ITT We Laugh At Other Pud Teams' Pud Stadiums/Arenas

[meow meow]

is Pitt State's football program better than KU in every conceivable way?  pics don't lie

[Rage Against the McKee]

better attendance

[meow meow]

for a second there i thought i was looking at The Coliseum 

[sonofdaxjones]

better attendance

Pretty good pic

[mocat]

they managed to have an enormous parking lot but at the same time, trees


 

[420seriouscat69]

Pfftt. A bunch of gravel surrounding a football stadium. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!

[Gooch]

they managed to have an enormous parking lot but at the same time, trees


 

Impossible!

[Shooter Jones]

better attendance

because a large percentage of KU fans go to Pitt.

[star seed 7]

Ladder truck with ol' glory 

Gorilla mascot and logo 

Welcome to the jungle 

[TheHamburglar]

Ladder truck with ol' glory 

Gorilla mascot and logo 

Welcome to the jungle 

Sandstone(?) wall

[cfbandyman]

Ladder truck with ol' glory 

Gorilla mascot and logo 

Welcome to the jungle 

Sandstone(?) wall

Is Pitt St. the best university in Kansas? 

[mocat]

the name will always hold it back

[star seed 7]

the name will always hold it back

Bad colors too 

[Rage Against the McKee]

[mocat]

mascot is cool af tho

[Emo EMAW]

Loved him in Trading Places.

[cfbandyman]

mascot is cool af tho

Agreed, it's a great mascot

[meow meow]

the gorilla's shades poke through his cheeks or his eye sockets?

[jar]

the name will always hold it back

Bad colors too 

Exactly the same colors as KU, minus the blue.
Crimson, PMS 186C
Yellow (Pitt State calls it gold), PMS 116C

Pitt State's historical logos (page 13) are pretty great though
http://www.pittstate.edu/dotAsset/8c823b1a-64cd-4444-9269-f6a8c1d16ec7.pdf

[Shooter Jones]

Pitt State's historical logos (page 13) are pretty great though
http://www.pittstate.edu/dotAsset/8c823b1a-64cd-4444-9269-f6a8c1d16ec7.pdf

holy crap, they're amaze.

get in here, skinben!

[star seed 7]

Amaze

[joda]

Is Kansas the best collegiate sport state in the country? I say yes with bullet points of support data.

-Pretty good major college football program
- Almost elite college basketball
- Multiple high end to elite D II athletic programs
- Some of the best JuCo athletics in the nation
- Quality NAIA sports

Since we own Texas, nobody pays attention to the West Coast, New York kind of sucks for college sports, and Florida is mostly just a bunch of cheaters and criminals I'm resting my case

[SkinnyBenny]

Pitt State's historical logos (page 13) are pretty great though
http://www.pittstate.edu/dotAsset/8c823b1a-64cd-4444-9269-f6a8c1d16ec7.pdf

holy crap, they're amaze.

get in here, skinben!

Dear god. They're incredible. Especially the 1956 guy

[SkinnyBenny]

the students got the center court seats all the way to the top.  that place never had an empty seat while i was there.  Great games with Mizzou and UNLV stand out.  Also the Shaq led LSU tigers. 

Dang. Lots of questions for Whisker Biscuit.

--Where'd you get your name? It's a good one, I like it.
--What is your fave Barnhill memzy of all of the great memzies? Would take a top 3 list.
--Did you ever have to, like, sit behind a beam or anything?
--Why does Barnhill Arena look so weird from the outside, too?
--Is there a better court in college basketball history than this one? Nope. That sweaty, drooly hog is amazing.





Basically just tell me literally every single thing you remember about that acid trip of an arena. tia.

Sorry sb...i didn't see this post till today.  I have so many great memories.  I actually had orientation with Oliver Miller, Warren Linn and Michael Hogue.  Oliver Miller was this orca fat nerdy looking dude telling everyone he was coming to play ball at the UofA...i laughed (behind his back) and told my dad what an idiot he must be to think he was going to play for the hogs.  The rest is history.

Fantastic 4 year stretch while i was in school.  My 3 fave barnhill are easy:

3. Shaq coming in
2. Playing mizzou...mayberry missed a game winning 3 at the buzzer
1. UNLV...this is easy...1 vs 2...Camped out for 2 weeks to get the best seats...was like 20th in line.  Sat 5 rows up in the center.  Great game...UNLV, what a team. 

Barnhill looks weird from the outside because it was renovated/remodeled/add onto several times.  Not while i was there, but it was actually a very old arena.  Professors would talk about the dirt floor it used to have everywhere but where the court was! 

Total Ahearn Fieldhouse move. Why did old timey arenas used to do this? For horse shows or something?

And no, i don't personally feel there is a better venue in college bball, but of course i'm pretty biased.  It was just so small and the students got like 25% of the seats.  made for a great atmosphere.

Barnhill was just fantastic.  So intimate, only sat like 9,000.  Students with the best seats and first come first serve of course, so lots of great camping out stories.  Coach Richardson was just getting rolling and our teams were just awesome.  Great style of play, great talent.  Miller, Day and Mayberry all played in the NBA, all in the same class, all stayed for 4 years.  What a time.  I dated a Lady Razorback so was friendly with most of the team.   Basically horrible people as you could imagine.  Got pretty much everything handed to them.

We having a saying around here Whisker Biscuit, MCMW. More Criminals, More Wins. Will take every single athlete/horrible person story you've got.

Lots of great stories about athletics at the UofA.  My dorm roommate went to school with Lee Mayberry in Tulsa (Washington I think).  Lee was one of like 10 kids, father was the school janitor, Lee rode the bus to school every day.  First week at the UofA we see Lee in a brand new corvette convertible.  My buddy went up and asked Lee where he got the ride...."it's my dad's" was the response.  Perfect. 

amaze

After the trip to the final four all the basketball players were riding around campus on brand new scooters.  Not the scooter of today, but the small motorcycle scooters. 

Were the hogs more of Vespa guys or Vino guys?

The athletes got whatever they wanted.  County (or city can't remember) prosecuters daughter got gang raped in the athlete's dorm by like 9 guys.  I don't think even one person got suspended let alone went to jail.  Made a lot of news but eventually just went away.  Today it would have probably killed a program (as it should have then)

kay these aren't so fun anymore

Football was also fun.  Barry Switzers son played ball at the UofA so was always a treat to see Barry out at the bars in his full length fur coat.  Guy loved to have fun. 

Anyway, times there were awesome.  But i grew up purple and although i didn't go to KSU, i returned home to Kansas just as Bill was getting it rolling so it was an easy transition back.  The past few bowl games versus the hogs have been fun but I've never wavered in my support of the purple.

Oh, and the name.  There's a movie called "I spit on your grave" from like the early 80's i think.  "Come on Angel, show us your whisker biscuit!!"  Just an early memory from a horrible movie.

I want to go to a bar where fur coat Switzer is boozing with 2006-7 Huggins. 

Also is there somewhere that shows the evolution of Barnhill Arena's additions/renovations? I have searched the internet and can't find crap, which is partly why it's such a fascinating disaster to me. Probz fun as crap to see 40 minutes of hell there tho.

Excellent post all around. The Word?

[SkinnyBenny]

Toured Pitt State indoor facility, locker room, and weight room last week.  Very impressive.

Got a second kid who's looking at playing? Also when you go on these recruiting trips or whatever do the coaches allow you to freely take pictures of everything or do you have to be all sneaky about it like Garth in Wayne's World 2 when he is up in a tree using a camera to take pictures of Cassandra out with another guy?

Arena makes me kinda sad. It's like, John Lance probably donated all this money to Pitt State for this sweet new hoops stade and then he gets what is essentially a hollowed out Costco where basketball is definitely not the only focus. Kinda reminds me of the MHS North gym where they would take students up on that second level during the day for like archery classes and hunter's safety courses and junk.

Is ProMAXima like the dude version of Shakeology? Makes me sad that the windows are not very big but are still bigger than the TVs.

The bike seat in the middle of the foreground of this picture is crooked

I bet when all those gorillas get in there and start throwing iron around and grunting, it sounds like heaven, which is what I call it when 90 dudes all do the Tim Taylor sound at the same time.

The wooden pedestal and the radio station font makes me LOL. I usually love any kind of weird team gimmick like this though, so row the damn boat.

Dunno wtf this thing is. Lockerroom's not nearly disco'y enough though, so Pitt State football is hurting.

Hopefully you put your son in that laundry basket and pushed him around the lockerroom making vroom vroom noises and you guys just made great memzys being father and son doing something that wasn't illegal but was still a little bit dangerous.

I dig. Needs pictures of their old logos on the walls, though.

Now there's a TV that is MUCH bigger than the windows.

Look at that elegant curvature

Oh gawd the track cuts off the end zone I was looking at that in earlier photos and wondering if that was a full-sized track. Poor Harvey.

kiss the rings

Those oversized d00ds make that couch look so LOL tiny

I always knew Garfield smoked Weede cuz he always naps so much and houses lasagna amirite