This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. Sports Social Now on the Sports Social Podcast Network. Hi, it's Adam Collins here from the Final Word Cricket Podcast. I'm in London, but the real action over the next few weeks is in Dubai and Shahja, where we are for every twists and turns of the Women's T20 World Cup. Joy Daniel Norcross and Cam Ponson be at the ground after every match, as we find out whether any team can stop the extraordinary Australians. That's Fireware Cricket available at all your podcast places. [MUSIC] 'Tis that time of the season when the goals and goblins prowl, which is ride their bones, dicks, and boned wildcats howl, so scrape your claws together and make some chilling noise. And boom, the boys are back and look, you guys just got to listen to what I think is my favorite of all the theme songs. A spooky season theme, it is here and it is glorious. What is also here and it is also glorious is the second ever version of K-State fan cast around the horn. To be 200% honest with you guys, I can't remember everyone who was on the last time. I think Joe Tilleri was on, I think Joey or sorry, the commissioner of Bob Trollsby was on. Ace, I can't remember if he was you or Connor, I think I had one of you guys. It was Ace, so we got Ace making a second appearance, we'll start with Ace, we'll start with Ace. Ace, welcome back from Aggieville alley cats to Bosco's boys, K-State fan podcast around the horn. Welcome back, how are you going to fare? Not that it really matters, but how are you going to fare? I feel like I'm going to fare better because I'm not going to get technicality on a question. It's like, what's your favorite day for a sporting event? I say Fridays. Like, well, you're an idiot because that's not when the big 12 plays like, oh, congrats. Thanks, man. Appreciate that. I don't really remember that. I didn't go back and listen to that episode, but you know, it is what it is. We'll go to the defending trivia champion, the good chef Andre Napier from cocaine willy. Chef, look, we're recording this on a Monday. This is being published on a Friday. There's a chance either next Monday or Tuesday, we might be hearing you go head to head with your podcast cohorts in the latest episode of trivia as the trash talk begun amongst the cocaine willy boys. I think they're a little nervous. They lash out at me whenever they feel frightened of my, you know, big brain knowledge about K state. So they usually try to take it out on me with, you know, they call me bad names and all that. I'm the red-headed stepchild of the cocaine willy podcast, so it's fine. I usually just take it out on the scoreboard. There we go. And then we have a debut taunts making his debut new to podcast, you know, world not new to the K state internet community. This guy has massive stuff going on Facebook, massive stuff going on on Twitter and he's a fashion mogul. I see them all over, all over Bill Snyder, family, Stan does exit three, one, three hats. We got Aaron Decker. He is the man behind exit three, one, three and the newest K state fan podcast, echos from exit three, one, three, Aaron, welcome to Bosco's boys and how are you liking your journey into fan podcasting? Well, first, thank you. I'm extremely honored to be here. I've been a longtime listener, so it's really exciting to be asked to be on this show. And it's been fun. I, you know, way back in the day, I got my degree in radio and television and journalism and I did radio and covered the cats when I was in school. And so it's been a while, been a while since I've been in front of the microphone, so it's been a lot of fun getting back at it and having some conversations about K state and K state lifestyle. Well, so how was like that first kind of melt downy, you know, episode, you know, how did you personally handle, you know, that BYU game, seeing that that was the first one where you're just beating your head against the wall and you then have to talk into a microphone about it? So that was tough. I'm not going to lie. I kind of took the approach at the very beginning with this whole adventure that I'm going to remain positive as much as I can. And so after, you know, that, that was a really tough game to remain positive about. But because it was just that game and there was still a lot more football to be played, I was, you kind of had an out now if that had been like the fourth loss in a row, right? I don't want to experience that like we want to run away from that. But I know it someday that's going to happen. And so we'll see how that all shakes out. I might be calling you for tips. Well, I somehow made it through the COVID season that was the disastrous football followed by even worse basketball. So if you need tips getting through bad losses, I am here for you. But this concept, look, this is the second time we've done it. I've tweaked it a little bit, but really it is a very, very, very, very bastardized version of my favorite ESPN show around the horn. What I had is three different segments or three different rounds, as you will. We got three questions for each round. We will rotate who goes first. I will score three, two, one, three going to the person who I thought had the best, you know, stuff in the first question, second question, et cetera, et cetera. So we're going to have nine chances for our folks to score. Whoever wins at the end will get as much time as they want to talk at the end of this episode about whatever they want. Everyone else will just have to listen. I'm going to try to keep, you know, a 90 second time limit for each individual answer. But let's get real. I'm not going to man the stopwatch that well. So we're going to get into it. We got the first one. We're just calling this random stuff. I think they used to call it headlines way back in the day. I don't even think they have a name for their first segment. But the first question that I'm going to post to all of you, we're starting with the good chef Andre Napier from cocaine Willie is what is the biggest takeaway fan should have from the first five games this football season? For me, clearly it's on one side of the ball. It's, it's offensive line for me. It was one of the biggest questions going into from, you know, all the podcasts out there that cover the big 12, they put food on this offensive line, basically all off season, replacing Cooper Beebe, who's a starting center in the NFL. K.T. Levison also drafted monster offensive lineman, a three year starter at center and Carver Willis who got slight reps last year, but they replaced all those guys and this offensive line is doing work on the ground. I mean, we're averaging over God well over 200, 230 yards on the ground every single game and we're keeping Avery Johnson relatively clean. This offense has not really lost a step in terms of the ground game from, you know, from last year. I'm telling you this offensive line has been the biggest takeaway that I've, I've had. I thought they were going to be worried about keeping Avery clean and none of that has even crossed my mind. Give me the offensive line as the biggest takeaway everybody should even really be paying attention to. All right, we're going to Ace, you know, Ace, he's pandering a little bit. I'm a big trenches guy. What is your big takeaway through the first five games? My biggest takeaway is that a lot of times youth can be really good, but a lot of times youth is a brutal, brutal mistress in that there's been a lot of inconsistency with the K state play and a lot of that comes down to, you know, Avery being an inexperienced quarterback, and not necessarily jelling immediately with his receivers. Even the guys who aren't young, like Don, they see this and, you know, Keegan Johnson, I feel like has been a pretty good piece and of course, Jay's Brown has been as well. But it's just about that cohesion of youth, especially on the offensive side of the ball. On the defensive side of the ball, you do have a lot more experience when it pretty much just every single position, but even then you're still experiencing some degree of growing pains from, you know, the defensive ends, especially with the rotation that they have. Mott's been excellent, but everyone else just sort of blends together. And that's not because any of them are bad. It's just because all of them are young and have very, very specific skill sets. So youth breeding inconsistency, but having that talent there, I