Here's the thing. KU has one sport. They are pretty good at it traditionally. Not as good as Kentucky, but who is? So...when they lose to KSU they take it really rough ridin' hard. I can't blame them really. If all of your athletic hopes are placed on one sport and the guys down the road contend on multiple sports and still find a way to beat you at "your" sport from time to time, that would be pretty effing hard to take. I understand, I really do. KU will have the next 50 years if this current trend stands to rely on their past to rebut arguments from KSU fans. That's fine. KU has more tradition in basketball, I don't think anyone will disagree with that. The point is what happens in the here and now, and this year KU beat the pants off us and then we beat the pants off them. We have nine losses, they have two. We just need to go farther in the tournament than them to call this a successful year.
I've been to AFH...been inside and it looked like a high school gym in Kentucky. It looked like the bleachers pulled out from the wall. The museum aspect was nice...the only way you can pull of such a shitty gym though is through tradition. Doesn't change the quality of your home court though. I have also been to Rupp arena. I went to a high school basketball game there. For the High School State Tournament and there were 23k people there for a High School game. That will never happen in the state of kansas...I realize that can be construed as a diss on the whole state (it is) but KSU doesn't claim to be a rough ridin' super power in basketball. KU accuses KSU of having inferiority complexes and being nowhere near as great as them, and that's fine, because KSU doesn't add up traditionally. My main point is that KU will never be UK (Kentucky), UNC, or UCLA. So for the stance they always take about us not being them, they will never be what they claim to be. Something we can say we have never done.
