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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: one year delayed, eh cap'n?

« on: May 28, 2014, 02:19:44 PM »

I like the AD having the final say. I think the conference should handle any "appeals." Why, because the conference office has to certify the NLI. And the appeal should just be a simple review of information followed by a recommendation made to the AD, then the AD makes the final decision.

The other issue with NLI process is that in requesting a release the student athlete has to compile and provide a ton of information, and one little error can result in the request being denied or an appeal also being denied.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Schlitterbahn

« on: May 15, 2014, 04:46:42 PM »

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Opening-of-worlds-tallest-water-slide-pushed-back-259385051.html?llsms=840021&c=y

Umm "more testing" is an interesting way to word what's going on. What until you see a picture taken after June 5th and compare it to what mocat just posted.

 
I feel like ArchE_Cat is not BSing Everybody here guys

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Schlitterbahn

« on: May 15, 2014, 12:23:31 PM »

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Opening-of-worlds-tallest-water-slide-pushed-back-259385051.html?llsms=840021&c=y

Umm "more testing" is an interesting way to word what's going on. What until you see a picture taken after June 5th and compare it to what mocat just posted.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Spencer Kietzman, apologize to Jacob Pullen

« on: May 15, 2014, 12:12:49 PM »

btw are we still a joke board?

Why did the cookie go to the doctor?

Because he felt crummy .

Why did the banana go to the doctor?

Because he wasn't peeling well.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Numbers Don't Lie: Comparing Sams to Historic KSU EMAW QBs

« on: May 15, 2014, 12:08:13 PM »

turnovers, time of possession, average drive length, starting field position, and I could go on and on.

I think (hope) Snyder has finally come to realize that your QB can't be your only weapon that you turn into 'sketi brains and thus ruin your chance at a title game appearance. You need a healthy stud QB all season long and multiple offensive threats. Klein was a great power runner and learned to to an efficient passer. Baylor tho. Waters is a great passer and will learn to be an efficient runner. This works as long as you have enough other threats. Sams great runner, maybe on his way to being efficient enough as a passer.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: one year delayed, eh cap'n?

« on: May 08, 2014, 02:46:56 PM »

She signed a NLI which is binding for one full academic year (two full time semesters). It's a contract binding you to an institution. She signed the contract, K-State paid for a year of her education and for her to play basketball. Completely reasonable for K-State to not release her. She signed the agreement, end of story.

But, apparently Jay Bilas and all these other dumb asses don't think there should be any accountability on the part of the student.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: is there an official doug gottlieb thread?

« on: May 08, 2014, 10:42:47 AM »

kamari murphy is transferring from OSU and OSU is gonna suck so hard this year and OSU is gonna get gottlieb aren't they? 

bro-in-law is an osu alum, he is meh on dougy and says lots of pokes don't care for dougy.

Also, oSu has no buy out on ford's contract. if the drop the axe they owe ford the remainder of his contract. i think he has 4 to 5 years left worth about $12 million. I can't see them getting rid of ford for doug, not for that kind of money.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shoes

« on: May 06, 2014, 03:31:29 PM »

Ordered these new gameday shoes a few weeks ago and they should be here by the end of the week 

The black should be gray.

should also be kd's instead of shox

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shoes

« on: May 06, 2014, 03:30:29 PM »

In the market for some comfortable brown dress shoes. What do people like? Looking for under $200.

sperry oxfords

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: May 06, 2014, 03:05:51 PM »

Do you guys even understand the ying and yang of the world? We need posters like carnes. The universe needs posters like carnes. For fucks sake, what kind of board is this.

yah yah yah, we want him on that wall, we need him on that wall. the real question is did he order the code red?

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: May 06, 2014, 10:58:55 AM »

What has been done, and what is planned will cost $165 million dollars.  There's nothing small timey about that at all.

We also know east side renos and south end renos are coming as well. if we only spend another $60 million on those other two phases that will put the total at $225 million. Baylor just spent $250 on an entirely new stadium. definetly nothing small timey about BSFS renos.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: The michigancat music discussion thread.

« on: May 02, 2014, 10:53:39 AM »

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread

« on: May 02, 2014, 10:34:25 AM »

We're spending $15 million more than UCLA...lol 

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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is hurting

« on: May 01, 2014, 01:12:23 PM »

Just as expected 

Many T's and P's to lil' bro.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/may/01/ku-has-designs-memorial-stadium-facelift/?sports

Kansas University’s athletic department has hired HNTB, a Kansas City-based architecture firm, to draw up blueprints for Memorial Stadium’s future renovations, but there are no plans to break ground any time soon, according to KU athletic director Sheahon Zenger....

First of all, no one uses blueprints anymore, no one in this industry even refers to drawings as blueprints. KU isn't even paying for Rock Chalk Park. It's being handed to them. Sure they'l have to pay for maintenance and upkeep, but Fritzel is practically given it to them. I think KU will pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $39 million over 30 years. Fritzel is essentially leasing the KU portion of the facility to KU Athletics and the Rec center portion to the city of Larryville. Fritzel will make money off of the city and essentially donate Rock Chalk to KU. How are they ever going to pull off an initial Memorial reno phase I cost of $60 million if they can't afford a project like Rock Chalk?

