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Essentially Flyertalk / Extra Postage

« on: December 07, 2010, 04:20:50 PM »

So I received a card in the mail, and it was late because it needed extra postage.  Attached to the envelope was a tiny USPS envelope so I can send the extra 17 cents for the additional postage. 

I received my card.  What happens if I decide not to pay?  Will they send collections on me?   

Or is this part of the honesty code thing?

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Kansas State Football / Future Big 12 Water Cooler Talk

« on: December 06, 2010, 10:14:33 PM »

Now that the end of the season is here and Nebraska is pretty much (in my mind) part of the big 10, how should I handle office talk of Big 12 football?

Lets say there is are a couple Bugeater coworkers, and I strike up a conversation with fellow Big 12'ers about the upcoming football season.  And lets say said Bugeaters also want to join in on the conversation and they start ranting about Husker football. 

What is the proper way to respond that wouldn't get me fired?  Should I humor them since they will probably miss us?

TIA

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Kansas State Football / Last Big 12 Champion

« on: December 04, 2010, 10:41:52 PM »

from the North

forever

 

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Kansas State Football / Haverhill

« on: December 04, 2010, 05:56:33 PM »

Does Gene Chizik going to the BCS Championship make you hate him even more?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / It's Obvious

« on: December 02, 2010, 10:16:43 PM »

KU vs UCLA rematch in the National Championship game. 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / FRANK CALLED ME!

« on: December 01, 2010, 04:04:59 PM »

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Thanksgiving Leftovers

« on: November 30, 2010, 12:29:31 PM »

Who's still eating them?

Turkey, Green Bean Casserole, and Cranberry Sauce in my lunch today. 

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Kansas State Football / Jordy

« on: November 28, 2010, 02:40:48 PM »

is having a good game.   

Just made a great game-tying touchdown catch with 1 minute left in game.

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Kansas State Football / KC Pak for Mizzou

« on: November 13, 2010, 07:28:04 AM »

Where is everybody going?  Kite's?  Blue Moose?  75th St Brewery? 

 

 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / VT (Official Predicto Thread)

« on: November 13, 2010, 07:09:58 AM »

Struggled a bit against Campbell last night winning 70-60.  Only 7 of their players saw over 3 minutes of action.

We'll win the depth battle?  

If our big guys want to redeem themselves this would be a good game to do it.  Their tallest starter is 6'-8".  Oklahoma St. type team (minus the short ugly white guy).


Team with sucky big men:  85
Team with no big men:       73

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / 4 years later

« on: November 11, 2010, 10:44:14 PM »

Ron Anderson
Michael Beasley
Fred Brown
Andre Gilbert
Jacob Pullen
Jamar Samuels   Half-strikethrough line here?     Since he's all 
Dominique Sutton
Bill Walker

Came to me while I was on the pot fwiw. 

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Kansas State Football / Lack of KU fans in Stadium Related Thread

« on: October 15, 2010, 09:26:39 AM »

When we scored, Cat fans would be doing the pushup counting etc.. with Willie.  KU would blare the music on the jumbotron in order to drown out all the K-State fans that would be heard on the television. 

Anyone else notice this?  The timely music volume increase?  Seems more obvious in the 3rd quarter when K-State fans outnumbered them 3 to 1.

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Kansas State Football / 35 Yard Hail Mary before Halftime

« on: October 08, 2010, 08:52:33 AM »

 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / In Better News...

« on: October 07, 2010, 11:48:55 PM »

Got to see the renderings for the new practice facility tonight.  I don't think they are supposed to be shown to public until Madness.     Anyways....lets just say if I was a coach and knew this was to be finished by Winter of 2012, I would be passing out the renderings to every 5* recruit I'd love to have on my team.

This thing is sexy.  $20 million seems like it will get you a pretty bad ass practice facility.

  

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Kansas State Football / Will these be at the game?

« on: September 15, 2010, 01:32:08 PM »

Probably not but Chiefs catering will have their new Burnt Ends Cheese-steak Sandwich.  Not terrible...but $7.50

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Kansas State Football / Rumor with Legs

« on: September 15, 2010, 12:47:37 PM »

New Nike camo jerseys.  I've been hearing about these for awhile now.  Even a family friend who works part time in the football complex said something about a new Nike (pro-combat like) uniform being displayed on a dummy in the basement. 

