I knew I should have skipped my boys football game to be there. Stupid wife wouldn't let me.

KU won on a 52 yard FG as time expired. I can't think of a team that wouldn't rush the field in that situation.

Author sounds a bit butthurt.

Are your posts ever correct?

http://worldonline.media.clients.ell...167d6870b19a92

http://worldonline.media.clients.ell...167d6870b19a92

Wouldn't worry too much about a blogger with less than 400 followers

https://twitter.com/coreynicholsKSR

No, the point he/she/it was making was that the students rushed the field. When they clearly and proveably did not. He/she/it lied.


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Here's his twitter. But hasn't been active in over 24 hours. Could be backlash for falsifying a story?

https://twitter.com/Yahoo_Graham

It turns out Graham is actually a she:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/OneBroncoNation...watson.png.jpg

FWIW... I thought they started to rush he field when watching the game, but the camera quickly cut away as to not show it happening. I straight up asked myself... "Did they really just rush the field"??

I never got another good field shot to get my answer, but was left with the impression some of the crowd did before flipping the channel.

You realize it was a joke, right? You're smart enough to understand that I wasn't really accusing them of rushing the field, cutting down the field goal nets, and applauding an unrelated team for winning a basketball game two seasons ago, right?

Probably...

I'm sure her site about Kentucky gets a lot of traffic from people interested in Kansas/Louisiana Tech football.

The entire dozen fanbase swept over that field

Well there are multiple photos now posted in this thread showing no fans rushed the field.

It's a pretty open and shut case. But KU has haters. It is what it is.

lol, another Mizzou fan just can't let go.

ROFL

I saw the story on my Facebook feed when a Mizzouchebag was hee-hawing about something I knew wasn't the case since I watched it live. So I immediately googled the writer and laughed when I saw where she graduated from.


We will always own their souls. Wait until Wiggins steps on the court in November and 1/2 of all their message board posts will be about KU hoops.

She's issued a retraction for her lie. Well kind of. But not really:




Dr. SaturdayVerified account ‏@YahooDrSaturday 21h Hearing from more KU fans today than ever. Outraged that we wrote they rushed the field after La. Tech win. Ha!
#pride #keepingupappearances




Nick Curry ‏@ncurr 21h @YahooDrSaturday most people figured they taught journalistic integrity at the self-proclaimed greatest J-school on earth.



Nick Curry ‏@ncurr 21h @YahooDrSaturday do you see fans on the field in the attached video? Nope. Either check your biases or learn what "rushed the field" means.

Andrew O'Hara ‏@AndrewJOHara 21h @YahooDrSaturday You attached a video that showed fans didn't rush the field, idiot. What did you expect the reaction to be?


Coaches Hot Seat ‏@CoachesHotSeat 21h @YahooDrSaturday Oh, that's rich! You go KU fans!



Mr. Ward Parkway ‏@Mr_WardParkway 20h @YahooDrSaturday Outraged at your incompetence. Please start practicing journalistic integrity. Tough to do on a lowly blog but try it.


scary spice ‏@wolfsvalentine 17h .@YahooDrSaturday you called us losers for allegedly rushing the field yet attached a video proving we didn't, what did you expect?


Brandon Sieckman ‏@bsieckman 15h @YahooDrSaturday You're a clown. Keep up the poor journalism and the trash talk.


Scott Chasen ‏@ScottChasen1994 15h @YahooDrSaturday @RockChalkBlog but KU fans didn't rush the field.... I was there... That didn't happen? Or do you mean the players?


RockChalkBlog.com ‏@RockChalkBlog 15h @ScottChasen1994 Nope. @YahooDrSaturday meant fans, not players.


cott Chasen ‏@ScottChasen1994 14h @RockChalkBlog @YahooDrSaturday what a joke. I will never read their posts again (and also before)!

