JM: I love coach Tang and what he did in his first season was phenomenal. K-State definitely doesn’t want to lose him, but does a seven-year contract seem a bit excessive for a guy who just completed his first season? It does to me. It looks like money grows on trees in Manhattan and the Big 12! What do you think?

Now that’s more like it! K-State beat UCF 44-31 on Saturday night to go 1-0 in the Big 12 Conference. Running back DJ Giddens had a huge game, rushing for 207 yards and four touchdowns. He also had 86 receiving yards and was rewarded for his effort by receiving the Big 12 offensive player of the week award. This game was close until the fourth quarter, when K-State pulled away with two unanswered touchdowns to take a 44-24 lead. Will … Read more

K-State football’s loss to Missouri on Saturday was disappointing for many reasons, but the most concerning item is the injury situation for the Wildcats. Star linebacker and defensive leader Daniel Green is out for the season with a pectoral injury, quarterback Will Howard suffered an injury during the game and is questionable to play against UCF on Saturday, and running back Treshaun Ward is doubtful to play. Add to that the fact that K-State’s defense was scorched early and often … Read more

Sorry, everyone. It took me a couple of days to get over this loss. Missouri beat K-State 30-27 on Saturday on a 61-yard field goal as time expired. I was there to witness it in person. It was a great back and forth game with lots of drama and excitement. There were many big plays by both teams as well as lots of blunders. There’s a lot to dissect in this game, so let’s get to it. Be prepared for … Read more

This Saturday in Columbia is part two of the non-conference series between the Kansas State Wildcats and the Missouri Tigers. K-State took care of Missouri by the score of 40-12 last year in Manhattan, and the Tigers look to return the favor this season. K-State is coming off a 42-13 win against Troy last weekend, while Missouri struggled to beat Middle Tennessee 23-19. What is going to happen this week? Many Missouri fans think the Tigers will lose and lose … Read more

The 15th ranked Kansas State Wildcats took care of the Troy Trojans on Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium by the score of 42 to 13. K-State won the coin toss, elected to receive, and marched down the field and scored a touchdown on a pass from Will Howard to Jadon Jackson to take a 7-0 lead. The Wildcats never looked back, taking a 21 to 10 lead into halftime and extending the lead in the second half to get … Read more

There was not much to complain about the performance of the K-State Wildcats against Southeast Missouri State in week one. Last week, I mentioned five things I was looking for in the game. Let’s see how the Wildcats did. Can the Wildcats Win Convincingly? Check. K-State won 45-0. How does Will Howard look? Check. Howard looked great, going 18 of 26 passing for 297 yards with two touchdown passes and an interception. He also had a rushing and receiving touchdown. … Read more

K-State football took care of business in their first game of the 2023 season, beating Southeast Missouri State 45-0. Just how dominant was this performance? Southeast Missouri was ranked as the number 11 team in the FCS division coming into the game, so they’re no slouch, I was impressed with this performance by K-State. We even got to see freshman phenom quarterback Avery Johnson, who lived up to the hype and then some. Here is what the head coach and … Read more

Game week is finally here. K-State takes the field against Southeast Missouri State on Saturday. I’ll be in Manhattan with over 50,000 of my closest friends to watch the game. Here are five things I’ll be looking for out of the Wildcats. 1) A convincing win. Southeast Missouri is a great team on the FCS level and will likely have another successful season. That said, K-State is a contender for the Big 12 championship, and they need to show it … Read more

We are a week away from K-State football opening the 2023 football season at Bill Snyder Family Stadium against Southeast Missouri State. Can K-State repeat as Big 12 Champions? That is a tall order, as I laid out in my column this week. The schedule K-State was handed and no true round robin schedule appears to hurt the Wildcats more than some of the other contenders for the title. Regardless, I’m thrilled that the season is almost here and am … Read more

We are a little over a week away from K-State kicking off the 2023 football season against Southeast Missouri State on September 2nd. I have been intrigued when looking at the Big 12 preseason predictions regarding the order of finish in the Big 12. For the first time in many years, there isn’t a round-robin schedule where everyone plays everyone. Nobody has the same schedule or plays the same teams, so the difficulty of the schedule will impact how things … Read more

T-minus 16 days until K-State kicks off the 2023 football season against Southeast Missouri State. One of the fun things about following your favorite college football team is watching your favorite players perform, develop, and take their place among the greatest players in the school record books. Two players on the 2023 Wildcat football team have an opportunity to stake their claim among the best K-Staters to ever do it at their positions. Quarterback Will Howard and wide receiver and … Read more

The preseason Coaches Poll was released this week, and K-State was ranked at number 17, its highest preseason ranking since 2004, when the Wildcats entered the season ranked number 13. The Wildcats did not live up to expectations that year, as K-State finished the 2004 season with a disappointing 4-7 record. Will 2023 be different than 2004? The 2023 Wildcats hope to repeat as Big 12 champions and earn a spot in the college football playoff. How likely is that? … Read more

