To the editor:

The new point system for awarding the best tickets to the fans who have financially supported the Jayhawks in the past and present is a change. I am shocked that “change” would be so openly resisted in Lawrence. Aren’t we all getting just a little tired of the “sour grapes” articles and letters to the editors (the latest being Bill Mayer’s Aug. 1 doomsday article on not televising KU basketball games)?

When I was at KU (’76-’81), I went to every basketball game an hour before the women’s game to secure a seat behind the bench for both games. When I was working in Kansas City in 1988, my wife refused to change my (18-month-old) son’s socks for every NCAA game during that fantastic winning streak. When I was working in Australia in the early ’90s, I listened to several games via telephone; I had my mom set the receiver down by the radio.

When I was working in Dallas, I’d go to the one bar that had the Jayhawk games on satellite feed. For 20 years after graduation, I took every chance I got to recruit at KU and was occasionally rewarded with nosebleed seats with the professors. I now live in Lawrence and have season basketball seats, a true dream for a true fan.

Bill Mayer and the other whiners are just going to have to get used to the change. Are you a fan or not?

Dan Schriner,

Lawrence