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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: August 06, 2022, 08:25:16 PM »
Why are you stating #3 as if that's a fact? Seems like a rationalization.

I have a very, very hard time believing it’s a coincidence that he committed just before the last weekend of summer officials & the staff cancelled Robert’s visit, where it was reported that Roberts was going to commit. Everyone knew what was going on.

In this supposed devious plan of the Edwards family did they also know the Roberts offer was going to get pulled but the staff would continue to recruit Cook and Randall? That doesn't make even the slightest bit of sense. The intent was clearly to sign three running backs, the timing of Edwards commiting didn't change that and any thoughts that it did, is absolutely laughable. I'll also point out that for this conspiracy theory to make any sense, at all, it's dependant on not only Derek Young being correct that Roberts was going to commit to K-State, but the Edwards family also had to know that and be sure of it and know that the offer would be pulled.

Derek Young and everyone else making predictions are now 1 for 4 with being sure about these high profile recruits picking K-State.

Last thing I want to point out that is that, you all who continue to talk about how much he's always loved attention and all the other foul crap the fuckheads on KSO are saying about this kid who hasn't even started his senior year of high school. If he had all these supposed red flags and the coaches not only continued to pursue him but also pull other offers from RBs who supposedly were ready to commit, what in the holy hell does that say about the judgement of the staff? Aren't they more responsible for supposedly pulling offers in this circumstance than anything Edwards did?

This reaction is silly and frankly embarrassing, we've had decommits every year and none have garnered this reaction. People got too invested then got embarrassed and they're projecting in a manner they haven't with the others and it's a shitty look. Just completely making up crap, tweeting at a teenager, shitting on his family, people saying he's selfish and a poor student, it's all a rough ridin' joke.

We got beat by the coach with the number one recruiting class in America at perhaps the most famous football program and university in the country, take the rough ridin' L, stop acting like this is the only time we'll ever be in on a big time recruit, and stop looking like desperate losers.

I love Chris Klieman but he's gotten his ass beat by Marcus Freeman twice this summer and it's going to continue to happen as long as we have recruits they want.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: August 01, 2022, 01:19:28 AM »
If Jeremiyah Love commits to Notre Dame before Edwards, does that take Edwards spot?

Or would they really take 3 running backs in this class.

This year the rb depth chart for 2022 (ND) has 2 freshman and 2 sophomores.  Talk about the rich getting richer.

He would be a WR at ND, but it's likely they just want him to return kicks.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 30, 2022, 12:05:24 AM »
The #StayHome campaign was fun, but losing a borderline 4 star player that was almost sure to be a distraction isn't worth freaking out over.   Especially since the other commits seem unfazed. 

Hopefully the coaches lose his number and move on.  Joe Jackson could be a stud and there's plenty of good running backs that will want to play with Avery under CK.  If it's Randle, everyone will be happy Dylan left.

Everybody kept saying that Dylan was acting like every other big recruit, but that's not true.  The reality is that he's just a shithead that craves drama.  I don't remember many of those guys panning out in Manhattan.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 22, 2022, 02:21:07 PM »
Not sure how legitimate these rankings are, but there's no doubt he's a stud and would be worthy of a celebration.

https://www.nationalkickingrankings.com/2024-kickers

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what happened to rodney perry?

He's a K-State b-ball coach apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcFdVtiw7Mk

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:lol:

seems like he was a squawk

He was from out of town and definitely not a K-State fan.  His whole career was traveling around to work a camera at sporting events and he was good at it, but I never once saw him enjoy it.

My jealousy is palpable. What a time to be alive!

It definitely was.  Little did I know that that most of my actual college years would be full of Ron Prince and sadness.  I'm still pretty amazing at coiling up any hose or power cord though.  It brings me back every time.

Without realizing the company that made them insured they were indestructible with a 100% free replacement guarantee.  The design featured a 2 inch welded steel plate angle support right at the critical curve in the post. 

As I recall that company said the 100% free replacement guarantee was cancelled after they replaced the one torn down.

I remember how violently those cables whipped back into the crowd when they snapped. I couldn’t believe no one got hurt from that. However I think someone did fall and get injured near the railing in front of the student section, so they had to be carted from the field. My room mate’s buddy went ass over tea kettle off the crossbar into the crowd below. Never saw him again to this day :lol:. By the end of it, the crowd only managed to slowly break off the right upright. Sorry you lost your sweet gig J-von.

