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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!

« on: November 17, 2023, 11:05:51 AM »

Congrats to Jalon.  I pity the 4 or 5 opponents he suits up against next year.

I do believe you meant the "3" opponents he suits up against.  4 or 5 is way too optimistic for Mr. "I have some sort of injury issue that only I can truly identify" to suit up and play against.

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Kansas State Football / Re: (edit) ITT gE gets super literal about the prospect of LL staying at KU

« on: September 27, 2023, 01:33:40 PM »

Can Bill offer to glide Lance into the KU co-ed scene, or is that off the table after Bill's heart attack?

Bill tends to dip his toes into the middle-aged cheatin' wife and divorcee pool in Lawrence.  Coeds can be a bit messy in this current day and age (Me Too stuff).

Source: A+

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Kansas State Football / Re: Rank the new Big 12

« on: August 06, 2023, 04:32:57 PM »

bikeaggies
weedaggies
gonewildaggies
skinwalkeraggies
dryheataggies

Very good stuff

Back to ranking schools (original part of this thread) I am torn between distaste for schools (is that the basis) or potential for good games/decent programs.

1) KSU
2) OSU
3) TTU
4)ISU (solid sports, but yeech--too much mold)
5) TCU (moving up on the list, but not enough fans and too many choads)
6) UCF (the Bounce House gives me hope for some great games and atmosphere making them watchable)
7) Utah (somebody to hate already, but solid football)
8) Houston (fun hoops)
9) WVU
10) Cinci
11) UofA
12) BYU (not a lot to offer, but should get better - and they piss of Utah fans)
13) Baylor (too much rape and murder)
14) CU (some decent history in football, but fans are atrocious and I doubt they will ever try to actually win except at cross country)
15) KU (live too close to Lawrence)
16) ASU

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Kansas State Football / Re: Rank the new Big 12

« on: August 05, 2023, 07:58:04 PM »

The real question is what are the Aggie nicknames for all the new editions. I feel like I just settled on the first 4


Arizona State  = PartyAggie? SunAggie?

Do not feel good about this - it gives them too much credit.  These guys were key players in killing the PAC (by stupidity, not by actual intent - that video of Crow in this thread says it all).  I am sad SandAggie is taken.  GlassAggie, maybe (molten sand and/or meth - but still sounds too cool).  BurnAggie? 

Most of the others listed in this thread are solid.  And yes, Truck Stop Aggie is great to spite Utah.

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Kansas State Football / Re: KSTATEO!

« on: July 23, 2023, 03:17:17 PM »

My DIL saw these at a store in the west bottoms during First Friday.


Tom

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Do you know which store/shop?  The sailor Willie is fire.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Holler for the Band!!

« on: July 18, 2023, 05:08:40 PM »

Canco on whats being said but I was a lazy shithead when I was in the band so he definitely wasn't wrong. 

Tracz is ready for retirement and I think his style isn't meshing well with todays youth.

Do not disagree, but this is also a reminder of who a growing portion of today's youth are.
pic.twitter.com/xHfavYIkrz

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Kansas State Football / Re: KSTATEO!

« on: April 08, 2023, 11:11:14 PM »

Ordered one last week (different hat color).  Got it the next day.  Quite sweet.

https://twitter.com/SteinlageT/status/1644385562587955209

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Kansas State Football / Re: The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!

« on: November 13, 2022, 12:05:31 PM »

Running out of gas.  It's understandable when you're turning things around.  Glad we're playing them at the end of the year .

KU just seems to be a different team on the road. We'll see what they look like when Texas comes to town.

Gonna be much colder for Texas rolls in to Lawrence than it was in Manhattan.  Past history is that Texas will fold their tents in truly cold weather.  if they do not, then that says Sarkisian is doing some serious things right in Austin.

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Kansas State Football / Things with Bigger Balls than Will Howard?

« on: November 13, 2022, 12:02:47 PM »

After watching Will Howard fit in that first TD pass to Ben Sinnott last night it struck me that Will Howard must have gargantuan balls.  This has been evident this year whenever he has quarterbacked and successfully fitting passes into tight windows and giving his receivers a chance to make a play.  I and my friend MattieC tried to figure out what had bigger balls than Will Howard, but were at a loss.  I thought it I would leave it up to this board, and the insights of the goEMAW collective to figure out if there is anything out there will bigger balls.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Nebraska's struggle for relevance.

« on: October 11, 2022, 07:24:29 PM »

They are selling tickets for $10.

I have a coworker who joined the "Nebraska Coaches' Association" for the access to cheap tickets.  The offer tickets to games that no one wants to see (crappy non-conference teams NU thinks they should smoke - teams they once smoked, but now that is no longer a given) for literally a dollar.  He said years ago the $50 bucks was a sweet deal, for he could take the entire family for lest than $5 bucks each time a few times a year.

