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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 25, 2025, 12:23:05 PM »
Lester to Rutgers - they suuuuuuuuuck.
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Kansas State Football / Re: How good is Will Howard???
« on: April 24, 2025, 02:06:55 PM »not to pit this up but:
https://x.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1915469864011260162
Why are these people some effing weird
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 20, 2025, 09:09:24 PM »
The problem is that this team goes from really good at home to dogshit on the road, which is a hallmark of Pete Hughes coached teams in his 25+ year head coaching career.
In college baseball, as a baseline, the road team wins about 40% of the time on average. A good team is going to be at .500 (or better).
At K-State, Hughes' road winning percentage is .338. In 3 of his 6 seasons (not counting the covid year), Hughes has finished with below a 30% win percentage on the road. Only once (2023) has Hughes finished with a 40+% win percentage on the road (actually 55% that year). If you remove that year, his road winning percentage is .289.
So, in essence, Hughes has had a single year where his team played at an average/above average level on the road - every other year, we've been below average (and, far below it in 3 of 6 years). If Hughes managed to be even average (40% on the road), he'd have won about 5 more games every year. Considering K-State's been on the bubble in several of those years (and only made it on the right side once), that truly is the difference between an NCAA bid and staying at home.
When you have trends like this for 25+ years, it definitively says that whatever you're doing to prepare your teams when they play on the road simply does not work. Whatever it is that he does sucks (certainly in comparison to other coaches) and his record proves it. There's really no other way of looking at it.
In college baseball, as a baseline, the road team wins about 40% of the time on average. A good team is going to be at .500 (or better).
At K-State, Hughes' road winning percentage is .338. In 3 of his 6 seasons (not counting the covid year), Hughes has finished with below a 30% win percentage on the road. Only once (2023) has Hughes finished with a 40+% win percentage on the road (actually 55% that year). If you remove that year, his road winning percentage is .289.
So, in essence, Hughes has had a single year where his team played at an average/above average level on the road - every other year, we've been below average (and, far below it in 3 of 6 years). If Hughes managed to be even average (40% on the road), he'd have won about 5 more games every year. Considering K-State's been on the bubble in several of those years (and only made it on the right side once), that truly is the difference between an NCAA bid and staying at home.
When you have trends like this for 25+ years, it definitively says that whatever you're doing to prepare your teams when they play on the road simply does not work. Whatever it is that he does sucks (certainly in comparison to other coaches) and his record proves it. There's really no other way of looking at it.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 19, 2025, 11:16:27 AM »
Finally landed an Arenas (30 years later)
https://x.com/KStateWBB/status/1913626313656868898?t=nEpC5HgQT9eUY_NrX64ZsQ&s=19
https://x.com/KStateWBB/status/1913626313656868898?t=nEpC5HgQT9eUY_NrX64ZsQ&s=19
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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: April 18, 2025, 11:47:59 AM »Don't be a dumbass, we are about to land this guy.
https://www.nbadraft.net/players/andrej-kostic/
ok serious question is it even possible for an athlete with any sort of muscle mass whatsoever to be 6'7 and 195 lbs? The only person i'm aware of that is 6'7 and 195 is Donald J. Trump
On behalf of all White Tiger fans, we are greatly offended by this question
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 18, 2025, 10:24:21 AM »
Now tied for 236th (of 299) D1 teams in fielding percentage at .960. Of power conference teams, only Michigan State (below average team) and Ohio State (awful team) are worse.
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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: April 17, 2025, 12:41:19 PM »It's going to be Euros and mid major guys.
If you swap out Euro for Aussies - Florida just won a title with this approach.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 16, 2025, 03:49:56 PM »
Two games in Boston: 6 errors and 6 unearned runs.
We were 214th in the country in fielding % entering the series and we're going to take another plunge.
We're now 4-11 in true road games this year and very realistically could be 4-14 after this weekend against the best KU team in 10+ years (not saying a lot, but still).
We were 214th in the country in fielding % entering the series and we're going to take another plunge.
We're now 4-11 in true road games this year and very realistically could be 4-14 after this weekend against the best KU team in 10+ years (not saying a lot, but still).
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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT
« on: April 16, 2025, 12:43:55 PM »None of the money has to be accounted for by the athletic department, correct? I mean Purple Wave auctions could just pay a player $1,000,000 to appear in some adds with no strings attached, right?There's nothing punitive about it. Surely you have heard people distinguishing between guaranteed and unguaranteed money in a contract valued at $X.
The "pay it back" in your original post makes me think you're paying them and then trying to claw it back when they transfer, which I don't think would work.
An incentive-laden contract would be a better alternative, but I still struggle to think it will work. With the money coming from anywhere, some car-dealing booster somewhere will guarantee the kid dough.
For this reason, I don't think it possible for schools to regulate at this point.
Under the proposed House settlement, there would be a clearinghouse for all NIL that would be managed by Deloitte. The bean counters would determine if any NIL agreements would meet fair market value and would have the authority to nullify any agreements that they deem unreasonable ($1 million to appear in a 30 second ad for Purple Wave auctions, etc.).
