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Kansas State Football / Re: Ireland Pak 2025
« on: April 25, 2024, 04:34:56 PM »Didn't realize KITH was a Pete sock
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Kansas State Football / Re: Ireland Pak 2025
« on: April 25, 2024, 03:18:41 PM »
Starting points for the promotional campaign...
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Kansas State Football / Re: Wild Wildcats in NFL Draft
« on: April 23, 2024, 12:24:24 PM »
Final rankings from Mellie Mel Kiper:
No. 46 overall - Beebe (No. 2 OG)
No. 48 overall - Sinnott (No. 2 TE)
No. 13 OG - Leveston
No. 19 DE - Duke
No. 21 C - Gillum
No. 34 OT - Duffie
No. 67 WR - Brooks
No. 46 overall - Beebe (No. 2 OG)
No. 48 overall - Sinnott (No. 2 TE)
No. 13 OG - Leveston
No. 19 DE - Duke
No. 21 C - Gillum
No. 34 OT - Duffie
No. 67 WR - Brooks
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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« on: April 22, 2024, 02:53:17 PM »
Sankey's quest to be increasingly hateable by every non-SEC school continues...
https://sports.yahoo.com/how-the-new-college-football-playoff-format-came-to-be-and-what-it-means-for-the-sports-future-165149801.html
https://sports.yahoo.com/how-the-new-college-football-playoff-format-came-to-be-and-what-it-means-for-the-sports-future-165149801.html
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 20, 2024, 09:35:26 PM »
If Wentworth can do that every weekend...
D1 baseball still had us barely in the tourney entering this weekend - a sweep would be huge.
D1 baseball still had us barely in the tourney entering this weekend - a sweep would be huge.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 20, 2024, 07:15:07 AM »
We put 20 OSU batters on base and still won in a relatively low scoring game - crazy.
Hopefully we can claim the series today with Wentworth getting his first start...
Hopefully we can claim the series today with Wentworth getting his first start...
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: April 19, 2024, 08:58:52 PM »
If you beat the crap out of your wife, guessing you probably don't have a whole lot of scruples when it comes to recruiting...
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: April 19, 2024, 09:05:16 AM »I'm going to Portland, Maine and Boston over Memorial Day. Taking Amtrak between the two.
Allagash - definitely a northeast/east coast thing, but their wit is lovely. Cool mid-sized brewery.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....
« on: April 18, 2024, 05:00:05 PM »TCU is killing it according to this site
Revenue for all women's sports
TCU: $22,829,737
KU: $5,115,592
Oklahoma State: $4,594,558
Iowa State: $2,934,863
KSU: $684,244
Revenue for men's sports other than FB/BB
TCU: $12,089,766
Oklahoma State: $6,243,409
KU: $2,547,981
Iowa State: $579,822
KSU: $418,239
There is exactly zero possibility that TCU made $22 million on women's sports unless a $21.5 million donation/gift was allocated to that revenue line.
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: April 18, 2024, 03:18:54 PM »He doesn't fit what Tang wants to do. He can't shoot a lick from outside of 2 feet.
Well, neither could Colbert...
I just hope we don't strike out too many times and/or wait too long and then end up with a few McNairs. One would be fine as a complimentary piece, but we've got to do better this year.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 18, 2024, 12:20:19 PM »
Our pitching has been absolutely dreadful the last three weeks - we're now last in the Big 12 in conference games in ERA at 6.67. Our starters have been a big part of that - Boerema has the best ERA at 5.59. It doesn't help that our two bullpen studs - Neighbors and Wentworth - have been getting rocked lately as well.
I suppose I could make a comment about having a high school assistant coach as our pitching coach...
I suppose I could make a comment about having a high school assistant coach as our pitching coach...
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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is NOT going through a rough patch. Cheer on our hawk brothers here!
« on: April 18, 2024, 12:02:23 PM »
The whole vibe from this project that I get from Goff was basically to just get the thing rolling and then assume the necessary $$$ would come.
I mean, they've been talking about this for decades, so I get where he's coming from in the sense that actually doing something - anything - was progress.
But, it sure seems like there hasn't been as much progress on the $$$ front as they would have liked...
I mean, they've been talking about this for decades, so I get where he's coming from in the sense that actually doing something - anything - was progress.
But, it sure seems like there hasn't been as much progress on the $$$ front as they would have liked...
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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is NOT going through a rough patch. Cheer on our hawk brothers here!
« on: April 18, 2024, 09:56:34 AM »
Not an overwhelmingly positive article about the developments of the new stadium that features, among other things, further reduced stadium capacity and admission that the "hotel/entertainment district" component of the complex is on hold because "we can't afford it yet."
https://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/2024/apr/17/seating-at-kus-revamped-football-stadium-to-shrink-by-a-few-thousand-seats-other-updates-on-gateway-project/
https://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/2024/apr/17/seating-at-kus-revamped-football-stadium-to-shrink-by-a-few-thousand-seats-other-updates-on-gateway-project/
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 17, 2024, 03:54:59 PM »
Bottom of the eighth vs. Northeastern goes like this:
*NU hit by pitch
*NU hit by pitch
*NU players advance to 2nd/3rd on balk
*NU hit by pitch
*K-State pitching change (Neighbors for Roberts)
*NU reaches on throwing error by 3B; 3 runs score, batter advances to third
*NU single, run scores
*NU out
*NU out
*NU out
4 runs, 0 earned runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 LOB
Now 8-6 KSU into the bottom of the 9th...
