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@Texas-Hawk-10 gotcha. I’m not on social media much.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Basketball Season:

@FarmerJayhawk said in Basketball Season:

I'm sworn to secrecy as far as pictures go, but got some views of the corners, floor, and scoreboard at AFH. Circus font is EVERYWHERE, the corners and scoreboard are.. fine? Overall some good upgrades in the concourses

There's already been some pictures leaked of what everything looks like.

I haven't seen any of the floor or scoreboard released publicly, just the corners and concourses. The new scoreboard looks freaking large. And the baselines now have circus font which is cool

I'm sworn to secrecy as far as pictures go, but got some views of the corners, floor, and scoreboard at AFH. Circus font is EVERYWHERE, the corners and scoreboard are.. fine? Overall some good upgrades in the concourses

Wow, they just said the top 8 in the Big 12 preseason poll are under .500 in league play by a lot. I missed the actual number oops

The more I watch this league the more I’m confused about who’s any good. ASU currently beating Utah

Interesting factoid. Dr. Lowcock is a registered... drum roll... Republican and very regular voter.

Does that mean he's a conservative? No, Kansas has a very long history of moderate to liberal Republicans. My guess is since he voted in the 2022 primary he just registered on site and never changed it back, but idk. That's the only primary he voted in.

And yes, your party registration and history are public information before anyone asks lol.

@kjayhawks if he has tenure, it kind of does mean he can say whatever he wants. Tenured faculty have First Amendment rights in their professional capacity, unlike K12 teachers or most other jobs. I don’t think it comes close to being any kind of incitement either. There’s no specific threat there

FIRE getting involved yikes 🐦 View Tweet?s=46&t=c0LiaNrxev6XfT7LIH8dAQ

Update: he gone (retired, apparently)

@approxinfinity parties are fundamentally coalitions designed for one purpose: to win elections. It's a relatively recent thing for the coalitions to somewhat ideological. Before the Primary Era, the coalitions were generally along class lines and economic interests. It seems odd that southern segregationists and urban black voters were in the Democratic coalition but that's just how things went for many reasons, but in large part because the GOP then was a party of Northeastern business types and the Pacific coast. Likely residual effects from the Civil War. For example, Henry Cabot Lodge, Bob Taft, and Barry Goldwater had basically nothing in common except they were Republicans.

But to zoom out, there's really no democracy in the world without parties. Ours tend to be much less ideological than in the rest of the world because there are only two. We do the coalition building on the front end, parliamentary systems build it on the back end. It's just the nature of politics. Humans are tribal by nature and that's how that comes out now.

@nuleafjhawk we did that for 2 elections and got parties in 1796. Voters just want a cognitive shortcut where they don’t have to think too much. Most people don’t have strong views on economic or foreign policy so they look for the brand to support

A good example of this is the GOP’s “evolution” on tax policy. I remember when we were talking a flat tax or Fair Tax™️ as something most Republicans could get behind as a matter of simplification and reducing the distortions in the economy caused by the tax code. Now it’s all about tariffs, exempting all sorts of income (overtime, tips) from taxes, and being able to write off car loans and expanding credits for whatever Trump thinks is cool that day

@Crimsonorblue22 could be! People get moved around from sport to sport fairly frequently

@approxinfinity the backstory behind Brown is that he’s a very unliked figure within even the mainstream of the KSGOP. He ran against the sitting Secretary of State a cycle or two ago and got blown out. And then BARELY beat Helen Van Etten (an absolutely lovely Chinese immigrant and longtime RNC member) as party chair. His only real qualifications are as an election denier and Trump loyalist. The mainstream, elected Republicans wouldn’t hate to see him hit by a bus tomorrow and I heard from a couple in that world today that just laughed at him for the shoddy release

@Crimsonorblue22 it was definitely at KU, Phil is still the academic advisor for baseball (I think)

@BeddieKU23 honestly I hope it goes away. Hopefully guys sign when they verbal so there’s less worry about tampering

@approxinfinity of course he’s not representative and to me the politics don’t matter, we have to cool down the temperature everywhere. But he’s 100% a lefty just as a descriptive thing. I’ve heard worse in the academy (eg 10-7 was a legitimate protest) so on we go

Good change. This will also mean transfers can sign binding agreements. The NLI program has long outlived its usefulness

@approxinfinity easy to see in context, he’s clearly upset people aren’t voting for Kamala and saying so in the clumsiest way possible. Many progressives are fine with gun violence if it suits them. Just read social media after either Trump assassination attempt.

@approxinfinity he’s clearly a progressive, and that’s fine. The vast majority of university faculty are. He’ll do is suspension and be back next semester or whenever

I got a kick out of it. The KSGOP's statement was even more funny because A) they got the wrong instructor B ) the wrong College C) the guy they named retired 5 years ago

@kjayhawks I’ll raise you two whole paychecks

It really is Blood Saturday. Miami flat getting whipped at Historic Atlantic Coast Conference rival… Cal Berkeley?

@kjayhawks yup. They are REALLY thin right now. Wheeler is out, Brantley is out, (so that’s 2 of your top 5 LBs), Dye is banged up, Cobee was hurt late. We were playing freshmen out there in the 4th

@Crimsonorblue22 I really don’t. They stay in KC the night before home games even when they play in LFK.

@kjayhawks oh we’re going to win more. Things will break the other way for us at some point. Really sucks when we had to have it, our two best defensive players were out. Just that kind of year.

Reset over the bye. Let’s go bowling.

I’m not even mad, just sad

Mello pick let’s get it

Sure give us 15 more

Cheap shit. Thanks tho

@approxinfinity uhhh he’s out

@Crimsonorblue22 yep

Gawd that counter was sexy

Well knock me over with a feather running it works

Bailed out. I’ll take it

ASU is a real big coke school

I think everyone was holding

@kjayhawks throwing it on second down about made me chuck my beer

@approxinfinity yep, we’ve got both Dye brothers

That helps

I’m an old wishbone guy so I’m biased but dang run the football

Clear targeting

JD found a Time Machine

@Crimsonorblue22 he’s out there

@Crimsonorblue22 Wheeler. LJ is fine

@Crimsonorblue22 yep, traveled but isn’t playing

Yep. Own 33 is too far back to make much hay

That’s soft

BALL

Nice!