Rightfully so. KU position was like a Groom getting married then telling his bride that night he like to talk her pretty girlfriend and wants a open marriage
KState is growing on me. I would definitely consider them a leader. There are some good folks over there. I’m looking forward to getting to know more of them.
This is interesting. Previously most attributed this sort of leadership to Mac Rhoades. Sounds like K-State was an important voice telling the schools to get over themselves involving G5 invites, though, which was a critical step.
It’s really kind of interesting that schools I never had an opinion about, like K-State and Arizona, are becoming teams I like. Others that I liked, Utah and Oklahoma State, are falling in my view. I’ve even found Baylor fans to be unexpectedly cool.
Tech fans jabbed the goalpost into the ATM visitor’s section. I was surprised the school didn’t get a lawsuit out of that. The ATM AD was in the stands and his family had to hustle to keep from getting hit.
I like KState but they don’t strike me as head honcho material. I really don’t know who fills that role in the Big XII now that OU has one foot out the door.
What I remember about K-State is their legendary and Hall of Fame Coach, Bill Snyder. He had two turns as HC. He retired and then they brought him back.He never had top ranked recruiting classes but won with a lot of JUCO’s. Here are some highlights I pulled up.
During the 1998 season, Kansas State posted an undefeated 11–0 regular season and earned its first number 1 ranking in the national polls, just ten years after being named the worst program in the country by Sports Illustrated. They lost to the Texas A&M Aggies in the Big 12 Championship Game, which has been called one of the greatest games played. The loss stopped them from reaching the National Championship and sent them to the Alamo Bowl, where they lost and finished the season 11–2. In the 2003 season, the team won the Big 12championship — the school’s second major conference title and their first since 1934. At the time, the 69-year gap between conference titles was the longest in Division I history. They beat #1 ranked Oklahoma in the 2003 Big 12 Championship Game, 35–7. Leading up to the game, many college football analysts called Oklahoma one of the best teams. With an 11–4 record in 2003, Kansas State also became the only team in the country to win 11 games in six of the previous seven years and just the second program in the history of college football to win 11 games six times in a seven-year stretch.
K-State has every right to think they are one of the driving forces in the Big 12.
