Its been a while, but I thought since we had a new opponent, it would be a good time to bring back "Why Our Opponent Sucks."
Kansas State = Mississippi State under Larry Templeton
Its true. There isn't a school in the country that more closely resembles MSU from an athletic and academic standpoint than Kansas State. The main difference = we had the privilege of having General Robert Foglesong as President. He destroyed daffodils and flew single engine planes, but he canned Larry Templeton. Since Foglesong canned LT, MSU has played for three national championships, been ranked #1 in three different sports and #2 in two others, and have turned the fan experience around (Our last three Marketing directors have been stolen by "bigger name" schools).
What you are going to witness this weekend is like getting in a time machine and going back to the Larry Templeton days. They even have their own Ron Polk - a coach who is way passed his prime that has his name on the stadium and is doing his second stint. He's holding out because he wants his own Raffo hired - which happens to be his son. (I didn't say it was a perfect copy, as Polk was married to baseball).
In a way, we should feel sorry for our purple clad counterparts. They don't know what they could have.
Willie the Wildcat is Willie Weird
Its a fine looking Wildcat mascot, but the on field mascot has issues that only our friends in Oxford surpass. The wildcat has human arms and legs!!!! Its a Cat Head with a Human Body. Your faithful correspondent has not been able to find the reason for this, which somehow makes it much weirder.
This is Kansas.
Seriously. I-70 through Kansas looks like this. Mississippi may get a bad rep, but Kansas is terrible. The best part, Kansas City BBQ, is not even in Kansas - its in Missouri, a true and tried SEC state. Kansas only has tornadoes and sunflowers.
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