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I've heard some interesting stuff from the twitosphere the past few days, and I'm at the confidence level now where I can say I think we'll be very pleased at the Jordan Brand Classic next week. There are some in-homes coming, and there is always the chance that Cal slips in there and sweeps Diallo off his feet, but from what I've heard, the only thing holding him back was waiting on official word about Big Cliff. Jerry Meyer, the one reliable guy on 24/7 sports, has also made the change, and that's enough that I'd put my confidence level at 90% now. I think the biggest threat now is a last minute super pitch from the Squid, but I don't think Chris Mullin was any kind of draw for Cheick, and the assistant that he knew at ISU isn't enough of a pull. Stay tuned...

@konkeyDong

Can Diallo step in and guard the post, and score back to the basket, or is he just a probable 15-20 minute rotation guy that will not really be a cornerstone till his second season? Just wondering.

@jaybate-1.0 I expect Diallo to be able to play D near or at the level of a Self starter from day 1. He's easily the most athletic big man in the class (pending Thon Maker actually matriculating, as it seems he may just stay in prep and then go directly to the NBA), blessed with a superior vertical and Anthony Davis-esque proportions (an inch shorter, but similar wingspan and superior reach). He's a for real rim protector and has always been incredibly active and tough any time I've seen him on the floor. He has his work cut out for him against the Jahlil Okafor type bigs that can just back a guy down, needing to add considerable weight to his frame (only clocking in around 220 these days), but it's nothing he can't get sorted out by next fall.

As for his offense, he does have good footwork and finishes equally well with both hand (he's almost Joel Embiid graceful... Almost), but he doesn't have a great arsenal of back to the basket moves just yet. Mostly, he uses his footwork and quickness to get around players, but it's all pretty rudimentary. Don't expect any Dream Shakes from Diallo. He does have great hands and decent handles for his size/position, and is quite capable attacking the rim off the bounce. He even has a couple good spin moves that compliment his ambidextrous finishing ability. He's also an ideal lob target, able to sky and grab the ball just about anywhere. He also uses his vertical and quickness well on the offensive boards and will get a lot of garbage buckets. His court vision and outlet passing skills are solid, and he should be better at the hi-lo entry (both passing and receiving) than any of our current bigs, save perhaps Bragg. All in all, he'll be a work in progress, but I don't think he's nearly as raw as Big Cliff was, and he's got much better instincts/BBIQ.

Anyway, if you can't tell, I've been a big fan of Diallo for a few years now and have watched his development closely ever since I saw he was on KU's radar. I would consider landing him an enormous get. He's a definite OAD risk, currently projecting as a late lottery type, but he could easily be a TAD, and he and Bragg (who I see as a 2-3 yr min) as sophomores would be an amazing starting frontcourt. On the high end, he'll be a strange cross of Embiid, Wiggins, and TRob (graceful, athletic, and energetic) that will give us the defensive presence and offensive spark we lacked ending this season. On the low end, he could prove to be too green and leave us with yet another year of trying to play 5 by committee before bolting for the association.

@konkeyDong

No question that it would be a huge coup and would fill KU's most pressing need.

@konkeyDong

Thanks. I'm salavating now. :-)

@jaybate-1.0 maybe it's the White Castle burgers

@Crimsonorblue22 Good one!

I'm ready to hear about KU signing a few more players. I'm ready to buff up on the future 'Hawks, but don't want to waste my time if they go somewhere else.

@dylans Well, the biggest potential fly in the ointment is the announcement that just happened on ESPN. Cal just cleared a lot of cap space, and I'm sure he'll be selling Diallo on PT, as that's been a big deal to him. I still think we have the leg up and just as much PT to offer, if not more, but the fact that Darkari Johnson is gone and Poythress may still go is what gives me a little pause in terms of calling this a done deal.

@konkeyDong I can't wait for the dominos to start falling. I'd hate to see Diallo end up at ISU. In all honesty if he doesn't go to KU I hope he goes to UK. That way KU won't have to play him 2-3 times and he won't develop much by the end of the year.

@dylans ISU is a non-factor now. The in Hoiberg had was a graduate assistant that Chris Mullin (St. John's new HC) picked off to bolster St John's position with Diallo. But since Diallo's relationship was with Steve Lavin, not Mullin, apparently the ploy failed. Diallo is KU's to lose, and Calipari is the loser who could make that happen.

That's my feeling too. I just don't feel too solid about a recruit until he's signed and on campus.

@konkeyDong

I would not rule out Iowa State since they seem to be be the new favorite team for the analyst, much like Butler was few years back.. They are definitely on the up swing as a program and ranked anywhere from #2 to #5 in all the pre-season polls and Hoiberg gets an inordinate amount of good press. They do have a Greek footer that was red-shirting and will be eligible next season...so maybe this might have so bearing in the decision.

@JayHawkFanToo Diallo has already said he may commit at the Jordan game and Hoiberg isn't scheduled to see him again until the week after, so I don't think the writing could be on the wall any more than that. Even so, I've got solid intel that says Ames is a no-go at this point. I won't say that anything isn't possible, but ISU isn't currently in his top 3. KU, UK, St. Johns in that order.

@konkeyDong

I don't have any solid information one way or another so I will defer to yours.

@DinarHawk

God I love those double cheeses with onions.

Not supposed to eat them now.

So only do it when no one is around.

@jaybate-1.0 kinda like the tree in the Forrest?

@jaybate-1.0 It is scientifically documented that any food eaten when no one else is looking is 100% fat free, sodium free and only contains the "good" cholesterol.

@nuleafjhawk But is it gluten free?

@JRyman I knew I'd forget something.......

@nuleafjhawk free range? anti biotic free?

@nuleafjhawk I feel like Bubba from Forest Gump. Fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, grilled shrimp.....

@JRyman You know there's no such thing as "free range" chickens, right? When's the last time you ever looked out across the prairie and saw a giant herd of chickens?

(I think Brian Regan did a bit on that.....)

@nuleafjhawk Yeah that is a great bit. I always laugh how people want this and that or not this nor that.

To grow something organically the soil it's grown in can not have any pesticides or fertilizers in it for 7 years. So if you buy a farm and want to turn it over to organic farming it will take 7 years without a profit. Then your product will be smaller, weaker and probably eaten by bugs and it's water taken by bugs.

Since pt will be available at both KU and UK the only thing Diallo has to consider is living in the KU tower or the UK basketball condo. If that's the case, we lose.

Is there literally anything better than @konkeyDong on recruiting? Good stuff.

Well, maybe an @jaybate-1.0 dissertation on WWII combat tactics as it relates to Wooden's zone press. But other than that ...

@brooksmd won't the new bb apts be ready?

@Crimsonorblue22 I don't know. Have they even started on them?

@Crimsonorblue22 2016-2017 projected move-in time frame.

The complex, to be located south of Allen Fieldhouse on Naismith Drive, is tentatively scheduled to open for the 2016-17 school year.

Yeah just found this!

@Crimsonorblue22 said:

@jaybate-1.0 maybe it's the White Castle burgers

We dont have White Castle in Vermont. :(

@Lulufulu I think I had them a long time ago, nothing great! Don't tell jbate!

@Crimsonorblue22 Ah, yah I was in KC up til last summer. I remember my college years and all the shenanigans we'd get into, then getting the "munchies" making a White Castle run. Good times.

@konkeyDong This is all amazing and detailed info. Really appreciate it and I am now going to spend the next hour of my life watching youtube videos of him (thanks for that, too?).

Sadly with the loss of 7 guys from UK I think things just got a bit too interesting. God knows what may happen now. Could Cal just pick up every top 15 recruit that was "waiting to see" who was going to the draft? I am not sure I can handle another year of their b*llshit.

@Lulufulu jbate was probably there!

@Lulufulu

You will live longer. :-)

@Crimsonorblue22 and @Lulufulu

The world is sharply divided into people that view White Castle as a public health crisis and those addicted to them. There is no in-between. I have actually seen persons turn pale at the thought of eating one. Others, like myself, have been known schedule connecting flights with layovers long enough to rent a car and go get some, when it has been more than six months. The frozen ones in the store are not a substitute. They are just close enough to make you despair.

Just so no one does anything rash, you try them at your own risk. To put their freakish weirdness in perspective, they are the only known steamed hamburger patty in the last 3000 years at least. They are a cult, or maybe better an occult food, kind of the like the restaurants in dark streets in towns in non touristed parts of Italy where they serve horse and Italians shuffle in with their heads down hoping no one will seem them go in. White Castle is so weird it had a movie made with one of its restauarants in St. Louis as a setting with James Spader in it before he became recognizably (but marvelously) weird. Don't say I didn't warn you. Only about 1 in 10-20 persons will EVER eat a second one. But if you are the 1, then it is kind of like joining the hamburger equivalent of the undead. I suspect Bela Lugosi, or at least Ed Wood, would have loved them.

@jaybate-1.0
You remind me of my fondness for Whataburger. When I lived on the West Coast I always took the first flight in the morning when flying to Dallas or Houston. 7am departure landed me at noon central time and I would beeline it to a What-a burger to scarf one down. I refused many a lunch meeting for that-and often I'd make another stop before leaving town.
Just like Strouds or a favorite BBQ meal in KC. My sisters made fun of me ordering the same meal every visit. My explanation was I only got to have that mean 2 or 3 times a year.

@HighEliteMajor

I long ago quit paying attention to any recruiting web sites.

@konkeyDong is the only credible asset in the field.

The BIA (Basketball Intelligence Agency) has offered him over $750,000 in black monies laundered through a casino in Biarritz and then relaundered through an online betting consortium specializing in laundering black ops monies through betting on the Duke and UK games in March Madness. But his character is untouchable. He says he is on a quest to become The Last Honest Recruiting expert and that no amount of black ops monies from the BIA black budget will be enough to deflect him.

He is to recruiting intelligence what Ian Flemming was to MI-5, MI-6, and espionage fiction.

One day I fully intend to publish a recruiting intelligence novel based on him published under a pseudonmn, of course.

The working title is "From the Crimean with Love." It is the story of KD joining forces with a beautiful Russian spy trying to exfiltrate the greatest big man in the history of Central Asian basketball--8'3" tall Vladimir Korgusov--the first 8 footer to be as athletic as Wilt Chamberlain who can also make 80% of his free throws.

In addition to killing over two dozen of the leading recruiting gurus trying to do the same thing, he has sex with the beautiful Svetlana Molotov, who likes it shaken, not stirred, and delivers Vlad to Big Man U. Sasha Kaun and Svi will make cameo appearances in the film adaptation as themselves.

Rock Chalk baby!!

@JayhawkRock78

The Los Angeles basin is my hamburger valhalla.

Fat burger. Tommy's chill burger. Whattaburger. Irv's Burger Bucket. In'n Out burger (doggie style). Plus Hamburger Habit up in Santa Barbara. Plus Islands burgers and fries at any number of SoCal locations, but my favorite is in La Jolla across the freeway but with in sight of the twin salt rocket ship Mormon temple. And then there was a fabulous place in the stretch of LA between down town and Miracle Mile that only locals knew. Can't remember the name.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

I am a charter member of HamburgersAnonymous.

@jaybate-1.0 you guys are making me hungry!!! I love burgers and fries too, I've had a fat burger in Vegas, but that's about it. My favorite is chic fillet.

@Crimsonorblue22

Alright, I am coming totally clean. There is the worst bowling alley in western civilization located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and it has a restaurant called Cub's sports bar attached to it. Cub's is the last connection with the beer drinking underbelly of my teen years. It has a picture of Tom Harmon in his old UM football uniform. It has every UM great in basketball and football on its walls. It is a dive. It is the ultimate dive. It is full of drunks and downers most of the time except on game days, when it is brimming with families and students. The bar is always filled with a combination of alcoholics, men who don't want to go home, and an occasional auto journalist falling off the wagon intermittently. It has burgers named after every school in the Big Ten. They are all pretty good. But I always had the Badger Burger out of loyalty to my old grad school. It is wrong of me to love it. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

BUT GOD HELP ME, I DO LOVE IT SO!!!!

@jaybate-1.0

@JayhawkRock78 said:

@jaybate-1.0
I got that George c. Scott channeling General Patton there.

By they way speaking of WWII I get to tour Normandy this summer. Really looking forward to that. My bet is no way I get out of there without shedding a few tears even though my grandfather served in the Pacific Theatre.

Other than missing In-and-out I miss a joint I. seal Beach near the pier.

@jaybate-1.0 Nothing like holes and cereal. However White Castle has the best buns although its been a long time since I had one. Them and Fuddruckers.

@JayhawkRock78

PS-there is a joint on Main Street near the pier in Seal Beach I really miss too. It's,been about three years Seaside Grill. Ma and Pa joint.

Nothing better in the world than a great burger. It's too late to go to 5 Guys tonight, but now I have a mission to complete this weekend.

While we are all over the place in this thread I might as well digress from Hamburgers. Watching "Jaws" at the moment along with some wine.

To quote Quint. "Here's to swimming with bowlegged women." I hope that brings a laugh to the gents and our gals don't see this or take offense. Just going for a laugh.

@jaybate-1.0 I wonder if they expanded their burger selection when the Big 10 expanded. Maybe some vegetarian alternatives. The Terrapin could be some sort of bean sprouts, hummus, seaweed and tofu thing and the Cornhusker a black bean and corn patty smothered with sweet and spicy corn salsa served on corn bread.

@JayhawkRock78 Was your grandfather a Marine? You are one lucky man, that is a dream trip of mine.

@VoyagingJayhawk
I never met him, but he was Army. He was in a special unit eventually called Merrill's Marauders working in Burma jungles behind enemy lines.
That unit evolved to the Rangers in time. I've shared this info with Jaybate and others i. The past. I love WWII history and soak it up when ever I can.

If it were in my power every 18 year old should see the Private Ryan movie. And a film of child birth.

@JayhawkRock78 Come to think of it, Red Robin makes some excellent burgers, and their tower of onion rings...well...it gives my heart a real tug when I think about it. Sorry, I am digressing.

@sfbahawk buns? Can't ever remember being excited about hamburger buns. I do like them slightly toasted on the grill. If Perry leaves we may all be eating more burgers.

@JayhawkRock78 Very cool! Many forget the Army showed up in the Pacific, though my primary interest lies with the Marines. The Pacific doesn't quite share the romanticism of fighting in Europe and so is often overlooked. If you can, try and visit Belleau Wood while you're in France. It is one of the seminal battles in Marine Corps history. You could say the modern identity of the Marines was really forged there with moments like these:

"Retreat? Hell, we just got here."

"Come on you sons of bitches, don't you want to live forever?"

It was there that the Germans would give them their most famous nickname, "Teufel Hunden," or in English, "Devil Dogs."

And of the five men that were awarded the CMOH twice during WWI, all five were Marines.

Shortly after the battle, General Pershing, commander of the AEF remarked, "Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can? They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines?"

I don't know how this got from Chieck Diallo to burgers, but my favorite burgers are my own!

