Brady Morningstar gets diversion in driving under the influence case

Not sure if this is true or not, but I've been told by some friends that Morningstar was out drinking at Johnny's Tavern in the KC Power & Light district that night. If that's true, he's incredibly lucky he made it all the way back to Lawrence without incident. Not smart.

October 22, 2009 at 7:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU will fire a cannon when Jayhawks score this weekend against Duke

Please please be a one time thing. Cannons are silly for every game. How about using the steamship whistle (the one used for end of class) for scores?

September 17, 2009 at 3:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU students can join new Junior Williams Fund to begin earning priority points for athletic events

tominckc, Jhawkjason and others - I just sent the below message to wef@ku.edu and I encourage you to send similar ones:

Dear Williams Fund:

I'm writing to express my displeasure with the announcement of the Junior Williams Fund program. The idea of it is fine - increased awareness of the program is always a good thing, but the structure you've set up is a slap in the face to me and hundreds of other people in similar situations. I've been a WEF member since 2005, when I graduated, and have donated at the $250 level for the past three years, and planned on donating more as my income allows. I've donated hard-earned money to KU, rather than paying off debts or using it for other purposes and bought football season tickets annually, while dreaming of being able to afford season tickets for men's basketball. Now, you're going to let students have more WEF points than I've accumulated in four years by giving $25. By the time they graduate, they will have the equivalent of $4,000 in points, which I can't come close to matching at this point in my life. I'm fine with giving them maybe a 4x bonus ($25 = $100), but giving them a 40x bonus is way too much. Why did you feel the need to give them such an extreme bonus? By launching this program without that, you'd still achieve your goal of increased awareness and more WEF members. Does the current generation of students hold so much promise that you're convinced they'll earn far more money than people like me, so I don't matter?

Since Lew Perkins arrived, I've defended each and every move he's made to increase revenue because it's making KU's athletic program competitive with the massive spenders in Austin, Norman, Lincoln, etc. But this one isn't going to pay off like those other moves have - you're just angering the next generation of your donors, the people who you're going to be calling when the Kivistos, Hoglunds, Andersons, and other generous people have passed away or run out of money. This level of greed and disrespect for donors like myself is extremely disheartening; I sincerely doubt I would be treated as such if I was donating money that went straight to the University and not just the athletic department. I'm starting to believe the Journalism school that gave me my degree would be a better place to donate my money. I welcome an explanation from you as to why you're disregarding so many of us in the name of rewarding the current students so highly.

Thank you,

August 28, 2009 at 12:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU students can join new Junior Williams Fund to begin earning priority points for athletic events

JHawkJason08 - you're going a little far saying you'll never get into AFH. They haven't been able to sell enough season tickets for this year as it is, even with the #1 team in the country coming back. Extended deadlines, 1/2 season packages, monthly no-interest payments - never seen ticket selling like that for KU basketball before.

But it's still complete BS that students are getting this handout. I'm writing an email to the WEF people now.

August 28, 2009 at 11:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU students can join new Junior Williams Fund to begin earning priority points for athletic events

Great...so a bunch of students are going to graduate next spring and have more points than I do in the WEF, since I can't afford to give the $1,000 a year I'd have to give to be even with their $25 donation. Pretty crappy from that point of view - there's got to be a lot of recent grads donating hard-earned money that will be surpassed by students now. $25 should be more like a $100 donation, not $1,000.

August 28, 2009 at 8:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Jayhawk Flashback: Colorado, 10/28/06

txrockchalk - I'd love to see that, I was living in WI and not a KU fan in the least at that time, so I don't have any memories of that time.

August 14, 2009 at 3:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Jayhawk Flashback: Colorado, 10/28/06

Great one to include in Jayhawk Flashback Jesse - I'd love to see one from the Mason era, esp 1995, if possible sometime.

August 14, 2009 at 1:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Jayhawk Flashback: Missouri, 9/27/2003

If we beat OU or UT at home, the goalposts deserve to come down - Mangino's done a lot, but we haven't yet beaten a really good team at home. Otherwise, I'm glad to see that this trend has died.

August 7, 2009 at 12:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Jayhawk Flashback: Texas, 1/27/03

One of my top three AFH games, along with New Year's Day against Georgia Tech and the Oklahoma State game in 2005. Thanks to Jesse for doing Jayhawk Flashbacks to all three of my favorites! I know there have been other great games but I've only been lucky enough to go to games during 2001-2005 when I was a student.

My group won the lottery for this game and I was in the first row behind KU's bench - what an incredible game. I remember some old folks being irritated with me because I was on the very edge of student seating and kept getting in their way by standing, jumping and yelling. Good times!

July 22, 2009 at 10:54 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Extreme makeover: Stadium edition

'Bout time we got a new scoreboard. I wish it'd be on top of the closed end of the field though, instead of making the hill even more blocked than it already is.

June 20, 2009 at 12:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )