The only town in the Big XII that comes anywhere close to Manhattan is Austin...and even that's a stretch.
Can you imagine the reaction of recruits when they drive down Hiway 10 into that craphole Lawrence? First they pass the Farmland fertilizer plant, then they pass "Don's Steakhouse," then they pass the county fairgrounds, then they pass an Orscheln's, then they pass a Vanderbilt's, then they pass John Deere and Case IH dealers right across the road from each other, then they pass "Coyote's." By the time they get to campus, I bet they're expecting to see cows--and they do when the ku cheerleaders come out to meet them.

I spent a month in Lawrence one night...am I right?