I've discovered about 25 years after I've been grilling that you can really make dazzling burgers right in your own backyard. I spread a little cajun seasoning on my patties, slice some cucumbers, thrown some onion slices right on the grill, flip the burgers, put Muenster cheese on it with the cucumber slices, (I'm not a cheese connosieur so if you have other cheese ideas let me know) and after removing, tomato, lettuce, ketchup. Toast up the bun a little bit. Mmmm

And since I'm on the subject, hot dogs. Nothing better than Hebrew Nationals. It doesn't matter if a pack of 7 cost about 5 bucks. Splurge! Delicious.

And Chieck, come to KU!

@VoyagingJayhawk
Thanks -I will be researching your info in the near future.

@wissoxfan83 because we are all weird!!! Jayhawks love their burgers!

@VoyagingJayhawk

Thanks-I will look into it right away.

@approxinfinity

Great Q and I don't know.

@sfbahawk

:-)

@Crimsonorblue22 Must be like my taste in pizza and pies. The critical part is the crust.

@sfbahawk I love pizza crusts too, crispy!!!

@wissoxfan83 Congrats, you ruined a great sounding burger the minute you put ketchup on it.

And all you war historians I'm currently watching Surviving D-Day on the American Hero Channel, formerly known as the Military Channel.

@brooksmd I like ketchup too, what say you on your burger?

@Crimsonorblue22 Lettuce, tomato, DILL pickles, onions and mayo (Blue Plate).

@jaybate-1.0 Hey, jb, I bet hard money that you never ate burgers in the heart of Missouri's lake country, down between Stover and Laurie, at BIG DICK's HALFWAY INN!

@Crimsonorblue22 Ketchup (mixed with Crystals) is for fries. Mustard for dogs.

@REHawk

Holy cow!!!! LOL! Funniest Name I ever heard for a restaurant. How old is the place? In the mother of all coincidences, in high school, I used to go with a friend to stay in his grand father's cabin on the water near Sunrise Beach!!!! Back then the lake and the cabins were all pretty primitive, but I just looked at a map for the Gravois arm and I bet I drove by that place if it existed back in the late 1960s!!!!!

But alas, no I don't think I ever ate there. But it is absolutely going on my list of must eat places!!!!!!

I've been wanting to get back to the lake for years, but everytime I get ready to do it, someone tells me how crowded and built up it has become and, well, I get protective of my precious memories of the place, and of water skiing buck naked on a slalom ski and ploughing a rooster tail onto some young phillies sunning on a dock, and drinking 5.0 beer in Missouri instead of the 3.2 stuff in Kansas, and going into Bagnell Dam like a lonely teenage bronkin' buck with a pink carnation and pick up truck to see if we could score some pie and sweeten the snatch of the sunrise and after spending all of our money never even getting to first base with any of the girls of summer. But that old 16' Mark Twain with the 95 horsepower Mercury Tower of Power in line screamin' six never let us down and out the next morning we would go to ski off all of that sexual frustration of young manhood and the go try again the next night!!!!

Thanks for recalling some wonderful memories for me, coach.

Dang, I have gotta get to Big Dick's Half Way Inn!!!!

Thanks a lot all of you and your burger posts...now I am so hungry for a burger and at almost 1 AM I doubt I can find a place open that serves a decent burger...I guess I will just have to dream of a Kobe burger with Gouda cheese and mayo...hmmm...:(

@brooksmd The purple onion, not the yellow or white....

@JayhawkRock78

I might have been to that joint in Seal Beach. I wonder if all those ordnance bunkers are still by the freeway in in Seal Beach. Craziest place in history for storing stuff--on a fault line!!!!

@jaybate-1.0
You and I have some of the same memories of the lake.

@JayhawkRock78 said:

@jaybate-1.0
When I moved from SB in 2007 the Frigates were still coming in to dock so they could get weapons from the bunkers. They had to use small frigates to shuttle out the weapons to the big ships.

Security around there was very lax until 911. I could take my boat right by if I wanted to go into Huntington Harbor even if a Frigate was docked there. After 911 they put in a machine gun nest and bottled up the Harbor when frigates were in.

