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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Giving up on KSU sports has made me much happier.

« on: June 03, 2016, 03:43:06 PM »

After a full year of not caring about KSU athletics I can honestly say that I'm a happier person.  K-State sports is nothing but heartbreak and frustration, and it was more of a negative than a positive in my life.  I probably owe that worthless piece of crap Currie a "thank you" for freeing me from caring and being let down, but even though I don't care anymore it's still a fact that he's the one who destroyed the men's basketball program.  If you're a student at K-State or you have young kids I can see why you'd be a sports fan, but if you don't fit into those two categories sports don't really have anything to offer you.  I'm posting this comment not as a "look at me, I'm too cool for school" but as an encouragement to others to just stop caring.  It's very liberating.  And with my free time and extra cash, I've rekindled my love of cars and have gotten more into that community.  I purchased a first generation Mazda Miata last fall that needed some work and I spent the winter fixing and replacing a few things under the hood as well as putting on a new convertible top, and I've gotten closer with my neighbors and friends while doing the work.  With cars there's still a lot of heartbreak and frustration as well as bloody knuckles and burned skin, but the payoff is so much better.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Let's cut to the chase

« on: April 29, 2015, 01:17:58 PM »

Give oscar some credit... he might win one tournament game if he is here for four more years.

Do you mean a Big 12 tournament game?  Because I don't see any NCAA tournament wins for the 'Cats while oscar is coaching them.

You do seem genuinely angry. I hope everything is okay.

I am genuinely angry that our athletic director forced out a successful basketball coach and replaced him with a proven failure.  I'm also genuinely angry that so many K-State fans are still willing to give oscar the benefit of the doubt when he hasn't done anything to earn it.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: deBruce meeting with media tomorrow at 4:00

« on: April 28, 2015, 02:06:18 PM »

hey crap-bag, take that crap somewhere else.

 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Let's cut to the chase

« on: April 28, 2015, 02:02:35 PM »

Give oscar some credit... he might win one tournament game if he is here for four more years.

Do you mean a Big 12 tournament game?  Because I don't see any NCAA tournament wins for the 'Cats while oscar is coaching them.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: 2015 Recruiting thread, The Bread Basket

« on: April 27, 2015, 12:36:03 PM »

Dang we may have the best recruiting class in the bIG 12.  Guards upgraded - Brown will make us forget foster.  Wes and Wade will make a good combination.  D.J. will be good at PF, and big meat to clog the middle.

     

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: deBruce meeting with media tomorrow at 4:00

« on: April 24, 2015, 02:15:14 PM »

Please don't demean Special Olympics like that. My daughter's Special Olympics team performs better than oscar's team (with far superior coaching). No need to disrespect hard working coaches and athletes in Special Olympics.

I apologize to you and to the hard working coaches and athletes of the Special Olympics.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: deBruce meeting with media tomorrow at 4:00

« on: April 23, 2015, 10:45:45 AM »

special!

https://twitter.com/KellisRobinett/status/591010044927299584

Yeah, like Special Olympics type special. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: deBruce meeting with media tomorrow at 4:00

« on: April 22, 2015, 12:13:18 PM »

I bet this will be about a new summer basketball camp for grand parents and grand children, or perhaps to raise awareness for Earth Day.

ZERO CHANCE this is about how half his team doesn't like him.

He wishes it was only half.

Well, considering that half of the team has only known him for less than a week it could be true. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Jevon Thomas

« on: April 21, 2015, 11:20:50 AM »

Angel came to play for Frank.

Jevon came to play for oscar.

IIRC, Mr Bread had said oscar didn't have many contributors leave.

So probably if you are true BID or TYS then you want Jevon to suck.

Very logical, but I don't think Thomas came to play for oscar so much as the best program that would have him with his academics. With that resolved, there will be lots of options, and given the transfer environment of today's game . . .

Called it back in 2013.  Can you look into your crystal ball and post tonight's Mega Millions numbers? 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Baghdad Bob Mounts Extraordinary oscar Weber PR Campaign. KSU Fans Die Inside.

« on: April 20, 2015, 12:44:39 PM »

Saul, set up a thing where we can put up MST3K style replays of the games.

The jokes that I've read here in the past few days are the only joy that I've gotten from the K-State basketball program since Frank was forced out, so that'd be the only way to make this mess enjoyable to watch.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Rebuttal to Currie's E-Mail

« on: April 20, 2015, 11:57:31 AM »

Power 5 schools with at least five transfers the past three seasons includes...

Great reply!  But I was hoping that someone would have looked into the "schools with at least five transfers" to see what happened at each school for that to happen.  My guess is that most, if not all, were due to a coaching change but I'm too lazy to do the work to see if that's true.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Malek gone...

