Here is my requested question.
How much does KUBuckets.com discourse influence Coach Self's thinking regarding playing inside out versus playing outside in?
:-)
jaybate 1.0
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@Jesse-Newell and @JayHawkFanToo
I now intend to wait to bet until I see who wins the tip. :-)
To et al,
How would you like to be the NCAA regarding Diallo?
Diallo was sought hard by Nike UK, which really needed him because of a lot of jumps and a medium stack that at least smacked of apparent punishment for not winning an NCAA tournament as they appeared to be intended to do in apparent exchange for their ten stack.
Nike, allied with UK, is also allied with the vast majority of your member institutions.
Nike is one of your member institutions' biggest sources of money after the TV contract and Nike is a major TV advertiser on the networks that you have your TV contract with.
But instead of signing with Nike-UK, or another Nike-school, Diallo signed with adidas KU.
adidas is allied with a small minority of your member institutions.
aididas is known for stirring up conflict among your member institutions by giving huge shoe contracts to a small minority of your member institutions.
Nike is allied with the huge majority of your future players through their AAU affiliations.
adidas is allied with a small minority of your future players through AAU affiliations.
Under Armor is a third and slowly ascendant member of a tennis shoe oligopoly and UA is not apparently involved either way with Diallo.
You could stick it to adidas-KU by moving incredibly deliberately on ruling Diallo eligible to play, and make Nike-UK and Nike pretty happy.
Or you could move deliberately on Diallo, and then rule him ineligible and have Nike on your side for years to come.
And you could afford to anger adidas-KU and adidas, because you've got Under Armour and its small, but increasing number of university relationships to fall back on, in order to maintain at least some slight autonomy in the face of Nike.
How would you rule on Diallo's eligibility?
Last season JNEW got the jump ball against all the other journalists on use of stats.
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For what its worth, back in the dark ages of the 1970s, we used to call it "quick jumping" a taller, or better jumping opponent.
But we never ran the stats on the underlying benefits.
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Interesting you mention President Kennedy, as I just read a first book in 20 years on the subject.
I just read "They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK" by Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell and David Wayne published by Skyhorse in 2013 and copyrighted 2014. New York Times best seller, as they say, too.
Anyway, former Navy UDT man, wrestling ham, Minnesota town mayor and Minnesota indie governor Jesse Ventura seemed an unlikely candidate to co-author perhaps the best book I have read so far summarizing the reasons that Oswald did not do it and that whomever ordered it done was apparently high enough in influence both to acquire some witting complicity, AND exploit some unwitting assistance, from elements in CIA, FBI, the Secret Service and local law enforcement in several cities sufficient to enable a couple trial attempts on Kennedy's life before actually assassinating him in Dallas.
(Note: I recalled there had been other unsuccessful attempts on JFK's life, but I did not recall those attempts had been tied together through similar techniques to assassination and some overlapping actors involved!)
Well, IMHO, Jesse and his co-authors nailed at least a part of it, Uncle Sam.
Until all the records are released by you, Uncle Sam, the book does what it's carefully worded title suggests. It documents the government's own House Select "Church" Committee's conclusion that a conspiracy probably occurred; then it gives sufficient reasons to make one "believe" a conspiracy used Oswald as a patsy, not an assassin, and assassinated JFK with a team of assassins enabled by an orchestrated change in motorcade route, a blatantly improper reduction in security around the car, a false arrest of Oswald, an orchestrated assassination of Oswald (which the book goes conspicuously light on), who could not possibly have been convicted without some obvious travesty of a trial, and followed it up with an orchestrated but unconvincing cover up that continues to this day, all cemented by a continuing refusal to release nearly 50k documents related to JFK's assassination.
The book succeeds partially by eliminating Oswald as a reasonable suspect, documenting his career as a CIA and military intelligence spy, plus Oswald's role as an FBI informant, plus it refutes the plausibility of him making the killing shot, and then any of the shots, plus it shows how and when the motorcade route and secret service protection were altered to enable the shooting, and lays out the medical findings and the later misrepresentation of those findings. It even recalls how the motorcycle cop's dicta belt with the gunshot recordings first made clear that shots were fired too quickly for the Mannlicher to have made, that the dicta belt analysis was inadequately impeached and that that inadequate impeachment was adequately impeached.
Just too many reasons (63) to find Oswald NOT guilty; that means someone else did it and the number of bullets evidenced by law enforcement officials findings and the directions of their impacts, plus multiple guns found (not just a Mannlicher), plus indications of multiple Oswalds, plus phony evidence all point to conspiracy by many. And witness interviews and witness deaths point to witness intimidation. And the book doesn't even mention Dan Rather was on the bridge that day and hasn't been given a polygraph on what he reported seeing that day.😀
But the who DID do it and why remains inconclusive in the book even though it feeds us the usual Dulles Brothers connection, which is kind of insulting because it does not explain that the Dulles brothers were just lawyers, like John McCloy, involved as agents to principals of private oligarchy in the grand British private oligarchic tradition of using law firms as agents in economic and political espionage up to and including pulling the strings of ones own and other's state and private intelligence organizations. Lawyers are agents. Not principals.
And it is significant that Ventura, a figure with ties to military intelligence as a UDT man, and an improbable career in entertainment and politics (why is it mil int guys are so often the ones with these improbable careers, eh?), wrote a book that was nearly simultaneously countervailed by Bill O'Reilly's essentially half-baked JFK assassination book. (Note: I had glanced at the O'Reilly book in a book store and saw it was so superficial and limited in scope that it wasn't worth buying.) Near simultaneous publication of O'Reilly and Ventura assassination books is essentially setting the limits of discourse as a thought cancelling paradox in spinfluence. This lets the party line talking points of assassination (the Warren Commission) be reasserted after and accepted by the paradoxed public. This is one classic technique of propaganda, right?
The Spinfluence technique is the same as financing both Nader and Perot, or Occupy and the Tea Party, or Bernie Sanders and Don Trump. You finance the extremes, or at least ensure emphasis on coverage of both, then they cancel and allow the two centrists you finance at the center to maintain the status quo, and then you pick the one centrist most able to carry out your agenda, and reward both parties for playing along; this is real politik in a compromised representative system of government, as nearly as I can tell.
So: Jesse and his co authors wrote a worth while book, but it was perhaps part of a spinfluence script IMHO.
And so to make the most sense out of it, you have to read not just the Ventura book, but be wary of the spinfluence script it may be embedded in.
