How did you end up a KSU cat?

[ben ji]

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.

Man I forgot about that, used to always watch the big8 tourney in elementary school.

[The Big Train]

Grandpa played on the '51 cats basketball team.   

Parents both went to KSU and met at bushwackers 

KSU thru and thru 

[EuroCat]

Add me to the list of engineering elites

Do you work for Arup? 

Nah, i'm a Mechanical Engineer (and not HVAC)

[WillieWatanabe]

If anything can be taken from this thread, it's that we must be as emaw as possible in our interaction with people. you never know what kids will remember and be influenced.

[Pete]

I was raised a t-shirt KU fan. When it came time to apply to schools, I was dead set on attending a high end private school.

I was accepted about everywhere I applied, but didn't have good enough scores for the big scholarships, and not quite needy enough for Pells and stuff.

My parents did a very good job of explaining how mumped in the ass I would be with student loans if I went the private school route.

So, I visited both KU and KSU several times.  I enjoyed my visits to KSU a great deal more.  Pat Bosco was actually a big factor for me.  So, I chose KSU at a time when sports were crap at KSU.  I remember remarking to a friend who had just selected KU that if I was going to major in watching basketball, I would have selected KU as well. 

I later received a graduate degree from KU, which provided me with my career.


I don't regret my undergrad or my hard choices.  It all worked out really well.

I still believe that KSU is a better undergrad experience and KU (Lawrence in particular) is a better grad experience.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Kind of wish I had the experience of "visiting" campuses, like being an elite recruit

[Pete]

Kind of wish I had the experience of "visiting" campuses, like being an elite recruit

You can visit and not be elite.  I certainly wasn't.  Most schools roll out the red carpet on visits for regular dudes too.

Hell, I visited Tulsa for undergrad and the visit was great.  Just didn't like the school.

My best visit for grad was Baylor.  Those fuckers really put on the hard sell. 

[kso_FAN]

My mom went to K-State, dad didn't go to college. Older siblings were sort of K-State fans growing up as well as my mom, dad was more of a KU fan, but no one was really die-hard. By the time I was in Jr High I was 100% EMAW. All my siblings ended up going to smaller schools, Pitt State and Emporia State. By the time I was a Jr in high school K-State was my only choice and I didn't even look at other schools. Dad is now EMAW.

[Pete]

It has been fun to watch my family turn EMAW.

One side of my family went 100% EMAW after me...I was the oldest grandchild and all cousins followed suit and went EMAW.  That was cool.

[CNS]

It has been fun to watch my family turn EMAW.

One side of my family went 100% EMAW after me...I was the oldest grandchild and all cousins followed suit and went EMAW.  That was cool.

Success sways. 

Paper pulls.

[kso_FAN]

I said my dad was more of a KU fan growing up, but my parents used to root for both KU and K-State. I remember when I was at K-State my dad started rooting for K-State over KU for the first time, but both my parents still rooted for KU too. The last few years they have become more anti-KU because most of the KU fans they know are obnoxious and they finally got tired of them. Now most of the time they enjoy to see KU lose because of KU fans.

[chum1]

As a townie, I went to pretty much every home football game for as long as I can remember in the 80's and into the 90's.  I went to at leat several basketball games per year in this span, and the majority of games during the latter part of it.  Super EMAW the whole time.  I considered none of that when I chose (or, actually, defaulted to) K-State.

[Pete]

I said my dad was more of a KU fan growing up, but my parents used to root for both KU and K-State. I remember when I was at K-State my dad started rooting for K-State over KU for the first time, but both my parents still rooted for KU too. The last few years they have become more anti-KU because most of the KU fans they know are obnoxious and they finally got tired of them. Now most of the time they enjoy to see KU lose because of KU fans.

My folks are nearly identical in this way.

[kso_FAN]

I said my dad was more of a KU fan growing up, but my parents used to root for both KU and K-State. I remember when I was at K-State my dad started rooting for K-State over KU for the first time, but both my parents still rooted for KU too. The last few years they have become more anti-KU because most of the KU fans they know are obnoxious and they finally got tired of them. Now most of the time they enjoy to see KU lose because of KU fans.

My folks are nearly identical in this way.

The crazy thing is these are mainly people in their 50s or older that they get annoyed with, the obnoxious KU fan persona seems to have filtered up and infiltrated their entire fan base. And this isn't in Lawrence or Johnson Co, this is a small town in north central Kansas.

[Spaces]

Grandpa played on the '51 cats basketball team.   

Parents both went to KSU and met at bushwackers 

KSU thru and thru 

Lew Hitch? 

[Fldermaus]

I was raised a t-shirt KU fan. When it came time to apply to schools, I was dead set on attending a high end private school.

I was accepted about everywhere I applied, but didn't have good enough scores for the big scholarships, and not quite needy enough for Pells and stuff.

My parents did a very good job of explaining how mumped in the ass I would be with student loans if I went the private school route.

So, I visited both KU and KSU several times.  I enjoyed my visits to KSU a great deal more.  Pat Bosco was actually a big factor for me.  So, I chose KSU at a time when sports were crap at KSU.  I remember remarking to a friend who had just selected KU that if I was going to major in watching basketball, I would have selected KU as well. 

I later received a graduate degree from KU, which provided me with my career.


I don't regret my undergrad or my hard choices.  It all worked out really well.

I still believe that KSU is a better undergrad experience and KU (Lawrence in particular) is a better grad experience.

This is almost exactly my experience, except KSU offered me much more $$$ to come as an undergrad than did KU.  I applied to a few private schools but was scared off by the expense.   

[SdK]

Was born in CO so I was a CU fan because I was a kid and CU was good when I was little. We moved to Manhattan and had season tickets to the KSU Cats. '94 or so , KSU beat CU in Manhattan and I saw it live while wearing my Starter Buffs jacket. I cried on the ride home, threw the jacket away and became a Cats fan from then on.

[star seed 7]

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.

Man I forgot about that, used to always watch the big8 tourney in elementary school.

yup, watched all big 8/12 tourny games, and also ncaa games.  we had open classrooms and the teachers would sit in the back and keep lookout for the admins coming down the hall.  very elite.