That's all fine and good, but the big schools can't help themselves and so somebody like Tennessee - which already sued the NCAA over this kind of thing - will just do it again when they're denied and the house of cards will crumble again.
The NCAA can be blamed for loads of things (including not trying to get ahead of this 20 years ago), but it's not their fault member schools/boosters/athletes only care about themselves and will file as many lawsuits as it takes to get what they want regardless of the wider implications.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Wild Wildcats in NFL Draft
« on: April 16, 2025, 08:49:31 AM »
The Athletic guru's mock draft:
Round 3
84. Parrish (Bucs)
Round 4
128. Giddens (Commanders)
Round 5
143. Howard (Raiders)
Round 7
255. Sigle (Browns)
Round 3
84. Parrish (Bucs)
Round 4
128. Giddens (Commanders)
Round 5
143. Howard (Raiders)
Round 7
255. Sigle (Browns)
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 15, 2025, 07:52:16 PM »
Dean has now given up runs (or failed to record an out) in six consecutive relief appearances and in eight of his last nine appearances dating back more than a month. His ERA is 12.60 during that stretch with 25 hits (11 for extra bases), 6 BBs, 3 HBPs in 10 total innings pitched.
Has to get better...
Has to get better...
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 15, 2025, 12:14:50 PM »
So... 3-4 more players to go.
Still need a PG and 2 bigs...
On the other side, Maupin goes to Nebraska and Ohnstad to North Dakota, but I don't think I've seen any of the others with a confirmed destination?
Still need a PG and 2 bigs...
On the other side, Maupin goes to Nebraska and Ohnstad to North Dakota, but I don't think I've seen any of the others with a confirmed destination?
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 14, 2025, 12:54:18 PM »It doesn't seem ideal to be traveling to the East Coast right now for games.
But I do see they start at 1, so they can get out of there and get back.
I don't know
I think it's pretty stupid... I imagine you can count the number of teams on one hand that are scheduling cross-country mid-week non-conference series this time of the year.
But, in slight defense of Hughes - there just aren't that many day trip options that we don't already face (Creighton, Omaha, Nebraska, WSU, etc.). In the old days, Clark would play NAIA teams because he couldn't get anyone else (Doane, William Woods, etc.) and those would be absolute RPI killers these days.
Still, would be nice to get Mizzou on the schedule (and Oklahoma now too - though I can see why Hughes wouldn't be keen on that). And, they would be longer trips, but Arkansas, Iowa, SLU and Oral Roberts are in the 5-6 hour drive range.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 13, 2025, 09:01:10 PM »
Something is wrong with Dean - he was solid last year, but has been a trainwreck this year. Slack wasn't as reliable last year, but he's been pretty bad this year too. If we're going to make the postseason, those two guys have to figure things out.
We're tied for 3rd at the Big 12 halfway point with 5 series left (@KU, vs. Houston, @BYU, vs. WVU, @Cincy). WVU is currently in first, KU's tied for 5th, Cincy is 7th and Houston & BYU are one game out of last place. We're lucky in that we avoid three of the top six teams in the league (TCU, Arizona, ASU) this season (did beat TCU earlier in the year in a tourney).
KU was swept at TCU this weekend, so it'll be interesting to see how they play next weekend (KU's pitching had been pretty solid and TCU mailed them all weekend). They've lost 4 straight and play WSU at home on Tuesday before our series.
Like last year, we decided again to let Pete go home for a mid-week series, so we play at Northeastern Tuesday and Wednesday before going to KU Friday. They won't be a pushover - first in their league and 60 in the RPI (we're currently 36th).
We're tied for 3rd at the Big 12 halfway point with 5 series left (@KU, vs. Houston, @BYU, vs. WVU, @Cincy). WVU is currently in first, KU's tied for 5th, Cincy is 7th and Houston & BYU are one game out of last place. We're lucky in that we avoid three of the top six teams in the league (TCU, Arizona, ASU) this season (did beat TCU earlier in the year in a tourney).
KU was swept at TCU this weekend, so it'll be interesting to see how they play next weekend (KU's pitching had been pretty solid and TCU mailed them all weekend). They've lost 4 straight and play WSU at home on Tuesday before our series.
Like last year, we decided again to let Pete go home for a mid-week series, so we play at Northeastern Tuesday and Wednesday before going to KU Friday. They won't be a pushover - first in their league and 60 in the RPI (we're currently 36th).
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 11, 2025, 10:11:55 PM »
Would have been hard to play worse in any aspect tonight...
Awful defense (at least 3 balls in the outfied that should have been caught and were misplayed, a missed infield popup, passed balls, etc.), awful situational awareness (plenty of hits, but at least 2 DPs, poor strikeouts swinging at junk after being ahead in the count, trying to stretch a double into a triple with zero outs, etc.), bad pitching (they scored in all but two innings, Frost started and gave up 5 after getting a single out, etc.) and terrible coaching (I stopped counting at 5 UCF hits to gaps after we deployed shifts).
Considering that UCF is the second worst team in the league, that they had been swept by both Cincy and KU, that they were riding a 7-game losing streak, that we hadn't lost a game all year at home and that we had a chance to get back to first with a win... just a piss poor effort.
Hopefully they can flush it - supposed to be super windy tomorrow and UCF pitching sucks, so could/should be a lot of offense tomorrow (which we'll probably need because our pitching has been awful the last two weeks). This is a must-win series if we want to have a shot at a league title.
Awful defense (at least 3 balls in the outfied that should have been caught and were misplayed, a missed infield popup, passed balls, etc.), awful situational awareness (plenty of hits, but at least 2 DPs, poor strikeouts swinging at junk after being ahead in the count, trying to stretch a double into a triple with zero outs, etc.), bad pitching (they scored in all but two innings, Frost started and gave up 5 after getting a single out, etc.) and terrible coaching (I stopped counting at 5 UCF hits to gaps after we deployed shifts).
Considering that UCF is the second worst team in the league, that they had been swept by both Cincy and KU, that they were riding a 7-game losing streak, that we hadn't lost a game all year at home and that we had a chance to get back to first with a win... just a piss poor effort.
Hopefully they can flush it - supposed to be super windy tomorrow and UCF pitching sucks, so could/should be a lot of offense tomorrow (which we'll probably need because our pitching has been awful the last two weeks). This is a must-win series if we want to have a shot at a league title.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Wild Wildcats in NFL Draft
« on: April 09, 2025, 09:19:14 AM »If someone would have asked me, how many wide receivers get drafted and signed as a free agent on any given year, I wouldn't have guessed anywhere close to 142 dudes. That seems like a ton of guys.
I thought about that too - like, what's the point of going past 50 or 75? And, when you get down that low, surely you're just somewhat arbitrarily picking to slot a guy at 125th over the guy in 126th.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Wild Wildcats in NFL Draft
« on: April 09, 2025, 08:51:34 AM »
Final rankings from The Athletic guy:
Parrish - #67 overall, #9CB, 2nd-3rd round
Giddens - #13 RB, 3rd-4th round
Sigle - #13 Safety, 5th round
Kilty - #23 guard; FA
Mott - #70 DE; FA
Garber - #71 CB; FA
Riley - #107 safety; FA
Cephas - #142 WR; FA
Howard - #8 QB; 4th round
Matlack - #53 DE; FA
Savage - #143 safety; FA
Parrish - #67 overall, #9CB, 2nd-3rd round
Giddens - #13 RB, 3rd-4th round
Sigle - #13 Safety, 5th round
Kilty - #23 guard; FA
Mott - #70 DE; FA
Garber - #71 CB; FA
Riley - #107 safety; FA
Cephas - #142 WR; FA
Howard - #8 QB; 4th round
Matlack - #53 DE; FA
Savage - #143 safety; FA
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 08, 2025, 09:41:21 AM »Good grief - I even saw that yesterday and completely forgot. Seems like a "potential" type of player that, hopefully, can contribute in a year or two...Lester in the portal...
I "think" that means we're down to 9 players for next year assuming no other transfers.
Mittie's got some work to do...
Had a big from VT commit yesterday that probably equals out Lester
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: ksu ladycats
« on: April 08, 2025, 09:00:06 AM »
Lester in the portal...
I "think" that means we're down to 9 players for next year assuming no other transfers.
Mittie's got some work to do...
I "think" that means we're down to 9 players for next year assuming no other transfers.
Mittie's got some work to do...
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Kansas State Basketball is hard / Re: The SEC invitational
« on: April 07, 2025, 11:09:55 PM »Man, Houston too incompetent to even get a shot off in their last couple of possessions.i’ve rewatched their final play several times and can’t figure out what kelvin drew up
What he didn't draw up at any point in the last 10 minutes was how to handle the blitzing of Houstons primary ball handlers around the perimeter. Just had no answer for that and it was pretty shocking.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 04, 2025, 10:31:30 PM »So much dumbassery in this game (on both sides). We deserve to lose after they walk a bazillion batters in a row with two outs in the 9th, we're down by one and, what do we do, we swing on the first pitch and pop out in the infield.
I was thinking that too... But then I was like he's one of the best
hitters in the country, so I'll trust him. If he would have been swinging 3-0 in that same situation... Yeah that's a different story. But he probably figured these guys are walking the world and he was probably going to get a first pitch cookie and wanted to be ready for it.
But yes I agree, wouldn't have minded Maximus taking a pitch against a guy he was seeing for the first time
Baseball equivalent of hero ball - it was a bad decision. If it's a 3-2 count, fine. But we didn't even give that pitcher a chance to walk him (like the other batters he faced)
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: April 04, 2025, 09:33:56 PM »
So much dumbassery in this game (on both sides). We deserve to lose after they walk a bazillion batters in a row with two outs in the 9th, we're down by one and, what do we do, we swing on the first pitch and pop out in the infield.