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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: COACH JEROME TANG WELCOME THREAD!!!

« on: March 20, 2022, 10:58:18 PM »

this feels like the early days of the frank/huggins era.

Hold on boys, its gonna be a fun ride. I can feel it.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Possible oscar Weber Replacements Thread

« on: January 14, 2022, 08:54:47 PM »

A few more from the article. From the up and comer category….assistants

Kellen Sampson, Houston. He’s been at the forefront of Houston’s player development. So it’s either wait to take over for his father — who shows no outward signs of slowing down — or cash in on the Cougars’ success to run his own show for a bit.

Darren Savino, UCLA.The Bruins’ associate head coach has worked with Cronin for 14 years across three stops. Here’s guessing it’s a matter of finding the perfect fit, which is an understandable bar to set — but also possibly cause for a long wait.

Jerome Tang, Baylor. He’s been at Scott Drew’s side for nearly two decades, and we know why: My colleague CJ Moore’s story on Drew’s coaching tree describes the dynamic as Tang being extremely selective about fit. That piece provides all the insight you need on the circumstances that would spring Tang to his own top job.

Jason Williford, Virginia. Another longtime aide to one very successful coach, who may not ever leave his home state. But there’s also nothing left to prove in Charlottesville. Williford can run his own show.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Possible oscar Weber Replacements Thread

« on: January 13, 2022, 09:38:50 PM »

Here is a few  from an athletic article earlier this year on up and comers and retreads (link for those with a sub)

https://theathletic.com/2887254/2021/11/01/college-basketball-coaches-to-watch-in-2021-22-warming-seats-mid-majors-moving-up-assistants-on-the-cusp/?source=user_shared_article)


Eric Konkol, Louisiana Tech. The 44-year-old hasn’t had a losing season in six years in Ruston, and he’ll have one of the nation’s low-key best players in Kenneth Lofton Jr. this year. A nice setup to capture some spotlight.

Grant McCasland, North Texas. He’s 44, he’s not had a losing season in five years as a head coach, he’s led the Mean Green to a Conference USA regular-season title and tournament title in the last two seasons, respectively, he engineered a first-round upset of Purdue in March and that Baylor line on his resume looks better and better.

Niko Medved, Colorado State. If the Rams are indeed a top 25-ish outfit this year, that’ll clinch two strong rebuilds at Furman and Colorado State for Medved. That should be an attention-getter for a power-league school needing a jolt.

Roger Powell, Gonzaga. While Brian Michaelson is now the longest-tenured Mark Few aide and well-prepared himself, Powell is viewed internally as also perfectly ready for a head coach gig. Some recruiting wins lately just add to the allure.

Marvin Menzies, former UNLV coach. He’s not done yet, and even though his tenure in Las Vegas couldn’t withstand an administration change, he did lead New Mexico State to five NCAA Tournament bids.

Archie Miller, former Indiana coach. Does a year away prompt Miller to explore offensive innovation and be a little more tuned-in to relationship building with the modern college player? If so, a guy with one losing season as a coach is an intriguing option.

Sean Miller, former Arizona coach. Once there’s clarity from the NCAA — and goodness knows that could happen anytime between next month and the apocalypse — someone will employ Sean Miller (career winning percentage of .730) again.

Steve Prohm, former Iowa State coach. Results the last two seasons were … not great. But Prohm banked enough wins previously in Ames and at Murray State to cut the profile of a guy who gets another opportunity at a mid-major.

Steve Wojciechowski, former Marquette coach. He won 57 percent of his games with the Golden Eagles but dipped to sub-.500 finishes in the Big East the last two seasons. Wojciechowski will get refreshed this season and might be a coach who really thrives in a second job with a clean slate.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Let's talk about 2019 Bowl Games!

« on: December 07, 2019, 11:04:16 PM »

https://twitter.com/mikefinger/status/1203468324581060608

https://twitter.com/mikefinger/status/1203495191509946370

This guy writes for San Antonio paper

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Kansas State Football / Re: Bowl Projections

« on: December 03, 2017, 10:07:02 AM »

McMurphy just put us in a a bowl in Birmingham. Yikes.

Update 10:15 a.m. ET Sunday: I still believe Ohio State gets in as No. 4 seed and Washington is in a New Year's 6 bowl. If so, bowl projections below should be close. If not, well, I'll be redoing them all afternoon. One small tweak: moving Texas Tech to Heart of Dallas and putting Kansas State in Birmingham.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Anyone Wanna Take Bets On Who Is Going To Jail Today?

« on: September 26, 2017, 03:33:12 PM »

More South Carolina mentions in this yahoo article.. yikes.

https://sports.yahoo.com/fbi-brings-armageddon-college-basketball-just-tip-iceberg-184524346.html

Also in the crossfire is so-called “University 2,” which in the complaints is described in a way that resembles the University of South Carolina and only the University of South Carolina – “a public research university located in South Carolina … with over 30,000 students …”

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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is hurting

« on: September 23, 2017, 11:48:20 AM »

I expected something amazeballs.   

If this was a car, its like they essentially had a 1990 Chevy Cavalier and replaced it with the 2016 version.  But paid $100,000 for it.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Jacob Pullen appreciation thread.

« on: September 22, 2017, 10:25:02 AM »

   That is so great to see.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: September 21, 2017, 04:20:03 PM »

Nice virtual tour of BSFS on the website now....

http://static.kstatesports.com/custompages/virtualvisit/football/index.html

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: June 11, 2017, 01:57:23 PM »

https://twitter.com/coachseansnyder/status/873927301850968064

Nice pic of the limestone wall with the message boards turned on in the south endzone in the background. Looks great.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Doug Gottlieb on 810 WHB The Program with Soren Petro

« on: March 14, 2017, 02:42:44 PM »

I wonder what went down with Doug and CBS?

He hinted at something last week on twitter, then he's not part of any CBS MM coverage, and today on Petro he talked vaguely about something happening, but he can't say anything yet.

Its too bad, I thought he did a good job in MM coverage.

He's going to Fox Sports. Dan Patrick mentioned it when Gottlieb was on his show yesterday.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: The Official Bracketology Thread

« on: March 12, 2017, 11:30:26 AM »

Frank vs oscar in Dayton?
 
 [https://twitter.com/D1scourse/status/840960316431335426]

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: February 28, 2017, 01:04:33 PM »

Currie seems to be a horrible choice for AD at UT. Why are you so glad to see him leave? tia 

Ran off our best basketball coach in a long time.
Ran an over eager compliance department that actively searched for problems.
Was a very annoying PR presence.
Made being a fan feel like a transaction and devoid of any passion.

This is all true. To be fair he did a great job with facilities and fundraising which we were about a decade or two behind on when he was hired.

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Kansas State Football / Re: John Currie - Next Tennessee AD?

« on: February 28, 2017, 11:37:33 AM »

Does Snyder take this opportunity to retire now? With his good friend as president they can work out a situation where he essentially gets to pick his successor. We all know who that is now waiting at Oregon with his out clause.

It would be awful timing with Spring ball so close. 

It would be. But how much of the staff would Leavitt actually change? And with the wildcard of who is going to be the AD, how many times do you get the opportunity to hand pick who your successor is. Its a pretty good window here.

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Kansas State Football / Re: John Currie - Next Tennessee AD?

« on: February 28, 2017, 11:28:04 AM »

Does Snyder take this opportunity to retire now? With his good friend as president they can work out a situation where he essentially gets to pick his successor. We all know who that is now waiting at Oregon with his out clause.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Potential oscar replacements? (mods plz merge. Can't find an old thread on this)

« on: February 17, 2017, 11:06:56 PM »

Ben Jacobson
Ben Howland  In his 10 years with the Bruins, he had a .685 winning percentage, went to three consecutive Final Fours, and won four Pac-12 conference titles.

http://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/recruiting-roundup-ben-howland-building-another-solid-class-at-mississippi-state/

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Kansas State Football / Re: It's Leavitt

« on: February 10, 2017, 02:18:18 PM »

I don't think they had to bribe bill to come back.  I think he asked.

Quid pro quo is not a bribe.

He would have taken the job whether they said Sean was the next HC or not.  He would have done it for less green too

Agreed.  But, I also bet they (Krause, Weefs) told him "sure" when he said he'd like Sean to take over someday. I mean, that's EXACTLY like all three of those guys to say crap like that an just spit on their hands and shake on it.

Friend, I firmly believe that EMAW Stud (except for one dumb mistake) Bob Krause (RIP Bob) had Gary Patterson hired, and was completely blind sided by the Weef and Snyder.

Its an absolute fact that Krause was talking to a third party representative (a former NFL and KSU assistant and friend) of Gary Patterson about the K-State job before it was blown up by the "Its Patterson" fiasco which pissed off patterson and caused him to withdraw as they were undefeated at the time. It wasn't 100% he would take the job but he was very interested, it was just early november. Fortunately they had been talking to Snyder as well and he came back and saved us.

In regards to present day, what i've heard, and i think its been mentioned on here, is that Snyder doesn't trust currie to pick the coach. I think hes worried about what happened with the Ron Prince hire and wants to make sure one of his guys gets hired, or he has significant input on who gets hired. I was told (and this is second hand) that Schulz and Currie told snyder Sean wasn't ever going to be a candidate  a couple years ago. That's why he doesn't mention it in public as much as used too.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: If we fired Oscar....no one will come coach for us!!

« on: February 02, 2017, 10:57:05 AM »

Wichita State coach or bust 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Most fun year you've had watching ksu cat football?

« on: January 31, 2017, 10:56:55 PM »

2000 doesn't get its due as far as a fun season goes. We came up short against OU both times, but man they were intense epic Big 12 games vs a team that won the national title. We ended up destroying Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl so we can forever tell ourselves we would of beat them 2 years earlier as well.

Also that first game against OU vs the old regime at BSFS was one of the best atmospheres ever. Also last time we had a home College Gameday i believe.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Classless A&M Fans Disrespecting Kansas State and Coach LHC LHC Bill Snyder

« on: December 07, 2016, 10:22:42 PM »

When the aggies were in the Big 12 they finished with an alltime record ahead of KU, Missouri and Baylor. And they were almost as good as their rivals but ended up the third best Texas school in the big 12. Still they should be proud of that, so give them respect.

All-time Intraconference Records
1. TEXAS _____________________________ 90-30 (.750)
2. Oklahoma___________________________ 86-34 (.717)
3. Nebraska____________________________ 80-40 (.667)
4. Kansas State _________________________ 69-51 (.575)
5. Texas Tech __________________________ 68-52 (.567)
6.Texas A&M _________________________ 64-56 (.533)
7. Colorado____________________________ 60-60 (.500)
8. Missouri ____________________________ 58-62 (.483)
9. Oklahoma State ______________________ 55-65 (.458)
10.Kansas______________________________ 36-84 (.300)
11.Iowa State ___________________________ 34-86 (.283)
12.Baylor ______________________________18-102 (.150)

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Kansas State Football / Re: K-State vs A&M in Pyramid Scheme Bowl

« on: December 04, 2016, 04:45:51 PM »

I really dislike the Collie Cult and it has nothing to do with '98 and everything to do with how rough ridin' weird and non self aware they are.

This.

yep. They're really the worst.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Bowl Projections

« on: December 04, 2016, 02:21:31 PM »

Get ready to deal with delusion on the grandest scale possible when dealing with aggie fans if we play them.

There is no larger gap in sports between what the aggies think they are and what the reality of the standings every year say they are.

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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is hurting

« on: November 23, 2016, 04:26:50 PM »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/university-of-kansas-cheerleaders-suspended_us_5835eec5e4b000af95edb015

Why are they so racist?

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

« on: October 18, 2016, 11:58:50 AM »

Nice read by Wetzel, work to expand the playoff not the conference...

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-one-move-that-could-save-the-big-12-160138736.html

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

« on: September 16, 2016, 02:02:03 PM »

 @BruceFeldmanCFB
Heard from a source today that the notion of "football only" members being added to the Big 12 is gaining some traction.
1:51 PM - 16 Sep 2016


sure the conference will die if this happens, but at least we'll keep the basketball round robin for a few more years which I find enjoyable.