@jayballer67 said in Oklahoma part 2 Thoughts:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Oklahoma part 2 Thoughts:
We’re better than all the other blue bloods. We beat UK, UNC can’t throw it in the ocean from the dock, and dook is just putrid on defense
shit are you fricken serious , you need to look again - -we play those guys now and they may call the game because lack of interest we may not be worse but sure the hell not better
Yes 😂. I watch every UNC game. Cool down, man.
We’re better than all the other blue bloods. We beat UK, UNC can’t throw it in the ocean from the dock, and dook is just putrid on defense
Bleh. Have to finish.
Alright alright alright
HARRIS!
So should we fire Self and close AFH or nah
Yeesh. Did everyone’s dog die?
Transfer
@Kcmatt7 said in 2 upcoming KU home games rescheduled:
@FarmerJayhawk well we are 9th in the league (235th in the nation) in 2pt% so I'm not exactly sure they aren't on to something...
I'd legitimately rather watch this particular team put up 30+ threes a game than watch whatever it is we've called an offense so far this season.
It would be different if you thought that we were just finishing poorly, but capable of finishing in the lane better. We aren't though. This team is shooting as efficiently from 2 as I think they are capable of (unless you start playing big and putting Enaruna and Wilson on the floor together which Bill I believe said he doesn't like to do). So the only way for the offense to even try to compete is to shoot and manufacture more 3s.
My point is we shouldn’t just chuck for chucking’s sake. Our volume is negatively correlated with our % this year. The more we shoot, the worse we shoot it. Have to manufacture good looks.
In looking at the advanced numbers, I’m not sure what benching Garrett gives us. They HATE Harris. Like 10th or worse in PER, win shares, and +/-. I don’t think just firing more 3’s is it either. We’re 4th in the league in 3%. I do think playing more 5 out is good. Harris, Garrett, Braun, Ochai, Wilson. But 5 out in the create mismatches and driving lanes sense, not pass around the perimeter and shoot garbage 3’s for the sake of 3’s sense (regardless of what the geniuses at Rock Chalk/Mid-America Nazarene Blog) tweet on an hourly basis.
The article is right, it’s super gross how Drew both talks trash on every program he recruits against, and guilts players with faith into coming to Baylor because it’s “God’s plan.” Plus he professes a strong faith yet cheats his arse off. Scott Drew is a chode
@jayballer67 said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
@jayballer67 said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
We lost Garfield Lawrence. He's going to Texas.
dam was he one of our bigger recruits?
Yeah, highest ranked on defense.
ya I remembered afterwards, probably just taking our offer until he got that bigger one/better one hate those
I never fault a kid for taking a better offer close to home. It happens
@jayballer67 said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
We lost Garfield Lawrence. He's going to Texas.
dam was he one of our bigger recruits?
Yeah, highest ranked on defense.
We lost Garfield Lawrence. He's going to Texas.
He hasn't been to an Elite Eight in 8 years. Pass.
Yeah I think pro for Morris
@Kcmatt7 said in Non-KU Games Thread:
@BShark swear this team is a PG away. But I’d also take an athletic big man.
Yeah we’d be pretty good with Dot and Doke back
VEGAS BABY
Both Russell Stover (Alton) and GW Carver (Minneapolis) are from central Kansas and this brings me great joy
Idk could KU beat Hays??
Time for Dearborn to earn his keep. He’s got 3 freshmen QB’s to coach up this spring. It sounds like Hawley legit might win the job. I think we need one more tackle, but the OL looked a lot better once Meadows was gone. Really interested to see how Grimes does with this unit. If it all comes together we have 4 win kind of upside.
I didn’t hate Marcus driving it. After all, he put us up by getting to the rim. Have to pass out of that though.
If he’s saying this, he has the votes. It’s ovaaaaaaaaa 🐦 View Tweet?s=21
Some moving parts here, but Conrad Hawley may announce for KU as early as Tuesday and be an early enrollee. Some schools are still trying to get him to hold off.
Oscar to UK
WV and shatting the bed late. Classic
@Crimsonorblue22 said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
Where's Q going to go?
Hell.
This segment is a must watch. I put my life in the hands of the cap police every day back when I was a staffer. Without that sense of security we couldn’t do our jobs. I’m both sad and absolutely livid this President incited a riot at the seat of our government. https://t.co/hcmDUsJpPf ↗
@approxinfinity said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
Without grievance politics the Republicans lose to Hillary. And the courts would consequentially be more liberal. Maybe that was the natural progression of this country in 2016; but instead of evolving with the times, the right decided to hand the reins to an idiot despot ruler who would gladly burn everything down, after Mcconnell's obstructionism forced the Republican party to avoid any compromise with the Democrats since 2014.
And despite every horrible thing Trump's done, for 4 years the Republicans in Washington have stood lock step with Trump.
How can people celebrate Mitch McConnell when it's his BS politics that has exacerbated the toxic partisan extremism we have in Washington today?
Our forefathers feared tyranny of the majority, something that conservatives seem fond to note, and yet, they don't bat and eye when their Senate Majority Leader is all in on promoting a tyranny of the minority, stonewalling any attempts at real politics in Washington.
I’m not sure they do! I’ll probably go to my grave swearing up and down Jeb! beats Hillary. We’ll never know and nobody has evidence either way, but that’s my instinct. I will admit the GOP never dealt with the rising populist tide on the right in an adequate way. I’ll take some blame for that. I saw some troubling signs in the 12 and 14 cycles and kind of brushed them aside since they voted our way and assumed we could keep them at arms length forever. Then Trump came down the escalator and everything changed (to us on the normie right’s horror). The wave we caught to elect people like Lynn Jenkins, Pat Roberts, Kevin Yoder, Joni Ernst, Ben Sasse, et al. pre-16 ended up pulling us under. Now it’s up to us to bring the right back to shore, because this country is more healthy with a vibrant center-right. I still firmly believe in the fusionist project, though I’m on the libertarian side of things. And we’re working on it. Whether it’s through the GOP or not is TBD. I don’t expect any cheers from the left. In fact, I fully expect Lincoln Project and PodBro types to keep saying the fusionist right was always trash and they never believed any of it was different than Trumpism, however defined. Which is fine. That’s their deal.
McConnell took calculated risks. Harry Reid escalated in nuking the filibuster for sub-SCOTUS nominees and passing major legislation through budget reconciliation, moves I’m sure he regrets now. Legislative leaders need to be very careful in the genies they let out of the bottle. It’s a complicated business managing a small majority, as Schumer and Pelosi are about to find out.
I would be intrigued to see a third Senate caucus form. Since it’s 50/50, 10 Senators could control the chamber. Say, Romney, Manchin, Sinema, Collins, Coons, Murkowski, Sasse, Kelly, Portman, Tester if they voted as as bloc on legislation. Could split any way on nominations.
@approxinfinity said in Biden and Vaccines:
Why would we order 200 million more guaranteed [or no payment] vaccines from Pfizer, when we could wait a year longer for companies that worked within the constructs of Trump's Project Warp Speed, so that our Lord and Saviour Trump could claim credit for our Salvation?
Idk but I’m unbelievably happy the major winner in all this rejected the bounds of a typical center-left PPP and went balls to the wall risking its own money and reputation to develop the best vaccine it could in record time. It’s a wonderful thing.
@Crimsonorblue22 I wish I could tell you. There’s some deep introspection going on in a lot of places on the right. For a lot of us, we’re vindicated and it feels miserable.
A lot of the American right is in a bad place right now, that much is obvious. Its embrace of grievance politics is gross. I miss the days when Mitt and Jeb! were the standard bearers.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Biden and Vaccines:
Should've ordered more a long time ago!
For sure! The Israelis got this right. They have more doses than arms rn 😂
Ding dong the witch is dead. Twitter banned Trump forever. Not sure the wisdom of it but hey, they can do what they please.
The Biden team saying F the FDA and CDC we’re going to get as many people first doses as possible and not hold any supplies back for the second dose is a welcome twist I did not see coming. And a very pleasant surprise. We may kick this thing before summer yet.
Alberta is always a must read. I think he's the best sourced reporter in GOP circles in DC. His book American Carnage is fantastic.
@BShark said in Why can't Mike Pence wear a f---ing mask?:
@nuleafjhawk said in Why can't Mike Pence wear a f---ing mask?:
But WHY do we have to have "parties"? (which, by the way, our government is no party - that's the one thing I do know)
Why can't we just have men or women run for office based on their qualifications. On their character. On their morals.
Because it's all a show and there are lots of people that really buy into it and are hardcore on one "side". There is only one side, the donor class oligarchs.
Believe me I would LOVE to see some things get done now in regards to medical and climate change but why would the capitalists in charge give up some of their bread?
In Soviet Russia, bread has dirty capitalist! 😂
@nuleafjhawk said in Why can't Mike Pence wear a f---ing mask?:
OK. I'm going to come right out and state the obvious and beat all of you to the point.
I am 100% ignorant when it comes to politics. I know nothing about it. I don't claim to and I really don't want that to change.
But WHY do we have to have "parties"? (which, by the way, our government is no party - that's the one thing I do know)
Why can't we just have men or women run for office based on their qualifications. On their character. On their morals.
I know I'm an idiot, but when I start my own country, that's what I'm implementing. After I give up my Dictatorship.
In short, the coalition instinct. Our system is first past the post and single member districts, so things naturally sort into two parties. It started immediately in the election of 1796 with Federalists (Adams) and Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson). As one party collapsed, another takes its place almost immediately. Whigs replaced the Federalists, Republicans replaced the Whigs. D-R’s eventually split and became just Democrats. Third parties that pop up almost always get absorbed into one of the two major parties. The Teddy Roosevelt Bull Moosers went away and many became progressive D’s boosting FDR’s New Deal.
The other part of it is voter information and ballot access. Voters generally do almost no research whatsoever. It’s all name ID and partisanship. Most voters walk in the booth and vote for their party all the way down. Back in the day of machine politics some voting machines would vote straight ticket for you if you wanted. They even made a certain noise so poll workers could.. uhhh.. monitor the count in real time and make... adjustments. So there’s a lot of brand equity in the parties at this point. Voters understand their side good other side bad and the actual candidates don’t matter all that much. Our system is also set up to where if you want to run, it’s very easy to get on the ballot as a D or R. You just pay the fee or collect a small number of voter signatures. As an independent, you have to collect A LOT of signatures and do all the legwork of explaining who you are to people since they’re so used to not doing any research and just voting D or R. Hope that explains things a bit.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Why can't Mike Pence wear a f---ing mask?:
@FarmerJayhawk just talked to my dr friend tonight. Vaccinations have not been proved to keep you from spreading it. That's why u still have to wear a mask.
Perfect, thanks! Didn’t know how all that worked
@approxinfinity said in Why can't Mike Pence wear a f---ing mask?:
If anyone objects to this and wants him restored let me know. I'm just not in a mood for Trump crazies at the moment. Hes banned until sometime in the mid 24th century atm, but maybe this was a bit too harsh.
Maybe until after Biden is inaugurated?
Also this is a legit question, sorry if it’s dumb. Pence is immune right? So can vaccinated people spread the virus? Not sure how all of it interacts. Been too swamped to dig into all the deets
Impeach and remove him. Tonight.
Now official. Have our starting C for the next two seasons.
Grunhard in the boat. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21
Really good piece from CJ on Jalen. Dude is a beast. https://theathletic.com/2298725/2021/01/04/the-remarkable-transformation-of-jalen-wilson-to-rising-star-at-kansas/?source=dailyemail ↗
@jayballer67 said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
Arkansas out for Crawford. Rumor is didn’t get through the SEC process for transfers.
seen Crawford name mentioned in the other TOS refreshen my memory who is this Crawford Farmer ? - -Thanks buddy
4* offensive tackle that went to Charlotte with our new OL coach, Lee Grimes. He's in the portal now and KU is among the top schools.
Arkansas out for Crawford. Rumor is didn’t get through the SEC process for transfers.
I think pretty good. He’ll be a blue or grey so he’s got some time this summer to polish it up if needed.
Got him! This class now ranks 31 on Rivals. After going 0-9, this is a minor miracle
A couple other things to watch. The OT prospect from Charlotte announces on Monday. I think it’ll be Arkansas but I’ve been told no decision is final yet. Tim Grunhard’s kid is in the portal from ND. KU will be in on him. He could probably walk in and be our starting C.
Update: sounds like a greyshirt.
Crap loss. Burn the tape and wreck TCU Tuesday.