Josh Kozberg ‏@Jlkozberg 13h @YahooDrSaturday Yahoo continues to support popular belief that they are, and always will be second rate journalism.


https://twitter.com/YahooDrSaturday

Dude, aren't you the one that made up the standing ovation bullshit?

That's totally different.

Backlash still growing with falsifying the story. Strange move by yahoo to continue to employ someone who outright lies in their writing.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Don&#39;t worry KU fans, we&#39;re not out to embarrass you more than necessary. The paragraph has been amended. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23basketballseasonisaroundthecorner&amp;src=hash">#basketballseasonisaroundthecorner</a></p>&mdash; Dr. Saturday (@YahooDrSaturday) <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooDrSaturday/statuses/382550635058434048">September 24, 2013</a></blockquote>
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2/3 of those will be from KU fans though. :p

So she got caught lying, and responded not with a "mea culpa", but with some sorta well-if-you're-gonna-whine-I'll-throw-you-a-bone non apology. I guess that's progress of sorts, and about as much as we can ever hope to get from a MIzzouchebag

Not nearly as heinous as a the KU **** who tried to stick Haith with a show cause penalty and who was conveniently fired after working the Josh Selby case.

So yeah, apparently KU fan can't let it go either. ROFL :clap:

Are you talking about Abigail Grantstein? I believe she was fired by the NCAA.

I'm not sure this person here should be fired but I find it strange that Yahoo hasn't reprimanded her yet.

Then again yahoo is about the 8th place anyone looks for sports info anyway so it doesn't really matter.

LOL at you all getting your panties in a bunch over this. LMAO

You ever get the feeling that reading his stuff is like looking at all of Skip Towne's old anti-MU rants?

Considering that Yahoo employs actual reporters such as Adrian Wojnarowski and Charles Robinson, I'd say plenty of people go there for actual sports info.

Somehow, I doubt that posting (on a Kentucky site) that Kansas football fans stormed the field when it was actually Kansas players who stormed the field is a fireable offense.

True, nobody cares what she writes. Her Twitter has a paltry 4K followers. I just find it odd how she can't admit she lied when the evidence is right there for others to see it. Why be so prideful? Even the Kentucky fans were ripping her for being a moron and they wanted to make fun of KU.

You'd think a major news outlet like yahoo would monitor these "blogs" a bit better than they do. Sure it's funny to poke fun at a fan base for doing something goofy.

But to call them "losers" and then completely make up something that would allow you to call said people "losers" is borderline fireable.

Something they should be examining.

Wrong thread

Too bad your fans won't get to see him come to your gym.

Iowa State is a three point dog to Tulsa. Does Rhoads keep his job next year if he loses this game?

Sorry they let you down.

SEC makes the wall street journal
 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Updated September 26, 2013, 1:50 p.m. ET

Declining Student Attendance Hits Georgia
At Campuses Across the Country, More Reasons Than Ever to Skip the Game
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By BEN COHEN
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The Georgia student section on Saturday against North Texas.

Athens, Ga.

The scene at home football games here at the University of Georgia is almost perfect. The tailgate lots open at 7 a.m. Locals brag of the bar-per-capita rate. The only commodities in greater abundance than beer are the pro-Bulldogs buttons that sorority girls wear.

There's just one problem: Some students can't be bothered to come to the games.

Declining student attendance is an illness that has been spreading for years nationwide. But now it has hit the Southeastern Conference, home to college football's best teams and supposedly its most fervent fans, giving athletics officials reason to fret about future ticket sales and fundraising.

As it turns out, Georgia students left empty 39% of their designated sections of Sanford Stadium over the last four seasons, according to school records of student-ticket scans. Despite their allocation of about 18,000 seats, the number of students at games between 2009 and 2012 never exceeded 15,000.

Winning isn't even necessarily a solution. The average student crowd to see last year's Georgia team—which finished the season ranked No. 5—was almost 6,000 short of maximum capacity. Even at Alabama, 32% of student seats went unused by students between 2009 and 2012, when the Crimson Tide won three national championships. Alabama coach Nick Saban wrote a flattering letter last week in the student paper to recruit students back....


ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...907738780.html

Beaks could barely draw a dozen fans to Arrowhead. Why are you laughing?

Not the first article I've read on the decline of interest in college football. Realignment and the destruction of tradition by administrators who have minimal ties to institutions are now taking a toll.

Happened much faster then many thought as well.

According to the article, it's been a problem around the country for years. It seems that nobody really cared about it until it started affecting SEC schools. From what I read, it sounds like there are plenty of people who want those seats if the students aren't going to use them.

Good point. They're eliminating networks devoted to college football due to the lack of interest.



EDIT: Sorry about that. Evidently, they're actually CREATING entire networks centered around college football. My mistake.

Congrats to the Big 12. For the first time in years, they won't be the only major conference with a team to go winless against FBS competition.

Televisions have networks dedicated to every interest imaginable. Time Warner spent the entire summer engaged in battles with sports networks trying to get on the air. Unfortunately for some of these "future college football" networks the ship may have sailed.

Probably true. Only the true major conferences will wind up with their own networks...B1G, SEC, and PAC. Nobody really gives a shit about the rest. Can't say that I blame them...

Possibly. Hopefully schools from other conferences will be able to secure their own networks dedicated to themselves.

oh wait...

Wait a minute...I thought it was pathetic to point out the successes of other schools in your conference...also, Saul crushing souls in this thread like its just another Thursday night. How you two keep coming back for more is beyond me.
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awww, Iowa State. ROFL

Absolutely. Texas is a perfect example. Now...if only they could find a team desperate enough to let them air their conference game on the Longhorn Network.

Oh wait...

More people nationwide will watch the KU-Texas Football game through the Jayhawk Network than they will through the Longhorn Network.

It is what it is.

It really is a problem everywhere. I have attended games in Big 12, Big 1G and SEC stadiums recently and the student sections are usually pretty spacious.

At UF there is a lottery you have to win in order to get the right to buy student tickets to a particular game. They all get sold, just not all used. Last time I was there plenty of students were around me in non-student areas. The student section was pretty full but not as full as the rest of the stadium, which was probably 90%. Maybe it's a hassle to transfer them or maybe college students are just lazyasses about getting up on Saturdays...?

Huh? You don't even make sense in half your posts
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Absolutely stunning that 1/3 of the student allotment at Alabama goes unused. Wow, that is just.....wow.

In college sports, the only teams who viewers care about are the big names. Conferences don't mean anything. Nobody in the USA cares about Mizzou, they care about LSU and Alabama. Conference affiliation can't make Mizzou popular. All they do is provide LSU & Bama more wins. You can't sell Mizzou-Vanderbilt to the public.



"Networks" don't pick up crap schools (Mizzou) that nobody wants to see in either sport. TV execs know that all too well.

Jealousy is not a good look for anybody

Nobody cares about Mizzou...not even the butthurt Kansas fans who spend all their free time on Mizzou message boards.

Just found it's funny that Saul has resorted to Iowa State to make the Big 12 look bad and they go ahead and win on the road. Blowing up in his face as usual.

Maybe in your small social circle they don't....but here in SEC and B1G country I find all kinds of people who not only know about Mizzou, but can actually carry on a pretty good conversation about them.

While you try to make yourself feel better by putting your fingers in your ears and pretending that MU's affiliation with the SEC doesn't give them better coverage the opposite is exactly true.

What did I do again? I asked if Paul Rhoades needed to win this game in order to save his job. Tulsa is one of the worst teams in college football. Losing to them after already losing to an FCS school would likely have put him on a very hot seat. Not sure how that blew up in my face.

Sounds like you have resorted to pulling for Iowa State to beat Tulsa in order to prop up the Big 12. That might be a new level of sad.

