Pulse from Manhattan

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BlakShurt

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Hey, guys. Great visiting your site. I’ve been a Husker since I was a baby even though I graduated from K-State and now work there. I live amongst wolves every day but don’t let that stop me. My office is RED compete with a big ‘N’ banner on the wall. Living here has given me some good insight into KSU football. I see all the fair-weather Cat fans and must tolerate the trash-talk every year. It’s all good-just a little competition.

However, I am a little disheartened by some of the comments I’m seeing posted on Cat blogs where they are tearing apart Big Tom. To me he is such a wholesome, honest figure. I think he did a magnificent job of providing leadership for Nebraska in these turbulent times and put his shrewd business tactics to work to save the day. But these guys in Manhattan hold him accountable for the fall of the Big 12. They are livid! They see the Huskers as pulling the rug out from under them and not playing fair. They think Nebraska cut the throats of the other Big 12 members to save themselves. It’s like arguing over politics with them-no amount of rational discussion will penetrate their hard heads. They are right and we are wrong and they can make up the facts as they go.

I don’t know how much you’ve followed other Big 12 schools thought the last few months but the leadership at KSU hasn’t even stepped up to the plate-they live in a dream world. They’ve been asleep at the wheel. This whole fracture caught them completely flat-footed. Even now after the Husker Reagents voted for the Big 10 President Schultz and AD Currie still have a “wait and see attitude.” They have never had a plan A, B or C. Schultz said in tonight's paper that he “still holds out hope”. Tom didn’t wait for HOPE-he was proactive and forged his own course. He didn’t wait for someone to take him by the hand and lead him to salvation-he did it himself. As we heard from Pearlman, the South schools have all been courting as many as four conferences throughout this process-all behind closed doors. What was Nebraska supposed to do, wait for their fate to be determined by someone else? Of course not-they looked out for Nebraska-just as any good leader representing the future of an entire institution would do. The South schools would look him straight in the eye and lie to save themselves if they had to. They forced Nebraska’s hand-not the other way around.

I just wish Cat fans would wise up to the fact that they’ve been had by their administration. We’ve shared some great history with KSU in recent years but if they don’t snap out of this coma they are in and stop beating up on Nebraska they will be playing Paraguay Polytech come 2012.

 
Welcome to HuskerBoard, BlakShurt. Make yourself at home.

I wouldn't worry too much about KSU Fan. Their school would have done exactly what we did today if they were in our shoes. What you're witnessing is the angst of a fan base staring into the abyss. They are being left by the school that made them relevant over the past 40 years. It's scary, and they're acting out.

 
Welcome, BlakShurt.

As knapplc pointed out, this is all just sour grapes. I have two points to make.

First, they would have done the exact same thing if they were in our position. We did what was best for the university, and we knew that the B12 was being very passive and two-faced about the entire situation. They're mainly angry because they know their conference alignment and future is almost completely out of their hands. They have a right to be angry, but they are very uninformed about the situation if they truly are saying those things.

Second, I don't believe NU is at fault. We have been pegged as the first domino to cause everything, because we were the most important Big 12 north team. However, here is my counter that. Dominoes just don't fall, they have to be pushed. Texas and Beebe flicked their finger with us first in line, and we did what we had to do. Nothing more, and nothing less.

 
My brother in law is a huge Kstater....they've been married 2 years and they went to the ksu/nu game 2 years ago in manhattan and it was his first time seeing a game. Not thrilled with the outcome but they planned on going every 2 years. I feel bad for him cause he's taking it kind of rough but he understands. He's actually quite intelligent (ok he's a freaking genius...30 ACT) but I had never met a kstate fan I liked until I found out he was (quite shocked I was)...

 
knapplc said:
Welcome to HuskerBoard, BlakShurt. Make yourself at home.

I wouldn't worry too much about KSU Fan. Their school would have done exactly what we did today if they were in our shoes. What you're witnessing is the angst of a fan base staring into the abyss. They are being left by the school that made them relevant over the past 40 years. It's scary, and they're acting out.
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dittonimus

I'm not sure what's more sour. Their grapes or a Granny Smith apple?

 
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I live and work in Manhattan as well and many of my associates at work won't talk to me. They asked me why we weren't loyal to them and the old Big 8 teams? I said " where were your loyalties when KSU,KU,ISU etc. were voting with Texas constantly?" NU ws the only school to hold out and vote no on the Big 12.

They just stare at me blankly and shake their heads. They made their beds now they can lie in them. Where is Texas now that the rest of the conference is about to fall off the edge? I'll tell ya, their looking out for their own best interests. Just like we did.

I worked at K-State for a year. What Dept. are you in? I was the Executive Chef for the entire campus. I'm sick of purple :hmmph

 
irafreak said:
My brother in law is a huge Kstater....they've been married 2 years and they went to the ksu/nu game 2 years ago in manhattan and it was his first time seeing a game. Not thrilled with the outcome but they planned on going every 2 years. I feel bad for him cause he's taking it kind of rough but he understands. He's actually quite intelligent (ok he's a freaking genius...30 ACT) but I had never met a kstate fan I liked until I found out he was (quite shocked I was)...
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30 is a genius for kstate...36 for most universities

 
although i hate kstate with their pretend traditions, i do feel bad that the big 12 has ended the way it has. I always felt nebraska is about its traditions and ending some of these rivalries makes me sick. i do understand that the writing was on the wall that we needed to do something while the offer was good but i still think it sucks.

as for blaming nebraska for this all, i do not recall NU going to the big 10 begging like mizzou. I was actually taken by surprise when i first heard about the big 10 being interested In NU.

in the end, i think we will still play Ksucks often. we always need cream puff teams at the beginning of the schedule.

 
Nebraska made a business decision for the next century of the program. What does Tom owe KSUCC? They're not a rival; they're not even a second-tier football program. If they'd been the ones being courted by the Big 10, they'd have done the exact same thing.

Very few of the North schools have stepped up to the plate and proposed any solutions to the problem. I guess waiting on Texas means you get leftover cold cuts.

 
We should take them saying we're at fault to heart about as much as when they tell us we suck the week before we play them. Sorry to all the schools who don't have enough gall to stop getting on their knees for Texas, but we're not taking it anymore. I mean, look at the geography of the Big12. It was only a matter of time before the differences got too big.

And when this new Pac 16 or whatever starts coming apart at the seams I'll be curious to see "who's at fault"

 
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