laVar Ball just indicated that he would have out coached Bill Self on his best day and that in the same period of time he would have had 25 conference titles and 15 National titles. He said his 2-1o record in the 7-9 year old category in his one season at the local YMCA is irrelevant because none of his kids were on that team.
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Looks like the Indiana media just endorsed Mason for POY over Biggie.
The only parallel I see is that Bragg dominated in HS but not so much in Division I college ball. Likewise, Juiston is dominating in JuCo but will he do the same at the next level?
Other than UCLA (right under 400 miles), Baylor is the closest at just over 1,000 miles, and KU is close to 1,200 miles away. In hindsight, not the best of locations geography-wise.
If the backcourt loses only Mason and adds Garret and Newman and even if Coach Self does not pick up another guard in the off-season...which he probably will anyway, KU is right back at having one of the best backcourt in college basketball.
I have read that several GMs were surprised Mario was not picked in the first round, a combination of teams picking and specific needs. He got a decent contract, better than what second round picks usually get.
Interesting note. Other than UCLA, I believe Baylor is the closest location to Phoenix followed by KU, amazingly enough closer than Oregon and Gonzaga.
I would think that being PAC 12 country, UCLA or Oregon would have the home crowd; without them it would be fairly neutral crowd. Phoenix is an easy flight from KC and most Southwest flights to the West Coas stop either in Phoenix or Salt Lake.
I remember saying aloud...please, please, please don't mouth off..😅
I am not sure if anyone posted that Washington has new coach. The new coach Mike Hopkins will retain assistant Will Conroy and add Tim O’Toole and Jason Hart. O’Toole and Hart were assistants in the Pac-12 and both have ties to Syracuse, where Hopkins had been assistant the past 21 years.
Apparently Porter had a 3 year contract for $300K per year...so that is the going price of a top recruit. I am sure MU will match that; interesting that with his kid(s) still young and unproven, he warranted only an assistant position on the women's team, I will guess at well under $100K. There is no question there is a blatant quid pro quo involved and the NCAA shoul be looking into...but I am sure they have their hands full checking if the next Diallo received a ham sandwich or God forbid, a new pair of sneakers.
Graham is already in most drafts as a second round pick and 3 more good games could certainly move him to the first round.
Amazing come back from 8 down by Xavier....they just wanted it more than Arizona. Glad to see them win even when to busts my brackets, probably most bracket...
This has to be the more complete game KU has played in a long time.
Looks like KU has been playing possum all season and now they have unveiled the real team and it is a something else. No mercy seems to be the motto, the teams goes for the kill and does not let up like they did earlier in the season.
I rather not...😄
I would also like those refs. End of the game and teams had 4 and 5 fouls...amazing.
Zag getting all the calls now...
Not impressed with either Oregon or Michigan.
This is the time when Coach Self does his magic...
KU would be playing UNC in the semifinals and the winner moves to the Finals.
Agree. this is one prospect that keeps getting better every single day..
Garret was selected the Texas Gatorade Player of the Year. BTW, he is listed as 6'-8" now.
You can always count on USC to have hot cheerleaders. :smirk:
KU has UNC's number in the Tournament. I would not mind playing them in the FF...which is very likely to happen anyway.
Spoken like a true lawyer...
Apparently 1 day afater he joined Fox Sports...
Cuteness? Surely you meant hotness...:smiley:
They are engineers...what do they know... :smiley:
I want Ed Hightower in this game. For those of you who do not remember, he was the ref at the '88 and '08 Finals...worked out well for KU.
Most office pools are won by secretaries who pick teams based on the color of the uniforms or the cuteness of the mascots.
Looks like Cyclone fans might actually make money on their investment.
It must have killed the Star to write the story about KU being the hottest ticket of any regional ↗
Seth Greenberg from ESPN is picking KU over Purdue. ↗
You are absolutely correct. In a private setting it could have been a funny joke; however, in a public setting it looked like a veiled attempt to humiliate Mason.
My father has dementia and resides in the Memory Unit of a retirement facility in Olathe, so yes, you could say I know a little about it.
I am sure there is a loophole. I believe you can if you hire the relative as a full time assistant; the idea is that a program would not waste a valuable position on someone that is no qualified.
If he had dementia he would not be working as a journalist.
Not the same thing. In Maui, you have to plan ahead because you continue playing even if you lose, you just play for a lower final placement. In the NCAA, you lose and you go home.
You are comparing apples and oranges.
Apparently Porter is asking a release from his LOI fro Washington. The article also indicates ↗ his younger brother decommited last week and the father is considering an offer to coach at MU...who could have predicted it. 😜
Now MU with Porter will be like Washington with Fultz...still a bottom feeder.
He probably did not think it through and thought it would be funny...it was not, it was offensive.
The AAC has 11 teams and added Navy as an associate school in football only to have 2 six team divisions. They could add WSU as a basketball only associate school in basketball only to have 2 six team divisions...they would not even have to re-start the football program.
I am guessing they would prefer to add a full member in both sports although Navy would be hard to let go because of its large following.
Lets's see how he does...maybe he will surprise us all.
First, you must have shot pool with chumps; you can see a hustler a mile away and you play accordingly.
Second, you are trying to apply a business principle that does not apply. In business you have to plan well ahead because if something does not work out you move to the next option or you create a flow chart where any decision has multiple outcomes and you navigate accordingly; it is called Dynamic Programing and it is part of any Operations Research Program, Likewise, coaches plan the entire schedule because they WILL play all these games. The soccer World Cup is this way because when you start you play in a a group stage of four teams and play 3 games and the top 2 teams of the 8 groups advance to what is called the knock out stage teams which becomes single elimination. You can lose in the group stage and still advance but the knockout stage is like the NCAA, i.e. you lose, you go home.
The NCAA Tournament is unique because if you lose one game you don't need to plan any further because you are going home. All the future planning in the world will not do you any good if you do not win the game at hand.
I am sure KU has staff that visits and deals on potential future games and gathers scouting information, game film and such ahead of time, but there is no way they will let the team think about anything other than the game at hand. As other have pointed out any team left is capable of beating any other team, I am sure Villanova, Duke, Louisville and other teams will vouch for this, and keep in mind that Purdue is the team that beat ISU...and ISU is the team that beat KU at AFH and ended the home winning streak. Thinking about the game after the one at hand is nuts, particularly when you will find out who you will be playing only 30 minutes before your own game.
I am sure the KU teams that lost to Bucknell, Bradley, VCU, Northern Iowa among others would tell you to concentrate on the game at hand.
I paid for most of my beer in college by shooting pool with players that kept thinking about the next shot instead of the one at hand. Before they shot I would often say...you have an easy shot but how about the next?...worked every time.
Now you've done it. The KC Star will be so upset that will stop reporting KU stories incorrectly and will start creating new fake ones instead. :smiley:
There is a fine line between selling the call and flopping and the more you do the first, the closer you get to the second and the line gets blurred; most every flopper starts selling the call and graduates into full flopping. I prefer Landen continues doing what the does and what is natural to him. At this stage, if he tries to sell the call it will end up looking like a flop and I rather steer clear of both.
I can't seem to find any credible report to the contrary but I will take your word for it. My last word on this thread and now back to KU basketball.
CBS is predicting ↗ 3 Big 12 teams in the Elite 8 and Kansas winning the Title.
They seem to have backpedaled on the trash talk quite a bit. Smart enough to know you don't provide your opponent bulletin board material.
I like this post...
It is not in Landen's nature to do it. When a BS foul is called on him he just looks down and shakes his head slightly but does not complain; he has not done before and he is not about to start now...I can respect that.
We are all entitled to our own opinions and as I indicated before, you can draw your own conclusions.. The individual that wrote that narrative is a respected business woman in her early 60s with an impeccable reputation. All I have seen from the critics is a video that pretty much depict what the post above said and nothing more. If there was more to it, don't you think the person video taping would have recorded the juicier parts? A reasonable person would think so.
Perhaps you can post a credible source with the other side of the story?