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The last few years have basically made me tune out almost all media. I don't read "mainstream" outlets for the most part, don't watch cable news exception on election days (and even then, count results on my own), and have sort of bunkered down into my own group of folks. I have a very well-curated Twitter feed without a lot of nonsense, mostly academics and other smart people who really understand the issues, not journos that don't know their multiplication tables, yet decide to become economists and epidemiologists all the sudden. I just want facts and some context, not filters from press folks with an agenda, whether right or left. I know my personal ideology backward and forward and of course judge particular issues through that lens but always start with the facts then evaluate from there. I'm lucky because I've worked for and studied with some absolutely stupid smart people so maybe I'm better at sniffing out crap than most, but even having some basic skills about critiquing news and reading with some well-informed skepticism is a really good skill.

My critiques of the President have nothing to do with his party, though I worked my arse off to beat him in 15 and 16. I sometimes fantasize about having Jeb! run this show instead of Trump since he developed such a great reputation for being an effective governor in a purple state. Would I like to see him lose in 2020? Sure. Do I love Biden? No. We probably disagree on 90% of issues. But I think he's a competent manager and someone with good character.

tl;dr: get the facts, not the filter. Understand the facts. Make decisions accordingly.

@BShark said in Next season...:

@FarmerJayhawk said in Next season...:

Not really in doubt, but Wilson is staying. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

Couldn't be my take. Some of the fanbase is nuts man.

Idle minds are dangerous. I think he’s going to be a really nice piece at the 4 if his shot becomes more consistent and if Ramsey works his magic.

Not really in doubt, but Wilson is staying. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

Could be us in a week or two. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

@jayballer73 said in 2021 Recruiting:

@BShark said in 2021 Recruiting:

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:

Our boy Tamar had a heck of a year 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

So good, hope he will be a Jayhawk.

whats his national rank - -do you know?

Right around 100. I think that will go up eventually. Either way, I think he's a really solid player but won't scare off a guy like Sallis.

Not surprising. KU doesn’t have in-person classes. The season is over.

@BShark said in 2021 Recruiting:

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:

Our boy Tamar had a heck of a year 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

So good, hope he will be a Jayhawk.

I think a matter of when

Our boy Tamar had a heck of a year 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

To be equal opportunity about this, I had a legit lol 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

Good advice here for everyone https://medium.com/ ↗@ariadnelabs/social-distancing-this-is-not-a-snow-day-ac21d7fa78b4

@BShark said in Coronavirus Thread: Boy, guys. I really just don't know. Best to keep tabs.:

Bernie is not a radical. He's barely left in most of the world.

He’s pretty far left in Scandinavia, the UK, and Germany for sure. Not really anywhere do they consider a wealth tax, no out of pocket health expenses, and phasing out nuclear power good ideas. Germany did the nuclear power thing and killed thousands from additional air pollution. Scandinavia used to be more like what Bernie wanted but they realized fairly quickly it’s basically impossible to pay for and growth slows to a halt. So they decided to high levels of consumption taxation, killed the wealth tax with fire, and reduced taxation on capital to very competitive levels internationally. And now they’re competitive internationally because of that and a significant oil endowment. Bernie is more like the lefties in France where public spending as % of GDP is like 60% and the labor market is so tightly regulated no businesses hire because you can’t legally fire someone without a long, drawn out legal fight. They also have a great nuclear sector, which Bernie wants to end. He’s kind of Jeremy Corbyn in a lot of ways, minus the anti-semitism (though many of Bernie’s high profile surrogates are rabid anti-semites. He’s never been able to surround himself with good people.)

@BShark said in Dok Dok Dok Dok Dok:

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@DoubleDD said in Donald Trump's Public Service Announcement:

Sounds like to me they are on the same page. In fact it appears they are changing how America handles these outbreaks in the future. Crazy thing a lot of countries are following suit. Interesting?

Yes they’re on the same page which is why the White House had to say most everything Trump said in his Oval Office address wasn’t correct, then they hype up a website that doesn’t exist in the Rose Garden. I would hope they could at least get the basics right instead of people panicking overseas because they think they can’t get home or going to find a website that doesn’t exist.

You know that website Trump went on and on about today and they even had the flowchart? Turns out it’s not a thing. Like at all. https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/ ↗

That the administration can’t figure out what its own approach to this is makes me pull my hair out. It’s not that hard to make sure you’re all on the same page.

@BShark said in Next season...:

Hearing Silvio will stay from someone reliable, what say you @FarmerJayhawk

Leaving was never really a consideration. Kid wants to be a great Jayhawk something fierce

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2020 Bubble Watch:

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2020 Bubble Watch:

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2020 Bubble Watch:

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2020 Bubble Watch:

I think re: winter sports you could treat them all as possible medical redshirts. If they want to come back, apply for a 5th year if they haven’t completed their season. For example, UNC did finish their year by losing in the ACC Tournament so nobody there should be eligible. Anyone whose season was cut short should he eligible and the programs should honor all signed LOI’s. So for us, Doke and Moss should be eligible to come back and we should also be able to add Bryce, Tyon, Gethro, and Lattrell. I don’t think I’d be in favor of giving all winter sports SA’s a redshirt for this year. The downstream effects for smaller AD’s would really hurt their finances. Just limit to seniors who had their year cut short.

I still wouldn't be in favor of extending this to winter sports athletes unless they were already previously eligible for a medical redshirt. It would be too much of a logistical pain in the butt to go through every roster of every sport to determine who would be eligible for something like that. Then you'd have to find out who would take up that offer and figure out what it would do to roster and scholarship numbers. To me, it's just not worth it because then you'll also get other coaches saying why didn't "Player X" get this opportunity as well?

Winter sports are either finished or more than 75% completed and at that point, it sucks, but move on.

I don’t think it would be that difficult, honestly. There’s not going to be many unknowns. Each AD knows who their seniors are and could apply for extra eligibility if they had games canceled. If they don’t want to come back, they can make that decision later. I think the key is just saying if you’re a senior and had games canceled you get an extra year. All signed LOI’s are still valid so rosters will expand for a year. I asked my sister about this yesterday and she said they could do it in hours, especially now that they all have some extra time on their hands.

Would it be fair if KU could bring back Isaiah Moss and UNC couldn't bring back Christian Keeling simply because of the schedule of the conference tournament?

UNC's season was done and KU's wasn't because of the timing and size of the ACC and Big 12 Tournaments so is it fair to tell Keeling that he can't come back because of of UNC having an unusually bad season? What if UNC had beaten Syracuse on Wednesday? Would you give someone like Keeling a full because of missing out on likely one game?

Another issue with your scenario would be Mitch Lightfoot. How would your plan affect someone in his position? A player who redshirts what would be his senior year due to PT issues. Would he have to redshirt another season? What would happen to player at a smaller school in the same boat, but the players in front of him return to school because of your plan and now that player is still stuck without PT. Does he get to redshirt again and now miss two years of games or is that player stuck behind those other players and have to transfer out if he wants to play?

In a situation like this, it needs to be a blanket rule to me. Either everyone (all classes) are granted an extra year of eligibility or nobody is. I don't believe you can cherry pick who gets that opportunity because of scheduling which is something beyond a player's control.

I think so. UNC’s season was over, so he didn’t get anything taken from him. Just use the principle that if your season was completed, you don’t get an extra year. Give Mitch a 6th year if he wants one. He’s going to get a master’s, so might as well let him finish it on scholarship.

I think that’s the case with a blanket rule anyway. If a freshman redshirted to get more playing time down the road you’ve backed up his clock a year if everyone gets another year. Does he take another redshirt year?

I would love it, but I’d be really, really surprised if he or Dot came back.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2020 Bubble Watch:

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2020 Bubble Watch:

I think re: winter sports you could treat them all as possible medical redshirts. If they want to come back, apply for a 5th year if they haven’t completed their season. For example, UNC did finish their year by losing in the ACC Tournament so nobody there should be eligible. Anyone whose season was cut short should he eligible and the programs should honor all signed LOI’s. So for us, Doke and Moss should be eligible to come back and we should also be able to add Bryce, Tyon, Gethro, and Lattrell. I don’t think I’d be in favor of giving all winter sports SA’s a redshirt for this year. The downstream effects for smaller AD’s would really hurt their finances. Just limit to seniors who had their year cut short.

I still wouldn't be in favor of extending this to winter sports athletes unless they were already previously eligible for a medical redshirt. It would be too much of a logistical pain in the butt to go through every roster of every sport to determine who would be eligible for something like that. Then you'd have to find out who would take up that offer and figure out what it would do to roster and scholarship numbers. To me, it's just not worth it because then you'll also get other coaches saying why didn't "Player X" get this opportunity as well?

Winter sports are either finished or more than 75% completed and at that point, it sucks, but move on.

I don’t think it would be that difficult, honestly. There’s not going to be many unknowns. Each AD knows who their seniors are and could apply for extra eligibility if they had games canceled. If they don’t want to come back, they can make that decision later. I think the key is just saying if you’re a senior and had games canceled you get an extra year. All signed LOI’s are still valid so rosters will expand for a year. I asked my sister about this yesterday and she said they could do it in hours, especially now that they all have some extra time on their hands.

I think re: winter sports you could treat them all as possible medical redshirts. If they want to come back, apply for a 5th year if they haven’t completed their season. For example, UNC did finish their year by losing in the ACC Tournament so nobody there should be eligible. Anyone whose season was cut short should he eligible and the programs should honor all signed LOI’s. So for us, Doke and Moss should be eligible to come back and we should also be able to add Bryce, Tyon, Gethro, and Lattrell. I don’t think I’d be in favor of giving all winter sports SA’s a redshirt for this year. The downstream effects for smaller AD’s would really hurt their finances. Just limit to seniors who had their year cut short.

@DoubleDD said in Donald Trump's Public Service Announcement:

Ah I love you guys. Nothing like voting for a president that doesn’t know where he is half the time or who he his talking too. Yet somehow you are going to teach me? Um I’ll pass sorry guys

I think that’s the current guy tbh

Everyone comes back, add Tyon, Mitch, and Bryce. We steamroll everyone.

@bskeet said in 2020 Bubble Watch:

Of the three who are likely to leave, this abrupt end probably impacts Moss the most. He never got to have a Malik Newman moment.

I hope he has the opportunity to come back.

@bskeet said in Kansas Suspends Athletic Events Indefinitely:

Get ready for the after shocks and ripple effects from the events of this week.

already there. It’s not any fun at all.

Appreciate your work @Texas-Hawk-10. This would’ve been a fun tournament.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Coronavirus Thread: Boy, guys. I really just don't know. Best to keep tabs.:

Think any of us will get it?

It’s probable one of us on the board gets it. It’s remote any of us don’t get through it.

First fatality in Kansas, along with a state of emergency from Gov. Kelly. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

@BShark said in Coronavirus Thread: Boy, guys. I really just don't know. Best to keep tabs.:

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I can't even...

Not remotely shocked. There’s a culture in the WH where aides keep the worst from Trump because he would freak out and not make any decision.

Just got off the phone with my sister who works in a G5 AD. There’s a lot of worry people are going to get furloughed since there’s no games or practices happening for awhile. There won’t be the big events in smaller college towns so the economies will suffer. This ish sucks.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:

Several school districts here in Houston have started postponing classes for the next week.

All of Ohio down for the next few weeks. Chapel Hill-Carrboro will postpone starting Monday.

NCAA does the right thing (lol). Everyone comes back. We roll 12 deep. Bring all comers.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:

Another heartbreaking story is Doke. The only way he was going to get to see his mom this spring was if KU reached the Final Four and could pay for his mom to fly in from Nigeria. I'd love to see the NCAA waive this rule for a one time exception and allow KU to fly Doke's mom in for his graduation.

Hope KU still has it!

This title feels so damn empty. I feel so shitty for all the seniors that worked so hard to get to this point and now it’s just... over. Goes for baseball, softball, track, basketball. The NCAA should do the right thing and give them all an extra year if they want and waive the scholarship cap for a year so no HS kids get left out in the cold.

Add the AAC shutting it down.

ACC also. Plus SEC for the next month.

@jayballer73 said in My NCAA Prediction . . .:

I'm gonna predict ther won't be any tourney in 2020. - I know sick sense of humor - - - sorry

Heh. I chuckled! Gallows humor.

It's over. https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/ncaa-cancels-remaining-winter-and-spring-championships ↗

Ohio authorities estimate 1% of the state is carrying it. That’s almost 120,000 people.

This is very, very bad. 🐦 View Tweet?s=20

@DoubleDD said in Donald Trump's Public Service Announcement:

I’m not sure why some are upset with the way Trump has handling this situation. Most of these procedures are already put in place. It’s just a matter of following the playbook. The key to handling the spread of the coronavirus, Really most be done at the local level. Trump has given the governors of Washington, and California everything they have asked for. Per the press conferences of these governors.

Heard a presser from KC today. All good stuff. The fight is going to be won with education and on the local levels. Any president can only do so much. The biggest thing a president can do is keep everybody calm. Something I think Trump is doing, and Obama did in his term.

I think not totally botching your Oval Office address and leaving Americans abroad and European officials totally confused about the conflicting information coming out of the WH is a good start.

I bet they’re figuring out logistics and working with the institutions to figure out if a suspension is even possible. If we wait a month we’ll be playing during some final exam weeks and graduations.

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Smart to keep a lid on this thing lest we become Italy. Can’t disagree with Long and Girod, though of course I’m horribly disappointed for Doke, Dot, Moss, and the rest of the crew who won’t get a chance to prove how good they were on the biggest stage.

@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:

@FarmerJayhawk ever read the boy who cried wolf? The more this happens and turns out to be not as serious, less and less will take it seriously. I’m really mad and not trying be a jerk but I still think this is getting a super crazy. I will agree to disagree with anyone my friend.

Of course. I think a disease that kills 1% of people it infects with hundreds of possible new cases every day is pretty serious, but that’s just me.

@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:

@FarmerJayhawk it’s morality was much higher from the get go. We will be laughing at this in a month and talking about how insanely stupid it was. Remember which president was in and got a pass on this. Also the media didn’t go completely bananas when that happened or west Nile or Ebola or Zika.

We’ll be happy we took measures to protect a bunch of people. It’s the problem with getting people to believe these things actually work. They see “oh look, nothing happened!” And think it was all just hype. The patterns are really, really bad. If we can save lives by canceling some entertainment temporarily let’s do it. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ ↗

@kjayhawks said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:

I was just googling H1N1 and it happened in 2009 and was considerably more deadly. Virtually everything when on business as usual. I still think we are blowing this way outta proportion. We have done nothing in previous pandemics that statistically are 20 and 30 times deadly than this.

Maybe it killed a lot more people because it was business as usual..?

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This thing is toast

@BShark said in Donald Trump's Public Service Announcement:

@FarmerJayhawk $20,000... I'd just dig a bunker in France or something.

I’d head to Nice and the vineyards, fam

And because either Trump can’t read or the White House didn’t understand its own response, we have ish like this happening. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21

And the KSU Wildcats sun possibly the last Big 12 game of the year.

@DoubleDD said in Donald Trump's Public Service Announcement:

@approxinfinity said in Donald Trump's Public Service Announcement:

Well look @kjayhawks . We're past just closing the borders. We are past just quarantining individuals.
The disease is spreading in the wild and we need a clearly defined social distancing policy, if not enforced then strongly recommended. He doesn't want to eat his words about having only 15 cases in the US when he was sticking his head in the sand. He needs to act like a leader and communicate the best policy, which is social distancing.

Problem is you are bashing the president. When the Dem’s party only plan is to listen to the scientist. From everything I’m reading and hearing the scientist and health workers agree with what Trump has done.

Other than allow testing outside the CDC’s purview, making those tests available (Germany has a good one), then announcing a ban on imports only for every related agency to say actually no he totally didn’t mean that. I’m not even sure Trump knows what the administration’s policy is. He’s not exactly geared to govern in crisis mode.