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Pick It and Stick It: Letting It Run Down

Another Friday and another day after for me and some Stadiumspotting.   Last week didn’t go to well for me but this week was the complete opposite.  The college football season is full of ups and downs and it can change every week.  With this weekend, we will be about halfway through the football season.  The time is running down for more great games and for even more great picks.  The field’s thinning at the top and the clock is starting to run down.  Let’s go over this week’s Pick It and Stick It to see how the downs can turn into ups:

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Stadiumspotting: Thursday Night Lights Part II, Lawrence Edition

We said we had one more trip left in us and I was wrong.  We have at least two!  So tonight starts another familiar trip out west to Stadiumspot.  We’re not going all the way to Manhattan, however.  We are heading to Lawrence to watch the Sunflower Showdown.  Kansas comes off a beating from the Baylor Bears of all teams while Kansas State said goodbye to Nebraska by getting their asses kicked.  Both teams need a win and there’s nothing like notching a rivalry win to pick things up.  I don’t know who’s going to win this one but I hope that it will at least be competitive.

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Crib Sheet: The Road is Never Done

So I just found out today that I have at least 2 more road trips to go this year for the KCCGD crew.  This year has been by far the most travelled and will be the most Stadiumspotted.  It’s a nice change of pace from the last couple of years as we have begun to run out of new and cool places to Barspot.  One of the new road trips just happens to be tomorrow night.  Tune in tomorrow to find out here, but you won’t have to think hard if you want to guess.  In the meantime, let’s catch up to the news items in this week’s Crib Sheet:

  • Coach Mark Dantonio of Michigan State had his health issues and that apparently inspired a fan to postpone surgery to watch the battle for Paul Bunyan’s Trophy last Saturday.  Major Hester put off getting a pacemaker installed to watch the battle.  Okay, that’s hardcore.  I would pick life over college football, but it would be close.
  • Looks like the move to the Big 10 will support a stadium expansion for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  The newly approved plan will cost about $56 million and put the capacity at around 90,000 seats.  How much do you want to bet that they will try to build Memorial Stadium up to be bigger than the Big House?
  • Meanwhile, the Rose Bowl has expansion plans of its own.  The $152 million expansion will keep the lease going with the bowl through 2043.  They have an upcoming BCS National Championship Game so they need to spruce things up a bit.
  • But while the two stadiums have expansion competition going, the locker room just got better for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  Ndamukong Suh donated about $2 million and as part of that, the players get iPads installed in the locker room.  Man they need to put that in the toilet, not the locker.  You’re not going to get much use out in the open with those things.
  • Baylor receivers Willie Jefferson and Josh Gordon got busted with pot after they were found passed out in a Taco Bell drive through.  The whole 4th meal thingy from the Bell targets potheads anyway so it was a no brainer that these guys were found with weed.  They’ll more than likely miss a couple of games.
  • Neither of those two were involved last week in one of the shortest kick returns in history.  Texas Tech hit an onside and it didn’t go 10 yards.  Terrance Ganaway nabbed it and ran 38 yards for a touchdown.  It wasn’t the shortest, but it was awesome to see the special teams fail on the Red Raiders.
  • Don’t dump on Texas Tech too much though, they are getting kick ass camouflage uniforms for a game against Missouri in November.  Any kind of camo works for us as we miss the old Army ones.  If you want to dump on uniforms, check out Texas A&M’s refresh.  It’s almost exactly the same.  Yawn City.
  • Floida quarterback John Brantly played with broken ribs and thumb against LSU last Saturday.  That’s pretty tough, especially for a quarterback.  You know what’s tougher?   Virginia Tech offensive lineman Greg Nosal didn’t realize he lost the tip of his pinky in his glove and continued to play the game until it was out of reach.  His pinky tip was on ice and was reattached after the game.  Football is tough, real tough.
  • This bit of news is confusing so bear with me on this.  A former agent said an agent friend of his, Gary Wichard, used ESPN’s Mel Kiper, Jr. to recruit college players.  Kiper’s released statement says he talked to players by going through agents.  I’m having a hard time finding where the fault is.  I think it’s the fact that agents are pushing players to Kiper and his Big Board.  But I don’t know it’s players after college or during.  This does smell fishy.
  • College football is cyclical.  Power programs come and go and the traditional ones always swing around back into power.  Much like the seasons, power programs have summers and winters.  For Penn State’s winters, that also includes the usual cries for Joe Paterno to retire.  This guy is going to die on the field, in anything to fulfill my prediction.  He’s not going to retire and Penn State will be good in a couple of years.

Pick It and Stick It: The Mourning After

The big game last night didn’t end up so well for this Kansas State fan. Hey, that’s okay. We tooled to Aggiveille and hit up the Hibachi Hit, which later lead to the vaunted Hibachi Butt. Maybe it was the mixture of great cajun food and the Carbomb we had at O’Malley’s Alley. Who knows? But it was great to see the old stomping grounds, even though the Wildcats were run over by Taylor Martinez and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. More on that with Monday’s post. Until then, we have some picks for the weekend we need to go through. The healing process begins with pickens.

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Stadiumspotting: Thursday Night Lights

This will be the first off day stadiumspotting for us and we’re super excited.  Kansas State hosts Nebraska for probably the last time ever and they are both undefeated.  The electricity will be huge in the Little Apple and we will be there to cover it.  Chances are we will make our way back to a bar Saturday but we’ll go ahead and tweet the location when we decided where.  Until then, it’s half day action at work then a split time of driving and football watching.  This Purple Yeti is more than pumped for the biggest game of the year for the Wildcats.

