coupon talk

[dal9]

share your tips with oscar here


https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/sam-mellinger/article226679409.html

The multimillionaire basketball coach is talking about clipping coupons. The key, you see, is persistence. You have to check the ads. You have to know prices. And when the right deal comes you hit it hard. Volume shop.

Like, holidays. oscar Weber waits until they’re over. That’s when the candy prices are slashed. Half off. Seventy percent off. The value skyrockets, so right now, a week after Valentine’s Day, they have heart-shaped M&Ms in the Kansas State basketball office.

“Remember when they had the triple and double coupons?” Weber said. “My goal was to get money back from them. I got close sometimes.”

This kind of thing fills Weber with pride. The search for a deal is a thrill. Some of this is simply the hunt — we all have our quirks, right? — and some the residue of a 40-year coaching career that began with a $2,000 salary.

“I always tell our guys: ‘Never buy anything full price,’” he said. “You’re stupid if you do.”

We came to this topic by accident, with Weber talking about the warmth he feels from K-State fans. These are high times for the Wildcats — ranked 23rd nationally, 21-6 overall and most importantly 11-3 in the Big 12 after a win over Oklahoma State on Saturday.

K-State is now a full game ahead of Texas Tech, and two ahead of rival Kansas and Baylor. K-State will play KU at Allen Fieldhouse on Monday, and here are some facts so tantalizing it feels like a jinx — a win would be the Wildcats’ first sweep of KU since 1983, and even with a loss they would be in position to end KU’s 14-year run of league championships.

When K-State played its final home game in pursuit of a shared Big 12 championship in 2013, some seats at Bramlage Coliseum remained empty. Now, Weber is buying tickets for friends and family (he gets an allotment, but, well, no coupons if he goes over).

But you know when he feels the love the most? At the grocery store, when he’s deal hunting.

“At Illinois I had to go late at night, so nobody would be there,” Weber said. “Here, now, I go whenever. It’s great.”

Weber has always had a complicated relationship with K-State fans. Frank Martin, the man he replaced, was wildly popular with fans and in consistent conflict with the administration. Weber is basically the opposite, on both ends.

That shared title in 2013 was the program’s first since 1977, and Weber is the only current Big 12 coach other than Kansas’ Bill Self to have a league trophy. But fans largely credited Martin, because the title was won with players he recruited, which had echoes of Weber’s best years at Illinois being dismissed — he followed Self.

The Kansas Jayhawks have won 14 consecutive Big 12 regular season titles, but they stand 1 1/2 games back of rival Kansas State. Can they pull off a 15th title? Bill Self says on Feb. 14, 2019 that "K- State is in the driver's seat."
Rich Sugg

It was all nearly enough for Weber not to have this opportunity. He dismissed star Marcus Foster after the 2015 season, a program reboot that could have included a new coach.

That’s what many fans wanted, too, but the administration gave Weber another chance. This is where the story shifts. The Flush, Claws, and Deathbite made up the first recruiting class in Weber’s new world. They were talented, diligent, hard-working — a coach’s dream.

Brown worked himself into one of the best players in program history. Wade, at his best and most aggressive, is a problem without a solution for defenses. Stokes is an effective leader, shooter, and defender.

They are now among the best senior classes in program history, which means this is the team Weber has been coaching toward since he arrived at K-State. This is the group that saved his career.

We mean that literally.

“I’ve told them that,” Weber said. “I’ve told Barry many times: ‘You saved all our jobs.’ They believed in us, they bought in, they’ve worked at it.”

None of it has been smooth. None of it easy. They went 5-13 in the league as freshmen, and as sophomores a 30-point loss at Oklahoma made eight defeats in 10 games. Most figured that was a wrap for Weber, but they won three in a row and made the NCAA Tournament.

Last year, they again played into the tournament, beat Foster with his new team, then the ultimate Cinderella in Maryland-Baltimore County, then the ultimate blueblood in Kentucky to make the Elite Eight. Wade, their injured leading scorer, played just 8 minutes in the tournament.

This is more than another season, then. This is the last go with one of major college basketball’s rarest entities — a talented trio of seniors. Again, there has been no smooth. There is no easy.