That is was once one thrifty 'Husker fan.  Now, I will have to ask if he still joins the association or just buys tickets outright.

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Kansas State Football / Re: New Uniforms Master Thread

« on: September 13, 2022, 09:03:54 PM »

I love flag waving Willie and I love white helmets, but I understand why some of the players weren't jumping out of their chairs after seeing our cutest smiling cartoon logo on their helmet.  It's not exactly a tough look. I'll reserve judgement until I see them on the field.

Nuthin' more humiliating than getting curb-stomped by a team wearing a friendly cartoon cat logo on their helmets.  It is sort of like Mickey Mouse walking through the door and killing your family with an ice pick.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Who Nebraska should try to hire...

« on: September 12, 2022, 01:45:17 PM »

I think Nebraska should focus on fired/disgraced coaches who are looking for that one last chance to prove they have it.

Art Briles

That is the most perfect recommendation ever.  If he could hold up Lawrence Phillips as the ideal Husker for all to model after.

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Kansas State Football / Re: FD returns from the faux potato famine & talks to himself RE:PXIIAD hot potatoes

« on: September 02, 2022, 10:27:53 PM »

Surprised at the crowd for Colorado. I was led to believe their fans didn’t care about football. I had forgotten how funky Folsom Field was with all the chaotic looking add-ons.

You beat me too it.  I feel like I am in a twilight zone where CU fans give a $hit.

I know I will wake up soon and they will all melt away, tho.

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Kansas State Football / Re: 2022 Non Cats College Football Games Discussion Thread

« on: September 02, 2022, 08:36:35 PM »

So, I fell into a trap of watching Eastern Kentucky vs Eastern Michigan.

I thought I watched a ton of college football.  Including my fair share of MACtion.  But, i guess I never noted the world in which the EMU Eagles exist.  They play on a gray field (not kidding, it is the plan) in a rather gray stadium, which they have initially nicknamed "The Factory."  To start the game, they build a shoddy cinderblock wall which the team waits behind (on a visible ramp) and two players use sledgehammers to knock it down and open a path to the field.

Mix in the 23 fans in attendance (everyone else is players' families, visiting fans, or support staff), and it is as dismal as an derelict industrial zone in Detroit.

I cannot take my eyes away from what I am watching.

Next time I travel to northern Ohio I may be compelled to detour north to take pics for the other pud teams' pud stadiums thread.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Win Predictions for 2022 Season. (Playoff wins not included)

« on: August 26, 2022, 02:39:48 PM »

Running with 10-2.

I believe Martinez will work out, but I have a few reservations about his consistency (adjustment issues) and then overall team depth.

I have the two losses coming in the mix of three games (OU, Baylor, and OSU).

If Martinez adjusts well, and the injury bug stays away and the safeties and linebacking rooms come together, the team could be a bit better than the prediction (all teams on KSU's schedule would be beatable).  If the wheels fall of, I will still hope for 6-6 or 7-5.

My heart of heart says 11-1 and then a win in Arlington for KSU's first 12-win season.  An "old" can dream.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Bill Tribute Thread For Sentimental Qatz To Share Fun Memzys (No gE'ing Allowed)

« on: July 21, 2022, 10:14:46 PM »

I remember the media too-do about the goalposts.  I believe the company that erected them was out of the Chicago area.  The steel plate, with the post foundation deep in the ground using concrete to shore it up.  They had "tested" them and found no way for fans to climb on them and pull them down.  I believe another university was having similar issues to KSU in those days and purchased them, and they survived.

What the company did not understand is the ingenuity of 'Cat fans.  The use of the cable described by j-von is part of that (I did not know they used a camera cable until his post) the did not anticipate.  In the news articles that covered the destruction of the post, they stated that some fans went to the parking lot and got tow-straps or tow-chains from their trucks and brought them back to get it done.  But, that would take some time and real outside-the-box thinking (you would think once in the lot, drinking, almost any fan would say screw it, I'm going to the 'Ville or a party and leave), so the camera cable makes a ton more sense to me.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Who will be the Big 12’s next commissioner?

« on: June 30, 2022, 09:57:26 PM »

Officially announced so there ya go

He has a Lew Perkins vibe but at least we are bringing a gun to the gun fight that is conference realignment.

TBH, I hope he has a large sack of Claymore mines to lay in the path as well (and maybe a few SAMs to take out the private jets of a few rival executives as well).

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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: Play Sandstorm!

« on: June 29, 2022, 10:21:09 PM »

I ran across this in another forum.  Either when they renovate (not the piddly-a$$ crap they are doing this off-season) or replace the Bram, this needs to happen. 

