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

[Pete]

Is Lance Lightpole going to have to give a motivational speech....to fans?  Attendance at first game:

BYU: 63,712
West Virginia: 62,084
Texas Tech: 60,229
Iowa State: 56,148
Utah: 52,210
Oklahoma State: 52,202
Kansas State: 51,240
Colorado: 49,438
Arizona State: 48,108
Arizona: 44,748
UCF: 44,206
Baylor: 42,272
Cincinnati: 37,654
Houston: 25,750
Kansas: 20,829

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2024/09/01/surprising-big-12-team-leads-the-way-in-week-1-college-football-attendance/

KU played in the Sporting KC stadium. Great crowd for that venue and all reports are that it felt packed and excited.  I bet they end up wishing their arrowhead games were instead back at sporting KC.

If the cats were in that situation, I’d rather they play to a frothing hard-to-get-ticket sporting KC crowd than a lack luster arrowhead crowd.

[Shooter Jones]

This thread was sent to me earlier today.

The story says the guy was from Nebraska, but the Rock Chalk's go on to assume he is a K-Tater? And they let the little bro pains ooze onto their keyboards.

You can tell their piss is hott this football season! Hope the team plays good enough to bring them the happiness their lives are completely void of.

https://247sports.com/college/kansas/board/103723/contents/kstate-karl-had-a-little-too-much-grape-koolaid-saturday-235538333/?page=1

Maybe it's the K-State gear in the car and the fact that he admitted to getting drunk at the K-State game, but I'm no Sherlock Holmes.

The hats are blue and just distorted by the camera shot. You can really tell the color distortion by the Jimmy John's lettuce on the console, which is never that green.

[pissclams]

Is Lance Lightpole going to have to give a motivational speech....to fans?  Attendance at first game:

BYU: 63,712
West Virginia: 62,084
Texas Tech: 60,229
Iowa State: 56,148
Utah: 52,210
Oklahoma State: 52,202
Kansas State: 51,240
Colorado: 49,438
Arizona State: 48,108
Arizona: 44,748
UCF: 44,206
Baylor: 42,272
Cincinnati: 37,654
Houston: 25,750
Kansas: 20,829

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2024/09/01/surprising-big-12-team-leads-the-way-in-week-1-college-football-attendance/

KU played in the Sporting KC stadium. Great crowd for that venue and all reports are that it felt packed and excited.  I bet they end up wishing their arrowhead games were instead back at sporting KC.

If the cats were in that situation, I’d rather they play to a frothing hard-to-get-ticket sporting KC crowd than a lack luster arrowhead crowd.

the tickets to last thursday’s ku game were not hard to get unless you didn’t have $25 and the stubhub app.

[catastrophe]

If the guy lived in Kansas then I think you always have to take the default assumption they’re a Cats football fan. Living in Nebraska I’d say it’s 50/50 Cats fan or Nebraska fan desperate to see good football.

[Dugout DickStone]

I think the numbers were low because they were further from their fanbase in Raytown

[passranch]

Is Lance Lightpole going to have to give a motivational speech....to fans?  Attendance at first game:

BYU: 63,712
West Virginia: 62,084
Texas Tech: 60,229
Iowa State: 56,148
Utah: 52,210
Oklahoma State: 52,202
Kansas State: 51,240
Colorado: 49,438
Arizona State: 48,108
Arizona: 44,748
UCF: 44,206
Baylor: 42,272
Cincinnati: 37,654
Houston: 25,750
Kansas: 20,829

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2024/09/01/surprising-big-12-team-leads-the-way-in-week-1-college-football-attendance/

KU played in the Sporting KC stadium. Great crowd for that venue and all reports are that it felt packed and excited.  I bet they end up wishing their arrowhead games were instead back at sporting KC.

If the cats were in that situation, I’d rather they play to a frothing hard-to-get-ticket sporting KC crowd than a lack luster arrowhead crowd.

They're gonna move into their cavernous 41,000 seat new stadium and wish Goff didn't insist on it being that big despite the analysts suggestions that they go no bigger than 37,000.

[wetwillie]

Is Lance Lightpole going to have to give a motivational speech....to fans?  Attendance at first game:

BYU: 63,712
West Virginia: 62,084
Texas Tech: 60,229
Iowa State: 56,148
Utah: 52,210
Oklahoma State: 52,202
Kansas State: 51,240
Colorado: 49,438
Arizona State: 48,108
Arizona: 44,748
UCF: 44,206
Baylor: 42,272
Cincinnati: 37,654
Houston: 25,750
Kansas: 20,829

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2024/09/01/surprising-big-12-team-leads-the-way-in-week-1-college-football-attendance/

KU played in the Sporting KC stadium. Great crowd for that venue and all reports are that it felt packed and excited.  I bet they end up wishing their arrowhead games were instead back at sporting KC.

If the cats were in that situation, I’d rather they play to a frothing hard-to-get-ticket sporting KC crowd than a lack luster arrowhead crowd.

the tickets to last thursday’s ku game were not hard to get unless you didn’t have $25 and the stubhub app.

The pictures I've seen of the crowd would indicate it definitely wasn't full

[star seed 7]

Amazing what lance is doing with so little fan, and really athletic department, support

[Stevesie60]

Is Lance Lightpole going to have to give a motivational speech....to fans?  Attendance at first game:

BYU: 63,712
West Virginia: 62,084
Texas Tech: 60,229
Iowa State: 56,148
Utah: 52,210
Oklahoma State: 52,202
Kansas State: 51,240
Colorado: 49,438
Arizona State: 48,108
Arizona: 44,748
UCF: 44,206
Baylor: 42,272
Cincinnati: 37,654
Houston: 25,750
Kansas: 20,829

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2024/09/01/surprising-big-12-team-leads-the-way-in-week-1-college-football-attendance/

KU played in the Sporting KC stadium. Great crowd for that venue and all reports are that it felt packed and excited.  I bet they end up wishing their arrowhead games were instead back at sporting KC.

