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Kansas State Football / SNOWBRAG ratings / Week 12 Predicto Thread

« on: November 14, 2012, 01:49:01 PM »

1   Kansas State
2   Notre Dame
3   Alabama
4   Oregon
5   Florida
6   Ohio State
7   Florida State
8   Georgia
9   LSU
10   Texas A&M
11   Clemson
12   Stanford
13   Nebraska
14   South Carolina
15   Oklahoma
16   Louisville
17   Louisiana Tech
18   Oregon State
19   Rutgers
20   Texas
21   Northern Illinois
22   Kent State
23   Boise State
24   UCLA
25   San Jose State


Last week: 8-1 (5-0 B12 play)
Overall: 35-8 (23-1 B12 play)

Week 12 Predicto's

Texas Tech 30
Oklahoma State 36

Oklahoma 38
West Virginia 28

Iowa State 22
Kansas 18

Stanford 23
Oregon 31

USC 26
UCLA 28

Wake Forest 12
Notre Dame 26

USF 24
Miami 28

NC State 21
Clemson 32

and finally...

Kansas State 38
Baylor 27

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Kansas State Football / SNOWBRAG ratings / Week 11 Predicto Thread

« on: November 05, 2012, 12:50:07 PM »

1   Alabama
2   Kansas State
3   Notre Dame
4   Oregon
5   Florida State
6   Florida
7   Ohio State
8   LSU
9   Georgia
10   Stanford
11   Louisiana Tech
12   Oregon State
13   Louisville
14   Northern Illinois
15   Oklahoma
16   Clemson
17   Ohio
18   South Carolina
19   Rutgers
20   Nebraska
21   Boise State
22   Texas A&M
23   UCLA
24   Texas
25   Kent State

Last week: 8-1 (4-1 B12 play)
Overall: 27-7 (18-1 B12 play)

Week 11 Predicto's

Iowa State 27
Texas 29

Kansas 21
Texas Tech 32

West Virginia 32
Oklahoma State 39

Baylor 27
Oklahoma 39

Texas A&M 23
Alabama 30

Oregon 37
California 22

Oregon State 19
Stanford 22

Notre Dame 28
Boston College 15

and finally...

Kansas State 34
TCU 23

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Kansas State Football / SNOWBRAG ratings / Week 10 Predicto Thread

« on: November 01, 2012, 07:59:34 AM »

SNOWBRAG ratings now take into account SOS

1   Alabama
2   Kansas State
3   Notre Dame
4   Oregon
5   Florida State
6   Florida
7   LSU
8   Ohio State
9   Georgia
10   Boise State
11   Stanford
12   Mississippi State
13   Louisville
14   Oregon State
15   Oklahoma
16   South Carolina
17   Ohio
18   Louisiana Tech
19   USC
20   Nebraska
21   Rutgers
22   Clemson
23   Texas Tech
24   Northern Illinois
25   Texas A&M


Week 10 Predicto's:
(SNOWBRAG is 14-0 in Big 12 play, 19-6 overall)

Oklahoma 27
Iowa State 20

TCU 32
West Virginia 31

Kansas 28
Baylor 33

Texas 31
Texas Tech 36

Alabama 28
LSU 16

Oregon 33
USC 26

Texas A&M 30
Mississippi State 25

Pittsburgh 16
Notre Dame 26

and finally...

