Memorial Stadium in Lawrence blows

[Dugout DickStone]

Will the "BCS victory" talking point go away once the new playoff starts? We won the Fiesta Bowl the year before the BCS was started so that doesn't count to KU fans, so what happens when there is no BCS?

At least until they win a conference game.  So, a long time

[scottwildcat]

did ku really spend 100 million effing dollars on AFH when the football stadium is in such piss poor shape?  holy crap

it's not like AFH is in all that great of shape either...

HOW DARE YOU PHOG ALLEN FIELDHOUSE IS A LIVING MUSEUM TO WHERE BASKETBALL WAS INVENTED PLAYED AND PERFECTED. AFH IS THE SINGLE GREATEST VENUE TO WATCH A SPORTING EVENT AND IS IN MUCH BETTER SHAPE THAN AFH WEST YOU GRAPE. 

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I went to the KState game in Lawrence when we beat KU by like 7 TDs, well I should be more specific, the third to last time we beat them by like 7 TDs, or maybe it was 4th to last time, I can't keep the ass whoopings straight, anyways it was 3-4 years ago and all I could think about was how shitty the stadium was.  Its the most small timely antiquated vanilla anonymous stadium you'll ever go to.  Think of a low A minor league baseball stadium without the advertisements and hilarious side shows. Its without question one of the worst venues in college football.  The aurrounding area is also an enormous shithole, like a Renaissance festival in the poorest slum imaginable.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

From the outside you're like, "when are the masons coming back to start the stone work? Oh its supposed to look like cement scaffolding? Are you sure?"

Then you go inside and and sit in your first row seat :ksugrad: only to be dissapointed that you're still 30 yards from the sideline because they have a track inside.  To make matters worse they apparently purchased the old jumbotron from the K at a salvage sale and dressed it up with more concrete and some fugitives name.  Then, to my astonishment, they inflate a tunnel for players to run out of while a fog machine (likely borrowed from the Edge of Hell) belches smoke onto the field.  Reminded me of that last scene from the movie the wrestler and was equally depressing.

Don't even get me started on the concessions (or lack thereof) and the filthy bathrooms that would make even a night shift trucker blush.  Just a comically terrible fan experience.

[ben ji]

In fairness, most ku fans I know are melting down even more than Beems over KSU's triple crown.  They know they'll never get close to it.

Hell, KU went to a Final Four, College World Series, and bowl game back in the early 90's, and is currently one of three teams to belong to the BCS Bowl/national championship combo club (the other two are Florida and Louisville).  We look down on lil bro from the top of our mountain, although it is fun watching big bro grow up a little bit and act all tough.


 

Went to a bowl!?   

Yeah, there was no BCS in the early '90's.  Bowls were a lot more exclusive back then than they are now.  It figures that you'd focus on the bowl and exclude the Final Four and CWS, though.  So, so butthurt.


 

So like a fiesta bowl win in the 90's is a bigger deal than an orange bowl win a couple of years ago?

[scottwildcat]

In fairness, most ku fans I know are melting down even more than Beems over KSU's triple crown.  They know they'll never get close to it.

Hell, KU went to a Final Four, College World Series, and bowl game back in the early 90's, and is currently one of three teams to belong to the BCS Bowl/national championship combo club (the other two are Florida and Louisville).  We look down on lil bro from the top of our mountain, although it is fun watching big bro grow up a little bit and act all tough.


 

Went to a bowl!?   

Yeah, there was no BCS in the early '90's.  Bowls were a lot more exclusive back then than they are now.  It figures that you'd focus on the bowl and exclude the Final Four and CWS, though.  So, so butthurt.


 

So like a fiesta bowl win in the 90's is a bigger deal than an orange bowl win a couple of years ago?

yeah.

[Dugout DickStone]

In fairness, most ku fans I know are melting down even more than Beems over KSU's triple crown.  They know they'll never get close to it.

Hell, KU went to a Final Four, College World Series, and bowl game back in the early 90's, and is currently one of three teams to belong to the BCS Bowl/national championship combo club (the other two are Florida and Louisville).  We look down on lil bro from the top of our mountain, although it is fun watching big bro grow up a little bit and act all tough.


 

Went to a bowl!?   

Yeah, there was no BCS in the early '90's.  Bowls were a lot more exclusive back then than they are now.  It figures that you'd focus on the bowl and exclude the Final Four and CWS, though.  So, so butthurt.


 

So like a fiesta bowl win in the 90's is a bigger deal than an orange bowl win a couple of years ago?

Easily.  Much bigger deal to win conf now than go to a bowl.

[eastcat]

I wasn't just referring to 2012 cash and K-State's ability to manipulate their accounting books.

that's the cash you have..........period.........lol at you acting as if there is some 2008 cash in an overseas account.

The Williams Fund and the Endowment Association are different entities than the athletic department.

So is the Ahearn Fund and the Barrett Endowment Society .............now, what are we going to do about your AD statement of financial position ?

KU allocates cash differently than K-State.  Has nothing to do with who is in a better financial position.  The number to look at is total athletic revenue, and KU has, and always will, generate more revenue than the little ag school on the prairie.

Do you know what revenue is Beems?

You can have billions of dollars in revenue and still lose money out your ass.

KU/The federal government are poster child examples.

A company with 20mil/revenue can post higher profits than a company with a billion. It's pretty obvious accounting is a completely foreign concept to you.

What did KU give you a degree in? Sociology?

You're a rough ridin' moron.  A company that generates a billion dollars in revenue easily exceeds a company that generates 20 million.  Profit is nothing more than an accounting gimmick for a lot of companies.  I have an economics degree and would run circles around you intellectually.

