With Franks love of our tradition, any chance we could ever play a game back in Ahearn? Not saying I don't like the atmosphere of Bramlage as of late. I just think it would be great to see a game played back in Ahearn and have our students/fans practically on top of the opposing team screaming their heads off. Can you imagine holding the ku/KSU game back in Ahearn? I think a lot of the old timers would get a kick out of it and it would add a little more media attention to the game as well.
Why are old people so fond of small, ulgy, dangerous, hot, smelly and ill-equipped buildings?
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I can'tbelieve I actually clicked and read this thread. :banghead:
damn.
Someday I will win the powerball. When I do, I'll donate multi-millions to Powercat U. One condition, though. They have to play ku at Ahearn. Most of you are way to young to have seen a game there. I, for one, attended many years of season ticket games there. Bramlage sucks, in comparison. If you never experienced it, don't bitch about it.
If we are going to do one of these "retro games", then lets do it right. Stop messing with that old barn Ahearn.
I want to see a game played in Nichols Hall. I don't care what they use it for now and how much it would cost to completely rebuild it, I want to see it in pre-1951 basketball conditions. Let's let some of the more-EMAW students hand from the rafters and fit a couple thousand people in there to make a really special event. I won't stop until we can get this done.
Bring the Cats back to Nichols!(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Nichols_Hall,_North.jpg/300px-Nichols_Hall,_North.jpg)
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Someday I will win the powerball. When I do, I'll donate multi-millions to Powercat U. One condition, though. They have to play ku at Ahearn. Most of you are way to young to have seen a game there. I, for one, attended many years of season ticket games there. Bramlage sucks, in comparison. If you never experienced it, don't bitch about it.
If we are going to do one of these "retro games", then lets do it right. Stop messing with that old barn Ahearn.
I want to see a game played in Nichols Hall. I don't care what they use it for now and how much it would cost to completely rebuild it, I want to see it in pre-1951 basketball conditions. Let's let some of the more-EMAW students hand from the rafters and fit a couple thousand people in there to make a really special event. I won't stop until we can get this done.
Bring the Cats back to Nichols!(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Nichols_Hall,_North.jpg/300px-Nichols_Hall,_North.jpg)
:steadymobbin':
If we are going to do one of these "retro games", then lets do it right. Stop messing with that old barn Ahearn.
I want to see a game played in Nichols Hall. I don't care what they use it for now and how much it would cost to completely rebuild it, I want to see it in pre-1951 basketball conditions. Let's let some of the more-EMAW students hand from the rafters and fit a couple thousand people in there to make a really special event. I won't stop until we can get this done.
Bring the Cats back to Nichols!(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Nichols_Hall,_North.jpg/300px-Nichols_Hall,_North.jpg)
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Hey guys, I just want to apologize for this stupid post.*
*Though its only slightly dumber than wanting to play a game in Ahearn. IMHO.
If we are going to do one of these "retro games", then lets do it right. Stop messing with that old barn Ahearn.
I want to see a game played in Nichols Hall. I don't care what they use it for now and how much it would cost to completely rebuild it, I want to see it in pre-1951 basketball conditions. Let's let some of the more-EMAW students hand from the rafters and fit a couple thousand people in there to make a really special event. I won't stop until we can get this done.
Bring the Cats back to Nichols!(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Nichols_Hall,_North.jpg/300px-Nichols_Hall,_North.jpg)
:steadymobbin':
Hey guys, I just want to apologize for this stupid post.*
*Though its only slightly dumber than wanting to play a game in Ahearn. IMHO.
Plagiariser!
http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=41808.msg583105;topicseen#msg583105 (http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=41808.msg583105;topicseen#msg583105)
Someday I will win the powerball. When I do, I'll donate multi-millions to Powercat U. One condition, though. They have to play ku at Ahearn. Most of you are way to young to have seen a game there. I, for one, attended many years of season ticket games there. Bramlage sucks, in comparison. If you never experienced it, don't bitch about it.
Someday I will win the powerball. When I do, I'll donate multi-millions to Powercat U. One condition, though. They have to play ku at Ahearn. Most of you are way to young to have seen a game there. I, for one, attended many years of season ticket games there. Bramlage sucks, in comparison. If you never experienced it, don't bitch about it.
First off, the old stands that were in the lower part that went from the floor to the balcony, the ones they literally had to construct piece by piece before the start of every basketball season . . . are long, long, long gone. Next, the fire Marshall will never . . . repeat NEVER allow them to duplicate those stands, because with those stands the building was so far out of code it wasn't even on the planet. So without those "half butt cheek" stands the building doesn't maintain it's "magic". Without massive renovations, if they ever attempted to play a game in there now, the best they could do would be to maybe get 7,000 in there . . . maybe. That simply isn't the same as 11,220 jammed into 9,000 seats.
What a complete, absolute and utter waste of money it would be to play another game in Ahearn, unless they were going to charge $1,000 bucks a ticket.
The cost alone of renting stands, moving the court over (there is no more basketball court) buying or renting scoreboards (the basketball scoreboards are long sense gone), rigging anything resembling a feasible sound system, getting the place set up would likely push into the 6 figures.