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Kansas State Football / Re: BITB Today

« on: October 12, 2013, 08:38:15 AM »

Did you hear when Stan said basically "West Virginia played stupid on D, the Cats are the 1st team with a brain Baylor has faced."

This team is a lot of things, but it ain't smart.

The implication is being sound in our schemes, and I think that is potentially true. Hayes has been a solid DC and only once has an opponent scored more than their season PPG average against us. Of course, that was last year's Baylor team. On average teams score nearly 12 points less than their average PPG against Hayes led defenses at K-State.

How many snaps are they getting compared to their average? Not to say Hayes hasn't done a good job, but ball control has to be affecting that as much as the defense, no?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Who is your favorite FB player on this years team?

« on: October 10, 2013, 09:36:44 AM »

Gronk. The guy is a fullback with 2 touchdowns over 50 yards already 

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Kansas State Football / Re: HEY GUYS! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!

« on: October 08, 2013, 01:20:01 AM »

Good thread, Daris. Go cats 

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Kansas State Football / Re: The lack of a true stud running back is probably hurting this team more . . .

« on: October 06, 2013, 09:57:17 AM »

I have to wonder if the running backs behind him are any good, or if Snyder is putting too much stock in Hubert's tenacity and experience. We've only seen a small amount of Rose and Robinson, and given that last year Pease was at least able to take snaps away from Hubert outside of late game blowouts, I'd think the others would see some time if they were worth a crap.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Near Death Experiences

« on: October 01, 2013, 04:37:44 AM »

Was swimming with some kid I had just met at a house party in their above ground pool. Kid swam through the rungs of the ladder that goes into the pool, under the water, then dares me to do the same. Pudgy me gets stuck trying to go through under water, kid tries to push me through from behind but it's not happening. I thought I was close enough to the surface to lean my head up and get my breath, ended up blowing some bubbles and getting no air. Panicked, then shoved myself backwards and out. No adults were supervising, was probably about 10-11.

Another time I was close to getting hit by a car on the highway driving into Basehor taking my mom to the chiropractor. Car was coming from the other direction, and I saw it driving in the median and kind of bouncing as it was heading into oncoming traffic. I swerved gently to the shoulder and avoided being hit by the car, but the dirt and rocks it kicked up dinged the hell out of my mom's van. Luckily, the other car avoided hitting other vehicles behind us and drove off into the grass on the other side of the highway without flipping, somehow. Apparently the driver hadn't been paying attention and some other car had pulled out onto the road in front of them, and they were about to rear end it when they noticed and then swerved into oncoming traffic.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Conclusions

« on: September 22, 2013, 03:34:32 AM »

I'm going to take this opportunity to pile on "MixBerryCrunch" by pointing out (for the second time!) that the character in his avatar is Mint-Berry Crunch, not "MixBerryCrunch". 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Boykin Loves the Kats

« on: September 12, 2013, 09:28:17 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Never Forget - 9/12/09

« on: September 05, 2013, 03:20:49 PM »

Had to go work a full shift like 10 minutes after that game ended. 2009 wasn't very fun 

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Kansas State Football / Re: serious q for the board- johnny manziel or jake waters (spiral delivery system)

« on: August 31, 2013, 03:09:38 PM »

Total stud-boss

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Kansas State Football / Re: Assessment of Waters

« on: August 31, 2013, 07:43:23 AM »

Yeah, to an extent. Hubert could have been better, but I don't buy that a non-superhuman running back put into Hubert's shoes on most of those carries manages to look good.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Assessment of Waters

« on: August 31, 2013, 07:24:35 AM »

Because Hubert had so many holes to run through, right? He was smothered on most of those carries.

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Kansas State Football / Re: New Uniforms Master Thread

« on: August 25, 2013, 09:33:32 PM »

I think the eye blood thing is a fun concept to play around with. I'm not crazy about having a helmet logo on the center back part of the helment, though. Like, Oregon's wing helmets would look better without the "O" on the back, imo. Still, would take.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Can the Cyclones beat the Jayhawks? I say no rough ridin' chance (Now a POLL!)

« on: February 24, 2013, 09:53:08 PM »

Voted for KU because I don't want to be murdered. In hindsight I should have just not voted to be safe, but it seems like a small risk

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Kansas State Football / Re: Wild Wildcats in 2013 NFL Draft

« on: January 31, 2013, 03:41:14 AM »

CFL is a pass-happy league, Klein is the opposite of what they want.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Status/Twitter/Etc. Thread

« on: January 18, 2013, 12:57:24 PM »

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: black ice

« on: January 16, 2013, 09:02:38 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Re: 2013 QB Competition: Sams vs. Waters

« on: January 16, 2013, 02:28:48 PM »

Tucks will love that there isn't anyone else in the gym.

Who took the picture?   

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Soft Drinks

« on: January 14, 2013, 11:24:38 AM »

When I was little my mom used to get a cooler and pack it with a variety of cans of Shasta for when we went on a road trip. Fell in love with cream soda that way, absolutely love it. 

Hate red cream soda, I'm not sure how that garbage is popular enough to continue existing.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: 2nd worst town in Kansas

« on: January 10, 2013, 11:18:27 AM »

Any list with Lansing on it is Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!).  Not saying it's a great place, just not awful.  Lots of nice neighborhoods on the south side of town (homes $400k+), plenty of military officers who have lived all over the world (including international officers studying at the CGSC), good school district. 

Obvious cons are the prison and proximity to Leavenworth.

Agreed, though I'm biased some as I lived there from middle school through high school. Proximity to Legends is another nice part of Lansing that should help keep it off any of these lists.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Jarvis Jones as 1st pick for KC?

« on: January 09, 2013, 02:11:11 AM »

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?board=4.0

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Kansas State Football / Re: This Team Is Better Than The 1998 Team

« on: January 06, 2013, 09:45:55 AM »

Either way, seems pretty clear that 98 was a better team in 98 than 2012 is in 2012, which is the only fair comparison to make here.

how is it clear? '98 lost to two decent teams in aTm and Purdue and '12 lost to a decent team in Baylor and a great team in Oregon. I think there are arguments for both.

98 didn't get run off the field the way 2012 did against Baylor. Perhaps a loss is a loss, but I feel that as a whole, the 2012 team didn't look like a NC caliber team the way that 98 did. Maybe I'm not looking at it objectively enough. 98 beat itself, and 2012 got beat by other teams, imo. I feel like 98 was more capable of beating the teams it lost to than 2012 was.

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Kansas State Football / Re: This Team Is Better Than The 1998 Team

« on: January 06, 2013, 08:37:29 AM »

Memory is vague (I was 8-9) but didn't 98 run a whole heck of a lot of QB draws and options also, like both 2012 and 98 you had a pretty good idea of what was coming in terms of general offensive gameplan? Seems like 98 was harder to stop, given Bishop's athleticism and playmaking ability. Would 2012 have run into those issues if CK was either better or maybe just didn't get sketti brained?

Either way, seems pretty clear that 98 was a better team in 98 than 2012 is in 2012, which is the only fair comparison to make here.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Let the era of 4 LIFE begin

« on: January 04, 2013, 07:59:10 AM »

#teamlife 

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread

« on: January 04, 2013, 02:23:37 AM »

We certainly weren't going to gain any if we had won, so at least we didn't lose in that respect.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Well we didn't win and that sucks

« on: January 03, 2013, 11:15:54 PM »

Gonna feel like forever waiting to see #life kick off the next era of Cats football