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We got the crap time slot because they already know our game is a rerun

The vast majority of P12 championship games were reruns.  I think all except one thus far.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can we get a depth chart?
« on: August 29, 2017, 11:33:06 PM »
Personally, I'm a little surprised that goolsby is starting as the other safety. A lot of the talk that I heard indicated that it was more between Walker and McPhereson.

Personally, I'm a little surprised that a KSU fan is a little surprised by a Snyder depth chart.

That's fair. Still didn't expect to see Goolsby.

I think they're looking to replace Barnett's ability to get players in the right position more than raw ability.  I'm not sure they view Adams in that role, at least not compared to Goolsby.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Walker be the first player to ascend on the depth chart if the defense isn't lining up right.

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The show was set up to emulate the political environment of medieval Europe.  Rhaegar's son would have been Aegon VI, like Henry VIII. 

I mean, I get that the show and the books split, but I'm not thrilled that they merged Jon/Aegon.  Of course, they merged Jorah and Jon Connington, so, hey, whatever.

But the symbolism that you need to remember is that Dany rides Drogon, and the remaining dragon is Rhaegal.  Her three dragons were named after the men in her life that died (Drogo, Rhaegar, and Viserys).  Viserys turned on her, and Viserion is the one the Night King is riding.

My guess is that Dany will ride Drogon, and Jon will ride Rhaegal.

I now seriously wonder how they're going to work Azor Ahai into this, but whatever.  I think I know, but I'm not happy if that's how they choose to do it.

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Personally, in a perfect world, we'd get the two AZ schools, the Pac-12 would up and take Colorado State and BYU, and then we would have an 8 team playoff.

I like a 12 team conference, and I'd love to have Arizona and Arizona State.  And BYU and Colorado State would give some natural rivals to CU and Utah.

I also think that the Big 12 and Pac 12 should pool their Tier 1 and Tier 2 media rights and create a lot of cross conference match-ups.

But, hey, what do I know?

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Kansas State Football / Re: KstateHD.TV
« on: August 23, 2017, 03:14:03 PM »
Are we still going to get commercial free replays on Monday/Tuesday on KStateHD.tv?  Because those are awesome, and I swear by them.

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what are the conference bylaws on voting to dissolve the conference? how many votes are needed? simple majority, 7/10, 8/10? I could maybe see a scenario where UT and UCLA/USC lead the charge to create a 16 team combo-conference near the end of the P12 GOR deal.

How would that be beneficial to Texas? They have absolutely no reason to cede power.

Texas would still be the power and be the shot caller in a hybrid Big XII/Pac-12 16 team conference, and it would benefit them by being aligned basically a cherry picked group of schools from the Pac-12 and Big XII

You're almost stuck with the Pac-8 + others.  Those teams, in one way or another, have been affiliated since the 1920's.  Some of them go back to founding the Pacific Coast Conference in 1915.

That is an incredibly cohesive group of schools, especially the four in California.  Texas would absolutely cede power in that relationship.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017
« on: August 21, 2017, 01:17:24 PM »
Pretty cloudy in OP.  My neighbors let me look through their glasses for a bit of it.

The locusts all started buzzing in the middle of the day.  That was the weirdest thing.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2017
« on: August 21, 2017, 12:50:23 PM »
I never got glasses, so I'm kind of SOL.

I figured that I'd go follow the other one coming in 2024 if I feel like I really missed out on something.

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The Big 12 is, and will be, fine.

I wouldn't worry about many hot take analyses until someone understands the Big 12 compensation structure.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: August 21, 2017, 12:03:49 PM »
he's got a funky throwing motion

Agreed.  He's the kind of kid that we'll just break down and rebuild.  We'll have some time.
not sure this will happen given klein is the qb coach and he has the worst throwing motion of all time

It's easier to teach than do.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: August 21, 2017, 11:33:04 AM »
he's got a funky throwing motion

Agreed.  He's the kind of kid that we'll just break down and rebuild.  We'll have some time.

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what are the conference bylaws on voting to dissolve the conference? how many votes are needed? simple majority, 7/10, 8/10? I could maybe see a scenario where UT and UCLA/USC lead the charge to create a 16 team combo-conference near the end of the P12 GOR deal.

How would that be beneficial to Texas? They have absolutely no reason to cede power.

If the reputation of the BIGXII diminishes to the point that we have no way into the CFP unless our record is better than all other options.

That's too difficult to do.  They won't do that.

The easiest, and most likely thing, is that the Arizona schools (or anyone else in the Pac-12) say they're done with the Pac-12 as their current contract expires and say they'll leave the conference for the 2024-2025 school year.   They could make the announcement in 2022 or 2023.  There will be no buyout necessary.  They'll just make arrangements to join the Big 12 for 2024.

If they announced a couple of years in advance, we would simply renegotiate with our partners a year early to more effectively plan.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: August 20, 2017, 03:33:35 PM »
Rutgers, Louisville, Syracuse  :Yuck:

Arkansas State, Ball State, CMU, Charlotte, Lane Kiffin, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Marshall, SoMS, Troy, Tulane, UCF :lol:


Cats  :Woot:

You don't think Bobby Petrino doesn't know WR talent?

Charlie Strong is at UCF now.  He knows what he's doing.

If he did commit, that's a good pull.  Regardless of what you think of him, we need to keep the GA pipeline going.  Gotta take a few every year.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: August 20, 2017, 03:29:42 PM »
Is it just me or does he look kinda slow?

 Its just you. For his size he can move. And has a very good arm
he's slow, but happy to have him.

He's 6'4" 230 with access to a HS S&C program. Get him in our S&C program for three years, and he'll be a beast. 

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a pac12/big12 mashup is seriously boner city dudes

Well, you should avoid wearing sweatpants in 2023 & 2024.

The irony is that everyone talks about what dire straits the Big 12 is in, but the Pac 12 has been hemorrhaging money for years.  They are the least stable conference without question.

The only reason people don't know the Pac 12 is in trouble is because 75% of the country couldn't give two shits about the Pac-12.  Which is why they're in this mess.

Something radical is going to happen in about five years, but it's not going to be any of our schools defecting over there.  There will absolutely be overtures by some schools to come here or create some sort of joint rights deal.

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Why certain municipalities have statues dedicated to traitors who raised arms against the Republic and killed American soldiers is beyond me.

I think we could all use a little more historical knowledge before making comments like this.

Please.  I have been a student of the Civil War since my father sat me down in grade school and made me watch the entire Ken Burns series.

I understand that many of these men, especially REL, had very complex feelings on the subject.  I also know that the conflict evolved over time. 

But, at the end of the day, most of the Confederate generals, many of them West Point grads, made the conscious decision to fight for the Confederacy.  One of the reasons the Union army was so bad for the first several years of the war was that the bulk of quality military leaders were from the Southern states.

These men they erected monuments to generally made a conscious choice to choose state over country.  If Lee hadn't been such a skilled general, and had the Army of Northern Virginia not been so damn dominant, hundreds of thousands of people may not have died.

So, again, I'm not wrong.  Lee even sent a letter of resignation to Lincoln before taking command of the Confederate Army.  He was a traitor.

You make it sound like there was some kind of Southern invasion. The Southern states seceded from the U.S. and formed a confederacy.  Lincoln declared them in rebellion and treated them the same way the British treated the U.S. when we declared our independence.  Just look at where the fighting took place.  Yes, the South had quality generals, but they also lost much fewer soldiers because they were largely defending their own turf.  We can talk about how they had pretty perverse motives for trying to split from the U.S., but give me a break with this "raising up arms" talk.

I'm sorry, I forgot that the Union soldiers fired upon themselves at Fort Sumter.  I also forgot that the United States at some point recognized the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.

No, wait, I didn't forget about that because it never happened.

Now, is some poor dirt farmer from Tennessee a bad person because he fought for the Confederacy?  No.  I mean what in the hell was he going to do?

Is Robert E. Lee a bad person?  I mean he had a lot of great qualities.  He was a tortured soul for what he did.  But let's just recognize for a minute that guys like him and Joe Johnston were educated at West Point, were US soldiers, and lead massive armies to fight for the right to protect an agrarian society fueled by slave labor.

I mean the guy doesn't really deserve a statue, you know?

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Why certain municipalities have statues dedicated to traitors who raised arms against the Republic and killed American soldiers is beyond me.

