As a Missouri guy I understand that is my duty and pleasure to hate all things kansas. After all, we've hated each other for over 150 years now and in this internet society that includes sports message boards, I don't see much sign of it ending anytime soon. It's as much a part of our culture and heritage as bald knobber days in the southern part of the state, The St. Patrick's day parade in KC or opening day in St. Louis. We hate kansas and they hate us. We wouldn't change it if we could. Nor should we. I loved hating Roy Williams, and still love hating Lew Perkins, Bill Self and Sherron Collins. I'm even going to miss hating Todd Reesing. I know there were a lot of similarities between he and Chase Daniel, well except for the fact that Chase followed up 2007 with 10 more wins in 2008 and Reesing followed it up with a 13-12 record his final 2 years. Heheh
However, now we've got another collection of idiots that are attempting to make a charge to the top of our list, and they're so arrogant that they refuse to admit they're doing it. That's right folks, I'm talking about that memorial to white levy's and blue hair, the fans of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. For years now they've spouted to the world that they were the greatest fans in college football if not all sports in general. For years they'd always applaud as the losing team would leave the stadium following another 66-13 Nebraska win. I mean seriously, how hard is it to be a good fan when you averaged 10 wins a year over 4 decades? We've had generations of Husker fans that grew up believing that it was their birthright to dominate the Big 8 conference as they pretty much did along with the University of Oklahoma, which sport a pretty irritating fan base of their own now that I think about it.
However, things started unraveling for Corn Nation back in 1996 when the Big XII began operations and the rules began to change for programs such as they and Kansas State. That's when Texas proclaimed they wouldn't allow schools to take unlimited non qualifiers and of course the conference rolled over like a dog and let them have their way. Now to be clear, I think this was a pretty good idea. Before that the Nubs and Wildcats were able to take players that the other members of the conference couldn't get into school due to academic deficiencies. Kansas State made little effort to hide what they were doing, but Nebraska made quite the deal about their numerous academic all american's, but no mention of the number of common criminals they recruited such as Christian Peters, Lawrence Phillips and Thunder Collins.
And then, on an October evening in 2003 in Columbia, Missouri the wheels finally fell off. Nebraska rolled into town ranked 10th in the country and fell 41-24 to Brad Smith and the Tigers. In a move that would forever endear him to the worlds classiest fans,
Kellen Huston sucker punched a 120 lb Missouri fan that had the audacity to rush the field after the game had ended. Since that night the Huskers have fired 2 coaches and appeared in 2 conference title games, coincidentally the same number as my Tigers. Now they place their faith in the king of calm, Bo Pelini and boast of their legion of star fans which includes such luminaries as Chuck Lidell, Melissa Midwest and Larry the Cable Guy.
So now we are in something of a quandry. Who should we hate more? The long time nemesis that we grew up hating or the new kid on the block? Whether Nebraska cares to admit it or not, with the attention being given to football in the north, it's all set up for Missouri and Nebraska to be the 2 bullies in the downtrodden division. The schools finished 1-2 for the second year in a row and were the 2 youngest teams in the Big XII conference. Their recruiting classes were rated far ahead of the other 4 teams in the north, and they are out spending the rest of the division as far as facilities. It's no guarantee that it's these 2 and everybody else, but it just pretty much is. I'd be tempted to say that as a football first guy I'd have to hate Nebraska more now since they seem destined to be our main competition in the north. However, there's just something about kansans that pisses me off. Let's just say that I have enough hate for both.
As a Missouri guy I understand that is my duty and pleasure to hate all things kansas. After all, we've hated each other for over 150 years now and in this internet society that includes sports message boards, I don't see much sign of it ending anytime soon. It's as much a part of our culture and heritage as bald knobber days in the southern part of the state, The St. Patrick's day parade in KC or opening day in St. Louis. We hate kansas and they hate us. We wouldn't change it if we could. Nor should we. I loved hating Roy Williams, and still love hating Lew Perkins, Bill Self and Sherron Collins. I'm even going to miss hating Todd Reesing. I know there were a lot of similarities between he and Chase Daniel, well except for the fact that Chase followed up 2007 with 10 more wins in 2008 and Reesing followed it up with a 13-12 record his final 2 years. Heheh
And then, on an October evening in 2003 in Columbia, Missouri the wheels finally fell off. Nebraska rolled into town ranked 10th in the country and fell 41-24 to Brad Smith and the Tigers. In a move that would forever endear him to the worlds classiest fans, Kellen Huston sucker punched a 120 lb Missouri fan that had the audacity to rush the field after the game had ended. Since that night the Huskers have fired 2 coaches and appeared in 2 conference title games, coincidentally the same number as my Tigers. Now they place their faith in the king of calm, Bo Pelini and boast of their legion of star fans which includes such luminaries as Chuck Lidell, Melissa Midwest and Larry the Cable Guy. 
So now we are in something of a quandry. Who should we hate more? The long time nemesis that we grew up hating or the new kid on the block? Whether Nebraska cares to admit it or not, with the attention being given to football in the north, it's all set up for Missouri and Nebraska to be the 2 bullies in the downtrodden division. The schools finished 1-2 for the second year in a row and were the 2 youngest teams in the Big XII conference. Their recruiting classes were rated far ahead of the other 4 teams in the north, and they are out spending the rest of the division as far as facilities. It's no guarantee that it's these 2 and everybody else, but it just pretty much is. I'd be tempted to say that as a football first guy I'd have to hate Nebraska more now since they seem destined to be our main competition in the north. However, there's just something about kansans that pisses me off. Let's just say that I have enough hate for both.
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