Actually it’s a pillar of the land grant mission and a requirement to receive funding from the state of Kansas.
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Lol this year's Kansas State team isn't sniffing an 8-2 conference record, Big 12 Title birth or a NY6 bowl win.
I also have to ask why you're legitimizing K-State's win vs. LSU who was just as non-functional as COVID teams go. They barely had players and had a WR in at QB. You then throw out ISU's entire 2020 season because they got to play one team like that.
You're cherry picking beyond belief. And, ISU wins in Ames this year by double digits for the 3rd straight year. Book it.
EXACTLY. I don't how this year's K-State team has anything to do with last year's ISU team in terms of preseason expectations. They went 4-5 in conference last season...
I don’t think low admission standards are a pillar of land grants. Ag, mechanics, and ROTC were the pillars. @surly mentuonimg educating the masses is generally done through the extension services, model farms, and such things.
The application I was mailed was one page and basically asked my name, address, HS and I had to sign it. There was no cost so I filled it out and was accepted quickly. I laughed that it required less work than NIACC.
Really, you do realize ISU had most of the starters in protocols before the season opener, and would not have had enough people to play, except over 20 players came available the day before the game. As of that first game, that they lost, most of the starters had not even practiced together. But they decided to play and give it their best.
Everyone likes to talk about how ISU didnt have covid problems that year, and they were lucky and didnt have to deal with those issues. They did. And they suffered the consequences, losing to a G5 school that everyone will never let them live down, even thought that G5 team was much better than anyone thought or wants to admit.
Stop making excuses. Everyone had the same situation, everyone dealt with it. Just because your team didnt handle it as well, is well maybe just an excuse for you being a worse team.
My god cope a little more.
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7-6 - scoreboard matters. So, I'm comparing this year's K-State team with last year's ISU team. Context matters as well. Should I go over all that again? Good grief.
Time and again I wrote for conference play, it is you who ignores the facts, not me.
Yes, I'd throw out the Covid year for everyone. Some like ISU benefited in conference play, others not. I wrote that at the time, since, and now. It was an anomaly. At least give me a star for consistency and dealing in facts.
But how did it benefit Iowa State? How did our players not getting COVID playing against a majority of other teams not getting COVID benefit us? Kansas State and Kansas actually seemed to be the worst teams in the conference at handling it for whatever reason. So all the good teams in the Big 12 in 2020 benefited but all the bottom teams didn't? How convenient.
And sure you're being consistent but dying on the hill of a poor take doesn't get you a star. It just makes you look stupid. I guess we should take away Tom Brady's superbowl that year too right?
I have no idea what you are trying to say here and I don’t think you do either.
K-State will likely finish right around where they are expected to, which is 5 to 7 wins.
Run and fumble, Throw and be intercepted. Dual threat.
If there was any "COVID advantage" for ISU vs. KSU in '20, it was mainly that Iowa State won head-to-head 45-0 instead of by ~ 17 or 21 points in "normal" conditions.
We can't count the 2020 win against KState because of Covid but KState can count last years bowl win against LSU despite them only have 40 players? Do I have that right?
Oh and our bowl game against Clemson surely still counts to make us 7-6 considering we had like 3 of our top players not play.
Imagine if Hall and Rose played and X didn’t have a broken finger? The hoops surly is jumping through to diminish us while prop up KSU is inconsistent yet fascinating.
Who the hell knows. Are we using normal reasoning or surlys batshit logic?
About as fascinating as watching a homeless person poop in a cardboard box on the side of the road.
The fact that you always cherry pick dates, facts and games to fit your narrative is obvious. The way you do it doesnt make your right it makes your argument ignorant. But that is another thing that your buddy Kunz (maybe you) does too. Maybe that is just a common trait of purple vamp fans.
Its really easy to say well this year or that year doesnt fit what Im trying to say, so we will just leave those stats out. This game or that game doesnt so lets just not talk about it. Lets just pick 3 games from this year, 5 games from that year, 2 games from the next year, skip this year, and 6 games from the next. There now those stats fit what I am saying, so now I speak the gospel. This is what you constantly do. Not to mention being so pretentious you annoyingly have to type everything in italics.