Oklahoma State 28
Kansas State 34

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Kansas State Football / Lattimore

« on: October 27, 2012, 12:25:23 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / SNOWBRAG ratings / Week 9 Predicto Thread

« on: October 22, 2012, 03:10:13 PM »

Week 9 SCORES NEED OBVIOUS WORK BUT RESULTS ARE GOOD ratings

1. Alabama
2. Kansas State
3. Florida State
4. Florida
5. Mississippi State
6. Oregon
7. Notre Dame
8. Ohio
9. Rutgers
10. LSU
11. USC
12. Oklahoma
13. Oregon State
14. Cincinnati
15. Boise State
16. Louisville
17. Texas Tech
18. Georgia
19. Louisiana Tech
20. Arizona State
21. Michigan
22. Stanford
23. South Carolina
24. TCU
25. Clemson

Big 12
1. Kansas State
2. Oklahoma
3. Texas Tech
4. TCU
5. Oklahoma State
6. Texas
7. West Virginia
8. Iowa State
9. Baylor
10. Kansas

SNOWBRAG system went 5-0 in the B12 again last week, 6-2 overall. (SEC games have been no good for SNOWBRAG so far  )

That makes in the past 2 weeks: 10-0 in B12, 13-3 overall.

Week 9 Predicto's

Baylor 33
Iowa State 34

TCU 27
Oklahoma State 30

Texas 36
Kansas 24

Notre Dame 19
Oklahoma 24

Mississippi State 20
Alabama 26

Florida 26
Georgia 24

Cincinnati 27
Louisville 23

and finally...

Texas Tech 27
Kansas State 32

Also, OT but people always want to compare the Big 12 and SEC.
The SEC is very top and bottom heavy, while the Big 12 has 1 very good team and 1 very bad team, and many teams in between.

The SEC has 4 teams better than the 2nd-best Big 12 team.
The SEC has 6 teams worse than the 2nd-worst Big 12 team.

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Essentially Flyertalk / who is freaking viewing this board GD it

« on: October 19, 2012, 03:49:01 PM »

maybe this was discussed in The Thread, but, did we break the "...are viewing this board" counter?

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Kansas State Football / KC PAK

« on: October 19, 2012, 02:10:18 PM »

Let's not screw this up this time KC'rs. The Well is very EMAW during away qh@tz games, and that is where I will be. 

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Kansas State Football / mocat rankings / week 8 predicto thread

« on: October 15, 2012, 12:45:56 PM »

Correctly picked all 5 B12 games last week, 7-1 overall. Good sign for the mocat system. Updated rankings:

1. Alabama
2. Kansas State
3. Florida State
4. Florida
5. Mississippi State
6. Rutgers
7. Notre Dame
8. Cincinnati
9. Oregon
10. LSU
11. Oregon State
12. South Carolina
13. Louisiana Tech
14. West Virginia
15. USC
16. Louisville
17. Boise State
18. Texas Tech
19. TCU
20. Oklahoma
21. Georgia
22. Texas A&M
23. Stanford
24. Clemson
25. Iowa State

Big 12:

1. Kansas State
2. West Virginia
3. Texas Tech
4. TCU
5. Oklahoma
6. Iowa State
7. Texas
8. Baylor
9. Oklahoma State
19. Kansas

For the predictos, some of you may ask, "How come teams ranked lower sometimes are predicted to beat higher ranked teams?" Well, it's because the rankings now take into account records*, but for the head-to-head predictos I ignore teams' records and just look at the stats matchups.

(*this makes Florida State's ranking in the mocat system that much more impressive. mocat system LOVES florida state, most likely due to FSU's first three games where they outscored their opponents 176-3. FSU is not likely to drop any time soon either, as their next opponents are Miami, Duke, VT, & Maryland)

Week 8 Predictos:

Iowa State 25
Oklahoma State 30

Texas Tech 24
TCU 22

Kansas 16
Oklahoma 34

Baylor 38
Texas 41

South Carolina 22
Florida 19

LSU 26
Texas A&M 27

Florida State 38
Miami 18

and finally...

Kansas State 39
West Virginia 29

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Kansas State Football / Week 7 Predicto Thread

« on: October 11, 2012, 02:13:04 PM »

It's no CHIRP/ORCHID, but I have my own little system.
It does not take into account previous wins/losses.
It does not take into account home/away team.
It does not take into account SOS
It is predominately based on YPP, PPP, and TO%
I only have data for all Big 12 teams, and all teams currently in the Coach's Top 25.
So therefore only Big 12 teams and Top 25 teams playing each other are in this predicto.
Welp here goes!

