K-State Slate: 9.7.10

to be nerves, as opposed to only illness or dehydration. The vomitting CAUSES dehydration making the IV necessary, as I first understood it.

However, I would say illness is my preferred cause for both the vomiting and IV – beats nerves or lack of discipline (didn’t drink enough water) hands-down.

seriously could you stick to evaluating how the band performed?

Sincerely,
GCAT

Because we all know Osborne and Co. NEVER scheduled a patsy before. Nothing but cream of the crop, right?

That Coach looked at the quality of UCLA overall and said to himself, “With the guy who’s coaching them, they’re beatable regardless of who we have”. Just a thought.

But for anyone to make those comments about scheduling, they need to check out their own pig sty. Good Lord. WKU for a season opener? And whacking them suddenly puts you in the top 10?

Make a bet right now you won’t be in the top 20 at the end of the season, shucksters.

Point me to one other game that Snyder has “ducked.” You can’t. We did have a series with Oregon that was canceled, but that was a mutual decision by both schools to cancel the series without penalty. Also, never mind the obvious point that nobody thinks it’s a good idea to play two good BCS-AQ conference opponents in one season. Of course, that doesn’t fit conveniently in your narrative, so you ignore it. You conveniently forget that the Fresno State series was scheduled under Snyder’s watch and canceled under Prince’s. Snyder may not have been known for playing top-flight competition, but he was never known for ducking anyone who was scheduled. And in the later years, K-State became a team who consistently played one BCS-level opponent each non-conference season, unless you’ve forgotten the Iowa, Cal and USC (x2) games. Of course, that also doesn’t fit your narrative, so you ignore it or minimize it.

But back to national convention. It’s also “national convention” that Tebow is God, people somehow still care about Brett Favre, and a loss late in the season should somehow be more costly than a loss early in the season. Your statement that “everyone else says K-State schedules weak teams, so I will, too” is sort of like the five-year-old who, upon getting caught playing in the street, immediately exclaims “everyone else was doing it, too!” The obvious response is, so what? Just because every national pundit can’t help but to bring up the “weak schedule” meme when mentioning K-State doesn’t mean that label applies with any more force to K-State than it does anyone else.

Moreover, you completely missed the point of my original comment. I was directly responding to your baseless and ultimately wrong comment where you asked, and I quote, “And what will you say if KSU drops the Miami game as well? Which looks like it will happen.” The point I was trying to make was that you made that comment based on thinking that was no deeper than that of the national pundits when they say “K-State has a strong running game and did we mention they often play weak non-conference teams DURRRR.” So when you were wrong, and I called you on it, all you had in support of your position was “a lot of the national pundits say it, so I did too.”

By the way, I actually take a bit of pride in the fact that K-State is the school that gets mentioned everytime weak scheduling is discussed. If we hadn’t had the success we did, then I doubt we would be the exemplar so often used.