Comments on: GAMEDAY - Missouri State

By: rob

rob — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:51:54 +0000

Oh hey, J-Mart, didn’t I tell you Nebraska wouldn’t recover? 41-40 over Ball State in LINCOLN! That’s pathetic. K-State is going to win in Lincoln and Stillwater. Sure the pokes scored 28 on Tech in the 1st half, but neither Tech nor OK State knows how to play defense. K-State is going to go in their and smother the over-rated pokes. K-State is going to win the North. In fact, I don’t see them losing again until the Big XII Championship against Oklahoma cause Texas is going down again too.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:46:21 +0000

No worries Marco.

KU’s wins are all fluff. Want even more proof than what’s already obvious: right now CMU–which is supposedly the cream of KU’s non-conference crop–is getting blasted in the 3rd by AA North Dakota State, 30-7. Now, I don’t know much about NDSU, but I do know that in its previous two games it topped notorious AA patsies Sam Houston State, 41-38, and Stephen F. Austin, 28-19. Obviously, CMU just isn’t any good.

KU hasn’t played a respectable team all season; the Jayhawks are fool’s gold.

K-State is going embarrass and expose KU.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:54:34 +0000

I second that, Rob. There’s no way we lose to ku. Just don’t see it happening. Don’t want to see it happen, and if it does, I’ll gouge my eyes out.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:24:21 +0000

I don’t think we lose to KU. The KU O-line is average at best. We’ll shut down the run and sack the QB all night. And you know that there is no game on the schedule that Prince, Josh, Jordy and the gang want to win more than vs. KU.

Put it this way, MSU, which KSU just flattened, could beat two of KU’s first four opponents: SELA and FIU. And the Bears could put up huge numbers against CMU and Toledo.

By: cire

cire — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:00:40 +0000

I really think we are going to lose to KU.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:58:24 +0000

I know AU losing MSU looks really bad, but why isn’t anyone knocking USF for having to go to OT. You know AU’s defense is still one of the best in the country, even at 1-2. They shut down EXPLOSIVE USF offense time and again turnover after turnover after turnover. I only watched the end of the MSU game, so I can’t really comment on it. But from what I can tell MSU is underrated and Auburn is really banged up. I think the game at AU in front 84,000 screaming, “War Eagle,” was a solid test for KSU and despite Josh 2INT 1FUMBLE 0TD and 15-16 penalties, the Cats played like a really, really good team against a quality opponent on the road. Everyone says AU is “4 minutes from 0-3,” but they forget that AU is how many minutes or a simple FG attempt at the end of the USF game from 2-1? It’s the turnovers that’s killing AU, sabotaging drives and wearing out the defense. But they didn’t have fumblitis against the Cats.

KU scares me. They will be confident and crisp, but they are completely untested. KSU (see above) has been tested, and if it can cut its penalties per game at least in half, it can win in another test @Texas (unless the Horns suddenly start living up to their potential). By the time KU travels to Manhattan, it will have faced CMU, SELU, Toledo, and FAU. KSU will have games @AU and @UT under its belt to go along with the experience of being home and blowing out teams.

The only thing that really worries me, besides the penalties, is the way SJSU moved the ball a couple of times w/ the kid who started at QB. But MSU, a pretty good AA offense didn’t have anything like that going. Anyway, we have to play the short pass better than we did against SJSU when we play Mizzou or I’m going to be eating a crow dinner that night and crying in purple kool-aid.

By: kstater28

kstater28 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:57:44 +0000

“The loss at AU still looks fine”
rob- i admire you’re optimism, but seriously, lay off the kool aid. you barely mentioned au’s loss to mississippi state AT HOME! MISSISSIPPI STATE??!! that loss doesn’t look too good anymore. Ksu will certainly be in the mix, but we’ve got some tough games we must win to have a shot in the north, including ku in a few weeks.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:57:19 +0000

The loss at AU still looks fine.

1. AU first loss game in OT to a really good USF. If KSU hasn’t played anybody yet, why’d it take OT and five turnovers for USF (a hot off-season dark horse pick in the BE and now a top 25 team) to beat AU? AU is nobody? I respect you, J, but that just doesn’t make any sense.

2. USF doesn’t beat AU if KSU doesn’t beat the hell out Cox. He went was ducking his head and not looking where he was throwing every time USF got a little bit of a pass rush. Why? BC he was gun shy bc KSU pounded all night the week before. 3. Had AU turned the ball over five times against KSU like it did against USF and MSU, KSU would have blown the Tigers out. Also, if KSU doesn’t get called for a ticky-tack pass interference call with about four minutes to go. AU punts and KSU holds on to its lead.

But what makes me so optimistic is I see our O-line playing a lot better, Josh playing a lot better, the 3-4 working out great, and a lot of teams that are “supposed” to beat KSU this looking less than spectacular, namely Oklahoma State and Mizzou.

And hey, what about Nebraska’s 2-1 start makes you feel so good about the Huskers? Getting embarrassed, exposed, and humiliated is never good for a team. Nebraska’s been tested in a way that shatters a teams confidence and shows every other team out there how to beat you too.

What about Mizzou’s third straight pathetic second-half makes you feel so good about Mizzou? Mizzou has been tested? By who? Weak azz all offense ILL? If that’s a test, you must have a pretty low opinion of Mizzou. ILL will be doing good to win 6 games this season.

KSU is going to win the North.

By: J-Mart

J-Mart — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:02:00 +0000

Rob, what is it about this 2-1 start that makes you so optimistic? How does that Auburn loss look now, given the fact that Mississippi State just beat the Tigers? Truth is, we don’t know how good this team is. K-State hasn’t played anybody yet. At least Missouri and Nebraska have been challenged.

By: rob

rob — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:08:11 +0000

Well, I guess 61-10 is way, way, way better than anyone thought, even me, a hopelessly optimistic chugger of the purple Kool-aid. I went on the record in my blog with a 48-3 prediction back before season started and MSU rose up to shock D1-AA with 111 points in two games. When I made that prediction, I was thinking of the MSU team that only won two games last season, not the the MSU that blasted through the first two defenses it faced.

Meanwhile, Mizzou still can’t play defense, and OK State got ripped at Troy. So hey, J-Mart, I think my prediction that KSU will beat both OK-State and Mizzou seems to be holding a lot more water than your prediction that the Cats will lose both of those games.

And I know Nebraska was playing the best team in the country last night, but I doubt the Huskers recover from that embarrassing debacle. The Huskers got completely exposed on defense and I guarantee that Missouri, Texas, K-State, KU, OK-State and A&M will all glean useful lessons from what USC did. The Huskers are dead meat. KSU will win the North.