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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Orlando shooting. Sad.

« on: June 23, 2016, 12:45:02 PM »

I'm not clear what your opinion is.  You have probably stated it but I don't keep notes like Creepy Cat.

Did somebody call? 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Most Annoying Poster

« on: April 14, 2012, 07:32:29 PM »

I hate to pile on, but cast another vote for stevesie60 for me. I mean you know it's pretty bad when the screen name of stevesie60 is actually the least annoying thing about him. Not just happy enough to be Steve, he felt the need to through a sie and then a random number at the end. Where does this place come up with these people. Has to be a sock. Maybe JT's?

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Jerrance Howard: Who will win this recruiting battle?

« on: April 12, 2012, 11:08:02 AM »

Nobody was getting hired this week anyway with our athletic director on a week long vacation where he apparently was going to turn his cellphone off.

Weiser hunted, what does jc do?

It depends on who you ask. Most will say that he is on a cruise with his family though.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Jerrance Howard: Who will win this recruiting battle?

« on: April 12, 2012, 11:04:42 AM »

Nobody was getting hired this week anyway with our athletic director on a week long vacation where he apparently was going to turn his cellphone off.

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:30:04 PM »

I bet it is the twirling coach that I always see him flirting with. Those two are inseparable.

This one?
http://www.k-state.edu/band/staff.html




 

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:13:06 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:07:50 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:05:08 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:03:38 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:02:49 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:00:25 PM »

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 12:58:02 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program

« on: April 06, 2012, 12:55:26 PM »

What Athletic Department employee do you guys think John Currie is boinking?

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Frank watch 2012:

« on: March 25, 2012, 10:22:07 PM »

anyone feel like copy/pasting Cassidy's article re: Frank/Currie?

PM if necessary.

Here is my man Rob's article about the latest. He really does a great job for us...

March 25, 2012

Robert Cassidy, commentary
GoPowercat.com Senior Writer

Talk about it in Wabash Station
It's rarely the initial explosion that gets you. It's the radiation. It's the fallout.

If Frank Martin begrudgingly stomps away from Kansas State for South Carolina, a place where basketball comes sometime following the afterthought, the message sent by the move would only be the start, a warning shot aimed at Wildcat director of athletics John Currie and his administration.

This is Martin we're talking about. Don't expect him to go quietly, if he goes. His bus to the airport will have trouble moving because of the bodies stacked underneath it.

   
GoPowercat.com
Athletics director John Currie has changed K-State athletic finances for the better, but will he keep basketball coach Frank Martin at the school?
This is Martin, a man who still can't discuss the situation that led to his removal as coach at Miami Senior High School 14 years ago without becoming agitated. The events that led to his mentor Bob Huggins' firing at Cincinnati? Don't even get him started.

That's to say there's not a drop of water under any of his bridges.

And the bridge that links him to Currie's leadership at K-State will be hit with a flamethrower should he feel it can no longer exist. No one will bother to fiddle while it burns. Martin is truly the Michael Jordan of grudge holding. Not only is he great, he makes everyone around him better.

"It's not about money anymore," one source close to Martin said on Saturday, emphasizing this was about the Martin's relationship with Currie. "I don't know if he'll go (to South Carolina)."

But where and when he goes are unimportant in the larger scope. How he goes will mean much more.

Martin remains the basketball coach at Kansas State, but it's already begun. After complaining via text that I couldn't get Currie to return a phone call on Saturday night, a response from a different member of Martin's camp appeared immediately.

"Welcome to Frank's world," the message said. A relationship that has always been somewhat fractured is in the process of crumbling.

The words will only become louder and less guarded if Martin actually packs up his office. He prides himself on speaking his mind. The trait is a breath of fresh air until he feels you've wronged him. Then, it can suffocate you.

Truth be told, my personal relationship with Martin isn't what it once was. These days, I'm usually one of his least favorite people in the interview room.

He tells people how he feels about me. I tell people how I feel about him. We're not each other's biggest fans. So be it. As two men with jobs to do, we find ways to make it work.

