »

Dellinger has more details:

-13 football games per year from streaming on ESPN+ to linear on TBS\TNT
-15 basketball games to TBS\TNT

Starts next season and as a sub-license doubt we see more $ just better exposure.

https://sports.yahoo.com/big-12-football-on-tnt-new-deal-will-feature-13-football-games-on-wbd-channels-after-settlement-135956401.html

If ESPN is having to sublicense, does that mean it has more game inventory than it can air on its linear and streaming platforms?  Asking for a friend that wondered why Big 12 got partially relegated to sublicensing.

We did not get relegated to sublicenses, some of the games on ESPN+ got promoted to a linear network. 

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

« on: January 30, 2025, 09:27:29 AM »

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/43623233/sources-espn-ok-option-televise-acc-sports-36

ESPN picks up ACC options, "sources" seem to be floating that this will keep FSU Clemson in the league for now. We shall see.

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Kansas State Football / Re: How good is Will Howard???

« on: January 21, 2025, 08:21:02 AM »

We get to count this as a National Championship, right?

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

« on: January 04, 2025, 03:06:20 PM »

wack.

also, mods, get on the bluesky links, thanks.

LOL, 80% of the reason I posted that was to test the Bluesky links.

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

« on: January 03, 2025, 01:46:36 PM »

https://bsky.app/profile/brettmcmurphy.bsky.social/post/3leudnhnroc2o
Northern Illinois schedules Tuesday Board of Trustees meeting for “review & endorsement Membership Fee for Northern Illinois University to Join the Mountain West Conference”

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Kansas State Football / Re: 12 Team Playoff

« on: January 03, 2025, 09:06:15 AM »

It still has stakes though. They celebrate, cut down nets, and get trophies for making the final four in basketball and we think nothing of it.

this is the equivalent of doing it for teams getting out of the round of 32 and calling it something like the "Madison Square Garden Classic". And also calling it the "Madison Square Garden Classic" If it's the Final Four or Regional or round of 32.

Winning the Rose Bowl to get to the semi-finals is way more prestigious than winning the elite eight in some NBA stadium or domed football stadium to win the right to play in another dome.

Is it though? Do you think this matters more to Ohio State than a potential win at AT&T next week? I don't even know where the final is and no one really cares.

I think in the end what I don't like is that calling a quarterfinal the "Rose Bowl" feels very inauthentic/insincere. Like, you all threw away the tradition - just own it and stop trying to pretend it's what it was before the BCS. (I also know it doesn't really matter).

This is exactly my feeling on it.  The Rose Bowl doesn't really exist anymore (along with all the other ones that are now playoff games).  It is now a playoff and should be treated as such. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: 12 Team Playoff

« on: January 01, 2025, 07:54:55 PM »

I'm sorry but it's so silly that these prelim rounds are still called bowls.

Ohio State wearing Rose Bowl Champion hats is super dumb.

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Kansas State Football / Re: What bowl game are we playing?

« on: December 26, 2024, 05:48:28 PM »

Haha. As soon as a QB steps back and launches it calmly downfield I know it’s a completion against our pedestrian defense.

It's all about perspective, if our DB is within 5 yards when the camera catches up to the receiver, I take it as a sign of improvement.

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Kansas State Football / Re: What bowl game are we playing?

« on: December 26, 2024, 05:04:45 PM »

This is hard to watch. I had such, apparently unrealistic, expectations for this year.

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

« on: November 18, 2024, 12:19:48 PM »

Dellinger has more details:

-13 football games per year from streaming on ESPN+ to linear on TBS\TNT
-15 basketball games to TBS\TNT

Starts next season and as a sub-license doubt we see more $ just better exposure.

https://sports.yahoo.com/big-12-football-on-tnt-new-deal-will-feature-13-football-games-on-wbd-channels-after-settlement-135956401.html

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Kansas State Football / Re: Why is DJamer Giddens Not Talked About More?

« on: November 17, 2024, 07:59:30 AM »

Is this the thread where someone said there was not going to be a drop-off from Deuce leaving?

Love DJamer but it's crazy how valuable it is to have a guy who can turn an average play into an improbable touchdown like Deuce could

Running behind Beebe kinda helps too

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Kansas State Football / Re: Watching AJ beat the CRAP out of Houston

« on: November 03, 2024, 10:06:57 AM »

we still have a clear path into the conference championship game

https://bball.notnothing.net/bracket.php?conf=big12fb

Ran through some scenarios and it seems we are still in good shape with tie breakers if a bunch of teams end up with 2 loss each..

Obviously we need CU to lose and for us to win out but if those 2 things happen a BYU/KSU rematch seems to be the only outcome regardless of who else is tied with 2 losses.

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Kansas State Football / Re: what if avery johnston is a complete badass??

« on: November 02, 2024, 06:35:12 PM »

What if he isn't?

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

« on: September 18, 2024, 10:25:51 AM »

https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/1836209735399248192?t=ZI_z5idkFRiRZFqQckagpw&s=19

Not a lot of detail in the article, sounds like someone if floating a trial ballon of giving them more money in exchange for shorting the GOR and then having them leave in a more orderly fashion. The ACC wins because this would leave the GOR concept intact and the rebels win with more money and a clear way out in a couple years (I assume it would be 2027)

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

« on: September 18, 2024, 07:24:39 AM »

https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/1836209735399248192?t=ZI_z5idkFRiRZFqQckagpw&s=19

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Kansas State Football / Re: UTM vs Cats 2024 Game thread

« on: August 31, 2024, 07:09:27 PM »

Haven't seen a designed QB run half way through the 2nd quarter is odd.

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

« on: July 22, 2024, 02:40:07 PM »

He's not been very accurate historically. He announced he went into hospice care a while back so honestly I'm kind of surprised he's even still putting info out.

In fairness, he has probably correctly predicted every realignment move ever made. The only problem is he has also missed on several thousands of other predictions since he just constantly throws every thought out there as "news".

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT

« on: June 14, 2024, 12:11:27 PM »

CBS Sports and Jeff Goodman said we really did pay north of 2 mil.  Norlander from CBS said: "K-State boasts one of the largest NIL war chests of any program in college basketball." Damn.

https://x.com/MattNorlander/status/1801639057413304552

You are welcome guys.  My little $9.95 per month contribution to Wildcat NIL is really paying off.

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

« on: June 13, 2024, 08:33:45 PM »

I think it is possible that some athletic directors, university presidents and Brett Yormark will outsmart Wall Street types on a business deal because the Wall Street guys are too greedy and are missing something about our valuation. But I think hoping for a mutually beneficially long term relationship or taking advantage of those Wall Street suckers is delusional at worst and the bargaining stage at best.

Well said kk

PE money is a short term cash influx to meet our new $20M per year payroll.  It is not a fix but let's us kick the can down the road until (hopefully) we find a long-term fix.  I get the need from the conference perspective.  I don't see how the PE guys are going to make money since they are essentially buying 20% of the holding company when the real value is in the schools.

Yes. It's just absurd. I could wrap my head around taking on PE investment if the league were truly dying, but I didn't think it is. Permanent second tier? Probably. But not dying, and this doesn't put us in the first tier long term. Maybe but even short term

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

« on: May 28, 2024, 02:48:01 PM »

So is all that Utah to ACC thing a load of crap right? Ffs they already replaced their logo on their field with the Big 12.

I haven’t been keeping up, where is it being talked about?

Mainly TwitterX, but there was enough noise that they issued a statement.

https://x.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1795513804639424881

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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!

« on: May 28, 2024, 10:27:54 AM »

They drained the farm pond 

That is a nice crop of dandelions they got growing there.