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Kansas State Wildcats (official thread)

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“The narratives I'm fighting against, well, I haven't been to a bowl game and I haven't had a winning season,” Martinez said. “Now football is a team sport, but I play quarterback and often times you get associated with those kinds of things and I want to win. I want to go play in a bowl game and I want to win a bowl game. So that was another reason why I came here. I feel like we have a great opportunity to win. And that's something if I do and I play the right way, I know we're gonna have an opportunity to do. Part of that's not turning over the ball as much, part of that is being accurate all the time, making the right decisions. And that comes with playing quarterback, yes, but I feel confident in the system and with the progressions I've made that I'll be able to take that next step.”

He transferred from Corn to K-State because he wants to have a winning season, go to a bowl game, and win it.....:lol:
 
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I've had a soft spot for K-State since Bill Snyder in the early 2000's. I've liked that program, their players and their brand of ball. No nonsense and hardwork.
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Just sayin': Ever since the 2004 Fiesta Bowl, I lost all respect for Bill Snyder. His star QB was caught breaking curfew and

The Wildcats had an 11 p.m. curfew on Wednesday, but Roberson was found to be out of his room at the Scottsdale (Ariz.) Plaza Resort at 4:30 a.m.
Kansas State athletic director Tim Weiser told ESPN that coach Bill Snyder will determine whether Roberson will start or even play against Ohio State.
Roberson was not with the Kansas State players at a pep rally Thursday afternoon, where 14,000 K-State faithful gathered at the Well Fargo Arena on the Arizona State University campus, according to The Associated Press.
Faced with the possibility of his star quarterback not playing, Snyder told fans that the Wildcats will "need to show great courage, great perseverance and be tremendously focused on the task at hand."
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Kansas State quarterback Ell Roberson was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at the team hotel early Thursday, calling into question his status for tonight's Fiesta Bowl game against Ohio State.
Paradise Valley police said Roberson admitted to having sex with the woman in a hotel room at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort, but the player said the sex was consensual.
The woman, a Kansas State alumna in Arizona to attend the game, said she was sexually assaulted by the football player between 3 and 3:30 a.m., well after the team's 11 p.m. curfew.
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I believe that Snyder suspended Roberson for something like 1 play, so he could say Roberson didn't start the game...... :lol:

Later he announced that he revoked Roberson's scholarship for Spring quarter....:no:

In the early morning hours of New Year's Day, 2004, police were called to the Kansas State team hotel in Paradise Valley, Arizona, by a woman who accused Roberson of sexually assaulting her. Roberson and the rest of the Kansas State team were in town to play Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. Police did not arrest Roberson, and later determined that no crime had been committed and no charges should be filed, but an investigation by the Kansas State athletic department concluded that Roberson and several other players had violated unspecified team rules. As a result, Roberson was stripped of his scholarship by head coach Bill Snyder. Snyder decided this after the bowl game, which the Wildcats lost 35–28
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The alleged sexual assault turned into "he said she said" deal and no charges were ever filed.

The bad thing about revoking Roberson's scholarship was that:

1) Roberson was in his last year of college football eligibility.
2) I have no idea what his major was. I'm guessing that he couldn't afford the tuition, just dropped out of school, and never graduated. I have no idea how close he was to graduation either; but Snyder's action kind of sealed Roberson's fate on any chance of graduating at Kansas State.
3) He went undrafted by the NFL and had a brief 3 year career in the CFL.

Roberson played quarterback in the Canadian Football League with the Montreal Alouettes, where he was a third-string quarterback in 2005 and then in 2006 became a wide receiver. In 2005, his rookie season in the CFL, Roberson tore his rotator cuff and was out for the season. He was released from the team in 2006
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Snyder placed winning the game above any disciplinary action (at least for the star player) and ended up just dishing out an academic/financial punishment.

Side note: K-State had a small halfback that was another star player on the team. In the Fiesta Bowl rushed just for 38 yards on 13 attempts and only caught 3 passes for 5 yards. I thought a guy that small doesn't have a chance in the NFL. Needless to say, I was wrong on that one:

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