Texas 30
Oklahoma 32

Oklahoma State 42
Kansas 25

West Virginia 33
Texas Tech 37

Baylor 31
TCU 35

Stanford 19
Notre Dame 26

South Carolina 24
LSU 22

Texas A&M 41
Louisiana Tech 33

and finally....

Kansas State 31
Iowa State 21

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Kansas State Football / Great Headlines in Newspaper History: Mizzou Edition

« on: October 11, 2012, 11:40:06 AM »

Is banged-up Missouri in over its head against Alabama’s Tide?

(actual headline today)

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/10/3861836/is-banged-up-missouri-in-over.html

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Essentially Flyertalk / KC Area highway/interstate fatalities

« on: October 09, 2012, 03:20:52 PM »

Does it seem like there has been an absolute crap-load of these in the last few weeks/months? My god.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / JO at the Plaza

« on: September 29, 2012, 04:03:31 PM »

girlfriend just spotted JO being super adorbs at the plaza getting some shopping done! waiting on pic... 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Let's talk New Wave of American (or not) Heavy Metal

« on: September 29, 2012, 01:51:16 PM »

Tell me some more bands that I should check out, knowing that I like the following already:

between the buried and me
becoming the archetype
trivium
bullet for my valentine
the human abstract
lamb of god
meshuggah
in flames / meh
chimaira / meh

tia everyone! 

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Kansas State Football / Shocking news: Known racist postpones racism until later; still loves hunting

« on: September 28, 2012, 01:30:27 PM »

 

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/27/3837087/k-states-tannahill-hunts-for-more.html

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Kansas State Football / Amazing Miami Rant

« on: September 13, 2012, 09:48:33 AM »

sorry if Luked, haven't seen it on here.



 

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Essentially Flyertalk / iowans

« on: August 24, 2012, 03:36:08 PM »

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/24/3776939/stuck-accelerator-takes-woman.html

idk, throw the car into neutral? nope, makes too much sense. this iowan lady would rather go all iowan on I35

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Essentially Flyertalk / Creeper gets A for effort

« on: July 18, 2012, 11:56:33 AM »

http://joco913.com/news/alleged-restroom-peeper-arrested-after-hiding-overnight-in-leawood-theater-ceiling/

The woman told police she was using the restroom when she noticed someone hold a camera or cell phone under the stall next to her.

She thought the person was trying to photograph or videotape her, said Leawood Police Capt. Kevin Cauley.

She left the restroom and told theater employees, who called police.

The woman told police the man was wearing ball cap. Police looked for the man, but he had fled up into the ceiling. Firefighters helped look for him using a thermal imaging camera.

“We couldn’t find him that night,” Cauley said.

Police received a tip on Tuesday that the man might still be in the theater. They eventually found him hiding in the ceiling area near the women’s restroom. He was arrested early Tuesday afternoon.

Read more here: http://joco913.com/news/alleged-restroom-peeper-arrested-after-hiding-overnight-in-leawood-theater-ceiling/#storylink=cpy

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Essentially Flyertalk / Actors you hate

« on: May 15, 2012, 04:23:22 PM »

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Essentially Flyertalk / Oklahoma man, possibly OK_Cat, explodes meth lab in pants

« on: April 27, 2012, 04:14:41 PM »

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/27/3579963/meth-lab-explodes-in-mans-pants.html

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Essentially Flyertalk / HELP FIND MAN WHO IMPREGNATED WOMAN CONCERT BATHROOM

« on: April 16, 2012, 04:58:04 PM »

http://www.fuse.tv/2012/04/help-find-the-man-who-impregnated-woman-in-megadeth/motorhead-concert-bathroom

HELP FIND MAN WHO IMPREGNATED WOMAN IN MEGADETH/MOTORHEAD CONCERT BATHROOM

Do you think you've had a terrible concertgoing experience recently? Well, you've got nothing on the woman who was impregnated in a bathroom at a Megadeth/Motorhead show at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago and took to Craigslist's Missed Connections section to find the father.

In a post entitled, "Did we hook up at the Megadeth/Motorhead concert? - w4m - 28 (Aragon Ballroom)," an anonymous woman wrote the following post, which is reproduced here in its entirety:

"Me: Blue hair, silver tube top, fishnets, Knee high black biker boots.
You: Red mohawk, black pentagram gauges, viper piercings.

I was grinding on you in the pit, then we went to the bathroom, and got f***ed up. You had a nice c**k and I was wasted so I let [you] raw dog it in the stall. You were really good and you had to gag me so I would make too much noise.

Anyway I'm pregnant. It's yours. contact me if you want to be part of your child's life."

Man, this is the most heartbreaking Craigslist post I've seen all day. Email [email protected] if you have any leads.

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / desert island/album/dessert master thread

« on: March 22, 2012, 11:07:42 AM »

...and you could only have three (3) albums with you, which three (3) would you choose?

I'll start.

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

Metallica - ....And Justice for All

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Q: What's Syracuse famous for?

« on: March 16, 2012, 10:09:13 AM »

A: Oranges and child abuse. And they only invented the oranges to get to the kids.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Quaff pak

« on: March 15, 2012, 02:42:30 PM »

Who was the EMAW at the Quaff with the F3 shirt?   

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Pretty good summary

« on: March 13, 2012, 11:39:55 AM »

Kansas State Team Report
Updated: March 12, 2012 03:47 EST


GETTING INSIDE
 
It would be unfair to blame all of Kansas State's inconsistencies on one player. Yet the uneven ride Jamar Samuels continues to experience parallels the Wildcats' struggles.
The senior forward entered the Big 12 tournament playing his best basketball of the season, recording double-doubles in four of the previous seven games. In the 13 times Samuels has managed the feat in his career, the Wildcats lost just once.

To open play in the conference tourney, however, Samuels was almost nonexistent except for playing 29 minutes. Most of his 10 points against Baylor came late in the game, after the 82-74 Wildcats' defeat was already decided. In addition, he grabbed no rebounds.

Kansas State coach Frank Martin declined to criticize Samuels during his postgame remarks, electing instead to credit the senior for his late-season play, which contributed to a fifth-place finish in the conference.

Words did not need to be expressed, however, for people to realize that Samuels' off game is another factor why the 21-10 Wildcats find themselves vulnerable as a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They open March 15 against Southern Mississippi (25-8), and if Kansas State wins, it would likely face top-seeded Syracuse (31-2) at the sub-regional in Pittsburgh.

"I'm disappointed," Martin said after the quick departure from the Big 12 tourney, "because the behaviors that we showed as a team (was) stuff that we had going on back in November and December, and we've gotten away from that."

Martin cited selfishness on the defensive end, where the Wildcats often were late covering shooters and poor at offering help, as a characteristic he thought his team shed with a strong finish down the stretch in Big 12 play. Kansas State thrives on its defensive intensity and relentlessness on the boards, yet it was completely manhandled by Baylor, a team it split with during the regular season.

"It's not good to regress, and I feel like we regressed a little bit," said sophomore guard Will Spradling, who missed all three of his 3-point attempts and continues to suffer through a shooting slump.

The Wildcats depend heavily on junior Rodney McGruder for production on the offensive end, though another junior, center Jordan Henriquez, has sparkled late in the season. Henriquez had 22 points and 14 rebounds against the Bears. It was an encouraging development Martin gladly accepted, though he knows his team must recover completely to make any kind of NCAA run.

"We get one more chance to get it right," he said, "and if we don't get it right, our season is over."


