This isn't complicated. If you don't have to wonder where your next meal is coming from as a child yes you were more privileged. It's not a negative thing, it just is what it is.
And there was literally just a scandal uncovered with kids getting into college through illegitimate means, ringers taking the tests for them etc...
@wissox Spot on and I agree it is important to know about redlining.
FarmerJayhawk said:
Especially when he’s going home because he has a sick parent.
That sucks.
I still have the feeling this was a pretty mutual decision.
Auf wiedersehen Charles.
So...Auburn is pretty good? Weird.
wissox said:
@HighEliteMajor Privilege sounds like baloney until you look at it from a different perspective.
I used to be a pull yourself up by your bootstraps type of person. Then I got a big dose of the hurdles that young people who grow up in poverty have to overcome to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Yes I am a product of privilege because I had a mom and dad who did a lot for me to nurture and love me and support me in whatever I wanted to do. They had the means to do so. That makes me privileged.
Now take away my father. Now I've lost one very good role model. I've lost a good provider. I've lost a man who taught me to be a man. Single moms, or single dads, obviously can make up for a lot of that but it's more difficult. Missing one parent, you're less privileged.
Now put yourself in a substandard school. You have no choice. Economics have you in that district where textbooks are 10 years old, and stadium lights explode during games, and metal gates are set up in hallways, and where schools go all year without a math teacher for 9th graders because they can't hire one. When you avoid going to a school like that you're privileged.
Go home from school and mom comes home from a long day of low wages and stops by the corner store to pick up some substandard prepackaged food without fresh veggies and fruits because you live in a grocery desert. The good stores are a long busride away. When you have good quality food to eat on a regular basis you're privileged.
When you walk through an airport and security doesn't whisk you away from the president you're walking with, that's privilege. Ask Condoleeza Rice about that one.
I could go on. Please understand what people are talking about when they say privilege. Goodness the opposite term has been in our lexicon for a century or more, 'underprivileged'. I'd guess you've called kids underprivileged at some point. Really no difference.
This is much nicer than what I was thinking yesterday. Good stuff.
Suffice to say it's much more difficult for some than others and there are definitely people that work hard their whole life and end up with very little to show for it.
GO MICHIGAN STATE
BMac is a Jayhawk forever.
HighEliteMajor said:
@Texas-Hawk-10 I was referring to 2002, the Maryland loss. Maryland wasn't the top team most of that season, Duke was (by polling it appears). Duke got upset by Indiana in the sweet 16 on the other side of the bracket. Link below that tracks the polling for that season. It seems that Duke, KU, and MD were the best teams. We lost to a stud team.
Personally, I think that 2002 team with Gooden and Collison both might have been our best over all team under Roy (maybe better than the 1997 team overall).
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/seasons/2002-polls.html ↗
It's a very close debate imo. Both teams were insanely good and I wish we had Kenpom data for them.
Roy def should have had a couple titles at KU.
I didn't watch a single game last night but I saw that Purdue and Texas Tech are in the EE. What kind of wacky world is this??!
@Kcmatt7 after this year I'm convinced we just can't have enough shooters.
Woodrow said:
Christian Keeling from Charleston Southern is a grad transfer. Was first team all Big South. Averaged 19-7-3 while shooting 47% from the field.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4067301/christian-keeling ↗
Has solid size. Anyone seen him play? Wonder if he is a good athlete.
FarmerJayhawk said:
John Petty transferring from Bama. Took a step back this year but really talented kid.
Did he take a step back though? Doesn't look like it on a cursory glance, he just didn't improve as much as one would hope for but coaching (or lack of) plays a role there.
@FarmerJayhawk I sure hope it doesn't come to him for a forward. Just get Hurt or Precious and it's all good.
Apparently KU is interested in https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/matt-ryan-1.html ↗
Well this thread got cray.
Kira Lewis is definitely a big time want.
And wow at Lard transferring. Writing was on the wall this year with suspensions and less PT but he will be a good player for another program.
And also lol
Yes please.
I hope we don't have to add the worst starter in the entire Big 12 conference to the leaving list.
You'd like to think this is a recruitment KU can win especially if Wade is out at LSU.
BeddieKU23 said:
6'6 215, well built combo forward that rebounds well.
Interested in this kind of player big time.
Also I very much agree with the general premise of this thread. Full data from over the course of an entire season is a better measure than a single elimination tournament with corrupt officiating.
Ask Fran
kjayhawks said:
Duke got away with at least 3 fouls in the final minute
Anyone but Zion and that is a charge.
Oh boy, the officiating in this game...
KJ is older. He had to take a medical RS at Memphis.
Woodrow said:
Just read a quote where Self said they need to sign a couple athletic difference makers who can make plays you can’t coach. Pretty much all of Auburn’s roster. It’s refrehing that he’s acknowledging the deficiencies the team he built has. Hopefully he can go out and land some of those guys.
Also find some damn shooters.
Got the shooters already though you can never have enough.
At least Bill said the right things, now let's see how the class ends up.
@wissox some continuity next year should be nice.
Damn it, I knew it was Brady's fault.
approxinfinity said:
@BShark What does it look like if we don't recruit Doke (broken FT form) or Garrett (broken shooting form)? Can we get someone like Dave instead of Doke? How far down the recruiting ranks do we go if we are looking at the time we recruited Doke? What does it look like if we don't recruit Dedric/KJ/Charlie? Who do we get instead?
Self can be stubborn like Calipari in some ways with the guys he targets.
No idea what the roster would look like though, too many variables. You would think KU could have added a big time post recruit if the Lawsons weren't around.
I absolutely would not hate targeting more international players. And I don't mean more raw bigs I mean more Svi types.
approxinfinity said:
@BShark maybe Auburn aside. Those Nova teams and Oregon were good and deep.
Nike money flows like a river.
@approxinfinity I get that you are joking but Auburn only has 4 guys that were ranked in the top 100 out of HS.
But yeah recruiting could be better for KU definitely.
The problem with players without huge flaws is they are quickly playing pro ball and the year they do play is typically at Duke.
@FarmerJayhawk I assumed as much but figured it best to ask.
Yeah that team would be sicko.
Kcmatt7 said:
BShark said:
Kcmatt7 said:
The dynamic was definitely screwed up. Seems like Dotson taking over as leader next season will be a very natural and positive transition.
It's gonna be a huge plus.
Bringing in a GREAT kid in McBride too.
Braun probably needs to be slapped around a bit in practice.
If Braun sees the floor next year at all it will be a nice surprise imo.
I'm only talking about attitude stuff with that post to be clear.
But I would agree I don't think he will play much if at all next year.
Kcmatt7 said:
The dynamic was definitely screwed up. Seems like Dotson taking over as leader next season will be a very natural and positive transition.
It's gonna be a huge plus.
Bringing in a GREAT kid in McBride too.
Braun probably needs to be slapped around a bit in practice.
FarmerJayhawk said:
My ideal rotation:
PG: Dotson, McBride
SG: Grimes, Garrett
SF: Rayjon Tucker, Agbaji
PF: Achiuwa, Lawson
C: Azubuike, McCormackIt’s definitely ambitious but certainly possible.
Which Lawson is that? KJ I would assume.
@KirkIsMyHinrich Both are fine bench players. Self will probably start Garrett though.
Dotson is a warrior too.
Woodrow said:
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We need athletic players that can defend. Dotson, Garrett, Och and Mitch are a great place to start.
kjayhawks said:
Just watched our players walk off the court on the news. Dotson was the only one upset, couple of guys were even smiling.
Yeah, the attitude of the Lawsons is not great and when one of them is your best player that kind of thing can seep into the rest of the team. Vick didn't help either.
KirkIsMyHinrich said:
I hope Dotson stays. He might be the best point guard in the country next season.
We need him to stay badly that's for sure.
kjayhawks said:
@KirkIsMyHinrich I'd be fine if only Mitch, Dave, Ochai, Doke and Dot returns. Everyone can't GTFO and I'll be happy.
I shit post about Garrett but we want him back.
kjayhawks said:
Well friends, it really wasnt fun much of the year and now we await the hammer from the NCAA. What a feeling.....
When the days close in
And shadows drown the land
Where the shore of the ocean recedes
To melancholic spaces
It was the darkness that swallowed the beauty of day
The darkness comes closer
All visions and dreams left away
Hand in hand we can find our (way) back home
Let's fly high over the rainbow
And along to the emerald skies
Let's find the key of salvation
You're receiving an answer to life
See the glance of dawn
A flaming romance
And the shades of the ardent sun
Leave sentimental graces
3 > 2 shout out to jaybate
BeddieKU23 said:
When your 25 and 10 just doesnt impact the game
Oh Dedric impacted this game...getting torched on D.
I'll talk more about Q tomorrow in my other thread.
Dedric is leaving. I'm fine with it.
approxinfinity said:
An unathletic
Ready for this era to be over.
This thread feels really relevant right now.