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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: eastcat on January 13, 2013, 12:33:03 AM
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Live at home Towney?
Indoctrinated from birth?
Saw 98' qhatz go HAM?
Personally, I had to choose between KSU, U Louisiana Monroe and U Alaska Anchorage in order to get an aviation degree. ULM was pretty crappy and UAA has no females within 3,000 miles, plus never ending nighttime.
So I ended up commuting from MHK to Salina twice a week until I decided I didn't want to be a 3 dimensional bus driver for the rest of my life and stayed in MHK for a normal degree.
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I was born in Lawrence. We moved to MHK when I was in grade school, and I immediately saw the light. Never looked back and never will.
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Grandparents, parents, all my uncles and most of my cousins all came to K-State. Parents have been coming to games since before the Snyder days. EMAW, born and bred.
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Long and embarrassing road to KSU cat fandom. My parents went to Iowa, moved to Denver straight out of college and then moved to KC a few months before I was born. I grew up watching DOD games, but I never had the personal investment that many others had. Cheering for our cats when I was little was like cheering for the Chiefs. It was just my "hometown team". Once the DOD faded away, I became immersed in Notre Dame football, largely due to my uncle playing for them in the mid 80s (connection) and the fact that they are on tv every week. When it came time for my sister to choose schools in 2007, I was 98% sure she was going to choose kU, and knew that I would likely end up wherever she went. However, my sister decided in a dream the night before she was set to choose ku that she wanted to at least visit k-state fighting purple cat u before making her decision. She fell in love with the campus, and changed her mind. I visited during my senior year, and the final game of the prince era (isu 2008), and somehow fell in love with the student experience. From that point forward I decided I was going to be an elite Kansas State Wildcat over a pud Saint Louis Billikin, and the rest is history.
:ksu:
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my aunt('85) was a cat and that was enough for my dad(fhsu '82) to buy football season tickets starting in '93.
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born in mhk. both parents went to school in mhk. both sets of grandparents lived in mhk until recently. grandpa was a prof at ksu. entire family is pro-ksu, but strangely my dad and i are the only ones who attended there.
like jakesie60, i just had the luck of being born into the emaw.
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Zero ksu family history or anything. ArchEng brought me here. It was either that or Rolla
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When I was younger, I knew basketball more than football and rooted for KU (as did my mom, though not really invested). As I grew, I got into football and my family got season tickets. Immediately became a 'cats fan in fball and bball. My bro was a KU fan a while longer til my dad and I conspired to rip his KU jersey off of him at the KU/KState football game in '95. That and the ensuing ass kicking the fighting EMAWs delivered turned him EMAW. We both went to K-State.
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Dads side of family is EMAW Moms side is RCJH. Lived in Topeka around moms side and I think I liked controversy and MHK more than my family and Lawrence. Always felt right to be EMAW
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Cheap, in-state, big school. At the time, didn't need a year of foreign language for my degree at EMAW, ku's degree did.
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Pragmatism. rough ridin' cowardly pragmatism.
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born into it. parents met at KSU, most of the family went there. had season tickets starting at age 2.
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Visited ku and ksu. Hated Lawrence. Had no affiliation at all at the time. Wanted a big school.
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Visited ku and ksu. Hated Lawrence. Had no affiliation at all at the time. Wanted a big school.
KSU has a great brain surgery school too.
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Visited ku and ksu. Hated Lawrence. Had no affiliation at all at the time. Wanted a big school.
Yeah, I should add to mine that I'd partied at ku a few times and was kind of meh, and then spent a weekend at EMAW and thought it was elite.
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used to go to to lawrence a lot on the weekends in high school. ku was high schooly to me. didn't know ANYTHING about ksu and went because that's where the cool kids at school went. no family connections.
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Family is all KU fans. Dad went to Pitt. Visited Lawrence, Pittsburg, and then MHK. At the time I had no knowledge about MHK. It was just some distant place that i had heard of. The visit really piqued my curiosity, and then Dean Bosco sealed the deal.
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Visited ku and ksu. Hated Lawrence. Had no affiliation at all at the time. Wanted a big school.
KSU has a great brain surgery school too.
