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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / tang the egomaniac
« on: February 06, 2024, 09:44:48 AM »
for a guy who professes to be all about the players and the fans, tang sure does seem to make everything about him. let's be real: he doesn't want the students storming the floor because that will turn him into the hoops version of where's waldo. after big wins, tang doesn't want to be the dude in the candy cane sweater, surrounded by chaos. he wants to be santa claus, handing out presents, camera fixated on him while he builds his own personal brand in the most passive aggressive way possible.

one of the bigger home wins in recent k-state memory, and the story afterward is that tang somehow kept all the animals in a cage.

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Kansas State Football / bill's book
« on: November 30, 2021, 03:27:15 PM »
the word "significant" appears 74 times.

in chapter 8, it appears eight times in six pages.

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gene should call these coaches, in the following order, and offer them the job:

1. john beilein - beilein is out of coaching, but you know he won't be for long. he made a mistake exiting college for the cavs and now needs a compelling reason to get back into it. k-state can appeal to him: beilein loves to rebuild programs. he's been doing it his whole career - from le moyne to canisius to richmond to west virginia to michigan. this is a perfect opportunity. beyond that, he can bring his son, patrick, aboard and groom him to be the coach-in-waiting. patrick is a rising star who will need to rehab his image after resigning from niagara for "personal reasons."

2. rick pitino - this would be bob huggins part II. pitino used iona to rehab his image, and now we've all forgotten about the bad crap he did. would he leave iona for k-state given that he probably prefers to live in NY? maybe. but here's how to sweeten it: offer for his son, richard, to come aboard and become the head-coach-in-waiting. richard has a bright future despite "failing" at minnesota. the conference has been brutally hard and he's been very unlucky between signing one trainwreck recruiting class and then having bad luck with injuries. rick would love the opportunity to coach alongside his son at a school with a legit chance to go all the way.

3. sean miller - great recruiter and program builder. would orchestrate an immediate turnaround. can go toe-to-toe with bill self when it comes to cheating for recruits. very good chance he splits from arizona. this would be a huggins-like landing spot for him - a chance to rebuild his image while other schools will take a pass due to ncaa sanctions, fbi, etc baggage.

4. kelvin sampson - he took wazzu, okla, indiana and now houston to the ncaa tourney. capable of immediate turnarounds. willing to cheat. highly likely to say no, as he's 65 and has lived in houston for a decade now extending back to his time w the rockets. but at least reach out to see if he's interested in a return to the big 12.

5. porter moser - great coach and better person. has proven he can do more with less. k-state is not a catholic school however and moser values religion. he also previously turned down offers from UNLV and st john's. he will say no - but gene should make him say no.

6. kyle smith - big schools will come after him in a few years after he leads wazzu to a top-4 pac-12 finish and ncaa tourney appearance in 2022. k-state has a chance to be early before his stock surges and not have to compete with better schools willing to offer more money.

7. frank martin - i don't love this, as i think frank is an overrated coach. but as far as infusing energy into the program and having the fanbase go batshit crazy, it would be hard to argue against bringing him back. he loved k-state but hated john currie. he would be embraced and his time at south carolina is ending soon.

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Kansas State Football / K-State opens -8 vs Buffalo
« on: July 08, 2020, 08:35:29 PM »
take UB and the points.  :sdeek:

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Nothing against oscar. On the whole, he has done a nice job at K-State. But it’s time to hire a young exciting coach who can take the program to new heights and generate some serious excitement.

Matt Figger is that guy.

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Kansas State Football / gene taylor is so small time
« on: December 09, 2019, 05:44:01 PM »
really disappointed in gene taylor's comments about k-state getting snubbed by better bowls in favor of having to play boring navy in the boring liberty bowl. "the system wronged us, but let's show up to the crappy bowl game anyway and hope they'll respect us more in the future!"

what a small-time response.

F that.

if anything, he should have guaranteed a blowout victory, trash talked the service academy school, and told fans to stay home because this bowl, this opponent, this stadium and this city is beneath us.

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Taylor didn’t express much, if any, frustration about the Liberty Bowl. He seems genuinely excited about it. K-State has never before played Navy, and Taylor thinks enough things will be different about the setup of the game, including the team hotel moving from the suburbs to downtown Memphis, that it will feel like a different experience than the Wildcats’ last trip there in 2016.

But Taylor has a message for any K-State fan who is seriously upset about K-State’s postseason destination. He hopes you will still consider attending the game and help prove the Wildcats have a team and fan base that is worth selecting higher in the bowl order in future years.

“We need to travel well to Memphis and prove what we’re about,” Taylor said. “ If we don’t, how is that going to look the next time we get in this situation? Bowls want fans to travel.

“We have always done that and we need to do it again for the Liberty Bowl. There’s no reason not to. We are going to play an awesome team and it’s going to be a hell of a game.”

