How did you end up a KSU cat?

[8manpick]

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.

[CNS]

You should not have taken my post as me growing up a squawk.  Didn't happen

[8manpick]

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.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

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

['taterblast]

i am just really, really spoiled when it comes to EMAW

[SabiNation]

Long story short, the DOD brought me to KSU.

[Willesgirl]

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.

[Johnny Wichita]

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? 

[8manpick]

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?

 

[Brock Landers]

No prior family affiliation.  In fact I grew up as an OU fan      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.

[kstate16]

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.   

[slimz]

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.

[Cartierfor3]

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.

[mocat]

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)

[Willesgirl]

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.

[Cartierfor3]

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. 

[Emo EMAW]

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. 

[mocat]

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.

[pissclams]

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.

[kstate16]

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.

[8manpick]

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.

[The1BigWillie]

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.

[nicname]

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.

[EuroCat]

Add me to the list of engineering elites

[mocat]

Add me to the list of engineering elites

Do you work for Arup?