Jug Of News (06.12.12)
By Jameson
Welcome to our humble abode. Pull up a seat and grab a glass for a sip from today’s Jug of News. Hit the jump for the JOS college football playoff plan, the KSU men’s track program finishing in the Top 25 for the second straight season, an update on K-State baseball alumni in the pro ranks, and a couple of KSU tracksters doing some summer work.
Big Ten presidents have made some fairly idiotic statements in the last few weeks, leveling faux ultimatums, and basically behaving like petulant children, in their attempts to force through their “conference champions only” model for the new 4-team playoff. The president of the University of Nebraska even claimed they were prepared to stay with the “status quo” (read: old bowl system) if they didn’t get their way. Meanwhile, the Big 12 and the SEC have been fairly adamant that the playoff should be comprised of the best four teams, regardless of conference champion status. What then, but compromise, is left? In that spirit, JOS has put forward a compromise plan that could bridge the divide between the two sides.
I’ve posted several times on the JOS Twitter feed just how underrated KSU track coach Cliff Rovelto is. Though he coaches a non-revenue sport, at a school in a state not easy to recruit to (one of the reasons Frank Martin ran away) Coach Rovelto consistently recruits well and gets his young men and women to perform at a high level. That is reflected in the fact that his men’s track program has finished in the Top 25 for two years running.
One of Coach Rovelto’s athletes is freshman Alyx Treasure. Vancouver, B.C. paper The Province has an interesting profile of Alyx, detailing both the struggles and triumphs of her young career. It’s well worth a read.
Finally, JOS recently rolled out a recurring feature column called “Kansas State Baseball In The Pros.” We have since published two “special editions”, one regarding the exciting progress being made by former KSU pitcher Evan Marshall, and the other about current Wildcats who were taken in the most recent Major League Baseball draft. Yesterday, we posted our regular update on the progress of a few of the twelve alumni currently playing professionally, and included capsule summaries on all twelve, courtesy of K-State Sports Information.