feel like is the biggest takeaway from the first couple of games of the season. All right, Aaron, what do you got? What's your biggest takeaway and what should fans be really carrying away from this first five games? Well, for me, everybody wants to talk about Avery Johnson and the golden child and sunshine, but nobody wants to talk about DJ Giddens. And when I think about this case state offense and this case state team, DJ Giddens is on the front step of putting together a pretty historic season with his yards per carry that he has going on right now and the numbers that he's putting up week in and week out, he really is that load that you can just put, put, put the offense on his shoulders and let him go to work. And we talk about the offensive line. I think that is a big takeaway that there were a lot of new faces on that line, but it helps having a workhorse like DJ Giddens show up week after week after week and he's doing it all. He's catching balls out of the backfield. He showed the breakaway speed in this last game. I don't think anybody on this call probably thought that if I said to you before the game, 66 yards to the house and he's not going to get Hawke, I think probably everybody would have thought, well, there's probably a chance that he's going to get caught from behind, but he did it. He pulled his Derek, his inner Derek Henry out right and took it to the house. And so I've been so impressed and so enamored and yes, I'm a Junction City High School graduate, so he holds a special place in my heart. But man, he's the guy. I mean, like today, Avery Johnson was named offensive player of the week, right? Never mind, DJ had, you know, what, 170, 80 yards on, you know, 15 carries or something along those lines. He just as easily could have been the guy. So that's the biggest takeaway that I have is that you've got truly a premier back in college football, fourth in NCAA and rushing right now, by the way, that K-State fans just aren't recognizing and I'd love to see him get more attention. Man, I could not agree with you more, Aaron, and if anyone needs a like proof of how much I agree with Aaron, go back to Monday's episode of the 10, 12 podcast and listen to me get a pound of flesh on Andy Mitz for some of the stuff he said about DJ getting his pre-season. So Aaron, maybe it's beginner's luck, maybe you're pandering or maybe you're just the smartest guy on the panel today, you're getting the three points on the first question. Chef, you're getting the two. Ace, look, that was great. Maybe last time you're coming away with three points, but you're going up against some heavy hitters. You got the one point, but I believe in you. Let's get into it. Aaron, you mentioned Avery Johnson. He was the big 12 offensive player of the week. He also second, for the second time this season, got some love from the Johnny United's award folks. Then I think, gosh, another national award gave him some love today. My fault for not putting that in my own personal outline, but the question to all of you guys is, has Avery Johnson lived up to your own personal pre-season expectations? What are your expectations from him for the next two months? We're starting with Ace from the Aggieville alley cats, Ace, you're on the clock. In terms of the expectations that I had for Avery Johnson going into this season, I expected and I went on record of saying this that I expected him to show flashes of intense greatness followed up by periods where you're like, well, yeah, damn, that really sucks. He's a young quarterback and just stuff that you sort of deal with when you're having that young quarterback situation. Now I've also gone on record and saying that the BYU game, I don't really put that blame on anyone because that was basically a nuclear weapon to morale that just how happened to be in a game. But all in all, for how Avery Johnson is played, I've been really impressed. Of course, it's really difficult to not be impressed with his athleticism. But his arm strength has also been very, very impressive. Honestly, sometimes to his own detriment where he's sailing receivers because he insists on throwing a 500 mile per hour fastball and maybe even sometimes just overthrowing a ball a little bit. Apologies. My cat is now playing with a jingle ball. But yeah, my expectations for Avery have been met and I feel like the bad thing is that I feel like there are a lot of people in the case state fan base who don't feel like he's live up to expectations. But I sort of expect him to keep up the current pace where he's going to keep showing flashes and the flashes are going to get better and better. And the moments where you're like, oh, that's a bad young guy mistakes are going to get less and less. So honestly, at the end of the season, I think he probably ends up as an honorable mentioned all big 12 guys, not second teams. All right, I love it. First off, pro pet. The last time chef was on with me, Chauncey went full Chewbacca mode, just screaming into the microphone so you don't have to apologize for your pet. Aaron will go to you next. Has Avery Johnson lived up to your own personal preseason expectations? And what are you going to what are we going to see over the next two? Hi, it's Katia Whitney from the wisdom women's cricket weekly podcast, and you can follow all the twists and turns at the women's T20 World Cup on the sport social podcast network. Every week, myself, former England World Cup winner Lauren Wimfield Hill and Yasrana will bring you all the latest from the tournament, which promises to be one of the most unpredictable yet. Listen to the wisdom women's cricket weekly podcast now, wherever you get your podcasts. Well, I'll be completely honest. I think I speak for all of us. We probably thought he would have had more touchdowns on the ground now that all that all opened up this this past weekend. So that was exciting to see that's an element of his game. I think we all know is there based on the Texas Tech Game last year where he did it five times. So I thought there would be he'd be further along on that, but I also know there's a lot of season. My whole thing with Avery is about ascension, right, and I liken him to Neo on the matrix. I'm dating myself a little bit here, but Neo was the guy that had it, right, but he just hadn't figured out how all the moving pieces work and coming of age. And I think AJ right now is coming of age and figuring it out and he's doing it at a very rapid pace. If you go back and you look at someone like L. Roberson in that 2002 season, it wasn't until his red shirt, junior year, second half USC game. I remember exactly when it clicked for him, right? And so when I look at AJ, he's so much further along. And we saw a huge step forward. Now the question is, can he do it on the road? Big, big takeaway that I saw from this past week is I love the story about it takes what it takes. The mental health wellness coach book that coach True gave to him. You could tell he embraced it wasn't about just X's and O's, Jimmy's and Joe's. He really leaned in on the mental side of it. And I think that that's going to help him. I mean, he started out the first half, but the first couple of drives is pretty rough sledding of the interception. I think we had a couple of back to back three and outs, but he just fought through it. And so he's a guy that I think is going to have all the tools, not only from a physical standpoint, the gifted speed, the golden arm, the good looks, but also it seems like he's also embracing the mental aspect of it too. So I'm really excited about the ascension of Avery Johnson. I love it. You're pointing out the road games. We've got two of them coming up. So we're going to find out very quickly after this by week. Does he have it? All right. We'll go to chef chef. Some two, two good answers before you. What do you got for me, man? Yeah. I mean, we got a matrix reference. You think that's air. You're breathing right now, Neil, but seriously, in all honesty, I had to go on multiple podcasts and I took both sides of the aisle on this. I had to go on the college huddle and defend his 10th place in Heisman odds at the beginning of the season before we even saw him as a starter at this season. And you know, I went into that podcast saying, you know, he was going to be able to do things similar to what he did last year on the ground. It would take a little bit of time through the air with how Connor Riley