A Kansas State Wildcats Blog -- Carrying the Banner High
After four straight losses – the last three of which weren’t particularly close – Kansas State needed a slumpbuster and the schedule delivered Monday night. Mississippi Valley State was picked to finish last in the SWAC again after winning just three games last season and has just one win this season, against the Mississippi University for […]
about 19 hours ago | 0 reads
The last one of these opened this way: The Kansas State Wildcats are officially entering the “pay-attention” neighborhood. After a 98-77 drubbing of a decent Mississippi State squad last night, the 5-0 Wildcats are starting to appear like a legitimately solid squad…one that could be capable of fun things if they can keep things rolling […]
about 22 hours ago | 0 reads
As it turns out, meeting newly-introduced Head Football Coach Collin Klein was the pinnacle of the afternoon in Bramlage, as K-State (5-4) dropped their fourth straight – second in a row in the Octagon of Gloom – to the Seton Hall Pirates (9-1), 78-67. K-State entered the game as a 2.5-point favorite, but produced another […]
3 days ago | 0 reads
In a festive event at the Morgan Family Arena in Manhattan, Collin Klein was officially introduced as Kansas State’s new head coach in a press conference that was nothing short of inspirational. The only notable absence from the event was Chris Klieman himself, which was certainly by design. Richard Linton began the affair before turning […]
4 days ago | 0 reads
In news that will surprise exactly nobody, the Athletic Department officially announced Collin Klein as the newest head football coach at Kansas State University. The 36th head coach in school history, he will replace Chris Klieman who announced his retirement on Wednesday after seven seasons with the program. The details of Klein’s contract have not […]
5 days ago | 0 reads
When the news about Chris Klieman started to spread like a prairie fire yesterday, I was surprised but not that surprised. The last two seasons have clearly taken a toll on Coach Klieman. I don’t have any inside information, but you could see it on his face and hear it in his voice over the […]
5 days ago | 0 reads
The Manhattan Mercury, under a byline from publisher Ned Seaton, no less, is reporting that Chris Klieman will announce his retirement and that Collin Klein is lined up as his replacement. Pete Thamel of ESPN made a similar report on X, while at the Athletic/New York Times Austin Meek — who used to cover K-State […]
6 days ago | 0 reads
I’m not a “fire them all” type of writer or sports fan. I have family in the college coaching profession, and they’ve been fired…multiple times, it’s never fun. In fact, K-State fired my uncle (along with everyone else on the Stan Parrish staff) in 1988, ending their stay in Manhattan. Hell, the one thing a […]
7 days ago | 1 read
The Kansas State Wildcats never showed up, and as a result dropped an absolutely excuseless stinker to the Bowling Green Falcons, 82-66. This recap is going to get all the effort the Wildcats (5-3) summed up against the visitors (6-2). K-State never led. Bowling Green got out to a molasses-slow 7-2 lead, and the two […]
8 days ago | 0 reads
Once again, the Kansas State Wildcats turned what should have been an easy win into 60 minutes of stress-laded football watching as they lurched to a 24-14 win over the hapless Colorado Buffaloes at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Three touchdowns and 142 yards by Joe Jackson led the way as the Cats really struggled for […]
10 days ago | 0 reads
We’re here. One more time (at least) for your Kansas State Wildcats to take the field in 2025. It’s been a rough season. We all had lofty expectations headed into the season, with dreams of a shot at the Big 12 championship running through our minds. But the Wildcats stumbled and bumbled through 2025, and […]
10 days ago | 0 reads
October 24, 2009. That was the last time the Colorado Buffaloes visited Manhattan for a game of American football. The good news is that K-State won that game, 20-6. The bad news is that K-State did not go to a bowl game that year, finishing 6-6. We don’t mean to alarm anyone, but there’s a […]
11 days ago | 0 reads