Yeah. Lucky me. I signed up as undeclared.
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Parents were 'hawks, grew up going to several games a year in Allen Fieldhouse. Chose to go to KSU 'cause a few friends (who mostly ended up dropping out or transferring) were going and it was a little further from home than KU. Expected to continue being a 'hawks fan but I fell in love with Huggy's 'Cats my freshman year and the rest is history.
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Born into a methu family in columbia, rejected it from a early age, growing up i wore co buffalo gear just to stir the pot. Half of my high school went to methu and i didn't want to follow the crowd. All of that and architecture at kstate is elite. Now that i am back in columbia, i love wearing my state gear in missouri and telling everyone to eff themselves.
Brightside is my brother (an arch.eng cat) saw the light and we have converted our mizz alum mom to root for the good guys.
:combofan:
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I was born EMAW.
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EMAW born and bred. When I die, I'll be dead.
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i had fun partying with older sis in mhk a few times
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Grew up in an unaffiliated family (Dad who is now EMAW went to UMKC and kinda rooted for KSU, KU, and MU but didn't really care). I became a squawk basketball fan in mid 90s, but EMAW football soon got me hooked during the 97-98 era. I remember loving the 97 Fiesta Bowl. Had friends who went to KSU and i liked the campus, so I enrolled.
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Was born on the west coast, both folks from the west coast, but mostly grew up in KS. Had no in-state affiliations school wise. Had pretty elite standardized test scores so I was accepted to one Ivy League school and a few other really good schools and at the minimum planned to go out of state (folks paying for it). So my Dad and I decided to take a visit to KSU to create some sort of baseline and practice visiting schools before spending all this money to fly all over the country and look at other schools. Loved the people, loved the campus, and the engineering school was pretty kick ass. Just as we were getting on I-70 to head back to KC I looked around and basked in the glory of the Flint HIlls. I broke the silence and said "Dad, I want to go to K-State." I remember a solitary tear roll down his cheek. I think it was because of all the money he was going to save.
Anyway, I had spent some time at some other regional campuses (quite a bit of time in Lawrence) and my brother went to KU. Just didn't like it there. Felt like a loser school where you would go if you just wanted to smoke pot and get drunk and generally be a loser.
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Born EMAW! Dad and Uncle are alums. Dad's whole family is EMAW. I have a pic of myself when I was three wearing a shirt that says:
Kansas State University
Class of 19??
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moved to kansas the summer before my junior year in hs
all the KU fans in HS pretty much sucked
decided on KSU when I was accepted into the Engineering School for the nuclear department
I was accepted to the Navy's nuke program but I was only 17 my fresh year of college and my parents wouldn't sign me off to the gov (except for stupid ass student loans)
If I would have went Navy I would have retired by 40 but wouldn't be a Wildcat
MY PARENTS KNEW WHAT WAS BEST!
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Townie. Fully indoctrinated as a kid going to see winning basketball games at Ahearn and blowout football losses at KSU Stadium.
I'll always cheer for Khatz uber alles.
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Born and bred. Some of my earliest memories are trips to MHK with the Cat Tracker crew.
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I liked KSU message boards better
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Born in MHK, moved to small-town in No. Central Kans. when I was three. Parents were both EMAWs. Watched a lot of Mitch Rich and Henson in my early years. Remember listening to the game that broke the football losing streak (No. Texas State) in the parking lot of the Central Mall in Salina. Basically pure EMAW since I can remember. Never had any intention to go anywhere other than KSU, but did have interest in UConn because of its proximity to Bristol, Conn.
Sadly, my bro, who grew up a pretty big Cat fan decided to go against the grain of his HS classmates and attend KU. Too bad.
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Born a die hard MCC rootin tootin crusader fan. Always heard there was a slightly bigger university across the street that I should check out. I prayed/emailed Tim Tebow about what I should do. Couple days after that I went to the US senior open in Hutch. I was watching an old fart named Jim Colbert and he came over near me and shook the hand with some guy named Ron Prince. I got his signature on a piece of paper cause other people were and looked him up when i got home Saw he was the coach of this other university and decided this was Tebows way of answering my email. Went to the KSU/UT game in 06 loved the atmosphere and followed from then on.