I think we could all use a little more historical knowledge before making comments like this.

Please.  I have been a student of the Civil War since my father sat me down in grade school and made me watch the entire Ken Burns series.

I understand that many of these men, especially REL, had very complex feelings on the subject.  I also know that the conflict evolved over time. 

But, at the end of the day, most of the Confederate generals, many of them West Point grads, made the conscious decision to fight for the Confederacy.  One of the reasons the Union army was so bad for the first several years of the war was that the bulk of quality military leaders were from the Southern states.

These men they erected monuments to generally made a conscious choice to choose state over country.  If Lee hadn't been such a skilled general, and had the Army of Northern Virginia not been so damn dominant, hundreds of thousands of people may not have died.

So, again, I'm not wrong.  Lee even sent a letter of resignation to Lincoln before taking command of the Confederate Army.  He was a traitor.

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Why certain municipalities have statues dedicated to traitors who raised arms against the Republic and killed American soldiers is beyond me.

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If Green and Walker didn't qualify/stay, then that leaves us with zero freshman linebackers.

It's not a huge problem; we'll fill in the gaps in their class in a couple of years with JUCO guys if need be, but that's disappointing.

the ish i heard on walker from my guy was "he was asked to leave." not sure if true.

I mean it's not a really big deal.  Some SR walk-on will get a scholarship for his last year now.

The 2018 class is really, really small due to the small number of seniors, so a little attrition isn't a negative considering our recruiting hasn't sucked the last couple of years.

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If Green and Walker didn't qualify/stay, then that leaves us with zero freshman linebackers.

It's not a huge problem; we'll fill in the gaps in their class in a couple of years with JUCO guys if need be, but that's disappointing.


 Rudzik? But I'm hoping Green would only be 1 year placement. But hanging onto him through Juco is always dicey

I'm pretty sure Rudzik is a RS-FR.  But since Snyder seems to always redshirt a double-digit number of guys, I consider us to have five classes and not four.

So, our RS-FR LB class will be empty next year.  Snyder usually replaces guys that wash out in years 1-3 with JUCO players, so I'm guessing there's already a contingency to find a LB two years from now to fill the spot.

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If Green and Walker didn't qualify/stay, then that leaves us with zero freshman linebackers.

It's not a huge problem; we'll fill in the gaps in their class in a couple of years with JUCO guys if need be, but that's disappointing.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 28, 2017, 04:44:23 PM »
My count of scholarship players was 14 seniors this year.  And if the four guys in the '17 class that aren't on the roster are grayshirts (Wheeler, Mills, Oliver, Richardson), that brings us to ten. 

Three of the scholarship players I'm counting are K, P, and LS.  I guess we could get a retroactive redshirt for McCrane (maybe?), but I'm guessing we'll use three for special teams.

I know there will be attrition and maybe an early grad or two, but this class may have 7-10 more guys in it, and that could be it.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: July 26, 2017, 12:39:44 PM »
Interesting, RNC has become the party of the little guy under Don

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-why-are-republicans-trouncing-democrats-in-fundraising/article/2629435

Liberals are looking outside the DNC for donations.  A lot of them, especially the millennials, are donating to organizations like Indivisible and Swing Left.  So, I'm not sure how applicable this comparison is.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP
« on: July 26, 2017, 12:15:56 PM »
is mooch like 5'4"

He's easy to stow in an overhead bin, so that's a huge plus on Air Force One.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 610 Sports Drops KU
« on: July 26, 2017, 12:12:29 PM »
I mean, KU's ratings would smoke K-State's right? 810 would be dumb to not go after the squawks. Although I know I listen a lot less now that Bob Davis is no longer calling games RIP.

Maybe.  I think there could be two things at play here...


1.  810 doesn't really have a flaghsip brand.  Now they have one.  IMG will push a ton of content, which is good for 810 because, let's face it, I think fifteen people listen to TJ Carpenter (if he's still on), and most of them probably tune in so their dogs have something to listen to so they feel like a human is talking to them when the person leaves the room.

2. Chad Boeger is a big KU guy.  Big.  He was going to do what he needed to do to make this happen.  Also, he's not a great businessman, so even if there are penalties with Learfield, he'll pay them and just find a shady way to pay for it.

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