Few things:
- “Big Monday” has throw the usual rhythm off here. We also have a job candidate in town, and I’ve been helping entertain him. No recruiting stuff this week – not yet, anyway.
- We’re working on a couple of projects here I’m excited about. What I’ll share is this – we’re doing a field of 32 tournament that is pitting the best collegiate players in each state against each other. Confused? Don’t be. For instance, the Kansas six-man team might be Mike, Bill, Russ Robinson, Mario Chalmers, Darrell Arthur and maybe WSU’s P.J. Couisnard (although I doubt he made the cut). That crew would be a No. 1 seed, and they would play a 8 seed, etc. Well, they wouldn’t actually play, but we’re allowing readers to vote on which teams would advance, but we’re doing it one day at a time once we pair it down to the Sweet 16. It starts this Sunday, so look for it at kansas.com. It should be fun. My hunch is Tennessee is going to be a beast.
- Bob Huggins continues to do wonderful things for my career. I was recognized yesterday by the Associated Press Sports Editors in the category of breaking news for my story on Huggins’ departure. It’s the second story of mine about Huggins in as many years – the other was his hiring – that APSE has recognized. So I’ve got that going for me…
- Stay tuned for “Forum Friday.” It’s going down. I’ll be contacting the participants shortly via e-mail, probably no later than this evening. If you don’t hear from me, don’t fret. You may be used in a future “Forum.” Keep hope alive.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are thoughts on Whitlock’s article about KState fans?
My thoughts? Jason always has the last word. He’s a columnist. He has most of you riled up, and that’s exactly what he wants – to drive Web traffic and readership. It’s brilliant, really, and you’re all playing right into his hands. I agree with a few of his points, but they’re tucked away in there, sandwiched between semi-personal attacks on the student body. As for his overriding theme, I wouldn’t call it negativity – I’d say it’s insecurity. But that’s to be expected given how irrelevant K-State basketball has been in recent years. And now, with the best player in college basketball in town, suddenly everything should change? Not likely. The real issue is expectations – they were too high with so many freshmen and a first-year coach.
Forum Friday sounds lame
…which is nice.
SD, the name or the idea? Because we don’t have to do it…
Congrats on the recognition. It’s well deserved. I always enjoy what you have to say.
Can we get a “Feelin a Draft” on the combine turnout for Jordy and McKinney. Would greatly appreciate it since Jordy is the only good thing coming out of K-State football for at least 1 more year. THANKS!
Jmart- Get off Steve Dave’s sack already.
I just wanted to say it was lame for irony. That’s kind of my thing. You take that (irony) away from me Jeff and I got nothing…nothing.
Just as a point of reference, anyone know if Whitlock received any of these recognitions lately? I’m not gonna go off on the guy, I was as displeased as everyone. But it seems JMart is writing relevant, unbiased K-State articles while neither kissing up to fans nor bashing them, and receiving attention and recognition for it.
I wondered if some Cat fans would be uhhhhh, annoyed with Jason. I wasn’t. I thought he made a point, not necessary exactly right on but a reasonable explanation for what’s going down. I don’t know sports the way some do because I never played competitively but it seems apparent that Mike is getting worn down at the end of a game. Hey, as wonderful as his conditioning is, he is still a kid. When I finished a first marathon in just under four hours, I couldn’t stand or sit or walk and slept in a tub for several hours. Seven years later, after running six of them, I ran my best at 3:25 and was climbing a mountain two days later. Beasly will probably go at the end of the year but he will be a stronger basketball player if he plays another year in Manhattan.
J-Mart is not a columnist. He gives his opinion here and in his Q&A, but his articles in the Eagle are supposed to be news articles that contain no commentary. Whitlock is strictly a columnist that has some whacky opinions about a variety of things.
A lot of fans I talked to on Tuesday mentioned Monday’s crowd. All I know is that the booing came across the television very badly and it made us, as a fan base, look like we know nothing about the game of basketball and made us look like a bunch of whiners.
That being said, calling the entire fan base a bunch of losers because of it was very unprofessional on Whitlock’s part.
I’m not sure how K-State’s “negative” fan base is relevant to a 3-game losing streak on the road. That article was Whitlock’s pity party for himself.
Jason has won APSE awards for his columns for as long as I can remember, certainly as long as I’ve been in Kansas. Same for Joe Posnanski, who absolutely killed the contest this year. I think he won four awards, which is remarkable.
I think I am going to make some awards and hand them out. They will be much more prestigous and fancy than whatever an APSE looks like. Have you guys ever seen one of those 6 foot tall bowling trophies? Think that but bigger and with more platic gold paint. Really classy stuff. Plus, while the bowler will still be on the top, they will also have some sort of GI Joe or Transformer guy up there too… to represent marksmanship…which will be another factor in awarding the trophey.
Mart, to compare whitlock and jopo is like comparing a delorean to a mercedes that still runs perfectly. Jopo isn’t trying to generate web hits (is he?) when that’s all JW wants. Which is fine but they are 2 different writers all together. JW just wants to be heard, JOPO just wants to be read.