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Kansas State Football / Re: would adding more goals to the 16 goals = more wins for the cats?

« on: October 07, 2013, 07:18:32 PM »

I'm not gonna lie....this thread is a perfect example of why I take the time to come on here. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: OMWord The Finebaum Show Right Now over the announcement of Condi Rice . . .

« on: October 06, 2013, 11:24:54 AM »

So she us not biased even though she is a Stanford grad? Oh ok.

Actually, she' not a Stanford grad. Just looked it up.  University of Denver, graduate school Notre Dame and Denver.  She has been a Professor at Stanford for quite a while, though.

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Kansas State Football / Re: At least we get to play Baylor now

« on: October 06, 2013, 11:20:07 AM »

Well, we've got this going for us.....WVU held OSU to 21 then had Baylor drop 73 on them.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Why does Snyder suck in the post season?

« on: January 04, 2013, 09:54:43 AM »

You know how we always bitch about getting no respect? Well, the irony is that we sometimes get more respect than we deserve, and as a result, we get matched up with much more talented opponents in bowl games. And, our biggest advantage - Snyder's ability to better prepare for new opponents during the week-by-week grind of the regular season - is negated by giving the opposing coach a month to prepare for us. As a result, we lose.

Bottom line is that we have a brilliant coach who has achieved a remarkable level of success despite shitty recruiting, but we just don't have the speed or talent to win games like this in the post season where our biggest advantage has been blunted. The best we can do is enjoy the wins, feel lucky to be as successful as we are, but accept that the KITN is coming. That's K-State football.

Dead on. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: the KSU-OU match up has a different dynamic this year...

« on: September 16, 2012, 12:24:18 PM »

I'd like to see a Hatter update after North Texas............that "athletic" OL didn't look very good against Phil Steele's 110 ranked team. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: OmG OU

« on: September 16, 2012, 12:17:11 PM »

After they watched The Mean Shade of Sea Foam Green dominate the line of scrimmage for 3+ quarters...I figure their linemen will have all-you-can-eat pancake eating contests in preparation of this game...then...next Saturday, it will become obvious to everyone that The Scheme Doctor was scheming for us to get dominated...but they'll be too full of pancakes to do anything about it.

Boom, Schemed!

THIS is sheer genius!  I just hope Stoops doesn't read this board and find out.

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Kansas State Football / Re: How Many Games Will We Win This Season??

« on: July 22, 2012, 07:01:04 PM »

I hate to be total tardy on this, but it reminds me a little of 1994 when we were coming off a 9 win season and bowl win and most were picking us 6th or 7th in an 8 team league. KSU really does get little respect. Anyone who follows OB knows when he has a veteran team and a good QB, the team generally is at least as good as the year before. 10 wins at least this season

Has Snyder ever gone backwards in a QB's second year of starting?

In any of those years did he have a defense as "iffy" as this one?

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Kansas State Football / Re: 6th in the Big 12?

« on: July 20, 2012, 06:55:39 PM »

Gundy recruits incredibly well because he recruits the best players in America to run his system. You cannot argue with his results.

you could say the same thing about Snyder but nobody ever does.  Gundy is a good coch he's done a good job he's not going to have OSU in the top 10 every year though.  The talent on the team this year doesn't square with the expectations.

Snyder used to be an incredible recruiter, but he no longer is able to get the kind of recruits he used to.

That happens when you're approaching 75 and the recruits seriously doubt you're going to be around much longer.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Another day, another 4-star Army All-American to KU

« on: April 15, 2012, 10:53:30 AM »

This guy played behind Manti Teo....five star, number one ranked MLB who will be a first round selection.  Not too difficult to see why he had a hard time getting on the field.  He should be a pretty good player for KU.

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: SUPPORT oscar WEBER

« on: April 01, 2012, 10:50:29 AM »

Anyone who watched that press conference should wonder if Weber was auditioning to play Jed Clampett in the revision of "Beverly Hillbillies". 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Fatty fat fat making a dramatic statement:

« on: November 01, 2011, 07:29:13 PM »

OSU and OU are to of the 5 best teams in the country imo. We definitely aren't and it's on the road.

We have improved, as made clear by our very good record, but OSU is that good.  They completely shut down Baylor, for crying out loud.  If we get tossed by A&M, or UT, then it's worth getting upset about.

Are we truly a top 15 team? If we are, i think we should be competitive saturday. I'm not saying i will "start a FFF storm" (SAFFFS) if we get blown out, but i will temper my appreciation for this years team. An enjoyable team is one that can go on the road vs a great team, and give them a tough game.

Surely this is a joke.  You really can't think there's the slightest possibility this is a top 15 team?  Snyder did an amazing job to sneak out wins against seven teams [several of which have better talent], but he has been caught up with. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Empty Seats

« on: October 11, 2011, 07:10:10 PM »

Look, I love Kansas... but it's not a very highly populated state.  It's just not.  Don't get all butthurt about it.

I don't love Kansas.  It's the 33rd most populated state out of 50.  Middle of the pack.  I notice the same exaggeration tendencies when Frank does them too.

33 of 50 might sound like "middle of the pack", except that more than 20 of those 32 ahead have at least twice the population of Kansas, and many a lot more than that.  More importantly, of states with smaller population, 12 have NO BCS schools, and none have two.  There are two schools close in population, Ark which has one BCS school and Iowa with two [although, as pointed out, they have 150,000 more residents AND, are much closer to large population [Big Ten] states. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: I can't believe we haven't sold out the Bill already..

