Another Big 12 Preview...but this one's funny!

[WillieWatanabe]

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2011/8/29/2389659/college-football-2011-preview-big-12-texas-oklahoma

WHAT YOU CAN PRETEND TO KNOW: 1991. In a year of one of America's most protracted and pronounced recessions, LHC Bill Snyder pilots Kansas State to a 7-4 season after the two winning seasons of Wildcat football in the previous 34 seasons of play. He does so by taking every possible edge a ruthless football coach with limited resources and a program located on the far side of Agriculturesvania can take: scheduling obscure sparring partners from D1AA football, taking chances on any JUCO who can lace up their shoes, feeding the club little but canned vegetables and wholesale potted meats purchased at discount clubs, and working his young, underpaid staff to the bone and watching film until his eyes bled.

Flash forward to 2011, 20 years later. America sits in the worst recession since the 1991 roll in the economic mire. In the midst of deep national discontent, who stands at the helm at K-State? Who sits with a grocery cart full of transfers, including the talented and troubled Brown brothers Arthur (LB) and Bryce (RB)? The scheduling...um, never mind that, since for some reason K-State has an away date scheduled with the Miami Hurricanes. (Who are this close to Sam's Club discount football after potential suspensions, anyway.) The approach? A pounding run game designed to shorten the game and make you, the other team who actually tries to do adventurous things with the football, turn the ball over to the defense with three-and-outs and turnovers.

I am not saying that K-State football doing well is bad for our nation as a whole. I'm saying their turnaround years under LHC Bill Snyder are, and that the only good economic news we have for you is this: if K-State somehow wins nine games this year, we have hit the nadir of our recession, and you should dive with both feet back into the market. In the meantime, just note that LHC Bill Snyder is the master of how to buy good football on a budget, mention the promising youth of this team, and always bring up the word "Scrappy" when talking about them. Everyone else does.

SEASON CRUX: Every game after the opening cupcake slate of Eastern Kentucky and Kent State, because this is a toboggan ride taken in the wrong direction, with a four game stretch including Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Texas in succession.

[CHONGS]

 

[TheHamburglar]

"The winner of "Who is Moldova?" It's you, Kansas. It's always been you."

 

[WillieWatanabe]

too hard on Tubby? 

[kslim]

"Texas lost to Kansas State last year in a game where Kansas State didn't throw a pass until the third quarter and finished with four passes total. When the other team throws four passes, it means that they are waiting for you to shoot yourself in the face with the sketchy back-alley blunderbuss you call an offense. "Back alley blunderbuss" might as well have been the name of Texas' offense"

 

[oodfan]

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2011/8/29/2389659/college-football-2011-preview-big-12-texas-oklahoma

WHAT YOU CAN PRETEND TO KNOW: 1991. In a year of one of America's most protracted and pronounced recessions, LHC LHC Bill Snyder pilots Kansas State to a 7-4 season after the two winning seasons of Wildcat football in the previous 34 seasons of play. He does so by taking every possible edge a ruthless football coach with limited resources and a program located on the far side of Agriculturesvania can take: scheduling obscure sparring partners from D1AA football, taking chances on any JUCO who can lace up their shoes, feeding the club little but canned vegetables and wholesale potted meats purchased at discount clubs, and working his young, underpaid staff to the bone and watching film until his eyes bled.

Flash forward to 2011, 20 years later. America sits in the worst recession since the 1991 roll in the economic mire. In the midst of deep national discontent, who stands at the helm at K-State? Who sits with a grocery cart full of transfers, including the talented and troubled Brown brothers Arthur (LB) and Bryce (RB)? The scheduling...um, never mind that, since for some reason K-State has an away date scheduled with the Miami Hurricanes. (Who are this close to Sam's Club discount football after potential suspensions, anyway.) The approach? A pounding run game designed to shorten the game and make you, the other team who actually tries to do adventurous things with the football, turn the ball over to the defense with three-and-outs and turnovers.

I am not saying that K-State football doing well is bad for our nation as a whole. I'm saying their turnaround years under LHC LHC Bill Snyder are, and that the only good economic news we have for you is this: if K-State somehow wins nine games this year, we have hit the nadir of our recession, and you should dive with both feet back into the market. In the meantime, just note that LHC LHC Bill Snyder is the master of how to buy good football on a budget, mention the promising youth of this team, and always bring up the word "Scrappy" when talking about them. Everyone else does.

SEASON CRUX: Every game after the opening cupcake slate of Eastern Kentucky and Kent State, because this is a toboggan ride taken in the wrong direction, with a four game stretch including Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Texas in succession.

Meat goat?

[Bookcat]

Every game after the opening cupcake slate of Eastern Kentucky and Kent State

you'd think SB Nation would be all OVER the fact that Snyder is taking his pats of butter down to Miami...who, as it stands right now....might not have a starting QB...hence, Miami will deemed another cupcake.


The goal is to undermine any credibility about our schedule....and this review fails.

[kitten_mittons]

you'd think SB Nation would be all OVER the fact that Snyder is taking his pats of butter down to Miami...who, as it stands right now....might not have a starting QB...hence, Miami will deemed another cupcake.


The goal is to undermine any credibility about our schedule....and this review fails.

No, they got it.

The scheduling...um, never mind that, since for some reason K-State has an away date scheduled with the Miami Hurricanes. (Who are this close to Sam's Club discount football after potential suspensions, anyway.) 

[MadCat]

We got 10 BCS schools on the schedule.   

[Clevey 2 Times]

Every game after the opening cupcake slate of Eastern Kentucky and Kent State

you'd think SB Nation would be all OVER the fact that Snyder is taking his pats of butter down to Miami...who, as it stands right now....might not have a starting QB...hence, Miami will deemed another cupcake.


The goal is to undermine any credibility about our schedule....and this review fails.

Sounds like Jacory Harris will play, so much for more cupcakiness...

[Bookcat]

Every game after the opening cupcake slate of Eastern Kentucky and Kent State

you'd think SB Nation would be all OVER the fact that Snyder is taking his pats of butter down to Miami...who, as it stands right now....might not have a starting QB...hence, Miami will deemed another cupcake.


The goal is to undermine any credibility about our schedule....and this review fails.

Sounds like Jacory Harris will play, so much for more cupcakiness...

can't be too angried about this.....seeing how our guys got off the hook via a one paragraph fax.

[SabiNation]