Jk. Born and Raised. Season Tickets. Prayed for James Terry to heal from an Injury in grade school. Die hard since then.
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Born a die hard MCC rootin tootin crusader fan. Always heard there was a slightly bigger university across the street that I should check out. I prayed/emailed Tim Tebow about what I should do. Couple days after that I went to the US senior open in Hutch. I was watching an old fart named Jim Colbert and he came over near me and shook the hand with some guy named Ron Prince. I got his signature on a piece of paper cause other people were and looked him up when i got home Saw he was the coach of this other university and decided this was Tebows way of answering my email. Went to the KSU/UT game in 06 loved the atmosphere and followed from then on.
Jk. Born and Raised. Season Tickets. Prayed for James Terry to heal from an Injury in grade school. Die hard since then.
Wow. Spiritually moving, to say the least.
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6 older siblings and 1 younger all went to KSU (if your wondering there were 8 of 9 that were EMAWs). Grandfather had some kind of affiliation with KSU but nobody really knows what.
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Grew up in SE KS among mostly Jayhawk fans. A buddy of mine's older brother played for the Cats and I began to follow them. In high school went to Manhattan numerous times for various school things and fell in in love with the university. Enrolled at K-State out of high school... the rest is history.
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Grew up in Wichita, and more or less oblivious to either KU or K-State. Cared more about WSU cause of the baseball and being a baseball fan. My mom never went to college and my dad went to Montana State, so no real connection. I guess I knew more about KU than K-State since many of my friends in elementary school were hawk fans, but never really cared. Then one day a neighbor in my childhood neighborhood just out of the blue invited my dad and myself to a game in 2000 against North Texas. Never seen anything like it, thought the wabash was too cool, fell in love almost immediately, K-State won 55-10, so yeah, it had an impression on me.
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was a long road. g-pa was a native nebraskan, met my g-ma on a bus in between lawrence and kc on his way to bootcamp in WWII. got married and settled down near bonner springs after the war, but he was still a die hard husker fan. so was my dad. and thus, so was i. i grew up hating emaw because of 98 and 2000. also, i was a ku b-ball fan, because, well, everybody was. when it came time to pick a school, i wanted to go to a big in-state d-1. so it was either squawks or cats. i figured i would feel more at home in manhattan. best decision i ever made in my entire life.
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In 2nd grade my best friend (Jayhawk fan) asked me if I was a Jayhawk or a Wildcat? I thought to myself "a wildcat would kill any bird then eat that bird." So I said in his face "Wildcat ROAR!" Then I got in trouble for being loud. Best decision of my life. :cool:
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was a long road. g-pa was a native nebraskan, met my g-ma on a bus in between lawrence and kc on his way to bootcamp in WWII. got married and settled down near bonner springs after the war, but he was still a die hard husker fan. so was my dad. and thus, so was i. i grew up hating emaw because of 98 and 2000. also, i was a ku b-ball fan, because, well, everybody was. when it came time to pick a school, i wanted to go to a big in-state d-1. so it was either squawks or cats. i figured i would feel more at home in manhattan. best decision i ever made in my entire life.
I had a feeling you were a sqak.
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Nuke degree. Thanks to the little TRIGA Mk II reactor...
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if i answered this question truthfully i would put a clownsuit on everybody's ass.
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I don't know if I should be happy for all the squawk conversion stories, or sad for the depressing years you guys have lived.
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I don't know if I should be happy for all the squawk conversion stories, or sad for the depressing years you guys have lived.
i prefer to think of you as a glass-half-full guy.
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was a long road. g-pa was a native nebraskan, met my g-ma on a bus in between lawrence and kc on his way to bootcamp in WWII. got married and settled down near bonner springs after the war, but he was still a die hard husker fan. so was my dad. and thus, so was i. i grew up hating emaw because of 98 and 2000. also, i was a ku b-ball fan, because, well, everybody was. when it came time to pick a school, i wanted to go to a big in-state d-1. so it was either squawks or cats. i figured i would feel more at home in manhattan. best decision i ever made in my entire life.