calls plays. But it would eventually work itself out. Did I think he was going to win the Heisman? No. I mean, that's, I went on the Aggieville alley cats podcast and I said that exact same thing. It's just, it was not going to happen. But the expectations from the Kansas state fan base are two totally different things from what the national media puts out there because we have our own criteria of what we think a very solid, very capable quarterback is. And for right now, Avery Johnson is doing things light years beyond what we could expect from a 2020 Will Howard quarterback as a, you know, a red, a red shirt freshman kind of in his first year starting. That was never even thought of a what we were expecting from Avery Johnson. He is doing things well beyond that. He's commanding this offense and growing with his offensive coordinator at the exact same time, and they're, they're starting to end closer to what they, they fully can be in his true sophomore season. The expectations for me, he's there. It's statistically, can he get even more better to where, you know, the national media is going to, you know, start to piggyback on him. And another aspect of it is playing in these prime time games. He had one prime time game where it was, you know, he Charlie Brown himself and he missed the football. And now he's got one coming up in two weeks with should door Sanders on the other side of them. And can he win that duel? Those are the things that make him, make him live up to expectations amongst national folks. So for me, I think he's done it in the K state realm, but in the national media, I think he's not really lived up to it. Couple of things, chef. He, his first national TV game on Fox, Fox Friday football game versus Arizona. Fair enough. John went pretty good. Also, Will Howard was a true freshman in 2020, not a red shirt freshman. So you're getting the one point for that question. Ace, he's, he has been very consistent talking about Avery Johnson, not only on my show, other shows, he's getting the three airing, sitting with five points with two, love the, all the references. You laid it out very well. All in all, great crew right now. And this one could make or break because I think this is one where people could go any different direction. And this is one that I've struggled with myself. Basketball practice started a few days ago. I think they're on day 10 of basketball practices, K state women's basketball team. They have a Oakley coming back, sundell, the Glen twins, a couple of really good transfers, uh, high sky, high expectations. K state men's basketball allegedly has the third highest payroll in the sport according to Jeff Goodman. So I'm going to ask you guys, which of these two teams have the higher expectations for starting with you, Aaron, which of these two teams have the higher expectations? This is such a great question because, I mean, you just laid it out. When you look at the woman's team and everybody that's coming back and who they added to my point Dexter, the AC player of the year, she's a, she's a forward. And so, you know, she, she's stepping in for Gabby and then you have the, you know, Serena and you have the Glen twins or Glen twins, excuse me and Taren sides who, you know, one of my favorites and then Ioka, right, who arguably could be a top five player in the country. I mean, this team is loaded, but then you flip it over to the men's side and, you know, guys like Doug McDaniel and Coleman Hawkins and, you know, all the talent that they brought in internationally. I, I think I just on my podcast, I got five different countries represented besides the United States, but really talented players, Olienzo from, from Kentucky, it is really hard to pin down like, you know, where that lies. But I think I got to go with the women because they, they have, as I see it right now, a chance to really, really do some damage, not only in the big 12, I think that they could absolutely should contend for the big 12 title, but they also should be able to make a deep run in the NCAA tournament. You know, one, one little differentiator on that is, you know, at the point guard position. I really liked Doug McDaniel. And I think that he's going to be a really big upgrade for the, for the Wildcats and having a guy that can stretch the floor like Coleman. I mean, this is such a great question. I was back and forth on this so much, but I'm a huge women's basketball fan and men's basketball. So I'm going to go with the women on this one. All right. We're going up to chef chef. I'd imagine both these teams got to be thinking internally, big season, big season. You externally, you're the outside noise who has the higher expectations in your book. Yeah. Like Aaron said, this is an almost impossible question to answer because they're both almost equal in terms of expectations of what they want to get done. But it comes down to coaching for me. Jerome Tang has proven that he can get to that elite eight and almost get the job done. Jeff Mitty, he had a loaded team last year and we were saying a lot of the same things that we were saying with a, oh, Ioka Lee on the team and, you know, being a proven winner, they didn't get it done versus Colorado. So coming with this team again, can they do more than what they did last year? A lot of the team for Jerome Tang's group, you know, haven't really done anything in the, the tournament themselves. But like you said, the payroll is so high. It's a prove it year from Jerome Tang. I mean, last year missing the tournament and then getting routed in the, the NIT, that's embarrassing. So the expectations, he has to get it done and it's on Jerome Tang. He's putting all his chips in the middle right now saying, Hey, we're going to get it done or, or I don't know what else is going to be said, but it's got to be Jerome Tang's unit. They're, they're sky high, a lot of eyeballs on them and, you know, end up with a loaded big 12 that we're going to have with Arizona joining the conference, Kansas doubling down on Hunter Dickinson, it's going to be a lot of expectations for the conference and whole. So if you're winning in this conference, I mean, when you get to the tournament, it better be a little easier for you and you better get it done. All right. We're going to ace ace. I got to say, it sounds like you might need to get Aaron on your guys to show the number one K state women's basketball podcast. Aaron might be giving you a run for, for your money. So you better watch out. Which of these squads have the higher expectations? Now, you know that I am God's biggest women's basketball defender and I have been for very long time. And to me, when I first saw this question, I feel like I was the only person who didn't have any trouble with this question, because to me, it's quite easily the women's basketball team. And let me tell you why, because the women's team has proven that they can win with the pieces that they currently have. The men's team has a collection of pieces that we've never seen play together. And the only like the difference between the two is we know what they can do together versus we know what they should be able to do together. And to me, the expectation should be based on what like known commodities. And there's a lot of known commodities on the women's basketball team. The Glenn twins, who Jalen Glenn somehow keeps getting snubbed from the all defensive team. Serena Sundell, who's creeping up on WNBA draft boards, Ayoka Lee, who's probably going to end up breaking the all time K state scoring record this season. Plus you add pieces like Tamayra Poindexter, and you still have Taren Sides, Eliza Mopin, I think Alexis has to still on the team unless she transferred out. Said Walker, baby. Yeah, Zai Walker. And you get all of these pieces. And I was at that Colorado game. No one there are probably very few people in this world that hurt more than I did after that game, especially when the Colorado bus almost ran me off of the road, driving back to Topeka. But it was, to me, it's obvious the women's basketball team has the higher expectation because they've shown that they can execute at a high level just by virtue of the talent on the team and they got more of it. All right, rapid fire, you get like 15 seconds for this one. Which coach is probably feeling the most pressure, Jeff Mitty or Jerome Tang? I don't know if phrasing it that way changes anything, but Aaron, I'll go to you. Which