Bottom line, Coley, if we beat ISU this weekend, we will have won 10 games, and of those 10, we will have been favored in only 4. 4, dammit! Finishing 10-2 alongside the two OK teams that were supposed to dominate everyone else, leaving us all in little steaming piles of Jayhawk ... er, crap ... well, that's pretty damned special. And this is a damn special team, the kind of team that makes me proud to be a Wildcat, the kind of team that represents what I have always believed K-State is about ... working hard, never giving up, flipping your middle finger to the odds even when the chips are down, and grinding it out until you get what you want.
KU, on the other hand, is a basketball school, and their teams (and fans) are defined by:
1. Beating up as many little kids as possible.
2. Whining and blaming the authorities if a little kid hits back and actually beats you up.
3. Expecting everyone else to behave like royal subjects and let you win during the royal games.
4. Looking past lesser opponents come tournament time because, dammit, you are His Majesty, and therefore all the Bucknells, Bradleys, UNIs and VCUs shall kiss the hem of your royal blue basketball shorts and show profound gratitude for being allowed to share the same field of play.
5. Hanging your hat on one perfect storm of a football season (while your neighbor has ground out multiple in the past two decades)
6. Populating your campus with overaged Justin Biebers and Rebecca Blacks
7. Neglecting ilegitimate children
8. Driving in cars with (underage) girls
9. Preserving an historic theater on Mass Street, only booking pretentious art films, and populating your staff with smelly hipsters and wannabe beatniks
10. Wearing cheesy Abbie Hoffman garb and lesbian bandanas to Summer Stampede while kissing dogs with your live-in male companion
11. Sense of entitlement
12. Overall suckage
And so on.
I would gladly take a 3-way title-tie with two top-ten teams for embodying heart and work ethic than ever allow myself to be mistaken for those too-good-to-share vagina-goofs on the East Coast of Kansas.