Currie better find a way to the same, and do so immediately.

   
Associated Press
Frank Martin's relationship with his athletics director is fractured, but can it be fixed or will he leave K-State?
If he doesn't, word on Martin's distaste for Currie and the Wildcat administration will spread in basketball circles like news of the previous night's escapades in a fraternity house. Details will emerge. Dirty laundry will be tossed everywhere. That's the larger danger, and Currie better realize it.

Have fun finding a suitable replacement when the coach everyone views as one of the most honest men in the profession is occasionally taking aim at your face for the next 10 years. That hiring process ought to be a cinch.

Martin is a wonderful basketball coach. He's notched more than 20 victories in each of his five seasons in Manhattan. He wins NCAA Tournament games. He attracts national attention, recruits high-caliber athletes and his teams appear on national TV. This isn't about John Currie or anyone's feelings. This is about Kansas State, and it's time for Currie to take note.

Martin's colorful, often profane style may cut against Currie's vision of what a coach should be, but it leads to success and attention for the program. That all adds up to revenue. Lots of it.

See, that's the other thing about my own strained relationship with Martin: I respect him greatly despite our clash of styles. It's not my job to keep him in Manhattan. But if it were, I wouldn't let personal feelings complicate things. He sells Currie's tickets. He gives him bullet points for successful fundraising presentations. He wins over fans and makes his boss' job exponentially easier.

The unfinished basketball training facility that now sits in front of Bramlage Coliseum might be Currie's fundraising baby, but it's Martin's doing. It's time that Currie do something in return:

Change.

It's that simple. Change. Or at least pretend to. Then do what you do best: Sell it.

Get on the phone and schedule a meeting. Give Martin more money. But, more importantly, make sure your coach knows things will be different. No more micro managing. No more asking him to write letters to fans about swearing. No more snap decisions to suspend his players without Martin's input.

Make promises. Make concessions. Let him have control. Then, have a press conference, announce a contract extension and deny that a rift ever existed. Make the media and your fans look dumb as you and your smiling coach lob compliments at each other from behind a podium.

Nobody will mind the ruse. Really, they won't.

Winning is the only thing that makes people happy, and Martin does just that. Don't beg, just change. Because hiring a new basketball coach is only good for an athletic director if that coach is an upgrade. And best wishes on finding one that will be viewed as more successful than Martin by K-State fans or the national media.

Just remember, the decline of a major program on your watch isn't so good for the old resume.

It's in Currie's nature to pay so much attention to details that he becomes a nit-picking annoyance to his coaches. It's not difficult to see the larger picture, though. And that, now more than ever, is needed to save his relationship with Martin.

Is it kissing up? Maybe. But it's necessary. It sure beats the mushroom cloud that will appear should an angry Martin board a plane for South Carolina.

Nobody wants to deal with that, especially not John Currie.

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

« on: February 15, 2012, 02:27:18 PM »

a billion people can do analysis all day for a year and no two would come to the same figure.  if they entered into binding arb they both gave their argument to the arbitration panel and the arbitrator gave them a figure that was in the middle of both of their figures and they both were stuck with it.  there are a lot of interesting arbitrations you can enter into.  baseball arbitration has both sides give their figure and the arbitrator has to choose one of those figures (not their own number) so both sides are under a lot of pressure to make their figure very reasonable.  sometimes there is little difference in the figures when they present them to the arbitrator.  another is each side gives the arbitrator 3 figures and the arbitrator takes the first (highest/lowest depending on which side) figures, then second, then third and if any of the figures cross that is the accepted settlement.  when your first figure crosses their first figure you both say "WTF" and both sides stress that they missed something important.  You can enter into high/low arbitration where both sides agree to a max figure and a min. figure and then agree to let an arbitrator pick a number between the two.  But, I doubt they entered into binding arbitraiton.  They did mediate the case awhile back but that's just them sitting their attorneys in a room and throwing numbers back and forth.  They both needed to move on ASAP and this is just the number they agreed on (would be my guess)

steve dave, not esquire

laurin?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Penn St's AD Tim Curley charge with perjury: sex abuse

« on: November 08, 2011, 10:04:19 PM »

Way to go super old midwestern college head football coach LHC Bill Snyder. Nice words and I agree 100%. BTW, Let me know if I can help you out in your mentoring of young children in our area 


http://twitter.com/#!/CoachBillSnyder/status/108533499421663234

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Beth Mendenhall FTW!!!!!!1111!!!!lllIII!!

