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,…
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…
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…
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…
“You can’t recruit to Manhattan” is a narrative regurgitated by sports talkers, opposing coaches and administrators, and rival fans of Kansas State since I can remember. It has always been a weak argument. K-State is a college town like most in the Big 12, but it has gotten a bad rep over time, mostly by people I believe have never visited. Kind of like how the Midwest is “flyover country” to coastal elites, K-State has long been regarded as the…