The KU Rayhawks are NOT going through a rough patch. They make Raytown, Missouri proud!

[SEK_EMAW]

Weis goes down as the buyout king, as he then made his way to Kansas, where he earned $15 million for 12 wins, including the $5.63 million still on the books after he was fired in the third year of a five-year deal.

Charlie would still be at KU if he had won 12 games.

[illBisonYourdele]

On future renovations to Memorial Stadium:

I get asked this a lot. Finally I get to say this to a larger population. First of all they did too good of job in the 1920s. Think about what this must have looked like then and they picked the best location in all of the nation for a college football stadium. With that we have the drawings completed for what we want to do to the stadium. We're out amongst our major stakeholders looking for those lead donors and we have several in front of us right now. We're letting them tell us for that investment what they want to see in the stadium.

What we have right now we won't release because it is not going to look like that because we are continually tweaking it to what the stakeholders want.

This is a project of such magnitude that it will impact the entire University. We haven't, in athletics, had a project like this since Allen Fieldhouse in the 1950s. It isn't lost on me and others just how important this will be. We're going to measure twice, maybe three times before we cut. This has to be done once and done right. And with that it will be all hands on deck.

That is partly why in the first four or five years we have spent time on a track stadium, a soccer stadium, a softball stadium, a tennis facility, the DeBruce Center, the McCarthy Apartments… clearing the deck so there is only one project in front of us so everyone knows this is it.

[meow meow]

oh boy, can't wait!  measure 5 or 6 times even if that's what it takes!

[illBisonYourdele]

all hands on deck

[BackPayne]

 

[everyone shut up]

all hands on deck

i thought we had the cruise ship

[The Big Train]

I can't wait for my grandkids to see these drawings!

[slobber]

We have the drawings complete.

We are asking the people that will fund this at the highest level, "what do you want it to look like?"


Gonna win 'em all!

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

I, like, totally expect something to be done in the next 20 years with this new information

[O-town Kat]

KU is the kid who erases his paper so many times he puts holes in it. These drawings are going to look like smudgy crap.

[#LIFE]

they picked the best location in all of the nation for a college football stadium.

Holy crap 

[Dugout DickStone]

When it's finally done it's going to look like total crap

[everyone shut up]

they picked the best location in all of the nation for a college football stadium.

Holy crap 

i've been to one game there and to be honest, "the setting" didn't even cross my mind. it's strange they think so highly of it. i don't think i paid attention to it even once.

[sonofdaxjones]

Zenger has been on the job for what?   Five years?   So by year 9 or 10 he'll have something actually working on the football stadium?   I've been hearing about all this super secret work that's been going on in the background for 3 years now.   This is straight out of the Tim Weiser play book.   You hear bits and pieces and how it's being worked on, and then nothing ever happens.   Guess who Zenger's last boss was at K-State?   It was also straight out of the Tim Weiser playbook to let anybody else but athletics pay for or raise the money for something.   Which is exactly why Cheyenne Zulu hopped all over Rock Chalk Park, he's getting credit for projects at KU that he essentially didn't do any fund raising for . . .  any of them. 

Meanwhile John Currie has raised $130 million in five years in cash for capital projects and put together the financing and repayment program from donors for another $70 million, on top of all time record giving to the Ahearn Scholarship Fund.

[Dugout DickStone]

They used the clip art football player image for the front door of their last major football investment

That actually happened

[SkinnyBenny]

Zenger has been on the job for what?   Five years?   So by year 9 or 10 he'll have something actually working on the football stadium?   I've been hearing about all this super secret work that's been going on in the background for 3 years now.   This is straight out of the Tim Weiser play book.   You hear bits and pieces and how it's being worked on, and then nothing ever happens.   Guess who Zenger's last boss was at K-State?   It was also straight out of the Tim Weiser playbook to let anybody else but athletics pay for or raise the money for something.   Which is exactly why Cheyenne Zulu hopped all over Rock Chalk Park, he's getting credit for projects at KU that he essentially didn't do any fund raising for . . .  any of them. 

Meanwhile John Currie has raised $130 million in five years in cash for capital projects and put together the financing and repayment program from donors for another $70 million, on top of all time record giving to the Ahearn Scholarship Fund.

This post was quintessential dax, just through and through.

Guys how many do the ol' hawks win by today?

[deputy dawg]

On future renovations to Memorial Stadium:

I get asked this a lot. Finally I get to say this to a larger population. First of all they did too good of job in the 1920s. Think about what this must have looked like then and they picked the best location in all of the nation for a college football stadium. With that we have the drawings completed for what we want to do to the stadium. We're out amongst our major stakeholders looking for those lead donors and we have several in front of us right now. We're letting them tell us for that investment what they want to see in the stadium.

What we have right now we won't release because it is not going to look like that because we are continually tweaking it to what the stakeholders want.

This is a project of such magnitude that it will impact the entire University. We haven't, in athletics, had a project like this since Allen Fieldhouse in the 1950s. It isn't lost on me and others just how important this will be. We're going to measure twice, maybe three times before we cut. This has to be done once and done right. And with that it will be all hands on deck.

That is partly why in the first four or five years we have spent time on a track stadium, a soccer stadium, a softball stadium, a tennis facility, the DeBruce Center, the McCarthy Apartments… clearing the deck so there is only one project in front of us so everyone knows this is it.

This is how you cascade cliches, amateurs.

[SdK]

Muffed Punt! Will they rcjh into the endzone?

[SdK]

Red zone!

[SdK]

If KU is able to score in the first half, I'll be worried about the KU game.

[SdK]

Awww crap

[The Big Train]

They scored on a defense that we could not

[Canary]

I'm not remotely worried.

[SdK]

KU is going to give us a game. There's no denying that at this point.

[SdK]

I'm considering going to a KU game in EMAW gear and cheering for the Jayhawks