Fans get sneak peek of football practice

I'm glad the money was spent to give them the convenience of close practice fields so that they could turn around and just hold practice in the stadium.

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• Posted by adamldoyle on August 21, 2008 at 10:45 a.m.
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It is simply amazing that this is already starting on the very first day of class. Quite an example the Athletics Department is setting for those incoming Freshmen. They have only begun to show, once again, in flawless form their incompetence and undermining of students who come here to learn first and foremost. Thank you KU Athletics Inc., you and your private interest cronies, for not only stealing hundreds of needed parking spots from the student body but shaking every last penny of the students hard earned cash for your useless pet projects. Your work on this monstrosity not only was a burden to those trying to get to and from classes, (especially those in the Spencer) but you've demonstrated your complete disregard for what the real Jayhawks need. I'm talking about those of us who attend class, do our own work, and work hard to have stable careers and futures from the work done on our backs and not on everyone else. We came after you last year and we're coming after you again. Thanks for the ammunition.

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• Posted by BaneMaler on August 21, 2008 at 11:20 a.m.
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According to a story in Saturday's Lawrence Journal-World, the Anderson Family Football Complex was built at a cost of $31 million. It's not clear how much of this went for the new practice fields (the ones that aren't being used), but you can be sure it was millions of dollars.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/aug/16/support_growing_football_addition/

Mangino says he's not concerned about that and Marchiony claims no one in the Athletic Director's office is losing any sleep over it, although the Chancellor recently told the Board of Regents that budget cuts may result in the loss of as many as 125 staff positions on the Lawrence campus:

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/aug/20/hemenway_if_cuts_are_made_staff_positions_will_hav/

However, according to today's Lawrence Journal-World, the KU Athetics Department is posting record profits from licensing:

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/aug/20/ku_tops_north_carolina_royalties_title/

"Of the royalty revenues, about $700,000 will go toward KU’s overall scholarship programs, benefiting students across campus, he said. The remainder will be used to help finance athletics scholarships, an expense that already has consumed $7 million for this coming academic year."

There's something desperately wrong with this picture.

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• Posted by Sopheo on August 21, 2008 at 2:57 p.m.
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Sopheo, I absolutely agree with you. I think people need to begin to realize that the Athletics Department is run an operated like a business, because quite honestly that is what it is. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that they consistently ask of the students to sacrifice their convenience, their time, and their money to subsidize their existence. It is as if they would be in dire straits if not for students contributions in the form of fees. Yet we see that they are making record profits and are building all sorts of sports projects around campus.They also run the licensing wing of the University and they dictate its use. If a student wants to use the Jayhawk logo, a symbol and concept the predates the University itself, they absolutely cannot without approval which they won't get. The reality is that Athletics Inc. makes quite a bit of profit and they get quite a bit of privilege and priority while giving table scraps back to the school. Not everyone can be an athlete, but everyone is a student. Why must every student subsidize this corporation. The same can be said of the bus system. The school itself should be taking the athletics departments revenue and putting it back into much needed areas of the campus, period. We are not here to be entertained we are hear to get world class education. When the entertainment gets elevated above academics on a college campus, all sorts of alarms must be going off.

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• Posted by BaneMaler on August 21, 2008 at 3:16 p.m.
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BaneMaler: Wow, couldn't have said it better myself. Hopefully one of the UDK editors will jump on this one and at least fire off a nasty opinion piece about this absurdity (hint-hint). Nice of them to realize this now. Unbefreakinlievable. Most of the money for this BS field probably won't even show up, as the bigest donor just lost his shirt when SemGroup went under. We'll see how that plays out, but my crystal ball sees higher student fees in our future...

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• Posted by em1 on August 21, 2008 at 3:37 p.m.
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So exactly how many millions of dollors of other peoples money does Jim Marchiony have to waste before he can't sleep? What a scumbag.

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• Posted by awood on August 21, 2008 at 10:05 p.m.
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DUH.

If Mangino & Co. knew the practice fields wouldn't be acceptable then why did the Athletic Dept. go ahead and have them built?

I was on campus during the summer, and the view from Mt. Oread Bookshop in the Union (across from the textbooks) is also quite nice.

Amazing how (a) incompetent (b) wasteful (c) careless (d) ALL OF THE ABOVE the Athletic Department has been with the money--so, what now? Can the Intramural flag football teams use the fields?

Wasn't one of the OLD buildings an INDOOR practice facility? Why wasn't a ROOF put over these two fields if the coaching staff was concerned about privacy? Or is the Athletic Dept. really that half-assed?

wait, don't answer that... X-D

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• Posted by KansasToonami on August 21, 2008 at 10:29 p.m.
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P.S.

Here's a suggestion for what to do with this white elephant of a project:

Build another parking garage. Really. It's already displaced enough parking spaces. And the foundation is already set.

That way people won't be able to peek into the stadium from the west-facing windows in the Union, as well. And Mangino can have his pwack-tices in pwivate again.

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• Posted by KansasToonami on August 21, 2008 at 10:34 p.m.
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Jim Marchiony should be fired. No joke. Marchiony is blemish on a fine athletic department, and an idiot.

It starts with JoeCollege.com. Bullying an independent company because a few squares don't like the "Muck Fizzou" shirt (which I am currently wearing proudly, and will attend a game this fall wearing it just to protest Marchiony). And in the end two things happened. First, we find out that KU owns the word "Kansas" and, therefore, it cannot be placed on any shirt without prior approval. (We also later find that approval was given to the Young Democrats to use an altered KU phrase on a shirt... I thought that was hysterical. Not to mention that KU also owns Rock, Chalk, and Jayhawk.) Since KU owns the word "Kansas," I am awaiting lawsuits against Kansas City, Arkansas City, Arkansas, the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs and Wizards and the AFL team, the City of Topeka for having a street named Kansas, so on and so forth... And second, the "Muck Fizzou" shirts are allowed to be printed as they do not violate the ownership of the word "Kansas."

Finally, Marchiony backing the team, saying they should not use the multi-million dollar practice facility that STUDENTS AND ALUMNI are paying for, is beyond ridiculous. And allowing those same people, tax payers and students and alumni, to be run off for watching from a public viewing area (a street) scoffs in the face of freedom of assembly. No laws were being broken, and I could sit on the hill and do the same thing.

In the above court case, the jury basically said, "Muck Farchiony. And Screw Lew." I agree. Both Marchiony and Lew Perkins NEED TO BE laying in bed, dealing with insomnia, and finding ways to use money from the Athletic Department coffers to buy the much needed supplies for the underfunded rest-of-the-university.

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• Posted by define_boredom on August 21, 2008 at 11:40 p.m.
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Farging Eedeeotts! Derrrr ... Boss? I think thum folks in that thar street can spy us'n.

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• Posted by ralphralph on August 22, 2008 at 3:15 p.m.
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I wouldn't blame Marchiony. He's just Perkins' little school boy bee-otch

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• Posted by phoenix on August 24, 2008 at 3:39 a.m.
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