@jaybate-1.0 47 mile marker on the Osage Arm, about halfway between Bagnel and Truman Dams, on the banks of Blue Cat Cove. Order up a Big Dick's Famous Burger, a Blackened Bleu Burger or a Moby Dick fish sandwich. Just type in "Big Dick's Halfway Inn," and the joint will zoom to your screen. Let me know when you're coming. The wife and I could fry us up some flathead. We're up closer to the 80 mile marker, in spoonbill snaggin' waters.

And if you've the constitution for a stiff drink, Big Dick's offers a MINNOW Shot!

@REHawk I have a cousin that lives pretty close to that, I believe. In Sunrise Beach - on the Lake of the Ozarks. Is that in the general area?

@nuleafjhawk isn't global moving there?

@Crimsonorblue22 I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. What/who is a global?

@nuleafjhawk global and rascal, I'm sure mrs global would go too.

@nuleafjhawk @globaljaybird

@brooksmd isn't that where they are moving?

@nuleafjhawk Probably a 40 minute drive. Not certain, by water. I am on the upper end of Lake Ozark's Osage River Arm, closer to Warsaw and Harry Truman Dam.

@REHawk I'm envious! The Lake of the Ozarks is beautiful. Too bad it has to be in ............Missouri. (puke)

I love what happens to these topics when we have no basketball going on. Compare the blogs towards the end with the actual topics. I'm glad to learn more about Jaybate and his graduate school escapades at Wisconsin.

I thought Global said something about being on Table Rock a while back. Which isn't the Lake or the Lake of the Ozarks. Table Rock is Branson and south Missouri. Lake of the Ozarks is more central MO.

@Kip_McSmithers thx!

@Crimsonorblue22 Yeah, what @Kip_McSmithers said. Somewhere around Branson.

@konkeyDong "incredibly active and tough any time I've seen him on the floor." That makes my heart beat faster.

@nuleafjhawk Well, I am situated in a very remote location, some distance from paved roads. Deep in the backwoods where neighbors are happy to spell Missouri "MO." Not much of a following for any name brand of collegiate basketball here in this region. I wear a Jayhawk sweatshirt to the local WalMark and rarely fetch an evil stare...at least, well after football season. 95% of the denizens of this county could not recognize the name Kim Anderson if it appeared in gold and black stenciled beside a bearded tiger.

@REHawk

Now you've done it, Coach!!!! Spoonbill? Sturgeon properly cooked is the best fish I have ever eaten. I used to get it in Oregon once in a great while down a fish market on the bank of one of those marvelous PNW rivers. Damn, I forgot about the sturgeon laying on the bottom there getting fat and tasty!!!! No wonder you're so damned happy. You are camped out in one of the best parts of the country to be.

@REHawk

Glad to hear there are still the folk back on the unpaved roads that have had enough of the outside world and are just enjoying lake country. That means there is hope for all of us.

@jaybate-1.0 I think we need to all go visit!

