So far, very impressed with the mask compliance.
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Solid weekend. “Kansas pledge K.J. Adams was a monster on the drive. No defender dared to stop the superhero-built hybrid forward on his attack. His physicality, ability to move laterally, and play in the high post are all translatable strengths at his disposal.”
@jayballer67 said in Pooka:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Pooka:
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Pooka:
@FarmerJayhawk 170 lbs. is really small even for someone of his playmaking ability at the NFL level. He's also probably going to have to change positions and improve his route running and become more of a Tyreek Hill type playmaker mostly playing at WR and return man because he won't last at his size at RB in the NFL.
Agree. And he’ll do that in the NFL, not in college. At this point he’s probably a 3rd or 4th round pick. Good enough to go. At least that’s been everyone’s expectation since forever
He will hook up with someone for sure - wouldn't do him any good to transfer. He would have to sit a year in transfer anyways wouldn't he ?
He’d get a waiver for sure.
More a 2021 guy, but absolutely would take. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/paul-atkinson-1.html ↗
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Pooka:
@FarmerJayhawk 170 lbs. is really small even for someone of his playmaking ability at the NFL level. He's also probably going to have to change positions and improve his route running and become more of a Tyreek Hill type playmaker mostly playing at WR and return man because he won't last at his size at RB in the NFL.
Agree. And he’ll do that in the NFL, not in college. At this point he’s probably a 3rd or 4th round pick. Good enough to go. At least that’s been everyone’s expectation since forever
Is opting out to be closer to his family. Says his mother has health issues.
@BShark said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
@jayballer67 said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
McGowens down to final 5: Michigan, Georgia, LSU, Nubs, FSU. Some strong ass offers there.
was we ever in consideration for this one ?
We checked in for sure. Rumor was he wanted blue blood attention. Apparently playing time was more important. Because IMO there's no way he was going to start at KU next year barring something weird happening like Ochai and Bryce leaving.
checks notes 0 blue bloods on list, the math checks out.
Would be funny if he ended up at FSU anyway.
Hot rumor is the corn. Which is decidedly not a blue blood. Maybe he meant a football blue blood?
@jayballer67 said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
McGowens down to final 5: Michigan, Georgia, LSU, Nubs, FSU. Some strong ass offers there.
was we ever in consideration for this one ?
We checked in for sure. Rumor was he wanted blue blood attention. Apparently playing time was more important. Because IMO there's no way he was going to start at KU next year barring something weird happening like Ochai and Bryce leaving.
McGowens down to final 5: Michigan, Georgia, LSU, Nubs, FSU. Some strong ass offers there.
I predict we will not win a game until we take that marxist, anarchist BLM patch off our uniforms. I watched several games and no other team had them. These are 18 to 21 year-olds. The coaches and administration should decide what patches go on the uniforms. When this all plays out in the next few months, or so, we will all wonder, what the hell were we thinking putting that patch on our uniforms. I surely hope the basketball team makes a better decision.
This is a molten magma take
@FarmerJayhawk Come on... You don't really believe that, do you?
His guardian always maintained he kept Silvio in the dark around all his shady stuff. As @BShark eluded to, this is how it’s done with a lot of international kids.
Hard for the defense to hold on when the offense struggles so badly to move the ball. Need to develop OLine badly.
The good news is we’ll have 9(!) true freshman OL next year if all the 21 OL commits stick. The bad news is they’re freshmen. Ideally one of them seize a tackle spot and Clark sticks around and kicks back to LG. We’ll still have Bostick, who may flip to LT if one of the young guys is better suited to RT. I’m optimistic about Garrett Jones at C.
Spread was KU +21 😂😂😂😂
Leave Kendrick in Morgantown.
@jayhawks2010 said in No Silvio:
Obviously we knew about Preston. Every major program in recruiting with their connections to apparel companies is doing similar stuff...Silvio is the one that really added a lot of fire to the investigation and put us in this position
Which to be fair, Silvio himself had nothing to do with.
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in No Silvio:
@jayhawks2010 I got a bridge to sell you if you think KU was in the dark about Billy Preston. He was only suspended and self reported because the car accident that led to he departure would've blown up had KU not reported Preston at that point.
Yuuuuup. KU only got into that mess because Sean Miller went Leeeeeroy Jeeeeeenkins to get Ayton. We get Ayton and we don’t sniff the Preston circus.
@jayhawks2010 said in No Silvio:
Silvio will go down as the most damaging ku recruit ever. He was the center of the recruiting scandal that got us in to the mess. At least in Prestons case there was no evidence that we directly knew, he never played a game, and we self reported him. Silvio played and led to this whole turmoil. He was over rated. Barley could jump and had no offensive game. Add in the fact he was the main ku player in the fight with KSU. He’s made this university look bad and damaged basketball recruiting. I’m glad he’s gone!
BIG YIKES
Love to Silvio. Hopefully it’s a temporary hiatus and we see him back in crimson and blue.
Roe and Casey aren't going anywhere.
@BShark said in 2022 Recruiting Thread:
Good sign to at least be making final 5s on elite players. Believe recruiting can get back on track after NCAA crap.
Reclass is on the table there as well. KU would love him in either.
@benshawks08 said in Ruth Bader Ginsberg Dead at 87:
@FarmerJayhawk I'm interested in how you view the Merrick Garland situation in comparison to this. It seems clear to me that republicans are doing all they can to pack the court with conservative judges, and their stated goal in doing so is to overturn the cases you say aren't going anywhere. It doesn't seem like panic mongering to think a shift from what should have been a 5-4 democratic appointed majority to a 6-3 republican appointed majority could have major consequences for many cases that have had close rulings in the past.
And as for your take on Whitehouse, he may be hypocritical, but is he wrong? This, "groups like FedSoc, which are mostly campus organizations that have to bribe people with catered dinner to listen to lawyers talk about law" seems like a massive undersell from you on the power and influence of groups like this. Dark money is definitely bad for politics and it cracks me up to hear conservatives whine about "special interest groups" when they receive more funding than anyone from those special interests, and then block any attempts to do anything about it. It's clear who WANTS the dark money to stay and who is forced to use it just to keep up.
I have a rule in politics that has served me well over the years. All process arguments are inherently insincere. I don't believe for a second that R's or D's would act any differently under a scenario where they could replace a Justice. If the shoe was on the other foot and President Clinton wanted to fill the Thomas seat, there's not a shred of doubt in my mind a D Senate would do the exact same thing.
I really don't think Whitehouse's conspiracy is much of anything. FedSoc is a forum more than anything, and their recommendations largely track with the ABA, who rated Barrett as well qualified. Does national FedSoc membership recommend judges? Yep. Is there anything wrong with a group lobbying the President and the Senate to take that under consideration? Nope. They have a First Amendment right to petition the government, and I have little interest in curtailing that speech. If lefty groups want to do the same thing, more power to them. And I'll give them credit, they've spun up a nice dark money network (American Constitution Society, etc.) In a sense I think they're just salty the right has beat them like a drum on judicial politics for a generation. The right did a really good job of using the judiciary as a turnout mechanism while the left kind of ignored it.
Democrats receive a lot more dark money than Republicans, at least recently. At least in the last cycle, c4 spending on Democratic causes was about 20 points higher than for R's. But, I frankly don't care about dark money. Everyone has the same rules, so don't work the refs, so to speak. McConnell has been on this train forever about disclosure and getting rid of dark money (by allowing the donations, just to candidates and parties, not c4 groups). But D's won't play ball at all. They'll just complain about Citizens United, which was absolutely correct, and look to curtail political speech contrary to the First Amendment. If we put a bill on the floor to repeal the BCRA and simplify the system, it would get near unanimous R support and Cocaine Mitch would be happier than a juniper. So I think R's would love to get dark money out of the system and have everything be more transparent. D's want money out of politics, which is fine, but requires a Constitutional amendment, which is not happening any time soon.
I thought she answered what she could. Standards of judicial ethics and the Ginsburg Rule (yes, that Ginsburg) mean she can't answer hypotheticals about future cases or controversies that could come before the Court. Roe and Casey aren't going anywhere. The ACA isn't either. I get the symbolic stuff about replacing Ginsburg with someone with a different philosophy, but the Handmaid's Tale stuff is just panic mongering.
Adapting to the more physical college game was always a question with Bryce. Shoot, we could easily see Braun over Bryce for awhile in the non-con.
Overall, I thought Judge Barrett handled herself superbly and I'm looking forward to her confirmation vote in a week or so. Ranking Member Feinstein was impressed as well. She won't vote to confirm, but it's quite the reversal from "the dogma lives loudly in you." The hug with Sen. Graham at the end was nice too. Good sign we all don't have to hate each other, even though Graham and DiFi are pretty far apart ideologically. She was rewarded by one of her colleagues anonymously going to the press and saying she has dementia.
It did make me sad that as many people took Sheldon "will never be in the" Whitehouse seriously. Not only did he waste a half hour of everyone's time during a judicial confirmation hearing and not ask Barrett a single question, he droned on and on and on about groups like FedSoc, which are mostly campus organizations that have to bribe people with catered dinner to listen to lawyers talk about law. Such scandal! Of course, he also fails to mention he gave a speech at the lefty and far less competent version of FedSoc over the summer and takes amicus briefs written by dark money groups and files them at SCOTUS under his name. Weird.
His "but 80-0!!" deal was also funny. I guess it's totally fine when his side rules unanimously in one direction, as it by definition did in those 80 cases? And it's useful to note some BIG cases actually went their way! NFIB v. Sebelius, Obergefell (which was actually good), King v. Burwell, June Medical, just off the top of my head. Shoot, the Court didn't grant cert on ANY Second Amendment cases last term. And even with Barrett on the Court, the ACA isn't going anywhere. They'll likely say the mandate is unconstitutional (yay!) but that it's severable from the rest of the statute and leave effectively as-is.
Of course, dark money as a phenomenon was created by Congress with the shoddy BCRA, one of the most anti-speech pieces of legislation of the last 100 years. It really weakened the parties with disastrous consequences (like the guy in the oval), but that's a discussion for another day.
If we really wanted a campaign finance system that rewarded transparency, we'd just let anyone give whatever to whomever as long as they disclose it. Really love Joe Biden and want to give a million to his campaign? That's fine by me. Just disclose it within a week. Really diminishes the influence of Super PACs and 501c4's. No reason to have multiple organs of the campaign when Super PAC donors can just give to the campaign and be assured their money is for sure going to what the campaign wants, since sometimes Super PACs can get far afield since they can't coordinate.
Tl;dr: Barrett is going to be a fine Justice, Whitehouse is a hypocritical loony tune, the ACA is staying, the BCRA blows, and we need a lot less regulation of campaign finance.
@jayballer67 said in Other bball news:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Other bball news:
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@rockchalkwyo said in Other bball news:
How will an extra year effect Mitch, Silvio, and Garrett? Will they stay for another senior year?
Early prediction. Silvio stays (claim the year the NCAA took from him, unjustly), Garrett and Mitch leave. Garrett is a pro, and Mitch will he basically done with a master’s so no reason to hang around.
Is the NCAA giving an extra year of eligibility to winter sports athletes though?
Jeff Goodman is reporting there’s a vote next week that will likely provide the same relief as fall athletes.
We would be only losing Mitch & Silvio right ? - - I still think because you can just tell his love for teh School , I think thee might be a really good chance Mitch might just come back. -- -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
And Garrett. He’s gone unless he gets hurt, God forbid.
I could see one of the bigs coming back. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21
This is good. All sports but football, basketball, baseball, and men's hockey already have this rule and things are fine.
@BeddieKU23 said in Missouri...:
Border War game canceled for 2020
Nice. "Everything from Missouri has a taint about it." - OJW
This story is awful. I don’t know how he keeps his job. https://watchstadium.com/sources-wichita-states-gregg-marshall-punched-player-choked-assistant-10-08-2020/ ↗
Self spoke with McGowens and his dad today. Wing isn’t a huge need but absolutely would take
@BeddieKU23 said in 2021 Recruiting:
5 star Bryce McGowens decommits from FSU. Now that's something you don't see often
KU will be involved here. They like him a lot.
He mentioned a cold last night on Hawk Talk so hopefully that’s as bad as it gets.
UA getting their revenge by delivering top 5 Jabari Smith to squeaky clean Bruce Pearl
@JAYHAWKFAN214 said in 2021 Recruiting:
Langston Wilson will meet with Kansas staff by zoom at 1:30 ET TODAY
Roll tide roll
Wilson being down 15 pounds should help his quickness. Not sure it'll be enough to get into the conversation about playing the 3, would would definitely be some value added.
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Other bball news:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Other bball news:
@rockchalkwyo said in Other bball news:
How will an extra year effect Mitch, Silvio, and Garrett? Will they stay for another senior year?
Early prediction. Silvio stays (claim the year the NCAA took from him, unjustly), Garrett and Mitch leave. Garrett is a pro, and Mitch will he basically done with a master’s so no reason to hang around.
Is the NCAA giving an extra year of eligibility to winter sports athletes though?
Jeff Goodman is reporting there’s a vote next week that will likely provide the same relief as fall athletes.
Keon Coleman decommitted. Which I guess isn't all that surprising given our offensive (in both senses) showing so far.
Made Daimion Collins’s final 5: KU, UK, OU, Texas, Tech. Looks like OU.
@rockchalkwyo said in Other bball news:
How will an extra year effect Mitch, Silvio, and Garrett? Will they stay for another senior year?
Early prediction. Silvio stays (claim the year the NCAA took from him, unjustly), Garrett and Mitch leave. Garrett is a pro, and Mitch will he basically done with a master’s so no reason to hang around.
@BShark said in Other bball news:
@FarmerJayhawk NGL I'd be very happy with that. We'd almost be log jammed at bigs if Dave also stayed. Good problem to have lol.
At least then could de facto RS Adams and not have to play Clemence at the 5.
Looks like all winter athletes will get the same treatment as fall athletes with respect to eligibility. Ideally Silvio wants to go to grad school.
@approxinfinity said in Trump has COVID:
@FarmerJayhawk you don't think Trump would seize power and commit genocide if he could?
It's playing with fire, trying to be civil with a ruthless self serving barbarian with influence over a large part of the masses. If people had done the right thing and removed him or not supported him in the first place, we wouldn't be here.
Absolutely not. My position since maybe 2012(?) has been he’s basically Silvio Berlusconi with worse hair. Rather than a tyrant, he’s a bumbling moron who doesn’t know the difference between the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture. Frankly I don’t even think he wants the job that badly. He certainly doesn’t work hard at it. And if (when?) he loses he’ll leave like any other former President. Just an old man trespassing.
You won’t get any argument from me on impeachment.
UA and Nike are having a good, old fashioned auction. Davison delayed his announcement (presumably US trying to protect their house, so to speak) and now it’s back on and looking like Roll Tide
@approxinfinity said in Trump has COVID:
@FarmerJayhawk Your enemy isnt a despicable despot that forces you to compromise your morals. Lucky you!
Yeah... he’s my opponent who we’ll all beat in November. He’s not an enemy. Despicable human, but not someone I wish physical illness or death on. That would make me way more like him than I ever want to be. Sometimes callousness and being through the wars has its benefits I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Xi of China, Kim of DPRK, Khomeini in Iran, those guys are enemies. Dictators who seized power and commit genocide like its eating a bowl of Cheerios. Not in the same stratosphere.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Trump has COVID:
@FarmerJayhawk still can't believe that's your view.
Take it up with my mother who raised me that way. I’ve just been in this business long enough to treat my opponents as opponents, not mortal enemies I want to be smited from on high. My view is the same as Biden. Which seems normal? I’m more surprised this is actually a controversial view!
Plus, I just think the Pence meme is funny. Don’t take that seriously 😂
@approxinfinity said in Trump has COVID:
@FarmerJayhawk I can't tell your sarcasm level here, but I consider him a threat to humanity, and his handling of Covid a crime against humanity.
You may oppose the death penalty for murderers, but can you understand why those that favor capital punishment do so?
As far as not being any better, please excuse me here, but I think that logic is bunk.
Sic semper tyrannis!
Forgive me if I feel like having a little more sympathy will improve our country and the discourse. I really don't care who caused it, nobody has to make it worse.
But, if resistance libs get their wish, we on the right have no choice. !alt text ↗
Jeez. You all need to chill out and do some introspection. Follow Biden's lead and hope Trump recovers like this is no big deal, just like you would anyone else. Hate can't drive out darkness, only light. If you wish serious ill on him you're no better. Be better.