Official Thread for the Biggest College Football Game in the History of the Universe

[Telly Savalas]

Kick off is in about 10 and a half hours and Kansas City is getting a little bit of snow. Things are looking pretty good for the Jayhawks.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. The biggest one will be the last one, when America decides education is more important than sports

It won't happen, but I can dream.

[bertha katzenengel]

3. Dream a little dream with me, Rabrrrrrrr

A couple of days ago I watched footage of a high school football game. I noticed that the jubilant victorious team's uniforms were made by Under Armor.

Under Armor. One of the biggest names in sports wear since Nike.

And I thought, if the money spent on those goddam uniforms went instead into those boys' educations, imagine... just imagine.

Our system, our society, our children -- all totally fucked.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Totally. My home town and high school recently had a multi-million dollar huge loan for a new gym,

to replace a gym that was already fucking huge and perfectly fine, with a fuckingly hugerer one.

The band and orchestra, of course, was left selling candy bars so they could get the school's instruments repaired and tuned. Not the kids' OWN instruments. Not to fund a band trip. Not to buy new equipment. No, it was to TAKE CARE OF THE SCHOOL'S OWN CAPITAL.

That's THE EXACT SAME THING as asking the students in a school to sell candy bars to take care of the furnace, maintain the copier machines, or fix a leaking pipe.

:grr: :mad:

Football and basketball games will bring in people by the thousands, from every demographic in the city, to watch. Orchestra and band concerts are lucky - LUCKY - if the audience is large enough to have at least one parent of every kid. Certainly no one from the community will go out of their way.

Six to ten pages in the local paper EVERY FUCKING DAY for all the sports stuff. The debate team MIGHT get a mention in the paper, somewhere, IF and ONLY IF they win the state tournament, and only if that story won't conflict with some kind of sports something or other.

It's goddamned ridiculous.

[Telly Savalas]

6. If sports is more important than education in America

should I leave the degree from KU off my resume the next time I job-hunt, and replace it with a bullet point about the exploits of their football team?

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. You have mistaken "America" for "employers"

Just because sports is more important than education in America, doesn't mean that it education isn't more important in some specific instances, such as for certain jobs. But some jobs, such as low- and mid-level management, sales, and brokerage and insurance, you will look better if you were quarterback of your high school football than if you were the captain of the debate team, or lead actor in drama guild.

:shrug:

[BOSSHOG]

2. What?

The greatest game ever was played last night in Baton Rouge. And why oh why did Kansas give up home field advantage this year?

[Telly Savalas]

5. I'm pretty sure the deal is that the KU-MU game will be in Arrowhead next year too.

Whereby MU will be giving up home field advantage.

Given their relatively light schedule, it's only fair that they face a little bit more of a challenge by playing on neutral ground. (Although the claim is that the fan make-up will be about 70%-30% in favor of KU.)

Not even the most die hard KU fan was expecting them to be undefeated at this point.

[BOSSHOG]

7. GO JAYHAWKS

My wife is from Kansas. We have the Jayhawk flag flying out in front of our Mississippi home.

I hope KU is partying like its 1899 tonight.

[Captain Hilts]

4. I thought it was Army-Navy. nt

[Telly Savalas]

8. Go Jayhawks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYXtDL04U58&feature=related

[Joey Liberal]

9. Notre Dame vs Stanford

Kidding.