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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Exhibition: Emporia State

« on: October 26, 2019, 12:06:02 AM »

Antonio Gordon is *really* fun to watch.  I love that he is intense and smiles and celebrates when good stuff happens (of course, a lot of good stuff happened for him tonight - quite a debut!).  He reminds me of Jeremiah Massey as a junior - wow.

It's pretty encouraging if D. Gordon has been outplaying him in practice.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: White people name, White people shame

« on: October 16, 2019, 02:41:24 AM »

Spotted on Yelp: Kayesee
JFC

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Master Dudes Thread

« on: October 12, 2019, 02:30:38 AM »

Amazing class.  If BW and company somehow land Muscadin over Self, Phog Nation (still waiting for first 2020 commit, I believe) will soil itself.

Bradford was ranked #23 in the nation by 24/7 in late 2017.   

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: New To Investing Thread

« on: October 09, 2019, 03:11:42 AM »

OTOH, human emotion is pretty illogical (loss aversion is real), and I can't see this effing market going up much more (only the 2nd time I've had this feeling!), so you could sell, man.  Election year, etc.  If you time this thing, it could become your favorite story and eliminate any yearnings you might have to do other cool stuff in life (whether that's good or bad is up to you, amigo).  Food for thought.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: New To Investing Thread

« on: October 09, 2019, 02:46:34 AM »

It's time IN the market, not timING the market, KatKid. Forget not about dividends, wise one.  Having said that, I regularly fantasize about doing some brilliant market timing in my 401k myself.

I tried it once when I was convinced the market couldn't rise further and ended up losing out on enough gains (over months) to buy a really nice car.  Got back in, but those losses are still compounding, amigo.  I'll take it to my grave (urn, actually; fortunately, this seems to be the one mistake my wife has forgotten).

WWJBD (what would John Bogle do)?  Set it and forget it, methinks.

Edit: Keep in mind that your 401k provider surely has frequent trading limitations, though it doesn't sound like you're gonna go wild with this thing.

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Kansas State Football / Re: OSU Prediction Thread - YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!

« on: September 28, 2019, 05:13:37 PM »

41-31, cats.

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Kansas State Football / Re: RANKINGS...

« on: September 23, 2019, 12:43:38 AM »

Let's take a moment to reflect on how absurd it is that we are still ranked below Michigan.  I mean...giant WTF.

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Kansas State Football / Re: 2019 Other games thread

« on: September 21, 2019, 01:59:03 PM »

It's fun to watch a Michigan team that is ranked only because of pedigree get demolished by Wisconsin.  Any reason they can't/shouldn't drop from #11 out of the top 25?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Big 12

« on: September 14, 2019, 03:20:12 PM »

KSU over MSU, KU over BC, WVU over NC State.  All of those were upsets, right?

Also...the ACC looks pretty awful.  G Tech lost to the Citadel - LOL.  Honorary ACC member Maryland lost to Temple.  NCSU and BC.  Wow!  Even lost to themselves (UNC/Wake).

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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is hurting

« on: September 08, 2019, 03:46:19 AM »

https://twitter.com/beems34/status/1170528895243702272?s=21

Poor beems.

This just begs the question: Could the setting be even better if they were to bulldoze the football stadium and replace it with some kind of discrete but tasteful money-laundering facility for the basketball program?

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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is hurting

« on: September 07, 2019, 09:20:59 PM »

I'm afraid it's going to be really hard to appreciate Les's schtick from this point on, which is unfortunate since that was the best (only?) thing he had going.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Chris Beard appreciation thread

« on: April 06, 2019, 10:13:00 PM »

At this point, it really looks like Tech could actually win the national championship. That's rough ridin' insane and I love it.

I'm with you.  I mean...they're a 3 seed, so it shouldn't feel so improbable, but it's Texas Tech, guys!  Given what we know about TT bball history, this feels like VCU playing for the title.  So happy for them, though.  Really.  Can't remember feeling such unadulterated joy for another team/fanbase.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Coaching Carousel Master Thread (MAYBE FEATURING THE KSU CATS?)

« on: April 05, 2019, 12:07:04 AM »

https://twitter.com/wilnerhotline/status/1113427589069037568?s=21

Sheesh

LOL, what's the opposite of a blue blood? Blue bloods don't hire someone who has proven he isn't a championship coach. They just hired the, at best, 6th best coach in the Big 12 conference.

Supposedly he has an 8 million dollar buyout at TCU and is trying to negotiate it down to 1 million.   I think at this point their status has been revoked.

You hear about this type of thing, but it has never made sense to me.  I mean, "Gee, we agreed on this giant buyout so I wouldn't screw you over...BUT I decided to screw you over anyway and figure you were just kinda messing around.  Can you cut me some slack?"

