Given how much our own fanbase attempts to rationalize and diminish the accomplishments of the competition (Calipari, KSU football, MU football, WSU basketball), it's obviously unavoidable fan behavior to take subjective shots at objective achievements...probably not worth the emotional energy to worry about what anyone else is saying about the freakish 11 straight streak.
It may not be logical, but there is no doubt that those arguments will get under our fanbases skin.
There seem to be a couple very clear objective counter arguments to what is being said in the media and by other fans to diminish this streak.
First and most obvious, there is not one other P5 conference that plays a truly balanced round robin schedule so to use the argument that the first 8 our our championships are somewhat less meaningful would extend to say that no power 5 team (other than the Big 12) can ever again win a valid regular season championship. Pretty stupid.
The second argument that I'm not sure I've seen anywhere relates to the 3 co-championships KU won prior to the balanced schedule coming into play in 2013. In all three of them (2005/OU, 2006/Texas & 2008/Texas) the single game against the co-champ was played on the road for KU. That is an objective fact. A balanced schedule would have almost assuredly ended with an extra loss for the co-champ by having to play in AFH. To try and argue that playing the non-co champ south teams twice over the non-co champ south teams twice was a huge disadvantage may have some degree of validity or may not...it's completely subjective regardless.
Finally KU has played the co-champ in the conference tournament in 3 of the 4 years we tied and won all three games.
This post was edited on 3/5 1:37 PM by 7HotTamales
It may not be logical, but there is no doubt that those arguments will get under our fanbases skin.
There seem to be a couple very clear objective counter arguments to what is being said in the media and by other fans to diminish this streak.
First and most obvious, there is not one other P5 conference that plays a truly balanced round robin schedule so to use the argument that the first 8 our our championships are somewhat less meaningful would extend to say that no power 5 team (other than the Big 12) can ever again win a valid regular season championship. Pretty stupid.
The second argument that I'm not sure I've seen anywhere relates to the 3 co-championships KU won prior to the balanced schedule coming into play in 2013. In all three of them (2005/OU, 2006/Texas & 2008/Texas) the single game against the co-champ was played on the road for KU. That is an objective fact. A balanced schedule would have almost assuredly ended with an extra loss for the co-champ by having to play in AFH. To try and argue that playing the non-co champ south teams twice over the non-co champ south teams twice was a huge disadvantage may have some degree of validity or may not...it's completely subjective regardless.
Finally KU has played the co-champ in the conference tournament in 3 of the 4 years we tied and won all three games.
This post was edited on 3/5 1:37 PM by 7HotTamales
