KSU will never win another conference championship

[waks]

I started a thread back in March right before we played ku in the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament and posed the following question: 

Would you rather beat ku in this tournament and lose in the first round of the NCAA's, OR would you rather lose to ku (for the third time) and then make a Sweet 16 run? 

My pick was for the win over ku, and every single respondent thought I was crazy.  They would much rather have had the Sweet 16 run.  However, a win over ku would have meant a shot at winning the conference tournament in basketball, which I know is not as big of a deal as football, but still I feel it would have been huge for K-State.  At the time we all assumed KSU would make the NCAA's even with a loss to ku. 

In this thread, the majority opinion seems to be saying the opposite.  Most here seem to think the football CCG is more important than a Final Four run.  It is not an identical comparison, but I am curious to see if most here think I am crazy for wanting the ku win and shot at the B12 basketball tournament championship more than the Sweet 16.

Still think you're crazy. It would be different if it wasn't just a "shot at  the tournament" and instead you said "win the tournament." Do you remember how much attention WSU got for making the Sweet 16?

[kst8cat]

Winning the conference in football is not that hard of a task comparatively.

I love how people think "anything can happen" in the conference title game as if the 03, 01 and 98 conference title games were some huge upsets. They really weren't each time the North had a REALLY good team, and people forget A&M was really good too. 1996 was a crazy upset.

In 2003, KSU was a 5 to 1 underdog to OU.  I know because I was really into sports betting online at the time, and I bet $50 on KSU, thus winning $250.  If only I had bet more.    

But I get your point in that it should not have been that big of an upset considering KSU was a top 5 team in the preseason, and toward the end of the year in the games leading up to that was actually playing like a top 5 team.

[kst8cat]

I started a thread back in March right before we played ku in the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament and posed the following question: 

Would you rather beat ku in this tournament and lose in the first round of the NCAA's, OR would you rather lose to ku (for the third time) and then make a Sweet 16 run? 

My pick was for the win over ku, and every single respondent thought I was crazy.  They would much rather have had the Sweet 16 run.  However, a win over ku would have meant a shot at winning the conference tournament in basketball, which I know is not as big of a deal as football, but still I feel it would have been huge for K-State.  At the time we all assumed KSU would make the NCAA's even with a loss to ku. 

In this thread, the majority opinion seems to be saying the opposite.  Most here seem to think the football CCG is more important than a Final Four run.  It is not an identical comparison, but I am curious to see if most here think I am crazy for wanting the ku win and shot at the B12 basketball tournament championship more than the Sweet 16.

Still think you're crazy. It would be different if it wasn't just a "shot at  the tournament" and instead you said "win the tournament." Do you remember how much attention WSU got for making the Sweet 16?

I remember WSU getting a lot of attention, and I was happy for them since I grew up near Wichita.  But they are from a mid-major conference, and the last time they made it that far was the early 80's.  So the media gave them a lot of love since they were more of a true Cinderella team.  I don't think K-State would have gotten quite that much attention, but maybe I'm wrong.  Anyway, I must just hate ku more than everyone else.   

[FBWillie]

I remember laughing at every person wearing a WSU shirt that looked like it just came off the racks and could have still had the tags on them.  EVERYONE in wichita was a Life long WSU fan when they were in the Sweet 16; yet now, I can walk through the mall or oldtown or whatever and count the WSU apparral on my left hand.   You know you have too many bandwagon fans when your team starts doing well and merchandising goes up like 600%

[KSU4ME]

I can't get the image of Beasley cutting down the nets out of my head.

It's beautiful.

[hemmy]

Most educated people know the number of the beast was actually 616