Time to play Rapid Fire. Rapid Fire consists of short commentary segments about the latest hot topics in the Big 12 conference. Rapid Fire was made popular by sports radio talk show host Johnny Renshaw, and I stole it from him. It is fine. He is okay with it. Anyway, here we GO! “They’re back.” Colorado is back in the Big 12. I am not as excited about this development as some are, but it is good to grow conference … Read more

T-minus 38 days until K-State kicks off the 2023 college football season against Southeast Missouri State. It’s been a while since I have seen this much anticipation and hype around K-State football going into a football season. Expectations are high since the media picked K-State to finish second in the league behind Texas. Some are even projecting K-State to repeat as champions and to make the college football playoff! These projections and predictions are a little out of whack, especially … Read more

T-minus 45 days until K-State kicks off the 2023 college football season against Southeast Missouri State University. It is time for my annual game-by-game preview and predictions for the upcoming season.  I correctly predicted K-State’s record in the last two years. In 2021 I predicted K-State to finish 7-5, and in 2022 I predicted a 9-3 finish. Both predictions were right on the money. Am I good or just lucky? You be the judge. Before I get started, I have … Read more

“The target’s on our back. There are expectations, but that’s why you came to Kansas State. To have high expectations. To be the team that people want to beat.”..Chris Klieman at Big 12 media day, July 13th, 2023. It’s been a while since K-State football was the “hunted” in the Big 12 instead of the “hunter.” Other than a five or six-year stretch from 1997 to 2003, K-State has usually entered the football season as the underdog with a chip … Read more

My “what if” column last week was pretty popular. I received a number of reader submissions for additional “what ifs” regarding K-State sports. Many of them were pretty good, so here is part two of “K-State Sports What Ifs.” What if safety Ty Zimmerman played against Baylor in 2012? This question comes up often when discussing the 2012 K-State Wildcat football team. K-State was the number one ranked team in the country going into the Baylor game on November 17th, … Read more

As sports fans, we all like to play the “what if” game. What if X had happened instead of Y? Would the result be different? Would the course of history have been changed? If yes, how so? These “what if” questions can go far back into time, like “What if the Red Sox never sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees?” to more recent events like “What if the Buffalo Bills didn’t give Patrick Mahomes 13 seconds to tie the AFC … Read more

Jerome Tang had a Zoom press conference with the media today and he provided recruiting update and spoke about his roster heading into this fall. I love listening to Tang because he is straightforward and honest and provides some great quotes. It’s been too long since I’ve done a “From The Couch” column, but listening to today’s press conference motivated me to put one together. Enjoy! “I feel like we have the talent to have an NCAA tournament team but … Read more

T-minus 72 days until K-State kicks off the 2023 football season in Manhattan against Southeast Missouri. I will wait a bit longer before unveiling my official preseason preview and prediction for the season. The prevailing wisdom for the Wildcats going into the 2023 season is that K-State should be a competitor in the race to repeat as Big 12 conference champions. I’m not yet making that prediction, as I think they’ve lost too many key players from last year’s team, … Read more

K-State Head basketball coach Jerome Tang is still slowly but surely making waves recruiting. Derrion Reid, a 2024 Top 40 player, is on campus in Manhattan for a visit Tuesday. While that may bode well for the 2024 season, putting together a full roster for the 2023 season remains a priority. Tang showed last year that he was in no rush to put a complete roster together, and 2023 is proving to be no different. He still has two open … Read more

T-minus 86 days until K-State opens the 2023 football season against Southeast Missouri State University on September 2nd. A few of the game times were announced recently, highlighted by a Friday night game at Oklahoma State at 6:30 on October 6th, which will be broadcast on ESPN. With UCF, BYU, Houston, and Cincinnati joining the Big 12 starting this fall, it adds a couple more intriguing games to the schedule. K-State plays UCF and Houston and does not play Oklahoma … Read more

While I was out of town in Vegas for a week, the Big 12 baseball tournament was happening. Honestly, I like to unplug when I go on vacation, not paying too much attention to the goings on in the world, and unwind and relax. When I got back and plugged in, I noticed some controversy and frustration on social media regarding the K-State baseball team not making the NCAA baseball tournament. I am a casual baseball fan but paid enough … Read more

I’m turning 50 this week. I’ve followed K-State sports closely and rabidly since I was 17. People older than me always told me that time goes by fast. At this point in my life, I’ve grown to believe them. It is my wish, as a K-Stater, to see my team win the national championship in basketball or football. Perhaps my least favorite sports statistic is the fact that Kansas State and Virginia Tech are the only two Power 5 programs … Read more