Click the jump for K-State sports news and notes.
Football
Over at the Topeka Capital-Journal, Kevin Haskin has his mid-week musings column up. My favorites? The K-State/Iowa State pillow-fight "showdown" at Arrowhead is being billed in some corners as "Farmageddon" (embrace our agricultural history, people), and Colorado got a junior college wide receiver eligible, which makes me laugh remembering Broncoman's "retard juco players" broadsides over at The Ralphie Report last year.
Superfan Manifesto
From GoPowercat, the manifesto of a superfan. Remember, if you can make it to the UMass game, and you don't show up, you're a Jayhawk (thank God I finally ordered a ticket yesterday). Don't say you weren't warned.
Other Big 12 Stuff
The new slogan for Texas football this year? "We are Texas!" Umm, you had to pay somebody $800,000 to come up with that? Couldn't you have just ripped it off from a Matthew McConaughey movie? Or K-State a few years ago? Further, could anyone ever forget that you're Texas, considering "Texas" constitutes about every third word out of your mouths and you have a giant outline of the state on everything?
File this one under two categories: first, the further removed in time you are from something, the less accurate people's memories of it are, and second, the "let's wait until the Big 12 breaks the SEC's stranglehold on the national championship trophy before proclaiming the Big 12 has surpassed the SEC" category.
Via Rock M Nation, an excellent look at the NCAA's hypocrisy and utter inability to regulate college sports fairly by Jay Bilas (sorry, it's Insider). I don't agree with all of his conclusions, but I do agree that the NCAA is not doing its job. To this point, I hadn't paid much attention to the infractions case at Memphis. But answer me this: isn't it interesting that Memphis has to vacate all its victories from 2007-08, its Final Four appearance, take down its banners, and act like that season never happened, because Derrick Rose cheated on his SAT? If that's the standard, did anyone really win the national title in 2008? Because as I recall, KU's Darrell Arthur did essentially the same thing (seriously, this Curtis Kitchen guy is killing the bigger media outlets). He would have failed to meet the initial eligibility standards because he couldn't pass a math class, but the NCAA certified him as eligible, then later we found he he actually wasn't. Here's the money quote from Bilas' article:
But it is clear that the NCAA cannot credibly and reasonably administer eligibility standards across the board, and certainly cannot enforce its rules with any reasonable degree of fairness.
Look, unless the NCAA can prove that KU knew about or had some hand in Arthur's grade being changed at South Oak Cliff, they shouldn't be punished for his participation because the NCAA cleared him. But it's truly astounding that the NCAA continues to kick around small programs while giving elite programs a pass on the exact same conduct. Bilas is right. If this is the best the NCAA can do, it needs to get out of the business.
From Over the Pylon, Alan brings us a preview of the Big 12's season. The two prognosticators are positively bullish on Nebraska.
The Fourum
One of the Collegian's editorial writers, Beth Mendenhall, suggested yesterday that the phrase "Every Man A Wildcat" be changed to "Every Person A Wildcat" to be more inclusive. The following hilarity resulted:
I will start saying "EPAW" just as soon as Beth changes her name to "Beth Persondenhall."
Hey Beth, should we change "Manhattan" to "Personhattan?" Thanks.
EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW EMAW
And now, the best of the rest...
Bill Snyder is like the Chuck Norris of football.
It's 11:30, it's raining, and the sprinklers are on in the Quad. Highlight of my day.
I don't know about you, but I've had sexual relations on a K-State roof.
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I read those comments on the "EPAW" article last night...
And the K-Statriots at KSUFans.com brought the thunder.
(H/T steve dave and Pete…for always making me laugh.)
Panjandrum - August 27, 2009
I love this part of a comment from the Collegian from anonymous:
Well, to Beth Persondenhall’s defense, there are much more women at K-State than black people. You have to appeal to the masses, not the minorities – even if it is more offensive….
Disclaimer: I, mystman995, do not support any derogatory phrase directed towards an individual or group of any sex or race throughout the entire personkind.
mystman995 - August 27, 2009
Anyone know how the “Lynch Mob” name came about? I’ve always found it ironic/a little ignorant. But then again who am I to stand in the way of a great defense?
Mrfphy - August 27, 2009
EPAW....
bullshit.
That is all.
EMAW - August 27, 2009
I was wondering when you were going to chime in.
I personally think you need to change your name to include an asterisk – Barry Bonds style.
mystman995 - August 27, 2009
Won't let me change the screen name.
But I did the best I can do.
See disclaimer.
EMAW - August 27, 2009
Nice
mystman995 - August 27, 2009
Robert
Robert’s article made my day. Thanks for posting it.
ksubailey - August 27, 2009
Attempt to explain difference in Arthur situation
In what is probably a feeble attempt on my part (because who can really explain anything the NCAA does) I will try to rationalize why the NCAA did not even investigate Darrell Arthur’s eligibility.
First off, I agree with the widely held opinion that Memphis got screwed by the NCAA. It’s total BS to punish a school for using what later turns out to be an academically ineligible player when the NCAA itself certified the player as eligible. I felt that way during the Arthur saga and it would be hypocritical to feel otherwise about Memphis.
So why didn’t the NCAA investigates Arthur’s eligibility after the fact like they did with Rose? The only reason I can think of is that in Arthur’s case, nothing happened that altered his initial eligibility despite the findings of the Houston law firm that investigated the case. While the investigation determined that a math grade for Arthur, Kevin Rogers, and one other player was changed prior to the state championship game in Arthur’s junior year, the law firm concluded that the players were guilty of no wrongdoing. As a result, the school district did not punish the players and go back and revise their transcripts or revoke their diplomas. Thus, the criteria used to determine the players’ initial collegiate eligibility was not altered. In Rose’s case, his qualifying test score was thrown out so his initial eligibility was altered (albeit retroactively).
That’s the only distinction I can make between the 2 situations. Had the Dallas school district taken action that would have altered Arthur’s transcript or invalidated his high school diploma, it sounds like the NCAA may have investigated and possibly determined Arthur was ineligible (of course then Sweet Lew would have worked his “magic” and minimized the damage). LIkewise, if the Educational Testing Service (or whatever it’s called) had not nullified Rose’s test score, the criteria for his initial eligibility would not have been altered and he would not have been ruled ineligible.
Okay, fire away at the holes in my argument. I basically just wanted to offer some rationale as to why the NCAA took action against Memphis but not KU besides the argument that the NCAA is simply turning a blind eye to the big program and laying the hammer down on the little guy. After all, Baylor (Kevin Rogers) didn’t get investigated either and they’re not one of the “big boys” in hoops.
Oh, and regarding Curtis Kitchen, I agree his writings are usually superb – even for a K-Stater. ;-)
In all seriousness, Kitchen should have been the new KSU beat writer for the Eagle/KC Star.
KU_Lew - August 28, 2009
Good points...
…I hadn’t thought of the situation from that perspective.
And yes, Kitchen should have been the new beat writer if it was between he and Robinett. Thanks for stopping by.
TB - August 28, 2009
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