Students - Please be different!

[bones129]

I wonder if Lennay Kekua ever said "eff" (or variations thereof) when talking to Manti, and vice versa. 

[Microwave]

Anyone that thought we had a chance to get Ellis over KU is delusional.  We were put on his list as a formality. The notion that we could steal a 5* basketball player from KU is the funniest thing I've heard all day

[Winters]

Anyone that thought we had a chance to get Ellis over KU is delusional.  We were put on his list as a formality. The notion that we could steal a 5* basketball player from KU is the funniest thing I've heard all day

Those people are dumb.

[Skipper44]

Anyone that thought we had a chance to get Ellis over KU is delusional.  We were put on his list as a formality. The notion that we could steal a 5* basketball player from KU is the funniest thing I've heard all day

I wonder if we did not have a local guy like Brad on the staff if we would of spent as much effort on Ellis as we did.   

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

Not using words that offend some people en masse with television cameras looking on, is polite. I don't say "eff" out loud when there are children or older people around, because I don't want to offend. For the same reason, I no longer use the word "respect." Why offend someone for no reason? Just to be edgy?

The English language is full of so many wonderful words and phrases. Why resort to using ones that are offensive? (Yep, I'm tucking in my shirt.)

Thats the point, why is it offensive?? Don't let words bother you

The entire and only point of using the word in that context is to offend.  It wasn't chosen randomly from a list of verbs.  You can't substitute in "Hug KU" and communicate the same intent.

Words don't offend me personally, and when I'm around my friends (Jewish, gay, Chinese, Mexican, white) we find nothing funnier than insulting each other with slurs.  But we knock it off when others are around because not everyone shares our sense of humor.  So, one reason to not say "eff KU" is that you know there will be folks around who get offended and it's respectful to not offend folks for no real reason.  (Yes I have the language filter on at work.)

The second reason is that it's not clever.  Not at all.  Frankly anyone who doesn't buy into the "respectful" argument should at least want to come up with something clever.  Also, a clever chant might not be offensive.  Or it might.  But at least it wouldn't be insipidly stupid.

[Dr Rick Daris]

Not using words that offend some people en masse with television cameras looking on, is polite. I don't say "eff" out loud when there are children or older people around, because I don't want to offend. For the same reason, I no longer use the word "respect." Why offend someone for no reason? Just to be edgy?

The English language is full of so many wonderful words and phrases. Why resort to using ones that are offensive? (Yep, I'm tucking in my shirt.)

Thats the point, why is it offensive?? Don't let words bother you

The entire and only point of using the word in that context is to offend.  It wasn't chosen randomly from a list of verbs.  You can't substitute in "Hug KU" and communicate the same intent.

Words don't offend me personally, and when I'm around my friends (Jewish, gay, Chinese, Mexican, white) we find nothing funnier than insulting each other with slurs.  But we knock it off when others are around because not everyone shares our sense of humor.  So, one reason to not say "eff KU" is that you know there will be folks around who get offended and it's respectful to not offend folks for no real reason.  (Yes I have the language filter on at work.)

The second reason is that it's not clever.  Not at all.  Frankly anyone who doesn't buy into the "respectful" argument should at least want to come up with something clever.  Also, a clever chant might not be offensive.  Or it might.  But at least it wouldn't be insipidly stupid.

yeah. the generic unoriginality of it is the only thing that bothers me.

[MakeItRain]

yeah. the generic unoriginality of it is the only thing that bothers me.

[XocolateThundarr]

But, for what its worth, my wife had to leave the collisium before the end of the game because of the language, and I followed soon after.

I love this part of these posts. I can just imagine some fat 50 year old in the lobby crying hysterically cause she was forced to hear "eff" 5 or 6 times. And then her dimwit husband with his arm around her, "It'll be ok hunny, we'll go to church tomorrow to make up for it"

[MixBerryCrunch]

This whole thread is rough ridin' stupid.

[Emo EMAW]

Ole MixBerry bringing the Crunch!