Worth a read, if only to free yourself of Oswald as lone gunman and to appreciate him as a mil int trained, CIA asset involved in a fake defector program also acting as an FBI informant. Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, maybe even a Manchurian patsy with several dead ringers, but probably NOT the assassin of Jack.
Rock Chalk!
Regarding Cliff, in the rear view mirror the forensic hypothesis appears this way:
Cliff's mom hypothetically took the loan and someone that lost out on recruiting Cliff ratted them out to the NCAA.
This information hypothetically got back to Self somehow even before the season started, probably through some process of attorney client privilege, which let Self maintain plausible deniability.
Jerrance reputedly had a bad habit and a cop caught him and Jerrance hypothetically told his lawyer to tell Self's lawyer, so Self's lawyer could hypothetically tell Self and Self once again hypothetically had plausible deniability.
Self hypothetically figured the chances were 50-50 that Cliff would eventually have to NOT play any more.
Self hypothetically did a straddle. He played him some, enough to develop him some, but not so much that a gaping hole would result if/when he had to stop playing him permanently for the loan. He had to come up with the diversion of Cliff having trouble adjusting to D1 speeds.
Next, Self hypothetically waited on Jerrance having to appear in court. The idea was to see if the appearance slipped by without any media picking it up. In the interim, Self hypothetically had to hold Jerrance out of recruiting almost the entire season to be sure that whomever ratted out Cliff's mom didn't get wind of this cannabis bust and use it against Jerrance's recruiting. So: Jerrance hypothetically became a non entity as a recruiter much of last season to make sure they didn't lose any recruits to parents pissed off that their kid had been being recruited by a pot head, should the story break, which Self probably reasoned it likely would.
When the pot story broke, Self hypothetically acted surprised, because attorney client privilege communications hypothetically enabled him to.
He hypothetically gave Jerrance some swift discipline of a tiny order, then hypothetically low profiled him and continued to keep him away from recruits until this episode receded.
Cliff's story surfaced. Cliff was hypothetically distanced from his mother, but Cliff was also hypothetically distanced from his team.
Cliff was hypothetically eased into the background then off the court, then off the team, but it hypothetically was carefully spun to make Cliff not the problem, so that Self and the team looked like victims of his mother's behavior, which in a sense they were.
Self hypothetically left no door open for Cliff to return and Cliff quickly departed.
Self took Jerrance to Korea hypothetically to make sure the pot issue was not used on any of his recruiters this past summer.
All in all the two live wires of Cliff's mom's loan and Jerrance's cannabis bust were hypothetically never allowed to arc from Cliff to Jerrance and likely into hypothetically more sensitive areas.
The whole thing was hypothetically thus diffused deftly.
The hypothetical cost was Cliff didn't get to turn KU into a dominant team it would have been if Cliff had been able to play 35 minutes down the stretch. Cliff was good, just not great. He would have been a helluva a lot better than an injured Traylor and an injured Lucas down the stretch; that much we can be sure.
The other hypothetical cost was KU lost out on what Jerrance could have recruited last season and that cost bled into this one, because he had hypothetically to be hidden in Korea this summer, too. In this hypothesis, it is hard to say if Jerrance will cool off enough to become the good recruiter he was reputed to be before he got to KU. It appears Self is trying to see if he can be cooled off, while also laying the ground work for Aaron Miles taking over if Jerrance cannot be cooled.
One more piece of the hypothesis. The intensity and conflictedness of Shoe Wars probably made Self have to be extremely cautious in bringing Jerrance back into recruiting. Last season, was the first season of hyper stacking. Both sides had to be looking for a new bat they could swing at the other. Self probably had to take extra special care to make sure Jerrance was not turned into that bat.
All hypothetical of course.
@Statmachine said:
I saw a pic of Devonte, and he is going to be VERY tough this season with the muscle mass he has put on.
He looks like a Russell Robinson in the making--getting a little barrel chested up top as he ages. Devonte has the baby face that masks he's actually a tough nut. Not sure if his outside shooting will come around or not. If it comes around, he will be very tough to keep off the floor this season, even for Svi.
@Lulufulu said:
Mason PG, Devonte SG/PG, Selden SF, Perry PF, Hunter C
yes.
Diallo? Diallo has already peaked in what he will contribute this season. :-)
Bragg could play some, but will be highly limited until late this season.
Traylor and Lucas will emerge as "the committee" when Hunter goes down with the inevitable broken nose, or eye socket that new bigs that try to mix it up get, unless they are built like TRob.
Traylor I believe will set a new low for rebounding on a points per minute played basis. @HighEliteMajor will infarct twice about Traylor's rebounding, but recover and be critically sound and strong down the stretch.
Brannen Greene will struggle all season, or be a med red.
Svi and Wayne are the great unknowns--the black matter at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Wayne will get tweaked twice this season. If the tweaks come late, we are screwed. Any other time and we are gold.
Svi? Defensively Svi will improve to the point that he can guard guys who's shoulders are at the same height as his shoulders, but will be constantly burned by 6-8 guys with shorter necks (that was for @HighEliteMajor).
Svi offensively? Very tough to anticipate. Usually when a shooter puts on as much weight as Svi appears to have added it is because the coaches decided that he really will never be a great shooter; that he will, like Travis Releford, have to learn to play an old man's game and maybe have one great shooting season, while gluing at a high level. On the other hand, Svi was soooooooo young last season that this just may be ordinary filling out and his gun will finally find the range.
Jerrance will fool everyone by doing something vital and then landing a good recruit when everyone has given up on him. But he will not lose weight and so KUAD will have to by him a specially made carbon fiber chair for the bench.
Wait, Kansas has more acre feet of fresh water lakes than Minnesota; that was what I used to be told anyway after the earthen dam projects by the Corps of Engineers were completed to make the various river valleys safe from flooding and the congressman able to say they brought home some pork.
I totally support KU football.
I want it coached by Jerrance and I want 60 potential basketball wide bodies recruited every year and trained to be basketball players, while going out each Fall Saturday trying to avoid getting hurt and playing grab football, so that we can get the TV football check AND amass an unparalleled stream of back up wide body big men, enforcers and rim protectors, plus maybe a few Charles Barkley types.
The last thing I want is for KU football to fold; that was the old me. That was before I realized KU football scholarships could legally be given to wide body basketball prospects that pretend to play a little football each Saturday, but generally just try to have as much fun as possible when they are not practicing basketball. I know we will only be able to use about 3-4 of the 60 on the basketball roster each season, but that is way more help than KU basketball is getting from KU football right now.
New Bumper Sticker and T-shirts:
SAVE KU FOOTBALL
FOR KU BASKETBALL
This dog hunts.
Howling!!!
Without even looking, I bet they require it to be tackle. Not flag. :-)
That's why I advocated replacing Beaty with Jerrance and having Jerrance recruit only wide bodies that could really block out the light in the free throw lane, and maybe a Charles Barkley or three that could drive the lane from outside, despite their mass.
I really think this dog will hunt.
Imagine 60 football players just going through the motions on football, while really working and training to become basketball players for four years. Self would have a steady influx of enforcers and rim protectors and our W&L statement would be just the same as its been under Gill, Weis and Beaty.
And it gets Jerrance off the basketball staff in a face saving way.
Imagine if Self really had five legitimate big men each season.
Two 5 stars, or OADs, if the embargo is ever lifted on him.
Three monster, senior wide body enforcers every flipping season as the back ups. These guys would weigh 270 to 320 pounds. And they could stay on spots. And put a body on someone. They would eat Ratso Izzo's guys for lunch.
KU would probably go to the Final Four every season and win about 1 in 3, or 1 in 4, until other teams started copying us. And then slowly football--the only sport guarantied to induce brain injury in everyone that plays it--would slowly recede like slavery and gladiatorial combat into the barbarity of the past.
And no matter what, KU would make the same amount on the football TV contract as it does now.
Rock Chalk!!!!
How dumb did you think they were after seeing their misguided excitement over the hiring of Turner Gill and Charlie Weis?
How dumb did you think they were after they supported short sheeting both Gill's and Weis' tenures?
How dumb did you think they were when they thought Beaty might be able to win a non conference game this season?
Like I tell folks, we are spoiled by how knowledgeable our basketball fans are, and we unwisely generalize that expectation to KU fans knowledgeability about football.
Have you read the fine print? Do they require it to be tackle football?
Well, yours was exactly the argument I made for Gill, and again for Weis, even though I thought neither guy should have been hired in the first place.
But apparently KU leadership and a goodly number of fans thought Gill needed to be run early and Weis needed to be run early.
So: I thought after trying to stop Gill and Weis from being fired early, I would jump shift on bidding and be the first to call for Beaty's early dismissal, even though he has the kind of prior employment profile I wanted them to hire instead of Gill, or Weis. :-) Skin color and sky gods preferences just don't sway me pro or con.
Aw, what the hell.
Let's cut to the chase here.
If Beaty were a fundamentalist African American, lots would already be calling for his head.
And if Beaty were a Roman Catholic advocating cornerstoning his recruiting system on Roman Catholic high school players, as Weis stupidly did at one point, Beaty would probably be in the early stages of deep do-do-ca-ca-poo-poo-nasty-no-no with the protestants.
But Beaty is kind of vaguely defined religiously (he is religious but I don't know what brand) and his racial profile is not pioneering, and by god he has recruited Texas in the past, so I will take my tongue out of my cheek and say, "Alright, okay, give Dave five years. Three won't come close to turning it around. Give Dave five. Heck, maybe seven. Do I hear ten?"
We are in a really tough situation.
KU fans have been played for suckers the last two football coaches.
I saw both Gill and Weis as ill-fitting hires from the beginning.
So: now we are supposed to think the folks that brought us Gill and Weis are suddenly going to get serious about football and hire Beaty--a supposedly good young coaching prospect.
But the problem is this: there was no pudding with any proof from Gill, or Weis early or late.
Now there is no pudding with proof early with Beaty.
Clint Bowen had them playing harder during his short stint as head coach.
So: what gives here?
I decided to be devil's advocate today.
I actually support Beaty and think he fits the profile of what we should have hired instead of Gill, or Weis.
But I am also some one that likes pudding with proof.
And I ain't gettin' any so far.
"Money doesn't talk, it swears."--Bob Dylan
We are in digital monetary free fall as a global economy anyway. But we are not talking about everything here. Just corruption in sports refereeing.
Hypothesis: significant referee corruption tracks directly or indirectly to Big Gaming, or Small Gaming.
From the moment I read that all of the world's stock markets were rigged on 60 Minutes by using exploits based on varying speeds of fiber, I knew that Big Gaming and Small Gaming would eventually completely compromise college sports in order to run exploits based on varying fiber speeds. That didn't take a flipping rocket scientist.
We live in the age of The Sting 2.0.
You read it here first.
Or maybe you didn't.
Regardless...
IMHO, there appears zero possibility that referees are not being compromised in basketball and football with big incentives.
I am not writing this zero possibility assertion based on insider knowledge, or investigative reporting facts uncovered. Everyone is too terrified of those behind Big Gaming and Small Gaming to take them on with inquiries. Period.
I sure am not.
I am making the zero possibility assertion based on the apparent technological feasibility of cheating digitally without ever being caught, if you can vary the spread in the game itself. Vary that spread even a little and the feasible range of fiber exploits becomes virtually unlimited even to the limited analytical imagination of a layman like me.
Let's face it. The American electoral system and its paper free electronic voting machines are proven to be compromised. Back doors have been documented and no one has ever claimed the old back doors have been shut, or that new back doors have not been added. If the almighty private oligarchic "they" can throw US Presidential elections digitally, and if they can rig the world's stock markets digitally, then what chance is there that their Big Gaming and Small Gaming agents are not compromising college sports contests and betting, too. Remember, Big Gaming especially, but even Small Gaming, has been traditonally connected to big money directly or indirectly, not to a bunch of Willy Suttons.
I conservatively hypothesize that someone could afford to offer one referee team $10 Million dollars to throw a game with a lot of action and still make a ton of money on the digital exploit of the knowledge of what the refs were going to do to shape the point spread. Let's see someone collect data to prove me wrong.
Its the feasibility, dummy.
And you would never be caught, because no one stands up to these guys but the government and if they have compromised our voting machines and our stock market fiber, then what are the chances the government is going to take them on until those two forms of exploits are shut down and judges on the take are weeded out?
This is America reverted to a digital 1920s Chicago.
Capone 2.0 is apparently in charge, or lurking in the background, only he maybe named Colin Withorpe IV, or something like that. He may be a free man of London running the whole exploit from there in the safe haven of the Royally Chartered District of London. Or he could be a narco-arms cartel member running it out of Dubai. Or he could be in China White entrepreneur in Shanghai. Or he could be working inside the beltway, or somewhere in Italy. Or "he" could be a cartel of "he's," or "she's."
The NSA now records everything 24/7 and we know they could not even keep their own existence a secret. How the hell are they going to keep all the data they collect on money flows of narco-trafficers, arms dealers, central banks, investment banks, states, federations, and sports gaming and so on a secret from Capone 2.0? Even if they aren't part of Capone 2.o, which I believe they are not, they are his target, because that's where the information is now.
Remember the old line that Snopes debunked as Willie Sutton not saying? When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton denied ever having said, "Because that's where the money is." Willie said he did it for the thrill of it. Well, remember this: Willie Sutton was a small time thief. He was never a private oligarch, or a big time narco trafficker, or arms smuggler, or a bank and investment fraud-artist. These types rob banks, stock markets, pension funds, and any other conceivable pool of wealth they can access and they rob it either legally, or illegally, because that's where the money is!!!! Screw Willie Sutton.
But in the Age of Information, when money is information and information can be converted to money, these same kinds of players that used to steal money, now steal information in order to convert it to money or marketable strategic advantage. Some do it legally and others do it illegally. But that is what is new under the sun in the 21st Century. Choice information has always been stolen and sold. But this is the first era when "bulk" information is the grand temptation. There didn't used to be teraflops of information being stored daily and backed up encoded on to drives hither thither and yon. All this information is collected on a vast scale and is stored and so becomes the equivalent of the biggest iBank in the world.
By the middle of the 21st Century, the NSA will likely be the biggest iBank in the world, period, because it will be the portal to the largest trough of information in the world. Those military bureaucrats and their geeks at the NSA may think they are in the business of collecting electronic intelligence on everyone to be used to leverage anyone the big dogs want to leverage. WRONG! They are increasingly in the business of denying what they collect to entrepreneurs and that is impossible to do. Everyone knows it.
They will collect and store this post I am writing, because they reputedly collect and store EVERYTHING now. That's not even being disputed anymore. The question now is how soon will it be stolen from them. Because my posts are worthless, it may never be stolen. But because all the electronic surveillance they pick up on the flow of betting and on who is trying to rig games and how they are trying to rig them is so flipping feasible to exploit, that information sooner or later will be ripped off from them. If weasel on the run Edward Snowden (note: he's likely a fake defector, like Lee Harvey Oswald was a fake defector, run to find real weasels running exploits they can't find without such a fake defector) can port out national secrets by the iBucket full, what chance have they against some really serious hackers on salary working 9-5 for intelligence organizations in, say, Israel, or Russia, eh? Zero. That's what.
They can't do it. No one could. They can't protect the information they are collecting and that's why putting this marvelous and exceptional organization in the position of collecting everything was so tragically misguided. Once the NSA was one of our greatest secret weapons. And now it is one of our greatest targets--one of our greatest vulnerabilities. Not because they are bad guys, or incompetents, but because we moved them out of the shadows and into being gigantic indefensible targets in the information ocean, or cloud, or universe, or whatever disconnected metaphor you want to use. Oh, the spy masters have probably already created an alternative NSA in the FEMA COG that is secret, but they can't conceal they turned the NSA into a bulk information collection business. We need the NSA. We need them knowing more than anyone else about anything we need to know about. We don't need them to know about everything; that is the stupidest strategic objective concocted in human history. It doesn't matter if it is feasible to collect everything. All that matters is the horrendous consequence of making them a security risk themselves for collecting everything.
And this is why we should never have started collecting all this information. No one that collects it can defend it. No one can keep it from being tapped into. If heavy bricks of gold are disappearing from banks around the world and showing up elsewhere, and if the Pentagon can't find $3.2 Trillion of its appropriations, how the hell is someone at NSA going to keep 24/7 data collected around the world on everyone and everything secreted away in a thumb drive somewhere even on Jupiter. Can't be done. No secrets can be kept in the age of information once they become archived and stored systematically, whether concentrated spatially, or spread in packets all throughout the cloud.
But you can bet your bottom groupon that this guy--this Capone 2.0-- exists somewhere already and he is the first of the really big digital global racketeers.
Welcome to the 21st Century.
If you thought betting was for suckers in the 20th Century, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Rock Chalk!
Aren't there something like 60 football scholarships to be given? Or is it 90?
No matter.
Let's move Jerrance Howard to head football coach and have him recruit basketball players to play football AND basketball.
Terrence of the wide body morphology himself will be given a clear mission: recruit basketball wide bodies to play football and then basketball.
They don't have to give it there all in football. They can go 0-11 like the current football players playing for KU football. They can run from contact. But they have to suit up for games and play.
Imagine how much better Self can do, if he has an additional 20-30 scholies.
Same for all the other sports also.
Baseball...20 scholarships.
Track...20 scholarships.
And so on.
Football is still 0-11.
But in every other sport KU wins rings.
Rock Chalk!
Let's put this in perspective.
Beaty inherited a program completely free of free loaders and malcontents.
Charlie Weis ran all those.
Beaty inherited a program full of guys selected because they could run to the ball on defense, even if they didn't have the size and skill needed to be even mediocre.
Weis, who apparently didn't know spit from defense, had a bonafide former NFL defensive coordinator, as his KU defensive coordinator. They had at least to be able to select toward guys "that could run." So Beaty at least has guys that can run, even if they haven't got much talent.
Beaty inherited a team full of guys that have had access to KU's famed weight program and strength coach, Andrea Hudy, for 2-3 years. They had to have gained some size and srength. They have to be better this year than last, even if they only went from awful to bad.
Beaty inherited a team that last season Clint Bowen at least revved up to the point that KU played a few teams close for a half late last season. This means Beaty ought at least to be able to make them competitive for a half this season, maybe even three quarters, before getting slaughtered.
But that hasn't been the case.
After playing ineptly for two games, KU just got beat 27-14 by a team without a head coach and with six of its players just dismissed the week of the game.
After three games, it is unquestionable that Coach David Beaty has delivered the team to a new low.
Is it time for a change?
Already?
Technically, it is highly likely, since all governments and their agencies are a category of corporation, and central banks, commercial banks, investment banks, accounting and law firms, universities and think tanks and foundations operate out of corporations, and most great fortunes operate out of holding company corporations, and probably all organized crime operates partly through corporations. I rather doubt a producer corporation ordered it though.
(Author here. DFW-RIP. Learning of the situation of near 50% transience among D1 college basketball players, where such players often have to sit out a year and so lose eligibility, and educational and social continuity, with the schools benefitting from this situation in many ways, so incensed me that after I posted it in another link started by @drgnslayr I decided to give it its own thread in hopes of calling attention to the 50% transience statistic cited by Bob Bowlsby in a recent story. It should be pointed out here that I do not yet know the exact definition of transience that Bowlsby's 50% statistic referred to, it appeared to refer to players transferring from one D1 program to another, and so apparently excluded players jumping to the pros early. The post below begins as a brief expansion on some comments regarding the level of talent in jucos today, but quickly moves on to the meat of the transience issue. )
I am not reading anything in the thread above suggesting juco talent has NOT dropped off. But that is not really what triggers my further response here. But raising and addressing the juco issue enables a pathway into a much deeper and more disturbing issue that needs addressing.
So: let me briefly reiterate and expand ever so slightly on the juco issue and get on to the bigger kettle of fish needing deep fat frying.
To expand ever so slightly, the combination of dumb, er, intellectually challenged, OADs being able to skate through a year or two at a reputedly 4 year college and then jumping to the pros, plus the basketball academy player factories reputedly issuing designer transcripts to guys that stay an extra year, seems probable to have eaten deeply into high quality juco talent. Why go to a juco and work to get your grades up, or even to a juco that is retailing its grades to 4-year basketball programs, if you can stay at the high school academy basketball factory an extra year, get your designer diploma, then do one OAD year at a 4 year, and then go pro? The days of Bob McAdoo's in jucos are apparently long gone.
And Bob "Gripe But Do Nothing" Bowlsby hinted at another factor eating into juco talent, and corroding D1, simultaneously.
Bowlsby said recently that something like 40-50% of D1 players transfer at least once in their D1 careers. Since I am used to watching KU with low transfer out and low transfer in numbers (maybe 1 or 2/year out of roster); this high transfer rate surprised me at first. But after thinking about it, it makes considerable sense that things would be this sorry way.
Given that god (and evolution) establishes IQ distributions among the population of players (even despite the biases of IQ testing), and so IQ is not yet something the NCAA, universities, or coaches can alter sharply inside the cranium of players (less biased IQ testing would be help some but not eliminate the variations we are all heirs to), the moment the NCAA (i.e., member universities and their bargaining agent they call the NCAA) started incentivizing the graduation of players, and penalizing those programs that don't graduate their players, it should have been obvious (and likely was) to those paid to think about this sort of thing in advance that this high transfer rate would be one consequence. The rule that incentivized high graduation rates and penalized low graduation rates probably did not set any effective standards on transfer incentives and disincentives. And probably intentionally so, given that universities and the NCAA adopted the one-year rolling scholarship. Note: that one-year rolling scholarship should have been a red flag even to we unpaid board rats supporting our teams that this system was rigged to improve the athletic departments' bottom lines, rather than expedite the education of young Americans playing the greatest game ever invented.
Hypothesis: there probably was never an actual intention to improve education of players. There was probably instead an actual intention to create a rationale for NOT having to educate them and for "normalizing" the tradition of "tramp athletes" pre-big-business-in-sports days into "transcient" athletes rationalized for the new economics of College Sports, Inc.
It was probably vaguely like emancipating slaves and calling them free, while enabling Jim Crow, and I am introducing this incendiary analogy precisely because of the apparent egregiousness of the situation, not literally to equate the two things. But however you respond to it, I digress.
Leaving aside for a moment whether or not one believes in amateurism, or professionalism, for the business of D1 college basketball, it is clear that the current model of 50% transience among long term college players, plus all the remaining 1ADs and 2ADs jumping early to the pros, has turned D1 college basketball into a labor pool market with a large complement of rent-a-players. UW's Bo Ryan referred to John Calipari's UK OADs as rent-a-players, but this moniker applies perhaps even more relevantly to the long term transients--the labor poolers--the employee leasing type players.
Taken in total, this three tiered employment model with transience at its base is strikingly similar to what one finds in much of contemporary American business, only without the salaried compensation. The players receive annual contracts for tuition, room, and board, and pocket monies (the pocket monies about to be increased), and apparently significant unreported income from player sale of merchandize given the university by PetroShoeCos, as partial consideration for coaches and players wearing that particular brand of shoes and promoting that particular brand of apparel among their ticket buying fans and television audiences. But beyond this player compensation, ranging from significant, but brief, to perhaps lavish and brief, to something appearing, as I already suggested, somewhat similar to what we find in the employee leasing supplied work place of today.
First, consider that outside of basketball, in what some call "the real world," we have an annual, small wave of graduates with the right social pedigree and grades from elite schools (e.g., Ivy League and a few miscellaneous privates) that move with preference into jobs with HIGH, even SKY'S THE LIMIT, upward mobility. rather quickly, while most of the rest scramble for jobs yielding declining real income, high turnover tenure, and few, if any, long term benefits that will not be cherry picked away from them long before they reach retirement age. In addition, we have a sharply increasing labor underclass of structurally transcient, peonage employees brokered by employee leasing companies with reputed, and disturbingly frequent, deep backgrounds of ownership by organized crime.
Though the levels of short term compensation may be said to vary greatly between "the real world" and college basketball for some, for a short period of time that players are not too injured, or worn-and-torn, to play, the structure of the system just outlined above "in the real world" is significantly (not completely, but significantly) analogous to what appears to be the structure that college basketball is in and apparently still evolving toward.
College basketball has its 1ADs and 2ADs that are stacked at either traditionally elite programs, or at apparently newly designated stack programs that then become at least briefly elite. This small number of players emit from the colleges annually and jump to the "sky's the limit" NBA very shortly.
Next, there is the average to high IQ four year player that is encouraged to stay by the university, because he can add experienced continuity to the team, plus graduate, and so contribute positively to the university's graduation requirement, and because he is not a sure thing for the sky's the limit NBA, and more likely bound for a foreign pro career of highly uncertain length and pay, after which a college degree could have some value.
Next, there is the college basketball player equivalent of the employee leasing employee. The disturbing and surprising thing is not that he exists, but that he appears to constitute nearly 50% of the college basketball labor force. He is picked up and used on an intentionally short term scholarship contract, as filler to buffer the uncertainties of numbers of 1ADs and 2ADs, and as insurance against injuries to the four year types. He can be dumb as a post, or simply hopelessly inadequately educated by our grade schools and high schools, but since he only has to matriculate a season, or two, before being forced out, or leaving for greener pastures, with the former most likely being the rule and the latter the exception, his educational short comings can be obscured by easy classes, tutors writing his papers, two-tiered grading systems in the classes he takes, rule bending and out right cheating on tests, and by the short term nature of his tenure. By transferring, he apparently ceases to count as a demerit against the university's graduation rate. In short, approximately 50% of the college basketball players in D1 apparently do not have to be educated in the current and the evolving system may raise that percentage even higher.
The above appears a sorry state of affairs.
It appears possible, maybe even likely, that universities are educating even fewer players today than in the bad old days before universities responded to criticisms of their failure to educate their players by instituting the current pathetic system.
There are many simple, effective solutions to this problem of failure to educate players, just as there were simple effective solutions to the problem of universities and the NCAA failing to compensate players for revenues made by marketing their likenesses without compensation prior to the Ed OBannon et al case. But apparently the universities have to be sued into other centuries and have their university wide revenues threatened before they experience the impetus to do not only "the right thing," but comply with the minimum standards of their reason for incorporation and state support as universities in the first place; i.e., to educate our children as they become adults.
This situation makes me sick to my stomach.
I am not reading anything in the thread above suggesting juco talent has NOT dropped off. But that is not really what triggers my further response here. But raising and addressing the juco issue enables a pathway into a much deeper and more disturbing issue that needs addressing.
So: let me briefly reiterate and expand ever so slightly on the juco issue and get on to the bigger kettle of fish needing deep fat frying.
To expand ever so slightly, the combination of dumb, er, intellectually challenged, OADs being able to skate through a year or two at a reputedly 4 year college and then jumping to the pros, plus the basketball academy player factories reputedly issuing designer transcripts to guys that stay an extra year, seems probable to have eaten deeply into high quality juco talent. Why go to a juco and work to get your grades up, or even to a juco that is retailing its grades to 4-year basketball programs, if you can stay at the high school academy basketball factory an extra year, get your designer diploma, then do one OAD year at a 4 year, and then go pro? The days of Bob McAdoo's in jucos are apparently long gone.
And Bob "Gripe But Do Nothing" Bowlsby hinted at another factor eating into juco talent, and corroding D1, simultaneously.
Bowlsby said recently that something like 40-50% of D1 players transfer at least once in their D1 careers. Since I am used to watching KU with low transfer out and low transfer in numbers (maybe 1 or 2/year out of roster); this high transfer rate surprised me at first. But after thinking about it, it makes considerable sense that things would be this sorry way.
Given that god (and evolution) establishes IQ distributions among the population of players and so it is not something the NCAA, universities, or coaches can yet alter inside the cranium, the moment the NCAA (i.e., member universities and their bargaining agent they call the NCAA) started incentivizing the graduation of players, and penalizing those programs that don't graduate their players, it should have been obvious (and likely was) to those paid to think about this sort of thing in advance that this high transfer rate would be one consequence. The rule that incentivized high graduation rates and penalized low graduation rates probably did not set any standards on transfer incentives and disincentives. And probably intentionally so, given that universities and the NCAA adopted the one-year rolling scholarship. Note: that one-year rolling scholarship should have been the dead give away even to we unpaid board rats supporting our teams that this system was rigged to improve the athletic departments' bottom lines.
Hypothesis: there probably was never an actual intention to improve education of players. There was probably instead an actual intention to create a rationale for NOT having to educate them and for "normalizing" the tradition of "tramp athletes" pre-big-business-in-sports days into "transcient" athletes rationalized for the new economics of College Sports, Inc.
It was probably vaguely like emancipating slaves and calling them free, while enabling Jim Crow, but I digress.
Leaving aside for a moment whether or not one believes in amateurism, or professionalism, for the business of D1 college basketball, it is clear that the current model of 50% transience among long term college players, plus all the remaining 1ADs and 2ADs jumping early to the pros, has turned D1 college basketball into a labor pool market with a large complement of rent-a-players. UW's Bo Ryan referred to John Calipari's UK OADs as rent-a-players, but this moniker applies perhaps even more relevantly to the long term transients--the labor poolers--the employee leasing type players.
Taken in total, this three tiered employment model with transience at its base is strikingly similar to what one finds in much of contemporary American business, only without the salaried compensation. The players receive annual contracts for tuition, room, and board, and pocket monies (the pocket monies about to be increased), and apparently significant unreported income from player sale of merchandize given the university by PetroShoeCos, as partial consideration for coaches and players wearing that particular brand of shoes and promoting that particular brand of apparel among their ticket buying fans and television audiences. But beyond this player compensation, ranging from significant, but brief, to perhaps lavish and brief, to something appearing, as I already suggested, somewhat similar to what we find in the employee leasing supplied work place of today.
First, consider that outside of basketball, in what some call "the real world," we have an annual, small wave of graduates with the right social pedigree and grades from elite schools (e.g., Ivy League and a few miscellaneous privates) that move with preference into jobs with HIGH, even SKY'S THE LIMIT, upward mobility. rather quickly, while most of the rest scramble for jobs yielding declining real income, high turnover tenure, and few, if any, long term benefits that will not be cherry picked away from them long before they reach retirement age. In addition, we have a sharply increasing labor underclass of structurally transcient, peonage employees brokered by employee leasing companies with reputed, and disturbingly frequent, deep backgrounds of ownership by organized crime.
Though the levels of short term compensation may be said to vary greatly between "the real world" and college basketball for some, for a short period of time that players are not too injured, or worn-and-torn, to play, the structure of the system just outlined above "in the real world" is significantly (not completely, but significantly) analogous to what appears to be the structure that college basketball is in and apparently still evolving toward.
College basketball has its 1ADs and 2ADs that are stacked at either traditionally elite programs, or at apparently newly designated stack programs that then become at least briefly elite. This small number of players emit from the colleges annually and jump to the "sky's the limit" NBA very shortly.
Next, there is the average to high IQ four year player that is encouraged to stay by the university, because he can add experienced continuity to the team, plus graduate, and so contribute positively to the university's graduation requirement, and because he is not a sure thing for the sky's the limit NBA, and more likely bound for a foreign pro career of highly uncertain length and pay, after which a college degree could have some value.
Next, there is the college basketball player equivalent of the employee leasing employee. The disturbing and surprising thing is not that he exists, but that he appears to constitute nearly 50% of the college basketball labor force. He is picked up and used on an intentionally short term scholarship contract, as filler to buffer the uncertainties of numbers of 1ADs and 2ADs, and as insurance against injuries to the four year types. He can be dumb as a post, or simply hopelessly inadequately educated by our grade schools and high schools, but since he only has to matriculate a season, or two, before being forced out, or leaving for greener pastures, with the former most likely being the rule and the latter the exception, his educational short comings can be obscured by easy classes, tutors writing his papers, two-tiered grading systems in the classes he takes, rule bending and out right cheating on tests, and by the short term nature of his tenure. By transferring, he apparently ceases to count as a demerit against the university's graduation rate. In short, approximately 50% of the college basketball players in D1 apparently do not have to be educated in the current and the evolving system may raise that percentage even higher.
The above appears a sorry state of affairs.
It appears possible, maybe even likely, that universities are educating even fewer players today than in the bad old days before universities responded to criticisms of their failure to educate their players by instituting the current pathetic system.
There are many simple, effective solutions to this problem of failure to educate players, just as there were simple effective solutions to the problem of universities and the NCAA failing to compensate players for revenues made by marketing their likenesses without compensation prior to the Ed OBannon et al case. But apparently the universities have to be sued into other centuries and have their university wide revenues threatened before they experience the impetus to do not only "the right thing," but comply with the minimum standards of their reason for incorporation and state support as universities in the first place; i.e., to educate our children as they become adults.
This situation makes me sick to my stomach.
Interesting link. I didn't realize some had done it lately.
Of course a dumb OAD probably wouldn't go juco today. But before the OAD RULE, and before guys were allowed to jump early, great players that lacked good grades had little other choice than juco; e.g., Bob McAdoo played for Vincennes Juco before UNC.
But not as much talent as before.
Leaving aside the basketball academy drain, probably quite a few OADs would have wound up at jucos in the old days. A moron can probably matriculate any D1 school for one season, if he gets a designer diploma from a basketball academy, an able act test surrogate, and gets enough tutoring help one semester. 😀
Exactly. So if anyone can do it any time, and Ben was a ticket to ride for Self, or Stumpy, or Cal, why didn't they make the hire?
There had to be more to it.
Shoes.
Agreed. But something seems to be driving it related to the quality of juco players. My hunch is that the basketball academy player factory high schools are shrinking the pool of desirable juco players precipitously. Guys that used to be parked at jucos are getting parked at basketball factory high schools and getting designer diplomas.
The jucos are more subject to institutional standards, lax as they may be.
Oh, yes, it is always fascinating to find one inconclusive shred of evidence and posit it against a trend of two or more data points. :-)
Keep trying.
To get serious for a moment, put yourself in this kids's position and walk around in his shoes.
I can go play for a .600 coach that's never won a ring at a school that hasn't amounted to squat in basketball since I don't know when, because my "godfather" is an assistant there.
Or...
I could go play for Mr. .820 and a ring, plus consensus future Hall of Famer Bill Self, who has flooded the NBA with players the last ten years, and who coaches at one of the four elite program of USA college basketball programs started by the man who invented the flipping game, and who just won the WUGs, and who has an experienced, excellent perimeter core and stretch 4 coming back picked to finish in the Top Six even without me, and likely as not get my "godfather" hired as an assistant there.
Hmmmm.
Now, that's not even a close, is it?
Next.
P.S.: And actually I didn't overlook it. It just didn't seem significant, unless you are telling me .600 Johnny hired his godfather just to get him, as Self hired Mario Chalmers dad. These family hirings never seem very decisive to me, since everyone can find a way to do it; that seems a wash to me. I mean, if Self could hire his "godgather" as easily as .600 Johnny, then it probably was not decisive in the final choice, though it might have been a sweetener either way. The 900 pound gorilla tipping the teeter totter seems to be Big Shoe however you slice this baby.
Brannen Greene's Disease.
KU always gets a load of guys at Late Night. Nothing special this season. Zip.
This group actually seems less stellar than some past groups. No Wiggins.
KU recently also always has lots of inside slots to fill, because the apparent embargo keeps our quality thin inside.
If the turnout is any better than average in any regard, it most likely has to do with Harden getting the big adidas scrip.
The argument that Maloof was a two star juco from Australia via Ames that ISU had set on a long while and we shouldn't be surprised he turned down KU's offer is so much horse excreta.
Maloof is the second Aussie to flush an offer from KU for a lesser school and lesser coach.
OAD Ben what's his name picked LSU and ringless .600 Johnny over KU and one ring and .820 Bill.
Now Maloof picks ISU with a first year coach without a single win or loss at a major, at a second rate major that no one outside Ames, Iowa gives a flip about, and that lost their leading recruiter to St. John's (the guy that would have been sitting on Maloof) even before Fred left.
MALOOF SHOULD HAVE JUMPED AT KU, OR ARIZONA!!! Any player from Australia, or Alpha Centauri, could have made that call. Any kid.
This absolutely wreaks of Big Shoe.
The kid turns down Nike UA and adidas KU.
Hypothesis: the kid got the word. Stay with Nike ISU, or else.
Now, who would give him that word?
The great private oligarchies of the world have to be in critical business sectors, or they have to finance producer oligopolies to be control those sectors.
Big Banking, Big Oil, Big Grain, Big Pharma, Big Gaming and Big Media are crucial sectors to dominate.
There is a race on to create a Big Apparel.
Big Shoe is a pathway to Big Apparel.
Under Big Media is Big Sports.
Big Sports are how you showcase Big Shoe.
Big Shoe is a pathway into Big Apparel.
Big Shoe and Big Apparel will use a lot of Big Oil.
Big Media promotes Big Shoe, Big Apparel and Big Oil.
Big Gaming bets on everything.
Yes, but the B1G is a voting block of states that has struggle sharply with the energy and transportation agenda (ETA) of the TOKA (Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas Alliance). The B1G would also not like to add a block of red states either. Indiana would be a better political economy fit to join the B12, than KU to join the B1G in terms of ETA and red state characteristics. But Indiana has to think about Great Lakes Basin issues first and it still has legacy ties industrially to those same Great Lakes states. But there are two prospects for change.
First, with the Anglo-American oil oligopoly flooding the world with cheap oil to try to cut the legs out from under Putin and the Chinese building the trans-Eurasian Super Corridor with oil money and financing military actions there with oil revenues also, the North American reserves are worth little near term, So: a state like Kansas might be enticed off the fracking teat.
Second, when the car cos crapped out in 2007, Ford avoided Federal bailout by mortgaging its future. It mortgaged it with British Banks and was reorganized by Brit Allen Mullaly, who put Microsoft on Fords dashboard. Mullaly came from Boeing. Boeing is reputedly deep in the crowns pockets. Boeing basically sired Microsoft to get IBM off their backs. Microsoft ran to the Crown to keep from getting broken up with USA antitrust laws. Boeing goes back to the Michigan Boeing family that made a small fortune in timber and then a large one in iron-taconite mining-refining that later became the backbone of the rail, auto and ship and building industries financed first by George Peabody and then by Junius Morgan, and then by JP Morgan. . William Boeing likely financed the iron and later the planes through British banks. The point is one axis of trains and cars and planes and computers in America tracks to one set of British-German banks, and another to another set of British-French banks--the Peabody-Morgan-Rothschild branch--to another set of British . And over time these branches have converged some. Note: Wall Street has never been an American institution. It has always been a British creature with two axes of power: British-German and British-French. Fit the Habsburgs in as you wish. New York is the Hong Kong of The Americas. Always has been. It started as New Amsterdam, then when the Dutch central bankers threw their lot with the British to avoid invasion by Habsburg Spain, they became British-Dutch.
Thus, it seems oil politics and international banking alliances may be shifting to the point that the B1G states might be allowed to embrace a resource and red state school like KU, rather than view it as a member of a competitive oil and banking alliance.
Maybe.
Note: no conspiracy theory here. Just geneology of fortunes and firms. Nothing illegal here either. Just not very well known.
I have thought this over very carefully.
KU should get Numbers 1-10 each recruiting season.
Duke and UK can have the rest.
Anything less, and I am going to keep bitching. :-)
Nothing can completely compensate, but that's ok because life ain't perfect and some one like Self is enough to overcome a small asymmetry. A Bi12 division in EST WOULD MAKE FOLKS AWARE OF US. Right now, it's almost like we exist as only a switch that gets turned on and off for a GAME DAY broadcast they accidentally see. They have to live with us awhile to see us as human beings.
This is why I have been banging the drum for years for the B12 to expand into the EST at all costs.
The three university chancellors, one apparently being our own CBernie, have read this wrong. They have made the classic American CEO mistake--the short term revenue criterion. They have goofed and don't even seem to realize it.
The Big 12 schools CANNOT compete from the CST alone. Neither can the Pac 12 schools, frankly. Its form an EST division, or bust for both conferences downstream.
And this is an accelerating downward curve.
The B12 leadership thought if they made more money short term, they would get so strong financially in the long term that they could dictate the next realignment.
Wrong.
They incorrectly anticipated the erosion in the ability of the conference schools to recruit, as the asymmetric recruiting distribution increased in the apparent war between Nike and Adidas.
What has happened apparently is that the accelerating competition between Nike and adidas has apparently driven Nike to stack one or two programs in various conferences that create a high likelihood of occupying three of the Final Four slots in the Madness. Not surprisingly, Nike has apparently emphasized cornering the conferences attracting the most eye balls: ACC, B1G, SEC and Pac 12. And while it has tried to stack Texas from time to time, Barnes could not turn the corner against Self and KU. So: an apparent embargo/containment policy has ensued against KU in the B12, and the net effect of the stacking of the Big Eyeball conferences has been generally to dilute the B12 talent pool vis a vis the Big Eyeball Conferences.
The three chancellors have to wake up and smell the coffee. In their short sightedness, they used Chuck Neinas to come up with stand pat policy and a commissioner that would do nothing until they got their confidences back from the fat checks. The apparent plan with Bowlsby was to hire a guy that could facilitate a Pac 12 merger downstream. A Pac 12 merger, tried once and backed out of because the Pac 12 only wanted to skim a few B12 teams, makes some sense in political economy POV, because it unites resource states west of the Mississippi for a formidable voting block. Alas, it ignores the meager media dynamics of such a merger and the corrosive effect of those meager media dynamics on recruiting, big shoe relations, and long term revenues.
The B12 teams rely increasingly on the high population east, south and west coasts for their players, but their conference exposure is largely where they don't recruit. It has always been this way to some degree, but TV, internet, gaming and shoe dynamics are amplifying these traditional tendencies to the point that Big 12 teams just cannot attract the numbers of good players in the major sports needed to stay competitive.
An exceptional bunch of coaches in the B12 has obscured the talent deficiency for a few years now with good interconference w&L statements.
But the Big 12 talent is not on a par with ACC, B1G and Pac 12 conferences.
Put the Big 12 coaches in any of those conferences and those conferences would be kicking ass in the inter-conference period of the season.
The Big 12 has to expand east or west to leverage up its media, gaming and Big Shoe dynamics to favor it, rather than handicap it.
Resource alliances in the political economy pull it west.
Transportation alliances in the political economy could pull it east.
Ag alliances in the political economy could pull it either way.
But its got to go one way or the other.
Unless it were willing to go north and south and expand into the universities of Canada and Mexico and move their schools into basketball and football, and move its own schools massively into soccer. And let baseball and track become dominants sports along the north south access.
There are no other alternatives, except break up of the Big 12, with some schools going west and some going east.
The three chancellors have some decisions to make.
And the longer they wait the less they are going to be able to direct the outcome.
Self tells Udoka we play inside out and he would be focal point of our offense. No outside in mentioned. Talk @HighEliteMajor down off the ledge.
KU makes Final Eight lists of 6-9 Jarrett Allen, and 6-4 Rawle Alkins. Final Eight means everyone good plus 2 also rans that will guaranty 40 mpg.
Making a recruits Final Eight is about as fulfilling as making the final eight of a nymphomaniac trying to cut back.
Self met 6-1 Trae Young about replacing Conner Frankamp as the next KU player too short to make it.
Bob Bowlsby is the Nero of the Big 12.
Dorothy Dandridge.
Think of her as the Josh Gibson of African American movie actresses when Jim Crow still reigned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Dandridge ↗
She was a gigantic talent undermined at every turn.
She made a lot of pictures, but she was, like Marilyn Monroe, generally exploited and attacked when she simply tried to stand up for herself and her career.
But being African American made things even more difficult for her than for Monroe.
She was a magnificient beauty and great talent.
Yogi Berra is dead. Fly the world at half mast.:sob:
That ought to be the epitaph on his grave stone.
Note: He came to the final fork in the road and took it.
Full Definition of YOGI from Merriam Webster:
1: a person who practices yoga
2: capitalized : an adherent of Yoga philosophy
3: a markedly reflective or mystical person
I practice Yogi Berra everyday.
I am an adherent of Yogi philosophy.
He was number 3 to a tee.
He was the only Yogi that America has ever produced.
It will never produce another.
He was as American as apple pie and baseball.
He was an American genius...in a baseball cap and shin guards.
Bye, Yogi.
:cry:
"I've looked at love from both times now
From then and now and still somehow
Its love's illusions I recall.."
--joni Mitchellbate 1.0
Ya got no sense uh time trippin', girl!!!!
Chill!!!
And enjoy the heart transcending time itself.
This is the beginning of Romanticism 2.0.
Wuthering Depths, baby!!!!!
:-)
Chaka Diallo?
Cheick and Chaka
Sittin' in a (time trippin') tree
K-I-S-S-ING...
What a virtual pair they might make!