Bearcat |
11-09-2008 05:16 PM |
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Originally Posted by Saul Good
(Post 5204152)
How can KU lose to MU and finish behind MU in the polls last year, yet their fans simultaneously claim that last season's success will carry them through 5 years of mediocrity and rip MU as being a fraud this season. Talk about trying to have it both ways, doesn't MU's season last year (which was superior to KU's season, hence the ranking) give MU a 5 year pass as well?
Meanwhile, MU is a top 12 team in the country and looks to be the class of the Big 12 North for the foreseeable future. Kansas is the same middle-of-the-road program that they have always been, and there's no reason to believe that anything better is in store.
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You should probably talk to Mizzou fans about being quick to pull the trigger on calling a team a fraud. If Kansas wins the Orange Bowl and losses by a possession to a team that was apparently vastly superior to them, and they're still called frauds.... of course when Mizzou losses to OSU at home and then gets their asses handed to them by Texas, Kansas fans are going to say the same thing.
The difference is that before last season, no one thought Kansas or Mizzou would do anything. Before this season, Kansas fans knew Kansas would take a step back and (hopefully) win about 8 games, while Mizzou fans were hoping to get a piece of the NC spotlight.
I heard crap from a Mizzou grad friend for a year about how Mizzou was going undefeated this year, while hearing crap about how Kansas was going to be 'exposed' by OU... which didn't make sense since MU couldn't beat OU last year, but whatever. Of course Mizzou is going to be called a fraud from those who took the same crap and are still taking crap about Kansas.
The class of the B12 North and middle of the road? For starters, before Mangino they weren't close to the middle of the road. And if the Jayhawks are complete frauds, then Mizzou isn't far behind... they haven't been nearly as successful when compared to Kansas as some people want to believe.
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