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Better late than never. Again, we'll skip the visuals since I'm incompetent and can't find a good Loyola logo. Here's to the start of a successful K-State basketball season.

Yes, it's very freaking early to talk about bowl game considerations. Still, it's fun to guess where K-State may end up for Christmas break. While Stanford isn't exactly an exciting match up possibility, I wouldn't care if we were playing Tennessee Tech again as long as we got the extra month of practice. Now if we can just win one of our next two...

Curtis Kitchen had an excellent analysis of what 5 things need to happen for K-State to reach a bowl game in Bill Snyder's first year back as head coach. We here at BOTC are realists, and we realize things can go wrong, and football seasons that seemed so promising can end as gorey as a Zack Snyder movie. 

I'm not pessimistic by nature. Actually, I consider myself to be an optimist. I try to find the good in most situations. So, don't take this as some pathetic cry that this 2009 season is doomed. However, it is worth taking a look at what issues could turn this season into more of a nightmare than a dream. Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.

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Yes, it's summer, which means unless your university is handing out player suspensions or announcing crappy accounting practices, it is slow as hell. But, summer also means it's baseball season, and this sounds like good news for a former Wildcat.

Good luck to Carlos if this rumor turns out to be truth. I hate the White Sox, but I could learn to cheer for them every 5th day or so.

In this article about the recent rash of coaching changes in college football, Bob Krause explains why it made economical sense to fire Ron Prince.

Bob Krause explaining economics makes about as much sense as John Goodman teaching an aerobics class.