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

« on: May 16, 2012, 08:40:27 PM »

WVU is not officially part of the Big 12 until June 30th. Ponder that and discuss. -- The Dude of WV (@theDudeofWV)

Legal loop holes...

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

« on: May 16, 2012, 12:09:04 PM »

We need to publish this thread into a book. I think it would look great on my coffee table.

This has been discussed before.  It would have to be in volumes.  I started going back through and reading it.  Very entertaining.  There is also the issue of links.  Someone would need to go through the whole thread determine the importance of links and how to handle those. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: 3-26 vs. top 10

« on: May 15, 2012, 10:20:05 PM »

What time period is this on?

The Snyder years, during which KU is 1-29 vs. top 10 teams.

No way.   

HEY HEY HEY HEY, but that one win was the Orange Bowl HUR HUR

That win was during the Prince years, so they must have beaten somebody else. . .

see my post above.

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Kansas State Football / Re: 3-26 vs. top 10

« on: May 15, 2012, 08:25:35 PM »

It wasn't the Orange Bowl (Prince years not included in Beems number).  It was 94 Colorado.  If Beems want to count those years, then KSU has 5 victories over top 10 teams. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Actors you hate

« on: May 15, 2012, 05:48:04 PM »

except for slingblade.

Bad Santa?  I thought he was hilarious in that. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: 3-26 vs. top 10

« on: May 15, 2012, 04:48:01 PM »

What time period is this on?

The Snyder years, during which KU is 1-29 vs. top 10 teams.

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Kansas State Football / Re: 13-1 is now 21-5

« on: May 15, 2012, 12:03:45 PM »

Revenue growth over the last 6 years. K-State: 61.1%. KU: 17.6%.   sad.


http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/19053115/texas-most-robust-athletic-department-as-revenues-climb-across-the-country

Wow. FSU is withering on the ACC vine.

Passed by Louisville.  Pete, you should  this over to warchant.

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

« on: May 15, 2012, 10:21:31 AM »

Ya, another ridiculous claim from the FSU prez debunked...

What is his angle?  Who is jocking him to save this horrible conference?

Odds are he is an academic elitist who likes to hob-nob with other academic elitists.  No better way to stroke your academic elitist ego then to hob-nob with others academics from institutions that are better than yours at annual conference presidents meetings.  He doesn't want to have to have those meetings with Texas Tech.  Plus he doesn't want to deal with a bunch of pissed off faculty who think they are something special since they are in the same conference as Duke and UVA.  Right now he's thinking the faculty be will be the biggest pain in the ass about the move.  The question is when do the donors become a bigger pain in the ass for not moving.  That's when his tune will change. 

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

« on: May 15, 2012, 09:35:03 AM »

Love this factoid from Chip Brown, countering the "away fans" being farther off in the Big 12

Here's a list of drive times by car from Florida State to the rest of the ACC?

Clemson - 6 hours 47 minutes
Wake Forest - 9 hours 34 minutes
North Carolina State - 10 hours 8 minute
Boston College - 22 hours 31 minutes
Maryland - 14 hours 41 minutes
Virginia Tech - 11 hours 3 minutes
Virginia - 12 hours 53 minutes
Georgia Tech - 4 hours 47 minutes
Miami - 7 hours 54 minutes
North Carolina - 10 hours 34 minutes
Duke - 10 hours 30 minutes

Only 3 of those 11 have fan bases that are driving distance and bring enough fans to make an impact on ticket sales, and I'm not sure if that is even true for GT and Miami with fans willing to drive.  The rest are going to just fly to daily direct connections from Atlanta, D.C., and Charlotte.  Out of the other 8, not a single school comes close to flying in what OU and UT would fly-in and only VT would be in the same ball park what KSU, OSU, and WVU would fly-in.  Games featuring any of those 5 Big12 schools would overrun those commuter flights.  I wouldn't be shocked if KSU offered charter flight packages to an FSU game similar to what they do for bowl games. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Would a single Jayhawk player make Snyder's 2 deep?

« on: May 14, 2012, 06:58:41 PM »

i'm sure it's been brought up before, but i'm curious about what part of the state ol' beems is from.

Topeka

I always assumed that beems was a MHS alumni that knew some of you guys from HS.  How the hell did he end up here?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Would a single Jayhawk player make Snyder's 2 deep?

« on: May 14, 2012, 04:43:35 PM »

It appears that through your use of record over the last 5 years as a talking point in your arguments, you believe that Charlie Weis is a better coach than LHC Bill Snyder.  Are you willing to state: "Charlie Weis is a better football coach than LHC Bill Snyder"?

Beems, I've noticed you decided to ignore this post.  Care to answer it?

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

« on: May 14, 2012, 03:01:39 PM »

Pan, the BigTen backed out of the 9 game schedule when they made the deal with the Pac-12.  See point 6 in the link.

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2011/12/big_ten_pac-12_ok_nonconferenc.html

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

« on: May 14, 2012, 02:17:31 PM »

Wait, so I'm confused.

Haggard also played up the idea that the ACC caters to Duke and North Carolina basketball by saying -- apparently incorrectly -- the ACC surrenders third-tier TV rights to ESPN in football but retains them for basketball.

