Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 7209519)

Uh...WTF are you talking about?

We have very solid attendance at Mizzzou arena, especially strong during the conference season.

Originally Posted by CoMoChief (Post 7209569)

this isn't true at all.

mu fans show up for the big games, KU, TX, KSU (as of recent yrs).....thats about it.

Meanwhile kansas can fill up AFH on a night where it's a storming blizzard, 0 deg outside in the middle of Xmas break while playing Univ of Wyoming Tech A&M Institute for the Blind.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 7209575)

Once again - we do not compete with Kansas because it's not a basketball town.

And say it's not true all you want, but everything is relative. Relative to the rest of the country, MU's attendance figures for their home basketball games is just fine.

Originally Posted by Pants (Post 7209597)

Shit, I bet even Nebraska would fill Devaney if their team was ranked #11 in the country. I would be embarrassed if I were you.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 7209620)

http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/o...z38/photo1.jpg

"Would be"?

If you aren't already, the above should pretty much cover it.

Like I said - leave it to a beaker to start chirping about basketball once their football team gets its shit pushed in.

Our football team sells out weekly, our basketball team is well above average. Both teams are ranked and going in the right direction. Oh, and fortunately we have managed to go the last 12 months without having made a national embarassment of ourselves with either our head coach, our ticket scalping alumns or our athletic director.

I'm fine with our athletic department at the moment. But you keep on yackin' about our attendance figures.

Originally Posted by KC Jones (Post 7209234)

Wait, you mean that a message someone posted on an internet forum might not be accurate or might even *gasp* not have journalistic integrity?!?!

Oh the horror!

Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 7209626)

Laugh all you want, but I seem to recall some MU fans on here whining about the same thing 2 years ago.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 7209519)

Uh...WTF are you talking about?

We have very solid attendance at Mizzzou arena, especially strong during the conference season.

Columbia isn't a basketball town, so fans tend to be fairly sparse during the early season games that don't mean anything. So you're right, we can't compare to Kentucky and Kansas for non-con games because the fans aren't interested in a glorified scrimmage. There's also still some residual damage from Quin Snyder - locally the guy was garbage and it reflected on the entire towns view of the BBall team. They're coming out of the darkness there, but you don't really understand the damage he did unless you live here. Trust me, it was extensive.

However, our conference attendance is very good and our overall attendance is just fine (40th in the country last season). Oh, and not to mention the fact that MU carried the 2nd longest home winning-streak in the nation last season before its loss to A&M.

But leave it to the beakers to start talking basketball when they get their asses handed to them in football. We get it - you don't care about football unless your team is doing well.

I wonder how much you'd care about basketball if your basketball team ever struggled.

I suspect I know the answer.

Originally Posted by |Zach| (Post 7209631)

MU fans on this board mistook the trophy associated with this rivalry for an item that was stolen from the other school?

Looking forward to this link.

Originally Posted by |Zach| (Post 7209640)

"It’s hard to have a Border War when one side is filled with conscientious objectors."

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/...ar/?tigerextra