It's not often, when you stop and really think about it,that a touted recruit arrives on campus and not only meets but beats every expectation, let alone when it's just a three-star something.
- Then again, this is the Kansas State Wildcats we're talking about -- where walk-ons, two-stars and three-stars giving five-star effort is as regular as the revolving head coaching door at Kansas.
- Still, when you have the kind of stellar career that can be summed up by your name ...
- Tyler Lockett.
- Completing the receiving records sweep within days of that Jordy Nelson character gracing the Sports Illustrated cover and being called the "most dangerous deep threat" in the NFL.
- And then ESPN concedes tells us that the Big 12 has unseated the SEC as the best football conference.
- If Larry Flynt directed a movie full of Hugh Hefner's best talent acting out a Danielle Steel script, it wouldn't be as hot as this past week has been for K-State and the Big 12.
- Baylor said last week that it has directed a PR firm to help make its case for being a part of the College Football Playoff.
- The money and effort is being spent pitching the Bears to national media, not the College Football Playoff Committee.
- That's so ... not quite right.
- And thus, so ... Baylor.
- And, with Tuesday night's rankings release showing the Bears still ranked No. 6 ... yep, seems things are working about as well as one would expect this type of effort would.
- Makes my head hurt.
- What am I missing with Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty's noggin?
- He left last Saturday's game with a mild concussion.
- Both he and his head coach are already saying it's not a question whether he'll play against K-State.
- No concussion protocol tests have been given, let alone cleared.
- It's not the player or coach's decision at this point, correct?
- On the hardwood, something doesn't feel right to Marcus Foster's start this season.
- Yeah, he's scoring, but there seems to be a bit too much prima donna to his game right now -- too much reacting to officials' calls and things.
- Be Marcus Foster, not Marcus Smart.
- As for the rest of Bruce Weber's team, it has some decent athleticism, but I wonder about the point guards' collective ability and decision making, as well as this team's grit.
- Heard a lot about how travel affected the team going to Hawaii. Then again after it got home.
- Hate to tell ya, Wildcats, but you weren't the only team that needed to catch a plane to the islands.
- The whole thing makes me pause when I consider the grind that is Big 12 play.
- That's then, though.
- The now is K-State football playing for a piece of a Big 12 Championship on Saturday.