Something about Snyder finally getting on board with honoring the soldiers etc..

I keep telling myself that it's just a rumor and this won't happen.  But then I think again how Chris, Bryce, and Arthur were also just a rumors. 

Nebraska game on national television?  Or UCF game (Ft. Riley Day)?


Any thoughts?

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Kansas State Football / Any offensive success this season

« on: September 10, 2010, 11:24:08 AM »

Will be because of this guy. 





Even DT would suck w/o a good OL. 

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Kansas State Football / New Field Turf

« on: September 08, 2010, 01:29:31 PM »

Cannot wait for our new turf next year.  The field looked like crap on ABC for UCLA game.  The "grass" part is wearing down to the point that all the rubber shavings are coming to the surface and covering the already faded painted parts. 

So can we go from photo-shopping jerseys we will never have to photo-shopping what our elite new field will look like?  TIA

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Kansas State Football / Big 12 Players of the Week

« on: September 07, 2010, 03:16:08 PM »

Offense: Daniel Thomas, RB, Kansas State and Kendall Hunter, RB, Oklahoma State

Defense: Aldon Smith, DE, Missouri and Keenan Robinson, LB, Texas

Special teams: Anthony Cantele, K, Kansas State and Tress Way, P, Oklahoma

Cantele, a walk-on, hit four PATs, made his only field goal attempt -- a 35-yarder -- and had four touchbacks in his first college appearance. The touchbacks are made even more impressive considering Cantele didn't know he'd be serving as kickoff specialist until game-day morning.

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Kansas State Football / Awwwww snap

« on: September 02, 2010, 09:10:36 AM »

No more baseball! (for me)  

6:30 PM ET    Presbyterian at Wake Forest   ESPN3.com         Tickets
7:00 PM ET   Southeast Missouri State at Ball State            Tickets
7:00 PM ET   Rhode Island at Buffalo            Tickets
7:00 PM ET   Hampton at Central Michigan            Tickets
7:00 PM ET   Murray State at Kent State            Tickets
7:30 PM ET   Marshall at No. 2 Ohio State   Big 10 Network         Tickets
7:30 PM ET   Florida A&M at No. 13 Miami (FL)   ESPN3.com         Tickets
7:30 PM ET   Towson at Indiana   Big 10 Network         Tickets
7:30 PM ET   Norfolk State at Rutgers   ESPN3.com         Tickets
7:30 PM ET   Minnesota at Middle Tennessee            Tickets
7:30 PM ET   Southern Miss at South Carolina   
ESPN3.com      ESPN Mobile TV   Tickets
8:00 PM ET   Florida Atlantic at UAB            Tickets
8:00 PM ET   Northern Illinois at Iowa State            Tickets
8:00 PM ET   Southeastern Louisiana at Tulane            Tickets
8:30 PM ET   No. 15 Pittsburgh at Utah   Versus         Tickets
9:00 PM ET   North Dakota at Idaho            Tickets
9:05 PM ET   Eastern Washington at Nevada            Tickets
11:00 PM ET   No. 14 USC at Hawaii   
ESPN3.com      ESPN Mobile TV   Tickets

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Kansas State Football / Wichita Eagle

« on: September 01, 2010, 08:32:02 AM »

http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/01/1472778/coffman-earns-k-state-teammates.html

Chase Coffman earns K-State teammates' faith
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BY KELLIS ROBINETT
The Wichita Eagle

MANHATTAN — LHC Bill Snyder says Kansas State quarterback Carson Coffman is more consistent than a year ago.

Cornerback David Garrett thinks Coffman's more confident.

Left guard Zach Kendall thinks Coffman is just more talented.

Ask around the K-State football complex and you will hear all sorts of explanations for why Coffman — a senior who started four games last season before being benched for Grant Gregory in the final eight — was able to regain his spot.

It may have more to do with what he did off the field.

"He proved himself as a leader," Kendall said.

Coffman started that process during a team meeting in early August. He sensed uneasy feelings in the locker room. Players were competing for playing time, and there was little unity. So he tried to fix things.