« on: April 17, 2015, 12:31:07 PM »

Remember when the national sports media used to report on K-State basketball?  Seems like decades ago, but this guy had it right (I don't know if he's still with Fox Sports, but it'd be great if he'd do a follow-up article):

http://www.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/Kansas-State-Wildcats-oscar-Weber-Frank-Martin-John-Currie-new-hire-spells-big-trouble-040112

" Give John Currie credit for this much. He pulled a fast one when much of the college basketball world was looking elsewhere.

On the weekend of the Final Four, shortly after successfully pushing his program’s remarkably successful head basketball coach out of Kansas State and on to what is, at best, a lateral move, Currie brought in a new guy who will serve John Currie very, very well.

As for serving Kansas State, the school for which Currie serves as athletic director, and the fans he theoretically has been hired to represent? Not so much.

That’s the takeaway from Frank Martin’s exit and oscar Weber’s arrival at a basketball program Martin made into an unexpected perennial winner: Potentially very good for John Currie. Most likely disastrous for Kansas State.
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But here's what Currie and Kansas State really have: A head basketball coach Currie chose after running out a stone-cold winner, a new coach who might help Currie get a better job who knows how to take other coaches’ recruits and win with them before his own guys have to play and his teams’ levels of excellence wanes."

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Nigel Gone

« on: April 09, 2015, 02:40:13 PM »

I once believed in causes too, had my pointless point of view.  Life went on no matter who was wrong or right...

Nice work.  And thanks to everyone else who gave answers, even though they weren't as entertaining as Spracne's. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Nigel Gone

« on: April 09, 2015, 11:08:39 AM »

How does the mass exodus from oscar compare with what could have happened with the Spradling-led mess with Frank?  I never was able to get any reliable info about that so I always assumed that it wouldn't have really happened, or if it did, it would have just been losers like Spradling who would have quit the team.

Can someone answer this, or if it's been discussed in an old thread post a link to it?  Thanks in advance for your anticipated cooperation. 

Is there a reason why this question has been ignored?  Do you guys not want to answer it?  Or do non-regulars just get ignored around here? 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Nigel Gone

« on: April 08, 2015, 12:53:26 PM »

How does the mass exodus from oscar compare with what could have happened with the Spradling-led mess with Frank?  I never was able to get any reliable info about that so I always assumed that it wouldn't have really happened, or if it did, it would have just been losers like Spradling who would have quit the team.

Can someone answer this, or if it's been discussed in an old thread post a link to it?  Thanks in advance for your anticipated cooperation. 

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Can I get a roll call for #teamburnitdown

« on: April 08, 2015, 12:49:26 PM »

I haven't attended or watched a single game since Weber was hired....and while it was refreshing to not have to drive an hour to and from games and I had a lot of free time during the winters, it's still depressing that what's happened to the men's basketball program is exactly what the anti-oscar people have said would happen.  Both Weber and Currie need to be fired immediately.

I don't have much of a problem other than his dipshit oscar hire in the 1st place. oscar is obviously going to get next season after which he needs to can that loser and let somebody else find a coach for him.

But hiring Weber is the only thing that he's done at K-State.  All of the money that he's raised was due to the success of Coach Snyder and Coach Martin.  The new facilities were built with that money and the money that the new Big 12 tv contracts brought to the school.  And if you look around, every other school in the Big 12 is building new facilities or upgrading existing ones, so Currie hasn't done anything that anyone else in his position could have done--except for running off Coach Martin and the Weber hire.  Those are really the only two actions that Currie can be judged on.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Can I get a roll call for #teamburnitdown

« on: April 08, 2015, 12:01:36 PM »

I haven't attended or watched a single game since Weber was hired....and while it was refreshing to not have to drive an hour to and from games and I had a lot of free time during the winters, it's still depressing that what's happened to the men's basketball program is exactly what the anti-oscar people have said would happen.  Both Weber and Currie need to be fired immediately.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Nigel Gone

« on: April 08, 2015, 11:54:56 AM »

How does the mass exodus from oscar compare with what could have happened with the Spradling-led mess with Frank?  I never was able to get any reliable info about that so I always assumed that it wouldn't have really happened, or if it did, it would have just been losers like Spradling who would have quit the team.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Insidery info from early 90s

« on: May 27, 2014, 04:13:02 PM »

look at nitrocat's first post, then look at yours.  you are not in the right place, but that's okay.

How is it not the right place?  I'm looking for insidery info from the 90's.  Should I start a new thread for the late 90's as opposed to the early 90's?  My brother (who was a walk-on for the last year of Parrish and the first two of Snyder) was the one who suggested it to me, and it's always kinda made sense.  If K-State won the National Championship that year things may not have been so good for OU when they first got there.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Insidery info from early 90s

« on: May 27, 2014, 02:55:23 PM »

Long time reader, first time commenter.  I don't know if you guys have addressed this before, but did the coaches who were leaving for Oklahoma sabotage the 1998 Big 12 Championship Game?  I've always had that feeling, but had no way to confirm.