If that is the case, does the LeBron legacy takes a huge hit? Wade has won a title without LeBron (with Shaq) but all of LeBron's titles have been with Wade...and Bosch...and Mario...If the Heats wins a title without LeBron, what does it say about James and Wade? Interesting...
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Indeed, we can now root for Mario and not feel bad about it.
How embarrassing will it be when San Antonio sweeps Cleveland in next season's finals? or will Cleveland even make it to the finals with a POd Miami Heat and a solid Chicago Bulls in the way?
Yes...but will the Kombi include the original aftermarket gasoline driven heater? You know that in Minnesota you will need all the spare heat you can get...and I am not talking about Bosch and Wade.
I will guess the younger posters will have no idea of what we are talking about..
Well...statistics can be miss leading.
It is one thing to look at the regular season finish in football like you would the regular season finish in Basketball and the Title game like you would the Conference Tournament in basketball and a different one to just look at the last game. If you look a the regular season minus title game, Saban's teams finished first in their division 2 out of 5 years at LSU and 4 out of 7 years at Alabama; that is 6 first place finishes in 12 years in the SEC. BTW, he also won one SEC Tournament at LSU. So, the success he had during the regular season led to the National Titles.
Also, it is very difficult to compare a football season with a basketball season.
Football: at most 14 games. If the team has a great season and finishes at or near the top it has a good chance to play and win one game to get a National Championship. Lose one game (conference or not) and you chances of playing for the national title are greatly diminished, lose two and you have little or no chance; so, excellence during the season is critical to have a shot at the National Title.
Basketball: 30+ games (KU has averaged 36 games during the Bill Self Tenure. If the team has a great season and finishes near the top it gets a chance, along with 67 other teams, to play and win 6 games to get a Championship. You can lose several conference games and not win the regular or post season titles and not be ranked in the top 25 and still get a shot at the title, like KU did in 1988. If the title would be defined in one game played by the top 2 teams, how many times would KU gas been in that game?
Football; 30+ starting players and 40+ see action during the game. If one starting player get injured you lose 2-3% of your starters; although some loses are bigger than others.
Basketball: 5 starting players and 8-9 see action during the game. If one starting player gets injured you lose 20% of your starters and the effect is much greater (see Embiid last season).
While a title in either sport is hard to get, the paths to the conference and national titles are quite different
Just sayin'...slow Saturday. :)
Cal is the only coach that has had not one but 2 Final Four appearances (and one entire season at Memphis) vacated by the NCAA; this means that he has left EVERY school he has coached on probation. If I were a betting man I would bet that after he leaves UK (or maybe before) there will be some more vacated games.
I will give him credit for this, he is smart enough to delegate the dirty work to his acolytes and not get caught personally. I would say that Calipari and UK basketball, one of the most penalized and corrupt programs in college sports, deserve each other. Here is a little taste of it...
Now, that was funny...
I know a lot of people that are tired of the barrage of ice water challenge videos.; even the newscasts are full of them. I personally wish they would stop wasting water and energy and just donate the money. Just my personal opinion.
Why would any team in the NBA want to hire the squid? He coached in the NBA for 3 years and his record is 72 wins and 112 losses, and a .391 overall winning percentage.
The main advantage he has in college is that he can "magically" provide "benefits" under the table that other coaches cannot or are not willing to do; there is a reason why he calls himself "Cal the magician," since he can magically make test scores change and money appear in player's families pockets. In the NBA every team can pay players so the main advantage he has in college does not exist in the NBA, and when his coaching ability alone is considered, it just does not measure up.
In other forums poster use /s and s/ to surround sarcasm as in:
/s Sarcastic comment here s/
Isn't it pretty lame to give yourself a nickname? I think "the squid" fits him to a tee.
I hope they look at the RussRob- Mario Chalmers combo, the best stealing duo I can remember.