Coffman stood in front of the team and told the story of his 2009 season. He talked about how difficult it was to become a backup, and how foolish he was for initially hoping Gregory would struggle. It wasn't until he accepted his fate, and worked to help Gregory improve, that he was truly being a teammate.

"Be there for each other," Coffman remembers saying, "and put the team ahead of yourself."

The room grew quiet. Everyone knew they were listening to their starting quarterback.

"I really gained a lot more respect for him for saying that," Garrett said. "Most people that lose their spot go off in their own little corner and do their own thing. But he stayed and was a team player. He did what he had to do to make sure the team was at its best."

Coffman wants to do the same this season, only under center. He's ready to make it through an entire schedule.

A year ago, he admitted to struggling with pressure and confidence. When he threw an interception, the poor decision stuck with him. He doubted himself and was hesitant to take chances. For the season, he completed 71 of 117 passes for 860 yards, two touchdowns and four interceptions.

Snyder wanted more, and decided to make a quarterback change before conference play. On a Wednesday in late September, he pulled Coffman aside after practice and told him Gregory would start against Iowa State.

"That caught me off guard big-time," Coffman said. "I didn't have any idea."

Coffman was hurt by the news. He didn't know how to handle it. But the way he handled the demotion told Snyder he was worth re-evaluating this time around.

On Tuesday, Snyder compared Coffman's situation to the way Jonathan Beasley helped former great Michael Bishop develop.

"He made the effort," Snyder said. "Nobody is happy when you lose the starting position. I thought he was good in the interaction with the other quarterbacks, and trying to help Grant along, having spent a little bit more time in the system. He was of great assistance to him. I think that's what good caring teammates do. He's certainly one of those."

Snyder said naming Coffman the starter was not a difficult decision. The competition at quarterback was close at some points, but Coffman won the race by a wide overall margin.

Winning the job has given him confidence, and he thinks the mental aspect of his game is vastly improved.

The change in his demeanor has been impossible to miss, teammates say.

"When he steps in and calls the huddle up, you don't see that look in his eyes anymore," Kendall said. "He's calm. He's smiling with us. It's fun."

That's not a word Coffman used a lot last year.

Carrying the load — Snyder hopes to maintain a balanced offense this season, but that doesn't mean he will take carries away from Daniel Thomas solely for the sake of throwing the ball.

If Thomas is running well, he will continue to get handoffs.

"We don't have a pitch count," Snyder said. "There is nothing that says 16 carries is the limit or 20 or 50 or whatever the limit may be. Whatever he can handle and whatever we need."

Powell slowed by injury — John Hubert was named backup running back for the UCLA game instead of William Powell. Snyder said Hubert, a redshirt freshman, played well to earn the spot behind Thomas, but added that Powell had missed some practice.

Powell was one of two players competing for playing time that didn't dress at an Aug. 21 public practice. The other was defensive lineman Raphael Guidry, who is the backup nose tackle.

Tight end talk — Sophomore Travis Tannahill beat out freshman Andre McDonald for the starting tight end spot, but Snyder indicated both will receive playing time in Saturday's opener against UCLA.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/01/1472778/coffman-earns-k-state-teammates.html#ixzz0yHhZ1gBG

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Kansas State Football / Farmageddon 2010

« on: August 30, 2010, 01:17:47 PM »

Just got my tickets in the mail on Friday. 

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Kansas State Football / Stadium Stuff

« on: August 27, 2010, 08:37:23 AM »

Schulz talking facility upgrades:

In the long term, we also want to enhance our football stadium in a way that would allow us to use the facility year-round by a broader part of our campus.

Finally budgeting for the retractable roof huh?  Or does that mean more classrooms to be used by the University?

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Kansas State Football / Comments Section

« on: August 23, 2010, 01:04:28 PM »

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/22/2167384/jayhawks-lose-running-back-rell.html?pageNum=1&&&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container

Watching the Beakers and Tiggers go back and forth on which University is the biggest cesspool is quite entertaining.   

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Cuse won't make it far...

« on: March 11, 2010, 12:43:15 PM »

They have only played 7 guys with seven minutes left in the game and down by 9.  Cuse is not deep whatsoever, and their last couple of games have looked pretty bad.