Re: PUMP UP THE ROOS!
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 1:08 am
UMKC has been posting some pics of the 'New' Municipal on their Twitter
Wow! That scoreboard looks huge!
Wow! That scoreboard looks huge!
That would be so awesome.Highlander wrote:Lunardi currently has UMKC in the NCAA tournament - well at least in a play-in game.
LET'S GO ROOS!The Roos are the #2 seed in the WAC tournament, which begins on Thursday. They'll face Texas-Pan American in round one. The #1 seed is New Mexico State who are 13-1 in conference play, including two double digits wins over UMKC. The winner of the tournament gets an automatic bid to the NCAAs.
Could you please expand on this?pash wrote:I would definitely root for the Roos if they were consistenly halfway decent for their level of competition. I'm a big college basketball fan, but my team plays a thousand miles away, so it would be nice to have a local option. I think I've been to one UMKC game ever, when they hosted Kansas at Municipal Auditorium back in the day.
(I grew up partly in Kansas and was a Jayhawks fan most of my life, until college, but living in KC now, around KU people, makes it really hard to root for the Hawks.)
Sounds like you weren't really a KU fan to begin with.pash wrote:I would definitely root for the Roos if they were consistenly halfway decent for their level of competition. I'm a big college basketball fan, but my team plays a thousand miles away, so it would be nice to have a local option. I think I've been to one UMKC game ever, when they hosted Kansas at Municipal Auditorium back in the day.
(I grew up partly in Kansas and was a Jayhawks fan most of my life, until college, but living in KC now, around KU people, makes it really hard to root for the Hawks.)
There are obnoxious fans in all fan bases. You probably just hear more obnoxious KU fans because there are more KU fans in KC than any other fan base.pash wrote:KU fans are obnoxious.kucer wrote:Could you please expand on this?
I absolutely was. I was never going to go to KU, but I chose the college I went to in part because of its basketball program, which was pretty silly, but that's what being a Jayhawks fan and a huge college basketball fan generally will do to you. I took my 1988 championship rug (which Mark Turgeon's parents gave me) out east, and that thing really tied my freshman dorm room together all year long, despite the objections of my roommate.kcmetro wrote:Sounds like you weren't really a KU fan to begin with.
I was a bigger fan of KU than of my own university's program through most of my college years. You can't just turn it off. But eventually things changed. When KU won in 2008 and I cared less about that than about my alma mater's loss in the tournament, that's when I knew I was finally over the Jayhawks. And then eventually I moved to KC and got to experience living among KU fans again, and that really solidified it.
So—if somebody out there is reading this and thinking, "Is there hope for me? Do I have to live with this, with being a KU fan, for the rest of my life?"—I say to you, you can beat this thing. It won't be easy, but it can be done.
I know, right? Excellent thread hijack and a good example of why UMKC struggles to have anyone care at all. So many local allegiances, so deep, at the big schools nearby. A struggling D1 commuter school/urban university program that has never really enjoyed widespread support. Not sure why you can't be a KU/MU/KState AND Roo's fan, a la say, SLU or something, but what do I know.And here we go into a back-and-forth about KU fans or KU/Mizzou arguments
I put it on the university to put a consistent product on the floor. It's not the media's job to drum up interest around a program that can't draw interest. There has been too much reallignment, coaching changes, venue shifting and terrible play to make fan interest grow. They started to draw and get some interest when Michael Jackson was playing - but that was 15 yrs ago.kcjak wrote:Local media needs to do a better job (any job, really) at reporting on UMKC sports. Basketball reporting has been relegated to small blurbs in The Star after a game and a spotty report on broadcasts. You really have to search out info on results, let alone upcoming games, which isn't the way to increase attendance or visibility.
I somewhat disagree. It's not the media's job to drum up interest, but IMO it IS the local media's responsibility to report on local team. Local print and broadcast media are more interested in offering some sort of editorial and sensationalizing stories than conveying results. A box score you have to search for on the last page of the sport section or Googling the time doesn't cut it. It's not just UMKC, it's Mavericks, T-bones, D-II, etc.WSPanic wrote:I put it on the university to put a consistent product on the floor. It's not the media's job to drum up interest around a program that can't draw interest. There has been too much reallignment, coaching changes, venue shifting and terrible play to make fan interest grow. They started to draw and get some interest when Michael Jackson was playing - but that was 15 yrs ago.kcjak wrote:Local media needs to do a better job (any job, really) at reporting on UMKC sports. Basketball reporting has been relegated to small blurbs in The Star after a game and a spotty report on broadcasts. You really have to search out info on results, let alone upcoming games, which isn't the way to increase attendance or visibility.
With that said, I like what Kareem Richardson has done the past two years and am hopeful the Roos can build some consistency. I'm hopeful for the WAC tourney and would love to a conf semifinal and final with the Roos playing this weekend.
If they do have success, what they'll really need to do is make another hire as good as Kareem once he leaves.
That's somewhat fair. Although, I think the information is pretty easy to find if you know what you're looking for. If there were really eyeballs/viewers demanding such coverage, then they would probably do it. If they decide to keep relegating the minor sports teams and no one complains, then I doubt the behavior will change.kcjak wrote:I somewhat disagree. It's not the media's job to drum up interest, but IMO it IS the local media's responsibility to report on local team. Local print and broadcast media are more interested in offering some sort of editorial and sensationalizing stories than conveying results. A box score you have to search for on the last page of the sport section or Googling the time doesn't cut it. It's not just UMKC, it's Mavericks, T-bones, D-II, etc.WSPanic wrote:I put it on the university to put a consistent product on the floor. It's not the media's job to drum up interest around a program that can't draw interest. There has been too much reallignment, coaching changes, venue shifting and terrible play to make fan interest grow. They started to draw and get some interest when Michael Jackson was playing - but that was 15 yrs ago.kcjak wrote:Local media needs to do a better job (any job, really) at reporting on UMKC sports. Basketball reporting has been relegated to small blurbs in The Star after a game and a spotty report on broadcasts. You really have to search out info on results, let alone upcoming games, which isn't the way to increase attendance or visibility.
With that said, I like what Kareem Richardson has done the past two years and am hopeful the Roos can build some consistency. I'm hopeful for the WAC tourney and would love to a conf semifinal and final with the Roos playing this weekend.
If they do have success, what they'll really need to do is make another hire as good as Kareem once he leaves.