UK should stick to playing Wichita State...:smiley:
JayHawkFanToo
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Holy shit, they plumb done did it!!!
KSU does not have players to go to OT.
Even the announcers thought so...
I thought I would never say this but I feel sorry for Squeaky, his team is getting screwed...and not in a good way...
Refs are an embarrassment...
...and the refs...
Since UK can’t win, the refs are going to foul out the entire KSU team.
Crowd seems heavily pro Kentucky.
This time he has a case...
4th on Gabriel, that is big.
Michigan played really well earlier and Gonzaga is also very good.
On better news, Coach Self said Doke will be playing unrestricted ↗. :smile:
I don’t want to hear Calipari say he gets bad matchups and bad calls. If not for the refs this game is not even close.
Can you imagine these refs calling a West Virginia game?
Kcmatt7 said:
Have you ever seen someone with such a forehead roll who wasn't in Anaphylactic shock? I can never quit looking at it.
Botox, maybe?
K State came to play, good for them. I hope they beat UK so it is owned by both major Kansas programs.
Come on A&M...you are not coming back from 20 down with just over a minute left, quit fouling.
Loyola used the entire clock in just about every possession and most of the baskets were layups. Very disciplined system team. Impressive win.
I don't believe KU has any room left, particularly bigs which is ironic given the current situation. Of course this assumes Doke is back which at this time seems likely given that his name is not in any NBA draft projections yet.
The extension of Manning's contract was very controversial at the time and many if not most fans thought he should show some results beforehand. Anything short of a wining Conference record next season and he is likely gone.
Unfortunately, Hock Auditorium burned down in 1991 and was rebuilt in 1997 and the interior does not resemble anything like the old building; it was rebuilt at the time as a state-of-the-art teaching facility.
The coaching seat at Wake Forest is getting very hot.
Interesting, KU playing with 3 centers. I imagine that if the seeding was based on current players in the NBA, the seeding would be different and several teams would not have 5 players.
Considering that Smart never won a single regular season title in the Colonial or A10 Conferences, the Shaka myth/legend is all smoke and mirrors and built around one win over KU. He was a successful mid-major coach but not at the next level up.
Smart is a text book example of the Peter’s principle. He moved up until he reached his level of incompetence. Interesting that the coach he replaced, Barnes, is now one of the Final Four candidates for the Naismith COY award.
Yes, Hurley will be recruiting the same general area but he will be recruiting a new and higher level of players than he did before. We will have to wait and see if he does well or like Smart he flounders at the higher level.
If the alleged NCAA report on UConn is as bad as some believe it is and caused legacy
Ollie to be fired for cause, Hurley will start his tenure with the program on probation or under heavy penalties.
I believe Coach Williams at one time indicated the ‘97 teams was the best one he had at KU.
$3M would place him among the top 10 paid coaches. Kind of high for a mid major coach moving up. Of course Smart makes more and so far he has proven not worth it.
Interesting how we all have different recollection of Padgett and why he left. He was originally recruited by Roy Williams to play as a face the basket forward or what now we call a stretch 4 but Coach Self wanted him to play back to the basket Center. He transferred to Louisville to play for Pitino who at the time had had considerably more experience and success that Coach Self having already won a National Title with Kentucky (he would win another one with Louisville) as well as having coached the Knick’s and Celtics in the NBA.
I will alway remember Padgett as the player who scored the winning basket at the last game at Hearnes Center at Missouri, this alone makes him a memorable Jayhawk.
Apparently not everyone at ESPN is a moron. Bilas has the reseeding about right. ↗
Padgett did remarkably well under the circumstances.
mayjay said:
@JayHawkFanToo I am pretty sure one of them is named William, and another one is named Susan.
Would it surprise you to know that there is a not single player named William or Susan at KU? 4 players with the last name Williams in football but that is about it.
I also found out that 7 of 8 tennis players and 8 of 10 golf players are foreigners; looks like KU outsourced those two sports. Even more interesting, the women's rowing team has 58 members...that was a big surprise...that is more members than all others sports other than football, 19 more members than men's basketball (15), Cross country (16) and Golf (8) combined... so I will have to upgrade my viewership estimate for rowing from 100 to 200. :smile:
As to talent, it’s not like any of these four coaches can ever bemoan that they lack for talent. They all basically always have talent. And if they don’t, well, if you can’t recruit talent to Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas, maybe that’s not the right job for you. There’s no prize for winning with less talent. Part of a college basketball coach’s skill is recruiting because you get to pick your own players.
That is not quite correct. Kentucky has had considerably more talent than any team not named Duke as shown by the number of players that have made it to the NBA and are thriving there...it's not even close.Look at KU players in the NBA, other than Embiid, Wiggins, the twins, Jackson and maybe Oubre, the rest are second tier players which shows how god Coach Self Is winning with marginal NBA talent.
In the NBA coaches can indeed pick their players, provided the team wants to spend the money. In college, coaches don't pick their own players, players pick their own coach.
4 Big 12 Teams in the Elite 8 and only 1 ACC team would be a good start and KU beating Duke to advance to the Final Four even better.
How about the one in 2018? You know KU likes years ending in 8. :smile:
If Smith comes back he would be a conference POY candidate next season. Would not surprise me to see Konate tries the draft; hopefully he hires an agent and when the NBA passes he ends up playing in Eastern Europe with the Ball kids.
2 championships in the last 30 years; did you forget KU won in 2008 AND also in 1988?
This is why I specifically indicated “major” sports. Yes, those other programs do well but the audience or interest for them is extremely limited. Other than baseball, softball and track most people would be hard pressed to know how many men’s and women’s sports KU sponsors or to name the sports themselves. We are all pretty good KU fans in this forum but I will guess that the great majority cannot name a single member of the softball, golf, tennis, rowing, cross country, swimming or soccer teams unless they happen to be friends or related to friends...I know I can’t.
Looks to me that the objective is Zenger not Beaty. If Beaty was to be let go it would have happened at the end of the football season and not now.
The question boils down to...do you want Zenger selecting the next football coach?
There are 2 major sports that generate all the revenue for the athletic department, men’s football and basketball, and the rest are just money losing overhead. The two major women’s sports are basketball and volleyball. The only two major successful programs are men’s basketball and women’s volleyball (albeit money losing) and Zenger had nothing to do with the success of either program. The men’s baseball team is 0-3 so far in conference play and the women’s basketball team finished on a 1-14 losing streak and overall 3-15 in conference play; not good.
I am sure that all of us agree that Beaty’s firing now would not be of any help and he gets one more year to show results or else he is gone. Zenger is a different story. He has alienated a lot of KU fans and his support is apparently low and falling. Frankly, I want anyone but Zenger picking up the next football coach; his hiring record is not good. Getting a new AD now would give him almost a year before decision time on Beaty comes around.
With all the talent he has recruited at UK, one can make a strong case that he has largely unperformed. His record might be marginally better than Coach Self but Coach Self has done it with much less talent. Since Calipari has been at UK, no other team has had nearly as much talent; maybe Duke comes close but not KU.
...and we have no respect for him either. :smile:
Kcmatt7 said:
On another note, we should be able to pay top dollar for a coach soon right? We should be out of all of our former horrible coaching contracts at this point, right?
One can only hope unless there is a huge buyout in place for Beaty which at this point would not surprise me.
I agree the website is well done but then, there so much material available to fill it... :disappointed:
I am sure we all do. The question is...is the program going in the right direction? If you look a the website on the sign, it is more abut firing Zenger to get the program on the right track and as you know, I am not fond of Zenger and his horrible TV deal.
Not nice but not necessarily incorrect either. :disappointed:
Medcalf is constantly talking down KU; it is not the first time and he is consistently wrong. KU is 10-1 against Sweet 16 teams. I have not looked at the other teams' records but I would be surprised if anyone has a better record than KU.
- WVU 3-0
- KSU 3-0
- TTU 1-1
- UK 1-0
- Texas A&M 1-0
- Syracuse 1-0
To win it all KU will have to beat Clemson first and then likely Duke, Villanova and Kentucky. That would be quite a run.
I was under the impression that Fultz was pretty much done for the season. I read where he cannot even make free throws but who knows. Here is a link ↗ with some information.
You beat me to it. I will admit that I did not think Curry would last in the League and he obviously proved me wrong and I mean WRONG!!!
It was mentioned but largely lost in March Madness commentary.