@jayballer67 I think you’re pretty much spot on, my man. There are some traits there to work with. Huge frame. Could easily add 20 pounds of good weight. That’ll help the arm strength. It gets there, but he tends to leave it high. I like the athleticism too. Shows some escapability. Not a guy that could probably play next year or even the year after, but he’s an intriguing prospect. I believe we could land him if we really push.
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Andrew Nembhard got his waiver. Zags are stupid deep.
As an aside, man he’d look good in crimson and blue.
Updated the numbers again and this is kind of wild. We've played 24 true freshmen and 8 RS freshmen this year. If you add up all the players in their 3rd year or less (so true sophomores, RS frosh, true frosh) that's 51 guys. The youth is just bananas. Now some of that is covid-related and that this year is a freebie, but that's a stupid number of young guys getting reps.
Staying the course is important. The 2020 class was the first in over a decade (I think) to be all HS talent, and is the highest ranked since one of Gill's first classes. 21 is on track to be a bit better. And a lot of the emphasis in these classes is on guys who will take time to develop and become Big 12 quality players (OL, DL, LB, TE to some degree). Now if we're getting housed by 40 every game in 21, I'll start to be nervous. But this was always going to be the most challenging year for the Miles regime. Something like 10 of Beaty's 2018 recruits are no longer on the roster, when in a normal program that takes mostly freshmen, those 10 would be RS sophomores just figuring it out. But if you look at the class (https://247sports.com/college/kansas/Season/2018-Football/Commits/) ↗ it's hard to find many contributors. Similar story for 17. Out of 23 enrollees (again, who should be upperclassmen at this point, only 7 are on the roster, with only 1 (Kyron Johnson) being a regular starter. The only players left from 16 (who would be 5th year seniors) are Kyle Mayberry, Chris Hughes, Malik Clark, Kyle Thompson, and Julian Chandler. Ideally you'd have about twice that many.
Long story short, you don't change contractors after ripping down to the foundation and figuring out all the work that needs to be done. Stick with your guy when he's got the right plan and won't cut corners, even when he tells some off color jokes and might go of on a tangent about aliens.
Negative. First, it could blow up the 21 class and we’d be starting from scratch. Again. Whatever he had at SF and Stanford he seems to have lost re: getting his teams to play physical, disciplined football. He never really developed a QB at Michigan. Remember when Shea Patterson was supposed to be the guy? He was worse at Michigan than Ole Miss. And now they’ve changed schemes entirety. Harbaugh has one of the best DC’s in the country and done not much with it. We wouldn’t be getting 2010 Harbaugh with all fire and brimstone. They look like they’ve quit on Harbaugh. Our guys have not quit on Les.
This opinion is awesome for a couple reasons. One is how much he shreds the entire case brought by the Trump team. And two, Judge Brann is a FedSoc member and Trump appointee 😂 🐦 View Tweet?s=21
This needed to be done. Excited to see if Les and the new guy make the changes we need. No more Clark at LT. Play Bostick there, kick Clark back to guard. Play the young guys about everywhere else.
@jayballer67 yeah, it would be a fine. Similar to a noise complaint type deal.
@jayballer67 basically people narcing on each other.
Dot to the Bulls, per Woj. Couldn’t ask for a better fit for him given his roots.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Dot’s agent after a certain point called teams and said we’d rather go undrafted and pick the destination.
Go Doke. So happy for him. Get first round money and it’s a perfect fit in Utah.
Medium warm take. This could be a good thing. Buys us another few practices when every single day counts to build the program.
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2021 March Madness:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 March Madness:
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2021 March Madness:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 March Madness:
@mayjay said in 2021 March Madness:
@BeddieKU23 Well, yeah, but they have to play in the big bad ACC tourney, so the Dookiebabies need a weekend to recuperate from all that trauma!
They have to go so far from home for that too!!
(Context: Greensboro is about 50 miles from Durham)
It's not in Greensboro this year, it's in DC this season.
Wow that’s as far as K will go from Durham.
Only if Duke's skipping out on the 2022 ACC Tournament in Brooklyn. They won't be back to Greensboro until 2023.
‘Twas a joke about K never playing road games my dude
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2021 March Madness:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 March Madness:
@mayjay said in 2021 March Madness:
@BeddieKU23 Well, yeah, but they have to play in the big bad ACC tourney, so the Dookiebabies need a weekend to recuperate from all that trauma!
They have to go so far from home for that too!!
(Context: Greensboro is about 50 miles from Durham)
It's not in Greensboro this year, it's in DC this season.
Wow that’s as far as K will go from Durham.
@mayjay said in 2021 March Madness:
@BeddieKU23 Well, yeah, but they have to play in the big bad ACC tourney, so the Dookiebabies need a weekend to recuperate from all that trauma!
They have to go so far from home for that too!!
(Context: Greensboro is about 50 miles from Durham)
@RockkChalkk said in so looks like Covid starting to cause problems with basketball already:
Can't taste or smell? Oh the humanity! The obvious answer is that government must step in and shut down all schools and stunt our kids' growth, force people to lose their businesses/livelihoods/jobs by closing restaurants, businesses, etc. that they have worked their lives to build because some people temporarily can't taste their coffee. I hope that comes off as insensitive to many of you because its meant to be a bit of a wake up call. This is a politically exaggerated virus and a lot of people have fallen into the trap. Of course there are very real concerns about people's heath that need to be taken seriously (the elderly, high risk people) just like every year with the flu, and i genuinely hope anyone that is struggling with the virus fully recovers. However i just don't think the rest of the world should be forced to grind to a halt over such a small percent of people that have serious issues.
Our family circle has had about a dozen people we know get C19, most had mild to no symptoms. Others said it was worse than a common cold but not as bad as the flu. Another actually had C19 and the flu at the same time and just said it was a little rough, a few days of bad headaches, but was back to work in a few weeks. On the other hand, i have a friend that owns a very popular daycare franchise, multiple locations, that has gone from very successful and thinking about early retirement to now be on the verge of bankruptcy. I've spoken to owners of many local businesses we love that say if round 2 of shutdowns was to hit our state (which it appears to be happening) that they definitely won't survive.
Ironically, allergies force me to lose my taste and smell every year. I guess it never occurred to me to just stay inside my house, stop living my life, and hide until allergy season is over because of the horror of losing my taste and smell. No offense to anyone but if the worst thing you have is temporarily losing your taste and smell, you're doing pretty good. Enjoy your life and don't let minor setbacks stop you from doing it.
Its a good time to come back Jaybate so i can maybe get at least one upvote!
Yawn. Sorry. Didn’t wake up. Like the now well over 300,000 people who died from this “cold.”
@BShark said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
We’re officially out on Mac Etienne. UCLA, Illinois, Marquette, Miami.
Been out from the sound of it, your wording reads that way too. Now I imagine Aidoo becomes the absolute top target.
I think that’s right. Also expect them to be active in the transfer market given likely immediate eligibility for everyone and the lack of evals for HS kids.
We’re officially out on Mac Etienne. UCLA, Illinois, Marquette, Miami.
Made Sallis's final 8: KU, UK, UNC, Oregon, Creighton, ISU, UCLA, Gonzaga. Don't think we're much more than window dressing at this point.
@approxinfinity thank you, sir. I talked to her over lunch and she's in good spirits. More than anything she's mad she can't taste her coffee.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in so looks like Covid starting to cause problems with basketball already:
@FarmerJayhawk praying for your mom!🙏 it's really bad here!
Thank you! It looks like a lot of the rural part of the state is really getting hammered. I heard Children’s Mercy took all of KU Med’s pediatric patients to free up beds for covid. Be safe out there, folks.
@RockkChalkk said in so looks like Covid starting to cause problems with basketball already:
@DanR yeah, forcing people to give up the core fundamental for why this country was founded because of a cold that 99% of people recover from is such a brilliant idea. All those covid free dictatorships out there are such a shining beacon of hope for what we should aspire to be.
My 50-something year old mom is in rough shape with this “cold” and another friend (college baseball player, so not some diabetic boomer) has lost his taste and smell for months (and has lost a ton of weight because eating makes him nauseous) so with all due respect, this is a bad take. People really should take the necessary precarious, and if they choose not to and put others at risk, government should step in.
On the hoops side, I kind of like Slick Rick’s idea to delay everything to after the first of the year when hopefully a vaccine is available (for at least some part of the population) and we have the tournament in May after even more people can get inoculated. Might be our best shot at an uninterrupted season.
@jayballer67 said in Preseason Predictions:
@drgnslayr said in Preseason Predictions:
@BeddieKU23 said in Preseason Predictions:
Matt McClung
Fun basketball coming to the league. This kid is fun! He'll not only make his own team players better, he will make players throughout the league better because those kind of moves get attention and followers.
who is he playing for in the League
Tech
I think we’re on the same plan as these schools were a couple years ago. You’re not allowed to play in the postseason immediately when coming to FBS so Coastal redshirted something like 40 guys one year. And now they’re all RS seniors and juniors. I bet we RS a ton of guys next year (especially with the 4 game rule) and then really see what we have in 2022 and 23.
Now if we can get Cuffe and maybe a legit grad transfer, I’ll be thrilled.
@jayballer67 said in so looks like Covid starting to cause problems with basketball already:
@BShark said in so looks like Covid starting to cause problems with basketball already:
Europe is locking down again right? I'm betting on that happening here as well after Trump.
I posted this before the other day but or Coach Self was talking and said he had heard a Biden advisor saying that he could see a 4-6 week lockdown coming. So I don't know if he is hinting that THIS IS what is coming or what
Yeah, idk. I don’t think lockdowns are politically acceptable at this point. And from looking at the research, I don’t think lockdowns are that effective anyway.
One to watch. Potential reclass. He’s got a lot of traits Self likes. Combo guard, stupid athlete. Very good defender. Shooting is meh. https://247sports.com/Player/Kyle-Cuffe-Jr-46086980/ ↗
@BShark said in so looks like Covid starting to cause problems with basketball already:
Europe is locking down again right? I'm betting on that happening here as well after Trump.
Yeah, a friend teaches English in France and they’ve got a curfew and the whole 9. Some states will move fairly quickly, others will drag arse
@BShark said in so looks like Covid starting to cause problems with basketball already:
COVID is just going to be a part of life, another nasty virus out of many.
Yup. Europe looks REAL bad now. I'll be first in line for the shot when it comes.
Really nice getting a local kid. They have a couple DL that are STUDS
Just for the sake of conversation, would Danny taking the WSU job make folks fans? I say yes. I kind of liked them as the plucky underdog when Turg was there, then really hated Gregggggggggggg "chicken hawks" Marshall. The American seems like more Danny's speed than the ACC and I think he could be successful with assistants who were good recruiters.
@BShark said in 2021 Recruiting:
Notable hoops blue blood Nebraska picking up a commitment from a kid Friday that "wanted to go to a blueblood".
His brother being there helps significantly.
Stunning I tell you. Peace Greggggggg 🐦 View Tweet?s=21
Look, as a UNC employee I have a contractual obligation to dump on K and dook at every opportunity. Suffice it to say, this smells like K ducking another tough game. Sad!
I’m so impressed with the defense. They get zero help and routinely play their tails off until snap 80 or so when they’re just out of gas. Lots of talent to build around: Parker, Harris, Terry, Prunty, Logan, and on it goes. They’ll be really salty in a year or two.
No Gardner, Hughes, Robinson, Thompson, and a bunch of others. We’re going to lose by a million
@mayjay said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
@mayjay That was supposed to be fireworks!
I was gonna say... that looks a lot like some Rona
Warnock out to a BLAZING start. Great ad. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21
And cards on the table, I have no love for Loeffler. I wouldn’t hate seeing each side get one of the runoffs.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
@FarmerJayhawk so this may be a dumb question, since they are still counting votes, why have they already called a re-election for the senators in Georgia? Couldn't one of them gotten over 50%? More votes. Provisional votes still coming in. Please don't embarrass me🙏
There are no dumb questions you don’t know the answer to! So in the Warnock/Loeffler/Collins race, nobody is getting close to 50%. Not sure if Warnock hit 35. In the Perdue/Ossoff race, Perdue is close to 50% but I’m 99.99% sure he’s not going to get there. If 10,000 more votes were to come in and Perdue got them all, he still wouldn’t hit 50%. So going off what’s still left to count (mostly very Democratic areas), it’s mathematically impossible for Perdue to get to 50% of the total vote. So we’ll have Warnock/Loeffler and Perdue/Ossoff runoffs on January 5th! Does that answer your question?
@KirkIsMyHinrich said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
It's early still, but if the trends continue then congratulations to Kamala Harris as the first woman and person of color to become vice president.
Not quite! Charles Curtis, a Kansan and Native American, was Hoover's VP.
DDHQ called PA. Biden at 273. Curtains.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
@FarmerJayhawk how many states do this? Kinda expensive! I hate that chick!
I believe MS, Alabama, AR, Georgia, SC, Louisiana, and California. Could be more a couple I’m missing? Maine switched to an instant runoff this cycle (didn’t matter because Collins hit 50)
@approxinfinity said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
@Crimsonorblue22 said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
@approxinfinity do they drop the libertarian?
Yup!
@FarmerJayhawk They need to play this on repeat down there of Perdue deliberately mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name at a Trump Rally:
F for all our friends in GA who have to get blasted by mail and ads for the next two months.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
@approxinfinity do they drop the libertarian?
Yes. Only the top 2 move on in each race.
Former pols always have a lot of friends
Nobody ever accused them of being good at this. DiFi will survive. Even though she’s like 85, she’s a battle axe. She went through some ish in San Fran and won’t go lightly. Like last time when she buried the California Senate President. My hunch is Pelosi will too. She kept her entire caucus together after losing 60+ seats in 2010.
@approxinfinity said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
I don't know man, BLM turned out the vote in Georgia. They've got momentum, they're organized, and still mad as hell, especially if Trump keeps running his mouth. Time may deflate Trump supporters more than the Democrats.
For a Presidential, sure. How much do they have left in the tank? Are they going to come out for Jon freaking Ossoff? Maybe the whitest white dude ever to be white? The senior vote will be there for the GOP. The rural vote will be there. Will college kids vote? It’s tougher for me to find the 50% for D’s than R’s is all I’m saying.
@KirkIsMyHinrich said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
Let's go socialism. Defund the police. I'll be donating money to the democratic cause in Georgia.
Please, please, please, Democrats run on this in every race.
@approxinfinity said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
Spanberger, my House Rep lost her shit on her fellow democrats on a call today, telling them to never use the word socialist again and to distance themselves from the defund the police movement:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/05/house-democrats-angry-over-election-losses-leaders-promises-answers/6179057002/ ↗If you'll recall, she was one of the House Democrats that called for impeachment, and I'm happy she won reelection.
She’s so, so right. A lot of the voters D’s really want, and lost ground with in 2020 vs. 2016, are more conservative than the liberal whites who run the party.