@wrwlumpy

Ah, brats on the terrace of the Student Union in summer time and renting sail boats and joining study groups for the summer term where a different person did all the work each class period and then distributed the notes so the rest of us could chase thang and sail. The Rathskellar in the winter. Yes, I once made it to every bar on both sides of State Street starting at noon and finished at closing time and the last place was playing "Its the End of the World as We Know It" and I REALLY felt fine!!!!!! And I lived over in Middleton one winter term and used to walk across the lake to class and watch the ice sail boats zing past and rock up on two rails in turns, and then on the way home from class I would stop and give this guy that ice fished every day some money for a fish to cook for dinner. And I've prettty much water skied all the lakes. My pal's girl friend's parents had Ski Nautique and we would go out after skiing and do bat turns till we were all dizzy. For anyone that hasn't been on an old Ski Nautique by Correct Craft they were about 18-20 feet long, no real dead rise at the transom to ensure good hole shot, and 302 or 351 Ford if I recall set smack in the middle. Hellacious torque for pulling up tons of skiers and a prop with a lot of bite, and a post just fore or just aft the engine box, that kept even a tournament slalom skier from yanking the boat around much. Any way the engine at the center and the shallow dead rise meant that when you weren't pulling a skier, you could open up to full throttle, go shittin' and uh gittin' across some barely rippled water, pull full back on the throttle and spin the wheel as hard as you could at the same time and do this incredible 180 degree spin we used to call bat turns. Never was in another boat that did them for about 15 years until I was up on the Rogue River on one of the plate boats with zero dead rise and a very shallow entry V and jet that will skim in 3 inches of water. We were going for some spring salmon, there real young ones with a ton of fat still in their tissue before they get too far up stream, and I am thinking of nothing but hooking one and then gutting him and pulling out the backbone and using it for raw salmon on crackers while we keep fishing. I am nearly in a transcendental state thinking about the taste of the salmon and the sunnuvabitch yanks of the throttle and bat turns on me. I nearly peed my pants, but then got hold of my senses and shouted, "Do it again!!!!!!" Ah, there are so many good memories in a life. Wish I could do most of it again, only more!!!

@jaybate-1.0 can you still ski?

@jaybate-1.0

Nice description of the beautiful lakes of Madison! We lived near there for four years.

I have skied behind inboards like the Nautique all my life. Cut my teeth on a 50 horse evinrude, then Dad found an American Skier which was made by Correct Craft, very similar to the Nautique. We called it 7 up because it once pulled up 7 of us skiing together at one time.

@Crimsonorblue22 I hope to match my dad who skied last summer at the ripe young age of 82! I'll be glad to be on the right side of the ground at that age, but if I can, I'll ski to that age too!

I keep seeing new stuff posted here. It gets my hopes up for Diallo. So when is the Jordan Brand game? Any thoughs on who all commits? The dominos have got to start falling at some time. I just hope they don't see that Mudiay made good money to play his one year in China and is a top 5 draft projection. Then again... If the top 5-10 players went over seas it would be pretty hard on UK and Cal. I just don't know if the players are willing to take that kind of pay cut.

I think I only skied behind a correct craft once-and that was back when I was a novice skier. My friends parents had V-hulls and when I got better I enjoyed jumping wakes-usually 9" to say 16" at about 30 mph depending on how many folks were in the boat.
In my 30's I bought. 20 ft Bayliner I/O with a 5 liter engine. Not near as good as a ski antique out of the hole but adequate for my big a$$. It did about 52 mph in smooth water when it plained out. I enjoyed jumping the wake and when I made a hard turn I could yank that sucker back and forth- something I also enjoyed at 200 pounds. And at 30 mph you could go into a real hard turn and pull some serous G's-something I really enjoyed surprising my crew with. I m sure it wasn't your bat turn but still fun. Plus it was very comfortable for 8 people. One of the best investments I ever made. I let it go when the kids were born. We were more interested in playing in the Pacific Surf. I taught the kids to snow and water ski but they are beach kids when it comes to the water.
Me-my favorite post colleges memories are wine, women, and song with a very heavy dose of water skiing. (Wine=beer back then).

@JayhawkRock78 Whatchoo talking about, man? Waterskiing?

@dylans I keep thinking the same. We've been talking bb, burgers and beach bums. I'll start a recruiting blog. No food allowed!!

Sorry folks, my mind wanders enough as it is. After this dance--- burgers and skiing are a sweat diversion for this old fart.

@Kip_McSmithers Table Rock Dam is in Taney county & the lake itself starts there but the majority of the watershed is further west. We are looking to be around the Kimberling City area-at least that's more appealing to me than below the damn on Taneycomo. That lake is a consistent 55-60 degrees year round because of the depth of the release from the dam above is about 250 feet & also Taneycomo can flood like all hell's broke loose sometimes. That's way too cold to swim or ski but the trout fishing is great. Table Rock is great for fishing & boating & is huge. We're trying to get there this season, at least before next. Got both fingers crossed. LOL. And @REHawk is right about Big Dick's, helluva burger & an HOF name !!

@jaybate-1.0 From the Joplin Globe:

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 11:32 am
From staff reports

A Missouri man snagged a state-record paddlefish on March 21 in Table Rock Lake, the Missouri Department of Conservation announced this week. It weighed 140 pounds, 9 ounces.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/man-hooks-state-record-paddlefish-in-table-rock-lake/article_61efb2a0-d243-11e4-a855-3f7cf22f7bd2.html ↗

@globaljaybird

I live in the area. Wife grew up near Cassville. We stick to the west end of the lake ourselves. We vacation around Indian Point every summer with her family. Not much of a fisher since I'm pretty bad at it but I will eat it if you can catch it!

@Kip_McSmithers Kool Kip. Maybe next fall we can have an adult beverage & watch some hoops together. Hopefully we won't have to throw beer cans at a television !!

@globaljaybird I feel left out! Can we bring a group up? Sounds like you guys are going to have lots of fun. Global, I like to fish, but you have to take it off the hook!😁

When I was in high school/ college a few friends had cabins/boats in the Ozarks and that included a cabin that was a much larger nicer "cabin" than the house we lived in. At that point my goal was to have a vacation home in the Ozarks or the Colorado mountains if not both.
At that time I envisioned working and living in KC the rest of my life.

I remember a girlfriend called me a fool for wanting that. Boom-last date.

After living in SoCal and Texas for 25 years, no idea WHAT will follow with my kids just about to finish high school.

But a place at the lake sounds as peaceful as it ever did.

@globaljaybird you watching royals?

Flipping back and forth to Tarik and wigs playing each other. Both doing us proud!!

@Crimsonorblue22 Just getting ready to flip it off, let rascal out for last call, & gotta work in the morning. Have a full slate of chores for Sunday too, hopefully before the rain moves in. GN girl, catch ya on the rebound if I don't get dunked.

@globaljaybird have you sold your house?

@Crimsonorblue22

Yes, but only on two now. Could kick one but Not strong enough for the drag up on one.

@globaljaybird

Insane! These things should be extinct by now, but people keep finding them. If Steven Spielberg had grown up in Joplin, he would have made a movie about Spoonbills. They are what I would use for DNA supplementation in experiments to revive sea dinosaurs!

@jaybate-1.0 @REHawk will tell you how severely they've been poached through the last few decades around Osceola since they are a variety of Sturgeon & eggs can be sold as a cheap caviar. Violators can get heavy fines & even jail time, contrary to Missouri meth dealers getting 5 min in jail & a $5 fine.

@konkeyDong Just watched the replay of the Nike Hoops Summit. The World team was better on both ends with Diallo in there. Guy seems like a legit 6'9" got good timing for blocks, Not slow on defense at all. In fact, pretty quick as far as I can tell. Got some range to his shot too and great on the offensive glass.
We need this guy at KU.

@Lulufulu this is a burgers and beach bum thread now. Each time someone posts here we think we signed diallo, so we started a recruiting thread. We were getting our hopes up to many times. Speaking of burgers, I cooked them out tonight, forgot to try the cheese wrapped cucs though.

@Crimsonorblue22

Argh! Got my hopes up about signing Diallo!

@VailHawk Quiet down a--h---!

@approxinfinity we should change the title

@approxinfinity

Just flagged you!!!

@jaybate-1.0 We bought this place in 04 to get away from the woofers, tweeters, & ninjas but was only 4/10'smi off pavement. It worked till about 3 years ago when it was chip sealed & I'm now looking for less green pastures to mow & more water to fish & sail. I've been retired 5 1/2 years but wifey is getting close so we're ready to head South...I'll still do something 2-3 days a week, I'm not ready for the full time rocking chair just yet.

@approxinfinity :santa: :eyes: