Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I can’t begin to express how disappointed I am in the KU student section at football games. First the sun was too hot, and now the excuse has turned to it being too cold. Couple that with the number of students ready to leave to go continue drinking and you get a pathetic excuse for a student section.
You’re watching a then-undefeated Top 25 football team playing a close game at halftime on homecoming and half of you leave early? What a joke. I hope that the students that leave early know they are embarrassing their school.
Students talk about the football players fighting and making our school look bad. Well why does this not go both ways? Local newspapers are beginning to pick up on it.
Tully Corcoran, KU beat writer for the Topeka-Capital Journal, wrote on his Twitter, “KU’s football players are ‘disappointed,’ a little irritated at fans that leave early, especially in close games, especially on homecoming.”
You can bet that the football players are more than just a little irritated, but they aren’t going to come out and start a war with the students, too. Maybe KU students don’t know how lucky they really are. Maybe the students should spend a day with some alumni and they can hear about the days when KU football was lucky to win a couple games.
Do students not even realize they are witnessing the best three-year run in Kansas football history? They are getting to watch the best quarterback in school history; a person whose name will one day be etched into the ring of honor around Memorial Stadium.
Maybe getting drunk is more important than giving your Top 25 football team home field advantage. If you’re going to expect the football team to represent the school well, then quit making the KU students look bad by leaving at halftime
— Max Vosburgh is a junior from Topeka.
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Letter to editor: Stay for both halves
amen, brother.
Letter to editor: Stay for both halves
Well said. Just think of the enormous advantage Allen Fieldhouse provides to our basketball team. Isn't it time to try creating a similar atmosphere at football games? You current students are lucky to have such a great team to cheer for -- as an alumnus living far from Lawrence, I wish badly that I could attend the exciting games coming up. Please, students, don't leave the stadium. Our team needs you.
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