This could potentially put quite a damper on Baylor's season.

"ESPNU will televise a four-hour ESPNU Midnight Madness special featuring extensive whip-around coverage from top college basketball programs around the nation Friday, Oct. 15, at 9 p.m. ET on ESPNU HD. ESPN platforms have been covering Midnight Madness events since 1993, with this season marking the fifth consecutive year on ESPNU.

Coverage will focus on several men’s programs including defending national champion Duke, and NCAA Championship participants Kentucky, Memphis, Gonzaga and Kansas State."

1998 still makes me sick.

Nice article from Gregg Doyel at CBS

In the spirit of Hate Week, more unsubstantiated humor at the expense of "Not in the Butt" Sherron.

And he probably yells at little kids to get off his lawn too.

See what you started? Reeeal Nice Lew.

Looks like Vic is gone.

Great article from Gary Parrish.

From the annals of the KU Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, I present to you, Marcus Morris:
"He said we were reading the news clips too much," he said. "I don't even read it at all."
Shocking.

I'll defer to Curtis Kitchen's excellent analysis of the coaching situation down the river.

Guaranteed to be an upset: The strangest thing about the Puerto Rico Tip-Off -- besides that Puerto Ricans don't seem the least bit interested in the event -- is that the organizers of the eight-team tournament put all three ranked teams on the same side of the bracket. Consequently, one of Friday's semifinals (No. 5 Villanova vs. No. 18 Dayton) features two ranked teams while the other (Ole Miss vs. Kansas State) features none. The title game is Sunday. And I tell you all that to tell you that I've decided to take the unranked team (either Ole Miss or Kansas State) against the ranked team (either Dayton or Villanova) in the championship game, meaning I'm predicting the winner of Ole Miss-Kansas State to take the Puerto Rico Tip-Off title. We'll celebrate my brilliance Monday. Don't miss it.

Good article from JMart. God I miss his stuff.

D'oh!

Wow, #13 in a 12 team league.

"We did things that were pretty advanced," Prince said. "We went around and heavily researched that first year and came up with schemes for all six of our special teams units."

Prince studied three successful NFL teams where he had access to people that most college coaches don’t, contacts developed over time that didn’t mind sharing ideas. He didn’t visit colleges but studied videotape, listened to speeches, read books by college coaches who have had great success in that phase of football.

At least now I know what he spent his time doing other than, you know, coaching a football team. If only he had devoted that much time to the rest of the program.

But Kansas State officials aren't joining the protest. Pat Bosco, dean of student life, said the university is not interested in joining any group objecting to the cans.

"We don't have a trademark on purple and white," Bosco said. "Now, if the promotion had a picture of Anderson Hall or the Powercat, then we'd have an issue. But if we started regulating everything that's purple and white, we'd be in a world of hurt."

Bosco also said he was not worried that Kansas State students would drink too much simply because the cans sported Kansas State's colors.

"We don't have our heads in the sand, and we understand there are students who are of age who enjoy a beer or two," he said.

Per Austin Meek.

College Gameday will be coming to town on Jan. 30 for the game vs. KU. Congrats to Coach Martin on pushing this team in the right direction.

You know, this could have all been avoided had they only just self-reported the violations. Tisk,tisk.

T. Newman makes the 1st Team CBS All-Decade Team at DB.

Story on gopowercat.com. Just some mundane tidbits except for this little gem:

Sophomore free safety Tysyn Hartman and sophomore defensive end Brandon Harold didn't attend the Big 12 Media Days. Both were likely camped in the weight room, where the players seemingly have never appreciated change more.

"Even just simple things like bench press is good," Hartman told GoPowercat.com last week. "I mean, we weren't doing a simple bench press before. (Under Ron Prince) we were doing a dumbbell bench press. Guys, they want to bench press. That's a guy's favorite lift. Anywhere you go in the country, even if you talk to regular guys that go and lift at the rec center, the first thing anybody asks is, 'How much do you bench?'
"That's something guys got excited about when we brought that back in."

The 6-foot-6, 270-pound Harold, a freshman All-American last season, said, "Last year we didn't do any of it, so we're just getting back into it."

"I trusted what the coaches told us and really didn't think too much about it and just did what they were asking," he continued. "I'm excited to have it back. I'm starting to feel a lot stronger."

Harold reported that junior Xzavier Stewart, a 6-foot-1, 305-pound defensive tackle, recently bench-pressed 515 pounds -- and it wasn't even a "max-out" day. Harold said he only bench-pressed 355 pounds because he was drained from a previous workout and "stopped because it was a little stressful."

"Xzavier is one guy that works out on his own, so he's always benching," Harold said. "We've got a lot of guys that have put up 450 and up. It's a lot better. I'm not even sure about specific numbers (of players that bench-pressed) 400, but I know a bunch of guys, way more than half (on the defensive line) did that. It's looking good. Everything is going in a positive direction."

Article in USA Today on Snyder's return.