OT - Mighty Tigers dominate "Border War"

With the high concentration of former, present, and potential Jayhawks on this board, I thought i would perform a public service and show them exactly where they rank locally.

The standings currently are MU 29.5 to KU 8.0. The trophy was presented today in a ceremony in Columbia as KU has no hope of overtaking the mighty Mizzou Tigers. If you wnat to see a winner, go to Columbia...



KU v MU Border War Scoring Sheet

Date Event Results Overall Score Kansas Missouri
Oct 19 Volleyball in Columbia, MO MU, 3-0 0.0 1.5
Oct 26 Football in Columbia, MO MU, 36-12 0.0 4.5
Nov 1 Women's Soccer in Columbia, MO MU, 2-0 0.0 7.5
Nov 1 Women's Swimming in Columbia, MO MU, 170-12 0.0 9.0
Nov 2 Women's Cross Country Big XII's in Columbia, MO MU, 2nd 0.0 10.0
Nov 2 Men's Cross Country Big XII's in Columbia, MO KU, 8th 1.0 10.0
Nov 23 Volleyball in Lawrence, KS MU, 3-2 1.0 11.5
Feb 3 Men's Basketball in Lawrence, KS KU, 76-70 2.5 11.5
Feb 15 Women's Basketball in Lawrence, KS MU, 61-55 2.5 13.0
Feb 19-22 Women's Swimming Big XII's in Austin, TX MU, 3rd 2.5 14.5
Feb 28-Mar 1 Men's Indoor Track & Field Big XII's in Lincoln, NE MU, 4th 2.5 15.5
Feb 28-Mar 2 Women's Indoor Track & Field Big XII's in Lincoln, NE KU, 4th 3.5 15.5
Mar 1 Women's Basketball in Columbia, MO MU, 73-52 3.5 17.0
Mar 9 Men's Basketball in Columbia, MO KU, 79-74 5.0 17.0
Mar 12 Women's Tennis in Columbia, MO MU, 4-3 5.0 20.0
Mar 15 Men's Basketball Big XII Tournament in Dallas MU, 68-63 5.0 20.5
Mar 21 Baseball in Columbia, MO MU, 11-7 5.0 21.5
Mar 22 Baseball in Columbia, MO MU, 14-8 5.0 22.5
Mar 23 Baseball in Columbia, MO MU, 7-4 5.0 23.5
Apr 21 Softball in Lawrence, KS MU, 8-4 5.0 25.0
Apr 21 Softball in Lawrence, KS MU, 13-1 5.0 26.5
Apr 21-23 Women's Golf Big XII Tournament in Columbia, MO MU 2nd, KU 11th 5.0 29.5
Apr 28-29 Men's Golf Big XII Tournament in Tulsa, OK KU 8th, MU 10th 8.0 29.5
May 15-30 Men's Golf NCAA Tournament KU 19th 8.5 29.5
May 17-19 Women's Outdoor Track & Field Big XII's in Austin, TX
May 17-19 Men's Outdoor Track & Field Big XII's in Austin, TX
May 21-25 Baseball Big XII Tournament in Oklahoma City, OK
May 30-Jun 21 Baseball NCAA Tournament

 

Spoken like a true Beaker. No matter if the rest of the athletic program is a disgrace to a premier sports conference. Mizzou's domination serves to highlight something else. Compare Mizzou with several other teams in the Big XII and they look like KU. That's how bad Beakerville really is right now.

It'a no wonder every cupcake 50-point pre-season mismatch for KU hoop has to be televised...it's the only opportunity for Hawks to squalk.

 

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Spoken like someone on the short end of the stick. One of the tried and true proven tenents of power is that if you can't get something, distain it as if you didn't want it in the first place.

I was going to let this thread die, but this statement is such a complete and utter pile of crap I had to respond. What an idiotic statement.
1) You can't reject all other sport you personally don't care about. OK, maybe you can, but don't blanket statement everything. Also, as someone who actually played and helped other teams within this rivalry, I can attest to one fact: The best attended games at either KU or MU are KU/MU games. At any KU v MU event, regardless of popularity, you will see more people, more people wearing colors, more people being more vocal, and a higher level of play from the combatants. Don't tell me people don't care. You may not convienently care, but others definitely do. The only exception is of course when KU rolls over like a b1tch to all the invading fans of other schools like NU or KSU. This isn't a fact to be dismissed as it happens in both football and basketball.
2) Putting aside the level of wisdom in your statement, we are left with the simply galling revelation that a single basketball game should count twice as much as a football game.

What?!?

I can't even conceive of the logic behind this. It couldn't be money, as football far and away outweighs basketball on a one-game basis. Even on a seasonal basis the same level team will produce rediculously more revenue in football than basketball. The NCAA tourney only rises to the level of football because of brackets. Once those are toast the interest is too for the majority. It couldn't be national signifigance, football is much more important in national relevance, $, and TV ratings. It couldn't even be a biased scale as I'm certain both 'Hawk and Tiger were instrumental in the creation of the system.
This only leaves the reality of what truly exists in Lawerence and a contributing factor to why KU has such a crappy athletic department: KU fan isn't really dyed in the wool Beaker Blue, just a fair-weather supporter of one lone gender of one lone sport. If it isn't the cagers, who cares? Embarassing. If KU's allumni base had any balls they would collectivly and on a wide spread basis write your worthless President, Board of Regents, and the Governor; demanding with all possible insistence that the entire KU Athletic department get its' head out of its' kiester.
Why should you care? In starting this thread, I was trying to make a point as lightly as a Tiger alum could be expected to do. Bluntly it's this: The state of state universtiy budgets is one that demands a high level of excellence from the athletic department to help drive university enrollment, endowments, national recognition, and everything else that effects the bottom line, read: money. In the end it is money that allows the academic side to prosper. KU athletics isn't a boon to anything. It might not be a paracitic relationship just yet, but it's getting there.

Don't worry about it - MU fans will be happy to continue to kick Beaker butt over the next 20 years while you people wonder why it all went wrong.
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Um...no it isn't. Scoreboard says MU, but whatever lets you sleep at night.

Fixed your post.

I love how you use the phrase "the criteria". Like using that phrase somehow lends validity to the rediculous notion that the methods used to name a winner are shrouded in some grey area of doubt, are somehow punitive to KU, are completely arbitrary, or are unfair to one enitity over another. How very KU of you...

First, you didn't do anything to help earn it, and I graduated 10 years ago. No sweep, MU won the big one in March. It's still a weak view. Without the occasional good men's BB season, KU would just be completely leaching off the Big XII pie actually earned by others. This is aside from the rest of the Ath. Dept. being a parasitic drain on the overall KU budget.