You're aware that we're posting all of this on a thread titled "KANSAS FANS" right? This has been a mostly tongue in cheek, good natured bantering back and forth between fan bases, which I fully expected in a thread that began with the good natured joking of "For a fan base that loves to make fun of us for booing, they sure boo alot don't they". Some people have gotten a little too serious and have gotten carried away or have simply not been following the whole thread as we joke around about silly stuff and have gotten their noses bent out of shape. That the Kansas fans that participate on this board joined the discussion ABOUT KANSAS FANS shouldn't really be a surprise, is it? If you don't want to hear Kansas fans talk about Kansas then perhaps the thread titled "KANSAS FANS" is not one that holds anything of interest to you and should be avoided.
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I suppose that's fair...
The fact remains that there is a level of arrogance that is unrivaled surrounding your fanbase. And for you to say it's all a "joke" and done in good fun is laughable. It's another opportunity for you to let the world (more specifically a fanbase that is enjoying a good stretch, but nowhere near what KU has accomplished) know how much better KU, you and the rest of the Jaysquawk fans are than everyone else.
It's cool though. You're right, if I don't want to hear it I can just not click on the thread. You could also have some class and either go away or stop with the KU is God crap. We love our team and are proud of what has been accomplished recently. We know it's not as good as what KU has done but let us enjoy the success without having to hear about how little of it we've had compared to KU.
The thread was created to talk ABOUT Kansas fans, not FOR Kansas fans. We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you!
ISU definitely has the pieces to make a run in March this year no doubt. Just have to put things together down the stretch. Fred has proven his teams can play with anyone in the tourney. I think ISU has a better shot at going further in the tourney than KU mostly because Kansas' bigs are awful outside of Ellis.
There are a lot - not all, but a lot - of posters on here that wouldn't have much of a problem with you if you limited your "good natured KU bantering" to threads that were on a KU topic, but you clearly are incapable of doing so.
I don't feel the need to let the world know what KU has accomplished, that facts and records are out there. If I mention any accomplishments of Kansas it is in response to a post here that has something to do with them. I do not post anything about Kansas' accomplishments unsolicited. In other threads people make ridiculous comments about KU in response to my posts on other topics just because they know I am a KU fan and they think they have a funny zinger. When I post "After watching Foster's bad attitude against Kansas this doesn't surprise me one bit. He was yelling at teammates and throwing up his arms in frustration when he didn't get the ball the whole game." in the thread about Marcus Foster getting suspended and the response to it is this: "I know, right? Foster probably woke up frustrated because he found out all the KU players **** rainbows in the morning. I mean, he wasn't going to score anyway, even if he got some touches because the Jayhawks had him on "Self Island" all night. Am I doing it right?" then that is flat out an ISU fan driving the conversation about a Kansas State player into a conversation about Kansas.
And there are a lot of people that would benefit tremendously if ISU fans would stop taking pot shots at Kansas in response to my posts that have nothing to do with Kansas just because it was me that posted it. If people want to respond to what I post with a response about my post, that's awesome. Making some dumb comment about Kansas that has nothing to do with the post is inevitably going to end with the conversation changing into "Kansas". 99% of the thread derailments into KU conversation happen because of this, not because of me.
That's absolutely true, that is someone being (as you said) "tongue and cheek" based on a history of you unabashedly steering the discussion towards KU. I would even say that on your own it's more subdued but when your cronies came and started their KU smack you jumped right in and let it all shine.
I guess there's free speech and the mods must not mind much but it does get old to have someone here that will constantly (and you do this) steering the conversation towards KU. Normally it's not as blatant as it has been in this thread with your cohorts but it can be simply us talking about Monte and you jump in with some Mason crap. We don't care about Mason, we're talking about Morris!
Great guard/wing play and great defense rules the ncaa tourney not great big man play. With the overall play on the perimeter of Mason, Graham, Selden (lately), Greene and Oubre I feel better about KU in the tourney than I have in the last few years. I also think that ISU has great perimeter players, especially with Niang and Hogue being able to knock down open shots from deep. Both KU and ISU have more improvements to make on defense to best maximize their ncaa tourney capabilities.
Mason will be the wild card, if he can continue playing at a high level they will be a tough out. Selden has shot the 3 ball better this year but hasn't been very efficient outside of that. Greene has been terrific. You need some bigs though and having to rely on Traylor for 20 mpg could be the death of your squad.
When you factor in the quality of opponent? Probably not, no. They played better against Texas Tech but it wasn't that hard for them to play well against Texas Tech.
That's what I figured, just wanted a KU fan to confirm. That's the main reason I don't even remotely feel bad about the loss. What hurt us was the Tech loss. As far as I'm concerned KU and ISU are right up there after both teams won "fairly easily" on their home court. Hope we get a rematch in the B12T.
Still lots of hoops to go to the end of Big 12. Should be interesting to see how it all shakes out at the top. And I agree, ISU's game @KU was certainly not anything to be concerned about. KU had to play a really good game to beat ISU.
This is pretty spot on. The bigs are questionable, like they are in the entire conference outside of Texas who doesn't know how to use them. Point guard play has killed KU the last two years and that has improved quite a bit and will continue to improve. Mason is a converted 2 guard that has freaky athletic ability and a huge upside and Graham is a very good freshman with good upside. Bigs though are about as bad as it's been for quite a while. We were close to getting Turner or Okafor but lost out to Texas and Duke. Duke is understandable but Turner made a bad decision and would have been a difference maker at KU. I thought this year was a rebuilding year and still feel that way, but the conference is bad enough that KU is going to win more games than I thought and will get a higher seed than their actual ability. If Texas would be a top 5 team like they have the ability to be, then I think this conference looks quite a bit better.
Wow Tuco, seriously? You never cease to amaze. You come to our board as a guest and insult our fans and then preach to us on message board manners?
If you're gonna live on other team's boards, ya better toughen up buttercup.
(How was my spelling and grammer? Hope it's up to your standards).
Depends on the match up I suppose. I certainly wouldn't pick us to beat Kentucky, Virginia or Duke by any means. Having to rely on Traylor for 20 mpg doesn't seem to be hurting KU so far as they are 18-3 having played the toughest regular season schedule of any team in the last 15 years, including being halfway through the schedule in the deepest conference in the country. Bill Self seems to be reluctantly admitting that this team needs to be more perimeter oriented as the season rolls along. We'll see if he continues to evolve the offense as the tourney nears. KU has benefitted from playing a ton of grind it out tight games over the season. We'll see how it pans out in the end.