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Essentially Flyertalk / call hall ice cream
« on: June 12, 2019, 11:36:03 AM »
https://twitter.com/stevedaveKSU/status/1138835763687251968

steve dave nailed it. lol at people thinking this ice cream is anything special.

it's a classic example of a product that kansas people think is awesome simply because they haven't tried anything else but call hall, coldstone, baskin-robbins, mcdonald's (except at night obviously), and frozen chicken nuggets at freddy's.

i have personally witnessed a call hall employee nearly breaking her wrist trying to scoop that hard-as-rock ice cream out of the container. by the time she finished her first attempted scoop, i offered to downsize my order from 3 scoops to 2 scoops, just to spare her from physical and emotional exhaustion. she seemed so relieved. but also, tired.

i retreated to my car, put the ice cream on top of the dashboard, and hoped the sun and interior heat would soften the ice cream so i could eat it with a spoon rather than hammer and chisel. after what seemed like hours but was probably five minutes, it was soft enough to be enjoyed. or so i thought.

i cracked a molar trying to bite into my cookies and cream. blood came pouring out of my mouth. i took a shirt from the back seat and pressed it against my mouth to stop the bleeding, which eventually worked after 15 minutes or so. but then my mouth started to swell. so i ran back inside and asked the girl if she could get me some ice. she was busy with other customers, who then asked me what was wrong. i told them that i had cracked a molar on this horrible rock-hard ice cream. they would have nothing of it. "impossible!" they said. "call hall is the best ice cream ever!"

then they accused me of having soft teeth.

i told them that steve dave knows the truth, and when the time is right, he will expose you for what you are.

today, that day arrived.

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post here along with the time the points were scored.


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the last time oscar's k-state team was #25 or better in kenpom's ratings in league play was...never. literally never. k-state has started as high as #15 (this year) and #19 (oscar's first, frank's players), and they've started as low as 109th (2015). but whether they improve or get worse or stay roughly the same, k-state is never a top-25 level team once conference play begins and they don't rise to that level by the time the season ends. never, ever. not once in seven years, including this year.

largely, k-state has been about a mid-40s level program. they've been better, and they've been worse. but mostly, they've been in the range of their seven-season average of #46.

here are the top 25 finishes in kenpom the last six years by Big 12 teams since oscar took the k-state job:

Kansas (6)*
Oklahoma St (3)
Iowa St (4)*
West Virginia (4)
Baylor (3)
Oklahoma (2)
Texas Tech (1)*
TCU (1)*
Texas (1)
Kansas St (0)

*currently a top-25 level team.

two of the three teams above that have just one top-25 finish are likely to have a second this year, and should be on solid footing going forward. and all the teams that finished with just one or two top 25s (including texas) have at least spent some time at that rating mid-season. but again, not k-state. not even for a day. oscar has never coached a top-25 level team at any point after january his entire tenure. he didn't do it his last year at illinois either.

i think a very reasonable argument can be made that k-state is the worst program in the conference.

credit to last year's team, they got hot at the right time. but they were never a top-25 level team, even at their very best, and if not for winning the ncaa tourney lottery (UMBC instead of UVa) and 3-pt variancing kentucky to death, last year was on the verge of being very forgettable just as this year will soon be.

the ncaa tourney makes rock stars out of ordinary teams. k-state was ordinary last year and they are ordinary this year. and they will be ordinary forever. because this team, this coach, these players, this athletic dept, this university, this town, is ordinary. and the more oscar coaches, the further they will fall, from an avg rating of #46 to #56 to #66. and when that happens, Phillips 66 will call and say, "hey, we're looking to do an ad deal and we'd love to sponsor the 66th best team in the land! could be good for branding!" and by the time gene inks the deal, k-state will already have fallen to #75, then to #100, and the offer will be off the table. and then k-state will lose to tulsa again.

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Kansas State Football / i give LittreLL 2 thumbs down
« on: December 05, 2018, 06:28:59 PM »
i can't believe the enthusiasm for this guy. he "turns around" north texas by beating a bunch of bad teams, he runs an offense that is a lesser version of the ones already ran by better big 12 teams (aka every other team), he got outcoached often by first-year CUSA coaches, his team underachieved expectations - sometimes massively - in almost every game it played in october and november down the stretch, and suddenly gene and k-state are tripping all over themselves to hire him?

bill clark, an actual good coach, destroyed LittreLL's UNT team with a program that literally didn't exist when LittreLL began his rebuild.

ya gotta feel for LHC Bill Snyder. he spent most of the last three decades to build up this program, and now ya'll are just gonna turn it over to the north texas coach who can barely beat UTEP and UTSA. pretty sad to watch this happen.

i liked the kansas hire way better. sometimes Les really is more.

 :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / k-state tempo this year?
« on: November 16, 2015, 01:33:16 AM »
curious if anyone has any idea how fast k-state intends to play this year? haven't seen much in articles and didn't watch the opener, but i saw it was played to a 75 tempo. i know weber slowed things down in league play last year...virtually to a crawl...but was wondering to what extent that style might remain and/or if they looked to push pace vs Eastern Shore.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / proven winner
« on: October 28, 2015, 03:04:49 PM »


 :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Kansas State Football / can anyone find the grant gregory article?
« on: October 20, 2015, 10:27:43 AM »
i have tried to find, with no success, the Sports Illustrated article (I think it was an SI article) that interviewed Grant Gregory about all the injuries he played through while at K-State. does anybody remember it or have a link to it or the text of it, by chance?

thanks!