I had a feeling you were a sqak.
you son of a bitch
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Was born into a family of :ksu:, so I was naturally raised :kstategrad:. As the only :emawkid: growing up in school, teachers noticed I smelled better and read more fluently than the other kids, but they never understood why I was so :excited: about being a KSU Cat. :lol: at those t-shirt squawk fans who called themselves teachers. Went to K-State, did a little :combofan:, made a few :cheers:, and continue to enjoy the :kstategrad: life thanks to having a degree from Kansas State University.
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born into an EMAJ family, but I liked football more than basketball (still do), so Cats were more interesting. Ended up at KSU because of Engineering.
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KSU just seemed better than ku. Had no affiliation in high school, visited both. Met with the department heads of my potential major at KSU, they explained everything that would happen over the next 4 years in detail. At ku they handed me off to pud administrators that kept asking "Have you seen Allen Fieldhouse yet?".
Also at KSU they took me to So Long Saloon for lunch. ku: dining hall :barf:
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KSU just seemed better than ku. Had no affiliation in high school, visited both. Met with the department heads of my potential major at KSU, they explained everything that would happen over the next 4 years in detail. At ku they handed me off to pud administrators that kept asking "Have you seen Allen Fieldhouse yet?".
Also at KSU they took me to So Long Saloon for lunch. ku: dining hall :barf:
:lol: no wonder their enrollment is plummeting.
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Parent met at the derb so I've been emaw since birth.
Older sis decided to be a rebel and go to KU. 6 years later she emerged with a poli sci degree and an appreciaton of music festivals.
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I don't know if I should be happy for all the squawk conversion stories, or sad for the depressing years you guys have lived.
i won't lie, the presence of so much former squawk around here is taking me way off guard
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I don't know if I should be happy for all the squawk conversion stories, or sad for the depressing years you guys have lived.
i won't lie, the presence of so much former squawk around here is taking me way off guard
They were dark times. You can't help what you are born into, you can only try to make the best of it. For example, I actually enjoy college football almost as much as college basketball now. I recruited my little brother to EMAW, and now my parents are now at least K-State fans as their second team.
What I've taken from this is that a lot of people grew up KU fans, but were naturally smart and were attracted to the superior academics at EMAW University. Elite engineering program and a brain surgery program:
Ended up at KSU because of Engineering.
Nuke degree. Thanks to the little TRIGA Mk II reactor...
decided on KSU when I was accepted into the Engineering School for the nuclear department
Zero ksu family history or anything. ArchEng brought me here. It was either that or Rolla
Visited ku and ksu. Hated Lawrence. Had no affiliation at all at the time. Wanted a big school.
KSU has a great brain surgery school too.
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You should not have taken my post as me growing up a squawk. Didn't happen
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You should not have taken my post as me growing up a squawk. Didn't happen
Sorry, didn't mean that. Just wanted to point out the hyper-elite brain surgery school.
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Born and raised in MHK, EMAW is all I know. Graduated in 09. Dad started going to the home games back in the glory days of the 70's
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i am just really, really spoiled when it comes to EMAW
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Long story short, the DOD brought me to KSU.
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No affiliation. Dad was an OU fan. Mom did not care. HS friends were KU fans, and I knew I didn't want to do what everyone else was doing. Visited campus. People were nice. Atmosphere was really special. Canceled check to private university in the east. Rest is history.
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No affiliation. Dad was an OU fan. Mom did not care. HS friends were KU fans, and I knew I didn't want to do what everyone else was doing. Visited campus. People were nice. Atmosphere was really special. Canceled check to private university in the east. Rest is history.
Did our sports journalism program have anything to do with it?
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No affiliation. Dad was an OU fan. Mom did not care. HS friends were KU fans, and I knew I didn't want to do what everyone else was doing. Visited campus. People were nice. Atmosphere was really special. Canceled check to private university in the east. Rest is history.
Did our sports journalism program have anything to do with it?
:lol: :lol:
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No prior family affiliation. In fact I grew up as an OU fan :flush: but I slowly started to shift my allegiance to Kazzu around 12 years old, which is roughly the mental equivalent of the typical OU fan/graduate BOOOM. Anyway, this group of dickface kids that I hated were KU fans so it made the choice pretty easy for me.
