Wickedson will now use this post as if it's truth!

In our ongoing effort to make sure that travel costs are kept to a minimum, we would like to welcome West Virgina to the Big XII. West Virginia comes to us from the Big East Conference where they and Syracuse will be replaced by San Diego State and Boise State.

In other news, Kansas has declined Missouri's offer to play in the non-conference instead opting to play against Northern Illinois, Rice, and the aforementioned San Diego State.

Any questions may be directed towards our fearless leader, Chuck Neinas who is joining us on remote from Kemper Arena where he eagerly awaits the tipoff of the Big XII tournament.

Now why would the Big 12 hold a tournament in a state where they have no teams?

You're still thinking about that?

That's too bad. I'm concentrating on winning another Championship this weekend.

Move on bro.

That's a good question. Wickedson also assures me that its also a very dangerous city, this place KU calls KANSAS City.

How many of those BCS games were as an at-large bid?

Because there are thousands upon thousands more KU fans in the Kansas City, MO area than any other school.

Kansas is making a push to overtake the area completely by lowering tuition rates in three prominent counties on the Missouri side of the border. They aren't hiding from the fact that already they've been taking advantage of MU's decision to leave the area.

There's a reason why you see more KU gear at Chiefs and Royals games than any other school.

Where the game is played is immaterial. The Giants and Jets both play in New Jersey. They are powerful NFL teams because of their ties to NY however.

Sometimes that's how these things work out.

I don't know. I'm at work and don't have time to check.

But if they would have lost them it would make sense that they weren't deserving.

Too bad they won them all.

They'd better do something to stop their declining enrollment.
Http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/september/27/enroll.shtml

Meanwhile Mizzou keeps setting records for enrollment and is planning a massive project to increase the football stadium's capacity.

So you were able to post an article about LGBT rankings, but you can't check on this? Do you have The Advocate bookmarked or something for quick and easy reference?

KU set an attendance record less than 5 years ago. It's hard to go anywhere but down when you're on top.

Maybe there is a school out there that has never had enrollment decline?

Seems pretty tough to do when you set attendance records and then those students graduate.

Theoretically, those graduating students are replaced by incoming Freshmen. Of course, theoretically, you build off the success of your best ever football season and keep churning out winning teams.

I for one am shocked that a bottom feeder who had a successful year in football set an attendance record for football that year.

It appears KU took a couple years off to get back to another Final Four.

I wouldn't worry yourself regarding the football team.

From what people are saying it is in very good hands.

No, douche, you're the one who keeps touting every BCS team as if they had to slay some mythical beast to get in. Some deserve to be there. Some, like West Virginia, took advantage of a ridiculously weak conference to get in year after year. Some, like Kansas, rode a ridiculously weak fluke schedule to get in once.

Take the 2007 Illinois team. First off, it's actually somewhat insulting to Illinois to compare them to Kansas, since Illinois actually beat a couple of really good teams during the course of their season, but they were both BCS teams that lost to Missouri on neutral fields, so there is that. Illinois went to the Rose Bowl and played USC. They got slaughtered. Kansas went to the Orange Bowl and played the Chokies. Sucks for Illinois that they had to play a real team, eh?

You better hope so with the additions of the historic powerhouses the Big 12 added!

KU and WVU are 4-0 in the BCS.

Why do you keep bringing it up? It's over. No big deal. Time for Championship Weekend.

I've stated many times that with the addition of WVU and TCU over MU and Texas A&M that football just got much more difficult for KU.

There's no hiding that fact.

People often say a lot of stupid shit. Kansas is still likely the least talented team in the Big 12, only POSSIBLY ahead of Iowa State. Your fatass head coach has shown nothing but mediocrity at the college level despite the unlimited resources at his disposal at Notre Dame and Florida. At a crap program like Kansas, he's ****ed.

Just trying to make you understand that all BCS teams are not created equal. Some are really good. Some are Kansas and West Virginia.

You still not over this Frazod?

And some are not BCS teams at all.

(sorry, I had to)

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ROFL


classic

As long as your pet reerun continues to treat backing into a BCS game like winning the Super Bowl, I'll continue to call him on it.

