“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…
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…
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…
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,…
K-State head football coach Chris Klieman received a contract extension and pay raise this week. The deal runs through the 2030 season and will pay him 44 million dollars, an average of 5.5 million dollars per season. It makes Klieman the fourth highest-paid coach in the Big 12, behind Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy, Oklahoma’s Brent Venables, and Texas coach Steve Sarkisian. It is a great deal for everyone involved, and it helps put my mind at ease that Klieman will…