Please note, the extensive use of purple.  Apparently, New Zealand gets it.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Who will be the Big 12’s next commissioner?

« on: June 27, 2022, 10:20:47 PM »

Prior to ROC Nation had 14 years as CEO of the Barclays Center/Nets management company & 6 years at NASCAR before that.

So, are you saying we could be replacing Harley Day with NASCAR vehicles roaring around the track? 

That would get the olds and the inbreds all fired up.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Bill Tribute Thread For Sentimental Qatz To Share Fun Memzys (No gE'ing Allowed)

« on: June 27, 2022, 01:10:34 PM »

Brian Kavanagh was the first grayshirt in college football history. Amazing walk down memory lane. Great interview.


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-of-fitz-a-cancer-warriors-conversations-about-life/id1504177372?i=1000567794279

I am actually going to listen to it later today (just saw it pop up in my podcast feed).

That said, I had no idea why this thread moved up today (or what it was originally about).  So, I clicked it and started reading it again.  As I read the post I thought about sharing my own.  Then, I realized at had at the very end (back in the day I posted under "Big Sam" until the board went wonky and froze me out and won't let me recover my password/account).  It is strange, I never shared that story with anyone other than this board (it was too personal and it only seemed appropriate to share it here where people understand just how important that 'Cats football and what Snyder are).

Well, back to work (and I think I am going to try to listen to the Matt Miller podcast as well - I loved his grit).

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

« on: May 18, 2022, 12:39:31 PM »

so the question will be if NIL + greyshirt = no limit on scholarships? 

I thought it was more like 120 or so on scholarship at NU or OU before the limit was put in but the above will make it harder to pull late bloomers from TX, GA, FL l, etc when a class is never full

Definitely true.  The OUs and NUs of the day would have at least 200 kids on their teams.  NU used to have a freshman team that would play Jucos to get experience. 

Big programs would stockpile better bodies on their 5th string than a KSU often lined up as starters.  Especially in the skill positions.

Not sure you can do that today with the world of the transfer portal and every game being on TV (in the old days, there were maybe 3 games on a week, period.  It was insane).

120 is what the scholarship limit was before 85 and they would sign 120 then have a billion "walk ons." There were also no real restrictions on "walk ons" back then so they were just circumventing the supposed 120 limit.

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Kansas State Football / Re: what if collein klein is a complete badass?

« on: May 11, 2022, 03:22:18 PM »

Other dude also has his hand on CK's butt

Damn right he is!

Opportunities such as that do not come very often in life.

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Kansas State Football / Re: “BETWEEN THE STONES”

« on: May 08, 2022, 01:39:31 PM »

Promotions would be great.  Slogans and imagery for apparel would be pretty creative.

"Get Stoned at the Quarry."

On 4-20 you can roll out the "Stoner Cat."

What could go wrong?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Wild Wildcats in the NFL

« on: April 16, 2022, 09:44:53 PM »

So, do we start a new thread for Wild Wildcats in the USFL, or do we append here for the play of Justin Hughes of the Michigan Panthers and Abdul Beecham of the Pittsburgh Maulers?

I know thread discipline  is highly important on this site, so I need guidance from the mods.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread

« on: January 31, 2022, 02:45:53 PM »

France has meanwhile seized on the Ukraine crisis to advance its own ambitions for an E.U.-led security framework that could undermine NATO. In an address to the European Parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron urged the E.U. to launch a separate dialogue with Moscow over ways to reduce the tensions, potentially setting up a rival track to the U.S.-led diplomacy that has so far dominated the West’s efforts to tamp down the tensions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/23/europe-divided-ukraine/

https://twitter.com/samramani2/status/1485996981378076677?s=21


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This is a variation of France's old "Third Way" approach during the Cold War.  They offered themselves as a "power" other nations could align to without selling their souls to the Soviets or the U.S.  In reality, it was a way to see themselves as a world power, without all the effort and ability (and I must note, in the end, everyone knew they would still tie to NATO - and the U.S. was still keeping them in the pipeline of nuclear info the create better arms so they would add to Western deterrence).  The only leverage Biden has is pipeline sanctions (but the current admin dumped those, which Trump had in place).  The Germans and others are more dependent than ever on the gas that is flowing and will in the future, and they have current issues with power in part due to dumping nuke reactors without having the capacity in place to handle the loss--they have to play along with what the Russians want.

Most Russians rely on the money that the government uses to subsidize their lives via energy revenues.  We have only aided them as we have now returned to limiting our own potential production (nothing like the U.S. going hat in hand to OPEC asking them to increase production after we intentionally cut our own a few months before--the current administration is playing checkers at a chess tournament).  Just a few years back Putin was hurting as those revenues had declined in light of growing U.S. production and falling market prices.  Now, not so much.