NOTES, QUOTES
 
--The quarterfinal loss to Baylor in the Big 12 tournament marked the fourth time in five seasons under coach Frank Martin that Kansas State has lost its opening game in the event. Martin stands 2-5 in the tourney after taking the Wildcats to the championship game in 2010. "I'm not a fan of conference tournaments," Martin conceded. "I never have been. I'm ready to go play somebody else. I'm sick and tired of watching Big 12 basketball to be honest with you. It's too good."
--One bright spot during the Big 12 tournament was F Jordan Henriquez, who erupted for 22 points and 14 rebounds against Baylor. Henriquez was not the best big man on the floor, but only because Perry Jones fulfilled his potential and scored a career-best 31 for the Bears. Over his last four games entering the NCAA Tournament, Henriquez averaged 15.3 points, almost nine more than his season average of 6.7. He also rates as the Wildcats' top interior defender. Earlier this season, he broke the Kansas State career record for blocked shots.

--Under Martin, who is in his fifth season, Kansas State has won at least 21 games each year. The Wildcats also finished with winning conference records each of those seasons.

QUOTE TO NOTE: "Are we going to be worried about one game or 30 games? We've been doing this for six months. We know we can play with anybody when we play the game the right way. We didn't play it the right way (against Baylor)." -- Kansas State coach Frank Martin.


STRATEGY AND PERSONNEL
 
SCOUTING REPORT: Over coach Frank Martin's entire five-year tenure, opponents have been constantly impressed with how hard the Wildcats play, a trait that has enabled Kansas State to win with strong defense and second-chance opportunities on offense. This season, however, Kansas State has lacked those qualities more often than in other seasons under Martin. The defense came on late, in part because younger players had finally grasped the concepts, though question again surfaced after Baylor riddled Kansas State in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament. The Wildcats often rely too much on G Rodney McGruder to score, either off the catch or the dribble. He is an underrated contributor, yet he should not be asked to carry a team. G Angel Rodriguez is a promising freshman who is too mistake-prone while running the point.
FUTURES WATCH: With the combustible Martin as coach, instability always exists in the Kansas State system, resulting in constant shuffling of personnel. It would not be unusual for anyone to leave. Two promising sophomores, F Wally Judge and G Nick Russell, left after last season and were missed this year. If the underclassmen return intact, Kansas State will have the ingredients to contend in the Big 12 next season as long as Rodriguez improves, G Will Spradling regains his long-range touch and C Jordan Henriquez flourishes on both ends with more consistency. McGruder is pretty much a given and will provide consistent effort and production.

REGULAR SEASON REVIEW: A tournament championship, the first under Martin, at the Diamond Head Classic over Christmas, provided an encouraging lead-in to Big 12 play. Inconsistency, however, marred any attempt by Kansas State to contend. It needed a late-season push to finish fifth with a 10-8 record after an impressive sweep of Missouri was offset by an inexplicable sweep Oklahoma administered. The Wildcats were more focused on the road, where they finished with the same 5-4 record as they posted at home in conference games.

ROSTER REPORT:

--Senior F Jamar Samuels entered the Big 12 tournament as only the sixth Kansas State player to ever reach the 700 mark in career rebounds. He failed to snag a carom, however, during the 29 minutes he played in the quarterfinal loss to Baylor.

--Junior G Rodney McGruder entered the Big 12 tournament averaging 21.8 points and 5.8 rebounds over his previous four games, but he managed just 14 points on 5-for-13 shooting against Baylor. He grabbed just four boards as Kansas State was outrebounded 32-26.

--Junior G Martavious Irving scored nine points on 4-for-6 shooting while playing 15 minutes against Baylor, tops among the K-State subs. Only one other reserve, G Jeremy Jones, scored for the Wildcats, who typically rely heavily on bench production.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Apple TV, et al

« on: February 27, 2012, 03:25:39 PM »

Wondering if anybody has it / figured out a way to stream different video formats (.mkv in particular) and spotify. Am considering, but only if this is possible.