of these two coaches is probably feeling the most pressure going into the season? I think probably Jerome Tang to a certain degree because I would imagine the investment, although I don't know, you know, for sure, certain that's all alleged. All alleged based on something that Jeff Goodman said on Twitter and on a podcast. Exactly. But what we've heard and what has rumored with the amount of money that's been spent, the expectation should be pretty high, right? And people aren't donating that type of money. And he's probably feeling like he's got a team. In fact, I had an opportunity to have a dinner at a private event with him and the entire coaching staff about a month ago. And I asked him this question, you know, related to the squad. Is this a team that is, you know, similar to your 2020 Baylor team? I mean, how do you feel about national championship aspirations? And he said this team reminded him a lot of his 2012 Baylor team that made an elite eight run, the athleticism. I think the biggest thing that's going to be problematic in this age of NIL is just jelling together all the parts year in and year out with all the turnover that happens. And, you know, we talked about, you know, Phil Byer talked about what was the comment that, you know, you've given me good ingredients, right, to develop these bodies. And my counter that is you also have to have a chef that knows what to do with those ingredients. And so, I'm a big believer in tang and his staff, but I know they've got to be feeling the pressure. All right. We'll go to the chef Andre Napier, chef. Is it Jerome Tank feeling the most pressure or is it going to be Jeff Medley? He said it. The expectations were on Jeff and he came up short. Yeah. I mean, he came up short last year to, you know, ACEs, ACE said that they proved that they could win with this team. They didn't prove it when it mattered. And, you know, Jerome Tang on the other hand, he's got more pressure on him because he's missed the tournament, but he's proven that he can get deep. He's set the precedent that he could get deep. So if Jerome Tang doesn't do anything with this team, it's way, way worse for Jerome Tang, in my opinion. All right, Ace. We'll end with you before we award some points. Who's feeling the heat? Who's feeling the pressure a little more coach Jerome Tang or friend of the pod, Jeff Medley? First off, chef, pause on Tang going to pause. Never pause that brother. Hey, yo. But to me, this one is another really obvious one is Tang because everyone knows what Jeff Medley is. He's an amazing recruiter who at times can fall, can have some moments in a game where you want more general coaching, like you want better set plays and you want the team to be coached a little bit better. There are still some people, I'm not one of them, but there's still some people who really believe that the jury is out on what Tang really is as a coach because, you know, yes, he's won a lot of major recruiting battles, but, you know, and he has that deep run, but it's a sample size of two seasons. Everyone knows what Midi is and is going to do. He's going to be an amazing recruiter in a non-revenue sport. But honestly, no matter how much I will start kicking and screaming and probably getting water boarded by Scott, they don't make the second weekend again. But as much as I'll end up doing that, it's hard to say that Midi has any more pressure on him than a prime revenue sport with millions upon millions of dollars allegedly being thrown at it. I love it. I love it. All right. Got one, I'm going with Ace, Ace came hard in the paint. He came hard with his conviction. He got three points going, Aaron, with the inside information from a private dining event with two points in chef. Hey, look, you're just going up against some buzz sauce. So chef currently has four points through round one. Ace has seven points through round one and Aaron right there with him, seven points through round one. We're going to get to buy or sell next, but before we do, we'll give a shout to our friends over at Manhattan Brewing Company. Look, this is a one track mind ad read right now. They currently have pumpkin batch age and bullet rye barrels on tap in Wichita at the NBC lounge and in Manhattan at the brewery at the flagship location right there on points. They distributed about 20 cases of cans out into the market. They don't know where they are. First off, if anyone in Johnson County or Kansas City, Kansas see some DM me so I can buy some and then I will give you a special prize. Otherwise, I'm going to drive to Manhattan. Make sure I get a couple of points of those because it is the best beer they've ever put out. It is delicious. Remember to talk to your local liquor store here in the great state of Kansas. Make sure they are stocking four packs for you. Then also tweet pictures of your Manhattan Brewing Company beer to the good chef Andre Napier and taunt him until he moves to Kansas, Manhattan Brewing Company, the best brewery in the state of Kansas. All right, round two buy or sell. Absolutely love these questions. We're starting off with chef chef by herself, case state should be the favorites to win the big 12 in football. Currently, they are the Vegas betting favorites and SP plus has them with the highest odds to win the conference. So again, buy or sell case state should be the favorites to win the big 12 in football. I'm going to be a homer here. I'm going to buy. We're on the boss goes boys for God's sake. You can't just come on here and just poo poo on case state, but it's going to be a close race. Brother, let me tell you, it's going to come down to it might come down to the final week farm again, to be honest with you. Iowa state is proving that there there are no slouches right now in in almost all major sports. But in football this season, they're they're trying to bully their way to the top in Arizona who we beat in the the non con. They're undefeated. You tall who was just, you know, trounced Oklahoma, just like we did. I mean, Oklahoma state, just like we did, man, it's a clustered mess at the top. But case state is battling through it. And if we can get through the next few games on this road stretch, I'm telling you, then it's going to be even a clearer picture for me to say case state is going to be the easy buy in this situation. But it right now it is clustered and it is close. We got a clustered and close buy from the good chef Andre Napier. Ace, what do you got for us buyer sell case state should be the favorites to win the big 12 and football? Thank you for wording the question the way you did because that makes it a lot harder. I would argue that I need to know how I worded it to me. It should be the favorites to win the big 12 as opposed to should be the favorites to make an appearance in the game. Oh, well, yeah, no, should be the favorites to win. Yes. That's why it's so much more difficult. Awesome. Great question by me. Pop myself on the back. All right. Sorry. Go ahead. There you go. Podcast progenitor. But the, I would say, I'd say tentative buy because I, you look at the other teams that are at the top of the conference, you have BYU who I still genuinely believe are ass and I have no idea how they keep winning. You have Colorado who is a team of mercenaries who theoretically could be anyone at any given day, depending on if they decide to give a shit that day. It's just, and then you have teams like case state Utah and Oklahoma State, which all have one loss and are clustered together. It's just, there's such a mess at the top of the conference that I would make an argument that no one should really be a favorite, but because that's not how this works, it may as well be case state because they have shown outside of a nuclear testing facility being outside of Provo, Utah and all of them getting Oppenheimer out of existence. They should be the favorite because they've shown the ability to be the most complete team. All right, Aaron, you've heard them. You've heard my schbil, current Vegas favorites, current SP plus, highs odds to win the conference. Do they have it right by yourself? So it's a soft buy. When I look at the big 12, I think that the term that I like to use is swimming in a sea of sameness. There are a lot of teams that kind of are at that same level. I mean, if you look at the current rankings in week six, slot number 16 to 20, it's all the big 12 teams. So there's a lot of parity and a lot