Look kids, they tried to convince themselves for years that K-State didn't have the financial resources to compete, they don't understand how this all works and they clearly don't understand how much private money is now being contributed to the K-State athletic department these days (Nearly $39 million last year, and if CC is right, that number will be surpassed this year).
Now that all their little myths are being destroyed, they have nothing left to do but lash out on K-State message boards when we have a little fun at their expense.
The psychological issues at play are varied and broad: Anger, low self-esteem, ego etc. The list is almost endless.
K-State didn't have the financial resources to compete until recently. The university has grown, and the football program and basketball program are both good for the first time in school history. The truth is that you and the rest of the butthurt squad have convinced yourselves that KU is this poor, second-class program that can't afford anything. Then when KU privately finances and announces plans for the best athletic housing facility in college basketball, you continue to manipulate the rhetoric and portray KU as this poor program that has to beg for money. It's really sad just how bitter and jealous you are of all things KU. You are one of those sick people who hates their rival more than they love their own school.
LOL, we clown ku because we know it makes you and your ilk angry. No one said ku is poor, but you and the phog have tried to paint a picture that ku has unlimited resources (mainly because dummies confuse endowments with capital giving and such) and can do whatever it wants whenever it wants. Then reality takes a big bite: Gridiron Club, no Olympic Village on Campus, 2015 or later on stadium improvements, going and asking other ku departments to go into debt to build a basketball dorm . . . and we laugh a little at ku and you can't handle it.
From the time AFH was built until around 2004 or 2005; ku did exactly one truly significant sports facilities project, one. Bob Fredrick went and borrowed $30 million dollars to keep memorial stadium from crumbling to the ground, put up a new press box and bought a videoboard.
Other than that the only other things even remotely significant that were done was a few improvements to baseball, some restrooms and fire control system at AFH, some new offices at AFH, a few new playing surfaces, some new scoreboards and a tin shed practice gym/volleyball facility, and the Anschutz Pavilion. That's pretty much it over a span of nearly FIFTY YEARS. So quit acting like ku isn't also a Johnny Come Lately on major facilities projects.
It wasn't until around 2004-5-6 that ku completed anything even remotely substantial AND that was funded significantly with private money and that was the BHOA and the new weightroom at AFH (and Al Bohl had to go borrow $4 million from the KU Endowment to do that). Every major facilities project at ku since 1998 has needed borrowed money, or some type of weird off campus partnership financing except for the BHOA. Hell, Lew conned the students into building the new rowing facility for crying out loud.
1. KU fans have never claimed that we have "unlimited resources." Maybe someone could make that argument for the men's basketball program, but no one would say that about the entire athletic department. The Gridiron Club was a massive failure, and Lew devastated the entire football program by hiring Gill. No one would deny that. As for the Olympic Village, they moved it off campus and will build the athletic dorm in its place. By all accounts, the Rock Chalk Park is going to be a really nice sports complex, and the city of Lawrence will be able to benefit from the new recreation center and the shared facilities. I think it's actually pretty cool that regular citizens will benefit from the project. KU might actually be able to draw more fans to the non-revenue sports because of it.
2. The Anderson Family Strength & Conditioning Center was built in 2002. It is arguably nicer than Vanier, which is funny because that would mean that KU has two strength centers nicer than K-State's.
http://www.kuconnection.org/archive/2002/06/places_anderson.asp3. AFH and the adjacent facilities underwent over $70 million in upgrades in 2009. The football complex was completed in 2008 and cost $31 million. Baseball, softball, volleyball, track, and rowing have all had facilities upgrades in the past few years as well. With the Rock Chalk Sports Park, KU will have completed over $130 million in athletic facilities upgrades since '07.
4. Last but not least, take a look at KU and K-State's financial statements. Last time I checked, K-State had over $83 million in bonds payable, while KU was somewhere around $40 million (IIRC). K-State has taken on a ton of debt with its recent facilities projects, much more than KU in fact.