*NU hit by pitch
*NU hit by pitch
*NU players advance to 2nd/3rd on balk
*NU hit by pitch
*K-State pitching change (Neighbors for Roberts)
*NU reaches on throwing error by 3B; 3 runs score, batter advances to third
*NU single, run scores
*NU out
*NU out
*NU out
4 runs, 0 earned runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 LOB
Now 8-6 KSU into the bottom of the 9th...
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 17, 2024, 08:20:25 AM »Lost at UConn. Hughes is as good as gone. That’s is if we care about not sucking total crap.
We'll see... Mean Gene gave him an extension after the 2022 season (presumably because Hughes has compromising photos of Taylor) through the 2027 season. That totally deserved extension was after Hughes finished 29-29 and 8-16 in Big 12 play in 2022 and missed the postseason for the third time in three seasons. He's making $550k+ per season - no idea what the buyout is.
But, given that Hughes received that extension in the first place, I'm not sure baseball is a major priority for Taylor. Hughes is now on track to miss the NCAA tourney for the 22nd time in his 25 years as a D1 head baseball coach.
Meanwhile, KSU alum/heartthrob Rob Vaughn is already turning around Alabama in his first year after leading Maryland to the NCAA tourney three straight years and winning two Big Ten titles. Sadly, he's now making close to $1 million per year, so probably out of our price range (though, at the time Taylor gave Hughes the extension, Hughes was making $100k+ more than Vaughn).
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 14, 2024, 08:52:32 PM »
1-7 in Big 12 play since our freshman ran his mouth and we've been outscored 74-39 in that stretch and lost three straight series.
Poor pitching, untimely hitting, loads of base running mistakes - Pete Hughes baseball is back.
The one slight positive is that, for the most part, we've stopped losing scores of mid-week games, which could be our saving grace for a tourney bid if we can manage to be around .500 in league play.
Up next - a bizarre mid-week trip to UConn on Tuesday and Northeastern on Wednesday. UConn is #81 in RPI and Northeastern is #36 (and has made the NCAA tourney 2 of the last 3 years). So, an opportunity for a pair of decent wins, but then we turnaround and play a top 25 Okie State team at home this weekend on 1 day's rest (if that even counts because it's the travel day on Thursday).
For anyone keeping track, our travel schedule over a stretch of 18 days:
Manhattan (vs. Texas) to Springfield, Mo. (vs. Mo State) to Orlando (vs. UCF) to Manhattan (vs. Wichita St.) to Norman (vs. OU) to Storrs (vs. UConn) to Boston (vs. Northeastern) to Manhattan (vs. Okie State). I sure hope there's some charter flying in there vs. entirely commercial...
Poor pitching, untimely hitting, loads of base running mistakes - Pete Hughes baseball is back.
The one slight positive is that, for the most part, we've stopped losing scores of mid-week games, which could be our saving grace for a tourney bid if we can manage to be around .500 in league play.
Up next - a bizarre mid-week trip to UConn on Tuesday and Northeastern on Wednesday. UConn is #81 in RPI and Northeastern is #36 (and has made the NCAA tourney 2 of the last 3 years). So, an opportunity for a pair of decent wins, but then we turnaround and play a top 25 Okie State team at home this weekend on 1 day's rest (if that even counts because it's the travel day on Thursday).
For anyone keeping track, our travel schedule over a stretch of 18 days:
Manhattan (vs. Texas) to Springfield, Mo. (vs. Mo State) to Orlando (vs. UCF) to Manhattan (vs. Wichita St.) to Norman (vs. OU) to Storrs (vs. UConn) to Boston (vs. Northeastern) to Manhattan (vs. Okie State). I sure hope there's some charter flying in there vs. entirely commercial...
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Kansas State Football / Re: Wild Wildcats in NFL Draft
« on: April 14, 2024, 12:27:27 PM »
Final rankings from ESPN's other guy:
63.Beebe (No. 1 OG)
90.Sinnott
235.Leveston
318.Duke
63.Beebe (No. 1 OG)
90.Sinnott
235.Leveston
318.Duke
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 09, 2024, 10:43:23 PM »It'd be nice to have that added experience. But we'll see
We have 3 senior guardsHVL would almost certainly cost development time for Sides, but, conceptually, I very much like the idea of playing SS off ball a bit more - especially when she goes on TO frenzies (seems like they always happen in bunches).
Moving Serena off the ball would be nice, but Mittie is absolutely not going to do that. When either of the freshmen guards came in he still had Serena bring the ball up and initiate the offense. The point about HVL taking away minutes from the freshmen guards is my greatest reservation about her. It just doesn't make sense to me. If anything we need to be looking for a small forward to replace Gregory, but it looks like we are gonna roll with 3 combo guards and two bigs.
Agree with all of that - just wish Mittie would take a look at usage rates at make an effort to cut them down - especially for SS and JG. Hopefully next year he'll have more trust in Sides (or whomever else is on the team) as a primary ball handler.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 09, 2024, 01:02:32 PM »
HVL would almost certainly cost development time for Sides, but, conceptually, I very much like the idea of playing SS off ball a bit more - especially when she goes on TO frenzies (seems like they always happen in bunches).
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 07, 2024, 08:17:28 PM »
Lee wasn't on the WNBA draft list, so she's either coming back or moving on from basketball...
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Coaching Carousel Master Thread (MAYBE FEATURING THE KSU CATS?)
« on: April 05, 2024, 03:19:09 PM »rumblings that the leverage play is not for more salary but nil money
If that's true, that's great for us (assuming we can make it happen)
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 05, 2024, 11:34:11 AM »
6-3 forward from Mo State...
https://missouristatebears.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/kennedy-taylor/7460
https://missouristatebears.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/kennedy-taylor/7460