I never brought up KU you ****ing moron.

This was about WVU's 3-0 BCS record.

Which year should we look to when they got in unfairly?

Which win?

GTFO already, you ****ing trashbag.

Uh, ALL OF THEM? Their old conference compares to quality football like you do to real men. LMAO

Wow Frazod, you are really under Wickedson's skin today. You would think he would off getting ready to celebrate his team making the final four, instead of obsessing over conference re-alignment. Maybe Wickedson is just a closet WVU fan?

So instead of 1 win over each school in the last 6 years KU won't get any against TCU & WVU?

I think it's the other way around, actually. And not just with frazod. :D

Am I interpreting this correctly in hearing that Kansas has exactly 1 win each against Nebraska, Colorado, aTm, and Mizzou over the past 6 years in football?

Wickedson is certainly an entertaining little twit, you've got to give him that.
It never ceases to amaze me how that in two or three posts (many of which even he can't possibly believe) he can turn some folks into raging morons.

hehe, good try.

Don't blame me. I'm the one who's been saying for years around here the college football isn't a real sport and more of a showcase of NFL talent.

Bowls choose teams based on brand, popularity and travel potential.

Kansas was chosen in 2008. I wasn't involved. I didn't even bring KU up.

It's amazing how he can look at the sun and call it the moon.

Wickedson: Let's see. We are adding Texas Christian and losing aTm. I know...I'll blast aTm for being too religious. Perfect. We're adding a school from a state 1500 miles away and refusing to play a school from a state 25 minutes from Lawrence. I know...I'll say conference affiliation is about geography.

What's next? Is he going to call out Mizzou for having fat coaches?

I don't think they consider football first.

The move doesn't affect basketball much because the conference is the same size and they normally won those anyway. Appearing in the postseason is not contingent on your conference results or winning a championship. It's neutral in the short term if you are a basketball school.

Its sickening how college football is just a minor league system for the NFL. Look at all the 1-and-done players in college football. I mean, you'd never see a scenario where the best college basketball team full of guys who chose a school because they wanted to go to the NBA the next year. /Calipari

What conference is the same size?

1 win each against Nebraska, aTm, and Mizzou in the past 6 years. Colorado they only have 1 loss against in the past 6 years.

Yeah, it's been a shitty past 6 years. The 3 years before that we were MU's daddy.

Sssshh you, Mizzou is football powerhouse!

Six years ago, my kid was in fourth grade. My, how time flies. ;)

This is actually a good point.

Maybe we as Mizzou fans have become content to push around the KU's of the world. This move to the SEC is just what we need to continue cementing our reputation as a football up and comer. The SEC will offer harder challenges, therefore Mizzou will reach new levels of performance, since we don't have the KU's of the world to fall back on. Most excellent.

Horseshit. Never happened. And basketball season ended March 11.

Mizzou Senior WR and team captian, T.J. Moe knows that the SEC will be a big step up in competition for the Tigers.

ROFL

Would be true if the record wasn't 5-4 in the last 9 years. The Gill experiment was a complete fail, that much is obvious. Before that, though... yeah.

Not sure why 9 years is the barometer. Nobody on Mizzou's 2012 team ever lost to Kansas. Those are the only players that matter.

They certainly have their work cut out for them, they went 7-5 last year with losses to OU, OSU, K-State, Baylor and Az State playing in the weak Big 12. But they did finish strong, good luck!

The kid came back for more punishment? What a dumbass. At least he wasn't talking about grown men's endowments this time.

I'm just playing whack-a-tard. :sulk:

8-5

Would have been 9-4 if Pinkel hadn't iced his own kicker in the ASU game. :banghead:

I heard that Mizzou nearly missed out on the consensus #1 football recruit in the country and USA Today's high school player of the year over this SEC move.

They said he considered Kansas but in the end he was afraid the high level of competition in the Big 12 might hurt his chances of going to the NFL, so he picked a lower profile conference.

The 24-10 curbstomp?

I've never been so unhappy while winning a game in my life. Just of what woulda happened had Gill held on!

Ugh...

You talking bout DGB? KU had two scheduled meetings with him and Gill didn't show up for either.

