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GameDay: Road Trippin’

I’ve been on a ton of road trips the last couple of weeks.  Wichita, Des Moines, Minneapolis, and Manhattan all were recorded in the log book.  I’ve noticed some things on the road and want to share it with you.  From what to eat to how to beat the casino, these tips will help you get more out of your college football road trip.  I’ve heard of people road tripping every week for football and dismissed them as being crazy.   The last month’s events just made me a little crazy for the road.

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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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Larry Bud’s Not Melman Makes Us Feel Warm and Dark

Deep in the wheat fields of Kansas sits a town by the name of Wichita.  We find ourselves smack dab in the middle of the city doing a remote barspot.  Larry Bud’s Sports Bar & Grill claims to be the best in the city so we stopped on in to check it out.  We’ll find out just how dark dark can get.  We’ll also find out how to do a pretty decent television configuration.  Oh yea, we’ll also check out some great games all on at the same time.

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GameDay: A Quick Note to the Waitresses Out There

So I’m sitting here in the kitchen of my favorite KU fan down in Wichita with a wicked Donut Hole rush.  What better time for me to take a moment and talk to all the waitresses out there in sports bar land.  With the crew and all, we usually find ourselves plopped down in bar and stuck there for at least two games.  For some of you waitresses out there, that could mean a table taken for your whole shift.  Because of that, you may not give the best service.  Please don’t.

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Barspotting: We’re Gonna Work the Straw in Wichita

Yup, you heard us right. It’s the first of what looks to be a ton of road trips for the KCCGD crew this year.  The first stop is down in the heart of Kansas.  We’ll be touring one of the best sports bars in Wichita, but we don’t kn0w which one just yet.  We’ll have to wait for the locals to point us in the right direction.  Let’s face it, no one else in the KCCGD viewing area will be out and about in Wichita so we’re not too worried.  As of now, we are looking at some potential in Mulligan’s Pub, Larry Bud’s, Heroes, Players, The Fieldhouse, or maybe Emerson Biggins.  We’ll tweet that out when we know, follow us @kccgd.

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Crib Sheet: Going Over the Game Plan

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Here at KCCGD headquarters, we are drawing up game plans and doing walkthroughs for the upcoming football season.  We have some goodies coming up in the next couple of weeks, including analysis, predictions, and some new looks.  We’re busting a major sweat and pouring it out into everything we do here to make KCCGD the best place to go for you Kansas City college football needs.  Be on the lookout.  Until then, here’s this week’s Crib Sheet:

  • Kansas State’s lawyers are bringing the full “he said, she said” stating that no such attempts were made to quiet Ron Prince, which his lawyers accused the school of.   This is a real bad case of a coach and school parting ways.  It’s only gonna get worse.  Please remember to hug a coach and a school official today.
  • Backup Nebraska quarterback Cody Spano is out for the year with a torn ACL.  The Husker’s projected starter is Zac Lee and if he goes down there really is nobody left behind him.   Plus, it’s his first year as a starter.  Husker fans need to hope Zac stays healthy if they want to live up to the pre-season hype of a projected Big 12 North title.
  • 15 Duke football players have symptoms of the swine flu.  Usually colds and flus make their way through teams and then move on.  What’s interesting about this article is that Heather Dinich called it the swine flu.  Not H121.  Way to go Heather!  We like realistic names and not ones deemed okay to say by Congress.
  • Oregon football players (or as new ESPN sportscaster Jon Gruden calls it, OrEEgon) are now wearing cameras on their helmets during practice.  The more tape, the better.  Our guess is the next step in the evolution of video games will include this footage.  Then, in turn, football players could practice by playing the video game.  Geekery abound!
  • Colorado cornerback Ben Burney had his blog axed after the first draft.  Being the blogging realm we are disappointed to see such speech revoked.  Although the kid probably shouldn’t have touted how well in the sack he is.  That’s not quite the inside look people are looking for in football.
  • New Mexico State is asking fans to pitch in for snacks for the football team after practice.  Seriously?  We know the economic downturn is affecting everyone, but what’s the deal with a school not springing for orange slices and Capri-Sun after a workout?
  • Mike DeArmond from the Kansas City Star profiles Missouri’s defensive secondary.  They were the worst in the Big 12 last year and are looking for a turnaround.  With many of the offensive players from last year drafted away to the NFL, the defense needs to step up and help shoulder the load (and transition).
  • Speaking of defense, bot the Topeka Capital Journal and the Manhattan Mercury talk about Kansas State’s defense.  There’s no place to go but up for the defense as they ranked below 100 in the terms of total defense last year.  To help the attempted turnaround, they are featuring nickel defense much more this season.  Hopefully that will help counteract the explosive offense most of the Big 12 teams bring into the year.
  • Former Duke basketball starter Greg Paulus will now be the starter for the Syracuse Orangemen.   We’re not sure if it’s because he’s super talented (he was a five star football recruit in high school) or if the rest of the quarterbacks on the team stunk.  At any rate, the school will sell more tickets because of this guy and that’s a good thing.
  • Former Rivals #1 recruit Bryce Brown and Tennessee are under investigation by the NCAA for alleged violations in his recruitment to the university.  The question is whether funds raised for Brown’s trip out to Tennessee was legit or not.  Brown, a Wichita native, tread the news waters earlier this year when he was waffling back and forth between schools after his commitment to Miami expired, including Kansas State.  This guy smells like trouble and chances are he won’t turn out well.

