Sportsmanship

[EMAWzified]

i kinda want the students to do the eff ku chant just to spite currie but that would mean that they would have to be loud and into the game and i don't want any of that so nevermind

Pre-game. A good time to let fly some of that roll of quarters picked up at the bank this morning.

[pissclams]

i kinda want the students to do the eff ku chant just to spite currie but that would mean that they would have to be loud and into the game and i don't want any of that so nevermind

Pre-game. A good time to let fly some of that roll of quarters picked up at the bank this morning.

who are the quarters being thrown at though?

[Woogy]

Trigger warnings and safe spaces....we are now mizzou.  Eff Us....

[SkinnyBenny]

Pretty sure I heard eff KU chant in the rock'n'roll'y song (wolfmother?) right before tipoff.

[kso_FAN]

I guess we are officially becoming MCC-North now.

[SkinnyBenny]

SANDSTORM ALERT!!! 

So was this all a ruse or is someone getting fired?

[SdK]

I hope someone gets fired

#TheWesIsTheFuture

[SdK]

God bless them

#TheWesIsTheFuture

[SkinnyBenny]

Would be an incredible way to go out.

[Kat Kid]

It was a legit v. good moment when Sandstorm got played.  NO ONE was expecting it.

That said, it would've been amazing if they would've really gone over the top and had Willie pile drive Currie and then clothesline Schulz on his way up the stairs to hit the sandstorm button.  If they knew ahead of time, they should've really played it up and gone total WWE.

[SkinnyBenny]

Allow me to do KK's dirty work here.

http://themercury.com/articles/guggisburg-k-state-officials-bungle-handling-of-sportsmanship-initiative?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Guggisberg: K-State officials bungle handling of sportsmanship initiative

Kansas State president Kirk Schulz and athletic director John Currie both have children, so they should know better.

What’s the fastest way to make sure a crowd of teens and 20-somethings repeatedly shout expletives at their in-state rival?

Tell them they can’t.

And then drive the point into the ground via every medium imaginable, from a sportsmanship pledge being distributed to students at the game to several warnings over the public address system prior to tipoff.

Then take it to a whole new level by sending out a stern-but-ultimately-meaningless warning via text message at halftime to those subscribed to alerts from the athletic department.

Yeah, that ought to do it.

The infamous chant — “F—k K-U” for anyone who hasn’t attended or watched the broadcast of a Sunflower Showdown in Bramlage Coliseum the last few years — was audible all night long during timeouts.

At this rate, K-State administrators will have to ban all forms of music from the Sunflower Showdown.

Basically any song with a beat can quickly turn into the students’ infamous chant, as the K-State administrators running the sound quickly discovered. Changing the song didn’t really help either, as the students continued to find a way, regardless of music genre.

Seriously, though, what did K-State administrators expect to happen?

This rule is completely and entirely unenforceable. All you can do is plead with students to do the right thing.

You can’t eject your whole student section, and if they choose to chant expletives at the opposing team, there’s not a lot of recourse there.

Holding their favorite song, “Sandstorm”, hostage for nearly a year doesn’t actually help your cause.

Perhaps Schulz realized the error in his ways when he reportedly approved the use of the song in the waning minutes of the second half, despite not attending Saturday’s game, as K-State rallied to get as close as three points before ultimately falling short in a 72-63 loss.

But even appeasing the students didn’t work, as the group only shouted louder as the volume of the song noticeably increased by several increments up to blaring levels as the song played for the entire timeout.

I get why K-State doesn’t enjoy the chant and the bad press that comes with it. It’s not a good look for anybody involved, including the students, and especially in front of a national television audience. It reflects poorly on Currie and Schulz, too, so I’m not faulting them for trying to discourage it.

But their methods make no sense.

Videos on Twitter surfaced Saturday of students burning their sportsmanship pledge cards. I would wager that no one planning to chant expletives at KU on Saturday suddenly reversed course after receiving a pledge card.

The truth is, no matter what happened before the game, after the game, on the court and off, there was a faction of K-State fans who were going to repeat the chant as much as possible the whole night.

The smart play here is to ask politely, not forcefully, for students to avoid using profanity, because let’s be honest, there’s no enforcing this policy. You can’t revoke the season-ticket package of everyone who participates, and even if you could, it would alienate a fanbase that already has numerous reasons to give up on this year’s team.

The good news is, Schulz and Currie have the better part of a year to figure out how to handle the next men’s basketball game against Kansas at Bramlage.

Here’s hoping they have the sense to handle it better next time.

[The Big Train]

That's a fantastically written article

[Ptolemy]

Great op-ed. All Schultz and Currie can and should do is make their case in the media, telling students to please rein-it-in, and then go about their business wrecking the basketball team.

When someone asks about the profanity, they should shrug, throw their hands up and say, "Ain't America great?"

[bones129]

Will they revoke Guggisberg's press pass now?

[Ptolemy]

Will they revoke Guggisberg's press pass now?

Not if they didn't first pull Tim Fitzgerald's.

[wetwillie]

Does Currie make exbruces to Captain Kirk every time he is asked why he can't make them stop?

[bones129]

Will they revoke Guggisberg's press pass now?

Not if they didn't first pull Tim Fitzgerald's.

You may have a point. Wonder if The Animal blocked Fitz after their Twitter spat over all of this?

[MakeItRain]

I'm pissed the administration bungled this so badly because it let the students' stupidity completely off of the hook.

[420seriouscat69]

http://www.kstatecollegian.com/2016/02/22/k-state-ashamed-a-recent-history-of-the-failed-quest-for-sportsmanship-at-k-state/

[pissclams]

only in the world of academia would chanting 'eff ku' equate to unsportsmanlike behavior, gmafb with this crap

[ednksu]

http://www.kstatecollegian.com/2016/02/22/k-state-ashamed-a-recent-history-of-the-failed-quest-for-sportsmanship-at-k-state/

I really like that piece. 

Also how was a student kicked out for a sign, without any profanity, since campus is a free speech zone.

[DQ12]

I know I shouldn't be, but I continue to be amazed at the complete lack of PR awareness that is present in Anderson Hall.  It's truly a marvel.

[8manpick]

Have you been to Anderson Hall? It's a dump

[sonofdaxjones]

The chant is dumb, court storming is dumb.    But you tell people don't yell EFF, don't storm the court, have fun, and be cool, and leave it at that.   You don't do all this bullshit because your concerned about image, or because a bunch of utterly humorless, perpetually butthurt and mainly bandwagon KU people get mad.   They're always mad about something and always in validation and affirmation mode.   

[pissclams]

our administration is so unaware