Kansas Crimson

Leawood wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 9:12 am Spent a week in Columbus for work. It is a shit city with shit fans.

as one industry source, who assumed I’d get these numbers, said: “You’re going to find that Kansas and Kentucky are off the charts in viewers, and then there is everyone else.”

“I do think this is basically all around football,” Kansas basketball coach Bill Self told The Athletic. “But I do think there’s some things that a school could bring to the table and not necessarily be focused on all football, and that would be, do you have a brand? What is your national brand? And would that be something that could benefit people? I think academic reputation is going to be very, very important that leagues can look at or mergers can look at and say, ‘How do all the schools mix,’ based on similar type of philosophy academically. So I think there’s a lot of things that go into it.
“But I do think having a brand in a sport … is something that could be beneficial.”

“From a basketball coach’s perspective, I have thoroughly enjoyed the Big 12 and the competitiveness of the league,” Self said. “It’s provided the interest and ability to recruit guys to maybe as competitive a league as there has been in America. I have enjoyed that, but maybe there’s something out there better. Maybe there’s something out there that’ll be more of a challenge. I know that Kansas basketball will be fine over time, but we shouldn’t look at it as just Kansas basketball. We should look at it as the University of Kansas.”

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:58 am cough cough AAU cough cough

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:29 pm Without going into 365 Baylor guy's failure to understand geography, I am going to assume he is just mad that KC embraces KU/Lawrence while DFW would like to be much further than 90 minutes away from Waco.

shindig wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:47 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:07 pm

shindig wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:47 pm

But I was told that we had boosters who would happily pay any fee, no matter how large.... people sure love spending rich people's money for them.

Sparko wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:25 pm I see Kansas Jayhawk gear pretty frequently when traveling--clearly one of the best repped universities that way with its own unique logo that people love. Without the NCAA taking its giant share of BB revenue, there is a chance you could see UK and KU becoming pretty SEC-like.

Also: a lot of rivals were taking shots at the Twitter ad, basically saying it was ridiculous. One guy on the 365 Baylor broadcast even claimed that Lawrence wasn't that close to KC. Um, yeah. Sorry MU. It is a short easy drive away. Hell, Quantrill made it on horseback overnight. He also doesn't understand the Missouri ratio potential between KU and its former rival. Anything either school tweets out will get hammered by the other fan base.

CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:10 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:07 pm

shindig wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:47 pm

But I was told that we had boosters who would happily pay any fee, no matter how large.... people sure love spending rich people's money for them.

I just don't see KU, even OU or UT, ever having to pay that full exit fee.