of teams that look similar to each other. The million dollar question for K state is, can they survive these next two games on the road? What we saw in Provo wasn't very appealing. Now I think there were some immensely flooky things on that. I do like the capability of our defense and we have fires on that team and a scheme where they seem to have improved week to week. They had a little bit of a Ben Ben don't break, but then they got it together and they, you know, they shut down the Oklahoma State Cowboys. So it's a soft buy, but really comes down to what team shows up two weeks from this Saturday or I guess a week from this Saturday at 8 15 mountain time against the Colorado buffaloes. If they walk out of that game with the wind, then I'm flying sky high on the catch because there's not a team on their on their schedule that they can't beat. We're swimming in a sea of Samus across the board. Yes, we've got our Houston's and some of the, you know, French teams, Baylor, you know, kind of in that mix, but there's a lot of teams that look a lot alike each other. And so when I'm looking at it from that lens, there's no one we can't beat and so why not? All right. I like it. Andre was went hardest in the paint. So he's getting a three ace you famously famously said Oklahoma State only has one loss. Couldn't get past that Oklahoma say it's two conference losses. So you're getting one point. My guy Aaron, I like the sea of sameness. I might have to steal that. I'll give you credit if I do. You got the two points there. Next by or sell case, they just lost their best tight end in program history was a second round traffic and rave reviews for the Washington commanders. But by herself, the tight end room in 2024 is better than it wasn't 2023. Or start with you, ace. So because I listen, I know I know Connor is probably going to come at me and hit my kneecaps with several baseball bats at once because Garrett Oakley is his boy. But I mean, you he Benson is the best tight end in case they history. You've said that. A lot of the pieces that are in this current tight end room were also here last year. And none of them are as good as Ben Senate did like the second tight end is the exact same from last year. It's Wilson. And then you still have the same mostly the same names from last year, and that's not to disparage any of the guys that are currently on the team. I just don't think that any of the guys that are currently on the team are second round draft picks. And all of them were also the air last year. So it's it's not because the current room sucks, because I think the current room is really good. I'm a very big believer in people like Oakley, Lofton, Ancyo and Metzger. Swanson is there too, I guess. But you also just you don't have that second round draft pick. So no, no, it's not better than last year. That's too touched down, swanney to you, ace. We'll go to Aaron next. Aaron, are you going to be as flippant as ace or is it a little closer than he was making it seem by herself? This was a great question. And I thought it was a clever question. So well done on that. Just just for fun because we're on the Bosco boys and I want to show this year's team some love. I'm going to I'm going to buy that this year's this year's tight end room is better than than last year's. Now look, Ben Senate was a one man wrecking ball and teams had to scheme for him. And he took a lot of attention on the field. And so that that gave, you know, other players opportunities and he could do a lot of things. But if you look at production, I think Ben Senate had six touchdowns last year in the whole season. And I think we're probably maybe right at six for, I know, four tight ends have caught touchdowns, right? And then Swanson has two, does Lofton have two or do you just have one? Yes. Okay. So when we're just looking at it from a production standpoint, we've already surpassed what Senate did. Now again, that's four to one, but name me another college football team. Hell, name me another professional football team that has four tight ends on a roster that have caught touchdowns in a single season. The way Kate through five games, the way K state has, they are really doing a great job. And Avery seems to have an affection of thrown to those tight ends as well, more so than than his own wide receivers. So I'm going to buy, I like this group of tight ends. And I think that their potential particularly with some of the young ones is only going to increase. And we're going to see more and more out of them. We're turning into the next tight end you move out of the way, Iowa. Man, Aaron bringing the absolute zeal. Good luck backing, you know, coming up from that chef, chef. What do you got by yourself? Yeah, I have no shot. I'm going to just pick you back off of him. I'm going to go for the two points here. I'm going to echo everything that he just said. I know ACE is completely wrong on this. The room has gotten better that that is not, that's obvious. The room has gotten better. Since then it was his own level of talent, obviously, but the room has gotten better. Oakley is getting healthy right now at the peak of when we need him with loft and going down. He had two touchdowns like was already mentioned, but Oakley just caught his first touchdown of the season where six touchdowns through five games. Last year the tight end room had 10 touchdowns, a tallied up for them through the whole season. They could eclipse that within, you know, two or three weeks. So I'm saying right now that the room is better altogether, deeper, Ancio has made an appearance. Were we expecting that? Were we expecting anything from Lofton? Those two have, you know, their stock is rising and we were not expecting anything from them last year. Swanson is better than he was last year. The room has grown. So that in turn means the tight end room is better in my opinion. All right, we'll do presidential debate rules a since you were mentioned by chef. I will let you rebut him if you want, but the tight ends better or they just distributing Ben Sinnett's targets. Well, who was who was a better distributor? Avery Johnson or Will Howard up to this point, I mean, it'd probably still be will and also a lot of the targets that the tight ends are getting for better going for touchdowns are very specifically schemed up. I don't know. It's so bearish the tight ends. No, you're not disparaging them. But if you can scheme more than one tied in open, does that make the room better or does that make one tied in better? I think the room is better. So you can scheme multiple tight ends open. I don't think scheme is based on ability. Like a Jalen Daniels, oh man, okay, I called that two years ago. Okay. Settle down. I promise the next, the next time I bring you on, I will formulate a question for you to beat your chest like King Kong on that one. I'm going with Aaron because first you said it was a great question and I'm easily bought off. He's getting the three points. I'm also going with Andre for two because he was bringing the vice ace. Look, you got short with me. You came out of your shell a little bit late when when when chef went after you. But look, you went up against a buzz on this one. I thought I thought it was great from all three of you guys. The final buyer sell and this is a fun one. I went through there and this is time travel already recorded it going to publish on Wednesday. If folks are listening to us on release day on Friday, go back to Wednesday and listen to it. Buy your cell, K-State men's basketball will be considered a big 12 title contender in the middle of February coming off the two home games with KU in Arizona, just taking a little, little pixie at that schedule. If that is the case, they have a run of teams that will not be ranked before they end with pharma get in in March. So it could be an interesting final month of the season. Aaron, you're going first by yourself. Oh, I will buy. If everything we are led to believe about the potential of this team and the talent that's been added to the roster, you can't help but buy. And so I'm really excited to, you know, it's big 12 basketball. And the question I would have is, or is the national perception of the big 12 now going to be that we are a basketball conference and with the editions of Arizona and Arizona State and obviously KU and Baylor and now Kansas State, I definitely think that we're going to be a contender and I really like