Although he looks skinny, he is really not that skinny. At 240 lbs. he is about 5 pounds heavier than Withey, about the same weight of Aldrich, and Lucas, 5 lbs. lighter than Markiff and Michelson and 10 pound lighter than Embiid, KU's recent and most comparable players. Unless he has problems putting weight like Withey did, I can see Hudy getting him to 250 in his first season.
This is funny...
Calipari was on the Mike Francesa show and after he left Francesa commented that Calipari is not a great "Xs and Os" coach and Calipari calls back to argue he is. Super funny and completely embarrassing for the squid.
Link to article and audio... ↗
He claims that he is called "Cal the magician"...and obvious link to the wizard of Westwood, that is John Wooden for all you younger posters.
It will break the monotony of a slow news day...
...so, they will raise the price of Under Armour gear and yuppies and trendy suburbanites will pay $50 for jersey that is worth $10 and $150 for a $30 pair of Kevin Durant shoes without thinking twice and feel they are getting a bargain compared to the $200 Nike version.
The major schools in which I have earned at least half a dozed credits include American University, Georgetown. University of Maryland, University of Dayton and University of Kansas; so I have pretty good grasp of how most schools operate. Most of the graduate teaching I have done was at KU. The students that took my classes will tell you that it was one of the toughest classes they took and yet one of the most rewarding; if you did not know the subject, all books and notes would do you no good. The purpose was not to teach them how to memorize but to think and reason logically, which they did. I have yet to find a circumstance in real life where my boss told me (or I told on of my engineers) here is a project, you have one hour to find a solution and you cannot use any books or manual or notes; it just does not happen in real life. Emergency projects do happen and in that situation normally is all hands on deck, using all available means...this is how the real world works. Extending the concept this is the equivalent of players needing the playbook at the end of the season; if you do not know the system by then, the playbook will do you no good.
You ought to get out more and talk to people outside our area; maybe you do. Just about after every game that is broadcast nationally, I get calls from friends, particularly in the East Coast, and they all comment about the "streak." Maybe it does not impress you but it surely does impress a lot of basketball savvy fans all over.
Look at my previous posts. Although KU has won 10 titles in a row, 4 of those were shared with other teams, which means they were at least 4 other teams equally as good as KU. Last season ISU finished the season and post-season ranked higher than KU, the year before KSU finished the season tied with KU and ranked #12, the year before Missouri finished right behind KU in the conference and was ranked ahead of KU at the end of the regular season when the conference finished the post-season with 3 teams in the top 10...I could go on, but you get the point. While KU has won 10 titles in a row, there have been other teams that had equally good season during this time and KU has by no means completely dominated the conference, which makes the titles that much better.
Last, look at the Power Rankings for the conference for the last 10 years and you will see that the big 12 has consistently been ranked in the top 3. I am at a loss to explain why some people want to downgrade the achievement that 10 titles represents and the conference at large. Fans of conference such as the SEC are constantly crowing about how good they are even when their entire success is due to two teams and they routinely send only 3-4 teams (out of 16) to the tournament and just a the year before last, one of its top two teams lost to Robert Morris in the first round of the NIT...now, that is lame.
Again, I am not saying the tournament is all luck but a dose of it goes a long ways towards getting you a championship. Look at the '88 team, that tournament can be replayed another 100 times and KU does not win it again; it took a lot of luck and inspired play to get that title and a little luck and tenacious play to get the '08 title. On the other hand, KU has been on the other end, where it could have won the title at least 2-3 times with Williams and a couple more with Coach Self, but it was not to be...had the championship been best of three, KU has a least 2 more titles.
I have not taken any college classes lately, but even back then when I did, many if not most, professors did not weigh the final any more than the other test given throughout the term; in fact, in many classes, the lowest score was dropped and if you did well in all previous tests, you did not even have to take the final. When I was teaching graduate Engineering courses, every test I gave was open book, open notes and the final was a project student worked on throughout the semester and weighed accordingly... pretty much what we do in the real world, something many college professors are clueless about.
If KU ties or breaks UCLA record, I am sure it will the talked about for a long time and would be considered one of the greatest feats in all sports. Even now, during every single broadcast of KU games, there are references to the conference title streak, while the past championships are hardly ever mentioned. In short, no, I would not trade the 10 title streak for another championship, since another national championship is more likely with a winning streak (luck notwithstanding) than without one. I guess we just agree to disagree, but just because we do I do not need to call you crazy.
First, it is not my job to absolve teams of all or any responsibility, that is between the team and its coach.
Second, The Gonzaga West Coast Conference streak is not nearly as impressive as KU's since the West Coast Conference routinely send one or maybe two teams to the tournament where the Big 12 routinely sends at least 5 or 7 last year. Last season, the Big 12 had at one time or another 7 teams ranked in the top 25 while the West Coast Conference with also 10 teams had how many? One? The level of competition is not the same; it is not even close.
The best indicator of team and conference strength are those calculated by analysts like KenPom and Sagarin, among others, that take into consideration not only what opponents a team has but also the opponent's opponents and their records, margin of victory and so on. The percentage of teams a conference sends to the tournament and their seeding is another good indicator of Conference strength.
I personally believe that 64 teams is way, way too many, with many of the automatic qualifiers being wholly undeserving. I would start with the top 32 teams playing one game to get to 16 and then 4 groups of four playing a round robin tournament and the four winners going to the final four. In the final four two teams play each other best of 3 and the winners advance to a best of 3 finals. I believe that while it does not completely eliminate luck. at least gives teams with one bad game a chance for atonement.
You wrote:
"Ha! Welcome aboard ict! I've been posting that exact point for 4 or 5 years. Any conference that can be dominated by one team for 10 years is by definition, lame. "***
I respectfully disagree with you. Just because KU has had superior teams in the last 10 years does not at all mean that the conference is, as you put it, "lame."
Look at the other so called "power" basketball conferences and you will see that traditionally one or two teams have dominated the conference. In the entire history of the ACC, UNC has more conference titles than all the other schools schools (not including Duke) combined. If you look at just the last 20 years you will see that UNC and Duke have more than 70% of the titles, same thing with SEC where Kentucky and Florida have dominated the conference. The Big East is/was the same way with Georgetown dominating in the 80s, UConn and Syracuse after that and more recently Louisville. In the Big 10 Michigan State and the Ohio State have consistently been at the top with other teams making brief runs. UCLA and Arizona have won 7 of the last 10 years in the PAC 12
Now, if you look at the Big 12 and the 10 titles in a row that KU has won 6 tiles outright and 4 of those titles were shared with other schools and KU has won only 6 of the post season titles in the same 10 years. So, the Big 12 is not any different than the other conferences where a couple of teams tend to dominate. While KU has been a step above the rest, several conference teams, in addition to KU, have been recently ranked in the top 10, including OU, OSU, Baylor, ISU, Texas and KSU right of the top of my head. Just in the past season 70% of the conference teams were at one time or another ranked in the top 25; can you think of any other conference with these numbers?
A better (perhaps even the best) indicator of Conference strength is how many teams, or better yet, what percentage of its teams a conference sends to the tournament and the seeds they get. Last season the Big 12 sent 70% of its teams, which I believe is the highest percentage ever sent by a conference...that is the true indicator of conference strength, wouldn't you agree?
Other excellent indicators of conference strength are the Conference Power indices as calculated by many analysts such as Sagarin and Ken Pomeroy and where the Big 12 has consistently been ranked in the top 3 for the last 10 years.
I agree. WOW!
I cant remember any other time when two key players were lost for the season in the same day. KU does have other capable running backs and the receiving corps is much improved. Cozart is the key to this team's success.
I agree. National Titles do not define how good a conference is; in fact, a National Title does not even define which is the best team. The entire national tournament is predicated in one team getting lucky for 6 games (see KU in 1988) and not necessarily which one is the best team. This is why many of us have hold the Conference regular season title in high regard since it represents excellence throughout the season.
Yes....but....