Who's propping up Iowa State? Most power rankings have Iowa St last in the Big 12. Not exactly the team the conference is hang their hopes on. I'm sorry they didn't come through with that loss you were hoping for.

Wasn't Missouri's first game on PPV? Sucks you guys still have to deal with that.

LMAO

Iowa State is hot garbage, but we all know they're nowhere close to being the worst team in the conference.

Not for long!

http://www.wareagleextra.com/wp-cont...PN-Network.jpg

How's the Big 12 Network coming along?

It's interesting. KU basketball student section fills their entire 100K seats (20 games x 5,000 seats). Georgia football can only fill 77k seats (7 games x 18,000 seats). Utterly pathetic.


It's even worse, given football is 2 Saturdays per month in the best time of the year whereas KU students go during Jan & Feb at night, half of them Wednesdays, when it's freezing cold. I guess KU fans > Georgia + Alabama fans.

Honestly...I could give a crap about whether or not I got to see MU beat up on a small school there for the paycheck (cupcake game).

I've seen almost every MU game for the past 3 years....and I have lived in both the SEC and B1G areas so seeing them has never been an issue.

Hey...had I known there was going to be a decent contingent at the game last week I would not have given up my ticket.

Instead I was forced to have to settle for watching it on the B1G Network.

Perhaps they get a boost from this weeks win. We'll have to wait and see.

http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_...kings-week-4-4

Why have a conference network when you have your own?

The SEC football schedule is a joke. I don't blame these fans for not going.

edit- and the crazy thing is that Georgia has the best one.

WHy hasn't this phenomenon hit Allen Fieldhouse yet?

Shifts to b ball again...pathetic.

Nope, we're talking about SEC football attendance. Why is it worse than KU basketball? I thought it was religion down there? It's not even a religion in Tuscaloosa or Athens apparently. Maybe they're waiting for a competitive team.

I don't think Nebraska Football has this issue either.

Neither is Texas Tech

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews....tendance.html/

Seriously....LOL. So what you are doing is comparing KU BB attendance to BB attendance at traditional FB schools?

How about comparing it to UK basketball which is really a better comparison.

Yes, I'm comparing KU's packed student section to Alabama's 1/3 empty one. Are you going to address the question as posed in the WSJ article or just avoid it? What's their problem down there?


As for Kentucky, sure. We can discuss that too if you'd like. I'm guessing KU's student attendance is just as good based on the grounds Kentucky can't do more than 100%.

At Tennessee apparently it pays to be a AAA member

http://i2.wp.com/knoxblogs.com/evans...6/IMG_1775.jpg

The fighting Groupons are slinging shit about football attendance? Keep ****ing that chicken...err...Jayhawk.

Let me ask it again...why compare BB to football? Doesn't seem logical.

As for the question in the article I can address it...not really figuring you can, so here goes. In many cases they tickets are sold but any number of things happen. Students sell their tickets to (gasp!) make some money and the person doesn't show. Sometimes the students might have conflicting schedules with other collegiate activities...there are many explanations, just befuddled why you couldn't figure it out on your own.

As for Kentucky....just wondering how many games you have been to at Rupp in the last few years?

BYU plays MTSU tonight. Turd of a game. BYU is winless on the season other than blowing out Texas.

Don't blame KU for being ahead of the curve.

http://www.groupon.com/deals/gl-stan...state-spartans

None of which are happening at Kansas. Weird. I guess the Alabama kids are broke compared to Kansas kids, and have a ton of things to do on Saturdays in October.

Rocky Top is in a world of hurt. They are broke, having expanded way past market demand and hiring loser after loser to kill fan interest. They're finished as a regional power for a while:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ling-huge-debt

Their financial situation sucks. Sounds like they've been sending over $10,000,000 worth of athletics revenue to the academics side each year for a while now. They just stopped doing that, so they'd better hope that they can pay down some debt with that cash and the SEC Network dough.

Do you think Alabama should consider doing Groupons geared towards their student body?