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@Crimsonorblue22 said in COVID Roll Call:

@FarmerJayhawk are you a hells angel?

I raised some hell as a youth but not so much anymore 😂

@rockchalkwyo said in COVID Roll Call:

There’s different people up there for sure. It’s better to go to the Black Hills in the fall or winter time. In the fall you can see really pretty colors in the trees plus less people.

We go to Hill City every winter before Christmas on the 1880 train. It’s a Santa train that goes to the North Pole. A few years ago I was glued to my phone watching us scrape by North Dakota State.

I went through in mid-March and it was incredible. My mom loves that train too!

I guess you gotta shoot your shot

Very odd story

@mayjay pretty close. I was in Custer. The city was packed to the gills (a few thousand in a city with less than 2000 permanent residents) with more to come for the rally this week and next. It was great to go up and see family but we probably took some unnecessary risks

@Crimsonorblue22 😅😅😅. My big mistake was hanging out among all the tourists in the SD Black Hills. That’s a… unique demographic

@Crimsonorblue22 said in COVID Roll Call:

@FarmerJayhawk oh no! 😰 so sorry! This strain is so contagious. That's a pretty high fever. None of my friends have had one that high. Did you get paxlovid or any other treatment? I heard they help. Feel bad for you. I don't think vaccines do much for this strain. Just not as serious. I wear a mask in public, probably saved me at school. Keep us posted.🙏

Thanks! I don’t qualify for treatment since I have a healthy BMI and have never smoked. My doc said people usually shake this one pretty quick so I should be fine. This is what I get for flying all around the country last week 😂

I avoided it for over two years, but alas. It comes for us all. I'm so glad I'm boosted, or this would be very, very bad for me. Had a 102.4 fever this morning and I sound like I had gravel for breakfast.

A few items:

All newcomers are on campus. McCaskill was the last one, because he only graduated last week.

Jalon will start, but Bean has really improved. I’ve heard he’s actually outplayed Jalon the first few days.

There won’t be that many position battles thankfully. Tight End, LB, and Corner are the ones I’m watching. There’s a ton of talent in the TE and LB rooms, it’s about finding the right dude for what they do. If I had to guess, Noa wins the TE1 gig, and the starting LBs will be Young, McCaskill, and Rich Miller. I’m nervous about corner. There’s a lot of bodies, just need a few to be consistent. If we see a lot of safeties (Dye, Paul, McGary) move to corner that’s not ideal.

Others with some competition are DT and SDE. Hopefully someone displaces Malcolm Lee.

Addendum: I’m begging literally everyone to read a book about Kansas that’s not that garbage What’s the Matter with Kansas. It’s so, so, so bad. Red State Religion by Robert Wuthnow is orders of magnitude better.

Has always amused me the left wants to strictly regulate every human activity except like two.

It also shouldn’t be a big surprise. Kansas has a very unique history and politics on abortion and really isn’t that conservative a state for the most part.

@mayjay said in Conference realignment:

@FarmerJayhawk said in Conference realignment:

It is an academic institution first and foremost after all!

I thought KU only exists to irritate the hell out of the entire state of Missouri?

We’re the Gondor to their Mordor tbh

@jayballer67 said in No matter what team you pull for:

@FarmerJayhawk said in No matter what team you pull for:

If I’m Hosmer I’m making the teams work the deal out without me. No way I’m leaving lovely San Diego and a loaded team for DC (which I love, but it’s no SD) and a from the foundation rebuild.

pretty much how it turned out. Hosmer said no really doesn't matter they said. Soto still a Padre. San Diego giving up theit top international prospect 18 yr old kid throws a 102 mph slide - - 102 mph fast ball. - -Talking about trading Hosmer to the Cubs for their catcher now

Jokes! He’s headed to Boston. No idea what the Red Sox are doing but happy to see them suck

If I’m Hosmer I’m making the teams work the deal out without me. No way I’m leaving lovely San Diego and a loaded team for DC (which I love, but it’s no SD) and a from the foundation rebuild.

@drgnslayr said in Conference realignment:

@FarmerJayhawk

So let me see if I have this correct... the academic reputation of our school will be determined by what conference we are in, which is being determined by sports media marketing wonks and their valuation of conference media contracts?

Opposite causal direction! We have to be better academically (among other things) to get into the Big Ten. Which will also enhance our reputation. Being in the same league as Michigan, Northwestern, and Wisconsin vs. Baylor, OSU, and Texas Tech will help quite a bit too.

And just cards on the table here, I’ve argued for a long time the B1G is best for KU even if we still suck at football and basketball gets a bit worse. It is an academic institution first and foremost after all!

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Conference realignment:

@bskeet said in Conference realignment:

For Kansas, the question is: Are we better off (long term) as a big fish in a little pond or a little fish in The B1G pond?

That's an easy question, the Big 10. Both athletically and academically. Athletically, if KU joined, TV revenues would essentially double once KU got full shares if the Big 10 ends up anywhere near the $100 million per school number floating out there. Even if it's in the $75-80 million range, that's still significantly more than the Big 12 even if KU doesn't get full revenue immediately like Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers went through. That extra money helps fund renovations to Memorial Stadium, helps fund NIL programs, and helps increase funding coaching and recruiting budgets for olympic sports programs which helps those programs of which KU is pretty good at several such as volleyball, soccer, and track and field.

Academically, KU is far better off in the Big 10 than the Big 12. KU is number 2 or 3 currently in prestige in the league (Texas is better and TCU is as well depending on metrics used). KU would actually be near the bottom of the Big 10 in regards to academic prestige, but being in that group of AAU programs would help significantly elevate KU's academic standing.

This doesn't mean that KU should act like Missouri a decade ago in trying to get into the Big 10, but working to get a Big 10 invite should be a top priority of Girod and Goff. The biggest thing on the athletic side KU could do is to move forward with Memorial Stadium renovations regardless of where of where the football team at this point. Those renovations would show a long term commitment to growing the football program and making it consistently competitive which is something the Big 10 would be looking at.

I don't know enough about the academic side of things to say what KU needs to focus on to make themselves more attractive to the Big 10, but I'm sure @FarmerJayhawk could give some insight on that front as to what KU could do academically to make themselves more attractive to the Big 10.

Agree on call counts, except for perhaps the last part, idk about my insight but I’ll give it a go. First thing is increasing admissions standards. Chancellor Gray Little got the ball rolling but KU still accepts 90+% of applicants, and it’s not because Kansans are especially qualified. We should strive for metrics that get us to 60-70%. That would increase the quality of the student body and attract better faculty. Better faculty —> more research $ —> on and on. KU has some terrific graduate programs, but not the types of cash cows that make us super impressive in Big Ten land. KU Med’s NCI Comprehensive Classification is a huge start. Just need more in pharmacy, engineering, et al.

Also Chris Johnson is good and we should be happy he’s a Jayhawk

@BShark said in 2023 Recruiting:

@Crimsonorblue22 Bit of a big one on the ballot this time too...

Man that 109th House primary is a BARN BURNER

@rockchalkjayhawk said in IARP update:

@FarmerJayhawk said in IARP update:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in IARP update:

@drgnslayr said in IARP update:

I think the key moving forward is to realize there are still rules governing players and universities. The rules have changed... but we have to abide by those rules.

Makes me wonder... since college basketball is so competitive... what are the new areas to cheat in and give your school an advantage? There has to be that line again.

Anyone like to comment on that?

It’s still all about “boosters”. That’s the gray area. How you define booster in the days of NIL is baffling to me.

Boosters still cannot recruit nor funnel money to recruits.

But, they are setting up shell companies to do just that. How do you defend that if you’re the NCAA?

KUAD is making a big push to RCJH, a newish c3 that exists solely for NIL. Have some spare cash laying around and want it to go to the welfare of our SA’s, it’s a great choice and the one preferred by KUAD*

*unofficially

I understand that, but I don’t understand that.

If I’m a guy who went to KU, donate money to KU in many ways, then give money to this RCJH fund, aren’t I a “booster”?

Boosters can give to current players for NIL. The way they’re getting around is saying hey these are the types of opportunities we offer players like you wink wink

Texas Tech is a good example of how this works in practice. Donors have pledged to provide all football players a $20k annual stipend. They’ll absolutely use that on the recruiting trail and say hey kid, come here and it’s $20k in your pocket as long as you’re at Tech. So they aren’t providing inducements per se, but that’s a big part of their recruiting pitch.

One common theme through C/O 23 scouts is language like “needs to keep progressing” and “has the tools” because these kids (through no fault of their own) are way behind.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in IARP update:

@drgnslayr said in IARP update:

I think the key moving forward is to realize there are still rules governing players and universities. The rules have changed... but we have to abide by those rules.

Makes me wonder... since college basketball is so competitive... what are the new areas to cheat in and give your school an advantage? There has to be that line again.

Anyone like to comment on that?

It’s still all about “boosters”. That’s the gray area. How you define booster in the days of NIL is baffling to me.

Boosters still cannot recruit nor funnel money to recruits.

But, they are setting up shell companies to do just that. How do you defend that if you’re the NCAA?

KUAD is making a big push to RCJH, a newish c3 that exists solely for NIL. Have some spare cash laying around and want it to go to the welfare of our SA’s, it’s a great choice and the one preferred by KUAD*

*unofficially

Update: Jordan Medley (WR), Nick Martinez (OL), and Malik Johnson (RB) retired.

At this point it’s like prosecuting a dude for having a little weed on him in downtown Denver circa 2007.

Dennis Evans is coming for Late Night. Will be one to watch for sure.

Days like today I miss HEM coming here and saying why this is THE sign we’re about to get nailed to the wall and Self should’ve been gone years ago. Good times.

Take a vacation to not recruit a historically bad class? Idk the wisdom of it since it’ll depend on whether we get any credit for it from the IARP, but right now I’m inclined to say it’s a big old nothingburger. KU is very tight lipped about it.

It's still early yet, so not a ton to report. If I had to wager, I'd say there will be 4-5 spots open (Martin, McCullar, Wilson, a wing, maayyybe Yesufu since he'll graduate). So based on that, you take a big, a wing, and 2-3 other skill guys. The line gets fuzzy between wing and combo guard, so it might be useful just to categorize as big, wing, PG. Mikey is a take anytime. I believe they'd take Chatman or Johnson right now too. TJ Power is kind of a mystery right now since he went supernova. If we get Mikey I think you'll see us go back to two guards, two wings, and a big.

@BShark said in 2023 Recruiting:

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I am now actually taking Tang seriously.

I’m not until he wins some games. A 60th ranked player in 23 is more like a fringe top 100 in stronger years

@Kcmatt7 said in Big 12 Expansion:

@FarmerJayhawk said in Big 12 Expansion:

@bskeet said in Big 12 Expansion:

I’m a bit perplexed why Cal-Berkeley and Stanford are not considered in at least some scenario.

Honestly, if I look at Pac12 markets of value, I think you have to pick Wash, Stanford, Cal and Arizona. If I could add 2 more it would be Oregon and Colorado.

Those six would add prestige and major markets across the west.

Cal and Stanford want no part of the Big 12

Where do you think those two end up? Seems like they're in a really weird spot.

I'm guessing Stanford goes to the Big Ten. Fits their criteria in terms of institutional profile (great academics, selective, successful Olympic sports, parter with ND). They're also so well off financially (almost a $40b endowment) they can plausibly go independent in football and park Olympic sports in the Big Ten, WCC, or Big West

Cal is the weird one. I could see them piecing together a "west coast Ivy" by joining the Big West (which is mostly UC System schools) and some other oddballs (maybe Zags for hoops?). But they're in a really tough spot. Nobody really wants them because they're a nightmare for travel and frankly don't fit culturally anywhere except maaayyyybe the ACC. There is something to the coastal elitism there. It's more rank than usual at Berkeley. I think there's a better chance they go independent than join the Big 12.

@bskeet said in Big 12 Expansion:

I’m a bit perplexed why Cal-Berkeley and Stanford are not considered in at least some scenario.

Honestly, if I look at Pac12 markets of value, I think you have to pick Wash, Stanford, Cal and Arizona. If I could add 2 more it would be Oregon and Colorado.

Those six would add prestige and major markets across the west.

Cal and Stanford want no part of the Big 12

@bskeet said in Big 12 Expansion:

ESPN reported that the Big12 told the Pac12 that there was not enough revenue to warrant a merger.. so allegedly, they have stopped talks.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34264518/sources-big-12-pac-12-partner-talks-officially-end ↗

Yeah.

Time to go full send. Add the top 6 (4 corners + Oregon and Washington) and tell the rest they’re on their own.

@jayballer67 said in Big 12 Expansion:

So it's looking like qw will know nothing for some time to come.

Not so fast my friend! https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/notre-dame-targeting-75-million-annual-media-rights-payout-in-quest-to-remain-independent/ ↗

@Kcmatt7 agree on all counts. I think the only position we even might be worst than last year is WR. Even though the early reports from the MN transfer are really positive. They’ve done a masterful job of reworking the LB and DB rooms. I’ve heard Panagos is reworking the DL scheme to produce more penetration.

TN Tech and Duke are absolute must wins. WV is definitely winnable. I can’t point to another one as a definite can win, but the bottom half of the league just kinda looks the same to me.

I think I have everything updated. The big picture: 78 on scholarship, 101 total for this upcoming year. I still have Casey as a walk-on. Will update if they do one of those feel good reveals for fall semester. The other change is I've heard Mason Ellis will be a 2022 enrollee, not a greyshirt. For reference, last year we broke fall camp with 83ish.

Also, I'm counting everyone post-2020 as having a Covid year left. For example, I'm counting Jalon as a true sophomore and Logan as a true junior. For those in the class of 2021 or later, they do not get a Covid year. Therefore Devin Neal is a true sophomore. To make things as clear as possible, I've added a variable on HS class so you can see more clearly how experienced the roster is since listed class doesn't provide as much info as it used to.

Now, tables! Brought to you by Stata for the nerds.
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The takeaway here is anyone who compared the portal this year to Decided Schematic Advantage and the "dream class" is full of it. There are only 23 true juniors or older if you look at class. I believe Chuck took that many 2x2s just in that one year, and many didn't show up. All these guys are enrolled and on campus (with maybe 1-2 exceptions). Like I said above, that doesn't quite tell you everything given the Covid year is still messing things up. This is HS class and year in the program. There's a glut of guys in the classes of 20 and 21, so they'll have to manage that around 2024-25. But, you can see this is still a young roster, with 52/77 having 3 years or less in the program.
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Lastly, by position. I'm a bit worried about the numbers at DB and DT. We will lose at bare minimum 2 DB's (Paul and McGary) and 1 DT (Burt), but likely more (Logan, Eddie Wilson, Caleb Sampson). I bet we go portal there again. Other than that, there aren't a huge number of needs. I do expect them to churn some guys out and sign a big 2023 HS class. 7 under 85 + 10ish graduating + regular attrition gets you to 25 spots for 2023.
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@jayballer67 said in Big 12 Expansion:

Well read this from TOS Greg Swaim tweeted out : " The Big 12 has made their offer to the six Schools in the Pac 12 very clear and has detailed Fox TV numbes to go with it. - - Understand that this offer has expiration date of 30 days. - - -Farmer , what you think ? - -any validity to this have you heard anything ?

I know from reading boards still lots of Arizona - -Arizona St and Utah fans thinking the best move would be for them to join Big 12 - -just don't know how much truth there is in this but on the other hand I've never heard of the guy but same goes FOR NOT being true.

Read an article saying that ESPN owns the shabang with the ACc and that the PAC 12 & the ACC hooking up really wouldn't make much of difference money wise. - let me hear your thoughts farmer

The Big 12 is trying to get the 6 attainable big dogs in the PAC: 4 corners + Oregon and Washington. I don’t think Stanford and Cal are interested.

Some PAC 12 presidents would much rather be associated with the ACC than Big 12. Which is fair. The ACC is a terrific academic league with UNC, dook, UVA, GA Tech. All well above anything the Big 12 has to offer. Smart financially? No. But they have huge endowments and can sacrifice some revenue for academics. KU? Not so much.

Heard a scoop tonight. Once the Royals move downtown, the Chiefs will likely move to the Kansas side. The likely site is around K10/K7.

I’m not a Chiefs fan or KC guy so idk if it’s a good or bad thing, but that’s what I heard from someone who knows Clark quite well.

Depends on the game. If I'm hunting hogs, you bet I want >10 rounds in the mag. Deer? Just 10 will suffice. Now, not that many people hunt with a semi-auto anyway. I prefer an old fashioned bolt-action due to weight.

Bans won't do much of anything because the cat is out of the bag. There are anywhere from 400-500 million firearms in America right now. The famous Australian buyback program (because it was "mandatory") only clawed back 25% of weapons and the evidence that it accomplished much of anything besides light a bunch of taxpayer money on fire is relatively weak (https://melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/downloads/working_paper_series/wp2008n17.pdf). ↗ Now, that's much more difficult to extrapolate to the U.S. because 1) there are MANY more firearms and 2) we don't know who owns what. That makes any straight up ban or confiscation inoperable unless you abandon the 4th Amendment (no thx).

And, the gun issue broadly has two prongs. One, the mass shootings we see in schools and at large gatherings. Two, the normal, every day gun crime. These two issues require significantly different policy responses. The second is more straightforward. If you really want to do something about it, you have to attack the illegal handgun market. You have to prosecute offenders for possession and straw buyers. We don't really prosecute straw purchasers now. Why? They're usually family members or intimate partners of the person who can't legally purchase. So you could be throwing a mother into prison and the kids in foster care. And prosecuting mostly young, black men for gun crime. I'm not sure anyone is comfortable really looking at these costs and doing what it takes.

The mass shooting thing is much more complicated. Red flag laws might make some sense. I'm interested to see what states do with the additional federal money that's coming to develop these programs. I also worry about violation of civil liberties (the ACLU agrees here). So the devil's in the details there. Related, the new legislation puts juvenile records into the NICS system for buyers between 18 and 21. This makes some sense vs.
a ban on them buying weapons. It catches those with violent convictions and protects Mr. Smith who wants a handgun for protection. A waiting period also makes sense in some circumstances.

The biggest thing BY FAR from the available evidence is restricting who has access to firearms within the home. Kids without safety instruction are without question carry the largest risk of an adverse outcome with a firearm. Ensuring adults who can lawfully own firearms are required to safely store and maintain their firearms will reduce death and injury by more than any of the sexy proposals out there. https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy.html ↗

@drgnslayr said in Big 12 Expansion:

@jayballer67

Why wouldn't they schedule in a team that would lift their SOS, regardless of the time of year? Their current conference is nothing but a joke anyways. lol

Nobody is scheduling a random non-con game in February. The money would be terrible, Self would leave, and the program would effectively die. There would be no incentive for, say, Purdue to play KU in February. You’d have to disrupt the regular league schedule or add a game midweek. Which the conferences just won’t do and 3 games in a week just for fun would be not intelligent scheduling. There are good reasons why the last independent joined a conference in 2016. Go look at NJIT’s schedule that last year. Sometimes they played back to back nights, sometimes it was almost 2 weeks between games. Good luck selling season tickets or recruiting when you have no idea when or who we’re playing until the summer.

And that’s not even going into where you park other sports. Or we just drop all but football, basketball, and women’s rowing to meet Title IX compliance. I know some want to drop football and be Gonzaga of the Big East. Which would involve an almost 90% cut to tv revenue. Good luck keeping Self happy, being competitive with NIL, and keeping facilities upgraded with less than $5m per year coming in from TV.

@jayhawks2010 said in Big 12 Expansion:

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So we were third in revenue. Way higher then other big 12 teams. AAU membership and we have a lot of the KC market, which sure isn’t huge but still a decent market that the big ten doesn’t have…. I guess I don’t get how Bball doesn’t play into this. So all of these TV deals that are driving this are only football related. Literally one of the most televised things in the winter is college Bball. College football doesn’t carry the whole winter. So the UK vs KU Bball matchups have no value over a mediocre Iowa football team vs ucla football? Like I get getting the best football you can, but duke ku etc have such a Bball following. How would that not drive the needle a bit for the TV contracts, to include KU vs ucla, KU MsU etc

An additional point, the conferences own all the college football revenue pie. The NCAA owns the most valuable property: the NCAA Tournament. Once the conferences get ahold of that you’ll see KU’s value skyrocket.

@drgnslayr said in Big 12 Expansion:

I openly admit to having little knowledge in these conference shakeouts. But my gut says to NOT PANIC and get into death deals. I feel like being part of a super conference is an absolute disaster. No more solid conference home/away round robins stinks. And the answer to split up conference by region is not the answer. I know viewing numbers add up to cash dollars.... but in the long run I like the strength of identity. And though the Big 12 has changed flavors it still has some bones left that connects history and region.

Just look at our rivalry with Mizzou. It was building into one of the top college basketball rivalries before it dissolved. And now that it has been realized how important it was... they are trying to rebuild it. Not such an easy task... though we see the attempt.

The big $$$ in our conference ALWAYS related to rivalries. Am I the only one who remembered when the Big 8 largely controlled college football with NU/OU games? Had we "kept it real" and stuck together through all of this conference shift garbage we would own college sports today, regardless of the viewing numbers because those big games were MONSTER games that attract the entire USA!

I miss those days... and I hate the idea that we become some kind of begging orphan sister to another conference we have ZERO identity with.

Hey.... screw it... let's go independent. Use our football program strictly as a revenue source finding opponents who fill stadiums and wanting an easy win. Stop dreaming like Kansas football is coming back to something real.

Our basketball program can start looking more like the Harlem Globetrotters.... traveling the nation playing ranked teams only. Talk about gaining a recruiting edge... we become the "elite of the elite" by only playing Top 20-25 teams. The money will be outrageous. Our entire schedule will be on ESPN. Our SOS will guarantee us a 1-seed every March... and we won't get stuck playing in stupid conference tournaments before March Madness. We take time to heal and rest before we go into the big tournament to DOMINATE!

If we are going to leave our history/identity behind, then lets really leave it and go for a real cash in! These super conferences are absolutely stupid!

Nobody will pay jack for an independent basketball program, and we won’t be able to get games from January on. Conferences and the networks won’t bend over backwards to schedule breaks so KU can come play in their sandbox. It would be the death of KU sports as nationally relevant.

@jayballer67 said in Big 12 Expansion:

@FarmerJayhawk said in Big 12 Expansion:

There’s a meeting Tuesday between the Big 12 and the Arizonas, Utah, and Colorado. This could get done quickly

Dang Farmer thats good news hopefully. Thanks for the insight. The Big 12 just can't afford to sit still and do nothing, I'm hoping this is some SERIOUS TALKS. - -I think if we could get together with the Arizona Schools and add the other two it would at least put us on more stable ground. No wouldn't be some mega conference but we would at least put us on more stable ground..

Your a breath of fresh air on this Sunday Evening Farmer, may not be the ideal situation but we have to DO SOMETHING. - -Like I posted earlier, off the Arizona boards most their fans figure it's pretty much a given they come to the Big 12. If indeed this got done would move us to a 16 team conference

Hoping it’s a kind of quasi-merger and we don’t even entertain bringing Oregon St and Wazzu unless it means getting their big brothers.

There’s a meeting Tuesday between the Big 12 and the Arizonas, Utah, and Colorado. This could get done quickly

Grabbed the ironically named Dominick Puni, a 6’6 320 pound tackle from UCM. He hasn’t played in a couple years (injury last year, no MIAA season in 2020) but did start every game for them at LT in 2019. 3 years to play 2. Wild thing is he committed in March and just… didn’t tell anyone

No wonder people say the ACC grant of rights is ironclad. There’s no mechanism in the deal for getting out of it! https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2022/07/01185531/ACC-Grant-of-Rights-1.pdf ↗

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Big 12 Expansion:

@FarmerJayhawk so no way we get invited?

There's definitely a way. If the B1G goes to 20+, we're a strong candidate.

@jayballer67 said in 2023 croots:

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@jayballer67 said in 2023 croots:

You know after this past weekend feeling better for 2023. Had a really good weekend. -now we just have to hang onto them. - -We have another WR that we are I thik in good shape with - -talk is he may even announce where he is going today , if not today but soon.

Got a big time Rb coming for visit this weekend 2023 starting to look like could be good yr for us

HS recruiting has really gone better than I expected so far. This staff can absolutely close the deal.

I agree, and we did get the wide receiver Kubecka - -sweet pick up. - hoping for good things from the RB this weekend. Another recruit announcing on the 1st of July either us or Washington st - -think you mentioned him though

For sure. Yeah, that's Logan Brantley. I'm 90% sure he announces for us.

Update: he did!

Tht's good to hear things starting to roll. -Would love to get the running back - - -High - on the roster. - - Chances Farmer ?

He committed to UTSA today. Which surprised everyone!

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2023 croots:

@jayballer67 said in 2023 croots:

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2023 croots:

@jayballer67 said in 2023 croots:

You know after this past weekend feeling better for 2023. Had a really good weekend. -now we just have to hang onto them. - -We have another WR that we are I thik in good shape with - -talk is he may even announce where he is going today , if not today but soon.

Got a big time Rb coming for visit this weekend 2023 starting to look like could be good yr for us

HS recruiting has really gone better than I expected so far. This staff can absolutely close the deal.

I agree, and we did get the wide receiver Kubecka - -sweet pick up. - hoping for good things from the RB this weekend. Another recruit announcing on the 1st of July either us or Washington st - -think you mentioned him though

For sure. Yeah, that's Logan Brantley. I'm 90% sure he announces for us.

Update: he did!

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2022 Crootin:

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@FarmerJayhawk said in 2022 Crootin:

I could not be a bigger fan of this offer. Could be done sooner rather than later. I've been pushing for it some, since full disclosure I have some personal involvement with Louisiana's football program. McCaskill is a very good player (2nd team all Sun Belt) and an even better kid. Would immediately upgrade the locker room and product on the field. 🐦 View Tweet?s=21&t=Jz3uJ87i0LukY6uO9o10hg

what position does this kid play ? - -we got a shot ?+

Really good shot, he's a LB. He's tight with Rich Miller and Marvin Grant. Nice little Detroit pipeline we're developing. Coach Simpson is gonna be a star.

Update on McCaskill. He’s visiting this weekend and if he leaves it’s only to pack his stuff and move to Lawrence.

Update: GOT HEEEEEM

@jayballer67 said in Big 12 Expansion:

I think chances are that the Big 1 and the Pac 12 merge when it's all said and done , & I think we are going to see this put into action fairly quickly

The B1G isn’t ready to move on Oregon and Washington. Waiting on Notre Dame. The Big 12 should be pulling every string to get the top of the PAC.

Coaches and team personnel are almost always independent contractors. If this was a real issue UCLA would be in trouble. I believe Iowa and Ohio are on the list