I mean...how do coaches succeed in "negotiating" buyouts down like this?  It seems like they should have zero leverage for any kind of negotiation, but I must be missing something.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: 2019 Tour-nah-ment

« on: March 24, 2019, 12:52:49 AM »

Question for those stats gurus out there: had a non-parochial school ever before been down by more than 25 points at half in an NCAA tournament game?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: 2019 Tour-nah-ment

« on: March 24, 2019, 12:43:48 AM »

Apparently boatloads of bags of cash handed to top recruits' parents, coaches, etc. in hotels and dark alleys across America buys you a 26-point halftime deficit to an SEC school's hobby sport's club team.  Must be rough on people whose identities are tied to that trainwreck.

Proud that BW is Competing without cheATing (CAT).  Kind of amazing, really.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: That dunk by Sneed and that one guy's reaction (2H ISU)

« on: March 17, 2019, 08:42:47 PM »

It was like that time Marcus Foster blew all our minds by literally jumping/dunking right over some big guy from Utah State or something...but with a quick cut away to Pablo $#*&ng Picasso painting a masterpiece right next to Chris Lowery.  I mean...I almost cried, guys.  IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.

Gonzaga, it was David Stockton

That's right!  I thought I remembered it was the son of an NBA hall of famer but couldn't remember the school or the name.  Well done.

I never thought of Foster as explosive until that moment.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: That dunk by Sneed and that one guy's reaction (2H ISU)

« on: March 17, 2019, 12:15:29 AM »

The bench celebration was legitimately Cinderella-over-top-overall-seed-for-NCAA-title quality.  I'm almost sad we used it on such a small stage and against a foe as forgettable as Flood Aggie.  But I'll be damned if I won't cherish it forever.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: That dunk by Sneed and that one guy's reaction (2H ISU)

« on: March 17, 2019, 12:08:03 AM »

It was like that time Marcus Foster blew all our minds by literally jumping/dunking right over some big guy from Utah State or something...but with a quick cut away to Pablo $#*&ng Picasso painting a masterpiece right next to Chris Lowery.  I mean...I almost cried, guys.  IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: That dunk by Sneed and that one guy's reaction (2H ISU)

« on: March 16, 2019, 11:56:25 PM »

This was the basketball version of '03 KSU over OU in the Big 12 title game.  The nobody-is-watching equivalent of Pullen outshining and outlasting Fredette.  But in like 5 seconds worth of elapsed time.  Dare I say the single greatest temporal density of cat greatness in perhaps decades.  I think the cats realized this was a truly singular moment and couldn't stay focused afterward.

To ignore this glorious moment of exceptionalism would be tragic.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / That dunk by Sneed and that one guy's reaction (2H ISU)

« on: March 16, 2019, 11:45:08 PM »

Both worthy of their own threads.  I mean...that dunk (and drive) were Lebron-like, and that guy on the Katz bench celebrating and being dragged backward by a teammate was absolutely hilarious.  Are people talking about these things elsewhere?  I want to look into having a GIF sequence of it tattooed across my chest, guys.  It was literally 10x as much fun as beating ISU without it would have been.  I had never been more proud to be a wildcat fan.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: KU at KSU 2019

« on: February 05, 2019, 11:21:57 PM »

KU being mortal is so weird.  They will be lucky to finish top 4.

Yeah.  The spectre of being forced to compete in the Big 12 with non-negligible impediments to cheating appears to be weighing them down bigtime.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Chant/Sign Ideas Against Snob Hill

« on: February 01, 2019, 08:41:47 PM »

I mean...his name is BILL $elf, guys.  The signs practically write themselves.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Chant/Sign Ideas Against Snob Hill

« on: February 01, 2019, 08:32:46 PM »

Asking for sign ideas for this game is like asking for plot ideas for a World War II movie.

Anyway...

I would make an adidas logo but with red, blue and yellow hundred-dollar bills instead of bars and change the text underneath to billdidas or something.

Also...is anyone else amazed that you can apparently get top-tier talent to go to a backwater like Lawrence for only $20k or whatever?  I don't buy it.

Also...does it strike anyone else as completely absurd that KU hasn't been given the death penalty or whatever for cheating their asses off?  What a travesty.

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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is hurting

« on: November 20, 2018, 12:23:14 AM »

I think he genuinely believes he's been hired to coach an intramural squad of ex-cons and volunteer firefighters and run some sort of soup kitchen.  In some very real ways, he has been.

I was truly impressed with this hire until I saw this video.  Now I fear it's gonna be a blooper reel of senility, and i'm not sure it's ethical to derive joy from something like that.  Sad.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: KU Added To FBI Addidas Probe

« on: April 13, 2018, 03:06:23 AM »

MCMW