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JT VanGilder
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I'm social about sports, and not much else...usually. But catch me on a good day and I'll go off on an assortment of randomness. Good luck.
a man with a mustache wearing a grey sweater
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a grey sweater
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November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Avery's *stats* don't look bad. But he's just putting in numbers without actually doing anything important. To be fair, that's not all on him (o-line issue & scheme, for example); but I do not expect a QB with his numbers (and a #27 spot on this list) to be leading a team that's 4-5.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm told there was a brief bought of sleet here sometime late Saturday night or very early Sunday morning
Of course we don't get nice things like snow....
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Same, actually. Last Friday was near-70F, then a cold front came through Saturday night.

Supposed to be back up in the 70's at the end of the week 🤷🙃
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Pfft, we're finally up to 23F with a "feels like" of 14F down here in Heaven on Earth (Manhattan, KS)
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Meshak? More like MeSACK
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Mark Simoneau, Chris Canty, Jeff Kelly, Terry Pierce, possibly Nick Leckey, Quincy Morgan, Michael Bishop.

These aren't guys Snyder coached up. They were lit.

Part of this, of course, is the fabled JUCO pipeline. Snyder did grab top-tier guys who hadn't qualified straight out of HS.
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Then things went south. He wasn't grabbing 5-stars, but he WAS grabbing 4-stars... most of whom completely washed out due to their own egos. K-State fans will recall one Nick Patton.

And I think it's because the star system gave guys a sense of where they "ranked" which hadn't existed before.
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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But this is a thing I really want to correct for the record, because it gives an extremely inaccurate picture of what things were like at K-State during the peak of the Snyder rebuild.

Those teams were not scrappy walk-ons, folks. Snyder was recruiting studs... UNTIL the star system.
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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here's the first video on the new channel, it's about the team that ACTUALLY invented the Tush Push years before the Eagles, so you can appropriately thank them or yell at them depending on whether you think the Tush Push is good (correct) or bad (wrong)
Meet the Team Who REALLY Invented the Tush Push
YouTube video by Sports! with Rodger Sherman
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”

Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up

Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I voted early on Friday like a cool kid 😎
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
F*CK that guy....
Oh wait, wrong guy
November 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
That GIF reminds me of one of my favorite jokes from Twitter:

If it's 6:08 in Manhattan, what time is it in Lawrence?

52-7

😈
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM