How nice that you support your MISSOURI teams.

How does that make me hypocritical? Canada sucks compared to the US, but there are some really nice parts of Canada, and it wouldn't suck living in Canada as long as you live in one of the nice parts with easy access to everything the US has to offer.

Trust me, if you weren't allowed to travel outside your state of residence, I wouldn't live in Kansas.

They're not Missouri teams, they're KC teams. The only team associated with the state is the one that has the state in its name. Should the Chiefs move across the state line but remain in the metro, you would stop cheering for them?

Ask Saul why he chooses to live in Kansas while claiming Missouri is so much better.

So Missouri has no nice enough parts for you to live in? Or are you saying Kansas has the better "nice parts"? I don't understand your logic.

Actually, those teams are in Raytown, MO.

yep, that's how it works.

Everyone in NEW York City is a fan of the Buffalo Bills LMAO

Everytime I think you're smart you disappoint me.

Dumb ass

Yeap, the Raytown Chiefs and the Raytown Royals. Who hasn't heard of them?

That sounds pretty hollow to me.

GTFO is all I have to say to you.

LMAO

You can't be a fan of the team because you don't live in the county!

Kansas City isn't New York, you stupid ****. Do you think they'd put anything in New Jersey if there was still any room left?

Simple facts. The Chiefs are a Missouri team. The Royals are a Missouri team. Just like the Cardinals and the Rams. And the Tigers. All Missouri teams. Stadiums are Missouri, principal fan bases are in Missouri. Not shit wasteland states that don't rate MLB and NFL teams.

Simple enough even for a window-licking reerun like you to understand.

Give up loser.

You already made yourself look like a pathetic pussy last week.

You're getting off to a great start once again.

buh-bye bitch

If you don't understand that a small subset of a large set may not share all of the general attributes of the large set, then don't bother trying to figure out the logic.

Kansas is a flat state. Colorado is not. Yet there are parts of Kansas that are at higher elevations than some parts of Colorado.

If someone doesn't like mountains, it doesn't mean that he would be better off living on Mount Sunflower instead of in Wray, CO just because, as a whole, Colorado is more mountainous than Kansas.

God you are such a ****ing little baby.

While the rest of you are bitching about god knows what, I'm here to bitch about SDSU's move to the Big East.

It's football only. It's an increase of $2 million in TV revenue, and it's not until 2013. Coincidentally, 2013 is the year that a lot of people are estimating will be the last year of the Big East's AQ status in the BCS.

Being football only, the rest of the schools programs can't move to the Big East (not that they probably wanted to anyway). The Mountain West already set precedent by kicking BYU's sports programs out of the conference once BYU Football went independent. So now, the rest of our programs are going to move to the Big West, which consists of teams like Long Beach State, UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton, UC Davis, UC Riverside, etc.

This is horrible for our basketball program. We've started getting commits from 4 and 5 star recruits, but I'm pretty sure you can throw those out the window now.

It sucks.

You mean the part where I played your bitch ass like a grand piano and laughed while doing it? LMAO

So you're saying that the best Kansas has to offer is better than the best Missouri has to offer?

Wait, you live in a shitty apartment near NYC, right? Who is the hypocrite?

The only people laughing were doing so at you.

I love New York. I don't talk like it's some wasteland.

How are you not grasping your contradiction?

This isn't a binary. Not everyone that was worried about the economic impact to KC was on some Keitzman-level cartoon meltdown. Losing the tourney was a legitimate concern.

As to your analogy: I don't rep the world. I rep Kansas City.

When I goad you into banning yourself for my own amusement, it's really only my laughter that concerns me.

Right down the street from his favorite bar, The Blue Oyster.

Are you under the impression that I live in the most expensive residence in Kansas or Missouri? I don't.

I live in a suburb of Kansas City, MO. The fact that Kansas City, MO spilled over into Kansas and created a nice place to live in an otherwise crappy state is really incidental to Kansas.

I put a lot of work into my lawn. My neighbor's lawn is shit. Sometimes, my nice grass grows across the property line and gives him a really nice patch of grass. that patch in his yard may be nicer than some problem areas in my yard. That doesn't mean that his yard, as a whole, is nicer than my lawn.

You don't need to give me another analogy, I understand your point that you think Missouri is nicer overall than Kansas. That's nice and you're entitled to your opinion. I was just curious why you choose to live in Kansas, that's all.

I chose to live in a suburb of Kansas City. The fact that it happens to be barely within the borders of Kansas is of little consequence. My location is more impacted by the good things in KCMO much more than by the wasteland to the West. Otherwise, I wouldn't live here.

Dude, just give up. There are people on this board that are here to try and divide us...nothing more.

The fact that they are being made the bitch by the southern wing of their state is only feeding into their trolling.

The other fact that the two biggest shit talkers don't even live in the state they are trying to prop up is all the evidence you need.

Nothing new here, I just read the last three pages and they are like the first 99.

But aren't there suburbs on the other side of Kansas City?

Yeah, pretty much. I had put it on ignore a month ago, but ignored threads still pop in the "last post" box, and I had forgotten about ignoring it, so I posted.

I was then a bit confused when I couldn't find it on the list, but then I remembered.

I should probably put it back on ignore. :D

Yeah the least populated area of the state is controlling the decisions of the two big metro areas. Man you are a delliusional douchebag.

Ah, nothing like watching rival fans go at it. Clearly there is still plenty of animosity. It's too bad one of these schools is afraid of scheduling the other any longer.

Yes, Forsyth and Purdy and Poplar Bluff dominate the political landscape of the state of Missouri. I was crushed to find out that I got exactly what I was cheering for.

You could always try the self invite yourself to the big 12 route like SMU did. It might work out for you guys. :shrug:

Seriously though, I knew SDSU would get ****ed in the realignments. I actually feel bad for you guys. **** Boise though.

Not to mention the largest city in southern Missouri isn't exactly Mizzou's big hot bed either.

No

SEC Tournament to KC?

Also, Alabama to play in Missouri SOON?

http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1308305

HURT: Expansion brings new markets
Cecil Hurt
TideSports.com Editor

As the interminable wait for the BCS championship game nears a more-manageable three-week countdown, there has been a window of opportunity to do a few different things - including the new territory that has been annexed into the Southeastern Conference.

Fortuitously, the University of Alabama basketball team was in Kansas City on Saturday (although not playing one of their future SEC brethren), which created a golden opportunity to look at the new western border of the league.

Technically, one could argue SEC territory stretches all the west to El Paso now (although I am not sure how strong the Aggie sentiment is in that community.) It's more instructive to consider the league's new territory as extending to a line down from Kansas City, through Fayetteville and into the Dallas and Houston megalopolises (or is it megalopoli?).

Those (and St. Louis) are the vaunted "new television" markets. Whether Kansas City is Missouri Tiger territory is another question - Kansas is far closer and there is a pervasive Jayhawk feel, or it seemed so to me.

Without belaboring points that have already been made about the cultural ties between this area and the South - yes, there are a lot of good barbecue places here - it is clear Kansas City is a sports town. The Chiefs are the clear heroes here, even in a dismal coach-fired year.

The most recognizable Alabama football names, perhaps even ahead of Nick Saban, are Javy Arenas and Wallace Gilberry. There's another Alabama link.

The big mural downtown at the Sprint Center is sports-related and features the legendary pitcher of the Kansas City Monarchs, Satchel Paige (from, you guessed it, Mobile, Alabama.) The point isn't to find every minuscule thread that leads back to Alabama. It's just to note Kansas City - and perhaps most of Missouri, outside of St. Louis - has proven college sports interest and should be fertile ground for the SEC.

Alabama football fans may get a chance to test that, more quickly than expected. Nothing official has been released concerning the expansion-altered SEC football schedule for 2012, but it would not surprise me if Alabama's first visit to Missouri comes sooner rather than later. It could come much sooner. Much, much sooner. Take that in the spirit of a Christmas hint.

There is also a solid chance the SEC basketball tournament will be coming to Kansas City in a few years - Missouri certainly wants it to be played in the Sprint Center - and that wouldn't be terrible.

The arena is the hub of the Power & Light district downtown and it would be roughly similar to having the tournament in Nashville. The difference, of course, is it wouldn't be centrally located, and the crowd would be primarily Kentucky fans, sprinkled with Arkansas and Missouri. Face it, if the SEC Tournament were held in Anchorage, it would be "primarily Kentucky fans."

Certainly, expansion has its pros and cons, and it will be hotly debated again as soon as the new 2012 football schedule comes out. After all, you can't please everyone. But Texas A&M and Missouri are fine schools, and if growth was inevitable - and perhaps it was - there are certainly worse places to grow.

Cecil Hurt is sports editor of The Tuscaloosa News. Reach Cecil Hurt at cecil.hurt@tuscaloosanews.com or 205-722-0225.

So now KU is running commercials on 810 trying to lay calim to KANSAS City. They are like a ****ing Chihuahua pissing on every tree in the neighborhood.

Hey Kansas. The rest of the local schools are a combined 4-0 in Kansas City this year. You are 0-2.

So now KU is running commercials on 810 trying to lay calim to KANSAS City. They are like a ****ing Chihuahua pissing on every tree in the neighborhood.

Hey Kansas. The rest of the local schools are a combined 4-0 in Kansas City this year. You are 0-2.

If there is a year to jump on Kansas to feel better about yourself...this IS the year.

Considering the fact that KU is 0-for-the-year against Mizzou when it comes to athletic competition of any kind at the halfway point (end of first semester), I'd say that's a pretty accurate statement.

Enjoy it.

I hope they keep doing just so I can see Saul Good wail like a bitch. LMAO

The only trophies you care about are the ones you get for beating KU?

KU aims higher I suppose.

I hope they keep doing it too. Every time I see one of those billboards, I smile thinking of KU flailing around trying to feel important. Then I think about the 6,000 Kansas fans that showed up to Arrowhead to watch their team get beat yet again, and my smile becomes a laugh.

Really? I thought it was quite effective.

The coach nearly beat mu and still got fired. People not showing up to the game was a clear sign that they wanted a change. No matter how the game went.

That and all the dollars that have been brought in to hire Weis and get rid of Gill.

KU is in fine position. The media blitz has been as expected. missouri has abandoned Kansas City, why not cement your standing here locally?

Yes.

The way MU manhandled a very good KU defense all game is something to smile about.

You Kansas fans are adorable. A 14 point loss = "nearly beat MU".

Regardless of the final deficit. It was an exciting game for us adorable fans.

Most football programs...good or bad...can hang 4-5 TDs on KU by halftime.

We weren't use to holding a football team to 3 pts at halftime with our inept defense.

Congrats.

You're the one who's got his panties in a bunch over some stupid ad campaign, champ.

LMAO

Considering that KU was beaten by 30+ points 6 times during the season, then leading at halftime, to only losing by 14 points to the powerhouse MU. Again, good job on barely beating the worst team in the country.

May your ad campaign in Kansas City be as successful as your athletic competitions in KC have been this season.

I'm sure the tens of hundreds of fans have enjoyed your success.

I was one of 40,000 who enjoyed watching them win at Arrowhead and one of 22,000 who enjoyed watching them win at the Sprint Center. Thanks

I love combining attendances from multiple games. HAY GUYZ I WAS ONE OF THE 200,000 TO ENJOY WATCHING KU WIN!

Good job on clearly being the worst team in the country.

And yet here you are. Completely focused on what Kansas does..... day in, and day out

Your envy is fascinating

We know what we are, we're are trying to fix it now. :D

"But it's a holiday week"
"It's deer season"
"Walmart is having a sale"
"People won't travel to 2 hours KC to watch a game"
"People won't go to games in Columbia because the opponent isn't good"

So, which excuse is it now?

