If Wiggins goes up there, I'll email the AD.
11 loss season, 2nd round exit.
He was 1st team All-Overhyped though. So you know there's that.
Kcmatt7
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I don't see the benefit of playing WSU in the regular season.
I would like to see a Sprint Center battle one year with KSU, KU, WSU and MU as our tournament. That'd be a ton of fun at PnL. Just two exhibitions in two day. KU plays MU and then WSU the next day. KSU plays WSU and then MU.
But that'd never happen.
@BShark said in Marcus Morris:
I get where you guys are coming from but...take it up with Bill and/or the AD? :man_shrugging:
I'm not THAT upset about it. And I get that it's whoever Bill wants.
I just think it's stupid. It will take away from everyone past, present and future that's going up there. If that is what Bill and Co. want that's fine. But let's be real about it at least. Marcus doesn't deserve it and if he didn't have the long NBA career he's had I doubt he'd be going up there.
The one thing I'll give Marcus credit, is that if he'd have come back for his senior season it's very likely we win it all and he walks out of Lawrence with 2000 career points and a NC. And he'd probably have been a 1st team AA that next season.
I can't even imagine Senior versions of the twins playing next to Jr. T-Rob and Withey. Replace Kevin Young and Justin Wesley in 2012 and tell me we don't win a NC.
Kenpom is broke basically the same way right now. B10 is such a joke right now.
This must be how people felt about the B12 the past 7-8 years.
@BShark said in Marcus Morris:
@Kcmatt7 Banned
Sweet 16, Round of 32, Elite 8.
He was on the Northern Iowa AND the VCU squads that got beat.
What did he do to deserve to be up there? He wasn't even a 1st team All-American. He is going to be hung in the rafters as an All-Time great at KU, a top 4 most prestigious basketball program in history, and he wasn't even one of the top 5 players in the country during his best season lol.
I'm sorry, but nope.
Throw in the character issues and absolutely not.
I'm not a big fan of this one...
Did he really have a career deserving of being in the Fieldhouse for forever? He's so borderline in my mind and then I feel like I'll just be holding my breath for the day he shoots someone outside of his kids basketball game and we have to take it down in embarrassing fashion.
Marus Morris just is not someone I think we should be immortalizing next to Danny, Wilt and Pierce.
Paper straws have come a long ways these past couple of years, but still not good enough... We just bought stainless steal travel straws lol.
Type of game we get down by 15 somehow and have to claw our way back.
Morris twins have definitely had better NBA careers than I thought they would. For both to have made it as long as they have in a rotation is crazy.
Good for Marcus though. That team would be fun to play on.
I am not worried about paying for it. To me it isn't a budget issue. The potential risk of hyperinflation combined with it likely turning into an economic disaster is what scares me.
According to the link you sent me, to make the funding work they have to increase the VAT to 22%. Which is outrageously high when combined with sales tax. Already in Wyandotte County, Sales Tax is 9.13%. Adding 22% more to that number is insane. Adding 22% more to middle-man transactions too.
Let's set up a scenario.
Hanes T-shirt costs $10 today at Walmart. With tax it is $10.92.
Under the Yang proposal, the Cotton company sells it to the manufacturer at .50 a shirt (roughly). With the tax, they are now .61 a shirt. Then there is the manufacturer who sells to Hanes. They used to sell the shirt at $1. But now that they are buying at .61 they increased their cost to Hanes to 1.15. With the tax that comes to $1.41. Now, Walmart used to buy the shirt for $4.00. Now the shirt costs $4.40 and after the taxes is costs $5.36. And now Walmart sells the shirt for $11.99 and the final total comes to a total of $15.72 after local and state sales tax.
That is a 44% increase in goods, that will be passed on to the consumer, at the very least. This doesn't include the increases companies will have to pay for items just to operate. Over 50% is not out of the question.
It is very likely in my mind that goods would increase 35%-50% and massive layoffs would ensue. Tanking the economy.
This doesn't take into the account that demand for housing would likely increase during this same time period. What I'll call the "period of bliss." This is a year to six months of the UBI where companies haven't adjusted yet and people feel rich from their additional income. Because of this, banks and lenders will take advantage of poor unsuspecting people who are bound to get laid off. So we end up with another banking and housing bubble.
I hate the idea of relying on the government for income. I could be convinced that giving college kids $1000 a month instead of free tuition would lower the barrier for entry to college and level the playing field, sure. Or even people 18-26 to get their lives started. I'd hear that argument.
Now you take all of this into account before getting into taxing capital gains at such a high rate too. Capital Gains taxes are stupid. I'm going to say it again. Capital Gains taxes are stupid. They are part of the reason inferior companies and products routinely win out. And people invest less because of Capital Gains. Where if you could just invest when you had the cash and pull it out when you needed it, you'd have more flexibility and invest more money into the economy and into better companies.
I simply cannot support a candidate who wants UBI. It has been proven that increasing sales tax (VAT) disproportionately hurts the poor. Even if you are providing them cash, it's all relative. There would be 6-12 months of bliss for lower-middle income families. And then the economy would collapse, with them being the first people to get laid off. And they'd never have been so poor after the essentially mandated inflation.
I can't imagine the regulations that would have to get implemented at the same time as this to even get it close to working. The amount of predatory lending and bankruptcy regulations that would have to get put in place would be insane. To stave off mass layoffs you'd have to raise the cost companies pay in unemployment to astronomical levels.
Perhaps I need to try to find the positives in it. I just don't really see any...
I haven't watched Yang. I've basically written him off for UBI being his main platform he's running on. I will not listen to someone who thinks giving the entire country $1,000/mo would solve anything and not create major inflation. It would be like 6 months of bliss followed by an economic collapse as inflation catches up.
It scares me quite a lot to be honest.
It has been a tradition my entire life.
I like traditions.
I think people these days are a bunch of babies who can't have any fun ever. Yelling Chiefs doesn't hurt a soul. But it sure does make me smile every time I hear it.
But my bet lol
Andy Reid deserved this. Everything lined up.
BShark said:
Switched to the lucky ku shirt just before the 4th quarter. :eyes:
I switched seats
stoptheflop said:
Christian doesn't seem to be looking to shoot today. No shot attempts so far.
Got fouled on his only one
Woodrow said:
DoubleDD said:
So if a country is labeled as the most corrupt in the world. And a new president comes in and says hey let’s pump the brakes. We impeach them? I guess I want to ask how does the son of a VP gets a job he has no experience in. But let’s look the other way. Right?
I mean this isn’t a road Trump supporters want to go down .... right?
You’d think... but here we are.
Trump, the crusader against Nepotism. Lol.
DoubleDD said:
So if a country is labeled as the most corrupt in the world. And a new president comes in and says hey let’s pump the brakes. We impeach them? I guess I want to ask how does the son of a VP gets a job he has no experience in. But let’s look the other way. Right?
This logic is not sound.
Was aid held because they wanted to see if the country was corrupt? Or if they would investigate Biden?
If your fear is a country is corrupt, you would and should not ask that country to specifically investigate an American citizen.
He could have just withheld aid and cited he didn’t want to give millions to a new regime yet. Totally justifiable to have conditions on aid.
But only if those conditions are agreed upon U.S. policy. Asking a foreign country to publicly investigate any American Citizen is not the type of condition that should be tied to aid. Much less if that American Citizen is the son of your biggest opponent in the coming election.
He did exactly what he’s accused of. There is nothing to dispute. The testimony of the witnesses in the House were damning. Sondland literally said the President was both aware and that it was a Quid Pro Quo Bidens for Aid.
It is indisputable.
Gorilla72 said:
dylans said:
I doubt Dave starts this year after his suspension. Braun really seized the opportunity.
Dave needs minutes and confidence to prepare for next year. Thoughts?
He will still get minutes. He just isn't going to get the ceremonial start he's been getting most of the season.
BeddieKU23 said:
I was expecting the WVU/Tech game to be first to 60 then they went and scored 170 combined. Hard to explain how that game came out of no where regarding their two styles of play.
It doesn't look like KU is going to be a team that hits 70 on the reg so I'd agree we'll likely score in the 60's (hopefully high) and if the defense does its job they won't hit 60
I think of it this way. KU hasn't allowed 70 points in regulation in any game except the Dayton game. So while we are due, if Duke, Baylor or Nova can't score 70 I don't think Tech is.
BeddieKU23 said:
Kenpom has this a 12 point win for KU. Haven't seen Vegas line but predicting its lower then that.
Tech gets out and pressures the perimeter and forces turnovers (Top 15 nationally) in turnover %, top 5 in non-steal turnover rate. They will try and limit post touches for Doke because that's their biggest weakness, zero size in the post unless they go to freshman.
I think the Vegas line will be under 8 if I'm guessing. That's such a toss up to me.
This is where the Money is made though. Saturday will be a race to 65 I think. And I expect the O/U line to be like 135.
BShark said:
BeddieKU23 said:
A few others that intrigue, Adama Sanogo 6'9 C playing for the Patrick School (NJ). Just recently got eligible for them and is really solid rebounder. Originally from Mali.
At the 4 spot I would love to see them target KJ Adams, he can shoot outside and get dirty in the post. That's if they miss on Brown.
Gotta land KB. Kinda all in there.
Don't think we have a shot with Sanogo. From what I understand, KU will not be landing another player from Mali.
Funny how the Diallo story line went from us doing right by him and fighting for him to it just completely blowing up in our face.
BeddieKU23 said:
SDSU is great value statistics say teams that make it this far undefeated are going places in the tourney
Yea I'm about 99% sure I'm going to throw $100 their way.
They've beaten some very good teams. Iowa, BYU, Creighton, and Utah St. are top 50 teams. All of those games were either Neutral or Away games too...
If it tells you how I feel about this team, If the Chiefs win and the total points are over 54 on Sunday, I'm probably going to be rolling a grand on to KU at 7/1.
Value picks rn - Kentucky at 20/1. SDSU at 30/1. Ohio State 50/1. Texas Tech 60/1.
BShark said:
Kcmatt7 said:
I don't know of any Bill Self player with a lower Drtg per 100 possessions ever.
Basically no one.
Hunter and Cheick were mid 80s but only played 200 minutes.
Jo was 90, so you could imagine him as a SR...
Jeff bigdong Withey in his legendary SR campaign was 84.2.
TRob 84.6 as a JR.
SR Cole was the closest I saw at 83.1.
Thanks for verifying.
@BShark Doke is the best big man in college ball right now. His impact on both ends is unmatched. You literally have to double team him everytime he touches it or he scores. And he is blocking 11% of shots and teams are only scoring 81 points per 100 possessions with him on the floor. I don't know of any Bill Self player with a lower Drtg per 100 possessions ever.
If journos looked at more than just PPG, Doke would be in the lead for POY imo.
I personally think Garrett will find his way on to an NBA roster. He's so good at everything else besides shooting he will find a spot. He's basically who Shuan Livingston was for those Warriors championship teams.
This is going to sound sort of funny.
I am young, I think you all know that. So I'm just now finding my Political Identity. I feel as though I'm a moderate. I have been called shitty names by both sides, that's how I know... I personally find the current President and his administration unbearable as, I've made clear. But I've quit worrying about it so much recently.
Why?
Well since Disney + came out, I've started watching the Simpsons from Episode 1. I've never watched them all the way through before. And, you know what, we have been in this same battle as a country for over 30 years. The things said over 30 years ago are still being said today. Almost exactly. It was hysterical!
And as I've now made it through about 8 season (I let it play in the background while I do other things), I am reassured that the U.S. will be just as divided and partisan tomorrow as it is today and was yesterday.
So I've quit watching the hearings. I quit being so captivated by it on Twitter and TV. He did what he is being accused of, and he's going to get away with it. I've made peace with that. It's clear he did it. You have to twist yourself into a pretzel to even try to argue what he was doing was okay. I have a lot of opinions on how this all was handled, but ultimately things will be decided in November. That's where we are.
What I haven't made peace with is term limits. Or rather, a lack there of. What the impeachment has made clear to me is that we don't have an independent body capable of holding a president accountable. Every single position in the Legislative branch should be single-term. You can do one in the House and one in the Senate. They cannot be consecutive. We absolutely need this. People argue experience is more important. I disagree. People are smart. Whether you like AOC or not I don't care. She has proven that you can go from a bartender to drafting bills without needing multiple terms. "Regular" people are up to the task. I'm an accountant, so independence, from a process perspective, is extremely important to me. Unlimited Term limits in Congress is a disaster that our founding fathers apparently didn't see coming.
To provide an example from the accounting world, in the Early 2000s, laws were passed that force Public Companies to rotate auditors every 5 years. Why did they do this? Enron was a main reason. For context: the auditors for Enron were getting paid millions of dollars to essentially help coverup the schemes going on by Enron. And instead of doing their job and acting as an independent body, they wanted to keep that account. So they let things slide. They covered up indiscretions and consulted on how to hide things from necessary reporting on the public financials. And they cost thousands of people to go broke. Thousands more to lose jobs. And it was all because they couldn't do their one damn job, be an independent set of eyes and ears. Thus, the mandatory switching.
Does switching auditors suck? Absolutely. They don't know your business. They haven't seen how you account for certain transactions yet. They don't understand your spreadsheets yet. They don't know who to test, where to test, how to test. You have to go over all of your processes with them again. It is a huge pain in the ass. But, that independence is what keeps another Enron from happening.
The same thing is happening here. We have people sitting in Congress raking in cash. And instead of ever being compelled to do the thing they actually truly feel is right, they walk party lines and take money from corporations. They are not an independent body. Not even close. They are a corrupt group of people fighting for power and nothing more.
I don't know that Trump would get impeached even if we had term limits and members could vote freely. I really don't. But I do know that at least I'd have the confidence that Representatives were independent in their votes and not just toeing the party line because they are up for reelection in 2020.
Crimsonorblue22 said:
@Kcmatt7 can we do that? Wasn’t sure I was reading that right
I don’t see why we couldn’t.
I don’t often think this, but I’d consider revoking the Star’s media privileges.
I think if you give your word, and then the circumstances behind your commitment change, than you are more than justified to change your mind.
FarmerJayhawk said:
It made a lot of intuitive sense to me as well. Hopefully we land a QB who can make throws on a rope to the field side, otherwise we'll certainly be limited in what we can do. I suppose if nothing else we can put the Y to the boundary, but things can get congested. Maybe run more 12 personnel if a second TE emerges? I need to see if some Bethel games are around to watch. I think he used a fair amount of 12 then.
I'd like to see us do a lot of 11 with the Y off the line.
I think one of our strengths is our WRs. I don't want to take them off the field really.
Really wish Bill would think about the tourney sometimes...
This team is definitely good enough to win it all this year. But I don't know that we can do it if we aren't healthy.
Things change all the time. When you have a roster and staff of 200+, things are going to happen. Players want PT. They want to play for certain coaches. They don't want to play with certain other players. Etc. Etc. Etc.
The average turnover rate in the business world is 18% across all industries. But somehow we expect 17 and 18 year olds to be 100% committed for the next 4 or 5 years of their lives and they aren't even allowed to have second thoughts.
Just funny to me.
FarmerJayhawk said:
Caldwell is going to sign, so that's a big win for us. I think Bryant and Harden are JuCo's. Both are bounceback candidates if they get things in order. Hearing the staff is still on the hunt for a grad transfer QB and will be very aggressive in the portal. I think MacVittie is a much better fit for Dearmon's scheme than Koennig's so we'll see if he can win the job. Otherwise, ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not sure who they think they can get still as far as grad transfers go... The realistic options look pretty slim.
Anthony Brown is an intriguing one for me.
You made me go back and rewatch some stuff.
I like the idea of teaching gaps instead of coverages... That keeps it way more simple. Something I wish I would have taught my freshman QBs when I was coaching.
I think one thing that limited the offense last year was Stanley's arm strength. I think that took away some of the quick outs and hitch routes from the playbook.
The reason I'm so big on Tony Bennett, he's finished the season ranked the past 6 seasons. This might be the first year he hasn't in the past 7. And 5 of those seasons he finished Top 6.
So he's won consistently through multiple recruiting classes and not just been a good team. He's had arguably one of the best 6 teams the past 7 consecutive years. And he's proven he can win the big one.
AND he's now proven he can win no matter where. He's done it at two P5 schools, neither of whom were a basketball powerhouse before he got there.
You can say Virginia basketball is boring, and I'd agree with you. But you can't say it doesn't win.
BShark said:
I didn't mean that they all flamed out just that they were flukey. I don't think Beard will totally fade but I wouldn't tag him as the top coaching candidate either.
Yea I need to see at least next season before I'm sold on him I think. This is the first year he's had his own guys and they are 12-7 with 4 games left against KU, Baylor and WVU.
And then they have road games against everyone else in the league except KSU and TCU.
Kenpom is projecting they finish 18-13.
To put it in a little perspective, Bill Self hasn't lost 13 games since 1995 at Oral Roberts.
He hasn't lost 12 games since 1998 in his first year at Tulsa. And since then, he has never lost more than 10 games in a season.
I'm not going to absolutely crush Beard over this season. But if next year he doesn't bounce back with a team ready to compete for the league title I'll be skeptical that he's the guy. He will have back to back Top 15 recruiting classes and that should be plenty of talent to challenge or beat KU in the B12.
BShark said:
HighEliteMajor said:
@BShark How many coaches got to the final game that you would say to be random in the last two decades? Weber had Self’s players. Beyond that?
UConn twice including once with Kevin Ollie (who proceeded to flame out). Shaka, the Loyola coach, Frank Martin, Lon Kruger, Greggggg, Huggins.
That's going back 10 years. 8 in 10 years so usually about one a year. I almost wanted to include Gonzaga too since they flame out so much.
You would have thought Kevin Ollie was easily the next big thing too.
HighEliteMajor said:
Beard took TT to within a play or two of a National Championship, not KU, UNC, Duke or UK with all the advantages of a blue blood.
There is no better choice as your coach for the next 15 years than Beard.
Bruce Weber did this too at Illinois... Shaka had a FF run at VCU.
Just pointing out that a tournament run doesn’t necessarily dictate future success. Sometimes I think some of these guys do better at smaller schools with less turnover and getting to a blue blood is an entirely different animal. This is a rare time KU has a starting 5 that was all on the roster a year ago. And even at that, our 6th, 7th and 8th guys off the bench weren’t.
Beard has massive turnover the first time in his career and he’s probably going to finish outside the top 25 this season. He will lose two of his starters after this season too.
If next seasons Tech team isn’t top 25, are you going to be saying the same thing?
Doke is going to make an NBA roster.
If we win this game with how terribly Braun and Moss played and having to play 5 guards most of the game Bill deserves a tip of the cap.
Ochai finishes like a guy who weights 180 lbs and Dotson finishes like a guy 6’5 240
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Must watch video.
BeddieKU23 said:
The funny part in Whitney leaving UK at least for now is that him leaving didn't necessarily indicate he was transferring. His stock has plummeted to late 2nd round (and that's a bunch of bologna in itself). Wonder if he blames Cal, ha.
Yea I didn't read his statement as him transferring. I think he goes pro.
It's not overly cheerful though lol.
Wind River is super good.
BeddieKU23 said:
Kcmatt7 said:
Kcmatt7 said:
You'd have to think you see a UK player defect sometime this season. Juzang, Brooks and Whitney have all gotten off to a rough start. Add Allen into the mix at some point. All play the same position.
Then you have Askew, Fletcher, Boston and Clarke all coming in next year.
Seems like at least two on the current roster will be defects.
God I'm good.
What else you got?
Can you predict a National Championship for the good guys. I suggest you make it happen
If KU makes it to the tournament healthy, I will literally put my money on it...
I'm going to roll my Chiefs winnings right on over lol.
Kcmatt7 said:
You'd have to think you see a UK player defect sometime this season. Juzang, Brooks and Whitney have all gotten off to a rough start. Add Allen into the mix at some point. All play the same position.
Then you have Askew, Fletcher, Boston and Clarke all coming in next year.
Seems like at least two on the current roster will be defects.
God I'm good.
Kcmatt7 said:
I totally forgot Saturday is College Gameday in Lawrence...
The timing of this fight couldn't have been worse lol. It's going to be all they talk about in the lead up to our game.
Who wants to bet they show the still of Silvio holding the chair that he never ends up swinging?