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: April 28, 2014, 04:45:17 PM »

I'm pretty sure they are just waiting for kstate to announce the very last phase and then they will announce one that's better.

At this point, to keep pace, they'll literally have to tear down and build an entirely new stadium.  Ala Baylor.

I honestly think that's what they need to do, but they won't because their donors simply don't care enough to pony up that kind of cash.

They'll gladly dump money to build a shrine to the rules of basketball, but they're perfectly content playing football in a rotting carcass with RCA TV's hanging out in the concourse.

Do you think they have a room with a stockpile of those TVs in case one burns out?

Shopping primarily on eBay is a nice cost saving measure.

Honest question for structural types, would it be even feasible to enlarge concourse, increase restroom sizes etc when you take into account of modern code? I know pretty much anything is possible with limitless money, but it seems like there is really very little they can do (if they don't want to tear down and rebuild).

Probably best to completely demo anything above the top level of the original seating bowl, make the required changes to the seating bowl (including complete removal of portions of the original seating bowl), then build out and up from there. The curved end of the seating is a nightmare, what do you do with it? If you keep it you shift the field north and demo south ends of the seating bowl. Keeping the exterior of the curved exterior north end as an architectural feature could be really cool. Once that lower seating bowl is corrected, then any concourses can be newly constructed moving out and up to deal with paths of egress. Structurally All the new stuff would need to be independent of the original bowl. So it's not a total tear down, but still very expensive to just to have the modern version of the basics you need. If they do anything with the filed level, like lowering and adding seats closer to the field once the track is gone, the price is going through the roof. I doubt the existing foundation of the seating bowl was constructed to allow for the field to be lowered.

hmm, that sounds exactly like what the university of washington did.  yup, spot on.

Actually UW demoed everything except the upper level grandstand on one side. Completely removed the seating bowl and grandstand on the other side. The grandstand that remained was originally built in 1987 and actually collapsed during construction in 1987 (and had to be rebuilt). Something tells me KU doesn't have $250 million to pull off something similar.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: April 28, 2014, 01:36:40 PM »

Everyone points to the angle of incline for the NEZ stands as naturally being way steeper than the other stands, thus why we can't have a truly elite wraparound stadium. But does not compute. Right now the NEZ stands appear to rise at a waaay more subtle angle than the SEZ counterparts, which is why Row 15 in the SEZ is way better for seeing than Row 15 of the NEZ, and also why each row in the NEZ has, like, 8 feet of legroom. Is this just an optical illusion or does ol' SB need to get his glasses tuned up or what?

what I don't get, on that overhead view comparison, it shows Vanier 2.0 won't even extend as far north as the current building, yet they said we had to squeeze in the seating at a steep grade.. why the eff couldn't they just move it back some and make the seating angle the same/similar so it wasn't such an issue in the corners? or is that overhead comparo way off?

EDIT: to say, yes, I think you need a tune job on your glasses.

I find it interesting that we are delaying the completion of the NE corner because of "schedule and possibly funding". Especially since we know that East and South projects are looming. Then there's this little nugget about Snyder always wanting the indoor practice facility closer to Vanier. Now this is just pure speculation, but I would almost bet they are looking into moving the indoor facility to the NE corner of the stadium. This would require a slight re work of the drive leading to the NE tunnel and a portion of the parking on the east side. I can imagine a phase that includes this and improvements to the east side. So imagine standing in the rec playing fields looking west and seeing from left to right, the Bball Practice Facility with the OOD beyond, the east side of BSFS with a new limestone exterior, and then the football indoor.

The NE corner has nothing to do with relocating the practice facility.  Dax is correct that the NE corner of the facility is designed to house non-essential parts of the facility, i.e. visiting team locker room expansion, dressing rooms for officials, storage, etc.  Couple this fact with an already strapped budget, construction schedule, and displaced seating on the west side, and you've got you answer.  I hope they are far enough ahead of schedule that they can just knock it all out at once.  But, if the NE corner is delayed until 2016, it won't have anythign to do with an eventual relocation of the practice facility.

Because of site conditions and the required ground work for the NE corner, if they are ever thinking of doing anything on the north end of the east side, they could do site work in preparation for a future structure there.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: April 28, 2014, 12:38:17 PM »

Everyone points to the angle of incline for the NEZ stands as naturally being way steeper than the other stands, thus why we can't have a truly elite wraparound stadium. But does not compute. Right now the NEZ stands appear to rise at a waaay more subtle angle than the SEZ counterparts, which is why Row 15 in the SEZ is way better for seeing than Row 15 of the NEZ, and also why each row in the NEZ has, like, 8 feet of legroom. Is this just an optical illusion or does ol' SB need to get his glasses tuned up or what?

what I don't get, on that overhead view comparison, it shows Vanier 2.0 won't even extend as far north as the current building, yet they said we had to squeeze in the seating at a steep grade.. why the eff couldn't they just move it back some and make the seating angle the same/similar so it wasn't such an issue in the corners? or is that overhead comparo way off?

