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1. on March 27, 2012 at 7:55 am Rick Nichols

   It was the Mouth that Roared, but unlike the Mouse That Roared, if I remember the story from the book correctly, it didn’t conquer the basketball world, even in little ol’ Kansas, where the Mildcats usually fell to the Jayhawks. After Missouri left for the SEC, someone at South Carolina made the comment that they expected Missouri to become one of their biggest rivals. They must have known something, as now we will get to see the two Franks (Martin and Haith) continue to do battle as SEC coaches, not that I personally give a rat’s rump one way or the other.

   
   
2. on March 27, 2012 at 8:02 am jimmycsays

   That’s perfect, Rick…You need to start writing my headlines!

   
   
3. on March 27, 2012 at 3:08 pm John Altevogt

   He won at K-State.

   
   
4. on March 27, 2012 at 3:50 pm Smartman

   I quote myself, “as big of a travesty as the Trayvon Martin killing was, the fact that a Johnny Goombah Greaseball like Frank Martin can pull down 2 Million Dollars a year coaching a meaningless D1 hoops program is bigger.”

   We have lost all sense of scale and propriety in our value system and societal structure. This is not capitalism run amok. It is stupidity on parade.

   
   
5. on March 27, 2012 at 3:54 pm Smartman

   Greetings Sportsmiss! Fitz, we have a most attractive young woman in our midst. I sense that she has the brains to back up her beauty. A dangerous and desirable combination. Property values are rising.

   
   
6. on March 27, 2012 at 7:05 pm jimmycsays

   We do, indeed, have a most attractive young woman in our midst, Smartman. But regarding your statement that you sense she has the brains to back up her beauty…we will have to hold our breath and wait quite a while, it seems to me, to gauge that…As far as I can tell, she has yet to post a blog. So, I guess you’re theorizing that she’s smart based on her looks. Now, I see, Smartman, how quickly you swoon and cast aside your discerning judgment in the face of a beautiful face. Oh, well, we all have our Achilles heel. And for most of us men, it’s women. As Jack Nicholson was quoted as saying in an article last year in the UK’s Daily Mail: “If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.”

   Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350653/Jack-Nicholson-I-used-feel-irresistible-women-Not-more.html#ixzz1qMhPMZ5W

   So, Sportsmiss, we do welcome you to the world of the blog, but now…Show us something! (And I don’t mean flesh.)

   
   
7. on March 27, 2012 at 8:20 pm Rick Nichols

   Frank was an improvement over Huggy at K-State, and while the program did pretty well on his watch by most standards, the Cats continued to play second fiddle to Kansas. But Smartman is totally right – all of these coaches are highly overpaid, and the fact that they are showered with so much attention year in and year out is a sad commentary on the current state of affairs in America. Hey, I wonder who catches more flies over the course of a year – Frank Martin or Rush Limbaugh?

   
   
8. on March 27, 2012 at 8:34 pm jimmycsays

   Hands down, it’s Rush, Rick. However, I think Frank catches much bigger flies, as a rule.

   I think there’s a good chance he’ll bomb out at S.C. It’s being reported today that many of the players had lost confidence in him and some had met with A.D. John Currie to express their concerns. I think K-State’s going to come out of this in good shape. They’ll probably hire Jankovich, the Manhattan native and former KSU player. That’s what the program needs — a good coach who has strong ties to the school and doesn’t mind living on the prairie.

   
   
9. on March 27, 2012 at 10:48 pm Smartman

   Fitz, some credit please! Of the many gifts the Lord has bestowed on me, one is the ability to judge a book by its cover. I nailed John Edwards to the philanderer cross aeons before the National Inquirer proved it.

   I sense that like Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman and Kate Winslet, Sportsmiss is more than just another pretty face.

   
   
   • on March 28, 2012 at 8:50 am jimmycsays

     All she’s got so far is a Gravatar — “an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog,” according to the Gravatar Web site.

     In the only paragraph on her Gravatar site, she says, “I am an esthetician (skin-care specialist) by day, bartender by night, and consider myself to be a sports blogger/follower in between.”

     You can’t consider yourself to be a blogger unless you blog.

     
     
10. on March 27, 2012 at 11:01 pm John Altevogt

    The key to Frank’s success was his recruiting ties into the Hispanic community. Hiring a good local coach is all well and good, but you have to be able to recruit urban players to the middle of the boonies. Frank did that and I’m not convinced that a local Manhattan coach would be able to do that.

    
    
11. on March 28, 2012 at 8:45 am jimmycsays

    I’ll certainly grant you that, John.

    
    
12. on March 28, 2012 at 11:20 am John Altevogt

    Thanks, Fitz, and thanks for the edit. Appreciate it.

    
    

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