@KansasComet Jackson is worse than Selden was and Bragg is worse than Ellis was. Even if everybody else shoots what they did last year, Jackson and Bragg are downgrades from the guys they're replacing as 3 point shooters.
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This probably won't be a good enough 3 point shooting team for that strategy to be effective. Just to offset the the 2 point and FT's, KU probably has to be a 40% or better 3 point shooting team. Last year could have been a legitimate option because that was a great 3 point shooting team. This year's team does not appear to be on that level and if the end up in the 35-36% range from 3 as a team, that comes out to 105-108 points per 100 attempts. Let's say this team ends up in the 48% range from the field as a team and 70% from the FT line and attempts 20 FT's per 100 FGA, that puts KU at 96 points on the FGA alone and another another 14 points from the FT line for 110 points from 2 point range including assumed FTA. that's 110 points.
The reality is that it would be much more efficient to drive to the rim every single possession because those FGA combined with FTA's are statistically much more efficient than attempting nothing but 3FG's where the foul rate is minimal.
This will always be a curious debate, but the reality is that I don't believe any college team will ever be a good enough 3 point shooting team to make that a more efficient shot than driving to the rim and trying to get fouled. 3 pointers however will always be a more efficient than midrange jumpers that have a slightly higher make %, but similar foul rate and worth one fewer point.
I think my ultimate position on this will be that unless a team shoots 40% or better from 3, it's just never going to efficient enough to seriously consider a sound strategy over shooting at the rim where the foul rate is much higher so the FT's combined with 2FG%. My order for just about every team will be shooting at the rim, then 3 pointers, then midrange.
Learning how to close out games is the most frustrating part of the process because KU could conceivably be 4-6 right now instead of 1-9. The more opportunities they have in these situations, the sooner the light will come on for them. Disappointing in the moment, but part of the process of learning to walk before they can run though.
@KansasComet There was nothing wrong with Josh saying KU was trying to undefeated. He didn't predict KU would go undefeated, just that it was a goal and it should be a goal of every KU every year because there are very few games KU is more than a toss up to lose.
@kjayhawks Sims got bumped and fell. Stanley had the right idea on that play.
Crap
@kjayhawks 2 points would've made it a 6 point game which forces the extra point to be made to potentially win at that point. Considering there's already been a blocked PAT in this game and Wyman's misfortunes in kicking, it's not a bad strategy.
Cool move by ISU with the signed helmet.
That pitch took some brass balls.
I'll take a halftime lead every time.
Sounded like a good scoring drive from the bathroom, lol.
@DanR interesting
Touchdown Sims!
How was that not interference!?!?
Free 15 or half the distance
@stoptheflop It's a variation of the sweep. It's just part of the running game designed to pick up 3-4 yards at a time when run well. That was just a horribly placed ball by Stanley forcing Sims to go backwards.
That's a pick, thought we were gonna get screwed on that one.
Quiv needs to be pulled from return duty, too many mistakes. I know ge was looking in the sun, but no excuse for that one. Props to the defense for holding them to a FG.
KU 31-21 today since Stanley is starting.
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It's an opening game against a high quality opponent. Both sides made some mistakes late, but Blackmon's 3 in OT that put IU up for good was just a great shot made over quality defense. KU will be fine in the long run even if the lose Tuesday as well.
I've been saying it off and on for awhile, but KU was never the leader for any of the players committing in the fall with the exception of Ayton who surprised most people by not going with KU.
The reason why Self struggles with fall commits is because there's usually too many question marks with the roster in the fall. The roster questions usially start to clear up in January nd February, so KU usually has a much better shot at spring signees anyway.
@kjayhawks I guess it depends on where you live because Delta is almost always tge most expensive of the major domestic airlines in Houston. Probably because most Delta flights out of Houston have one or two layovers if you're not flying to a hub.
@kjayhawks I've never seen Delta be the cheapest for me. It's always been either Southwest or United/Continental since Houston is a major hub for United/Continental even after their merger.
@kjayhawks Delta. When I was looking for flights from Houston to Vegas, just about every Delta flight went to Atlanta first. Didn't quite understand why either since Delta has a major hub in Salt Lake City still as far as I know.
Lucas may not be a T-Rob type rebounder, but he showed second half of last year against good competition that he can hold his own on the boards. As long as that and defense are his two focuses and not scoring, he'll be fine this year. Bragg is the much bigger concern because the 20 lbs. of muscle he put on this offseason as supposed to help his rebounding which was subpar last year.
Hopefully it is a funk and adjustment to a new role and not him turning into a bust because Bragg busting this year is enough to single handily keep KU from a national title.
@BeddieKU23 Once Wiggins becomes a free agent, not much Minnesota could do if Wiggins decided to leave.
KU looked a lot better tonight with a lot of rust knocked off. Also like Self giving IU and Duke something to prepare or with two different starting line ups.
@BeddieKU23 I don't think Wiggins stats in Minnesota past his first contract, maybe second contract. I think he eventually signs with tge Raptors and becomes the face of the NVA in Canada and on par with some of Canada's biggest hockey players for biggest active Canadian sports star.
@drgnslayr There's a reason why the phrase "When in Rome" exists.
@jaybate-1.0 The reason I choose to lean towards the New World theory is that there were major advancements in science and medicine starting with the Renaissance period which began around 1300 and I believe that if syphilis was a common European disease at that point, it likely would have been discovered early on in the Renaissance. The interesting part to me is the possibility of the Vikings bringing it to Europe, but I don't think the evidence is strong enough to support those claims.
The other reason I choose to lean towards the New World theory is because of the Columbian Exchange. Native populations were decimated by Old World diseases such as smallpox and influenza because native populations had never been exposed to those diseases and therefore didn't have the same resistances to those diseases like Europe. I believe that native populations had similar resistances to syphilis that Europeans had to influenza and other Old World diseases that weren't guaranteed to be fatal to European the way they were to natives.
If new evidence comes out that more definitively shows syphilis existed in Europe prior to about 1500, then I'll definitely consider that evidence, but the current evidence that's out there leads me towards believing syphilis was a New World disease that Columbus brought back with him.
I thought Cozart looked horrible last night. Missed way too many easy, short passes kast night. With 3 games left, might as well let Stanley have a crack at it and see if he could becone a potential back up or starter for next season to compete with Starks in the spring.
@jaybate-1.0 Vote Rick Astley because he's never going to let you down.
Why run a double pass in that situation?
Dammit Martin, you ruined my final score prediction!
Players back then mostly used the most advanced training methods of the day. They would be doing the same thing in this era as well. The greats from the 50's, 60's, and 70's more than likely would succeed today as well because those guys were driven to be the best. They would still be driven to be the best if transplanted into this era as well.
That FG attempt pretty much epitomizes Kansas football.
That was a great goal line stand even if WVU did probably score on the 3rd down play. Too bad a safety is probably getting ready ready to happen.
@jaybate-1.0 I doubt it was syphilis. Evidence supports syphilis originating as a Native American disease that didn't start showing up in Europe until after Columbus made his expeditions to the New World. I have no problem with theories that Hitler, Mussolini, and other European and American leaders suffering from syphilis because there's strong cases to support those claims. Any claim that a European leader had syphilis prior to about 1500 is another issue and there's just not strong enough evidence to convince me that rulers of the Roman Empire had syphilis 1000-1200 years before the Columbus expeditions.
The type of insanity those leaders displayed points more towards generations of incest based on research I've done. The other reason I strongly lead towards incest as a primary cause for Roman Empire rulers being insane is because incest was a pretty common practice throughout the ancient history of western civilization, and as you said, insanity from incest isn't guaranteed in every generation and there were certainly plenty of Roman emperors who appeared to be of sound mind based on evidence and historical documents. Regardless of someone's stance on the historical accuracy of the Bible, there are plenty of cases of incest in the Old Testament as well as other cultures of the ancient near east. Back then, most people never traveled more than a few miles from where they were born so that limits mating possibilities. Another factor, which played a much bigger factor in wealthy people of the time committing incest, was that marrying a cousin, half-sister, or even blood sister, kept the family property and wealth within the family. If you married outside of the family then, specifically a daughter, then you were bringing in a new family to split the wealth and property with.
So any European leader after 1500, I'll listen to an argument about them having syphilis, anything pre-1500 in European history however, I just can't believe any argument for because the evidence doesn't support syphilis existing in Europe until about 1500.
@drgnslayr Incest probably had much more to do with the insanity of the early empire rulers. Conceiving with your sister, half-sister, or first cousin to have pure blood heirs was not uncommon back then. Royalty would've most likely been drinking out of cups made of gold, silver, copper, or bronze which don't make people insane like lead does.
@KUSTEVE Without reading that article, (so let's see how well KU educated me since my degree is in history and I focused on Roman history), the biggest reason to me that Rome fell was because the empire got too big to manage. Another big factor was the conversion to Christianity because it took the focus off of worshipping the emperor as a living deity like they did for the first 300 years of the empire. Not keeping the military happy is always a factor because paying the military kept the military loyal to the emperor. The invasions by various barbarian tribes were largely a result of the 1st and 3rd reasons. I don't know what the reasons listed in that article say as of this initial post (I'll read it when after this is posted), but those were the 3 biggest ones I came away with based on my years of taking classes on the Roman Empire and various other parts of the empire at the time.
45-10 WVU. KU leads 10-7 after 1st quarter, down 17-10 at halftime, 38-10 after 3, WVU's back ups score late to make it 45-10. I'm basically just picking the Vegas score which has KU at a 34 point underdog and I believe 54 1/2 for the O/U for total points.
@stoptheflop None of the active QB's are going to be anything good for KU this year. David Beaty's future is tied to the success of Tyriek Starks and at this point, and it makes absolutely no sense to burn his redshirt this season. Beaty does need to land either a JuCo QB or graduate transfer to be a one year stop gap or competent back up in case Starks isn't ready next year. I don't mean a graduate transfer like Crist or Heaps who were washouts from major programs, but a quality career back up from a successful program looking for an opportunity to play or someone coming up from the FCS ranks.
@Kcmatt7 I did not call them smart, just not dumb enough to fire a football coach after one year. Especially a football coach that played for Missouri and coached under Pinkel for a decade.
@wrwlumpy I think that's 11th in the conference which would make them a pretty bad team.
Missouri is not firing their new coach after 1 season. Even they aren't that stupid.
As for the game last night, Self always wants the D2 teams to run specific stuff to challenge his team in specific ways. These guys will be good to go by next Friday in Hawaii.
Landen Lucas was the only above average rebounding big KU had last season. Perry's rebound rate was well below average, even for a stretch 4.
Love them!
@Kcmatt7 There are many different versions of the Air Raid. Baylor runs the Air Raid, but they're 4th in the nation in rushing at 300 ypg. The Air Raid is not specifically the Texas Tech version where you throw the ball 50+ times per game. It can be anywhere between the pass heavy Texas Tech version to the run heavy Baylor version. The true beauty of the Air Raid and why inferior teams can be successful with it is because it creates a lot of match up problems. Being able to line up 4 wide with a RB in the backfield forces opposing defenses into a lot of man to man defenses because even a decent QB can pick apart a zone defense with that many passing options. Getting the ball to someone in a one on one match up with a defender is the goal of the Air Raid and spacing the field out to create those match ups is the true purpose of the Air Raid. It really is the perfect offense because of the match up problems it can create.
Even with just two good receivers in Quiv and Sims, we've seen more big plays out of those two this year than in the past several years combined from the offense because they get the ball, make a guy miss, and the next closest defender is 10-15 yards away giving them time to get up field. When you have 4-5 guys like that lining up each play, it becomes a nightmare to defend even for a great defense like Alabama and why Nick Saban hates playing any spread based offenses which the Air Raid is.
I will also fully admit I'm biased because my HS football coach adopted the spread offense when he came to my HS in 2001 when I was a sophomore. He spent a lot of time teaching us the principles of the spread and it really is about spacing out defenses and quickly getting the ball in the hands of play makers in one on one situations. This is why there are a lot of quick passes and screens with this offense because those are basically running plays in the spread. Where KU falls short in this department is that our WR's are not good blockers at all yet, but when they become decent blockers, a lot of those negative plays that happen on those quick passes to WR's will go from being even or negative plays to a lot of 4-5 yards plays with the occasional huge play coming from those passes.
When you understand the principles and goals of the offense and get past thinking Air Raid only means the Mike Leach version that involves throwing every play basically, it's not hard to figure out why so many schools are adopting the offense and why we're seeing elements of this system make its way into the NFL as well.