K-State Slate, 7/1/08

by TB on Jul 1, 2008 6:56 AM CDT Comment 4 comments

Going to Beijing: In keeping with the Rock M Nation rules of style...Christian Smith: Olympian. Tom Pappas: Olympian. Smith is a former track and field athlete at K-State, while Pappas currently coaches the Wildcat track and field team.

Even better, check out the picture below of Smith diving across the finish line to make the field.

(Photo courtesy Yahoo Sports.)

Headed to the Hall: Appropriately, Bill Snyder and Jon Wefald will be inducted into the Kansas State Athletics Hall of Fame together. No further analysis necessary, just loud, sustained applause.

Hot Seat: Over at Coaches Hot Seat (I'll let you guess what their Web site is all about), they take a look at Ron Prince and K-State's prospects for the 2008 season. This post is thankfully devoid of the cheap shots from the New York Times' "blog," but I tend to believe they presented a worst-case scenario for the Cats this upcoming season. They even seem to recognize as much by noting several games should be very close.

We'll look more closely at the schedule in the days and weeks to come, but at this point let me state the following: the game at Louisville is entirely winnable, and there are at least a couple wins among games against Texas A&M, Colorado, KU and Nebraska (they have us losing all four).

But hey, we'll see.

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That hot seat paragraph was

one of the worst paragraphs I’ve ever read. Not because of the content, but because of the layout. It hurt my eyes to find the next sentence. We see Coaches Hot Seat loosing their office pool this week in another close game. After ten games, Coaches Hot Seat is 0-10

But I do have one comment for the content of the article. Evidently we have the talent to compete with the conference favorite OU, but we are going to go 1-7 against the big12? I can’t imagine this season being that bleak. It’s going to be a rough season regardless, especially with how the schedule is this year. You have to at least assume that we will pull an upset like we have in the past two years. So a 5 win season should be the minimum for all of this “guessing”, but I think a 6-6 season is well in signt.

Heck, anything better than a 7-5 season would be a pleasent surprise.

Man do I hate Longhorn fans, well except for the ones that actually went there.

by mystman995 on Jul 1, 2008 2:40 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Coaches Hot Seat

They also have had Chizik in the danger category all year. He’d have to rack up just 3 wins again for there to be any concern.

Truth be told, @KSU is one game that ISU will clearly target for a W.

by CrossCyed on Jul 1, 2008 5:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Of course they will

K-State projects as a marginal team, depending on how the incoming JuCos pan out, and all marginal teams should target each other for wins. But Iowa State is 2-8 in its last 10 trips to Manhattan, and because I’m living in Missouri this summer, you’re going to have to show me.

We'll carry the banner high!

by TB on Jul 1, 2008 9:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think their will be more parity than last year.

Other than Missouri, I don’t see any other north team having an edge over anyone else. I think we are going to see a a lot of 2-3 and 3-2 records against other north teams. How the north plays against their sisters down here in the south will determine the pecking order for the north for bowl games. Man I wish that KU would go back to being the bottom feeders again….

Man do I hate Longhorn fans, well except for the ones that actually went there.

by mystman995 on Jul 2, 2008 8:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs