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  1. Senior year at KU I moved into a big house with my close friend I worked with, her boyfriend who worked on the road most weeks and was rarely there, and one of her best friends from high school. The best friend seemed okay at first and she worked for the cable company so we every channel and free on demand porn before online porn was as prevalent. Well, they started doing coke on the weekends at the house with this shady drug dealer dude. Not the biggest deal just partying. I'm not into it but whatever. Well, Honey, yea that's her stupid name, decided to go from coke to meth and got fucking addicted to it as well as starting to date her meth dealer. She became really volatile as one does who already has a shitty personality on meth and started going kind of nuts as we were obviously distancing ourselves from her. Miraculously the land lord decided to sell the house so we took the opportunity and moved the fuck out of there like a month or two before we had to be out leaving Honey's methhead ass behind. She decided to try and sue us for it but because I never got served the case was thrown out. She then tried to get us to appear on Judge Mathis with her insane ass. 

  2. 8 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:

    with only 3 games to go there is a solid chance that both the nl central and nl west could end in ties.  anyone else seriously rooting for this?

    Always. Baseball gods make it happen.

  3. 3 hours ago, kopp0e said:

    Just to show a side by side look at both the Jayhawks & Owls:
    And as pertaining to primarily football, if Rice isn't good enough for the XII, why would Kansas be good enough for the B1G in football..?
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    If one looks, the metrics between Rice & Kansas are almost identicle on stadium size, & capacity in the largest revenue sport of collegiate football...
    The difference is the earned revenues from the XII media distributions,and fact of the Jayhawks arena in Allen Fieldhouse is nearly 3x the size of the Tudor Fieldhouse, home of the Owls...
    But, as when the "talking points" are shifted to academics, Rice blows Kansas away in the latest US News & World Reports Rankings of national universities by at least 113 slots hire in ratings...

    KANSAS:
    National University Ranking
    #129 in National Universities (tie)
    University of Kansas
    Lawrence, KS
    Founded in 1865, University of Kansas is a public institution. The school has 47.3 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students, and the student-faculty ratio at University of Kansas is 17:1. more
    $27,358 (out-of-state), $11,148 (in-state) Tuition and Fees 19,338 Undergraduate Enrollment

    NCAA FINANCES:
    Rank/#36 School/Kansas Conference/XII Revenue/$95,251,461 Expenses/$94,709,233

    FOOTBALL STADIUM CAPACITY:
    Name/David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium Capacity/50,071 Attendance/26,641 Location/Lawrence Team/Kansas Jayhawks

    NCAA DIVISION 1 COLLEGE BASKETBALL CAPACITY:
    Name/Allen Fieldhouse Capacity/16,300 Attendance/16,395 Location/Lawrence Team/Kansas Jayhawks

    NEAREST MAJOR CITY BY POPULATION - Kansas City/40.3 miles

    TOTAL POPULATION OF STATE OF KANSAS: #35 (Nationally) - 2,913,123
    TOTAL POPULATION OF CITY OF KANSAS CITY: #30 (NationallY) Kansas City, MO-KS MSA 2,128,912
     

     
    SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2018
    Should KU be worried about getting dumped from a Power 5 Conference? The financial stakes are huge
    By Chad Lawhorn

    But due to its struggles on the football field, KU certainly isn’t in the top tier of schools in the Power 5 conferences. When you are in the bottom tier, there are seemingly endless questions hanging in the air: Will there be conference reorganization? Will the Power 5 consolidate into the Power 4? Would we make the cut in a new world order?
    ...The Journal-World looked at the finances of two mid-major schools in an effort to see how different the world might be if Kansas ever fell out of a Power 5 conference. ...In 2016, UConn received $26.9 million in direct subsides — such as dollars from the university’s general fund — to support athletics. ...Like KU, the University of Connecticut strives to be a national power in men’s basketball, having won four national championships since 1999. But despite its location in one of the richest states in America — and having arguably the most successful women’s basketball program in history — the University of Connecticut’s finances look nothing like KU’s.
    ...Ohio University competes in the Mid-America Conference, a classic home for “mid-major” schools.
    ...Ohio is a statewide research university that actually has several thousand more students that KU. ...But because it is not a part of a Power 5 conference, its athletic budget isn’t even in the same universe, let alone the same league, as KU’s.

    - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    RICE:
    National University Ranking
    #16 in National Universities
    Rice University
    Houston, TX
    Rice University is located in the heart of the Museum District in Houston, TX. The private institution has a need-blind admissions policy and meets the full demonstrated need of any accepted student who requires help paying tuition. more
    $47,350 Tuition and Fees 4,001 Undergraduate Enrollment

    NCAA FINANCES:
    Rank/(Private) School/Rice Conference/CUSA Revenue/$12,001,178 Expenses/$12,001,178

    FOOTBALL STADIUM CAPACITY:
    Name/Rice Stadium Capacity/47,000 Attendance/19,354 Location/Houston Team/Rice Owls

    NCAA DIVISION 1 COLLEGE BASKETBALL CAPACITY:
    Name/Tudor Fieldhouse Capacity/5,750 Attendance/2,101 Location/Houston Team/Rice Owls

    NEAREST MAJOR CITY BY POPULATION - Houston/0 miles

    TOTAL POPULATION OF STATE OF TEXAS: #2 (Nationally) - 28,304,596
    TOTAL POPULATION OF CITY OF HOUSTON: #5 (Nationally) Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX MSA 6,892,427
     

     
    Athletic Director discusses state of Rice sports
    Andrew Grottkau | October 18, 2017

    Karlgaard has been Rice’s athletic director since fall 2013. Since he was hired, the Owls have won conference championships in nine different sports. He has overseen the construction of the Brian Patterson Sports Performance Center, the new stands at the Wendel D. Ley Track and new team space at Tudor Fieldhouse. ...Four years into his tenure, those goals have not changed. But Rice, according to Karlgaard, is in a peculiar position in the landscape of college athletics: It is the only school ranked in the US News and World Report top 20 that has FBS football and is not in a Power 5 conference (other than the University of Notre Dame, which chooses to remain without a conference affiliation). Until 1996, Rice competed in the Southwest Conference against schools like the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University and Baylor University.
    ...Last year, the Big 12, one of the Power 5 conferences in Division I, revealed it was hoping to expand. The league opened up an application process to any school wishing to join. Rice made a bid to join the conference and made the list of 11 final candidates. ...“I think we learned that we are still very much a valued brand in the world of FBS athletics,” Karlgaard said. “People like being associated with us. They’d like being associated with us a bit more if we were consistently successful, particularly in football and men’s basketball, which captures so much of the value from a television perspective.”

    Among the reasons Karlgaard said schools want to be associated with Rice were the facts that it has never committed a major NCAA violation and graduates student-athletes in a variety of majors. ...“It’s about an alignment with institutions that are more like Rice. I love my fellow athletics directors and the presidents of Conference USA, but we are the only private institution, we are the only institution in the top 100 of US News, we’re the only [American Association of Universities] school. We’re just unlike many of the others in so many ways.

    If it were to find a way into a Power 5 conference, Rice athletics would instantly gain national brand recognition."

    By the way, if per chance, Oklahoma looked to join the B1G with Missouri instead of Kansas, the average attendance would register at: 61,576 vs 58,470 in a B1G west division with the Jayhawks, still below a PAC south division...
    If looking back to the days of the Big8 & SWC in let's say 1985, Oklahoma had just won the national title in the Big8, with Texas A&M also in the top 10... At the time both conferences were as safe as any other, until the metric of schools controlling their own media rights came into play...
    Then it was just as possible for Iowa State or Kansas State to be dropped from the power conference status as either TCU or Rice *note the Horned Frogs success since entering the P5 in 2012, after nearly 2 decades in the wilderness...
    So, the point is, if someone thinks Kansas shuld be safe, with Oklahoma "propping up" Kansas in a weaker B1G west vs PAC south, it shows value in adding Rice as well, as the networks would pay for the move, as long as Oklahoma & Texas are involved in the league...

    Uhhh, if Rutgers can go to the B1G then Kansas with a cash cow basketball program can brah.

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Also, can someone tell me why this game is being played at Fedex Stadium? This is a terrible atmosphere. Play this game at the campus. All these college games going to these neutral sites are terrible. Takes away from the pageantry of what separates college from the NFL. 

    And no one is there which is completely absurd for the opening game of the season.

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