Probably going to be the last home game of the year. Would love for these seniors to get one last win before the bowl game.
On to Kansas State...
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FIFY. And that not only applies to how much better the Wildcats play at home, but how poorly both of those teams have played on the road most of the year.
Oh—and Tech was missing Bowman.
Yeah, the game is in Ames. KSU hasn’t played the best on the he road, either.
Funny story. After CW’s article, I was looking at the stats on that 2000 9-3 season. I was kinda shocked to see that a “good”crowd for home conference games was 36-38,000.
So, I gotta say. If 50K or so still show up Saturday despite all the complications of the holiday weekend (forecast right now is 47 degrees), anyone who thinks that Cyclone fans “don’t deserve” a winner just because a few thousand don’t show up is clueless.
IMO, of course.
KSU is playing for bowl eligibility and for Snyder if he is going to retire for the second year in a row. We need to come out early and put the pedal to the metal and not look back.
Agree. Heacock knows the old fart will run the QB, a lot. He'll have them ready.
Reality is that the team was picked at 5.5 wins or something in August and surpassed it, which in September didn't seem all that likely.
The opportunity was lost so that's a disappointment, however 8-4 is possible and would be great. Need to salvage some things together for next week though for what will likely be a weird game.
I'm not gonna lie, I've had this game circled since before the season even started. I want our guys to avenge the screw job from last year and destroy this opponent more than anyone else on the schedule, including Iowa. We've lost so many close games to K-State over the years that should have been wins. I'll never, ever get over last year's garbage-ass officiating that cost us the game. I've never seen a more egregious display of officiating bias than in that game, even at Smog Allen Fieldhouse.
I know our players shouldn't be playing with vengeance on the mind, as it can cause mistakes on the field by being hyped up by it, but god dammit, I have to believe these guys remember how that win was stolen from them last year and want to repay them with an ass kicking.
I'll be in the stands on Saturday night, hoping to get tickets way down by the field. And if Reggie Smith is there he's going to hear it from me all game long.
Anyway, let's send Snyder off into the sunset with a loss. The way it should be for him and all the wins he's stolen from us.
I know our players shouldn't be playing with vengeance on the mind, as it can cause mistakes on the field by being hyped up by it, but god dammit, I have to believe these guys remember how that win was stolen from them last year and want to repay them with an ass kicking.
I'll be in the stands on Saturday night, hoping to get tickets way down by the field. And if Reggie Smith is there he's going to hear it from me all game long.
Anyway, let's send Snyder off into the sunset with a loss. The way it should be for him and all the wins he's stolen from us.
Exactly. While we all love packed stands, I am confident that we'd be in the top 1/4 attendance-wise of all teams (with W/L record similar to ours) playing at home next Saturday.
My main concern going into this game is, now KSU needs only this game to be bowl eligible. It is "another" last game or farewell game for Snyder, so everyone in the Big XII and the officials will be doing anything they can in their power to make sure they send him away with another win. Ultimately, we should win this game, if it is not stolen from us.
Bill Snyder doesn't need to be told how to beat ISU or anybody.
"A complete bust" it won't be, another missed opportunity? Of course. And that's just.. how it is to be an ISU fan.
Of course, the eternal hope is that there will be more opportunities now rather than in the past, when opportunities came once every 10 years or so, and if you didn't capitalize, well, then that's it. Arrow seems to be pointed upwards, hopefully it stays that way.
I've had him on ignore for a while, after I got tired of his shtick.
It's been an improvement, to say the least.
What has happened when we've played Kansas State level teams this season? We've beaten them. Losing on the road to a good team doesn't take anything away from the fact that we've beaten plenty of teams that are as good as Kansas State. Nothing that happened last night changes that.
Is Bill actually coaching this game? Just a couple weeks ago on here I saw a thread where the "experts" had inside information that he was resigning that week. I think the source said that someone within the K-State athletic department said he was stepping down but the deal with Sean being the next coach was holding things up.
I purposely kept my mouth shut, just sat back and laughed at all the disinformation being thrown around.
I purposely kept my mouth shut, just sat back and laughed at all the disinformation being thrown around.
This isn’t a horrible KState team, they lost to TCU by 1, Baylor by 3, Texas by 5. OU and Miss St rushed very well against them. So I think the RPO will help us out with that. Maybe get some nice short screen passes in there.