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seems to be a trend here...
looked at other schools, would have been easily accepted to any of them, but my dad just would roll his eyes and be like "if you want your school paid for, it's kstate". I'm not a dumbass so it was emaw.
Out of my graduating class of 450, only 25 went to KSU, while 100 chose ku and 150 went to JCCC. :sdeek:
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Our persuasive Dean of Student Life.
(+ FFA exposure).
However, it required a similar conversion as some others on here when it came time to actually choose a college.
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I've never met anyone who grew up in the KC metro, in a non-EMAW family, who was an EMAW fan as a youth. It just doesn't happen. Every kid is a squawk hoops fan. It just is what it is you guys.
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I've never met anyone who grew up in the KC metro, in a non-EMAW family, who was an EMAW fan as a youth. It just doesn't happen. Every kid is a squawk hoops fan. It just is what it is you guys.
guess we've never met. (not the emaw part; but there's a ton of kids that are unaffiliated with ku/ksu/mu that despise ku bball/ku bball Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) olathe t-shirt fans (like young mocat)
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No affiliation. Dad was an OU fan. Mom did not care. HS friends were KU fans, and I knew I didn't want to do what everyone else was doing. Visited campus. People were nice. Atmosphere was really special. Canceled check to private university in the east. Rest is history.
Did our sports journalism program have anything to do with it?
Scratches head. Um. I don't get it.
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I've never met anyone who grew up in the KC metro, in a non-EMAW family, who was an EMAW fan as a youth. It just doesn't happen. Every kid is a squawk hoops fan. It just is what it is you guys.
guess we've never met. (not the emaw part; but there's a ton of kids that are unaffiliated with ku/ksu/mu that despise ku bball/ku bball Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) olathe t-shirt fans (like young mocat)
My point was more the EMAW part. Obviously not EVERY kid is a squawk fan.
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I've never met anyone who grew up in the KC metro, in a non-EMAW family, who was an EMAW fan as a youth. It just doesn't happen. Every kid is a squawk hoops fan. It just is what it is you guys.
I certainly wasn't EMAW, but I definitely preferred them to KU, but because our vice principal was a real male genitals sucker. I remember one of my good buddies back in 6th grade (architecture EMAW) was talking to him about a KU K-State game. Vice P was like "what'd you think of KU last night?" and he retorts "oh you mean mommy U!" Didn't even get in trouble. Loved his EMAW back then.
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I've never met anyone who grew up in the KC metro, in a non-EMAW family, who was an EMAW fan as a youth. It just doesn't happen. Every kid is a squawk hoops fan. It just is what it is you guys.
guess we've never met. (not the emaw part; but there's a ton of kids that are unaffiliated with ku/ksu/mu that despise ku bball/ku bball Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) olathe t-shirt fans (like young mocat)
My point was more the EMAW part. Obviously not EVERY kid is a squawk fan.
Well that's closer then. I remember rooting for KSU over OU in 2003, and I remember being vaguely disappointed in '98. I remember being happy for Mizzou when they made their NCAA run with Quin Snyder. I remember being sad for Mizzou when that Nebraska dude kicked that ball in the end zone and they lost. I had zero reason to root for/against any of the local 3 teams. I generally found in my youth KU fans were less educated/more rude and in your face, and MU fans seemed to enjoy the moment more. That's just in my personal experience. I grew up in KCMO but only a few blocks away from Kansas.
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there's a ton of squawk elementary school teachers across kc metro that brainwash their students into squawkdom.
most emaw are doing brain surgery/engineering/architecture stuff as evidenced in this thread.
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there's a ton of squawk elementary school teachers across kc metro that brainwash their students into squawkdom.
most emaw are doing brain surgery/engineering/architecture stuff as evidenced in this thread.
This ^^^^^
I think every teacher I had in elementary school was an in your face brainwashy weirdo about ku basketball. I mean, we watched a Big 12 tournament game instead of teaching one time, which I didn't mind but she only allowed the ku game. The one true EMAW teacher I had wasn't brainwashy and was a normal human being.
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there's a ton of squawk elementary school teachers across kc metro that brainwash their students into squawkdom.
most emaw are doing brain surgery/engineering/architecture stuff as evidenced in this thread.
