I probably should have had something written and ready to go for a day like today.
A prayerfully considered piece dedicated to and soley reserved for the day when KSU finally crosses over into this mystical, ethereal plane of reality ... an alternate dimension of time and space. A world where the laws of college football don't apply. Where the unthinkable is actually possible. Where an undefeated Notre Dame and half of the SEC watch helplessly as the school with a small athletic budget, a small fan following, an old coach, and lowly recruiting rankings, have ascended to total and absolute power.
This is what we've been looking for, and now found again, for nearly half a generation. This is a world that defies conventional rules, conventional styles, and conventional thinking. A blessedly purple soaked utopia that will undoubtedly be the greatest season in Kansas State history.
This is a world in which Kansas State is now ranked #1.
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Snyder: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
K-State Fan: You could say that.
Snyder: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, K-State Fan?
K-State Fan: No.
Snyder: Why not?
K-State Fan: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Snyder: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the college football world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
K-State Fan: The BCS.
Snyder: Do you want to know what it is?
K-State Fan: Yes.
Snyder: The BCS is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
K-Stat Fan: What truth?
Snyder: That you are a slave, K-State Fan. Your football team was born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind. You have to let it all go. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
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If I'm going to be attending TCU games just a mere 45 minutes from my house in the near future, we need to make a few modifications:
- TCU doesn't have their tailgating system down yet.
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| It's true if you think about it. You really CAN do anything on 2nd and Short. |
- Change your school colors.
But seriously, it's not as fun when you're in purple too and let's be honest, we had it first. Maybe add some red accents or something like your football team does sometimes?
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| I saw this on the way into the game. I'm still trying to get my mind around it. |
- Improve your half-time show.
Having the same guy in the video, with the same people dressed in pink in the video, sing a live version on the field literally seconds after the the music video was over? Umm, no.
Another photon blast might of been more entertaining.
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| This view from the top was very very sweet. |
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| I didn't take this and I didn't high five the players. I was in section 845 at the top so I could only watch. |
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Snyder: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the purple pill - you stay in Wonderland ... and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
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Alabama lost and since it's frozen over, hell can't quite break loose. It's BCS Armageddon everyone!
Fans are now complaining a 1-loss SEC team will be left out. Fans are now complaining an undefeated ND will be left out. Fans are now complaining, and I wish I was making this up, there is media-bias TOWARDS Kansas State. #shotsofpurplekoolaid for the idiots in the corner, please.
But, ultimately, none of it matters and thankfully the voters and computers aren't buying any of it. As expected, nearly everyone voting just bumped all three teams: OR, KSU, and ND ... up a spot. There was really no other movement to speak of. There are 115 voters in the Harris, KSU moved up 110 votes. There are 60 votes in the Coaches, KSU moved up 57 spots.
In the computers, KSU moved up in the every computer except two. Oregon moved up one in every poll except one, and moved up two spots in two of them. ND moved up in all except two, staying the same in one, and actually dropping in another (ha.).
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| Rece wants to make sure you didn't miss this. |
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So that means friends: win out, and we are in the National Title against Oregon. It's not too early to start making plans ... I need 10 tickets under $500 please. The cheapest you can find at TicketMaster are over $700 and likely only going higher.
Maybe if I rent an official PK bus and a hotel floor we can save some money. Who's in?
Maybe if I rent an official PK bus and a hotel floor we can save some money. Who's in?
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Sam Mellinger has written some great articles this year for the Cats. This one is no different as he explains that Kansas State is in control of it's own destiny:Fourteen years ago, Texas A&M deleted K-State from the national title picture with a heart-wrenching overtime win in the Big 12 championship. This weekend, A&M paid it back by winning in Tuscaloosa — and how about the irony of the Aggies promptly ending their new league’s six-year streak of national titles and giving their old league a chance?
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If you missed Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell on College Gameday, you missed a good one. Pretty much nails ESPN to the wall regarding them constantly putting us on #upsetalert. There's a pretty good chance Mark May will be all over it next weekend when we play Baylor. Because they have an "offense that can score points that will give KSU fits."
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I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin.
I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to our football team.
-- Collin Klein, speaking to members of the media via tele-conference (summer 2012)