this coaching staff. I like the talent that they've added to the roster. I just don't see with what we've, and I keep saying with what we've spent, you don't want, you don't, you know, every school that is in the big 12 is spending money to a certain degree. It's really what the coaches can do with it. And I think drum tang and staff have shown that they have the ability to quickly mold and form the team into a cohesive unit and that they're going to play good basketball. I love it. So I'm going with the buy. All right, chef, before we start, you were talking about how you're a little iffy. You don't know what to think about this basketball team. So I'll ask you by yourself, coming off of those two back to back home games in February, K-State will be a big 12 title contender. Are those, are those back to back home games dubs? Can I guarantee though, you are not guaranteed a single game on this schedule. Okay. So for me, just eyeballing this schedule, this conference slate, we could start off hot four and one, but then you go on a stretch that is just, you know, nasty work. And I got us honestly, before we get to that KU in Arizona game at home, I got us at seven and four, is that strong enough to go with enough momentum into those games to get two dubs? Because you need two dubs. If you want to win the conference, you're going to need two dubs at home versus those two powerhouses of programs in the, in the conference. Then you're at nine and four. If we get two dubs right there, I'm, I'm bookmarking it right now. We will be in the conference hunt. Give me big 12. I'm buying it. I'm buying it right now, nine and four after two home dubs versus a wildcat and a J hook. I'm fired up, baby. You got me sold. I don't care if David Castillo's getting 20 minutes on the court, give it to me right now. All right. Did not think that's the worst chef was going to go ace. Lots of buying lots of Kool-Aid here. Where are you? Are you going to throw a wet blanket? Are you going to buy in? Are you going to be rational? I'm interested by yourself. I'm going to keep the optimism rolling, which is, you know, I don't want to say that that's rare for me. I like to think myself as a realist, but I'm actually going to buy here. And the main reason that I say this is because I really like the blend of home and away games that K-State got. And the main reason I say that is you have away games against TCU Oklahoma State. Of course, the really the bad one that you get on your only away slate is Baylor, but you still get some really favorable home matchups. And I think that home court advantage in the Big 12 is one of the most underrated hearts. I think the biggest comparison that people make is that the Big 12 basketball is what the SEC thinks it is in football. And to go along with that is home court advantage. I mean, we saw UCF beat a KU team last year, a not good UCF team, beat KU mostly because of their home court advantage. And I think just because of those favorable matchups that you get even before this point, you probably end up picking up one of those KU or Arizona games. And that puts you squarely in contention because you get a lot of those contenders at home and a lot of the less contenders at their home court. And that doesn't mean you can't drop a game to them. That's inevitable, but I'm buying here. I mean, to me, they will be contenders up to that point in the season. All right. Well, I have a I have a tweet in the drafts right now for when we play Baylor, the one game that we played Baylor in Waco, I have a tweet fired up that I've been working on for since last basketball season, it is going to hit like crack when I play that thing out. And I and I lay it out there for everybody to see. I sure hope I sure hope you get to do that one. And if we don't, I think you should still share your drafts with me. All right. I'm a slut for a schedule analysis ace. You brought that in spades. You're getting the three points there, Aaron. I like how you drove, drove, drove, yeah, drew everything up. Andre, you're just a little too erratic on that one, so you're getting the one points. Going into the final round, Aaron's leading 14 ace in second place with 12. Andre with 10. But look, if you sweep the final round, you will be in play before we get to the final round, something I completely made up. We'll give a shout to our friends over at Charlie hustle currently rocking a Charlie hustle, Kansas City football collection sweatshirt. I was rocking a K state officially licensed Charlie hustle sweatshirt at the game. I was sweating a little bit, but it kept my arms without getting sunburnt. I burn easily. I think my guy, chef wearing an octagon of doom t-shirt from Charlie hustle. It is the absolute best. 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I saw this on a YouTube video and then I heard it later on on a podcast. It's like everyone's cop out is a seven. No, scale one to 10. You cannot say seven. We're starting with chef on a scale one to 10, 10. You can't pick seven. How good of a job has Connor Riley done so far this season? I'm going to go one below seven. I think a six is the sweet spot for Connor Riley. He has schemed up like Ace was saying, he has schemed up this tight end room very well in the red zone, but also there was some floundering in the red zone with penalties and all kinds of formation, irregularities that led to some bad, bad, bad red zone offense versus BYU. But also we're running the ball extremely, extremely well and it took a while for Connor Riley to, maybe he was doing it on purpose, but maybe he wasn't where he didn't get Avery Johnson's legs involved at the beginning of the season and he's just now getting into that bag. I think he has some room to grow and he has some ironing out to do because he has to get Dylan Edwards more involved in the offense. He finally got him on the field more than ever, but he also does hasn't been getting the production that we think we can get from Dylan Edwards. I give him a six, but it is teetering on that dreaded seven, but I'm going to go six right now. It's a good question. These sevens are really where the sweet spot is, but I'm going to go six because I want to see a little bit more from our boy Connor Riley. All right, we're going to Ace Edwards who again kind of considers himself an offensive coordinator, Savant, so I'm interested his answer on this one. So Ace Edwards, Connor Riley's job so far this season, scale one to 10 and you can't pick seven. What is it? Nine. And let me tell you why I went into the season fully expecting to hate every second of Connor Riley is the offensive coordinator. I fully expected that, but every single. In homage to around the horn and how they can mute people, I'm muting you to tell you ye of little faith, you suck because Connor Riley was always going to be worth at least being interested in. I can't believe you came into this season thinking you're going to hate every second of it. I'll unmute you to let you finish. Thank you. Thank you for, thank you for guaranteeing that I will be getting the one this round. This, this is very awesome to think about, but what I've seen with Connor Riley every single time that I have watched him call plays this year, he's done an excellent job doing so because the receivers are pretty consistently getting open against all different types of coverages and I don't want to put it all on Avery. But a lot of the reason why those guys aren't getting hit is because Avery isn't really progressing to that next read. The only big complaint that I have with Connor Riley is that he hasn't gotten Dylan Edwards involved, but that's everyone's complaint and not, there's not a single coordinator who's going to be perfect in their first year. But what Connor Riley has done has been massively impressive because he's able to keep the diverse run game that was a staple of the client offense and still mix it in with the Matt Wells concepts that include things like mesh releases, screenplays and more advanced and modern spread passing techniques. Connor Riley has been able to implement both of those in ways that I was not, I wasn't expecting from him because it wasn't something that was featured as much in the client offense. So I've been massively impressed with Connor Riley this year. And that's why I'm willing to give him a nine on, on the year and how good he's done this year. All right. Well, I liked where you landed, didn't really