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Tailgaters Sports Cafe Shuffled Us In and Out of Minneapolis

Okay so this will be a lil weird.  Barspotting found me outside of Kansas City again Saturday for the second week in a row.  This time, I was in Minnesota.  Minneapolis to be exact.  So prior obligations held me up north and by some crazy chance I was able to stumble into a sports bar up there to catch at least one football game.  Among the lessons learned on this trip was that regional football coverage can sometimes cramp your football watching style.  Well that and onion rings alone can be pretty tasty.

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Pick It Standings Week 04: Stormy Weather

So the first official weekend of fall lead to what we called football weather and it turned some things upside down.  The Central Florida at Kansas State game was delayed for one hour and a half.  Baylor also had to sit through a delay.  Now on the field, the Texas loss to UCLA also turned some heads as lighting struck 3 times in a row for the Bruins.  Yup,  UCLA beat Texas the last 3 times they played each other.  Now, there were the typical blow outs but we are about to head into Week 5 and it will get even messier.  Let’s check out how the Pick It and Stick it played out first.

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Barspotting: They Built It, We’re Coming

So way back in 2007 we went on a road trip up to Iowa and now we are finally heading back.  Des Moines, specifically.  Much has happened up there and we’re itching to see what’s changed.  We’re gonna do the same thing we did with Wichita and just pick a spot.  Same stips’ apply.  If you are lucky enough to be in the Des Moines area or want to follow us on up there, check out this page or our twitter feed (@kccgd) and we’ll let you know.  Until then, we got some tasty roasted corn like games for the weekend that you need to check out.

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Pick It Standings Week 03: Another Round Down

So another week came through and we have the same story as last week.  Yup, the picks this week weren’t as good as the picks for the first week of Pick It and Stick It.  What does that mean?  It means that the 2nd lowest score drop takes effect next week.  All the standings are same except for JOOSE, who upped his points to a more respectable 370.  So the stage is set.  Movement will happen soon.  Check out the standings first:

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Pick It and Stick It: A Fresh Crop of Picks

Here we go rolling into another week of Pick It and Stick It.  The games are fresh this week and we are stoked about the upcoming Farmageddon happening right in Kansas City’s backyard.  Kansas State is a 3.5 point favorite over Iowa State and we can imagine that Daniel Thomas is the reason for the line.  Will we see the same outcome as last year?  Hopefully it will be just as exciting.  So far, Farmageddon delivers on quality.  Here are the picks:

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Barspotting: Farmageddon At The Other Place

It’s amazing to think how long we have been doing this blog.  Three years.  That’s dedication, homes.  One of the very first places we barspotted was The Other Place.  It was a great time and now it’s time again to head back over there.  What better place to watch Farmageddon other than Arrowhead than deep into one of the few Iowa/Iowa State bars in the area.  Yeah, we could go to Kite’s or Lucky Brewgrille for the Kansas State side of things but The Other Place is so much better and it’s been a long time since we’ve been there.  So let’s re-live some good times and meet us out there Saturday to watch Farmegeddon blow us away.

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Barspotting: Johnny’s On the Spot Again

We are back again going out to the best of what Kansas City sports bars has to offer in terms of college football.  Like the storied tradition of college football, we have a tradition of going back to the best bar of last year to start out this season for KC College Gameday.  We had no way of knowing back at the beginning of last September that Johnny’s in the Power & Light would be the best but here we are planning the first Barspot of the year down there.  With every television fit into every nook and cranny as well as the crazy touch table poker game, Johnny’s hit the spot on all things needed for a great sport viewing experience.  So come back out with us Saturday as we head back out there to enjoy Johnny’s and scoff at that ridiculous KC College Live thingy going on in the outdoor area.

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Big 12 , er 11, er 10 Predictions for 2010

Man what a crazy roller coaster of an offseason for the Big 12. Who would’ve thought a year ago that the Big 12 would be rocked to its very knees and survive probably one of most weirdest advances in college football history.  It was like a whacked out game of Axis & Allies.  Welp Germany didn’t win and neither did the Big 10.  So here we are going into what is the last season we will ever see for this 12 conference league.  Who will come out on top?  Roll dice to find out (er read below).

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Crib Sheet: Hold On To Your Butts

Welp, Armageddon has come.  Nebraska is going to the Big 10.  After the speculation, the rumors, and the threat of the Big 12 South going to the Pac 10, we have our first major move in the modern era of expansion.  The Big 12 meetings last week provided some ultimatums and some wishy-washy talk.  Now it looks as though Friday is the day for the official announcement from the Cornhuskers.  After that, it seems the Big 12 South, sans Baylor and including Colorado, will be going to the Pac 10.  The rest of the teams, well, they are left behind.  Kansas City will become a ghost of a sports town.  Besides all of this depressing talk, there was other news this week.  Here’s the Crib Sheet:

BCS Title Thoughts and Year End Review

Okay, freshly back from a wedding in California (not MY wedding), I’m now ready to actually talk about the BCS title game and the year that was college football.  We’re going to talk about the game that could’ve been, the season that was bookended by injuries, and some other interesting notes that popped up over the season.  So, while this is a little late, sit back and enjoy us on your little trip through college football memory lane.  Please keep your arms and head inside the windows.

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