Wade missed six games because of a foot injury, and is now mostly watching practice, saving himself for one last push. Stokes is doing the same because of a toe injury, and Cartier Diarra has missed the last three games because of an unexplained broken finger.

“Their perseverance,” Weber said when asked what he’s most proud of with this group. “Their resilience. It hasn’t been easy, hasn’t been perfect. But they’ve really hung with it. They’ve stuck together.”

Their time together is now measured in days. Their last game in Lawrence, then their last three regular season games and their last Big 12 Tournament — all in the next 19 days.

College basketball is among the most cyclical of American sports. Programs are built on players, and players don’t stay long. Brown, Wade, and Stokes have stayed as long as they can. Everyone in and around the program knows it hasn’t been this good in years, and isn’t likely to be this good for years.

Weber’s reputation at K-State will be disproportionately tilted by what happens now, in these next few weeks, because the memories of this group will stick one way or the other.

This is something every Big 12 coach dreams about. Weber is better positioned to help knock Kansas down than any coach in recent memory. He has a lead in the final weeks, a group of seniors he loves in the huddle, and finally a little more love around the arena and town.

Who needs coupons with a life like this?

[DaBigTrain]

I’m not gonna read all that.

TLDNR?

[dal9]

I’m not gonna read all that.

TLDNR?

-don't buy things full price
-if you do double and triple coupons you can sometimes almost get money back
-oscar can now go shopping at whatever time of the day is most convenient for him.

[DaBigTrain]

Thank you!

[SkinnyBenny]

The coupon thing made me hate him all over again

[420seriouscat69]

Massive stud

[dal9]

The coupon thing made me hate him all over again

better to save $ this way than to be a tax cheat like self

[stunted]

The coupon thing made me hate him all over again

 

[MakeItRain]

The coupon thing made me hate him all over again

He's in his 60's man. Do you hate your nana too for clipping coupons?

[slackcat]

“I always tell our guys: ‘Never buy anything full price,’” he said. “You’re stupid if you do.”

Boss powershopper right there!!   

[Kenneth Noisewater]

True story: I saw Oscar at Walgreens during the Budke days. I visited with him for a few minutes, and noticed that in one hand he had a list and the other, a fistful of coupons. I didn’t know whether to be proud of him for his fiscal responsibility or embarrassed at the penny-pinching.
Today, at the top of the Big 12, I’m proud of him. He’s like that awkward uncle we all have - he may be crazy, but he’s family.

[stunted]

that kind of is a rich person thing to do, boast about how much money they try to save. "hey everyone look at how normal i am"

but i think oscar is just being a lovable dork

[pissclams]

i love getting sexy hot deals on groceries, what can I say?

[catastrophe]

I’m pretty meh about the whole thing. Part of me thinks that if he was a really good money guy he’d realize he probably stands to make/save a lot more money by spending time on Cats basketball instead of clipping coupons. But I get everyone needs to have a hobby for balance.

On the other hand, I do kind of love that’s he’s trying to impart frugality into these youngsters. That’s a life lesson you really can use.

[420seriouscat69]

The coupon thing made me hate him all over again

He's in his 60's man. Do you hate your nana too for clipping coupons?

Sometimes you just can’t help try hards

[420seriouscat69]

Literally imagine giving af about this and how you see your current coach who’s in 1st place in the Bog 12. Lol

[nicname]

Big Daddy oscar leaves no stone unturned. What a leader of men.

[#LIFE]

Have to save up that hush money in case someone tries to go out and kill some people before the tournament

[Spracne]

Kinda feel like executives are paid millions of dollars a year so that they can afford to pay others to do stuff like mowing their lawn and finding deals on groceries, thus maximizing the time available for them to optimize the organization.

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Does Dillon's there not mail you coupons for all the crap you often buy?

[Justwin]

Does Dillon's there not mail you coupons for all the crap you often buy?

Dillon's mail us coupons in Manhattan all the time.  And we use them.

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Nobody "clips coupons" anymore.  Big Kroger tracks your cravings and has 3 times the amount of coupons in your mailbox than you could ever use.

[HerrSonntag]

Guys, this is just an irl version of oscar playing candy crush in his free time. Don't read into it too much

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