This ^^^^^
I think every teacher I had in elementary school was an in your face brainwashy weirdo about ku basketball. I mean, we watched a Big 12 tournament game instead of teaching one time, which I didn't mind but she only allowed the ku game. The one true EMAW teacher I had wasn't brainwashy and was a normal human being.
My parents pulled me and my brother out of school for the afternoons of the Big 8 / Big 12 tournament whether we were going to it or not. Those were great times.
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My dad was EMAW, his Dad was EMAW... My dad stuck a 88 KSUCATS football jersey on me when I came screamin outta my momma's crack. So I was born this way.
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was a long road. g-pa was a native nebraskan, met my g-ma on a bus in between lawrence and kc on his way to bootcamp in WWII. got married and settled down near bonner springs after the war, but he was still a die hard husker fan. so was my dad. and thus, so was i. i grew up hating emaw because of 98 and 2000. also, i was a ku b-ball fan, because, well, everybody was. when it came time to pick a school, i wanted to go to a big in-state d-1. so it was either squawks or cats. i figured i would feel more at home in manhattan. best decision i ever made in my entire life.
so glad you escaped that fan existence. The KU bb/ NU fb is a close second to KU bb/ KSU fb for worst fan combo in the region.
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Add me to the list of engineering elites
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Add me to the list of engineering elites
Do you work for Arup? :horrorsurprise:
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there's a ton of squawk elementary school teachers across kc metro that brainwash their students into squawkdom.
most emaw are doing brain surgery/engineering/architecture stuff as evidenced in this thread.
This ^^^^^
I think every teacher I had in elementary school was an in your face brainwashy weirdo about ku basketball. I mean, we watched a Big 12 tournament game instead of teaching one time, which I didn't mind but she only allowed the ku game. The one true EMAW teacher I had wasn't brainwashy and was a normal human being.
Man I forgot about that, used to always watch the big8 tourney in elementary school.
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Grandpa played on the '51 cats basketball team. :ksu:
Parents both went to KSU and met at bushwackers :sdeek:
KSU thru and thru :emawkid:
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Add me to the list of engineering elites
Do you work for Arup? :horrorsurprise:
Nah, i'm a Mechanical Engineer (and not HVAC)
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If anything can be taken from this thread, it's that we must be as emaw as possible in our interaction with people. you never know what kids will remember and be influenced.
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I was raised a t-shirt KU fan. When it came time to apply to schools, I was dead set on attending a high end private school.
I was accepted about everywhere I applied, but didn't have good enough scores for the big scholarships, and not quite needy enough for Pells and stuff.
My parents did a very good job of explaining how mumped in the ass I would be with student loans if I went the private school route.
So, I visited both KU and KSU several times. I enjoyed my visits to KSU a great deal more. Pat Bosco was actually a big factor for me. So, I chose KSU at a time when sports were crap at KSU. I remember remarking to a friend who had just selected KU that if I was going to major in watching basketball, I would have selected KU as well.
I later received a graduate degree from KU, which provided me with my career.
I don't regret my undergrad or my hard choices. It all worked out really well.
I still believe that KSU is a better undergrad experience and KU (Lawrence in particular) is a better grad experience.
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Kind of wish I had the experience of "visiting" campuses, like being an elite recruit
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Kind of wish I had the experience of "visiting" campuses, like being an elite recruit
You can visit and not be elite. I certainly wasn't. Most schools roll out the red carpet on visits for regular dudes too.
Hell, I visited Tulsa for undergrad and the visit was great. Just didn't like the school.
My best visit for grad was Baylor. Those fuckers really put on the hard sell.
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My mom went to K-State, dad didn't go to college. Older siblings were sort of K-State fans growing up as well as my mom, dad was more of a KU fan, but no one was really die-hard. By the time I was in Jr High I was 100% EMAW. All my siblings ended up going to smaller schools, Pitt State and Emporia State. By the time I was a Jr in high school K-State was my only choice and I didn't even look at other schools. Dad is now EMAW.
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It has been fun to watch my family turn EMAW.