The Crib Sheet: Coaching Up

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The Crib Sheet returns!  Now that we’ve finally shaken off basketball, congrats North Carolina, we can start focusing on college baseball.  Psyche!  We’re still talking football.  This last week saw some interesting cruft float by.  Springs practices are going on and we’re starting to get some news trickle out about who’s doing well and who’s tanking.  But more on that later.  Here’s what else that happened in the past week:

  • Rugby is making its presence known in college football with the Texas Longhorn’s punter Justin Tucker.  Last year he tried some rugby styled punts and it proved successful.  So this year they are asking him and the rest of the punters to try it again both right and left footed.  It’s a little dizzying indeed, but it’s great to see some innovation come out of a kicking meme that’s been around forever.  Now all Tucker needs is some knocked out teeth to fully bring the rugby pain.
  • Tim Griffin reports that a top quarterback recruit from the Wichita area, Blake Bell, has committed to Oklahoma.  This stings a little more because he’s right in K-State’s backyard.  Oklahoma is the mean machine in the Big 12 so why not go there.
  • The New York Times has a piece about Army’s new football coach Rich Ellerson.  Apparently his orders are to win now.  Seems easy, right?  I watched Army play Navy last Thanksgiving and their camoflague uniforms were tight.  That’s the only reason I’m rooting this guy to succeed.  It sounds kinda gay so don’t tell Rich.
  • Chase Daniels looks good as a coach.  He was hanging out at the Mizzou practices helping out the new offensive coordinator, Dave Yost.  He’s not really gonna make it in the NFL so coaching would be the next best thing for Chase.  Just don’t teach them how to eat boogers.
  • The Texas Longhorns assistant coaches feel like champions today.  They pocketed an extra bonus for the Big 12 Championship, even though technically Oklahoma won the title.  Apparently the athletic director talked the school president into the pay.  Mack Brown didn’t dip into his bonus.  They are sounding a lot like Utah when it comes to titles and championships and such.

The Crib Sheet: Not Quite Sick Enough

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Wow, we’re still feeling the effects from last week.  As a matter of fact, last week’s festivities led to a nasty little cold.  That’s better than some of the after effects some college football players ran into last week.  Never fear, the Crib Sheet remedy is here!  We’re dropping this in some Sprite and popping some NyQuil so hold on and go for the ride.  Hopefully we’ll be 100% next week.

  • In the descendant department, Joe Montana’s kid Nick tackled some scholarship offers from Alabama, Flordia State, and Notre Dame.  The son of a qb who’s a qb too might get better luck if he goes somewhere other than the Fighting Irish.  The shoes would be too big to fill and so far the quaterbacks coming out of dome town aren’t living up to the past.  Nick Cool doesn’t work, how about Nick Sweet?
  • Somehow Columbia, Missouri landed in the top 10 on Forbes list for top college sports towns.  Well I guess Lawrence was too pretentious and Austin is more of a party town.  Manhattan doesn’t even come close.  I guess it’s cool that they are on the list, but they need to win a championship somewhere to deserve top 10 status.
  • The Bryce Brown saga continues after a couple of swerves.  The NCAA is investigating Brian Butler, the mentor for Brown, to figure out if he’s more of an agent than a mentor.  The former rapper has been representing Wichita football players and pimping them on his website.  Not sure there’s much mentoring there.  Meanwhile, some rumor mongering points to Oklahoma being on the sweepstakes for Brown.  I’m not sure they’ll pull him in late, but the fact that Kansas State is on the list still is laughable.  Maybe Brown will lose so much cred out of this that he’ll walk on to Wildcat territory, only to regain his rep.  In my dreams.   In my dreams.
  • Speaking of Wildcat territory, it seems some old friends are coming back to Manhattan to help Bill Snyder 2.0 out.  Jonathan Beasley and Joe Gordon are coming back  to fill out some spots left open by some movements.  Thankfully, Bill is going to former players to help rebuild the tradition (however small it may be) of the Kansas State Wildcats.
  • So a Division II school in Newberry dropped their mascot name, Indians, under pressure from the NCAA.  That’s fine and all, but where is the pressure for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish?  If the NCAA is going to go with regulating names then it needs to be consistent across the board.  Now Illinois dropped it, but Florida State got the write from Indians to use it.  So is it really worth going after, or is it a PR stunt to make everyone feel good about themselves?
  • Let me tell you somethin’ dude, the Kiffster is gonna run wild over you!  Well, maybe not that but one of the tactics he’s using at Tennessee is encouraging his coaches rip off their shirts a-la Hulk Hogan.  So whatcha gonna do?  WHATCHA GONNA DO?
  • What’s up with all of the football players being arrested in the offseason.  Yeah they’re young and in college, but they’re the leaders of the campus.  There’s a time to party and a time to get ready for some football.  The way I see it, the only players that can party now are the ones from Florida.
  • So we finally figure out why Andy Ludwig left Kansas State after 2 months to go back to Cali.  His family all lives on the coast out there.  I would call shenanigans if Tim Griffin didn’t point out that he’d be eating some salary in the deal (cost of living wise).  Oh well.