Author Topic: How did you end up a KSU cat? (Read 8422 times)

eastcat · « **on:** January 13, 2013, 12:33:03 AM »

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.

bones129 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 13, 2013, 12:44:19 AM »

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.

Stevesie60 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 13, 2013, 02:45:17 AM »

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.

EMAWmeister · « **Reply #3 on:** January 13, 2013, 02:59:50 AM »

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.

bubbles4ksu · « **Reply #4 on:** January 13, 2013, 03:36:56 AM »

my aunt('85) was a cat and that was enough for my dad(fhsu '82) to buy football season tickets starting in '93.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 13, 2013, 07:40:46 AM »

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.

mocat · « **Reply #6 on:** January 13, 2013, 10:10:29 AM »

Zero ksu family history or anything. ArchEng brought me here. It was either that or Rolla

ChiComCat · « **Reply #7 on:** January 13, 2013, 10:25:03 AM »

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.

scottwildcat · « **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:11:50 AM »

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

Trim · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:20:01 AM »

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.

chum1 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:27:50 AM »

Pragmatism. rough ridin' cowardly pragmatism.

GoodForAnother · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:33:59 AM »

born into it. parents met at KSU, most of the family went there. had season tickets starting at age 2.

CNS · « **Reply #12 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:34:15 AM »

Visited ku and ksu. Hated Lawrence. Had no affiliation at all at the time. Wanted a big school.

AppleJack · « **Reply #13 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:35:31 AM »

Quote from: CNS Casey on January 13, 2013, 11:34:15 AM

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.

Trim · « **Reply #14 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:40:51 AM »

Quote from: CNS Casey on January 13, 2013, 11:34:15 AM

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.

Cire · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:49:02 AM »

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.

p1k3 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:50:07 AM »

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.

CNS · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:54:52 AM »

Quote from: AppleJack on January 13, 2013, 11:35:31 AM

Quote from: CNS Casey on January 13, 2013, 11:34:15 AM
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.

8manpick · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:59:26 AM »

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.

camKSU · « **Reply #19 on:** January 13, 2013, 12:51:44 PM »

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.

Winters · « **Reply #20 on:** January 13, 2013, 12:57:10 PM »

I was born EMAW.

Spaces · « **Reply #21 on:** January 13, 2013, 01:29:57 PM »

EMAW born and bred. When I die, I'll be dead.

Tobias · « **Reply #22 on:** January 13, 2013, 01:34:49 PM »

i had fun partying with older sis in mhk a few times

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 13, 2013, 04:39:19 PM »

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.

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #24 on:** January 13, 2013, 05:04:47 PM »

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.