Thank goodness, no doubt DGB would have chosen the glory of playing football in Lawrence and the Big 12 if he had shown up.

You noticed I referred to the regular season, by mentioning the Big12? But we can't forget the Independence Bowl win, is that a BCS bowl?

That is about the time you jumped off the Pinkel bandwagon, wasn't it?

If only Mizzou hadn't scored those 24 unanswered points.

If only Mizzou hadn't outrushed Kansas 171-65...

If only Mizzou hadn't outpassed Kansas 180-72...

If only Mizzou hadn't gained 18 first downs to KU's 10...

Imagine what might have been.

Why do you always try to find victory in that game because KU had the lead at one point? I never see anyone else do that with that game. MU was at least within a snowballs chance in Hell of winning 4 out of 5 of our losses last year. Hell, we probably should have won the ASU game, Baylor was back and forth the whole time. You don't really see us touting any moral victories in those games though. Hey everybody we were up by 19 in the 2nd half at AFH this year, GREAT JOB ON THE WIN!!!
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I've never exactly been his biggest fan, but I'd take him over Jabba the Weis.

I also noticed you talked about Arizona State. I assume they haven't joined the Big XII since I haven't seen Wickedson talk about their endowment, so I'm not sure what referencing the Big XII has to do with excluding the bowl game when discussing Mizzou's season.

Regular season, non conference, combined with conference games.

then after that is the bowl game

We shall see. Weis certainly has a lot of work to do, but it appears he has cut a pretty wide path already.

Yeah, he certainly lit things up at Notre Dame, with infinitely more resources, too! :thumb:

aren't you gone yet?

Gone where?

So why would mentioning the Big XII make it clear that you were only talking about the regular season? It doesn't, because there is more to the regular season than just Big XII games just as there is more to the season than the non-conference games and the conference games.

Mizzou was 8-5. If we had lost the bowl game, you would have said we were 7-6. Instead, you decided to cherry pick. That's fine. Just pointing out that Mizzou won 8 games. That's become our floor in recent years.

KU didn't win. I'm happy they didn't win.

What does moral victory have to do with anything I said?

He went to two BCS games. That's what KU wants to get back to so let's see what he can do.

People will eventually realize the days of winning at ND like they used to will never happen again. The academic requirements and nature of the university just don't mesh with the contemporary student athlete.

Semantics, whatever.

I had looked up their regular season schedule and actually paid them a compliment for finishing strong. Nice bowl win, congratulations! :thumb:

So you agree they are at their floor, and are not ascending? Heading to the powerhouse conference while they are on the floor?

Well since the Big 12 is so bad at everything.... and MU can only win 8 games.... what does that make them in the SEC??

The BCS game was an aberration. What KU has been able to "get back to" is its long, storied tradition of being teh suck in college football.

He not only had more resources, he had more restrictions.

Please don't pretend there weren't several ND HCs in a row that had the same issues, due to the scholastic and other requirements on the athletes.

Secondly, Weis may just have a little bit of chip on his shoulder. I kind of sense that from what I have been reading, but could be wrong.

Once you've been there you know what is possible.

-Wickedson

The seat belt on his rascal is too tight; that's all.

You think Weis would be allowed to bring in a bunch of post grad transfers, like he's done at KU (and pretty much any other school), at Notre Dame?

If he had a chip on his shoulder, he'd eat it.

Seriously, no one gives a shit about KU football, so it would be great if that isn't a subject of conversation in this thread.

I know you aren't this stupid. We aren't at our traditional floor. We have established a new floor that is higher than our old one. Hell, it's higher than KU's ceiling.

7 wins next year would be a disappointment for Mizzou or a cause for celebration for KU.

I'd rather have an 8 win season be my floor than my ceiling.

Really? The post count for the season that hasn't even begun yet dwarfs anything related to any other sport/school.

Actually to be fair, if you look at the long history of KU football it is more average than suck or great.

They had a lot of really good teams, but were average more than any other.

If you look at their bowl record, they have been to two in the 60s, 2 in the 70s, 1 in the 80s, 2 in the 90s and 4 in the 2000s. Of course the early bowl appearances were before they had a bowl for every other team in the NCAA.