Probably a good move for him. I think most guys would look rough in the G-League playing against grown men.
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Meyer not getting fired was all money. Between boosters and a legal battle that could still result in a huge payout to Meyer, this was the expected result.
NCAA is really just going for it this year. After, 65 years of being pretty crotchety, it's almost unbelievable too see these sweeping changes come in all at once.
@BeddieKU23 I think so too. But I feel like more and more you see #50 guys going somewhere they can get PT immediately. He'd be coming in and facing quite a bit of competition for minutes here I think.
@JayHawkFanToo my projections for UK:
- PG: Hagans
- SG: Quickley
- SF: Johnson
- PF: Washington
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C: Travis
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- Herro
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- Green
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- Montgomery
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- Richards
The thing I see from UK, bad defense. Again. Their rim protection got worse this season unless one of Richards or Montgomery are a big surprise and play 25 MPG. They really don't have much returning, imo. Basically two starters (if you include Travis) and a backup PG. I expect Richards, Washington and Green to basically be the exact same player they were the season before. So nothing special from any of them.
I just struggle to see where they upgrade over last season's squad. They will probably be forced into a 4 guard scenario multiple times this year due to lack of post depth. Both PJ and Richards were in foul trouble A LOT last season. EJ Montgomery probably won't be an exception, as most freshman bigs are notoriously bad at fouling.
I see an 8 loss team. Probably even double digits if the SEC pans out the way I think it could. Tennessee, Florida, LSU, MSU, Auburn, Mizzou, A&M, Vandy and Bama will all be tough this season.
@BeddieKU23 Yea next season's group looks like they may really struggle. I'd like to land Williamson, but if we land someone who might play in front of him I don't think he comes. He will want a starting spot I think. And I don't know that we can promise that right this second.
@JayHawkFanToo I just said that I don't think he starts.
Not arguing with you that he can shoot. But I think he probably has some limitations that keep him out of the starting rotation.
Thinking about this more now, I wonder if KJ stays to finish up his eligibility. I doubt it, as he should have his degree. I think the plan is probably both KJ and Dedric will be gone.
Doke is likely gone.
I assume SDS is gone too. Either he is eligible and Scouts love his athleticism or he is ineligible and he is forced to leave. Either way, don't think he is back.
Finally, I expect Grimes to leave.
That puts the 2019-2020 Depth Chart like this:
- PG: Dotson, Moore, Jacobs
- SG: Garrett
- SF: Agbaji
- PF: Lightfoot
- C: Big Dave
At this point, I'd say we have 6 scholarships to dish out.
My predictions on who we land:
- PG: None.
- SG/SF: Achiuwa and a transfer
- PF: Hurt and JRE
- C: Cockburn
We need another post added to this class, but I just find it unlikely that it is anyone we have heard of so far.
This one really hurt all around. I definitely checked the news every day for an update.
They ended up finding the suspect from video footage, and tracked his car down. Once police approached him, he lead them to the body.
The unfortunate twist in this is that the murderer was an undocumented illegal immigrant that somehow made it past the E-Verify Government clearance system.
Of course, both sides will use this as an example. Republicans will just claim that he was an Illegal, while Dems will use it as an example of a broken system.
Sad, sad ending to this one.
@KUSTEVE You haven't updated this in a while... Recently introduced a Crypto Currency backed by an Oil Company that is $45B in debt. This supposedly reduces the worth of the Bolivar by 96%.
@mayjay I'm sure that their Lawyers would make appearances for those cases, but I doubt that either would be in a Country that currently observes extradition with the U.S.
Poor fellas might spend the rest of their lives on and island somewhere drinking Mimosas by the beach. Punishment fits the crime...
They'll get pardoned before they ever serve any real time. Teflon Don doesn't care about the optics.
@JayHawkFanToo Herro probably won't even start.
I think Bender is the best choice for Games 1-3. And that's how I'm going to look at it. Against a Big XII opponent, Kendrick is probably the better play.
@DoubleDD Brotha, you gots to chill out. Everyone else seems to be pretty dang civil in their posts. The hostility is unnecessary. I'd like to keep this thread alive, but another spell like that and I'm sure Approx will feel like he needs to shut it down.
I'm more scared of Duke than UK, personally.
Nobody on that UK team looks like they can carry the team when they need it. Rim protection looks like it will be a challenge for them. And nobody that looks like they will be a threat both from 3 AND off of the dribble. To me, look like a bunch of one dimensional offensive players that will be easy to guard.
Duke on the other hand, scares me. I think they have 2 guys that can legit carry the whole team. So, even with a lack of depth, they worry me. They have a great lineup to be able to play a lot of position-less basketball. Which, to me, is the new advantage in basketball. The Zion factor is real to me. I think, if the refs let him, he could just physically take over a game and there would be nothing you could do about it.
I would also throw Nevada into the ring as a Top 5 team I would not want to face. I may be scared of them more than any other team. The Martins are able to play positions 1-4. They return 67 PPG, added a Top 20 recruit and a 13 PPG Grad transfer (Both PFs). Should allow them to play the Martins on the perimeter, or post up smaller players. They will be the longest team in CBB this season and a ton of fun to watch.
These results are exactly what you would have predicted lol.
@dylans agreed. Just once you mentioned him I had flashbacks that made me shudder lol. Throw Heaps in there too...
"And a bullet thrown down the middle to Jimmay Mundine, the ball goes through his hands aaaaand THE PASS IS INTERCEPTED."
Feel like I heard that 100 times.
Chryst was definitely NOT the problem for that team. I remember watching a ton of sacks and dropped passes. I mean, even when the guy would make a good pass, we couldn't haul it in. Hard to stay positive when your teammates can't pick up your slack.
@DoubleDD those fluctuations happen all of the time. When the country had almost no Welfare, the country damn near collapsed...
I'm not saying that I want a ton of people dependent on Welfare. There are a lot of things we waste tax payer money on. But, we are not replacing 12.5M low wage workers with Americans. The effect would largely be something we don't want to see happen.
It has been a long-time consensus from economists that an unemployment rate from 2.5% to 4% is a great place for an economy to be. Higher than 4% and wages get stagnant. Lower than 2.5% and inflation could take off into a theorized uncontrollable cycle of wage increases followed by price increases. So, at 3.9% in the U.S. right now, we are right where we want to be. It makes for an economy that is predictable and reliable. It is one of the main reasons why Wall Street continues to climb to all-time highs.
So, getting rid of 12M low income workers and replacing them with 12M middle-income workers and dropping the unemployment rate down near that dangerous 2.5% is something I would not be very interested in. It would disrupt 695M Americans (and millions world-wide quite frankly) far more than it would benefit the 6M who are currently unemployed (if you could theoretically swap out people who are unemployed with illegal immigrants).
Our economy is in a good place right now. The growth of the Market helps hundreds of millions of people. Part of that successful economy is having a truly low-wage workforce in our own backyards.
@DoubleDD sources? Stats that can be checked? Where is your basis for that statement coming from?
@justanotherfan The better policy decision would be additionally funding a program for registering current Illegal Immigrants and offering them all Work Visa's that are good for as long as they pay taxes and don't commit a felony.
Additionally, you severely punish anyone who houses or hires illegals that don't register in an attempt to save money on taxes. This could be done using a whistleblower/bounty law where ratting out a company that is hiring illegals would be given half of the money resulting from the fines. The fines of course would have to be so big that it wouldn't be even close to worth hiring an unregistered illegal.
I have no issues with a cheap workforce. But they do need to pay taxes because they do use things provided by our government and the taxpayers. It's that simple. About 1.7% of the U.S. population is Illegal Immigrants (12.5M estimated). And people pretend like the shitty jobs they fill is what is hurting the country. That is inherently false. What is hurting the country more than having a great supply of cheap labor is that we aren't collecting billions of dollars in taxes. (By my estimate, roughly $37.5B should be collected by the 12.5M illegal immigrants who live here). I do know that some of them pay taxes, hoping for immunity some day. But, I would say that is not the case for most. Even if half were, we are talking about a very large amount of money. This also doesn't include employers who should be paying an additional $19B into Social Security and Medicaid for their portion of Employer's taxes. Which, again, is a large number even if cut in half.
We simply need to capitalize on the low wage workforce, not attack it because we keep forgetting history and how immigrants coming in to do low wage jobs is literally how the country was built from day 1. And has been how this country has thrived. How many more times do we need to learn this lesson? Italians, Irish and Asians have all done this same exact thing. The U.S. is still standing.
What is funny to me, it is always those who are scared of someone being better than them that fight this the most. Most Irish around the Civil War Era were FOR slavery simply because they didn't want the competition for low wage jobs in the North. This, to me, is what most middle-class American's are scared of today. Competition. Conservatives today crack me up because they are the biggest Champions of "Competition and Capitalism and a Free Market", but fear all of those things the moment you bring up a Minority population coming in and "stealing all the good jobs that could go to Americans."
It isn't as simple as "those damn illegals are stealing our jobs!" Without the cheap labor, produce probably gets made elsewhere instead of here. Which is a lot of money lost. Add in that if the price of the service/product increases, people won't spend as much elsewhere.
Of course, it could result in people spending more money in the U.S. but that seems unlikely. The main problem is that the increase in the cost of the service/product is more than the tariff to have the product made somewhere else. If the service cost increases, the service will probably no longer exist.
This is not as simple as "Americans would take over those jobs." Because it is simply not true. I work for a company that does manual labor in many different trades. And the problem isn't pay. It isn't demand from the consumers. The problem is that we can't hire enough people. Most people don't want to work in the heat and do a manual labor job when they can sit in the A/C and get paid enough money to not work outside. And I can't blame them. I weed-eated for a company for an entire summer. Thousands of hours kicking sand and rocks back up into my face. And that was the job that made me sure I was going to graduate college and get an office job lol.
The main reason though, that American's wouldn't take those jobs and that it makes no sense to kick out all illegals, is the fact that their cost of living would increase significantly and basically mean they were getting paid the same shitty salary we are paying Mexicans right now, only they are busting their ass twice as hard to live an equally shitty life.
Nothing is more Royals than being a historically bad team, AND somehow still getting the 2nd pick in the draft.
Justin McMillan leaving LSU. Would be able to play immediately if I'm not mistaken. Would at least like to bring him in if he was interested.
@HighEliteMajor It wouldn't matter if I showed you (let's use a complete hypothetical here) that a banishment of guns resulted in 99% less murders. Of course that would never happen, but you would still argue that you have a right to bare arms.
To many on the right, and about 10% of the Country, it doesn't matter that the Catholic Church actively shields Priests who abuse children (and have been doing this now for over 70 years), conservatives still vote the way the Church wants them to vote.
Even with factual evidence that Global Warming is an issue, Conservatives could honestly care less. They could give a flying crap about what the World will be like when they die, so why protect it? As far as the environment goes, all they care about is the price of gas and the mileage they get because of new technology. But if they could put a new cheaper chemical in their car that was 10x worse for the environment, you bet your ass they would do it! $5 is $5.
I support a lot Conservative ideas however. If I were to be polled on where I stand on all political issues we currently face, I would be on the conservative side. But I'm continually opening my mind to knew ideas. I do my own research. I come to my own conclusions. And I am realistic. I also know that there have to be times in my life where I should be the one who makes sacrifices for the good of others.
To me, when you say "Personal Responsibility" all I hear is "Selfishness." YOU don't want anything to change because YOU like your life the way it currently is. And that is a fair stance to take. I just wouldn't call it a noble one. This country wan't built on Conservative ideas. It was built on Progressive ones, at the time. It was built out of necessity, as are most great things. It was, most importantly, built with the ability to evolve over time with the needs of the Country as a whole. Something I think those on the Right often forget.
This is laughable, imo. Give one guy the most reps and build rapport with the rest of the offense. The decision should have been made before the season. It isn't a tough decision. Either you air it out and (probably) Bender should start. Or you attack using the option and Kendrick is the choice.
But pick it already. If you are worried about gaining an advantage on Nichols state, you might as well already be fired.
From the perspective of my lifetime:
The problem is that, as data comes out, Conservatives ignore it. I don't know that HEM is wrong in that the Republican party hasn't changed since the 70s. Definitely seem to be preaching the same things since the 90s. That is the problem with the Republican party though. It is based around a certain group of people who like THEIR life the way it currently is. They do not embrace even the slightest change. Trump basically won from telling everyone that he could resurrect the U.S. of the mid-90s, and people ate that up like catnip.
However, the Democrats have changed a ton in my lifetime. Just since Clinton. Go look at Bill's running points again and then compare them to a lot of points that Trump just ran on... One just said them with a silky smooth Southern Accent while the other said it with a stupid hair cut and goofy smile. Most of the liberal ideas that I am in favor of actually have a statistical element to them. We record data, the data says one thing, we should probably implement that thing. Gun violence would be one of the examples of that. However, I can't get behind things that liberal's have no true basis for. Things like their stance on abortion, where arbitrary lines are drawn in the sand, frustrate me.
To summarize, the right is purposefully ignorant, and use it like a defense mechanism a 4 year old would use. Basically plugging their ears and yelling "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU". Which is equally as bad as the left who change stances like they are trying whatever new diet Oprah is on that year. What we need is the right to become slightly, slightly, more accepting of change. And the Left needs to become more patient and slow down a bit. We don't need to input free education, free healthcare, free transportation, free etc, immediately. We can't fiscally afford to do so if we wanted to. Both sides need to simply quit promising pipe dreams and implementing half-assed policies every 4 years that end up sucking because they were too rushed.
So, do I like the terms? I guess I could care less.They mean nothing except for that I have to choose between whether I want innocent babies murdered each year, or innocent people shot and murdered each year. One side wants to destroy the economy while the other wants to destroy the planet. What "good side" is there? Who gives a shit if you are left or right? There is no "good side" in American Politics right now. Instead of Left or Right, one side might as well be called the Chicken F-ckers and the other side the Inbred Pig Sluts, because regardless of who you choose or how you are labeled, your "side" sucks.
About time they brought charges. Just hope that this man gets convicted. Some days it feels like we are closer to the Wild West than we are to a modern society.
Was a hell of a tournament.
@approxinfinity $170k is enough to not see what real peoples problems are. Especially when you can put a lot of your coat of living into your campaign. And add in that they get a VERY good retirement plan added into that.
They don’t live like normal people. Look at a lot of their net worths.
@mayjay note that I’m only in favor of campaign spending limits in combination with term limits. I don’t see a way to make one work without the other.
@mayjay what if you capped Campaign financing, reduced Congressional Salary, benefits and retirement? What if, and I know this is crazy, we made it so that only people who wanted to make a difference wanted to be Congressmen.
Get rid of Super PACs. Limit the amount you could accept in donations to a certain amount based on the population of your district. You would be paid the U.S. Median income. You would have Obamacare. You would have a simple 401k to contribute to. You serve your maximum 8 years, and then move on with your life.
I don't know that I see more corruption from that scenario than I do anything else going on in Congress right now. Except that the people elected would have to see what it is truly like to live like a Middle-Class citizen.
@justanotherfan CFB, week 2. That is the best time to catch a bad line right now. Vegas uses data from the year before still to set their lines. So as long as you are paying attention just even a little bit, you can get some easy money.
@KUSTEVE I would not be shocked in the least to see smaller CFB and CBB rigged from time to time.
@HighEliteMajor It's sad. Unsurprising. But sad.
The worst part is that the only way to introduce term limits is to have Congress impose them on themselves. Something that seems unlikely, unless you paid them enough cash to go away.
@approxinfinity I don't necessarily disagree with that sentiment. Other countries have an Executive Branch with multiple people making the decisions. Not one. It's something I wouldn't be afraid to discuss. I just haven't done my research on how politics work for other countries under that model.
I have to add in that a lot of the reasons that it currently takes some time for a member of congress to figure out Washington is that it is unnecessarily complicated. Every Bill houses 1000 different additions just to appease people. With fresh faces every year, these little add ins that drown bills would not be added.
If we want to fix the two party system, we have to keep people from being tethered to it. With no incentive to vote based on common sense. Congressmen are voting with their wallets, not their hearts.
@justanotherfan But with Term Limits, you wouldn't be concerned with sticking to the party line. A good idea is just a good idea.
I'd take intelligent novices over experienced puppets any day of the week.
The fix is putting Term Limits on Congress.
Politics has transformed from people representing their people to complete self-interest. There should be no such thing as a "Career Politician."
Trump is the result of us letting Congress get out of control. That is where they system is broken, imo. Congress simply has no incentive to do what's right. Until term limits are imposed on Congress, it will only get worse.
If it's already happening, might as well bring it into broad daylight and regulate it. Really the only way to get rid of the corruption. They can't control the NBA, but they can control who has contact with their players and how they do it. Seems like this was the smart choice, rather than wait for the NBA to implement anything.
@Crimsonorblue22 I personally enjoy seeing future NBA stars play CBB.
@HighEliteMajor How does it hurt the game?
@BeddieKU23 Idk, they didn't even get a practice player out of the deal...
@dylans Only going to get worse too.
People don't realize how inept new police officers are going to be from here on out.
Why be a cop anymore? It used to be a good way for good people to serve their fellow man. Now, It is a shitty way for average people to make a very mediocre living. They get crapped on from all sides. It requires more school (note this is not training), it pays less, the retirement is worse, and people hate you. The quality of people applying for the job has only gotten worse.
@HighEliteMajor I'd think this would increase the product.
Having guys that are borderline pros coming back makes the product better, right?
Could Malik come back? Can we trade him for Vick?
@HighEliteMajor A lot of factors to it, but the MLB players union is pretty much always financially prepared for a holdout.
The NFL Union is not.
At this point, my only hope is that both parties continue to drift further and further away from the middle.
That will finally leave room for an independent to run for humanitarian reason's only. Not for greed or power. But simply to serve their fellow countrymen.
A lot of public schools require the FAFSA to be filed. Even for athletes who obtained a full-ride. This is for two reasons. 1 - It simplifies the 1098-T filing process to force everyone down one path. And 2 - If an athlete is eligible for any grants, their scholarship would actually only pick up what was remaining in order to save money. I don't know if KU requries this, but I would presume that they do and that almost every other school does it for those reasons.
The NCAA Clearinghouse also requires you certify that you have not taken money. In order to be eligible for an athletic scholarship you have to pass through the clearinghouse. By lying there, no doubt that they falsified documents in order to receive a scholarship. So, I'll take @majay at his word and believe that constitutes a crime.
I have yet to see how this wasn't a crime. It's not worth the FBI's resources, but it is a crime.