A parade.... hmmm, when will that happen again.
bskeet
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Yeah.. I'm all for earning it. That way there's no dispute (until the NCAA comes in and waves its wand of asterisks).
@kjayhawks said in Games on tv:
@bskeet hard for me to believe that we would’ve have made at least the final four this season.
Hard to know. I think it's fair to be skeptical.
That said, we didn't have to be one of the best KU teams of all time to win the NC this year... we just had to be better than the competition this year. Our body of work suggested we had played some of the best and won most of the time.
We had not played many Big-10 teams, so that was a big unknown.
D Jackson and S Kaun were in their "prime." In fact, now that you say it, I realize that we should have expected Azibuke to have a great year. It kind of surprised me, but history shows that a 4-year big usually has significant impact.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Games on tv:
Self-perspective 3 is out, n Carolina game. KU athletics. I love these!
Right on!
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
You ever ask yourself why I defend presidents regardless of party. Sure they get elected on their party. Maybe I’m a sucker, but when they step in that position. It changes them. They are the ruler of the free world, and they so want to badly to do the right thing. Sorry friend I don’t buy into your Trump hate.
I hope you are not suggesting that I'm somehow un-American because I will not blindly follow and defend a president -- specifically, this president. A functional democracy deserves a commitment to both decorum and dissent. Decorum is not something you can demand; it's a social contract. Dissent is not a threat to authority; it is the ultimate form of patriotism.
Never, did I think that I would be in this position. I'd like to defend the president. Every president is human; they all make mistakes. But I cannot and will not condone or abide what has become — not an unfortunate series of mishaps — but rather, a well-established pattern of behavior.
I'm concerned about the growing lack of respect for the office of the president — especially by the youngest generation — I'm worried what this will mean for the future. We have to repair the respect. But it will require more leaders with propriety on both sides than we have today.
The country was founded on common ground of core values and compromise of ideology. Politicians would argue ideology, but at the end of the day, they were together on the values that defined what it meant to be an American. These ideals were nonpartisan and have been publicly called out by some conservative leaders (McCain, Romney).
Values should be immutable, not situational. Treating them as such is a threat to the republic.
Finally @DoubleDD , please stop ascribing motives and assuming you know what I think and what I've done. I am not telling you what to do and I do not presume to know anything about your motives or beliefs beyond what you put down in pixels here. There is no need to put words in my mouth.
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Let’s be honest with each other @bskeet you have never voted for a Republican? Why? I mean anybody with half a brain can see the Dem party doesn’t care about black Americans. Again let’s be honest? No where in history has the Dem party done anything for the black American. None? So why keep voting for a party that runs their elections like it’s some kind of plantation?
Let's be honest, I've voted for one democrat for a federal office in my life.
You don't know me.
@approxinfinity Welcome to the United States of America, a Trump Enterprise.
Run exactly as he would one of his businesses. Which means he will rely on a heavy dose of nepotism, run it into the ground and then look for a bail-out, throwing associates under the bus left and right.
This is what a Trump Enterprise looks like. And when this enterprise goes bankrupt, we all will be paying the price. It's all on the backs of us. Yertle the frickin' Turtle.
America wanted a business man to run the executive branch... The best presidents historically have had executive experience... so it resonated. But Trump had to be one of the worst possible executives we could have picked. Carly Fiorina would have been WAY better. And she was not the best executive by far, but she had experience running a public company, working within regulations.
He seems to know how to say exactly the wrong thing every time he gets involved with the coronavirus response. He diminishes what the experts say when he should be endorsing it, amplifying it, modeling it.
He should recuse himself, but that would require self-awareness.
@bskeet said in Is this website a joke?:
Look, whatever the reason... blame whoever you want... but the US did not respond as quickly as it should have and was not as prepared as it should have been given we have the most resources in the world and supposedly are the world leaders economically, militarily and intellectually (I mean we have historically been the center of gravity -- a magnet for innovators from everywhere in the world, across all sciences-- tech, energy, medicine, engineering, areospace.. you name it.)
WHY?
Hint: Don't say because impeachment. That is a 'political' excuse which does not explain all the evidence that spans far more than the past 6 months leading up to the pandemic.
Look, whatever the reason... blame whoever you want... but the US did not respond as quickly as it should have and was not as prepared as it should have been given we have the most resources in the world and supposedly are the world leaders economically, militarily and intellectually (I mean we have historically been the center of gravity -- a magnet for innovators from everywhere in the world, across all sciences-- tech, energy, medicine, engineering, areospace.. you name it.)
WHY?
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Well to be fair he was was dealing with an impeachment trial at the time. Lol I think from what I’m seeing, a lot of leaders dragged their feet in the beginning when it came to the coronavirus. Most likely They didn’t know what they were dealing with. As China wasn’t forthcoming with much needed info soon enough. However have to Give the president major credit, in that he shut down the borders and air travel pretty fast.
Not everyone is buying the excuses and revisionist history.
Recommend watching this interview on Fox News: 🐦 View Tweet
For some happier memories, check out this edition of Self Perspectives:
KU vs Dayton 2019 Maui Invitational... Starting with 7 min left in regulation...
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Games on tv:
@bskeet that was so cool! Where did you find that?
It was featured in an email I got from KU.. not sure which dept.
Now I guess this thread needs to be called "Differentiating fact from opinion from Satire on COVID-19"
Some conservatives are not entirely blind. Either that, or they are throwing Trump under the bus as he has done with so many others.
https://thebulwark.com/warnings-ignored-a-timeline-of-trumps-covid-19-response/ ↗
The Bulwark is an American conservative news and opinion website founded by conservative commentators Charlie Sykes and Bill Kristol. The publisher is Sarah Longwell. While it launched as a news aggregator, it was revamped into a news and opinion site with "the core digital staff of The Weekly Standard."
I'm sure someone else has posted this somewhere already, but this is fun to watch:
https://video.wmt.media/embed/cc942bdd-f85a-414d-b08f-df39c3e05858 ↗
Self narrates the ending of the 2018 Elite Eight game against Duke in Omaha. This game will re-air on CBS Sports Network on Sunday, March 29 at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. central.
Until there's a vaccine, it's going to be spreading and re-spreading. Big crowds and close-contact activities will be petrie dishes.
Let's pull for the research community to come up with some effective remedies in the next few months to allay some of the fear by the fall. This would likely allow for activities for healthy young people to resume. A vaccine is probably a year + away.
@dylans said in Other bball news:
@kjayhawks No one cares to watch a Cinderella team after the round of 32. When you get a crap team in the final four viewership goes down. Everyone wants to watch the blue bloods. The NBA gets it right with best of 7 series, but you can’t have that many games in college. Double elimination would definitely give us better matchups come the final four; the best teams would actual get a chance to play each other. i.e. Virginia a couple years ago got bounced in the first round as a 1 seed, but that 16 seed wasn’t the better team, just better that night.
I don’t expect they will name a champion this year, but I would like to see what the NCAA would do if there was no tournament the next year, as KU doesn’t stand a chance, and I’d like to see what they do if Villanova or Duke is the presumed number one team. The way things are going there may not be football or basketball next year anyway. People are not taking steps to slow Coronavirus down enough, it’s not going away anytime soon if ever.
I don't know.. there was a lot of excitement when Loyola-Chicago and George Mason played in the Elite Eight and won.. Those were pretty amazing runs... I don't consider VCU to be the same, but some could say that was also one of those remarkable runs. I personally think we gave the game to them, but I'm sure UConn feels the same about George Mason and K-State / Loyola-Chicago...
So, I would say that Cinderellas are pretty exciting to watch when they get to the EE and memorable when they win and move on to the FF. Even more memorable when they win the NC as KU in 1988 and Villanova in 85..
An illustration of your points, @BShark @mayjay
!https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ET4zE5XWsAIr98S?format=png&name=small ↗ ↗
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
I mean @bskeet as we sent over all our abilities to make medicine to the Chinese because it’s cheaper todo so. Or is it?
I didn't ignore this.. I just don't follow it. But given that the conversation was 24 hours ago.. maybe we just let pass. There was a bunch of stuff I didn't grok in the back and forth that followed.
Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.
Well... I'm pretty convinced that we are in a cold war with China and have been for quite awhile... It's escalating now with the rhetoric and the ejection of journalists.
Covid-19 is a particularly ironic Chinese export given it's distinction as a 'novel' virus and the fact that China was historically known for and benefited from its ability to copy the original work of others.
@kjayhawks said in ESPN's Greatest College Basketball Players of All Time Bracket:
This is laughable, MJ as a 2? Wilt and Pistol Pete way under seeded.
100%
I'm sure whoever did this has a rationale they can use to back it up, but it doesn't pass the common sense test. Looks like the model is faulty.
I was at that game. Heart breaker. Just not our best game at a time that we needed close to our best game.
This would have been big news in any other setting.. More like a footnote these days.
@marco We are pulling for you to get better!
Lack of tests is so frustrating.
I would prefer to win it the traditional way, but all we have is the speculation and simulations.. Nice to see us on top in most of the conversations.
I think the only virus that could be more concerning than Covid-19 is the virus of delusion, which seems to have spread from Trump to a significant population. The symptoms are making excuses, dismissing evidence and creating alternative narratives to justify his actions.
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
This should make all you happy?
It’s an upgrade over the guy that decided not to enhance our testing capability a month ago because low numbers are good politics. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-high-infection-rate-dent-reelection-report-2020-3 ↗
Huh? Nah it couldn’t be that there was a realization that test kits were not cutting the grade, and a update was needed? I’m mean let’s forget the rest of the world was having the same problem. Let’s pay no attention to that evidence.
Hate Trump much?
No, I don’t hate politicians. I just expect basic competence. If the tests were garbage (not clear) he should order the CDC and local labs develop their own. Instead, it took a lab in Seattle developing and publishing results in defiance of the CDC to put this thing out there.
That’s pretty much what he has done. I mean I guess you can be pissed he didn’t do it earlier? What I can’t figure out is why more people aren’t upset with the Chinese government? They are speculating that the Chinese government knew about this virus for months before telling the rest of the world.
1: There is evidence that the Chinese government knew about this and squelched the warnings of the medical community there.
2: Unfortunately, there is also evidence that the Trump administration knew about this and downplayed it and disregarded the medical community.
Not sure what conclusion could be drawn by bringing up this fact about the Chinese government's mishandling other than the conclusion that the US leadership is no better -- and possibly worse given that the Chinese didn't know what they were dealing with and could be skeptical in the absence of data. But the US had 2-3 months of data and evidence from multiple countries about the nature of this outbreak -- and STILL -- resisted actions.
That's irresponsible and probably incompetent. Maybe negligent. Maybe maleficient.
If this was the first time this administration had made a mistake, I think we'd give them a mulligan. It's not.
@FarmerJayhawk said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@kjayhawks said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
No idea if true, but I’ve read that Italy has high fatality rates because they refuse to treat elders and are letting in take it coarse..... sad if true, but unsure.
They’re doing triage on elderly people because there aren’t enough beds so they’re playing the odds and saving as many as they can. It’s horrible. And there’s not a thing they can do about it.
Right-- they didn't get in front of it... couldn't flatten the curve and the cases exploded and flooded the hospitals. Now the doctors are treating the public the way military doctors have to triage on a war field. Who's most likely to survive? They get the resources and medical attention first. The weakest and most at risk are left to their fate.
All this quarantine and distancing business is about flattening the curve so doctors here don't have to make the same tradeoffs on Americans.
Yeah, my comment is anachronistic.. I was responding to something from 12 or more hours ago.. A lot has been said since then...
Trump absolutely has exacerbated a problem that might have been a crisis before... but his dishonesty and bombast made it so much worse. Never thought I'd see such a fool in any federal office.
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Oh and what did Everybody mean by natural selection? Ummm
I'm the one who brought it up. What I meant was that this virus will indiscriminately kill some fraction of the population. I implied that those who are not wise enough to heed the advice of the medical community may not survive... although I tried to clarify that infected idiots may survive, only to infect others who are innocent and die (that's the collateral damage I referred to.)
I think it is irresponsible that it's been politicized. The virus isn't red or blue....
@BeddieKU23 I saw somewhere that they were 27-3 but now I see they were 28-3.. so crap. I need an editor!
Bestowing national title to Kansas 'would be great,' Bill Self says
Bill Self says it would be "great" if the Jayhawks -- as the projected No. 1 overall seed had the 68-team NCAA tournament field been announced -- were bestowed national champions even with the asterisk that would come with the honor.
When ESPN and others say there was no dominant team this year, I guess they mean there wasn't an ACC, SEC or Big East team at the top.
@wissox said in A Fifth Year for Doke?:
@bskeet 37-3! Love it!
Ooops! Just 27-3 Argh! Maybe a freudian slip..
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Mock March Madness:
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One shining Jayhawk moment!⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟🌟☄️
So good.. but as much as it showed me how much we had to be thankful for, it also reminded me of what we missed.
Here's a great article that uses a set of simulators to illustrate the containment strategy and explain "flattening the curve."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/ ↗
This year, Kansas played its final game of the 2019-20 season on March 7, 2020. It was a 66-62 victory at Texas Tech.
It's now March 15 -- just 8 days later -- and I feel something is missing. Seems like a feeling I haven't felt for a long long time.
So I did a little research: When was the last time KU finished its season on or before March 7?
Even in 88-89, when we were banned from the NCAA tournament, we still competed in the Big Eight tourney on March 10, 1989.
You have to go back to March 2, 1982 when the 1981-82 season ended in a loss to KState in the first round of the Big Eight tournament.
HARDER QUESTION: When did we end the season with a WIN on or before March 7?
Back a bit farther to the 1975-76 season when we finished with a victory at Oklahoma on March 6, 1976.
I was in 5th grade. The planet had about 4.1 billion people. Billboard's number one song was "Love Machine" by The Miracles. Median US income was $12,690.
Nice -- 3rd longest winning streak in the country I think. (Dayton: 20 and NMSU: 19)
One correction: That same team had the strongest SOR (not SOS) and was #1 by every ranking except NET (where it was #2)
Addition: Best record against the quadrant 1 teams (12-3) and highest Q score (2.67) in the country.
@jayballer73 yup. see above comment about tests. It is what it is. Nothing is perfect, and these have a ways to improve.
To be clear, when officials talk about containment right now, it is not literally to stop the virus. The containment effort is to slow down the contagion and "flatten the curve" so as not to overwhelm the health care system with patients (See Italy right now).
People who get the virus will be infected indefinitely. They may recover from the virus, only to get sick again later.
Anyone who gets infected will likely need to keep their distance from the elderly and at-risk for the foreseeable future.
Sadly, I do not think the homeless population is going to be a "problem" because they are an 'at-risk' group already and are likely to succumb. Those who do survive will be a health issue, but really no more than Tom Hanks or a bus driver or basketball player or a politician who comes in contact with many other people every day.
Lunardi's final bracket was similar, but not the same:
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology ↗
He had 6 Big 12 teams in the dance.
UCLA would have wiped the floor with WSU. They would have been a dangerous 11 seed.
A fake bracket for 2019-20:
@dylans said in NCAA Tournament: Should it happen?:
@KirkIsMyHinrich ironically that means unc tournament steak goes on. They get a mulligan for this year. Perfect for them. The yin to our yang.
Chalk it up as another in a long line of strange connections between KU and UNC.
@approxinfinity That's a good point..
What I meant is that by April 1, the symptoms will have manifested (we won't need tests) to those who are infected as of now. The estimate is 60% of the population...
In the 2019-20 college basketball season, many said there was no "dominant team." However, let's take a closer look at that.
- One team finished the season ranked #1.
- That team was the only team unanimously voted #1, all season.
- That same team had the strongest SOR and was #1 by every ranking system except NET (#2).
- The same team won their conference regular season and won every road game.
- They won the Maui Classic and defeated the team that finished the season ranked #3 in the country in the finals.
- Their record was 27-3, and the three losses were by a combined 15 points. Their average margin of victory was greater than 15 points.
- They were anchored by an All-American center that finished his career with the highest FG% in NCAA history.
- They had the best record against quadrant 1 teams (12-3) and highest Q score (2.67) in the country.
That sounds pretty dominant to me.
By April 1, we're all going to know someone who has it. And I don't mean like Tom Hanks or Rudy G.
Thankfully, some senators are trying to show that they can work together and respond quickly to public needs when there is a crisis. Maybe this will jolt more senators into a bipartisan mindset permanently.
Sadly, some "leaders" (local, state and federal) deny there is a crisis and others still want to push agendas. Hopefully, their selfish and irresponsible tweets will not be forgotten in the next election cycle.