I remember rumors of concrete being involved as well but I guess they had a blindspot with the actual uprights.  I'm sure the liability issues with a falling goalpost was part of the reason they tried to go the "unbreakable" route, but it ended up making it way more dangerous.

Magnificent story telling my god. I felt like I was there with you.

Thanks, buddy! 

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In 1996 I was 13 years old and nepotism brought me my first job as a cable puller for the jumbotron camera.  I had this dream job that paid $40 per game until late in the 2000 season.

During that run I got to watch peak K-State from the sidelines and it wasn't wasted on me.  Pre-game I would go up into the press box for my credentials. Grab an omelet or whatever they were serving, check which bowl game scouts were in the house, and then down on the field to watch warmups.  When College Gameday was in town I'd hang out near the stage and one time Lee Corso gave me a cookie because somebody gave him a whole platter as a gift and wtf does he want those for?  It was a wild time. As far as I was concerned, Snyder was God, K-State was the center of the Universe, and I had an orange armband that let me freely travel through it. 

3rd favorite memory - Being in the end zone during Gramática's 65 yd field goal.

2nd favorite memory - 1998 Nebraska game. 

#1 favorite memory (and the night I was fired) - 2000 Nebraska game...  The cable pulling crew is a 3-man job and I'd moved up to become the #1 cable puller right behind the camera.  A trusted member of the crew.  Because of this, I was able to get 2 of my friends on the other spots. 

After the game, fans rushed the field which wasn't an uncommon occurrence, but this time was different.  Because of the costs to continually replace them, K-State had started installing goalposts that were extremely difficult to bring down.  We were covering the crowd shots like normal, but the crowd was getting visibly frustrated by their inability to tear down the goalposts which caused them to get creative.

My friends had been swallowed in the crowd and it was just me, the cameraman, and a few hundred feet of cable laying underneath the feet of thousands of fans.  There was quite a bit of tugging on the cable, but it didn't seem like a huge deal until we realized that our cord was being used to loop around the goalpost to aid in the pulling.  This enraged the cameraman and he's actually tied to the cable so he was starting to get pulled around pretty good.  He told me to go find the other guys to regain control of the cable.

As I got close to the goalposts, I saw the cable snap, and I knew it was over.  There was no more job to do.  So I did what most 17yo super fans would do and I joined the party for what ended up being a prolonged amount of time.  When I finally got back to the production truck, the cameraman had already laid the blame on me and used my celebrating as his proof.  I was fired and told I'd never work another game as long as he was running the camera, but nothing could bring down from the high of that game.

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@j-von

The tweet was still showing up on tapatalk so I thought everybody could still see it.  Here’s what it said.




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Sounds like it's Dai Dai Day. 4pm.

- Credit to Flando for the scoop.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 20, 2022, 10:56:09 AM »
All signs point to Mizzou.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 20, 2022, 10:33:27 AM »



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They get an A for marketing and an F for creativity.  The homefield designs could be done with 20 minutes of Googling vintage K-State logos and a few hours with a decent designer.  I was really hoping for some original design work.  Charlie Hustle needs to step it up with their current K-State selection, but they've had most of these designs before.  Here's an example where Homefield just changed it slightly...




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Kansas State Football / Re: New Uniforms Master Thread
« on: July 16, 2022, 10:14:51 AM »



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I will judge this guy by how much fuckjob’n there is of ou/texas on the field.

His path to becoming a popular Big 12 commissioner is literally that easy.  It should be priority #1.  Backhanded public comments would also be appreciated.

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Late night games will be even more popular as more states open up sports gambling.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: TBT
« on: July 13, 2022, 02:50:51 PM »
I haven't been this excited for a practice since watching these guys practice together at Ahearn.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kansas City things
« on: July 13, 2022, 02:41:45 PM »
Panasonic finally picked Kansas over Oklahoma as the location of their new battery factory.  Laura Kelly press conference at 5pm tonight.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/development/article263390538.html

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He's still at it today.   :shakesfist:

Including this one...


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His last two...


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Today, Dylan Edwards started liking a ton of Nebraska Football twitter posts.   :runaway:

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