 :ksu:

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Kansas State Football / who is college football's most likable team?
« on: October 09, 2015, 01:25:38 PM »
saw the handwritten snyder note to the okla st kicker tweeted earlier today. the predictable "omg, snyder & k-state is so classy!" tweets followed.

anyway, it got me to thinking: is k-state the most likable football program in the country? i actually think they might be.

here is my list of most likable college football programs nationally:

1. k-state. harmless little engine that could type program. snyder is beloved, people gush over the handwritten notes, program "does things the right way (!)", emphasizes family, never breaks rules, beats the tar out of texas.

2. duke. this is kind of a weird one since the hoops program is so hated. perpetually awful for decades and played the role of ACC's punching bag. now they're respectable. most people seem to like cutcliffe. the uniform/color scheme is sweet. spurrier voting them into the top-25 is always a fun offseason story.

3. okla st. am i wrong about this? i don't know anyone that hates okla st despite their success. most like their uniforms and stadium. they're not annoying like big brother oklahoma. they're a good team, but rarely a GREAT team, and are almost never a legitimate national title threat. usually have fun high scoring games.

4. oregon. uniforms and color scheme and pacific northwest mystique. the stadium looks cool. many people think the duck mascot is the best. probably occupied #2 or #3 spot in chip kelly era.

5. boise state. college football's only version of cinderella. probably #1 on this list eight to ten years ago.

just missed the cut: washington state (harmless, pass-happy, leach is coach), stanford (i despise them personally).

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / 8-22 (3-15)
« on: September 23, 2015, 12:54:36 PM »
it doesn't look good.  :frown:


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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / preview mags
« on: September 22, 2015, 11:56:51 PM »
LINDY'S

KU
Iowa St
Okla
WVU
Texas
Baylor
Okla St
TCU
K-State
Texas Tech


Notes: The good - oscar Weber is high on the talent he's brought into the program. The bad - Between graduation, transfers and dismissals, the Wildcats begin season in start-over mode.
Our call - K-State slipped last season, and a much longer fall is in the forecast this season.

ATHLON

KU
Iowa St
Okla
Baylor
Texas
WVU
Okla St
Texas Tech
K-State
TCU


Notes: Offseason transfers and dismissals have put oscar Weber's Wildcats in an unenviable position [...] Another disappointing season would put Weber on the hot seat.

SPORTING NEWS

KU
Iowa St
Okla
WVU
Baylor
Texas
Okla St
K-State
Texas Tech
TCU


Notes: "Who are these guys?"

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Kansas State Football / snyder stadium capacity
« on: September 22, 2015, 03:29:38 PM »
when all renovations are completed, how many extra seats will be added to snyder family stadium?

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Kansas State Football / UTSA
« on: September 07, 2015, 09:37:50 AM »
be afraid, be very afraid.

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i know nothing about ksu hoops history, but was wondering why kruger left ksu for florida back in the early 90s? four straight ncaa tourneys, an elite eight, and LHC Bill Snyder was just about to get things rolling in football.

ksu could have been been the dominant program (football & hoops) of the 90s had he stuck around.  :frown:


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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / ksu tempo
« on: November 24, 2014, 08:07:18 AM »
any idea if k-state is faster tempo-wise relative to last year? i see the KP stats, but hard to tell if the tempo is real - particularly in the first two games.

i haven't watched a game, but that SUU game went much faster than projected and seemed like a run-and-shoot in the 2nd half; and the UMKC game had 71 possessions and the first half seemed to be played with pretty good pace. The LBSU game finished with a 68 tempo but slowed to a crawl in the 2H, and then there were late fouls, so surely that was inflated.

in any case, haven't seen ksu play this year, and was just curious.

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Before they were married, Gene Keady took Kathleen to a Nike camp in Hawaii. Every time someone asked for their wedding date, Kathleen had to say she didn't know, her minister was out of town a lot. Finally one of the Nike officials said, "You're getting married tomorrow."

"And so we did!" Kathleen screams at me over the phone, laughing at the impetuousness of it all. "Gene wore a Nike shirt, Nike shorts, Nike sneakers. I wore white pajama bottoms and a shirt I got at the gift shop. And flip-flops."

Adds Gene Keady: "Kelvin Sampson gave the bride away. The best man was oscar Weber. He was the flower girl, too."


More: http://indy.st/1u7jIKB

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / HANDLED!
« on: October 27, 2014, 09:35:21 AM »
@goodmanESPN Handled probably not the right word for Nebraska-Kansas State secret scrimmage, but Huskers won session with best players on floor.

EDIT: Handled probably not the right word.

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