« on: September 24, 2011, 08:17:05 AM »

Pretty creepy to take a picture like that, right? 

Not creepy at all imo. 

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

« on: September 18, 2011, 03:04:44 PM »

Tim Fitzgerald, commentary
GoPowercat.com Publisher

Talk about it in Wabash Station
Monday may well be doomsday for the Big 12 Conference, if not college athletics as we know it. Left dangling in a cloud of uncertainty are universities such as Kansas State, but no matter what happens Monday, it finally marks the beginning of a phase of key choices for the leaders of K-State and its athletic department.

When the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma Boards of Reagents meet Monday, they will help decide each of their schools conference affiliations for years to come. Will these schools head to the Pac-12 Conference or choose to stay in the Big 12? Those decisions, whether Oklahoma goes westward (with little brother Oklahoma State skipping behind in tow) with or without Texas (and its lucky cousin Texas Tech) will be the next dominoes to fall or stand in this tiresome game of conference realignment.

If Texas does depart the Big 12, it will almost certainly abandon its Longhorn Network, admitting that it was a failure, and entering into the Pac 12's convoluted TV package.

The Longhorn Network has been the very sticking point for schools such as Texas A&M, which still plans to head to the SEC, and Oklahoma. They are the very financial kingpins who helped set up rules in the Big 12 that created uneven television revenue sharing. Now they are upset because Texas has more. The irony is rich and painted in greed.

Greed, after all, is what this is all about. Texas was given a 15-year, $300 million contract by ESPN for rights to the Longhorn Network. It appears to be a giant miscalculation by UT and ESPN. Signal carriers are simply not willing to pay the bill on that contract.

The question that hovers over this seems obvious to everyone except, sadly, the people making the decisions in this matter.

If Texas is willing to give up the Longhorn Network to move to the Pac-16, why wouldn't Texas give up the Longhorn Network in its current state to help save the Big 12?

   
Jonathan Knight
Kansas State athletics may soon enter a new world with conference realignment.
If Texas will make that concession -- evolving LHN into a Big 12 Network -- then the Big 12, at least in some form, will survive. That decision would likely keep the Oklahoma schools in the fold and may even bring A&M to its senses, although that school's academic leaders seem too busy learning all of the fight songs of their new SEC brethren to bother with what's best for their fans, athletes and A&M's athletic future.

The news for K-State, though, is no matter what is decided in boardrooms in Oklahoma and Texas, K-State's leaders will finally be facing some choices. For a school that hasn't held many cards so far in this rush to realignment, at least that sliver of control is comforting.

The problem is, the choices may not be great, but at least they are choices.

There are so many possible paths, spelling out all of the alternatives is dizzying. Down to 10 schools at the start of this athletic season, the more schools out of the Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech grouping that the Big 12 can keep a grip on, the better for K-State and the others left behind.

No matter what, the 10-school bill of goods sold to the members and the conference's fans by commissioner Dan Beebe is not survivable. This conference needs to get to 12, if not 16 schools, as soon as possible. That can likely only happen by hitting the reset button with a reformed conference that includes new leadership and likely a new name.

With the ACC's announcement of Pittsburgh and Syracuse as new members -- it sounds as if UConn and Rutgers will likely follow their fellow Big East members into a new 16-school ACC -- that likely means the Big East, at least as a football conference, is the first loser in conference realignment Armageddon.

That leaves Big East members Louisville, Cincinnati, West Virginia, South Florida and pending member TCU without a viable football home. West Virginia apparently tops the SEC's wish list as the 14th member to balance out A&M, so it too may have a home.

