Missouri stole our drum!
 

http://rockchalk.com/forum/read.php3...=0&thread=3421

http://media.columbiatribune.com/img...vs_ku_t620.JPG

LMAO

:facepalm:

lmao.. thought there wasn't supposed to be bias in Journalism

Get your ass kicked by rival...can't even protect a marching band drum. ROFL

They are such dumbasses. Unless I am mistaken, that is the war drum that is KU on one side and MU on the other side that the winner gets each year.

You can see a ****ing tiger on the top of it.....

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...fisiFiHKIaeRVw

I really hope the writer was trying to be facetious.

You're not mistaken. The writer is an idiot or not serious.

Yeah wtf. I saw it right away too, and was like wth...

Remember that Orange Bowl win? It's another year older now.

Perhaps they should win the game. Then they could have the drum.

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!

Now that's funny!

IMO, their most recent season should be measured in dog years.

"That's what I love about undeserved Bowl Berths. I keep getting older, they all stay the same age...yeah"

/Beaker.

Love the 'undeserved' mantra. If you say it enough times, it becomes an accepted fact, lol.

If you make it to a BCS bowl, you make it. Maybe you guys will get to play in one this year and the bitterness will stop. :)

I just know that Orange Bowl catapulted KU football into another level of success.

Yeah, they really built upon it, didn't they? ROFL

Come on now, lets give the KU fan credit. At least he knew that it was still technically football season. Jayhawk nation has stated it is "basketball" season since early September.

They pretty much followed that trajectory.

And your #11 (LOL) basketball team has to play in an empty arena because the only game you guys show up to is when KU rolls into town. Our football stadium fills more people proportionally than your basketball arena, and our football team is abysmal. MU fans are the best!

epic fail.

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.

Still bringing up the bottle being thrown at the band? That was before Mangino. This person was serious.

Oh, I care about football just like many other Jayhawk fans, I was simply trying to give your friend a little perspective. I just find it very amusing how MU fans somehow think they have good fans. If your football team was doing as bad as ours, the attendance would probably be worse than what you see at Memorial Stadium, lol. I saw MU fans start leaving in the 3rd in 2004 in person, but I don't think you guys were ranked that year, I may be wrong.

It is easier to make it when the Athletic Dept. writes a check to bribe the bowl committee. Now most of those people are gone and/or under investigation. I got 4 tickets to the Orange Bowl, seats on a charter flight, and hotel for free because we do business with KU. Lew had to give stuff away because he had to cover his ass.

Link? Or are you just pulling this out of your ass?

Common Fact. Did KU take you to the game?

Bob Davis thinks KU should be ranked no lower than #4 in the BCS.

Common fact? I'd like to see some proof, lol.

And no, KU didn't take me to the game, but I'm sure if I was doing something for them that was important enough, they would.

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.

"The balance of power in the Big 12 North has shifted to KU and the other teams should be on notice that this isn't just a one year fluke."

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.

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.

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.

DE-PANTS!ed

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

Yeah, that's an amazing picture of our stadium in the 4th quarter of a blow out. No fan base ever does that, no sir. Lord knows MU would never do that. LOL. And no, it's not embarrassing to see an empty stadium in the end of a dead game. Shit, even the best fanbase in the NFL has had a half-empty stadium the last couple of years. That's what losing perennially does to fans. That's true for all fanbases, even the vaunted MU fans.

It's easy to fill a stadium when your team is doing well, no one is arguing that. It's also easy to fill a basketball arena when your team does well. Easy for everyone but MU, I should say.

Yeah, the irony of it is hilarious. :LOL:

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.

THIS

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

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

Lol, nope. I am not wasting my time if your memory is that short.

You win some, you lose some.

55-55-9.

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

It's been a long while. But KU fans didn't fill up the house for basketball games during the sunset of the Ted Owens era. MU had won 4 consecutive BBall titles and OU and Tubbs were running the Big 8 into the ground in the early to mid 80's.

In order to offset that KU fired Owens and hired Larry Brown. It took him 3 years to win the Big 8. They haven't looked back since.

Didn't think it was true.

Just because I didn't look for the thread does not make it untrue. I remember people whining about that. Don't remember if it was the official thread or not, but I do remember that much.

Show me a fanbase that fills up their stadiums and arenas to see a shit product get destroyed by the opposition year in and year out? That's not the argument.

LMAO Sure.

Don't be a dickbag. It's Lzen, it's not like him to pull shit out of his ass. He's not one of those fans.

I know what you mean. Its not that hard to understand.
Hell, I had rival fans asking me if I was gonna go to the border war game. I told them no ****ing way. I am disgusted with what TG has done to this program and I wasn't going to waste my money on watching my team get killed. Why is this so hard to understand?

I did the same thing with the Chiefs. Before the 2 games I attended at Arrowhead this year, I hadn't been to a Chiefs game since the Chargers came to town in October of 2006. I refuse to waste my time and money on a crap product. Call it what you will.

Zach is normally an okay dude. But when it comes to the KU/MU rivalry, he can't help but be a dickbag.
/shrug

Hey, I'm not arguing that at all. (Pull your PANTS! up). Love the name, btw. I was showing that it has happened to KU basketball.

You never said what prompted the name change? An affection for Dockers?

Ya know what? I seem to recall [insert whatever is really convenient for any given thread]

Like Baylor putting up 7,000 for it's home opener this year? Or Pittsburgh putting up 9,000?

MU's a solid basketball school and that's it. It's not going to sell out games against 'scrimmage' schools, even when well ranked. And In case you haven't noticed, we still have a football season going on as well. That's where the attention of the town is.

Your point seems to be that KU is a better basketball school than MU...afterall that's always a Beaker's point, regardless of the conversation. I'd imagine the next time you can't hold your wad, you'll bring this up. But I'm unsure what point you believe you're proving here.

Yes, KU has a better BBall program. But given my choice, I'll take our athletic program over yours without thinking twice right now.

It's common sense. These holier than thou hypocritical douches like Pitt Gorilla and co know this as well, they're not stupid.

I'm honestly surprised that MU isn't filling Paige to the brim. I can understand that it's not a "basketball town" and I don't expect them to come watch and support their mediocre teams, but when your team is #11, I would think that would garner something.

Hilarious how this has magically shifted into a basketball thread. Regardless, ku's lack of fan support was truly pathetic on Saturday. The f'n student section was empty except for the band.

The ku side of Arrowhead is below. Embarrassing to see you send off your seniors like this.

http://i52.tinypic.com/2pr8mc5.jpg

As long as we're rehasing all of this shit for the 1,000th time, I want to be first in with the Sod shot. Now, quick, somebody post the bowl of oranges! LMAO

That's not my point at all, and I'm sure you know this because you're far from stupid. My point is that you can't blame a fanbase for not filling up a stadium for a team that is a gimpy cellar-dweller with a rich tradition of being one. THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN no matter where you look. You CAN, however blame a fanbase for not showing up to support an up and coming, #11 ranked program.

It's not a basketball thread, dummy. I swear to God, one of you sees the word 'basketball' and the collective goes full reerun. Why don't you try and actually read the points being argued here, champ.

We are one Sam Hall appearance away from this thread being complete!

:hmmm:

lol.

I really hope MU makes it to a BCS game one of these years. It really is a great experience.

For crying out loud! You guys are not this dense. The only reason Pants even brings up basketball is because he is comparing fanbases. Not trying to deflect that our football program is shit right now and the fan base reflects that.

I have to give you credit it one respect.

You are consistent with your passive aggressiveness.

Obviously you're not smart enough to understand what's going on here. Forget I said "basketball" and imagine I said "prgram x" and "program y". I hope that makes it a little easier.

ROFL

So what about Pittsburgh? What about Baylor?

If it's not a school that prides itself on its basketball program (i.e. Duke, Kansas, Syracuse, etc...), the basketball team simply isn't going to draw exceptionally well during football season against sub-standard schools.

Now, I'll start to criticize in a few years if the fans haven't come back. As I said previously, you had to be in Columbia to understand the vitriole that Snyder brought onto this program. Even when he was gone, his kids were still out there getting in bar fights and other such nonsense. The basketball program's name was mud around here because of Snyder. Hell, then we had the garbage with the Paige Sports Arena and the attempts by Kroenke and Laurie to black-ball Norm Stewart.

The fans were somewhere well beyond pissed with the basketball program. Anderson's slowly bringing them back. The fans issues with this team went well beyond wins and losses. If Anderson gives us a couple more seasons with good kids and strong teams, the fans will forgive them.

But don't act like you can speak to the fans here without knowing the background. It was more than the records that created this and it will take more than records to get us back to the Stormin' Norman days. I believe they'll come around, but it takes time.

Actually your brethren have brought up basketball attendance quite a few times in here, bro.

Let's not lose sight of the point here though: ku has a hilariously awful football team and a pathetic fanbase.

POST A PIC OF THE ORANGES!! DO IT!!!!

What are you talking about?

I just burst out laughing when I read one of your fans say they wouldn't trade the athletic programs.

I have many MU friends. I want them to get to where KU has been in football. It was a lot of fun.

It's going to be a lot more difficult after this year dues to the realignment, imo.

:facepalm:

Why would I do that?

I want a Sugar, Rose and Fiesta now.

:facepalm:

OK, fair enough. I can understand that. I'm sure that could happen anywhere and nobody is safe from a program being dragged through mud by a sleazeball. Your points about Baylor and Pittsburgh are also pretty good. Well, I don't know about Baylor, but Pittsburgh for sure. Baylor is in its own category.

P.S. Can you please tell your reeruned dog ezbate to stop barking?

Beat North Dakota State first.

Baby steps.

It's the dude's first year. He has no quarterback.

It was a rough year but it's not that bad.

Lost to MU 35-7, not exactly complete annihilation. And Nebraska did all they could to make a score look better than 20-3 and couldn't do it.

Sooo, the point you are trying to make is that you would be embarassed if you went to Missouri and their arena isn't sold out nightly since they are on the cusp of being top ten? And from that, you are making the statement that MU fans suck because they aren't supporting a winning team? Well, my question then would be - is the arena two thirds full? Half full? Crickets in the stands? Or are the seats actually sold, and nobody is occupying them for whatever reason (out of state, out of city, etc.)? And what is the actual attendance in regards to filling the place? A hundred empty seats up top? Show me a pic where the arena is a ghost town during a game this year.

OH SHIT METROPANTS WE'RE TALKING BASKETBALL JUST LIKE YOU SAID WE WEREN'T DOING

Why don't you post the responses to the statement you posted.

You cherry pick once again. You're so played.