[Domino]

I find myself liking a few commentators on this site more now after having read this thread.

[GoDucks349]

Congrats on having this discussion. I agree the foul language isn't necessary. Plus fans can get inside an opponents head other ways. Stanford fans are famous for this.

[SkinnyBenny]

This whole thread is rough ridin' stupid.

Kstatefans thread

[Winters]

We're going to do whatever we want.

[MadCat]

FWIW, K-State fans from 1973

[KanSt43]

They've been saying F*** KU since the 70's (at least). Big deal.

[TheFormerKCCat]

yeah. the generic unoriginality of it is the only thing that bothers me.

x me 2

(though, as a dad I used to cringe at use of "eff" when my daughter was younger, not so much anymore )

[yosh]

Just to be edgy

The sock gets why the chant was rough ridin' stupid, it was just way too "try too hard."  How in the eff could you be a college student and think swearing is so edgy and cool? I just did it twice, seamlessly. You people really are Spradling loving, mayo eating, uncultured hicky rubes.  This is what happens when 80% of your student section spent every summer from 7-18 being sent to vacation bible school in the Gyp Hills.

Jesus MIR 

[Kat Kid]

I was given my first "Screw KU" hat by my dad when I was like 11 or 12.

[Jabeez]

I wasn't a fan of the students, in the front row they were retards and couldn't think of anything to yell but, "You refs suck!" "You're crappy!"  What happened to the days of "dead beat daddy" or "Brady's Drunk"?  I mean come on students, they played a guy that looked like beetle juice, guys with premature balding, Withey, you don't even have to be creative to make fun of him,  and don't forget I mean, it's Kevin Young!

So yeah, the students should be more offensive, if anything. less eff ku, more fetal alcohol syndrome references(Elijah).
 

[hemmy]

I wasn't a fan of the students, in the front row they were retards and couldn't think of anything to yell but, "You refs suck!" "You're crappy!"  What happened to the days of "dead beat daddy" or "Brady's Drunk"?  I mean come on students, they played a guy that looked like beetle juice, guys with premature balding, Withey, you don't even have to be creative to make fun of him,  and don't forget I mean, it's Kevin Young!

So yeah, the students should be more offensive, if anything. less eff ku, more fetal alcohol syndrome references(Elijah).
 

Is dumbass purple blazer guy still sitting in the front? That is probably the issue.

[Winters]

I wasn't a fan of the students, in the front row they were retards and couldn't think of anything to yell but, "You refs suck!" "You're crappy!"  What happened to the days of "dead beat daddy" or "Brady's Drunk"?  I mean come on students, they played a guy that looked like beetle juice, guys with premature balding, Withey, you don't even have to be creative to make fun of him,  and don't forget I mean, it's Kevin Young!

So yeah, the students should be more offensive, if anything. less eff ku, more fetal alcohol syndrome references(Elijah).
 

Is dumbass purple blazer guy still sitting in the front? That is probably the issue.

He's awful and deserves to be punched very hard in his face.

[Kat Kid]

To be fair, this may be the most boring collection of kansas basketball players we've ever seen.

I mean J.R. Giddens?  Rush?  Morris twins?  Sherron?  Sasha, Moody and Luke Axtel were goofy.

No one on the 2013 KU Jayhawks comes even close to that.

[bones129]

To be fair, this may be the most boring collection of kansas basketball players we've ever seen.

I mean J.R. Giddens?  Rush?  Morris twins?  Sherron?  Sasha, Moody and Luke Axtel were goofy.

No one on the 2013 KU Jayhawks comes even close to that.

No shock value among those guys at all. None. Makes me yearn for the days the b-ballers fought the f-ballers on the campus.

[star seed 7]

To be fair, this may be the most boring collection of kansas basketball players we've ever seen.

I mean J.R. Giddens?  Rush?  Morris twins?  Sherron?  Sasha, Moody and Luke Axtel were goofy.

No one on the 2013 KU Jayhawks comes even close to that.

Wow, great observation, totally agree.