Kansas State

What a garbage weekend. | Rob Ferguson-USA TODAY Sports RIP to a legend, a Wildcat, and a program There is no news regarding current Kansas State activities this morning. However, the last few days have seen some sad passings, so on this Memorial Day, an in memoriam: First we say goodbye to Evan Simpson, who passed away due to cancer last week in Texas but it took a bit for … [Read more...] about SLATE: Memorials on Memorial Day

Things are looking up for the return of fall sports. It’s Memorial Day weekend, which is typically the official start of the summer calendar in the United States. Right now, we’re living in fairly atypical times though, so it may be hard to get too excited about a possibly strange summer, especially without organized sports to occupy our time. But fortunately, this barren … [Read more...] about Weekend Slate: Slow return to normal

Oh, yeah, we’re going here. | Photo by Sarah Glenn/Getty Images Not pictured; Baker Mayfield. This week’s victim, Texas Tech Red Raiders, suffers from a problem somewhat unique to the rest of the charter Big 12 schools: there just aren’t that many Red Raiders we care about much one way or another. But your intrepid staff was able to finally decide which five Lubbockites were … [Read more...] about 5 Red Raiders we don’t hate

Plus recognitions, and recruiting updates Previously Yesterday, Drew brought us an update on K-State football recruiting for the 2021 class, which has had a bit of a roller coaster ride the past week or so. Sports The NCAA APR report for the 2018-19 academic year is out (these things are always a year behind due to how these things are calculated), and K-State received perfect … [Read more...] about Slate: Sterling APR Report for K-State

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Last week was a mixed bag, at best, for the Wildcats. After a smoking hot start, the 2021 recruiting class has cooled considerably over the last few weeks. I’m not overly concerned, because this is a marathon and not a sprint, and I expect things to pick back up once students return to campus. First the Bad News Kansas … [Read more...] about Kansas State Football: Recruiting Round-Up

Levi Stockard has a new home. | Photo by Justin Tafoya/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Well, this is sort of weird, innit? We just don’t know what to do with ourselves here at BotC World Headquarters today. The football staff will be reporting into their offices at Vanier today, and there’s real honest-to-gosh Kansas State Wildcats news to report on this fine Monday … [Read more...] about SLATE: An actual news Monday

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Kansas State might be ready, but what about the other teams? Sports We’re past the middle of May, and entering what would have been a slow time of the year on the sports calendar. Kansas State’s athletes would have mostly wrapped up competition for the year, and we could begin the summer as we always do: with … [Read more...] about Slate: There will be football. Maybe.

BEAST Really, do we hate any of them? Really? If you thought we were exaggerating about there being too many Texas we don’t hate last week, we had a very similar problem with this week’s victims, the TCU Horned Frogs. The relationship between TCU and Kansas State has been excessively cordial since the Frogs joined the conference, largely because their highest-profile … [Read more...] about Five Horned Frogs we don’t hate

Photo by Peter G. Aiken/Getty Images Kansas State grabbed another commit from their Georgia pipeline, but lost last weeks LB commit. Well apparently Thursdays’ slates are recruiting news slates from now on*, so let’s not waste anytime getting to the new K-State news. *(subject to change at anytime....we make no promises to have brand new recruiting news every … [Read more...] about Slate: Kansas State Recruiting Update