Profit is nothing more than an accounting gimmick

Here's an example, junior:

http://problembanklist.com/increase-in-third-quarter-banking-profits-largely-due-to-phony-accounting-gimmics-0438/

A personal blog written by nobody exclaiming Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) crap?

Neva seen dat be'fo!

Looks like you need to either go back to school, or get some friends who have money and work in finance for the Department of Energy.

Nobody with a degree in finance and a brain to match it would ever work for the .gov. The career ceiling is too low.

You're in rare form today Beems. Keep it up 

Yeah I'm sure the Secretary of Energy makes a meager salary.  Dipshit.

Actually he does.

Only a KU fan would equate an unrelated appointed position in the U.S. Gov. to a finance degree.

The Football/basketball talking point doesn't translate to other sectors of life beams.

RCJH!

[bones129]

I find it interesting that this thread is so long. KU's Memorial Stadium is a dump, a disaster, and an embarassment to KU. What else can be said. Blow it up, KU.

[deputy dawg]

I wasn't just referring to 2012 cash and K-State's ability to manipulate their accounting books.

that's the cash you have..........period.........lol at you acting as if there is some 2008 cash in an overseas account.

The Williams Fund and the Endowment Association are different entities than the athletic department.

So is the Ahearn Fund and the Barrett Endowment Society .............now, what are we going to do about your AD statement of financial position ?

KU allocates cash differently than K-State.  Has nothing to do with who is in a better financial position.  The number to look at is total athletic revenue, and KU has, and always will, generate more revenue than the little ag school on the prairie.

Do you know what revenue is Beems?

You can have billions of dollars in revenue and still lose money out your ass.

KU/The federal government are poster child examples.

A company with 20mil/revenue can post higher profits than a company with a billion. It's pretty obvious accounting is a completely foreign concept to you.

What did KU give you a degree in? Sociology?

You're a rough ridin' moron.  A company that generates a billion dollars in revenue easily exceeds a company that generates 20 million.  Profit is nothing more than an accounting gimmick for a lot of companies.  I have an economics degree and would run circles around you intellectually.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!  An economics degree???  Now that is priceless.  A doofus that can debate monetarism vs. Keynesism, or draw me a Phillips Curve.      And you represent yourself as being able to hold up your end of the conversation about real world finance?  THAT is hilarious.  You don't have the qualifications to even ask the right question, much less know the right answers.  AND you got your economics degree from the University of Kansas, one of the pud economics departments in the Midwest.  This is the bestest post of all time for you.

[steve dave]

ECONOMICS IS NOTHING TO LAUGH AT DEPUTY DAWG! 

[HerrSonntag]

Everyone i know who has an economics degree, got one to compliment another degree (CS, finance, etc)   Like it was some fancy spice to put on an otherwise flavorful meal, never on its own...  i mean, you wouldn't eat a bowl of salt for breakfast, would you?

[scottwildcat]

I find it interesting that this thread is so long. KU's Memorial Stadium is a dump, a disaster, and an embarassment to KU. What else can be said. Blow it up, KU.

usually OS comes out of nowhere and starts dumping in the BSFS thread and mods have to mod it up and clean that thread and this is where they dump it. If you go back and read the entire thread it is mainly the exact same thing over and over and over again.

[steve dave]

Everyone i know who has an economics degree, got one to compliment another degree (CS, finance, etc)   Like it was some fancy spice to put on an otherwise flavorful meal, never on its own...  i mean, you wouldn't eat a bowl of salt for breakfast, would you?

MAYBE SOME PEOPLE WOULD FUCKFACE

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[bubbles4ksu]

eff the Econ haters.

[wetwillie]

I thought econ was were failed engineering and math and statistics people washed up at.

[steve dave]

I thought econ was were failed engineering and math and statistics people washed up at.

NOPE

[420seriouscat69]

The only "C" I got in college was in Econ. Props at being good at it SD.

[Dugout DickStone]

Everyone i know who has an economics degree, got one to compliment another degree (CS, finance, etc)   Like it was some fancy spice to put on an otherwise flavorful meal, never on its own...  i mean, you wouldn't eat a bowl of salt for breakfast, would you?

I have POLSC and ECON, so 2 worthless degrees.  Basically, I am eating a bowl of paprika and cumin for dinner.

[deputy dawg]

eff the Econ haters.

Not an econ hater.  Do not like anyone who assumes the mantle of financial reporting expertise when they don't have it, and an economics degree does not prepare one well for knowing a lot about financial reporting.  That does not take away from their otherwise fine body of knowledge. 

['taterblast]

You're a rough ridin' moron.  A company that generates a billion dollars in revenue easily exceeds a company that generates 20 million.  Profit is nothing more than an accounting gimmick for a lot of companies.  I have an economics degree and would run circles around you intellectually.

just an amazing post.

[scottwildcat]

You're a rough ridin' moron.  A company that generates a billion dollars in revenue easily exceeds a company that generates 20 million. Profit is nothing more than an accounting gimmick for a lot of companies.  I have an economics degree and would run circles around you intellectually.

just an amazing post.

it really is.

[steve dave]

eff the Econ haters.

Not an econ hater.  Do not like anyone who assumes the mantle of financial reporting expertise when they don't have it, and an economics degree does not prepare one well for knowing a lot about financial reporting.  That does not take away from their otherwise fine body of knowledge.

yeah, confirmed

[sonofdaxjones]

I'd really love to be on a Street Call where a CEO gets on there and tells the Street that his/her company is never actually going to make any money and then follows that statement up with, "and hey, revenue is just an accounting gimmick anyway".