« on: October 05, 2011, 10:58:17 AM »

The argument that we can expand is that we sell out against crap teams, when tickets are like $10.  If we can expand, we absolutely should.  I just don't think we can,

if we expanded, then charged like $25-$30 a ticket for confy games, we could probably sell out a 55-57K stadium. i don't know if 60k is feasible right now, even with cheap tickets. But, if the admin thinks that it will be likely in the future, i think we should go for it now.

Lowering the ticket prices to "fund" an expansion goes against the conventional wisdom [and, the laws of economics].  Sort of like the MBA genius who had the brilliant marketing strategy of building a Mercedes and selling it for $12,000.  BRILLIANT!

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Kansas State Football / Re: "Miami simply cannot crack this kansas state defense....

« on: September 19, 2011, 12:57:15 PM »

OB seems to be trying to prepare the fan base for a beat down. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: chris Harper...

« on: September 19, 2011, 12:55:13 PM »

Another thread with Hatter obsessing over a player's body.  Not healthy.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Why has our OL not been spoken of since forever?

« on: September 05, 2011, 09:37:36 AM »

First game of the season here folks.  OL will gel as the season progresses.  I (hope and pray) expect them to improve quite a bit before the next game.  Hate bye weeks but we sure as hell could use this one.

They will probably improve, but "quite a bit" is overly optimistic.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Adam Davis, still pretty injured

« on: August 18, 2011, 07:23:54 PM »

Maybe he can just play on the left side so he doesn't have to go to his left as much....surely the opponents won't figure that out.

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Kansas State Football / Re: let's talk 08 louisville

« on: August 16, 2011, 07:16:04 PM »

Was in a bar in Glascow, MT.  I asked this guy to turn it to ESPN (I think?) for the K-State game.  He said something like "the Jayhawks are playing tonight?"  Man oh man.  This was right after we destroyed Montana Community College for Hayseeds, too.

This happens all the time out here in SoCal

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Kansas State Football / Re: Synder used to be so cruel to Big 12 South..particularly liked this Baylor..

« on: August 15, 2011, 11:00:33 AM »

I liked it better when Manhatter used to make fun of Nub fans for "living in the past". 
That was TWELVE years ago. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: New poster, question..................

« on: August 08, 2011, 12:18:56 PM »

When has Snyder ever had a top rated or even middle of the pack recruiting class?  We have 10 Jucos for goodness sake, which do not even enter into the rankings.  Look at what Snyder did after Stoops did his best to sabotage us in 1998.  We are going to have a good team this year(predicting 8-4) and a stellar year in 2012.  Unfortunately, there are some reprobates on here when it comes to K-State football.  Look at 2009 and the pile of dung Snyder inherited.  If Grant Gregory didn't have two bad shoulders(which we didn't know about at the time) we probably would have easily won 2 more games and gone 8-4 and a bowl game.  Anyway, my glass is always half full and some you have 90% empty.  Enjoy your pessimism and throwing what you think are cute epithats and I will the enjoy the successful season as it unfolds.

First of all, jucos DO count in recruiting rankings, and have done so for ten years.  When Snyder was on a roll in the nineties, they didn't....and that's when his classes WERE very undervalued, because that's also when he was really cleaning up with the stud jucos....now Alabama and a lot of big time programs are cherry picking that talent pool, which is probably why he has had a much higher miss rate with his juco recruits. 
Second, Snyder's classes in the early 2000's were ranked fairly high. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: New poster, question..................

« on: August 06, 2011, 01:25:25 PM »

Why so much anomousity towards Coach Snyder?  Many on here can't rid of him fast enough.  All he has done is perform at K-State, been loyal and got a very good 2011 recruiting class.  Don't you think he knows when it is time to retire?

Do you follow recruiting other than on powerespect sites?  That 2011 class was ranked dead last in the conference by both Rivals and Scout. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Head Coach LHC Bill Snyder

« on: August 06, 2011, 01:15:13 PM »

If Bill wins 10 games this year, I'll love the crap out of him once again. Hell, I'd even take 9.

If we don't have the worst BCS DC we win 9 last year, and he brought back the same DC again. 

Bill Belicek couldn't have coached that "talent" to a nine win season.  Which brings up the main reason he is hated: he has aged into the worst recruiting HC in the Big 12. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: You are lord of k state

« on: July 24, 2011, 12:02:34 PM »

Fighting Possums

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Kansas State Football / Re: Phil Steele says 'Cats will be bowling.

« on: July 19, 2011, 06:03:53 PM »

I think Miami is anything but a "won't win" game.  Have you even watched Miami over the last 10 yrs or so?  Same story every year-  tons of talent but they continue to be mediocre in a crapty, crapty conference.

If Shannon was still the coach, you'd be right.  Unfortunately, he's been replaced by a guy who raised Temple from the dead.  Now he's got real talent.  Think 1989 version of LHC Bill Snyder taking over a squad averaging close to four stars. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Are you guys familiar with 'DameFan' ?? Get acquainted..

« on: July 17, 2011, 05:46:07 PM »

I hate it that the Notre Damers got Brian Kelly.  He's somebody who could make them semi relevant again.