K-Stated

Editor’s note: In preparation of the upcoming football season, K-Stated will look ahead to all 12 games on the Wildcats’ 2010 schedule. Next up, Missouri State.

Iowa State was the first Big 12 team to start its football season last night.

The Cyclones took on Northern Illinois and won 27-10. The win itself isn’t all that impressive. After all, Big 12 teams are supposed to beat MAC opponents by three (or more) scores.

But Iowa State did look good in several areas. Running back Alexander Robinson, who rushed for 1,195 yards last season, ran for 97 yards and two touchdowns, and quarterback Austen Arnaud added 265 yards through the air. Read More »

Daniel Thomas is the best player on Kansas State’s football team.

Everyone from Wildcats coach Bill Snyder to superfan Robert Lipson will confirm that statement.

But after K-State’s star running back, who is at the top of the roster? Say you take part in some type of Wildcats fantasy draft and wind up with the No. 2 pick. Who are you taking?

Who do you think is K-State’s second-best player?
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A year ago Emmanuel Lamur and Tysyn Hartman were impossible to miss.

Lamur led Kansas State with 68 tackles, grabbed three interceptions and came up with a pivotal blocked extra point against Iowa State. Hartman made 54 tackles, led the Wildcats with five picks and forced a fumble.

Impressive stats for any safety duo. Incredible numbers for a pair of sophomores.

Even more is expected out of Lamur and Hartman this season. By all accounts, they appear ready for an encore.

“We can say the secondary is the strength of the defense right now,” Hartman said. Read More »

Kansas State started its spring season with questions at several key positions, and many of those questions remain.

But some were answered, allowing us to better speculate how the Wildcats will look in a little more than four months when their season begins against UCLA at Snyder Family Stadium.

For starters, coach Bill Snyder has established Carson Coffman as the front-runner at quarterback.
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After starting 3-1 in the Big 12, playing Oklahoma tough on the road and beating Kansas at home, it’s hard to believe the season is already over for the Kansas State football team.

In Bill Snyder’s return to coaching, the Wildcats improved as the season went along, showed incredible toughness following a lopsided loss at Texas Tech and brought excitement back to the gridiron before finishing with a 6-6 record.

K-State got better in several aspects this season, and when Missouri and Nebraska were playing sub-par football while the Wildcats were sitting all alone atop the North standings, it really looked they were going to win the division.

But as it turned out, they were simply the first North team to get its act together.

Snyder and his tireless work ethic gave K-State an early jump on the field, but once Nebraska found its groove and took down Oklahoma, the Cornhuskers became the team to beat in the North.
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