Bill Self isn't a true Jayhawk. Yet.

According to a story filed Thursday by the Associated Press, Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self was upset with what he heard from the home crowd during the No. 3 Jayhawks' win Monday night against Big XII rival Missouri in Lawrence. "I'll plead to the students now. Any type of profanity should not be chanted," he said. "Our students are very clever. They should come up with something creative and clever instead."

Creative and clever? Blow it out your ass, Bill.

This is the one problem with hiring outside the family. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know. "He was an assistant coach under Larry Brown." But apparently not long enough to fully grasp the sheer hatred that sweeps over KU fans when their team locks horns with Missouri.

So how did this bitter rivaly get started? The same way most college rivalries do. A bunch of turncoat rebels rode into town and killed several hundred men, women and children. On August 21, 1863, William C. Quantrill raped, pillaged and burned his way through Lawrence, KS. Although the Border War has now taken on a different meaning, the harsh feelings and deep distain held for each other by the neighboring states is still visible today.

And according to the AP, it was audible last Monday.

But what those Missouri felons posing as basketball players hear when in Lawrence isn't half as bad as what our boys endure when traveling down the road to Columbia. Mizzou students actually call KU players at home, in the dead of night, upwards of a week prior to the game. And come gametime, the poor quality of sportsmanship over there is only rivaled by the sheer quantity of shit talked, thrown and screamed.

Don't get us wrong. To date, we love ourSelf. We're slowly becoming fans of the High-Low offense and appreciate any team that plays hard defense. But to dress down KU students for an occasional obscenity shows that old Bill needs a brief history lesson on just what happens when the Tigers come calling. Someone needs to tell him this is the oldest rivaly game west of the Mississippi and he'd feel the same hatred if Missouri ruffians burned down Edmond, Oklahoma back then, too.

It shows he's not quite a true Jayhawk yet. Not like this guy.



Muck Fizzou indeed.