READ: Is Your Strength Coach Even Qualified If He Isn’t Bleeding From His Head?<\/a><\/p>\nThings like 5 am lifts or running stadiums will build lifelong friendships as you try not to puke or pass out.<\/p>\n
Speaking of running stadiums, the Kansas State Wildcats are knee-deep in their offseason program and decided to get their players acquainted with the stands at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.<\/p>\n
Ahh! Offensive linemen running up and down stadium steps in the snow with no sleeves on. All is right with the world.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the fine folks on X took exception to this tried and true tradition, and we had more than a few nerds complaining about things like “player safety” in the comments below.<\/p>\n
Boy, we’ve really reached peak offseason, haven’t we?<\/p>\n
Attorneys? Personal injury claims? Guys, come on! When did we get so soft as a football-watching society?<\/p>\n
Paul “Bear” Bryant is rolling in his grave right now reading these comments on his burner account.<\/p>\n
Look up the Junction Boys of Texas A&M, and you’ll see just how far we’ve fallen as a society.<\/p>\n
Now, I’m not advocating putting a football team through dehydration and heat stroke, but there has to at least be some pain for some gain here.<\/p>\n
Part of the problem is the fact that the athletes are now making more money than most of their position coaches and can leave whenever they feel like it.<\/p>\n
It’s kind of hard to put your team through a hellish offseason conditioning program when half of them can sit out and demand more money or threaten to enter the portal as soon as it opens.<\/p>\n
Luckily, the NCAA has recently eliminated the spring portal, so we might be seeing a return to more intense offseason workouts, but not with every armchair attorney in the Manhattan, Kansas, area weighing in on social media.<\/p>\n
Make college football players tough again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boy, we’ve really reached peak offseason, haven’t we? PublishedJanuary 30, 2026 11:50 AM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 30, 2026 11:33 AM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-440898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}