You have to consider that the old Missouri Valley Conference eventually became the Big 8 and teams like KU, KSU, Nebraska. Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and Missouri were part of that conference; in fact, the two earlier titles the Missouri Valley has were won by Oklahoma State, a current member of the Big 12. The original Missouri Valley has more in common with the Big 12 that it does with the current Missouri Valley conference, wouldn't you agree?
An interesting analysis would be to look at how many titles the current conference teams have won regardless of which conference they belonged at the time. In any case, anything older than 1985, when the NCAA went to 64 teams is pretty much irrelevant. In fact, with all the realignment of the last couple of years, most conference history is pretty much irrelevant.
Incredibly talented actor and very troubled individual. Perhaps the best legacy he can leave is an increased awareness of depression, a condition that in one way or another touches just about every family in America, many time with tragic results.
Last season Mason still had the mentality that he was playing HS where he was a volume shooter/scorer that could out-run, out-jump and out-shoot 99% of the opposing players and opposing centers/bigs were typically 6'-6" or shorter. Big time college is quite different. Most guards will be taller, equally fast and they can jump and shoot reasonably well. Driving blindly into the paint with no open man get you surrounded by very tall players that will block your shot more often than not. Collins was the same way when he started, he would use his speed to run to the base line only to get trapped. Mason showed improvement throughout the season and once he realizes that his job is not to be the primary scorer (like in HS) but a distributor/facilitator he will do fine.
Frankamp is a fundamentally solid player but he does not have the physical tools other players have so this will always be a disadvantage that he can partially compensate with smart play. Although we saw flashes at the end of the season, the jury is still out on whether he can create his own shot; regardless, plays can be set up to take advantage of his three point gun, much like KU did with Boschee (different coach, different system); although Boschee was perhaps the better athlete and faced less competition.
Graham is the biggest unknown. Physically he is better suited than Mason or Frankamp but we really do not know much about him. Svi is also a big unknown but I don't believe anyone is expecting to contribute immediately; he will likely be a big contributor on his sophomore year...although he could well be the ace up the sleeve, you never know.
Nebraska has done remarkably well of late in the Big 10. Best of luck to Andre White.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
I agree. It is a lot easier to work with players that need to gain weight because you can always develop muscle mass and make him a better athlete. The opposite, players that need to lose some or a lot of weight, always end up in the wrong end of the scale. Look at our own Sherron Collins, for all the work he did to lose and maintain the lower weight, he was constantly fighting an uphill battle, and not even the prospect of an NBA career could get him to lose and keep the lower weight; a 30-40 pound lighter Sherron could be balling in the NBA now.
I am always leery of players that have to lose that much weight to be competitive. So many players with huge potential have come and gone through the college ranks and the majority just could not maintain the lower weight and the struggle ends ups affecting the team. I would prefer a player with similar potential that needs to gain over one that needs to lose weight any day.
In addition to KU, who will be favored to repeat as champions, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa State and Kansas State will all be well above average teams and the conference as a whole will be be top 2 or 3.
I guess it will come down to depth and injuries as some of the teams have a strong starting lineups but shallow benches. I know it is popular to downplay Barnes capabilities, but if you look at his record, he can coach. Hoiberg and Kruger can flat out coach and while not as good as the others, Weber can coach well if he has the players, don't forget he finished tied with KU in the 2012-13 season and was ranked in the top 10 at the end of that season. In Marcus Foster he has arguably the best guard in the conference
There is a lot of talent in the conference and KU will have to earn the title; it cannot afford to relax since (at least) the other four teams mentioned will be chomping at the bit to unseat KU.
As I indicated before, Lucas numbers over the summer have been a lot better than Mickelson, although I am not sure if they both played with/against the same level of competition. Lucas could well be the surprise this coming season; ha has flown under the radar so far and the assumption has been that Traylor will have a breakout year. Lucas is a smart kid that could surprise us all.
Landen's numbers are better than Michelson's in Summer play. I am not sure what is the level of competition for either one.
Not quite...
If you access to all the ESPN flavors you will get to see most of the games; however some games apparently will be seen only if you have the Time Warner Sports Channel in the KC area as ESPN3 will blacked out...of course you can probably find one of East European feeds and watch at your own risk.
This is from the KU Athletic Department webs site...
"In June 2013, Kansas Athletics announced an agreement under which Time Warner Cable will annually air 50 KU contests – including two exhibition and four non-conference men's basketball games – exclusively on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel in Kansas City and across the state of Kansas on the Jayhawk TV Network. ESPN3 will deliver those 50 events nationally outside that territory. In addition to the Nov. 3 vs. Washburn and Nov. 11 vs. Emporia State exhibition contests, the other Jayhawk TV men's basketball games include Nov. 14 vs. UC Santa Barbara, Nov. 24 vs. Rider in the opening home-round game of the Orlando Classic, Dec. 20 vs. Lafayette and Dec. 30 vs. Kent State."
I would say the closest we have to dynasties (say in the last 20 years) in pro-sports are the San Antoni Spurs, whose player were either drafted or acquired before they became stars and developed by Coach Pop, and the NE Patriots in the NFL. Both franchises have built their teams and stayed at or near the top of their sports consistently, with "consistently" being the key word. Many other teams got hot for a few years and then declined.
I don't care for the powder blue unis either.
One big Jayhawk logo on the left side of the helmet, 2 fair sized logos on the shoulders, one on the left hip (Adidas logo on the right, BTW), all together 4 logos or 3 too many in my opinion.
Well...Bill Snyder owns the rights to the "power cat" so he had a vested interest in the team getting better and increasing royalties. :)
Here is a first look a t one of the alternate unis from Adidas...
I am not sure I like an all-red/crimson uniform and I would prefer a crimson and blue combination with no so many Jayhawks. The helmet is cool looking with a big Jayhawk and the chrome grill. The should use a meaner looking Jayhawk though, such as the one in my avatar.
Here is another link...
The current roster will have something that last years' team did not have, experience. At a few games last season, KU started 4 freshmen and one sophomore; that is a really young and inexperienced team, talent notwithstanding. A lot more option available this year; It will interesting to see who end up in the top 7-8 players that will get most of the playing time.
Coach Williams brought KU back to the elite level, so it is hard not to like and respect what he did. I did not have a problem with him leaving; I did have a problem with the way he left and most of that blame falls on Dean Smith who really betrayed his Alma Mater.
Here is 3 years old link to Bender...he is bad news...
He might be the actual reason why Kasongo was not admitted to Oregon.
Here is a recent link with more details about Bender...
Story on Oregon and Bender... ↗
And here is another one with more details...
After reading the links above, I am not surprised KU would pass, and I would be really surprised if any major program takes him.
I am relieved that KU is no longer pursuing Kasongo. I believe there is more to the story and to me he looks like a gigantic, walking red flag.
Interesting that his handler is constantly talking about his build and comparing him to other elite pro-athletes, but he does not talk much about his actual game. Equally interesting that an unranked, unproven player wants to start as a freshman at an elite school...he sure has an inflated opinion of himself.
Again, you are comparing apples to oranges.
First, KU has very few (if any) professors that I would consider world class, and the better one teach mostly at the graduate level. By the way, all of this is also available to student-athletes since they are "students" too. However, the coaching and training staff is not available to the non-athlete student since the they are not part of the athletic program.
All of the services/introductions that you indicate a professor can provide/make, he can also do the exact same thing for a student-athletes; however, the contacts that Coach Self or Coach Weis have with professional teams and other programs are not available to non-athletes. Who do you think advises athletes whether to go on the draft or stay in school. what part of the game to develop, how to showcase their skills? The coaches, through their extensive networks and relationships with professional teams and scouts get this information for the athletes. In fact. most (if not all) student-athletes that want to work in sports get their jobs through their coaches and trainers contacts.
The benefits I listed for student-athletes are above and beyond what the average paying or scholarship, non-athlete student receives. On the other hand, the benefits you listed for regular student are also available to student-athletes. The benefits student-athletes receive are well above any other non-athlete student receives or is available to him. It is not even close.
Last, in my own personal opinion, college professors are the last resource I would personally use to get a job after getting my undergraduate degree (graduate degrees are different). "Most" undergraduate level professors are completely removed from the real world and have no real contacts with the business community; the school's placement office is a much better resource. Why do you think people want to go to Ivy League schools? Do you actually think that it is the professors that help you get a job? No, it is the connections others students have; it might be your roommate's father that heads a Fortune 500 firm, or you fraternity brother's uncle that has his own business. By the way, donors are more likely/eager to mingle with student-athletes than with your run of the mill non-athlete student. For the last thirty years I have been in positions where i had to evaluate new hires/recent graduates for entry and other level positions and not one of them came through an undergraduate college professor recommendation. Candidates with advanced graduate degrees are different, but we are not talking about those, right?
I don't mean this in any personal way and there is no ill intent or offense attached since I don't know you personally and I am not familiar with your background, but you seem to have a very idealistic view of the world...I used to be that way 30+ years ago and then life happened...
Again, on this issue I will respectfully agree to disagree.
I think you are comparing apples and oranges. I don't believe there is an academic scholarship that provides close to what an athletic scholarship does. You have to consider that in addition to tuition, room and board that athletic scholarships provide and academic only partially provide, athletes get a world class coaches and trainers and state of the practice facilities to develop their non-school related skills and tutors for the academic skills. This would be the equivalent of the school providing a selected group of students a Pulitzer winning author to work with them for several hours every day, other world class writers to help them hone their writing skills and provide facilities where they can do the work and on-call techs to help them with word processing questions...in the real world this does not happen.
IMHO, athletes are compensated handsomely for the school's use of their image.
Student cannot make money form their sport or work for the School's Athletic Department during the the academic year and there is a limit on how much money they can earn per semester, presumably to ensure that athletes maintain their full time classroom eligibility; however, they can work in their sport and Work for the the School's Athletic Department and there is no limit on earnings in the Summer.
As you indicated, a Lit Major can write anything and derive whatever profit he/she can from it; however, if the school its paying for his/her tuition, room and board and providing instructors and tutors to guide him/her ion his/her work outside the classroom, then I am sure the school would want to retain ownership of the end product.. Nobody gets paid to doing assignments; you pay to go to school to do assignments and have them reviewed and graded. Practicing basketball is not an assignment since it is not part of the academic curriculum; this is why it is called extra-curricular activities.
As per O'Bannon himself, payment for use of the image is part one of the lawsuit and the next part includes athletes being paid for participating in an extra-curricular activity, i.e. sports.
Yes, it is true that you own the rights to your name and image, unless you cede those rights to a third party for some agreed upon remuneration. Up to now, student have by default ceded those rights to the schools in return for getting a scholarship package which at KU is worth at least $25K for in-state and $40K for out-of-state students every year.
Now, if the School of Journalism gives you a full ride and asks you in return that you write, say a manual for the Departments, guess who will have ownership of the finished product...it is not going to be you.
All grad assistants on research assistantships have to sign documents in which you agree that all intellectual property and all products resulting from work while on the assistantship belong to the university and not you. When I was working on my doctoral degree and working at the Remote Sensing Lab on West Camps, I had to sign a release like that in return for the monthly stipend I received....which is not even close to what athletes received. IMHO, athletes get a pretty sweet deal.
This is the start of a slippery slope. If players are paid beyond the compensation they get from the school by the way of tuition, room and board, trainers, coaches, tutors and exposure, then they become professionals and might as well create professional college league with top schools, since most schools will not be able to compete.
Keep in mind that the average student whose family cannot afford the tuition and cannot get financial aid, will need to get loans to attend college and graduates with a $100K debt. Athlete, on the other have tuition, books, room and board paid for. They have a dinning room dedicated to them with dieticians that fix their meals as ordered by the trainers, they have access to the best coaching money can buy and state of the art practice and training facilities to prepare them for a career in sports which most will not even pursue, and can graduate with zero debt, while students working on actual degrees have to work on sub-par facilities with meager resources that many times do not adequately prepare them for the jobs they are studying for. Also, contrarily to popular belief, athletes do get spending money and they have the option of living off campus with their expenses paid as part of their scholarship packages. The reports that students athletes do not have money to buy food are a big myth; just look at all the tattoos, jewelry and electronics they haul and you know those things do not come cheap, and if they can afford those luxuries, they should certainly be able to afford food, don't you think?
If you are a graduate student and do advanced research you have to sign agreements where the University retains the rights to any by product developed in university facilities. TTBOMK, there is nothing that prevents a student athlete from getting a job, other than time constraints; although there is a limit on earnings during the school year but no limit in the summer.
If you are employed, any process or product you develop while employed, usually becomes the property of the employer and, in most cases, you derive no benefit from it. My previous employer, for whom I have not worked for many, many years, still has my picture and resume prominent;y displayed in the company web site (along with other key personnel) to attract potential clients; I have never been compensated for the use of my likeness, even when it has helped get new clients.
The more complicated parts is how much do you pay athletes for the use of their images or for their actual play. Do you pay Wiggins more than you pay the other less famous players, even when without the supporting cast Wiggins would not be able to showcase his talent? If you pay different players different amounts, what does it do for team chemistry? Do lesser players go on strike demanding equal pay? As I said, it quickly snowballs into an unmanageable mess.
I personally believe student athletes, particularly at the bigger programs, have a pretty sweet deal already. If we are going to pay student athletes, then let's remove the pretense that they are actually "students," make them full time athletes, remove all the academic requirements and field a professional team to represent the school.
Maybe this study will play a role and booth camp will not be as tough as it used to be...
By the way, looks like Coach Hudy has a new business...
Coach Hudy's new business venture... ↗
I like the "Hudybuilt" logo, an obvious takeoff from the Peterbuilt logo.
How about penalizing floppers like the NBA does by looking at tapes after the games. Since players cannot be fined, then a warning for the first flop, 1 game suspension for the second, 2 games for the third and so on.; after 10 flop-free game, the count can re-start minus the warning.
Very nicely summarized.
Championship help a legacy but do not make one. Lets not forget that players such as Robert Horry, who no one would consider a superstar has 7 rings (that is more rings than Jordan, Johnson or Jabbar), while players like Larry Bird, who everybody considers a superstar has only 3 .
That was my laugh for the day. But seriously, doesn't it make you wonder?
Having that many JuCo players was not his first choice, but the only short term viable route considering the state of the program. This is the year when we find out how it pans out
I think we are still missing the big elephant in the room...why will Oregon (the school) not take Kasongo, when Oregon (the basketball team) desperately needs him? Do they know something we don't? Is he not good enough to overcome whatever the "other" issue is? Is the "other" issue so big that outweighs the basketball team's dire needs? Inquiring minds want to know.
The great players do not go chasing someone else's legacy; they create their own. Look at the better players of our generation such as Jordan, Bird, Magic, Kareem and many others; their legacies stand alone and do not need to be compared to someone elses's to be considered great. Some other players, Kobe and Shaq come to mind, while great on their own, spent a lot of effort in trying to prove their greatness (compared to other players) and in the process their legacy became less rather than more.
There is no question that LeBron will be consider one of the top players of all time; however, his legacy will not be as great because he spent a lot of effort trying to top Jordan's instead of creating one of his own. There is no question that LeBron does what is good for LeBron and collateral damage is of no importance to him. People were starting to get over the big middle finger he gave Cleveland 4 years ago, and then he decided to do the same thing to Miami, and now he has new group of fans that deeply dislike him.
If the Cleveland experiment backfires, the damage will be huge and maybe not reparable, despite how forgiving and forgetful fans can be.