EDIT: to say, yes, I think you need a tune job on your glasses.

I find it interesting that we are delaying the completion of the NE corner because of "schedule and possibly funding". Especially since we know that East and South projects are looming. Then there's this little nugget about Snyder always wanting the indoor practice facility closer to Vanier. Now this is just pure speculation, but I would almost bet they are looking into moving the indoor facility to the NE corner of the stadium. This would require a slight re work of the drive leading to the NE tunnel and a portion of the parking on the east side. I can imagine a phase that includes this and improvements to the east side. So imagine standing in the rec playing fields looking west and seeing from left to right, the Bball Practice Facility with the OOD beyond, the east side of BSFS with a new limestone exterior, and then the football indoor.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: April 28, 2014, 12:10:17 PM »

I'm pretty sure they are just waiting for kstate to announce the very last phase and then they will announce one that's better.

At this point, to keep pace, they'll literally have to tear down and build an entirely new stadium.  Ala Baylor.

I honestly think that's what they need to do, but they won't because their donors simply don't care enough to pony up that kind of cash.

They'll gladly dump money to build a shrine to the rules of basketball, but they're perfectly content playing football in a rotting carcass with RCA TV's hanging out in the concourse.

Do you think they have a room with a stockpile of those TVs in case one burns out?

Shopping primarily on eBay is a nice cost saving measure.

Honest question for structural types, would it be even feasible to enlarge concourse, increase restroom sizes etc when you take into account of modern code? I know pretty much anything is possible with limitless money, but it seems like there is really very little they can do (if they don't want to tear down and rebuild).

Probably best to completely demo anything above the top level of the original seating bowl, make the required changes to the seating bowl (including complete removal of portions of the original seating bowl), then build out and up from there. The curved end of the seating is a nightmare, what do you do with it? If you keep it you shift the field north and demo south ends of the seating bowl. Keeping the exterior of the curved exterior north end as an architectural feature could be really cool. Once that lower seating bowl is corrected, then any concourses can be newly constructed moving out and up to deal with paths of egress. Structurally All the new stuff would need to be independent of the original bowl. So it's not a total tear down, but still very expensive to just to have the modern version of the basics you need. If they do anything with the filed level, like lowering and adding seats closer to the field once the track is gone, the price is going through the roof. I doubt the existing foundation of the seating bowl was constructed to allow for the field to be lowered.

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Kansas State Football / Re: New Uniforms Master Thread

« on: April 25, 2014, 12:05:43 AM »

Kougs only made the gray uni shop'. The white uni was an 08' concept that Prince was supposedly toying with before he got the boot. I don't know who deserves credit for it.


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umm no. its a 'shop, most likely kougs, of an 2008 oregon uni.

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Kansas State Football / Re: New Uniforms Master Thread

« on: April 24, 2014, 05:13:53 PM »

koug's snowman is  . Also, if we do gray unis it needs to incorporate a black lions theme

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Kansas State Football / Re: New Uniforms Master Thread

« on: April 24, 2014, 10:25:29 AM »

no purple helmets, no purple pants, ever. Purple jersey and purple pant combo will ways look awful. White jersey should never be paired with purple pants. Also, i think we should stay away from black or matte finish on helmets, both have been way overdone. Also, no large word marks above the numbers. so yeah who ever made this is just terrible at everything

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: 2014 Recruiting Thread

« on: April 21, 2014, 05:14:28 PM »

I mean, if you want to overreact, go for it. I'm not sure if i'm going to trust some guy who has like 800 followers, when i've heard nothing but positive things about the visit. I would think it would be unfair to think he's not going to at least visit the coach he committed to before. I'm sure he feels like he owes it to him.

Also, can we stop acting like our coaching staff didn't try to close the deal this weekend? I mean, good grief.

Of course oscar tried.  oscar tries to do a lot of things.

And a four star recruit is not going to visit V-Tech just because he thinks he "owes it" to Buzz.

Come on, Wacky...

he's at least going because of girls, parties, etc. He's a freaking h.s. kid. All ya'll telling me that coming out of h.s. you wouldn't have taken one more free recruiting trip to smoke it up and have some college girls all over you?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Let's Talk about Branding

« on: April 21, 2014, 03:54:32 PM »

Is "Family" a national K-State brand at this point? The 2013 Fiesta Bowl is the only thing that comes to mind that was nationally watched. Possibly the '12 game against Texas. But good grief we are beating this thing to death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQrEzdu9yw0&feature=youtu.be

never go against the family stevesie 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: 2014 Recruiting Thread

« on: April 21, 2014, 03:47:30 PM »

Found this on Twitter fwiw:

Roger Gonzalez ?@RGonzalezTNV  3h
Virginia Tech bball recruit Satchel Pierce said he thinks Top 100 recruit Malek Harris (who was going to Marquette) will commit to Hokies

All Satchel knows is that Harris has visit to VT scheduled for this weekend/early next week. Why would Harris not take the trip to VT?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Let's Talk about Branding

« on: April 16, 2014, 03:01:05 PM »

what the hell is happening in numbers 6 and 9?