love how you got there. We'll go to Aaron next Aaron on a scale one to 10. You can't say seven. How good of a job has Connor Riley done so far this season? I'm going to go eight three only people that use whole numbers those are rookie score. So it's an eight three. All right. When we're talking about Connor Riley, first of all, we're on the front steps of a historic season as far as rushing the football, right? And he's doing this with a bunch of new things on the offensive line. I know that I said that earlier in the pod, but it bears repeating. Second of all, Avery Johnson is again, ascending into the position and they are slowly starting to round him out and that's coming through the efforts of what Connor Riley is putting together with the offense and kind of opening up to a point where it's going to work for what a, where Avery's at in that progression utilizing the tight end. I mean, raise your hand on this podcast, but if I told you that the group of tight ends that we had in our tight end room coming into this season would have more touchdowns collectively as a unit than Benson it had all of last season, right? I mean, that, that was just something that was on nobody's bingo card. So yes, I, we want to get the wide receivers more involved. Dylan Edwards, we want to get him more involved. I could see them taking steps towards doing that, but you also got to ask the question. I mean, I was sitting in the stadium this past weekend thinking to myself, why are we not handing it off to DJ Giddens every single time? I mean, he was gashing teams for 19 yards, 31 yards, 66 yards. I mean, he just was having a day. So you know, when you see that, it's hard to say like, well, Dylan should touch it more. Well, I'm not so sure I agree with that on Saturday, but yes. So when I look at Connor Riley, 8.3, he's only going to get better and I'm really excited about the progression of this offense as Avery starts to round into his zone as the young 19 year old starts to ascend as I like to say, I'm just really bullish on this offensive unit. All right. Well, first off, weirdly enough, I am going to have to give it to Ace on this one because he had the highest score, case state in the big 12 has the number one PPA offense so far. Number two in success rate, number one in havoc allowed, number one in line yardage, number one in rushing PPA, number one in rushing success rate. Look, this is, you can look at different numbers. You could make the argument that right now, despite some of the words, it is the best offense right now in the big 12. So just by default, Ace, even though I didn't like how you got there, you get the three points there and you're getting to look at scale one to 10 can't pick seven. If you, if you want to risk it, you can with your decimals, but I like the whole numbers for this exercise, chef, I don't think you're going to win, but I like the zeal. Keep up the zeal, my friend. All right. The next one on a scale one to 10 and you can't say seven starting with ace. How concerned are you with K-State's secondary play? Three. It doesn't concern me as much as it seems to be concerning other people because a lot of what's going on with like the concerns in the secondary are still residual from the Tulane game and you still have the occasional, oh yeah, they're getting outplayed on like, they're just getting straight outplayed by other receivers. Jean Stripling is a very good receiver, Ted McMillan is a very good receiver. They had a bunch of communication problems in their first away game as a cohesive unit. Those communication problems can go away. The talent in the room, that's going to be there for a while because I think Jordan Riley is honestly probably the second best transfer safety that K-State has brought in. The first is still on the roster and that is marquee seagull. I think both of them are going to be NFL draftees and despite the multiple hiccups that Keaton Garber has had playing corner, especially against Jean Stripling this last game, I still am a believer in the corner back room. So to me, I think a lot of what people are saying about the defensive back room can sort of be boiled down to, I don't want to say strictly negativity bias because that would imply that there's very little negative, no, there's still negative there, but it's not negative that can't be fixed. All right, we'll go to Aaron next, Aaron on a scale one to 10, you can't say seven, how concerned are you with K-State secondary? I say a 4.6. To me, it's not a Jimmy's and Joe's as much as it is X as an O's and I think really what you're dealing with is, and I'll agree with Ace, is kind of the nightmares that we experienced in looking at the two-lane game that they appeared to have cleaned up in the Arizona game. So I think it's just a matter of playing disciplined football. We saw two really good interceptions in the game against Oklahoma State, including one in which Chris Kliman probably was blown a little smoke there, but I mean, he called it one of the best interceptions that he's ever seen. So I feel like that having gone against some of the talented wide receivers that we have so far this season and with some coming up arguably, I mean, say what you want about Hunter, right, that guy is extremely gifted and the Colorado Whiteouts are extremely gifted and we're going to have to be dialed in, but it's not a situation where the talent on the field is just better than our guys and we can't, and we just don't have a chance, right? I think a lot of the stuff that we've been seeing with the secondary has been related to miscommunication, bad handoffs, not understanding what the package is, whatever you want to say and say what you want to say about Garber, that interception that he had against Arizona was a thing of beauty. That was an absolute gorgeous, gorgeous look. So I'm going to go low on my concern level with the secondary. Coming into the season, I honestly thought this was one of the strengths of the team and I think one game just kind of blew that up. So I'm going to stay low and just say cautiously optimistic about the rest of the season and some of the teams that we'll be facing. All right, chef, what do you got for me? Scale one to 10, can't say seven. How concerned are you at the play of the case at secondary? I'm going to go point four higher than Aaron. I'm going to go five. I think, you know, we've gone against some, actually some really high powered, you know, air raid kind of style offenses. I'm looking at Darien Minsa's stats through, you know, through five games, he's got 1,100 yards, nine touchdowns, two interceptions. One of those interceptions we forced, Alan Bowman's phone for 1,500 yards. We've shut him down, Noah Fafida, 1,060 yards, seven touchdowns, four interceptions. One of those is from us. I think we've had some really strong games and we've had some negative games and it's not necessarily full games. It's a half here, a quarter there, a series here and it's not something that can be exploited, but you know, the teams that we're going to be going up against, namely Colorado in the two weeks, these are the teams that we're going to have to hunker down and try to do our best. So I'm in the middle range because it could go either way, but we have the players like both of them were saying, we have the players that can get it done. I'm not so high on Jordan Riley, I don't, I don't think he's the second best transfer that K States had in the secondary, especially under the climbing era. There's, there's a lot of players better than him, but you know, this, this secondary can go either way, but we just, we have to hunker down because there's, there's some, there's some teams that can exploit this secondary more than a couple of these quarterbacks already have. All right. Well, I'm right where chef is. Maybe it's because I had two high of expectations coming in this season. I would call myself out of five or six again, it might have been my own fault having such high expectations. So I'm going with chef with three points. We're going with two with Aaron again, I like whole numbers. If you ever come back, I like whole numbers and then ace going with one, look, maybe, I think you probably came in, maybe a little bit more realistic. I don't know if I'm, if I'm, you know, putting all these guys in the NFL quite yet. But look, if, if we shut down Travis Hunter, if we shut down should do, or if we have a big game against their