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KU's current deal with Adidas runs through 2019 so two more academic/athletic years on the current deal. At that point, I wouldn't be surprised if KU jumps into the top ten.

The current richest apparel deals are:

1. UCLA (Under Armour), $18.67 mil/year

2. Ohio St. (Nike), $16.8 mil/year

3. Texas (Nike), $16.67 mil/year

4. Louisville (Adidas), $16 mil/year

5. Nebraska (Adidas), $11.6 mil/year

6. Michigan (Jordan/Nike), $11.56 mil/year

7. Wisconsin (Under Armour), $9.6 mil/year

8. Notre Dame (Under Armour) $9 mil/year

9. Miami (Adidas), $7.8 mil/year

10. South Carolina (Under Armour), $7.15 mil/year

Texas A&M is right behind SCar at $7.1 mil/year. KU's current deal is 6 years for $26 mil. which averaged out to $4.33 mil/year. KU won't get a Louisville type deal, but I could maybe see KU doubling their next deal which would put KU between $8-9 mil/year and put KU in the bottom half of the top 10.

I'm still good, still have power, still have water and I don't expect any flooding where I'm at because my apartment is elevated and there's really good drainage on my street.

That said, flooding got really bad overnight all over Houston. Most of the highways are underwater now and a lot of creeks and rivers are already over their banks. It's only going to get worse over the next few days as it's being predicted that we're going to get another 24" at least on top of the 12-24" most places got overnight. All the school districts are closed for the week and I don't know what kind of shape my school will be in because it's a flood prone area with a creek about 200 yards away.

It's really bad now and it's only going to get worse here in Houston over the next few days.

@JayHawkFanToo But he went to college in Manhattan, that takes away some of his shine.

@wissox So far so good. We'll see what Harvey does, but current projections look a lot better than yesterday. Right now, tornadoes around the Houston area have been the biggest issue with Harvey. There's been some flooding in the southern and western parts of the city, but not as bad as predicted so far.

@FarmerJayhawk I honestly don't think losing Quiv is all that big a deal this year. His name was mentioned as an afterthought to Sims, Charlot, and Hampton so I don't think he probably developed all that much this spring. KU has enough quality and depth at WR even without Quiv that I wasn't concerned when he booted, and I'm still not concerned about the WR position.

@stoptheflop Cozart didn't have the accuracy for those passes, Willis was gun shy on making passes, and Stanley didn't have the arm strength. Since Bender was recruited to run Mike Leach's offense, we know arm strength isn't an issue for him. His decision making and accuracy will be what determines his level of success this year.

@BShark KU has always played TCU close since TCU joined the league (14 is TCU's biggeest win), Texas may have a new coach, but they still have mostly the same players as last year, it'll be another couple of years before they're really good at least. Snyder has major health issues now. Baylor is going to rapidly decline.

KU may not win all those games, but they'll be more competitive than you think they'll be.

5 wins is absolutely possible this year. Bottom of the Big 12 will be garbage and the conference is just going to continue to get weaker and weaker overall until Texas gets their together again and starts closing the borders to the SEC teams not located in Texas or Louisiana (A&M and LSU have always done vetter in Houston than UT has).

Even with the youth in the secondary, I fully expect the defense to be better because KU has one if the two or three best DLines in the Big 12, if not the best.

KU has depth and talent at WR even with Quiv kicked off the team. As little as we heard about him in the spring, I don't even know if he would've started this year or not.
The OLine will be better because they're more experienced now and have mostly played together for 2-3 years now. Adeneji (sp?) at LT is a future NFL linemen.

Bender is the right fit for this system, Stanley is the ideal back up, and Starks is the ideal developmental QB for this system.

All 3 non conference games are winnable, ISU, Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU, Texas, KSU, and WVU are all games KU can win on the right day.

I get the sentiment of everyone picking KU to finish last because it's the same logic used to pick basketball to win the league every year, but this KU team will win 4-5 games this year and maybe even sneak into a bowl game if Bender is better than expected and KU has a little good luck this year.

I'm good, I've got my water and some food. I'm not too worried even with the unexpected strengthening since I'm about 75 miles inland and on the same power grid as a hospital.

Can't make to the stadium and there's a big question mark on whether or not I'll even be able to watch the game anywhere since Harvey is supposed to make landfall sometime Friday night somewhere along the Texas coast and potentially dump 15" or more here in the Houston area this weekend.

Houston got put under a Tropical Storm watch earlier today so it could get really bad here this weekend. Most models right now have Houston on the dirty side of the storm so it's not looking great for Houston and the Texas and Louisiana coast's this weekend.

Bender starts, Stanley plays some, but Bender is going to be the starting QB for KU in 2017.

Bender was the one QB who didn't participate last Saturday during an open scrimmage that was mostly the back ups playing. That to me is the biggest indicator that Bender is leading and probably going to start this year.

@BShark. That narrative was postulated by some of the recruiting experts because that was the only reason Self would've looked at a transfer like Maxwell in the first place. I never said Maxwell's brother became a highly regarded recruit because he didn't. His brother was all potential and never materialized. They gambled on the brother becoming a diamond in the rough and it didn't pay off. Self has always been a gambler and sometimes you lose when you gamble and Self lost on the Maxwell gamble.

@BShark Maxwell wasn't puzzling at the time. He had a younger brother who was thought to be a potential late bloomer in recruiting, but he never bloomed and Maxwell moved on because of that.

Whitman is definitely the much more puzzling addition because it forced Coleby out. Colby would either be starting next to Doke or first big off the bench had he stayed. I didn't get the Whitman transfer at the time because it meant Coleby was moving on when it appeared that Coleby was the better player. Maybe there were personal issues with Coleby that we don't know about and he would've left regardless, but that's the biggest head scratcher transfer situation of the Self era to me.

3 of the 8 are double digit and a 4th is a 9 seed. Not exactly a lot of strength in the middle of the pack.

@drgnslayr This is the biggest difference between the Big 12 and ACC. The best team will always win the Big 12 because of the double round robin. In the ACC, you can have a team that's not the best win the regular season because they lucked out on their schedule.

Would KU's streak be at 13 if KU had Texas, OU, or OSU twice during early years of the streak when KU shared the league title? KU has definitely been the benefactor of some favorable schedules when the Big 12 still had divisions and avoided playing some of those really good UT, OU, and OSU teams twice in the mid to late 2000's.

@justanotherfan Missouri was never a 1 seed during KU's streak. They were a 2 seed once and lost in the 1st round that year.

@drgnslayr The biggest difference is the unbalanced schedule in the ACC. We know our conference opponents every year in the Big 12 because of the double round robin. In the ACC, you could be unfortunate enough to draw a brutal road schedule and suddenly, you're struggling to contend even if you have a very good team because some decent, but not great team drew a much more favorable schedule than you did.

As for the original question, I think Duke would be the one with a chance and that's it. Sure they haven't won many ACC titles recently, but they also haven't had true off years either like UK and UNC have. How far down in the ACC would the 2008-09 KU team have finished? The 2011-12 team that had no depth and was using Justin Wesley as a rotation player? The 2013-14 and 2014-15 teams that lost 10 and 9 games those seasons? Those are KU teams that don't win the ACC and probably finish as far down as Duke has some years? Some of those Duke teams that have finished 5th and 6th I think we're good enough to win the Big 12 those years, or at least good enough to not write them off.

Obviously hypothetical, but I think Duke is the one who could have done what KU has done in role reversal.

Something I would be curious to see is how many national titles KU would have if KU had the this run in the 60's and 70's and the Wooden era Bruins went on their run in this era. Prior to 1975 (Wooden's final season), only conference champs made the NCAA Tournament so there was much less competition in the NCAA Tournament in the Wooden run. What could KU do in an NCAA Tournament with only conference champs in It? How many fewer titles would Wooden have wokn if UCLA had to run through 64+ teams that weren't exclusively conference champs?

AAU is what's wrong with basketball in the US right now. It doesn't prepare players to succeed at higher levels and mostly serves to bring out the worst in players and coaches. There needs to be a major overhaul of prep basketball so that kids are learning skills that will gp them in college and the pros and so the coaches and players can be held accountable when they act like whiny little babies.

@Lulufulu Dog and cat meat is Asia.
China, Korea, SE Asia, that part of the world.

Svi will start when the season starts, Svi will be starting. Only reason Vick is starting right now is because Svi was in Greece with his national team and not practicing with KU like Vick was.

@jaybate-1.0 I would say the reason why KU football has been a historically mediocre program is the same reason KU basketball has been a historically great program. In the early years of college athletics, coaches didn't usually stay for more than a year or two before moving to another job. A lot of the historic blue bloods of today were the programs that were fortunate enough to have a coach stay for a long time in the early years of their program.

KU football never got lucky enough to have a coach stay long term in the early years. KU did have an all time football coaching great pass through for a year. Fielding Yost who is reponsible for Michigan football coached at KU for a year and had KU been the place he settled down at instead of Michigan, KU may very well have Michigan's history in football. The one coach who stayed 6 years in the early years, Burt Kennedy, is still KU's all time leader in coaching wins at 52. Had he stayed at KU for 20-25 years instead of bouncing around KU, Washburn, and Haskell, and not retired to practice dentistry, then who knows where KU football is at today. The man went 52-9-4 in 6 seasons, so he knew what he was doing.

With KU basketball, KU was lucky to have Phog Allen be the successor to Naismith because he brought a stability to the program that was very rare in those days. Had the basketball gone through as many coaches early on as the football program did, it's highly unlikely KU basketball is the blue blood that it is today.

@JayHawkFanToo Yes, MLK did antagonize people. He wasn't violent about it, but he absolutely antagonized people. Kap did hurt the 49ers bottom line and he was released by the 49ers after the season. His actions did cost him his job.

How does Kap going into politics at least several years into the future help the issue of police brutality in 2016 when did his protest? Kap was also hardly the only athlete to protest police brutality. Many NBA players, including LeBron and other top stars were "Don't choke me" shirts during warm ups and we're fined for that and caused a lot of controversy at the time.

Spin it however you want, agree or disagree all you want, Kap's message would not have nearly as effective or received the attention it did had he done it in a way that the 49ers approved of because that would've been an ineffective method that people would've forgotten about 3 days later.

Kap knew there were risks to what he chose to do, including losing his job, and he still chose to protest his cause and deal with the consequences of his actions.

@JayHawkFanToo Calling a press conference to say you disagree with how some law enforcement officers have treated minorities doesn't gain nearly the attention or dialog that protesting during the national anthem does.

MLK didn't accomplish what he did by preaching in his local church in Montgomery. He got the attention of the nation with big, grand actions like leading boycotts, marches, and other stuff that received national attention and made the country see what was happening to black people in Alabama and across the deep South.

When you make the big statements like Kap made, it's going to be very polarizing. MLK's actions were considered very polarizing at the time as well.

So while Kap could've expressed his opinion in a way that didn't alienate a segment of the NFL's fan base, those methods tend to be very ineffective because people don't remember that stuff.

People are going to remember Kap kneeling during the national anthem and then see that he was protesting police brutality because it was a memorable statement.

Who's to say he won't get involved in politics once his career is over? He can't run for office while he's still an active NFL player, so making a statement while he's an active player is the way he can express his views on a public forum since running for office is out of the question at this point.

@JayHawkFanToo LeMelo isn't blameless in people disliking him. He has a lot of his dad in him and has shown that in the times he's been allowed to talk. When he was on WWE a few weeks ago, he crossed a line by saying the n-word multiple times to about a white guy. His actions alongside his dad has brought a lot of it on himself, but that doesn't fit the ESPN narrative so they won't mention that.

Kap took a calculated risk in choosing his protest method and it has been very effective in opening the dialog still today which is the 1st step in making real change. Go look throughout history and you will find that sports has often been the catalyst for change when it comes to social issues all around the world, including the US.

@jaybate-1.0 KU football is older than KU basketball. KU football started in 1890 and KU basketball started in 1898.

@JayHawkFanToo He's already made millions of dollars, and people are still talking about him and why he was protesting almost a year later. His protest was effective regardless of whether or not someone agrees with his position or methods because the discussion is still going on.

I don't think this is the loss it could have been. Quiv's name was barely mentioned this off-season when discussing receivers which leads me to believe he wasn't progressing much. I've also heard rumors about Quiv being a bit of problem child which isn't surprising considering the culture he came from at Texas A&M.

KU has plenty of depth at WR to deal with this situation and Schadler should step right into Quiv's projected spot in the line up.

@HighEliteMajor Your racism and prejudice is showing.

@wissox Baltimore had the Freddie Gray riots a couple of years ago for the very reason Kap was protestesting the anthem. Don't think Kap would have been boo'd much in Baltimore.

@mayjay The Italy trip is not NCAA sanctioned which is why the transfers are eligible to play so those practices have no impact on transfer eligibility. The reason why the rules read the way they do are for the schools that are on the quarter system as opposed to the semester system. I don't know what WKU's academic calender looks like whether they run on a traditional calender or on quarters, but quarters don't usually start until late September or early October and practices don't start until mid October. Even if the WKU kid waits until after the Italy trip to come here, there's nothing that would stop that from happening and from him playing for KU this year.

@BeddieKU23 Then explain the logic of how KU signs two 5 star PG's when they will already have a top 50 PG already on campus and in the system for a year?

@BeddieKU23 KU flat out is not signing 2 top rated PG's in 2018 when they already have Charlie Moore who will have spent a year in the program at that point.

@jayballer54 No, he wouldn't have to sit out because he's leaving before classes start. Just like Whitman won't have to sit out either because of the timing of his departure.

@BeddieKU23 KU isn't landing Dotson period. Grimes is priority and KU isn't getting both them. I also don't know if Arizona gets Dotson either considering they already have Brandon Williams inked. I'd rather Grimes anyway because he fill the bigger need for KU.

Everything I saw said LeBron was denied because he arrived late and he had his entourage with him which was pretty big. If it was just LeBron by himself, he probably gets in, but his entourage is what caused the issue with capacity.

@HighEliteMajor False, signed someone who played football and soccer growing up.

@approxinfinity There's still plenty of places around the world where headers aren't banned at any age and there's plenty of headers going on during pick up games in the US from 13 year olds and younger.

I received more concussions playing 4 years of youth soccer than I did in 8 years of football, all of which were spent on the O and DLines.

Those that want to ban football, you also need to look at soccer and hockey as well. Soccer players take repeated shots to the head from the ball, and ball is really hard, and they also bang heads regularly on jumps trying to head the ball. Soccer players have been known to have brain trauma as well from years of taking soccer balls to the head.

Hockey players also collide with each other, their heads get bounced off the boards and ice itself. Not to mention that players also are skating around on razor blades and we've seen players get accidentally slashed with skates in the past.

Football is not the only sport in the US that exposes its participants to repeated brain trauma so if football dies a death because of that, soccer and hockey will as well.

Football isn't dying anytime soon, at least not for reasons mentioned here. MMA is safer than boxing and has been for a long time now.

In soccer in developed nations, kids are banned from heading the ball until about 1e or 14 years old because of the impact on developing brains taking head shots with a soccer ball caused. I think football is headed for something similar. Maybe flag football or 7 on 7 through middle school and then don't allow kids to play full contact until they reach high school. Basic fundamentals also aren't taught much any more and I think that would make a huge impact as well teaching kids the proper way to wrap up and tackle.

@DoubleDD KSU is probably switching with KU and going over to 610.

Officially announced 810 today.

I wouldn't be shocked, 810 is doing a broadcast from the KU Bookstore while Frank is doing a special appearance there on Friday.

@drgnslayr I believe in the adage that it's better to have and not need than to not have and need. I'd much rather have the issue of trying to find minutes for everyone than not have enough players for all the minutes.

That 2008 team was the deepest KU team perhaps ever. That team also suffered through injuries to multiple players throughout the season. Without the depth they had, they don't win that title. 2012 was very fortunate to not have any injury issues because that team was even thinner than this team will be in terms of depth.

@Kubie Reason why Mitch may not be big enough has nothing to do with height. 6-8 is plenty tall enough to guard in the post against other 4's as most college 4's are in the 6-8 to 6-9 range. The concern is his weight. He may have a great motor, but that motor doesn't change the physics of what'll happen when he's guarding someone who has 25-30 lbs. of muscle of him which will happen in the Big 12 and NCAA Tournament against other P5 programs. Mitch should be fine against the low majors KU will play in the nonconference, but that's not where the issue ever was since that's about 10 games out of potentially 40 for KU.

@justanotherfan Any deal with Kyrie is going to be a multi-team deal because the teams woth the players to trade dor Kyrie straight up aren't going to do that. The players I listed off are the ones that would for sure be involved because of salaries and/or their current team wanting to move them.

Any deal with San Antonio will involve LaMarcus Aldridge. Any deal with New York will involve Carmello and likely Porzingis. Any deal with Houston will involve Ryan Anderson, and any deal with Boston will include Isaiah Thomas. Those are the easy part of any deal involving Kyrie, the complicating part is the draft picks, role players, expiring contracts, and other stuff like that. Another complication is that any deal is almost guaranteed to be a 3 team deal or more and figuring out the money and players to make that deal work.

@HawkChamp It doesn't matter if the defense is good or not, KU doesn't have options because they don't have the bodies. Garrett, Svi or Vick, and Lightfoot are the sub options for the 1st month of the season. Lightfoot and Vick don't have the bulk to guard bigger 4's, Svi is just a below average defender, and Garrett is a question mark on defense until we see him play. Cunliffe is the best fit as the 4th big, but he doesn't become eligible until mid December so KU has 3 subs to start the year before they get into walk ons. KU will be very limited in their options this year as far as subs go.

@HawkChamp KU doesn't have the depth to play a traditional 3-2 line up all the time. Lightfoot is too small to play in the post on offense so when he's in, KU will be in a 4 out set. KU is also not likely going to find a capable body to fill that spot at this point.

@drgnslayr The biggest issue is that KU will only have 8 scholarship players until mid-December when Cunliffe becomes eligible. Garrett, Svi/Vick, and Lightfoot will be the bench. If an injury or major foul issues happen, there will be a walk on playing relevant minutes for KU this season.

@mayjay It doesn't hurt future recruiting though. Self has a way of doing things and when players don't do things the right way according to Self, there's negative consequences to that. In this case, telling Self face to face and having the exit meeting. I want to say the player Self did it to previously was Rio Adams, but I could be off on that one.