Well provided they have a state of 8 million people and Kansas has less than 3 million and has to split their fanbase with another BCS level institution I would hope mu could get a couple more fans out to the games.

Average attendance for KU football > average attendance for a KU basketball game

Our apples are redder than your oranges /KU fan

I'm amazed that 6,000 or 8,000 KU fans went to the MU/KU game after what was called a football team put on display this year.

lulz, you guys both suck

Good call on deleting that one, Pants.

It was Wickeson-esque in its logic; borderline Stewie in nature.

MU fans are even disappointed in the basketball attendance right now, but that's just the way it is. We're not a basketball school, it's not a blue-blood basketball program and folks just aren't going to drive from KC and STL to see them play a weak-sister on a Wednesday.

It's annoying, but your 'point', such as it was, was pretty damn stupid.

Columbia is in the middle of the state. St. Louis & KC don't want to travel there to watch games.

The funniest part was Saul Good saying that people don't want to travel to Columbia for a bball game only for the fans to post abysmal attendance numbers in KC. LMAO

Columbia, much like Kansas City must just be a Kansas town.

Ehh, it was what it was. MU fans are terrible and the players know it and they have expressed their feelings on the subject. There are no baketball/football schools, there are just schools, fans and students. Alabama was filling their basketball arena FFS.

I'd honestly expect KU to have better KC #'s than MU because of how close Lawrence is - but what got me going WTF was seeing the attendance for games in Columbia for a top 15 team.

I've never been to Columbia. Is it fun?

They're a state of 8 million people with 6 professional sports teams and 2 major metropolitan areas that provide a hell of a lot of options for finite entertainment dollars.

Kansans, on the other hand, define themselves by their basketball team.

Nobody's ever argued that KU fans aren't more rabid over basketball than MU fans. They undeniably are.

The problem is that KU Basketball is pretty much all that God-forsaken state has going for it.

All the fans are packing for Shrevport?

You don't think Kansas fans are distracted by the professional teams in Kansas City?

I've only been there for KU football games and those were in late fall so the town seemed really ugly to me. It's a college town, though, so of course it's fun.

Huh?

Don't you fellas call yourselves a basketball school all the damn time?

And Mizzou was filling its arena last year as well; we ended up in the top 40 I believe in National attendance last season.

Annually, Mizzou does a nice job with attendance. Everyone's kinda puzzled about the low turnout right now, but it's pretty novel.

MU fans are historically very good and they will be good again. I think folks are still just shaking off the 'pissed' over the entire offseason with the basketball program, from Suitcase Mike to the coaching debacle.

It will come around; it always has.

But keep on running nonsensical 'fansmack' if it makes you feel any better. It really is about the only thing you fellas have going for you right now.

I mean apart from reminding us how little you care about us and all...

Columbia is a two hour trip from Kansas City. People from KC don't tend to drive 2 hours to watch the Tigers play basketball games against cupcakes on a Tuesday during football season.

Using the transitive property, Kansas City is the same 2 hour distance from Columbia, and the same holds true.

I guess when you're 0-2 in Kansas City while the other local teams are 4-0, pointing to attendance numbers of other schools while excusing the fact that your own school put 6,000 fans in Arrowhead makes more sense than comparing scoreboards.

Shreveport anyone?

Ahhh, but of course... we have better things to do excuse.

Why are you so butt hurt over the name of a metropolitan area?

We'll compare scoreboards after we play each other, I see no reason to compare anything at this point. And I wasn't taking about other schools, I was only talking about the shitty MU fans. KSU fasns have been good about supporting their school since OBZ first made his way over there.

That's not true. Parts of Kansas are very close to Kansas City, Missouri which is pretty much the best part about Kansas.

Blah blah blah. KU had more fans in freaking Hawaii than MU did in Columbia. LMAO