passing attack, super late at night, I will let you come on to Bosco's boys for 15 minutes that following week and say whatever you want, unedited can't mute you, whatever you want on any subject, no politics. Yeah, that's a happening Travis Hunter as I die. Okay. I mean, well, there it is. There it is. We got the final one, scale one to 10, can't say seven, start with Aaron, Aaron, how confident are you that case state men's basketball is going to make it out of the first week and then the NCAA tournament? I will say eight. There's your whole number. Uh, look, it's preseason. There's so many things that we have to learn about this team, but some of the things that we do know is they have some older talented players that have been there and done that before, right, that, that have made runs in the tournament and that have played at high levels. And, and so I like the makeup of this team. I like that we have a talented point guard coming in, both in the transfer of Don with Daniel, but then also David Castillo, who people have said, he was playing light years above his age and that he's a very mature player. I like having a guy like Coleman Hawkins, obviously, a chore, a chore. I think the damage that he did while at Sanford against KU look like they potentially could have taken that game. So you're talking about player and then, you know, Gasson, he was there for the elite eight run and, you know, Tang is saying that he looks more comfortable than he ever has been. And I think that just comes with the age and the experience. And so you're looking at, yes, a team of collective talent that's being pulled together in the 11th hour, like every school, right? That's dealing with it. I don't, I don't think you're finding teams anymore where it's like, yeah, these seven guys have been here for three years. That's just not going to happen anymore, right? So when you look at what this team has been able to do and the cohesiveness that they've been able to build relatively quickly, like things like Shark Week and, and the, the activities that they plan for these guys to bring them together, I think it makes sense that they are by the time that season comes to an end, right? And we're now in post season play, Tang is going to have him where he needs them to be. And I would fully expect for them to make the tournament be, get out of the first weekend. And then we'll see what happens from there. I want to see Union Station lit up in purple again after a sweet 16 win and, and print the posters and have him signed. Let's go. All right. We'll go to the good chef Andre Napier, chef. What do you got? Yeah. I'm going to take Aaron's strategy. I've already lost this around the horn match. I don't get to say whatever I want. So I'm going to go 9.9. Why not? You know, realistically for all continuity, I just said that we're going to be big 12 title contenders after a strong home front versus Arizona and KU. So why not keep it going with a tournament run, which outside of the big 12, which is the monster powerhouse of all basketball programs going up against a couple, you know, maybe a mid major and then a big 10 team that finished like barely above 500. I'm going to go with the mouse making it out of the first weekend. That's light work compared to going to going to Baylor and then playing Houston and then having to go to Arizona and then, you know, just traveling all across the country. That's going to be light work, man, 9.9. It's easy money for Jerome Tang with the pressure on baby. It's all full circle here. All right, we'll go to ace and then we'll call it a nice scale one to 10 can't say seven. First off, chef, go try and set your bench max right now. You're on juice right now, dog, but I'm honestly going to say nine. And here's the reason I say that. Tang made the elite eight with a roster that consisted of exactly one of his first choices in the transfer portal. And that's Keontze Johnson and Mark East Newell. Everyone else on that roster was probably second, third or fourth choice. And that's not to despair is that roster. I really like that roster. I mean, that has some of my favorite players ever on it, but he made the elite eight with that roster. And I think that this current roster is I'm not going to say infinitely, but it is exponentially more talented than that first roster that he got through the elite eight and he may be saying yourself, well, he didn't do anything last year. Yeah, because the incident occurred and also he lost out on his first choices in the transfer portal because some guy in Alabama decided to buy someone else's house. So to me, this is this is a big prove it year for Tang. And I think that he is more than capable of proving it because this is one of the first rosters or probably the first roster that he has constructed that is almost exclusively his first choice guys. So I'm going to go with nine. All right. Well, I think you're all crazy. It's very tough to get out of the first round. No case state coach since what was a Jack Hartman has ever gotten to the second weekend multiple times in their case, a career, not long Krueger, not Frank Martin, not Bruce Weber, you know, not Dana Altman. It's tough, but I like the zeal. I'm giving ace three points for it because, you know, some good reasoning. We're going Aaron, you got two points, chef, nine point nine, no, you get one point final score. Andre 15, ace 19 and the newcomer getting the face time getting the stage, just whatever he wants. Aaron from echoes from exit three, one, three, also a fashion mogul internet celebrity blog superstar. Aaron, the floor is yours. Say whatever you'd like, my friend. Well, I appreciate that. I will use this time to talk about two things. One is willythewildcatfun.com. It is the fund that helps raise money for the scholarship to fund the willy the wildcat. The person who does willy the wildcat. It's not a scholarship position within the athletic department. And so this is the fund that raises money for that and they're doing a 5050 raffle. It's now legal in Kansas. So they're going to do the drawing at halftime of the KUK state football game. You can buy your raffle ticket at willythewildcatfun.com. If you are the winning ticket holder, you get half the proceeds and then the other half go to fund the scholarship for the student that does willy the wildcat. So that's number one. I would appreciate you guys checking that out. The fraternity brother, my and Brian Rader was willy the wildcat from the 94-95 season. And so I'm trying to help him out. And then second, exit 313ksc.com. If you want to get a hat or if you want to look at some of the other apparel, really excited about everything that we've been doing on that front, we've been having a lot of fun. And just everybody's support's been tremendous and love seeing all the hats and Bill Snyder family stadium. It's been like incredible, been a lot of fun. So thank you for having me on, man. I really appreciate it. And beginners luck, totally beginners luck. Well, you're selling yourself sure. I think we had an all-star group look, folks, if you're listening, let me know if you like this. Could this be possibly a Thursday conversation episode later on? Could this be a repeat thing during football season, basketball season? We'll definitely break out in the off season. Give me your guys' feedback and we might do more of these episodes. So for all my esteemed colleagues in the K-State fan podcast world, for Chauncey, the best song in the world. My name is Scott McFarland. We love you guys and go cats. ♪ Hail to the purple, ♪ ♪ Hail to the white, ♪ ♪ Wildcat in spirit, ♪ ♪ Wildcat in fight, ♪ ♪ Hail Alma Mater, ♪ ♪ From sea to sea, ♪ ♪ Onward forever, ♪ ♪ Hail victory, ♪ ♪ Barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram, barram ♪ Fight, fight, you can stay wildcats for all the modern fights. ♪ Glory in the combat for the purple and the white faithful ♪ ♪ To our colors we will ever be ♪ ♪ A fighting, ever fighting for a wild cat ♪ ♪ Victory, fight, fight, fight, fight ♪ ♪ You can't stay wildcast for all the modern fight, fight, fight, fight ♪ ♪ Glory in the combat for the purple and the white ♪ ♪ People to our colors we will ever be ♪ ♪ A fighting, ever fighting for a wild cat ♪ ♪ Victory, go stay ♪ ♪ One, two ♪ (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) - This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. 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