We all know it is impossible to send photos or videos in Hilton during any stoppage of play so I think it is much more likely more people are involved. Like say the entire 8th row could be quickly passing a note or notes from behind the visitor bench to behind the ISU bench and down to coach TJ. Or someone has a trained pet monkey that is discretely running the info back to TJ.
Kansas State fans are madder than I have ever seen
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It's really ironic the difference between the two coaches and their relationship to their respective universities couldn't be more stark:
TJ- This is his dream job. A place where he has spent literally half his life and almost his entire professional career. His adoptive home. It's where he met his wife, and he has forged lifelong bonds with just about anyone who is anyone in the ISU sphere of influence. His boss is just as much a personal friend as much as anything else.
(Absolutely ZERO chance he allows anyone even REMOTELY affiliated with his program to do anything approaching cheating, or anything else that would tarnish ISU's reputation. It could and probably would make him a pariah to just about every meaniful Iowa State relationship he has. I don't expect people on the outside to understand that on their own, but knowing what we know, it's just about the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard on its face.)
Tang- this is just a job. (A new one in an unfamiliar place he has no personal connection to, with middling prestige and resources at that.)
TJ- This is his dream job. A place where he has spent literally half his life and almost his entire professional career. His adoptive home. It's where he met his wife, and he has forged lifelong bonds with just about anyone who is anyone in the ISU sphere of influence. His boss is just as much a personal friend as much as anything else.
(Absolutely ZERO chance he allows anyone even REMOTELY affiliated with his program to do anything approaching cheating, or anything else that would tarnish ISU's reputation. It could and probably would make him a pariah to just about every meaniful Iowa State relationship he has. I don't expect people on the outside to understand that on their own, but knowing what we know, it's just about the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard on its face.)
Tang- this is just a job. (A new one in an unfamiliar place he has no personal connection to, with middling prestige and resources at that.)
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This is beyond lunacy at this point. I would be embarrassed as an Iowa State fan if the roles were reversed and this was still going on days later. Either come with actual evidence or facts or let it rest. It’s been 2 days and not ONE shred of proof has been leaked. Tang wouldn’t even speak about it after the game. This is insane.
Objectively speaking, we have been pretty good at selling charges. Not to say they aren’t offensive fouls, but we can exaggerate them. Jaz did this a lot and so did Gabe.
Gilbert had a few tonight where they were clear offensive fouls, but one he went about half way across the floor. There were a few I think weren’t called charges that could have been (mostly their guards really extending their arms to clear space on jump shots).
That said, by definition a “flop” is faking one where there really isn’t an offensive foul. In that sense I don’t think we did.
But if you’re talking about selling it when there is an offensive foul I would agree that we do that.
Oh come on. We all know we can't beat K State in anything unless we cheat. They are SO superior!
My understanding is that we use Bigfoot, the alien mothership and Mothman to steal and relay communications. Very complicated.
My understanding is that we use Bigfoot, the alien mothership and Mothman to steal and relay communications. Very complicated.
This whole thing is freaking absurd. Are all KState fans conspiracy nut jobs? I doubt it, but there is no way that any of that happened for all the reasons mentioned in this thread. There is 0 chance this is true. Kstate fans are embarrassing themselves. I get being upset you lost, but ffs it is only a basketball game. Get a life.
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Yep, some anonymous loser purple kansas fan made it up.
The ISU fans got riled up due to what Tang and his coaches were doing, waving about, saying, complaining.
The KSU coaches got riled up for some reason, we may never know what it really was about. I find it hard to believe what some fans say they say, is true. It's hearsay. Somebody knows. We won't, most likely.
Iowa State, the school, and it's fans have been in the Big 8, and the Big 12 a long time. We know good sportsmanship, and good competition. We pride ourselves by being fair and playing by the rules. Something is fishy about this whole thing.
It's making for an entertaining first half of the conference season, that's for sure.
On Jan 24th at 11pm TJ receives a text:
They are going to throw up a three.
-Tyler team manager
Well deserved picking on KSU twitter and X fans. A few pages back some gal named Taylor a KSU fan was cute enough. Someone posted her about being mad enough to take a swing at someone if she would have been in Hilton
There is a top-secret Wi-Fi account they are using to send the messages, from the hi-tech mop handles.
Reasonable. It would be very nice if TJ and our AD would put out a 'put up or shut up' defend-type statement. It's not going to happen with them unless more inflammatory hearsay statements continue to be made by KSU fans or media about the game.
This will just fade away. We are now looking at the K-State coaching staff differently, or at the least more negatively than before, and their fans as delusional and whiney. For some this is probably new. Others who have been around a while just may say this is another chapter in the rivalry. They probably feel the same about us.
I've been a Cyclone fan a long time. This doesn't nothing to increase my respect for KSU and fans. But it's just sports, and it's just another game.
My dislike for the average KSU fan would be way worse if I went to EMAW. I don't ever go there after checking it out many years ago. I won't go there again. And that's best.