One side of my family went 100% EMAW after me...I was the oldest grandchild and all cousins followed suit and went EMAW. That was cool.
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It has been fun to watch my family turn EMAW.
One side of my family went 100% EMAW after me...I was the oldest grandchild and all cousins followed suit and went EMAW. That was cool.
Success sways.
Paper pulls.
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I said my dad was more of a KU fan growing up, but my parents used to root for both KU and K-State. I remember when I was at K-State my dad started rooting for K-State over KU for the first time, but both my parents still rooted for KU too. The last few years they have become more anti-KU because most of the KU fans they know are obnoxious and they finally got tired of them. Now most of the time they enjoy to see KU lose because of KU fans.
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As a townie, I went to pretty much every home football game for as long as I can remember in the 80's and into the 90's. I went to at leat several basketball games per year in this span, and the majority of games during the latter part of it. Super EMAW the whole time. I considered none of that when I chose (or, actually, defaulted to) K-State.
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I said my dad was more of a KU fan growing up, but my parents used to root for both KU and K-State. I remember when I was at K-State my dad started rooting for K-State over KU for the first time, but both my parents still rooted for KU too. The last few years they have become more anti-KU because most of the KU fans they know are obnoxious and they finally got tired of them. Now most of the time they enjoy to see KU lose because of KU fans.
My folks are nearly identical in this way.
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I said my dad was more of a KU fan growing up, but my parents used to root for both KU and K-State. I remember when I was at K-State my dad started rooting for K-State over KU for the first time, but both my parents still rooted for KU too. The last few years they have become more anti-KU because most of the KU fans they know are obnoxious and they finally got tired of them. Now most of the time they enjoy to see KU lose because of KU fans.
My folks are nearly identical in this way.
The crazy thing is these are mainly people in their 50s or older that they get annoyed with, the obnoxious KU fan persona seems to have filtered up and infiltrated their entire fan base. And this isn't in Lawrence or Johnson Co, this is a small town in north central Kansas.
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Grandpa played on the '51 cats basketball team. :ksu:
Parents both went to KSU and met at bushwackers :sdeek:
KSU thru and thru :emawkid:
Lew Hitch? :excited:
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I was raised a t-shirt KU fan. When it came time to apply to schools, I was dead set on attending a high end private school.
I was accepted about everywhere I applied, but didn't have good enough scores for the big scholarships, and not quite needy enough for Pells and stuff.
My parents did a very good job of explaining how mumped in the ass I would be with student loans if I went the private school route.
So, I visited both KU and KSU several times. I enjoyed my visits to KSU a great deal more. Pat Bosco was actually a big factor for me. So, I chose KSU at a time when sports were crap at KSU. I remember remarking to a friend who had just selected KU that if I was going to major in watching basketball, I would have selected KU as well.
I later received a graduate degree from KU, which provided me with my career.
I don't regret my undergrad or my hard choices. It all worked out really well.
I still believe that KSU is a better undergrad experience and KU (Lawrence in particular) is a better grad experience.
This is almost exactly my experience, except KSU offered me much more $$$ to come as an undergrad than did KU. I applied to a few private schools but was scared off by the expense.
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Was born in CO so I was a CU fan because I was a kid and CU was good when I was little. We moved to Manhattan and had season tickets to the KSU Cats. '94 or so :confused:, KSU beat CU in Manhattan and I saw it live while wearing my Starter Buffs jacket. I cried on the ride home, threw the jacket away and became a Cats fan from then on.
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there's a ton of squawk elementary school teachers across kc metro that brainwash their students into squawkdom.
most emaw are doing brain surgery/engineering/architecture stuff as evidenced in this thread.
This ^^^^^
I think every teacher I had in elementary school was an in your face brainwashy weirdo about ku basketball. I mean, we watched a Big 12 tournament game instead of teaching one time, which I didn't mind but she only allowed the ku game. The one true EMAW teacher I had wasn't brainwashy and was a normal human being.
Man I forgot about that, used to always watch the big8 tourney in elementary school.
yup, watched all big 8/12 tourny games, and also ncaa games. we had open classrooms and the teachers would sit in the back and keep lookout for the admins coming down the hall. very elite.