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Kamara blocked a punt:

Oh goodness. And with Gus and Raftery on the call. What a great trip down memory lane.

Hey—I know our safeties with Lou, Boykin, and Ferrell were a strength last year, but we are in for a real upgrade with Ferrell a year older, Baldwin turning into an All-American, and Sanks and Zachman fighting for the third spot. Good lord Haines has got extraordinary talent and depth throughout this defense. Who the hell is gonna score 20 points on this team?!!?

To me it's not incompetence nor corruption. It's that the NCAA is a toothless industry organization, without the ability to hold its member institutions accountable. That has occurred through a combination of Member institution indifference to accountability measures, and Court rulings whereby NCAA lawyers are well aware they will not prevail if they push certain issues.

A bright future. No Zania and six of the eight players that saw the court were true freshmen or sophs. Not necessarily a national contender future - time will tell if Zania can get healthy, how well the current players develop and whether there's a true alpha in next year's class, but Caffey, Beaumont, and Makalusky (and a healthy Zania) are very good long-term pieces.

Seeing Coach Haines in a suit with no ballcap is ... weird. Would have been even better if he had one of his two closest companions; Gracie Bear or Aiden Fisher, at his side as he accepted the award. When he said they "love each other" in his brief speech I got a temporary *ShudderTwitch.* Otherwise? Perfect and awesome.

Oof. It's bad enough to think in these terms and have this as a regular issue on your team, but it's worse to say it out loud in a public forum:

Our fans are appropriately so damn happy when Penn State is the visiting team. It's fun to watch us when we win by a bunch.

I think (?) they are both foot/stress fracture injuries.

True! At least Tennessee women's basketball is good; not a complete fail like K State men's.

Nah. OSU is an easy drive, and he was raised in Alabama. Grew up a 100% Bama fan, and they are still the favorite in this one IMO.

Of those six players that are getting paid well and will be leaving, three; Bailey, Tucker, and Conerway, are in line to be replaceable with better players for a similar price, and three; Enright, Lamar, and Alexis, will be difficult to replace with equal production for the price.

It's interesting that even with a long of 82 vs. Kaelon's long of 40, Kaelon had a higher ypc, even though Hemby clearly had more breakaway speed. And as the season progressed Kaelon was more often the featured or even split of carries back. He led us in rushing for the OSU game and all three CFP games.

All true about Hemby! (though Kaelon was also great in pass pro) But Kaelon is bigger, stronger, has quicker initial burst, and is shiftier. It could be either, but if I had to guess which one will be getting some NFL carries a few years down the road, it would be Kaelon.

Every time I see the heart and soul of this team, Sam, Conor, and Lamar, hanging out, I see Jason Drake in the picture. Get healthy Jason Drake.

DT should absolutely be better. We return our two best and get a big-time portal addition. Landino is still a relatively inexperienced player; he is excellent and still destined to improve. Tucker is back and is already 'all that'. We lose Ratcliffe, who was a very good get, and Wheeler, who good-ish but was a relative disappointment. They are replaced by Joe Hjelle, who has been largely undiscussed, but may be one of the best additions to the team, and by the one best from a talented group of young tackles; Garcia, Hall, and four star freshmen McHaney and Hill. That is a position group that is absolutely stacked for the future, and that's without Jalen Brewster (!).

Yikes. As genuine and fully transparent as Tang seems to be here, this ultimately and completely falls on him: Jerome Tang is the one that assembled this roster, and with above-average resources. Jerome Tang is the one that assembled the staff that is tasked with delivering the message of the head coach. Jerome Tang is the one that sets the culture and is the ultimate voice to communicate to these 18-23 year olds. Jerome Tang is the one that game plans and schemes each of these blowouts. Jerome Tang is the one that has produced successive conference records of 11-7, 8-10, 9-11, and 1-9. So who is the one person in this program that above all others should not be at K State next year? Jerome Tang.

In sports they coined the phrase "Moneyball." The concept applies throughout sports, in building a business, hiring new employees, when you go to buy a car or a house, invest in equities; everywhere. In college sports, now that it's far more a free market economy, it's more applicable than ever.

Oregon is missing lol

Their guards are good enough but not elite and more importantly, their guard depth is very thin. Elite front line. Haugh and Chinyelu? Yessir.

#predictable

There's a monumental difference between the 2025 DE 1-4 when all healthy (Daley, Kamara, Wyatt, Ndukwe) and 2025 DE 1-4 in the CFP (Kamara, Ndukwe, move a DT over, move a different DT over). My contention is that the current 2026 1-4 is comparable, but probably not as good as 2025 at it's best (until and unless proven otherwise), but the 2026 1-4 is already better than 2025 DE 1-4 post-Wyatt injury and definitely better than the 2025 CFP DE 1-4.

Ah, what the hell: 247jordan-smith-46136952/ On3 jordan-smith-jr Here's to a puncher's chance!

My point is that Tobi is more similar to Daley than Tobi is to Kamara or Wyatt. Chiddi and Burnham are similar to Kamara and Wyatt. And during the CFP we did not have Daley or Wyatt. So we are starting next year with a DE rotation similar to the really dominant Daley and Wyatt included version; not just the 'slightly less dominant' post-Daley/Wyatt version. Also, Ndukwe is destined to continue improving (I would hope). Cig mentioned Ndukwe by name in the extended Wonkman interview, and when Cig mentions a young player by name that's a pretty sure sign that player is a really good one about to happen.

I am very grateful for the talent, mindset, and production that Kamara brought to the D line, but Chiddi, Tobi (especially), and Burnham are a talent upgrade that collectively align more with Stephen Daley potential.