Getting seasick yet? Well, we're only beginning.

Once the Big 12 knows what schools remain in its fold, then it can start searching for new members. The question becomes how will the Pac-12 and Big 10 react to the ACC and SEC expanding? And will the SEC push to 16?

The media-driven premise in conference expansion is that it will end with four 16-school conferences. With strong leadership, the remnants of the Big 12 can change that and form another conference with schools that are currently at the BCS level and schools that probably deserve such status.

Will it be a great conference? Possibly no (at least until the revenue of such a league lifts the members' collective ships), but by being inclusive instead of exclusive, a potential Big 16 could use the revenue from the likely string of lawsuits that will surely follow the destruction of the Big East and maybe of the old Big 12 to help build something survivable.

At some point it becomes about best-case scenarios and fighting for survival. K-State and other Big 12 schools are nearing that step in this ugly process.

Out of the Big 12/Big East ruins of K-State, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa State, Baylor, Louisville, Cincinnati, South Florida and TCU comes at least parts of a foundation. The more of the other five Big 12 schools that don't abandon the league, the better the strength of a new conference. Add in a selection from a pool of schools such as Central Florida, Memphis, Houston, SMU, Air Force, BYU, Boise State, New Mexico, San Diego State, etc., and there are enough pieces to form an acceptable conference.

The new conference could be a 16-school/four-pod alliance stretching through all four time zones, or a 12-school league consolidated closer to the current Big 12's footprint. What it will be is something. There is value in a TV contract that brings together proven and emerging programs and allows TV programmers to schedule games from early morning to late at night. It may not be as good as the current situation, but it could be the best of future situations.

This "something" may be unattractive to some, but they can pout, complain and dislike it all they want. The brutal truth may be that once Kansas State and other schools finally get to make some decisions, reality may have limited those choices, but not so much that it doesn't mean those schools still won't compete at the BCS level.

This, after all, is soon to become about survival for Kansas State and other schools left out of the realignment shuffle. The best news for fans of K-State and other schools is it still appears that they will indeed survive this hideous money grab.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: MRS. CURRIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

« on: September 08, 2011, 07:54:38 AM »

she was apparently none too happy at aTm for ruining her kansas city birthday plans w/ her husband.

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Kansas State Football / Re: KstateHD.TV

« on: August 31, 2011, 09:53:35 AM »

Wife is all Pre Menstral this week.  (Is actually true story.)

(Also wondering if Creepy Cat is doing to document this.)

Can you tell me how long her typical cycle is. Thanks.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Message Board Branding

« on: August 30, 2011, 10:43:15 AM »

I have an alphabetical list of every poster that I keep in a word file on my computer that I update with interesting personal facts about them from things that they include in their posts (where they work, how tall they are, single/married, etc). I also have pictures of their avatar next to their name and have to admit that when people constantly change their avatars I get more than a little frustrated. Please stop doing this.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Marv

« on: March 22, 2011, 07:49:51 PM »

Are all dudes with toupee's pervs?  The desire to cover your bald head with fake hair leads to some other real devious cac.
Wonder when Massa's outing happens.

One in the poo. Two in the goo. Gotta say that i agree w/ you magoo. Those guys are pervos to the extreme. I like to keep myself non toupeed out if you know what i mean. Get it, get it, got it, got it? Good. Where's everybody at for SB? Holla!

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Boobs

« on: February 02, 2011, 12:55:39 PM »

Butts, also butts. I like very nice highschool butts that are very juicy and not old. Who else? Is it just me?

Oh my goodness, you guys are prudes or maybe you are just homosexuals. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: And the Aggieville creepster of the year goes to.......

« on: February 02, 2011, 12:48:30 PM »

I don't see anything wrong with this thread. All the females are over aged and this Fitz guy seems like he probably is just being nice to them. Am I right? 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Boobs

« on: February 02, 2011, 12:46:42 PM »

I mean, who likes them. Am i right???