Just in case Kansas University’s football players had forgotten, a visual reminder of last year’s loss to Missouri was pasted on each and every one of the Jayhawks’ lockers Tuesday.

“It’s a picture of their players hanging on the goalposts. It says, ‘Remember the Day,”’ sophomore linebacker Nick Reid said Tuesday at KU’s weekly news conference. “It’s definitely given us a little extra incentive.”

The Jayhawks remain baffled that Missouri’s fans — and even some of their players — tore down the posts after last year’s 36-12 victory over KU at Faurot Field in Columbia, Mo.

The loss dropped the Jayhawks to 2-7, while MU improved to 4-4 at the time.

“I don’t understand how players after a win can jump on the goalposts like they didn’t expect to win,” red–shirt freshman flanker Charles Gordon said.

“I guess they didn’t expect to win or something. Why would you jump on the field goalpost and break it down? I don’t understand that. We’re going to keep that in mind and get after it on Saturday.”

Memories will flash back every time the Jayhawks enter the locker room this week, that is for sure.

“I felt somewhat disrespected,” junior safety Tony Stubbs said of the incident. “I don’t know why they tore it down like we won the Big 12 championship or something.”

The border rivals meet again at 11:40 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The 23rd-ranked Tigers (4-0) are 101/2-point favorites against the Jayhawks (3-1).

Missouri football players and fans tear down the goalposts following the Tigers' 36-12 victory over Kansas last year at Faurot Field in Columbia, Mo.

“We’re going to come in with class,” Stubbs said. “If we win, we’re not going to tear down the goalposts. We’d come in and get a victory and leave.”

Another team’s fans ripped down the posts after a win over KU last season. It happened at Baylor when the Bears snapped a 29-game Big 12 Conference losing streak.

“I think,” Reid deadpanned, “we are the only 2-10 team in the nation that gets two goalposts torn down.”

Much of last year’s Mizzou game was no laughing matter, the Jayhawks say.

“Fans were throwing things at the bench. I’ve never seen that,” Gordon said. “We are ready to get after it. All that will be in the back of our mind. We don’t want them to celebrate after Saturday’s game.”

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KU quarterback Bill Whittemore had many reasons to frown about last year’s game. He went down with a season-ending knee injury in the third quarter.

“Not really,” Whittemore said, asked if he thinks back to that game much. “If anything, in my mind it makes me want to have a good game, get a little payback I guess.

“I think it (injury) was in a way a fluke. You can’t worry about that. If it happens it happens.

“Everybody says, ‘Play the next play like it could be your last.’ I think that’s true.”

Of the Tigers’ ripping down the posts last year, KU’s offensive leader said: “I didn’t see it. That’s something they were excited about and I don’t really have a comment on that.

“We’re going to play them as the team they are — Missouri.”

The fact MU is coming to town definitely has the team’s attention and the rest of the student body on campus.

“This is a big-time rivalry. It’s tied up 51-51 with nine ties,” Stubbs said. “Somebody will be ahead in the record books and somebody will not. Everybody on campus is like, ‘Beat Mizzou. Beat Mizzou. Mess ’em up.”’

And if 3-1 KU is to win this year versus 4-0 MU, will the Jayhawk players rip down the posts with their fans?

“No, we’ve got too much class for that,” Stubbs said. “I know I’m not going to go near them.”