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WEll read where Troy Brown is going to commit on the 7th of November - -So I wouldn't think Wooten would make a difference with Brown would he?

The read Billy Preston more likely then not going to wait till spring- - Said he is focusing on 4 schools -- -KU, Indiana, Syracuse, & USC he says doesn't necessarily mean he closed the recruiting BUT these 4 schools have been pushing the hardest and he pretty well has an idea to focus with these 4, so there we go - - what ya think? - - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

Just saw That Kenny Wooten a 6ft 8 power forward out of Las Vegas Nevada is 100 % CB. he came out of no where - -looks like he is unranked. - -Anybody ever heard of him before? - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Crimsonorblue22 ya that was pretty sad, I turned it off I'm sorry. The 1st maybe 1 1/2 quarters weren't bad. I dunno I still believe in the defense - -I think Clint has got him a group - - maybe didn't look like it for the entire game tonight but Oklahoma doing that to about everyone in the Big 12 - - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

Sure sounded like the ol gym was rocking tonight - -that's the way we like it. Hell Men's Basketball ranked -- Soccer ranked - - Women's volleyball Ranked - -is this heaven? - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

ROCK CHGALK BABY, - - HUGE WIN -- HUGE WIN -- UMM DID I SAY HUGE WIN? - - way to go ladies, got a little shaky in the 4th set, had me kind of worried lol, but great fight, sweet comeback. The y were talking how we needed this to help our RPi as we were at 26, - -people now FOR SURE know that we not going anywhere - -HELL YA keep up the good work, keep your heads on straight tough games ahead, enjoy tonight AND UMMMM HUGE WIN - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@JayHawkFanToo ya I know it' true, but yet I did check well enough to know that none of the one's I listed are exhibition and will count. Went to the Bi2 website and pulled up each and everyone schedule for one reason I write all the teams schedules down so I can keep track as season begins. ROCK CHALK ALL ADY LONG BABY

Took at look at the other teams of our conf non/con schedules. - -Got some mixed reaction from them some Good, some really sad:

KU, Okla, Okla St , Tex - - -Pretty Good.
Baylor, Iowa St, West Virginia - - - - So , So
K-State, TCU, Texas Tech, THEY JUST SUCK - -REALLY BAD: teams that hi-light their schedules are like: Neb Omaha, Prairie View, Gardner Webb , Jacksonville State , Arkansas St, Wofford, Northern Texas, Eastern Ky Houston Baptist, Longwood - - that's just sad

I just wonder, if these bottom teams want to possibly get any better, wouldn't you think they would want to upgrade their schedules? - Which in turn would quite possibly improve recruiting, Who wants to come to a school where your hi-light of the non-con is Wofford OR Prairie View? where you know there isn't gonna be exposure on TV? come on upgrade your dam schedules - -ya you might take some thumpings at first - -but you got to start somewhere to attract better recruits don't you? - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@kjayhawks LOL, hadn't noticed - -but figures - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Ralph LOL, ya well guess I struck out on both counts there as I just went to dish recently so under contract and really told old to be moving anymore but thanks for the help. -- I'll be allright I'll just listen on the ol KU Radio broadxast - -Miss Bob but hey life goes on right - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@kjayhawks I do think we have won the Challenge every year I believe you are correct - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Ralph OH well ok thanks. I guess I just totally missed that then, I was gonna say I just couldn't figure out WHY they had played in any of them So I guess my NEXT question would be a pretty obvious one then - -seeing as how they are a part of the SEC why wouldn't they want to match KU-- Mizzery against one another in the challenge? - They ESPN knows what the rivalry was like - -so this would be a perfect opportunity right? - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Eric-san Sorry but what's a spoofer? -- sorry - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Ralph ESPN App? not quite sure what that is my friend - -are you just talking about going I dunno. All I ever do is just try and connect right to ESPN3 - - not the brightest light in the house lol - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

Looking to see if someone can help. As far as I can remember since the Big 12- SEC challenge - -Mizzery has not participated in ANY of the contests. - -Just curious am I wrong or no? & if they haven't doesn anyone know the logic as to why not? thanks - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@DanR Ya I knew he had passed, didn't realize it had been that long - - still see protesters here and there from time to time. I think one of the biggest things that chap my rear is them having the kids hold those signs, Those kids had NO IDEA what they meant all they know is mommy and Daddy told them to hold the signs and repeat what mommy and daddy did. - -Felt really bad for the kids. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@KUSTEVE I am so ready. in lucky for me I won't be able to watch either of the exhibitions and 4 of the non con's, as I have dish and not cox. Of course ESPN 3 is blacked out for us here, BUT really gonna enjoy the rest, let the games begin - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@JayHawkFanToo ya looking at all the teams non con, kind of a mixed bag, some pretty good -- others really really sad. -- ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Crimsonorblue22 I get the longhorn network it's not on the longhorn network.

Dam Markeiff is this how your gonna do it lol. 28 pts, 22 rebounds mercy guy, bet down with your bad self. ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Crimsonorblue22 Why thank you for thinking of me JK. But seriously, I never will forget the reporter standing on Burnett's mound describing the Tornado as it was approaching, then later they came out with a big tabloid, and showed the reporter all encased in mud from the tornado. It practically took Washburn off the map. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@wrwlumpy I will never forget that Tornado. We were getting medicine at Walgreens for my niece when this happened. - - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@JayHawkFanToo Ya could definetly do with out Fred. Thank goodness, haven't seen or heard to much about him in the News lately. It's sad that I have the destinction of living in the same city, - -but on to the game, CAN'T WAIT. - - -ROCK CHALK AL DAY LONG BABY

@HawkChamp for sure - - he can only hope he doesn't lose any of them lol - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

That school down the innerstate has their 1st exhibition tomorrow night. - - -their non-con is PATHETIC lmao - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

Okay, lookie here, this has quickly turned away from the original post - -to now a war of words between me and other posters - -So look I'll be the better and say I'm wrong for getting away from comments about the thread and getting into a war of words with people, trading insults - -like being called a " DICK" it's cool I can be better then that.

You wanna say I'm a whiner - -a gloom and doomer, whatever it's ok I can live with that, it's your opinion. If you want to look at me as that way, then go ahead you can do that, if I can't give info from what others from other sites are saying about the situation seeing as how I have been so graciously informed that the other sites and posters don't know squat - -hey that's cool. See I can be grown up too, need to be bigger then trading insults.

I truly thought this was a site where you could give and open opinion and talk about how you feel about things, even if is JUST ONE PERSON'S OPINION - I think if you go way back and look at the header you will say JUST MY TAKE.

So it was JUST MY TAKE and man how quickly things digressed away, from the topic to insults - - somehow sayin we should fire the entire staff and how I'm a dick,, hoping I'll go away I'll say this I'm letting this go, BUT sorry to disappoint individuals I'm not going away - -I enjoy reading others threads evidently there are some that think I have NO KNOWLEDGE about what's going on and never talk negative - -that's ok I'll let you believe that/

Bottom line - - -I'm not going to exchange words anymore I would hope we ALL can rise above that, but if not that's on you. The only thing I can say I'm going to continue to post - -I'm going to continue to read, have had some really good conversations with people, we are NOT going to agree with one another 100% of the time and to some you wanna to try and ignore then by all means IGNORE that's your privelage it's America right - -freedom of choice AND freedom of SPEECH & EXPRESSION that's what makes the United States great.

Anyways I'm moving past this topic not going to exchange barbs anymore, you wanna comment great - -if not great I am looking forward to others threads as basketball approaches and say what you want, you can believe what you want all I say I would challenge anyone to say they devote and dedicate their passion anymore to KU then I - -and before you ask- -umm no I did not graduate from KU doesn't mean I don't bleed Crimson and Blue if I weren't an avid fan then I would have KU tat's on my body anyways I like it here, & here I stay. I appreciate everybody whether we bash one another or not. Thing is just as like any other scenario, when people start to agrue, things heat up and all common logic goes right out the window. But anyways my fellow Jayhawkers like always - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BAY

@brooksmd roflmfao but yet you keep responding. You see I'm not one to always say oh it will be ok lmao, your drunk. or high or both lmao keep right on trippin lmao your making my day

@Ralph LMAO man then don't mix whiskey and pills - -AND UMMM ROCK CHALK ALL DAY BABY

KIND of nice being able to get everybody riled by p - - - - - - in their Wheaties got to love it . such sensitive little tootsie's lol pretty sweet, starting see how other people across the nation look at us and understand lol it's great mercy, mercy, mercy but ummmm anyways ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@brooksmd GOT a great idea if this site has a store - -I'm SURE you can find them here ROFLMMFAO. ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@JayHawkFanToo Ummm, exactly where in the hell did you see I was asking for a Nu 1 Class? - - -A # 2 class. A # 3 class? love how you read in between lines lol- -and ONCE AGAIN UMMM NO fraid not in a minority but thanks anyways lmao. Ya we got Jackson, that has proved nothing yet, Wiggins win us a National Title? - - -NOPE. Sp exactly where has that benefited us? Just read on another site from posters how they thought it was time for different recruiters, let me slow this down - c-we are NOT CLOSIG OUT ON THESE KIDS - - you can't let that sink through then I'm sorry. This year AYTON MISS, GAK MISS, SEXTON GONNA MISS, YOUNG GONNA MISS. Chances not looking good For BROWN MISS. the kid that committed to UCLA MISS. Personally I could give a rat's ass if you agree with me or not. - -your entitled to that just like I am mine we agree to disa agree I'm not changing your mind, your not changing mind, but you have a great day - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@brooksmd Sounds Good - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Crimsonorblue22 YOU funny guy, I like that, you a comedian? roflmfao - -- -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

I Myself Have dish. Sometimes I get to catch them on one of those channels, Very exciting - -really looking forward to Saturday, can't get tickets sold out, seasons been sold out. Got a lot of talent, and yet a lot returning again next year Time to put and end to the Texas streak. Watched Texas last night against Oklahoma after the KU match thought Oklahoma might give them a little better contest. Take it to them ladies. I listen to the KU broadcasat off Ku athletics.com when I can watch ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@BeddieKU23 Just read comments from Rupp's rafters. Was Talking about Trae's trip to Lexington. He gave it the perfect 10. - - Kind of funny though comments from fans saying things like v- - -Well he also gave KU a 10 - - then another saying that Trae had given all his recruiting visits a 10 - - -Another sayin well if he gave us a 10 then why not commit lol. Then another saying well maybe he needed to re-evaluate his recruiting process pretty funny stuff. Is Garrett they we got the commit from a point guard? - - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Crimsonorblue22 Very true, it's good to see and follow possibly more likely stars in the N.B.A in the near future - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@chriz Would be a blast, but man the cost of the N..B.A. games - - WOW lol. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@BeddieKU23 Agree, I'm afraid he is out. Maybe somehow we can pull Trae other then that I think we are out of options - - very unlikely Duvall comes, Can Garrett or is he a point? - - We Shall see, guess I need to go to the Alabama site an see whz up. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

Umm, Umm, Umm. you go big boy, do your thing. Mercy you have huge things in front of you, looked really good. @0 points in 22 minutes and like 7 rebounds and a couple of blocks - -doing it all sweet spot up jumpers, rejections, just looking good. So happy for ya, just stay healthy - -wish we could of had you longer, makes us proud big boy Once A Jayhawk - -Always A Jayhawk - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Kcmatt7 well buddy wish I could say I was in the minority - - maybe in here could be, but multitude of other KU sites that tend to agree with me. I'd be glad to say I was in the minority but ummmm, NO, no I'm not. Now if you wanna take in here where you want to wear the Crimson and Blue shades then GREAT you do that, BUT like you said so quite nicely one of these days Coach gonna reach for the rabbit and pull out a stick of dynomite. and it's going to be ALOT MORE then a pile of crap as you say.

I guess as long as people here post things that don't want to rock the boat or cause waves it's good, BUT GOD for bid you see things different then people seem to think like was said to me " the sky is falling" thing is no matter how you want to twist it around, sugar coat all you want bottom line is - -If we can't start doing better closing things out on perceived leaders to commit for us - -umm ya THAT down year is coming & coming soon.- - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@KUSTEVE So now we want to settle for continued conference championships? let's see which would you prefer Conference championships - -OR NCAA Titles? NCAA titles are a lot more difficult to win then conference championships. The point is IF we keep getting or losing out on the better players then ya, you can continue to milk those conference championships - -I myself am ready for more NCAA titles. Nobody say I want to be Calipari U. - But there is some other reason we are losing out other then staying closer to home. Hell if that's the case screw the recruitment - -why doesn't the player come right out and say no need to recruit I'm staying close to home, do us all a favor why don't they do that? - -I'll tell ya why they love the attention. So what ya say let's just say screw the upper crust and get the middle tier 3-4 yr player heard that around here a lot that way we can win 20 conference championships in a row and call it good

@BeddieKU23 I love others can't accept another person's view or points of interest, like you wanna portray me as being the forever pessimist lol, tell you what you keep on thinking your way and I'll keep thinking mine. If you only want to hear a rosy peachy colored out look, callin others crazy, knock yourself out. Bottom line is, it is what it is. Keep gambling with a stacked deck and then get back to me. All I'm doing and stating is that there IS A TREND going on with our recruiting and how one of these days it can jump up and bite us in the ass ,Some one best be taking a different approach to things- -cause this isn't working. ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Crimsonorblue22 ya your right it IS that's what I've been saying thanks - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@Crimsonorblue22 All I'm saying this is becoming a trend and unless we can get this turned around one of these years we are going to be screwed - - I am 1000000% convinced that someone on this staff is not closing the deal. I realize that we have took on another challenge in the past few years like 4-5 yrs now of being in the race for the bigger fish. BUT I was just as fine with the 3-4 yr player. To many of these kids are media starved attention getting types - -thriving ,starving for the media- -playing to the media - -playing a guessing game

I'm to the point where ok, let's go back to the solid 3-4 yr player, we have done fine in the past with such type players. A kid that wants to commit, and really considers it a privelage an honor to have an offer from a school such as ours, puts there whole heart and soul into the school NOT one that is there just because he has to be.

If you have player " A - -big time stud - -top 10 player we are recruiting but wants to drag this dam process out play inny minny minny mo makes you wait it out till spring & then in the end run ends up committing to another school If you have that situation but yet have a really good but yet 3-4 yr player who wants to come and is willing to commit in the fall, then I'm at a point I say screw the drama take the other kid, we have been fine in the past, we would do fine in the present, - - the future.

If Coach Self is as good of a Coach as we all think - -and know he is he will STILL be able to develop these type of kids and compete quite nicely. How many OAD'S or other super studs has Wisconsin had? - but yet at least for the last few years they have done fine - -Xavier? Gonzaga? -- And Gonzaga is not loaded with OAD'S so before it starts up squelch that. There is a lot of other quality programs that do fine with 3-4 yr players because of development of the system.

I' just really at a point where this drama OA'D not all but a lot of them are just media, media, media, - -like little soap opera's everybody and their brother holds press conferences at a table with hats anymore that's just bullshit. - - did Wilt hold a press Conference when he turned pro? - - Did JO-Jo Hell no. tired of their games.

So it's either someone not closing out finishing up OR they just no matter how hard you do try to close are not ready to give up the media attention, so if I have ONE scholi left and it comes down to it then it's who ever wants to commit first PERIOD OAD or not. I'm tellin you one of these years and not to far in the future, like the upcoming when we could be losing a lot - -we could land up flat on our faces and be screwed. Have to settle for transfers, juco, de-commit - how that working for ya? - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

OK, we have had this discussion before BUT - - - here we are AGAIN approaching the fall signing period in Basketball and things for the fall period not looking good. Ya I know we all have heard before - - -Well these kids a lot are waiting to see who is coming back and who is returning and such before they sign. Well sounds good. BUT my counter point to that is - - If that is truly the case then WHY are these same quote - -unquote players going ahead and committing to other schools? - - I'm not necessarily talking about just OAD'S

Just seems to me that we are starting to settle into a trend. For about the last 3 yrs now, and as I have said before and STILL will stick by, feel like that there are times we are just not closing the deal, and that falls on some of our recruiters. When your surposedly leading for a particular player or seem to be and you've been all over him for an extended time and then BAM he ends up committing elsewhere? - - -WHAT HAPPENED? - -Someone is not finishing. You have got to stay on these kids for real, I've just got this twisting gut feeling that some of our recruiters when they feel or think we have got a guy pretty well wrapped up - -they back off, periods of non contact with that recruit.

I'm gonna use Ayton as a prime example, we was the ONLY school recruiting him for the longest time, ya I know there were qualifying issues or that's what we were told anyways, we had been in on him early, early, early, then finally a couple of others get in the mix, and we know the outcome. - - Question is seeing we were the perceived leader on him for the longest time- - - Did we back off of him, dead time - -OR did we stay on top of it and put our foot on his throat - -close it out?

Just becoming a trend with this - -every fall. Ya,Ya, Ya, I know I've heard it before oh well we ended up just fine, look who we got in the spring - -been there - -done that BUT I'm tellin ya one of these years and this could very well be the year where we go through yet another non eventful signing period and then spring rolls around and we are left scrambling thinking well we have got this stud that we've been waiting on and BAM nope - -then we really have to scramble - - lesser guys,- - -de-commits - -transfers not a good picture, with us having so many scholi's available or possibly - -I think we have just got to really turn up the heat, get really aggressive, apply more pressure on these guys. Maybe some of our guys are losing their recruiting edge. Something is not right, because you lay everything on the table and there isn't any single college with the obvious exception of maybe Duke, Kentucky that has squat over our School. - - Tradition- - -Exposure- - -Development for the N.B.A 15 players on opening day rosters, - -2nd winningest program in the history of the game - - The atmosphere, - -Great education opportunity - - just not getting it. - - Where we going wrong? A lot and I mean A lot of these kids just starving for the attention of the media. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

Humpin - -Gee- - Hossa - - Fats guys, what the hell is going on? you mean to tell me we can't even beat out Miami for the like 98th rated player in the country?- - -Seriously? I mean I know by far Gak was not any world beater but I mean COME ON. holy shit. and ONCE AGAIN this dam CB think is a big piece of Dog doo. had us leading Huge. the 94th - - 94th - - 94th in the country. On top of that we losing ground on Sexton - - So who the hell is even left? for a team with sooooo many possibly scholi's ummmm HELLO I'm'a thinking like what the hell is going on? - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABYU

I think it's kind of amusing to go to other teams boards and find they deem it necessary to post thread about Perry and Wayne on THEIR BOARDS. Little Envious - -Jealous maybe? lmao. Finding it on that sweet Kentucky Rupp Rafters such a joke. They can't find enough to talk about? - - Course we all know they hate KU and talking smack and ditchin on Perry - - STILL - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@jaybate-1.0 We also have to remember our popular little buddy DeAndre- -NO other school had offered him surposedly, where we had been on him from the get go because of possible grade issues but yet there we were until Kentucky sneaked in but didn't do them any good either and he winds up of all places Arizona. If Bill is going after them or interested - - -I'm no longer worried, he must feel it's worth the shot. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@ParisHawk Is Boston College in the ACC? that's the only possible I can see and WEAK lmao - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

@BeddieKU23 MERCY, MERCY, MERCY that is sooooooooooo weak. - --ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

Trae taking his last official visit to Oklahoma state this weekend. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY