I touched on this in the roster thread, but I doubt many come back. First, KU would have to fund additional scholarships both in football and non-revenue sports to maintain Title IX compliance. Remember, scholarships have to be distributed equally based on the gender breakdown of the university. KU is something like 58/42 female so nearly 60% of the additional funds would have to go to women's sports, and it's unclear KU is willing to spend the money. Next, a lot of the 5th year guys who aren't in graduate school will just move on rather than add another stupid major or minor. Time to either start life or try their hands at the NFL (or rebooted XFL). Finally, given that everybody gets an additional year, the staff will likely process a lot of older guys to make room for younger talent. Maybe they try to get some key pieces back, like Prox and some OL to balance the classes, but I don't think many will use it.
Evenhanded piece about the USPS, covid, and the election. https://gen.medium.com/stop-panicking-about-the-post-office-8bcd689b9601 â
UNC reported 465 positives just in the last week, 30% positive rate. Not great, Bob.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
Donât think KU ever pushed that hard.
What the hell is the staff doing at the guard spot?
Sallis is still #1 on their board for sure. Beyond that, I think they go transfer. The lack of grassroots ball this spring and summer unfortunately means a lot of guys the staff would snatch up just didnât get discovered.
Donât think KU ever pushed that hard.
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@approxinfinity said in The "crap on Trump" thread:
@FarmerJayhawk a cop out. I expected nothing more.
They don't have aides that could help them use a computer?
"Continued enthusiastic support of Trump's America First agenda..." 176,802 dead and counting. Still first!
No, theyâre all volunteers. Iâm not defending it, thatâs just what the committee voted to do. Platforms are garbage that nobody reads or cares about anyway since the parties are so weak ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ
@Crimsonorblue22 said in The "crap on Trump" thread:
@FarmerJayhawk were they trying to do it by mail?đ¤Ł
Ha! Might have been easier than teaching a bunch of older folks how to use Zoom tbh
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No idea if this is true or not. If true, lol.
I asked a member of the RNC about this. They told me due to covid they couldnât bring the whole platform committee together so they just adopted the 2016 platform.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in The Democratic Convention! Day 2:
You must not have watched much. Biden said if science Says to shut the country down for
3 weeks to get rid of it, much like New Zealand, he'd do it. Also mandate national masks. He did say they would fix national relations, get back in the Paris accord. Fix our low standing! There was a huge diversity of people on the whole week, and joe doesn't want to defund the police, he wants to give them more money but have a national registry. That will help. Talked about climate change and leading to more jobs. Probably forgetting something. He wants to be a president for both parties, not just democrats. Did a lot of talking how he worked across the aisle As a senator. Was impressive how he dealt with so much sorrow, made him able to relate to people going thru tough times, completely different than trump!
Great spin! Of course the President doesnât have the authority to issue a mask mandate or lock down the country but nobody cares about those pesky details. No discussion of debts or deficits beyond repealing the tax cuts for rich people. Which, congrats! You made it about 1% of the way to closing this yearâs deficit. He wants to use California as a national model for energy, and just this week California is issuing rolling blackouts because their grid isnât stable enough.
@approxinfinity said in The Democratic Convention! Day 2:
@FarmerJayhawk FNC doesn't have to say Biden is a pedophile, they just need to portray Trump Jr and Giuliani in a positive light (and they most certainly do) while they run around saying Biden's a pedophile. Damage done.
Thereâs nothing in the second transcript to suggest Rudy thinks Biden is a pedophile. Don Jr. is whatever, heâs just trolling.
@approxinfinity said in The Democratic Convention! Day 2:
@FarmerJayhawk the fact that 80% of Republicans don't know what QAnon is is a bad thing; they're listening to QAnon rhetoric from Fox News (e.g. "Biden's a pedo"). Being conditioned unwittingly to vote for demagogues and nut jobs.
As for the USPS shakeup, what do you think the intent by Trump administration was there? How is this a conspiracy theory?
Come on, FNC doesnât run around saying Biden is a pedophile. I donât expect the GOP to condemn QAnon any more than I expect the DNC to perpetually condemn the Nation of Islam or the formal BLM organization, both of which are openly anti-Semitic.
Frankly, thereâs no evidence of systemic issues at the USPS. Celebrities and former Senators running around like Alex Jones saying there are all these locks on blue boxes (a common practice to avoid theft) and trucks being hauled off by the dozens by guys in red hats is just nonsense. The fact is the USPS has been decommissioning boxes and trucks for a long time because people just send a lot less mail. The increase in mail related to elections is a tiny fraction of what the USPS will deliver around Christmas, so capacity just isnât an issue. Frankly, people are at a MUCH higher rate of having their ballot rejected because they forgot to sign it rather than the USPS not delivering it on time. So, the theory that thereâs a Trump-DeJoy conspiracy (so a conspiracy theory) just doesnât hold water under close examination.
In a lot of ways, Trump doesnât really behave or talk like a nationalist. A hardcore nationalist wouldnât run up huge deficits or try to make nice with foreign adversaries. And to be fair, one has to have a fairly rigid program to be a nationalist. Trump might be the least ideological President weâve had in a long time. Just because he has no coherent belief system. There have been some efforts to try to build an intellectual Trumpism, but they all fall apart when they interpret what he says as a great nationalist moment then a week later he says the complete opposite. Someone like Josh Hawley or Tom Cotton is a much more effective messenger for those ideas. Trump probably thinks nationalism is being a fan of the Nats lol.
@approxinfinity said in The Democratic Convention! Day 2:
The Republican party right now is not a monolith! It's a cabal of rich people, pro life people, gun people, "anti-liberals", racists, and crazies.
I don't see the party rejecting the crazies. Tell me @FarmerJayhawk how many times do you think they will mention rejecting QAnon or racism at the Republican Convention? My guess is zero. And they never will.
Morally bankrupt.
I would love to debate this because I'm just not seeing the other side of this atm. Obviously there are good people that are Republicans. But when
40% of the country is supporting Trump right now, I don't think the good elements of the Republican party are enough to save it.
I donât know. 80% of the GOP has no idea what QAnon even is and has never heard of it (more Dâs know about it than Râs). So whatâs the point? Most people will be like I have no idea what theyâre even talking about.
Most Republicans (like my parents and grandparents) are decent people who want the best for their country. They donât necessarily like Trump as a person and didnât support him the 16 primary but they see the D platform and recoil in horror. I think itâs far too early to say what the GOP will be in a couple years. Could be they realize they screwed up and move on or embrace a more populist and nationalist ideology, just blame Trump for being a bad messenger. Nobody knows the answer to that yet. So I donât think itâs irredeemable. I mean it went from smoldering ashes of watergate to the Reagan Revolution in less than 10 years. It was wiped out post-Bush and had solid Congressional majorities 6 years later. Politics is a funny thing like that.
@approxinfinity said in The Democratic Convention! Day 2:
@FarmerJayhawk I don't follow.
Both are dumb conspiracy theories.
QAnon is to the right what Trump is stealing the election with the USPS is to the left.
@Woodrow said in 2021 Recruiting:
Looks like Hickman will end up at Kentucky. Is that who were talking about @FarmerJayhawk in your last post??
Yep. Offer and commitment will come soon.
Itâs over
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in The Democratic Convention! Day 2:
@benshawks08 said in The Democratic Convention! Day 2:
@Texas-Hawk-10 Pretty sure @approxinfinity knows that and also pretty sure everyone knows what he means. One party impeached him, the other voted not to remove him from office. Things have gone swimmingly ever since. Every republican has enabled a president most of them donât trust, know is unfit, and who is a complete embarrassment because of judges and tax cuts for their rich donors.
Mitch McConnell is just as bad in my opinion minus the incompetence. He is unfortunately dangerously competent at getting his way.
One of my biggest pet peeves when discussing government is people not understanding what an impeachment actually is because far too many people in this country assume an impeachment automatically means the president is getting removed from office which isn't the case considering none of the three presidents that have been impeached has been removed from office.
So when I see someone using the term impeach in an incorrect context the way @approxinfinity did, I'm usually going to correct it because I'm not going assume the person automatically knows what it means or that everyone who reads it knows what impeachment means and what the process involves.
Language is incredibly important. Otherwise you get students who say the President should tell the Supreme Court to make something unconstitutional (happens in my intro class, no joke.) We need a clear vocabulary that accurately describes functions of government as they were originally understood. The impeach/remove difference is important, the executive action/legislative action difference is important. I see memes all the time on Facebook about impeaching members of Congress. No such procedure exists. Congress can expel a member, but no impeachment power exists.
Brief aside: the branches arenât co-equal. Thatâs Wilson and Nixonâs garbage. Congress is the supreme branch. If you sat down with a co-worker and they could fire you for any reason they want, would you say you were equal to them? Of course not. Congress can remove any member of the executive or judicial branch for whatever reason they want given sufficient will. The executive and judiciary have no such authority. /rant
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Bidenâs speech was a B-/B. Just meh. I about nodded off a time or two. But thatâs exactly what he needs. Make POTUS as irrelevant in your life as possible.
Made JD Davisonâs top 6. Donât really think weâre a factor.
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Media Day!:
I'll take the optimistic approach over the Charlie Weis pile of crap approach any day.
Biggest thing for me at QB this year is to be Peyton Bender like and protect the football. Bender's ability to protect the football was the biggest reason KU was a handful of plays away from bowl eligibility in 2018.
Ditto last year. One play away from beating Coastal, WVU, and UT. I think the crazy outlier TO margin in 18 masked some things with that team. The peripherals were about the same as previous years plus 19 TOâs forced was a huge improvement, at least half a TO per game better than any Beaty team.
Having Dearmon for a full season should help too. One voice all year instead of Carter having 8 OCâs in 5 years (3 his senior year).
Sounds like Les is super optimistic about this year's group. Not sure I agree with his optimism, but hey, I'll take it. Key takeaways:
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OL should be better than last year. Chris Hughes and Pooka echoed.
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Dearmon is making the offense look really good. Offense routinely beats the defense in scrimmage play. QB is still a big ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ. But look for a 50/50 R/P split. Les is taking hands off on offense. Dearmon wants to take a lot of deep shots. Love it.
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Defensive front is improved from last season. Denzel Feaster said the LB corps was really meshing well.
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40 positive COVID tests (not 40 people testing positive. Large difference). Nobody currently infected as far as they know. They've flipped from nasal swabs to saliva tests, much to the players satisfaction. They had the guys bubbled at the Oread, but have since moved to their own housing.
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MacVittie realizes this is it for him and has an increased sense of urgency. Personal opinion: he's got the highest ceiling for us at QB this year. Definitely has the best physical tools in the room.
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Everyone is still taking 1st team reps at QB. I like they haven't narrowed the focus, especially given this year is a freebie for everyone eligibility-wise.
Wow. Dook landed Paolo Banchero. Big surprise. That class could be stacked if they land Baldwin (dook vs. Milwaukee there).
Galaxy brain time. Maybe QAnon was right at the beginning when they said Robert Mueller was Q??
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First, every freshman in the 2020 class gets a free RS. So you can throw Daniels or Medley out there and see what they've got, assuming Kendrick and MacVittie aren't the answer. Next, freshmen that had to play out of necessity last year (Potter, Gardner, Logan) will get their RS year. Finally, any senior that wants another year can have one. Prox and Naylor were considering applying for a 6th, now they have if if they want it. And we can possibly get a few OL to stay and allow the 20 signees to sit and develop for another year. I wouldn't hate seeing Robinson and Parchment back for another year either.
@approxinfinity said in The Democratic Convention! Day 2:
@FarmerJayhawk what happened when they lost your ballot? Did you not get to vote?
Correct. Itâs not clear legally if you can request another one (seems unlikely) and once you request one you canât vote in person.
@bcjayhawk I called my county clerk (we go way back) and she definitely sent it. It just never got to my house. Confirmed my address and everything.
Iâm voting early in person. Probably about as late as possible too just so as much information as possible is available. States that let you vote 6 weeks early are ridiculous. Plus, even before #qsps became a thing, the postal service lost my ballot in 2018. Was not happy.
Didnât miss much. Gov. Cuomo called Covid a metaphor which was wild. Some of the internet connections were bad so they had some tech issues.
@Marco said in 2021 Recruiting:
So, what are the flaws in Bates' game? It seems to be a no-brainer that we try our asses off to sign him, but I'm not Coach Self or his staff. @FarmerJayhawk would there be a reason why we wouldn't make a push?
Not really a shooter and has a lot of work to do on his body. A year at IMG should do him wonders.
Rough news for Shaka. Lucas is a star. https://247sports.com/college/kentucky/Article/Sources-Kentuckys-John-Calipari-to-add-Texas-assistant-Jai-Lucas-to-staff-150427971/ â
@kjayhawks said in The "crap on Biden" thread.:
Interesting that they had Bill Clinton speak tonight. Dudes on Epsteinâs flight log numerous times. But him settling outta court for sexual assault didnât stop people from voting for him them.
If youâre going to dump on Slick Willy at least get facts right my dude đ
@Crimsonorblue22 said in The "crap on Biden" thread.:
@kjayhawks I watched it, guess I missed ole bill.
Bill didnât speak. Heâs going Tuesday.
Bates will be a Jayhawk if we really push.
Heh.
@benshawks08 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Quite a headline from the daily tar heel
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đ. You know itâs the start of a new school year when UNC students complain about UNC. A proud tradition among the student body.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Funeral thing is cruel, I know quite a few from my home town that couldn't have them. But, some of them didn't want to fly and or bring older folks to them. Most had graveside and planned for a memorial later. They didn't want to gather. Smart!
I donât begrudge anyone who doesnât want to participate. A good friend is eloping in a few weeks to avoid crowds at his wedding. My grandpa hasnât attended his beloved church for months. My discomfort is with those who want government to enshrine those choices in law, but protesting for specific causes is totally fine. Not like the virus reads Kendi, DiAngelo, and Coates and decides it wonât infect those folks.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
The church thing was before the protests, here in ks. We had, maybe 12 deaths from church clusters in ks. I never missed a service, our pastor and every one I knew around central ks did streaming services, they still do. They recently opened up with masks and social distancing, no materials, one way in and one row dismissed at a time. No socializing. Parking was even every other space, with one entrance. I went to a protest with the police and naacp at the court house. Everyone had a mask one. It was organized and peaceful. I haven't heard of anyone dying in ks from protests.
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Yes! This is my view as well. Rules should be content neutral. If you want to have church or a funeral or a protest outside with masks and social distancing, that should be fine. I donât support different rules for different activities. The first amendment applies equally to protests and exercise of religion. Anyone is free to not like it but thatâs the law. And from a humanitarian point of view, itâs gross to say you canât be at a family memberâs burial (if itâs a nonreligious ceremony) but can protest.
Kansas contact tracing is also a trash fire since anyone can opt out.
@benshawks08 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@DanR said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
I'm still amazed that people are trying to solve a million consequential problems rather than the one big problem. Basically, we all already frittered 5 months away, half-assed, for nothing and the problem is worse than when it started. Too eager to eat the turkey before it was completely cooked. Still--at any point, no matter how bad this is--we could suck it up, isolate for 6-8 weeks and this thing is mostly long gone. Will it happen? Nope. Nobody offers that as a solution.
And, we'll have this same discussion in January about re-opening schools.
Probably because thatâs my daily life. Solving issues as they come up. Iâm not the governor. I canât lock down the state. I also think another lockdown is impossible. The public health establishment already shot its wad when it said people couldnât go to church or anything else, but mass protests are a-okay. Politically itâs just not feasible.
It would be possible if the right people supported it. But they donât. The left has taken this more serious from the get go. If our âleaderâ were to use his influence over his âshoot someone in the street and theyâll still vote for meâ crowd we could knock this out like a lot of europe has done. All it takes is being truly pro life (The real kind not just anti-abortion), pro health and pro science. Thatâs it.
I still donât get the protest v church dichotomy. They just arenât the same thing.
Itâs because public health officials picked and chose causes based on content, not science. It makes zero sense to forbid people from worshiping or going to funerals outside with masks and social distancing but also saying protests in the streets are totally fine. The coronavirus doesnât care why people gather, itâll hop from person to person whether theyâre reciting the 23rd Psalm or chanting George Floyd. There was no scientific basis for separating them, so they shouldâve just been honest and said they didnât think religion was important but protesting was, and that view was independent of COVID.
@DanR said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
I'm still amazed that people are trying to solve a million consequential problems rather than the one big problem. Basically, we all already frittered 5 months away, half-assed, for nothing and the problem is worse than when it started. Too eager to eat the turkey before it was completely cooked. Still--at any point, no matter how bad this is--we could suck it up, isolate for 6-8 weeks and this thing is mostly long gone. Will it happen? Nope. Nobody offers that as a solution.
And, we'll have this same discussion in January about re-opening schools.
Probably because thatâs my daily life. Solving issues as they come up. Iâm not the governor. I canât lock down the state. I also think another lockdown is impossible. The public health establishment already shot its wad when it said people couldnât go to church or anything else, but mass protests are a-okay. Politically itâs just not feasible.
@benshawks08 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk I just know there was one year where we lost three kids in my school of 1600 and it was probably the most traumatic year of my life. Each one was so devastating and the next just compounded the loss. For reference, 1% Of my student population would be 16, .5% would be 8. So I will be watching those numbers carefully. A majority of our students are Latinx, the community who statistically taken the biggest hit both locally and nationally.
I think a big thing people havenât really been thinking about is how much kids have been protected up until this point by schools shutting down and being closed all summer. We have no idea what this is going to look like when it hits the school population for real.
Good news is death rate overall is going down As we learn more how to treat it and I think I saw fda approved new tests that should provide faster results but I canât remember where I saw that.
@FarmerJayhawk First rule Of a pandemic is if it feels like an overreaction you are probably doing it right.
The IFR for covid for under 18 (and even moreso under 12) is far less than the flu. It seems like we can eyeball it at less than .01% based on this preprint meta-analysis â. So in that scenario, a school of 1600 would expect to lose .16 students if every single student became infected. If they're off by a factor of 10 and everyone got infected, you'd expect to lose 1.6 to COVID. So then the calculus changes some in multiple ways. At what level is ok vs. not ok to open? 1 student too high? 2? 10? I don't know the answer, though I certainly think 0 is too low a threshold. Even among COVID cases, kids have a 4-9x lower risk of hospitalization than people aged 18-29. Overreacting has significant costs as well. Potentially putting parents out of work, destroying their finances and mental health. Wealthy parents can buy pods and all these things, less well of parents don't have much choice in most of the country,
We all have to take on some level of risk to avoid increasing and permanent damage to kids and the economy. The costs of losing all the learning, plus the costs of lost work hours for parents, are just too high across most of the country. I'm all for virtual charter schools and others that specialize in online learning for kids and families who don't want to take any risk (yay choice!) though they do underperform traditional charters and traditional neighborhood schools.
These are hard choices, and takes very serious and sober examination of the data by decision makers. If parents want to pull their kid out, fine, that's their choice. The more information that comes in, the more I lean to opening at bare minimum K-6, possibly K-8.
@benshawks08 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@approxinfinity To me the real question is how long until people start talking about an acceptable death rate for schools.
I think itâs a reasonable conversation to have. Usually flu deaths among kids range from 50-150 per year. The biggest vector is schools and we kind of just chug along like normal. Under 18 weâre at 73, per the CDC. I think for kids, especially elementary age, thereâs an acceptable risk across most of the country to reopen schools utilizing proper protocols. In hotspots maybe you wait. But my local district is fully remote until January, which seems an overreaction to me. The district is very affluent, but also has the largest racial achievement gap in the country (right up with Evanston, IL and Ann Arbor, MI). I think itâs unacceptable to lose another semester to year of learning for those kids.
I'm going with 2-8. I think we beat Coastal. They brought a lot back, but we almost won that game with maybe the worst offensive playcalling I've seen in quite awhile. The noticeable uptick in performance under Dearmon was encouraging. Then I think we get a Big 12 game. I don't know which one, but given we hung with teams we really shouldn't have at points last year tells me we could spring an upset on the bottom half of the league, WVU, Tech, ISU, or Baylor. KSU if things go perfect. They only return 2 career starts on the OL and just a shade over half of their tackling production from last year.
@approxinfinity said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
What's your prediction for how long this lasts before you're fully remote? Sorry if you already said.
I think we pull the plug before the end of the month. At this rate, our quarantine dorms will be full in a matter of a week or two.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk school start Monday?
We started last Monday
UNC up to 4 outbreaks now. Good times
@Bwag said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Basically itâs all an overblown election year stunt. Sure the disease is bad for a subset of people, but the hysteria and the politicalization of medicine and science has been over the top.
Itâs bad for even non-olds. I know several in their mid-late 20âs who are still having neurological issues months after infection. Add that to the very likely case that weâre significantly undercounting covid deaths makes it a huge deal to me. All cause mortality in the US is much higher this year than itâs been in quite awhile, even though mortality had cratered for those under 18. In folks 18-64, deaths are about 15% higher than a year ago. If you add in all age groups, weâve had as many deaths this epidemiological year than all of last year, with 6 weeks to go. So itâs hard for me to say itâs overblown when weâre barreling toward the worst year for death in 30 years, even though weâve taken extraordinary steps to contain it.
@approxinfinity said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk ugh. Be safe man.
Thanks my dude. I pulled the plug on my in-person courses so Iâm trying to keep everyone off campus as much as possible. Three outbreaks in a week tells me we wonât be here for long. And check out Aggieville last night. Just wut https://www.facebook.com/ureddi/posts/3310231629063564 â