What has Trump done successfully so far in three years?

I’m not going to give him credit for the economy, or ding him for a pandemic in this scenario.

What else has he done successfully? More troops in the Middle East. Huge deficit and increases in debt. No wall.

Please, someone, give me one positive defining success of his presidency thus far. Because I haven’t seen one.

@BShark said in 2020 Transfer List:

@BeddieKU23 said in 2020 Transfer List:

Giant Sized Center Matt Haarms in the portal from Purdon't. Grad Transfer

Was popping on to post this. If Silvio were to go, this would be my first call.

I’d take him over Silvio...

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

@Kcmatt7 said in Donald Trump's Public Service Announcement:

In times of crisis, everyone’s a democrat....

Not even sort of

It’s just a joke considering the republican politicians at the moment...

In times of crisis, everyone’s a democrat....

Start him and pull him out after the first whistle to let him get his ovation.

@BeddieKU23 said in Thoughts on Oachi . What ya thinkin ?:

We've seen nearly 30 games this year. Ochai continues to play similar to how Wayne Selden did here years ago as a Soph. Ball-Handling, Passing & an Erratic jump shot are his major issues. I thought his defense Saturday was average for him but average for him is better then 75% of the NCAA at the wing position. He has to make open shots. You can definitely tell in big games he's in the learning phase of how to deal with things. The end of game against Baylor was atrocious. Self is ride or die with him though so I guess we just have to keep supporting and hope his good games come at the opportune moments

I think with the four of Doke, Dotson, Ochai and Garrett on the floor together we are just so hard to score against that you really can't take him out of the game. This defense literally has the best rating in the Kenpom era at the moment. Hard to think they do that without any one of those 4 guys.

That new mute feature makes this board 10x better. I can tell

Scott Drew is a good coach who has succeeded in what anyone would have thought was an impossible situation.

To pretend it's anything else is being disingenuous at best.

@dylans said in F-bomb Roy....:

@Kcmatt7 So you’re saying Self winning the Big12 after replacing all 5 starters twice is pretty freaking amazing?!?

Unheard of from anyone besides Wooden.

@Kcmatt7 They also lost some bench guys and have dealt with other injuries this year.

I would expect them to bounce back strong next season.

They replaced all 5 starters and their best player was hurt for a stretch of winnable games.They lost to Wofford, Pitt x 2, VT, GT, Clemson, and BC during the stretch Cole Anthony was out.

I think they win 5 of those games with him in the lineup. So 15-11 is almost understandable after losing all 5 starters.

@BeddieKU23 I think he'd belong up there no doubt about it. On top of that, he's pacing for over 2,200 points. In comparison, Marcus just went up and he was pacing to barely eclipse 2,000.

With guys leaving early you almost have to just look at what they would have projected out to be I think. Of course they have to have accolades. I don't think anyone should get hung just for being the first pick after a 1st weekend flameout.

@Kcmatt7 And I'd certainly hear any arguments against him going up there.

@dylans said in Doke Doke Doke Doke Doke:

@Kcmatt7 Unanimous 1st team All-America does it for me, but I think it only takes 2nd team for Bill.

I do think it should take a lot to get your name up there. I don't know if I'd have strict criteria, but it would certainly be more than what we've had lately...

In my mind he's the perfect addition for a contender in the late 2nd. You aren't going to develop him into a guy who hits a 15 footer. So he isn't worth sending to the G-League. At the same time, he'll only be 21 and still has enough potential to develop offensively to the point he can give you 20 minutes a game if he can learn to pass out of a double and finish with either hand on a pick and roll.

His wingspan makes him an intriguing defender with the potential to be elite. Certainly serviceable enough for your 3rd big man. He will have games where he is the perfect matchup and other games he shouldn't touch the floor. But that's exactly what the bottom of the roster is for.

I really hope he makes it. He's going to go down as one of my favorites. Had he stayed healthy, he would have ended up just ahead of Simien in points I think with somewhere in the ballpark of 1600, 2nd to Withey in Blocks around 260, beat Perry in Rebounds around 850 (could be 900 which puts him in Gooden and Simien ballpark) and he's going to have probably the best shooting percentage in a career for what could be a long long long time, and he was integral to the FF run.

Doke's jersey belongs in the rafters, but I'm biased. I hope he just eats people alive in the tournament and gets tournament MVP or something to solidify my thoughts on him.

@chriz He's blocked a lot of jump shots this year.

@BigBad said in Fixing College Basketball:

@Kcmatt7 Not saying it's enjoyable but it is proven to keep games close if you can't close it out at the line.

Sure it's a fine strategy.

But it is the rules that allow such a travesty to the game.

This year's version of Doke is an NBA player. He is dominating. Nobody else in CBB has to get planned for more than Doke right now.

@BigBad said in Fixing College Basketball:

@Kcmatt7 That "fluke way" is basically what March Madness markets.

You can still have good exciting games that don't come down to a free throw shooting contest.

Are you telling me you enjoy watching a team down 10 fouling for two minutes and stretching the game out for 30 minutes? That's enjoyable to you?

@BigBad said in Fixing College Basketball:

@Kcmatt7 said in Fixing College Basketball:

@chriz Love this idea. You have the option to keep the ball or shoot free throws on anything besides an And 1.

I don't like this one. I just don't think you should be able to hide a players' weaknesses this blatantly.

You shouldn't be able to win in a fluke way after getting your ass kicked for 38 minutes either.

My idea is actually a foul in the last two minutes in the double bonus is one free throw and the ball back. Take away the incentive to foul at the end of the game.

@BeddieKU23 Every team in the tournament should have to finish in the top half of their conference.

That would give us a max P5 group of 32 teams.

Make it the regular season champion for all conference automatic bids.

@chriz Love this idea. You have the option to keep the ball or shoot free throws on anything besides an And 1.

@kjayhawks said in John Belein to the Cavs:

I think Belein is a solid college coach and considerably better than Weber. He pretty much has Drummond and Love who’s hurt about half the time in Cleveland. That place has been a wasteland since its inception out side of the LeBron years. They have all of one division title without him. Arguably the worst roster in the NBA right now. I think that’s why it was so surprising to see him take the job. Maybe because he’s guaranteed 30 million it’s just his retirement plan lol.

Weber has a better winning percentage and is basically one giant choke from the same tournament resume.

Just saying...

And I think he would have lasted longer if it weren’t for the “thugs” thing that happened earlier this year. Top that off with him likely trying to bring a college atmosphere and I’m sure he lost the team.

Well this could end this week.

Seemed like a strange move for everyone involved from the get go.

Also, I'm not afraid to say it, Beilein is supremely overrated and I hope he lands a B12 job.

He's basically Bruce Weber without all of the annoying habits.

What we know is that you can institute a universal healthcare and it won't collapse an economy. We know this.

I don't even agree that we should make sweeping changes overnight. It would certainly lead to capacity problems. Where I'm at with it, we need to flood the market with doctors before we do anything else with healthcare. Free tuition. Graduation bonuses. Whatever gets more doctors in the U.S.

@BeddieKU23 I’m expecting a few 25 point wins to close out the home schedule

Moss has been good.

End of post.

@BShark said in The democratic nominee:

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I thought about this a lot lately.

The place I worked before, the owners would take 20% of the profit no matter what. They were already drawing $200k (about 5 of them). Yet they were still taking their 20% bonuses even as we were laying off people, limiting overtime, not giving raises and absorbing positions as people left because we were having a slightly down year. Instead of just foregoing their bonuses for one year... But capitalism.

The other thing that I think is funny is that we are terrified to tax corporations at the correct rate. Which is idiotic. Only half of Americans own stock so only half of America is getting the wealth generated by these companies. The tax rate could be 40% flat. If you need a tax break as a company to survive than you weren’t viable front the get go.

How everyone isn’t on the healthcare train yet I do not understand. It’s works. The proof is all over the world.

The proof is you can, as a non citizen go up to Canada and buy insulin for a quarter of the cost without insurance as here in the U.S.

I had a friend who’s appendix had to be removed while he was in Denmark. It wasn’t even $5k for a non citizen to have emergency surgery.

It’s not like we would be the first to do this and it’s some loony toon idea.

@kjayhawks said in The democratic nominee:

@Kcmatt7 interesting, I think trump has been hard on his negative press outlets but Obama scolded Fox News when he was in office multiple times. A Democrat senator that said he doesnt believe people should be able to criticize them even when they are wrong. Politics have a ton hypocrites these days for sure. I’m in the middle on a ton of issues.

Trump has revoked several Press Passes and hasn’t had his press secretary hold a press briefing ever since she got the job. He literally calls every single mainstream media fake news but Fox and the second they criticize him he tweets about it. He basically ran Shep out.

Nunes is suing people on Twitter for saying mean things about him.

Huckabee is trying to get a lawyer on twitter disbarred for tweeting mean things about him.

Senators are now walking down the hallways calling reporters “liberal hacks” like its normal.

Other Congressman will “only go on OAN and Foxnews”

To compare Obama not treating Foxnews like an actual News outlet is fair. Providing it still is a news outlet and does not existing solely to drum up or magnify propaganda. Like the Obama “birther” story for example.

What Obama did was wrong. I’ll agree somewhat. But it’s not even in the realm of what is happening right now. Across the board, Republicans in office have felt emboldened to attack any and all press. It’s a big hit with the MAGA crowd to just call everyone “Fake News” and get a little sound bite of that.

@BigBad said in WSU grudge:

@Kcmatt7 said in WSU grudge:

@BigBad said in WSU grudge:

@BShark What does one's political leanings have to do with what that person expects from a basketball coach?

If you condemn a basketball coach with this veracity, over one single "misleading" statement, wouldn't you think that same person would expect the POTUS to also operate with honesty and integrity?

If honesty and integrity are SOOOOOO important to you as a person, than you shouldn't morally be able to support someone who has lied or mislead the American public 15,000 times in three years.

Again I asked why a political opinion matters the same as an opinion on a basketball coach.

You're condemning hypocrisy while participating in the same thing just the opposite. You're condemning a "lying president" but poo-pooing a lying basketball coach.

I'll give you this.....Politics and college basketball are pretty damn similar, they both reek of corruption! I don't believe anyone who participates in either is clean.

I’m condemning someone feeling so righteous they are acting as if they are Jesus while throwing the first stone.

I’m very well aware that my expectations on honesty and integrity are fluid and dependent on certain conditions.

The difference is I’m not lecturing people on here about their values. I don’t sit on a high horse. I just don’t appreciate someone thinking they have moral convictions so much greater than others here when that’s so obviously not true.

And fwiw, I’d rather be the hypocrite who expects the leader of the free world to have more honesty and integrity than than a basketball coach for my favorite hobby than vice versa....

Lol at people against the Dems for going against amendment one when Republican congressman and the President are enemy #1 against free press and free speech at the moment.

@BeddieKU23 said in WSU grudge:

@drgnslayr said in WSU grudge:

@BeddieKU23

It should be a defensive battle! Wouldn't surprise me to see a game in the 50s.

1 and #2 defenses according to Kenpom.

Will Self try and play 2 bigs to match WVU? Have to win the rebounding war, we already know we are not winning the whistle tonight

KU's Kenpom rating is slowly continuing to move upwards. Just passed 2019 Duke. Would have been ranked #2 in 2018, 2017, and 2016. #5 in 2015. #1 in 2014, #3 in 2013.

It'll be interesting to see where they finish if they win out the rest of the regular season.

@BigBad said in WSU grudge:

@BShark What does one's political leanings have to do with what that person expects from a basketball coach?

If you condemn a basketball coach with this veracity, over one single "misleading" statement, wouldn't you think that same person would expect the POTUS to also operate with honesty and integrity?

If honesty and integrity are SOOOOOO important to you as a person, than you shouldn't morally be able to support someone who has lied or mislead the American public 15,000 times in three years.

Or is it actually not that important to your moral code? Is honesty only important sometimes? Is it an expectation or is it not? Why is one more worthy of condemning than the other?

"That's politics" is a pretty lame excuse for someone who claims to have such upstanding morals and character. And it's rather inconsistent. Dare I say, hypocritical... It is actually funny to think someone tries to pretend they have the moral conviction to be so upset about one lie and then is 100% lock to vote in a pathological liar into the most powerful position on Earth and they will sleep like a baby that same night.

There is no moral conviction here. It's virtue signaling at it's finest. This is like a Vegetarian who owns a slaughterhouse. A doctor who smokes. A quarterback who kneels for injustice but is endorsed by Nike. A Trump being pissed about a Biden getting a job through nepotism. An activist lawyer that's also being indicted for extortion.

I don't care which way you lean.

Just don't pretend to care about honesty and integrity when it is so clear that you are willing to abandon your "values" the second it benefits you.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Will the XFL hurt college football?:

Some ex ku players that couldn't stay or make the nfl, Ben heeney for 1. Anyone hear Chris Harris might be going to the chiiieerfffs?

Rumors. He'd have to take a big discount for us I think. Spotrac has his contract estimated at like 3 years for $33M.

So I just don't see it happening.

@BeddieKU23 said in Devonte:

@stoptheflop said in Devonte:

@BeddieKU23 Still love the guy and wish him all the best. Frank is still my favorite Jayhawk.

He is my favorite Jayhawk as well. Seen a lot of highlights of him recently and he's still Frank, lightning quick, can't be guarded when his mind is on attack the rim and his 3 point shot is still really good. If he was 6'1, 6'2 he wouldn't have a 2 way contract. I really hope either the Bucks or someone brings him up he can play in the NBA

What I would give to go play basketball all over Europe for a cool $500k...

Barcelona, Belgrade, Madrid, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Athens, Valencia, Milan, Lyon, Berlin, Munich... It could be a lot worse.

I could see a few guys defecting. That's honestly not terrible money. A guy like Lawrence has an insurance policy on himself so staying in school is the smart thing to do until draft eligible.

As far as getting top talent to defect to the XFL, I could see this being attractive to someone like Pooka maybe. He's overachieved at a crappy school and is almost certainly getting overlooked at a national level. It would be interesting to gauge how NFL scouts feel about a guy who put up 7 yards a carry as a freshman and 5.2. as a sophomore behind atrocious offensive lines. But that is what I imagine that is about the only true defects besides those that @BeddieKU23 pointed out. I'm also curious how much under the table money Pooka is getting right now though.... I'd assume it would rival the pay of the XFL.

Hull was a HS coach with some ties. Nothing more.

This is good Bucketing right here. This thread is amazing.

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@drgnslayr said in WSU grudge:

@Kcmatt7

We do shared game series with many schools lower than WSU. Playing in Wichita now and then can only help our recruiting visibility there, too. Cough cough... Perry Ellis!

I disagree with the entirety of this post.

@drgnslayr They are welcome to come play us in Lawrence. But they won't.

As Farmer put it, there has to be two to tango and nobody is on the dance floor.

@benshawks08 said in WSU grudge:

@Kcmatt7 @nuleafjhawk But what about the policies? That's what really matters, right? Honestly, this is where @HighEliteMajor is consistent. He stated he'd likely get over the dishonesty or start to if Self were winning titles. Ends justify the means as long as you have the right ends, I guess.

Wonderful point.

Those currently virtue signaling literally just wrote that they wouldn't care about the cheating as long as they got what they wanted. So it isn't even about honesty and integrity. It really is just virtue signaling. Thank you for bringing this up.

The only person mocking honesty and integrity is the one saying they don't care about either virtue, providing they get what they want in return.

@nuleafjhawk said in WSU grudge:

@Kcmatt7 I know - it's crazy in this day and age that ANYONE expects integrity and honesty from leadership. Or anyone else.

I think integrity and honestly is extremely important. Full disclosure: I really don't know you that well on this board so my response was mostly to the other person in that conversation just because I know their political leaning...

And to explain further... I just think it's hysterical that some expect more integrity and honesty from the Head Coach of KU Basketball than, say, the POTUS, Attorney General, Medal of Freedom recipients, Senators, Judges, National Security Advisors, Secretaries of State, or any of our institutions that are supposed to be running this country in general.

The gymnastics that some put themselves through to justify supporting something that is so clearly against their own "morals" is even more hysterical. Knowing someone is going to punch their ballot in November in favor of someone who literally lies more than twice a day, but somehow still feel they can sit on their high horse and criticize Bill Self for saying one lie to protect his own ass in his 16 years at KU. It's a friggen parody! It is in the same ballpark of irony as Pope Innocent VIII having two bastard children. It is in the ballpark of irony as the first Chinese man who found gun powder and called it the "elixr of immortality." It is an utter joke.

Honesty and integrity are far more admirable things when they aren't accompanied by hypocrisy.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF.

Did someone put a friggen Bat Signal somewhere in this thread. Only way to explain all of this virtue signaling going on...

@BigBad said in WSU grudge:

@Kcmatt7 Indiana does the yearly Indiana/Butler/Notre Dame/Purdue thing, though not a tournament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_Classic ↗

Indiana and Purdue never play against each other because they play in the conference.
This would be great with KU/MU/WSU/KSU and similarly, KU and KSU wouldn't play against each other in it due to conference.

I think this would be very enjoyable.

@approxinfinity Pete would be winning by a landslide if he wasn’t gay. I believe that.

But he is. So I think Amy has the best chance of beating Trump. She’d secure MN, WI and MI. So she had the most room for error.

I think Bernie will get the nomination and middle America will vote Trump again because once again they were given “two bad choices and they had to choose the lesser evil.”

The only reason I’m not opposed to Bernie is because I think he could still win. He’s polled fine against Trump in swing states. He worries me in the WI, MN and MI area though.... but even the most recent Florida poll has him beating Trump. I don’t mean to take that as gospel, but he’d at least compete is my point.

I don’t want Biden. He would lose.

I think Bloomberg would win because he’d spend $1B to win. I just think that’s a poor way to govern. I think the funny thing is his flaws are roughly the same as Trumps, only he has some semblance of integrity as evidence by how people trust Bloomberg as a news source.

Warren would lose. She might be the smartest and most qualified out of the bunch. But there is just something there that people don’t like. She’d struggle to win, imo.

Trump debates aren't even debates. The words out of his mouth are so meaningless at this point I don't think that any Dem challenger should debate him either. How do you prep for a policy debate against a man who says one thing while actively doing the exact opposite?

You can't hit him on it because he just said that is what he supports. Or he'll just say "WRONG" into the microphone with anything you say whether it's true or not.

So, what I think the Dem challenger should do is host a televised rally, townhall or interview every single night after they win the nomination. Stick to policy and hit him on his policy when he can't spin it or lie about it. Do not give Trump a platform with independents where he can sell them snake oil. Force him to choose between campaigning and golf. Force him to try to keep up with you.

But that's just my opinion. I'm sure whoever the Dem candidate is will run another terrible campaign.

@BeddieKU23 Yea I don't know why we'd let them have a recruiting spectacle at our expense. It makes no sense, especially when you consider the talent that we actually do compete for in Wichita.

As a fan, sure I want to watch it.

But Bill is actually stingy with his away games. He isn't going to give one of them to WSU. And he isn't going to give a helping hand in recruiting to WSU.

The thing is, WSU would have this as their #1 game to bring recruits to all season long. KU would not be bringing recruits to this game.

KU vs MU, I guarantee KU will have recruits behind the bench for that game because the atmosphere is going to be insane. There is an actual trade off.

KU as a program benefits absolutely none by giving WSU a game in Wichita.

And the truth is that WSU doesn't want to schedule KU either or it'd be done already. They want a home game, and know that it is never going to happen. So they keep dragging this same conversation up every season.