Yesterday some posters here kind of addressed this but it wasn't totally clear to me. What's the actual truth on the third-tier stuff? What exactly was misreported and what is correct?

They did not give away all the 3rd tier rights to b-ball.  However, their is no "set aside xx amount of basketball games for your own 3rd tier rights".  If the networks (CBS, ESPN) want to eat up all the Duke and UNC games with their allotment to put on ESPNU and ESPN3.com, they can.  Last year Duke had 1 game fall through, UNC had 1 or 3 (they had 2 games on espn3.com, I'm not sure if they were allowed to air them locally and collect money like tier 3 games since ESPN owned the rights).  While this new deal adds 2 schools, it also adds 18 games to ESPN's rights.  The ACC is saying that with these additional 18 games per year to ESPN that Duke and UNC won't have any games fall down to tier 3 for them to sell locally.  Basically if ESPN doesn't claim your non-con games, you get them yourself as tier 3.  If they do claim all your non-con, then too bad.  I think all conference games not picked up are owned by the conference network system (like with the Big12). 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: crap that white midwesterners like...

« on: May 14, 2012, 08:29:13 AM »

Those big ass gold or copper stars that people put in their living rooms, usually above the entertainment center or mantle.  Definitely have only seen these things in white midwesterners houses.

In OK they hang those on the exterior of their house, usually above the garage door. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Self Report

« on: May 13, 2012, 12:42:55 PM »

Currie doesn't have a master plan of reporting every small violation to build up good will with the NCAA to cash in later.  Currie has a master plan of hyper compliance investigation (with an addition of penny pinching to the point that FB players are tweeting about lack of socks) so he can find every small violation possible to report so he can rebuild his image (see resume) after the debacle at Tennessee under his watch.    That's it and that's all.

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

« on: May 13, 2012, 11:55:35 AM »

From an FSU poster

I interviewed at K-State last fall. Wasn't expecting much.

Man, did I come away impressed. Manhattan is, as the OP states, a very passionate college town that supports its team heartily. Only negative about Manhattan, to me, was that it is a tough place to get to -- 2 hours away from the nearest major airport.

Other than that, it would be a game experience only topped in the ACC by Clemson and VT.
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Did you tell them about the direct flights? 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: crap that white midwesterners like...

« on: May 11, 2012, 05:04:28 PM »

Headed to my bro's lake house at the Ozarks after work, stop at superwalmart on the way, may do some late night catfishing tonight after I arrive, pound some light domestic brews, wake up and make breakfast(pork products included), load up the boat tomorrow and cove out, drink copious amounts of light domestic brews, grill out(beef products).

yup, its a good life.

My best friend down here moved to Cali last fall.  His family has a lakehouse and pontoon boat at Tenkiller, but the only people who used it were his cousin and him.  We would go out there every other weekend and do just that.  I'm jealous of you ben ji.   

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Kansas State Football / Re: Hilarious Moments From Last Season

« on: May 11, 2012, 03:28:26 PM »

Oh man, completely forgot about that.

Someone needs to redo this with Bill's face:

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Things you did young that aren't relevant anymore...

« on: May 11, 2012, 11:51:34 AM »

Learned how to use the card catalog in the library. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Things you did young that aren't relevant anymore...

« on: May 11, 2012, 11:50:50 AM »

Going inside to pay for gas

I'll take this 1 step further.  Digging through/under the seats of your cars to look for change and lose bills to pay for your gas when you got inside.  Now if you did this you would find enough change to get maybe a gallon.  13 years ago this would have gotten me 3 gallons and lasted 4 days in my small pickup.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Things you did young that aren't relevant anymore...

« on: May 11, 2012, 11:43:08 AM »

Learned how to do math by hand and show all my work because the teacher told me "you won't always have a calculator with you."

Have bar/party debates over something trival that go on for hours because no one actually knew the right answer and could prove it.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Things you did young that aren't relevant anymore...

« on: May 11, 2012, 11:30:04 AM »

Used my parents double cassette stereo to make copies of tapes. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Things you did young that aren't relevant anymore...

« on: May 11, 2012, 11:12:22 AM »

I have the iPhone version.  TW, does the XBOX version have Tournament Edition.  It would be 100x if it was T.E.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Would a single Jayhawk player make Snyder's 2 deep?

« on: May 11, 2012, 07:53:10 AM »

Beems logic: KU has a better record all-time when you include seasons played before anyone here was alive and this proves KU is a better program.  Every season that the teams have ever played count and matter equally, except for KU's last 2, those don't count. 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Would a single Jayhawk player make Snyder's 2 deep?

« on: May 10, 2012, 08:04:24 PM »

Really happy Beems decided to give this thread another go.  It's like if Lance Armstrong would decide to do another Tour de France.  We'd all cheer for him despite the great odds.

Is there a doping method that makes you better at bbs'ing?   

Yes. The trick is to get super pak'd and then bbs.

Welp, then improved hamburglar bbs'ing will commence in approximately 27 hours.

why 27 hours?

10ish on Friday night.  Nothing planned for tomorrow night and mrs. hamburglar is already exhausted from the week.  That means I'll drink a couple rum & cokes during the evening, between 9-10 mrs. hamburglar will go to bed, and I'll start bbs'ing while picking up the pace on the rum & cokes.