The Kansas State Wildcats came to historic Assembly Hall hoping to get back on the winning track against Indiana. Instead, they started slowly, recovered, then fell back again, losing 86-69. The final score does not fully indicate how badly the Wildcats (5-2) were outclassed by the Hoosiers (6-0) through much of the game, nor how […]
14 days ago | 1 read
Some of the greatest minds in human history have struggled with the question of why good things happen to seemingly (or actually) bad people and bad things happen to seemingly good people. I’ll save y’all save y’all the Philosophy 101 explanation of the “Problem of Evil,” but it’s a question I’ve been pondering this football […]
15 days ago | 1 read
Football Kansas State lost 51-47 to #12 Utah on Saturday. The loss drops the Wildcats to 5-6 on the season, 4-4 in the Big 12. As Jon Morse said in his recap, the star of the game was RB Joe Jackson, who set a new single game rushing record with 293 yards on a day […]
15 days ago | 0 reads
Records fell like dominoes in a wild contest, and the Utah Utes scored a final-minute touchdown to come back from a 12-point deficit to keep their playoff hopes alive with a 51-47 win over the Kansas State Wildcats at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. K-State set a school record for single-game rushing yardage with […]
17 days ago | 0 reads
What a weird, ugly season this has been for the Kansas State Wildcats. From the loss in Ireland, to one of the most disappointing home losses in at least two decades (but maybe school history) to Army, and now we’re coming off what could easily be argued as one of the worst wins in over […]
17 days ago | 1 read
The Kansas State Wildcats, vying for a NABC Hall Of Fame Classic championship, made a furious comeback to overcome a lackluster first half, but ultimately fell short on a last-second play by the Nebraska Cornhuskers, dropping their first game of the season 86-85 in front of a packed house at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas […]
18 days ago | 0 reads
The Kansas State Wildcats are officially entering the “pay-attention” neighborhood. After a 98-77 drubbing of a decent Mississippi State squad last night, the 5-0 Wildcats are starting to appear like a legitimately solid squad…one that could be capable of fun things if they can keep things rolling into the heart of the season. They’ve got […]
18 days ago | 1 read
After last week’s performance, there probably aren’t too many people optimistic about this week’s potential. But it all depends on which team shows up: the one that fought Texas Tech, or the one that played with its food in Stillwater. The Game The Kansas State Wildcats (5-5, 4-3 Big 12) visit the Utah Utes (8-2, 5-2 […]
18 days ago | 0 reads
The Kansas State Wildcats blew out the Mississippi State Bulldogs 98-77 Thursday evening in the first round of the Hall of Fame Classic at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City. K-State (5-0) trailed by four early in the contest, and the Bulldogs (2-2) stayed within arm’s reach until 8:46 remained, when a pair of free throws […]
19 days ago | 1 read
The Kansas State Wildcats haven’t been perfect, but they’ve managed to open the season 4-0 against some teams with a pulse. It came down to the wire against both Cal and Tulsa, but the crew that Jerome Tang has put together managed to keep their edge down the stretch and find ways to win games […]
19 days ago | 1 read
If you’re reading this article, I don’t need to tell you that things haven’t gone according to plan for the Wildcats this season. The heady summer days of pumping sunshine and writing things like “The Window is Open for K-State!” did not prepare me for this slog to the finish. I thought I would be […]
20 days ago | 1 read
When you post on SB Nation, we don’t want you to miss all the conversations and responses that follow. So starting today, whenever a user replies to your comment or to your post on the Feed, you’ll see a notification at the top right corner of the page. And of course, this means that when […]
20 days ago | 0 reads
Down 83-78 with 49 seconds to play, K-State staged a 6-0 rally to defeat Tulsa 84-83 Monday evening in Bramlage Coliseum. The Wildcats (4-0) did it with—of all things—defense. After PJ Haggerty knocked down two free throws to get K-State within 3, Nate Johnson pressured a point-to-wing pass in front of the Golden Hurricane bench. […]
22 days ago | 1 read