If the cats were in that situation, I’d rather they play to a frothing hard-to-get-ticket sporting KC crowd than a lack luster arrowhead crowd.

the tickets to last thursday’s ku game were not hard to get unless you didn’t have $25 and the stubhub app.

I'm not trying to speak for Pete (how could I, the guy's a genius) but I think the just meant he'd HYPOTHETICALLY prefer a situation where tickets were hard to get for a HYPOTHETICAL K-State game in which we were playing at HYPOTHETICALLY Sporting KC's stadium vs Arrowhead Stadium.

[Pete]

Precisely! That sporting stadium is very nice and has good acoustics despite its small size. Jayhawk fans are going to miss it when they get to arrowhead, IMO. If they have the good fortune to put together 4 wins in a row, they still won’t be able to fill arrowhead, but they could fill Sporting and it would be a hot ticket for TCU in a small stadium instead of Taco John’s tickets for Arrowhead.

[sonofdaxjones]

My heart hurts for the Sporting MO-Kan Rayhawks . . .  this is remindful of when K-State flubbed up funding of the initial baseball stadium renovation in the early 2000's and the baseball team had to play on the road the whole season. 

It's particularly disheartening knowing that the Dax plan for KUMS would have not only kept our Hawks playing in Lawrence, but would have preserved the core integrity of an historic landmark and memorial to our fallen soldiers. 

[ChiComCat]

Precisely! That sporting stadium is very nice and has good acoustics despite its small size. Jayhawk fans are going to miss it when they get to arrowhead, IMO. If they have the good fortune to put together 4 wins in a row, they still won’t be able to fill arrowhead, but they could fill Sporting and it would be a hot ticket for TCU in a small stadium instead of Taco John’s tickets for Arrowhead.

Agree 100% - They will make more money at arrowhead but starting with some scarcity and a better atmosphere is necessary for their program.  It would help them sell tickets for their new stadium next year when they won't have the benefit of Daniels helping them, barring a medical redshirt.

[MakeItRain]

Is Lance Lightpole going to have to give a motivational speech....to fans?  Attendance at first game:

BYU: 63,712
West Virginia: 62,084
Texas Tech: 60,229
Iowa State: 56,148
Utah: 52,210
Oklahoma State: 52,202
Kansas State: 51,240
Colorado: 49,438
Arizona State: 48,108
Arizona: 44,748
UCF: 44,206
Baylor: 42,272
Cincinnati: 37,654
Houston: 25,750
Kansas: 20,829

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2024/09/01/surprising-big-12-team-leads-the-way-in-week-1-college-football-attendance/

lol at that dumbass headline. How in the hell is it a surprise that the stadium with the largest capacity had the highest attendance? Also make note of Iowa State when they inevitably lie about selling out every game and old K-State fans fawn about how they support the team. The weather in Ames was perfect and most of their fanbase thinks they are going to the big 12 championship game and they were 4,000 short of a sellout and a couple of thousand more seats than that were unused.

[CHONGS]

Big Bert is gonna put the beak birds to bed tomorrow night.

[Katpappy]

Is Lance Lightpole going to have to give a motivational speech....to fans?  Attendance at first game:

BYU: 63,712
West Virginia: 62,084
Texas Tech: 60,229
Iowa State: 56,148
Utah: 52,210
Oklahoma State: 52,202
Kansas State: 51,240
Colorado: 49,438
Arizona State: 48,108
Arizona: 44,748
UCF: 44,206
Baylor: 42,272
Cincinnati: 37,654
Houston: 25,750
Kansas: 20,829

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2024/09/01/surprising-big-12-team-leads-the-way-in-week-1-college-football-attendance/

lol at that dumbass headline. How in the hell is it a surprise that the stadium with the largest capacity had the highest attendance? Also make note of Iowa State when they inevitably lie about selling out every game and old K-State fans fawn about how they support the team. The weather in Ames was perfect and most of their fanbase thinks they are going to the big 12 championship game and they were 4,000 short of a sellout and a couple of thousand more seats than that were unused.

Doesn't seem 56,148 would be around 5,500 short of the 61,500-seat capacity of the stadium.  So, what are you trying to say?

[CHONGS]

Quite a few hayseeds from Lawrence gawking around at the big city here. 

[Sandstone Outcropping]

[Pete]

KU was clearly the better team at every spot except Head Coach and Quarterback.

What a shameful display.

[EMAWzifried]

History awaits 2.0

[I_have_purplewood]

Omg, so hilarious.  UNLV scored 72 points tonight and they play them next?  Lance should have bolted when he had the chance. 

[star seed 7]

I wouldn't write the Rayhawks off yet. They played like crap but kept it seriously close to a bad team with a legitimate chance to win at the end. I think they get it figured out

[CHONGS]

KU will absolutely beat UNLV by double digies.

Mark it down.

Rawtown All-stars will Bounce Back

[cfbandyman]

Idk, I mean UNLV destroyed Houston who hung with OU. It'll be a game

[Spracne]

Daniels singlehandedly lost that game.

[Kid In the Hall]

Daniels does not look the same since prior to his injury last year...

No 2022 Daniels=no winning season for KU.