Pic angle suggests: Jeff has found a woman his height?
If yes, offer all their to be conceived children NOW!
A WHOLE LITTER OF FOOTERS!!!!!!
jaybate 1.0
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No, that was Archie!
Congrats, but trust me, soon you will need more shoes!!!!!
Way to go pop!
Rock a bye Jayhawks
The cradle will rock...
And down will come baby
Cradle and Chalk!
Hoozier Booziers Uncork Another Bottle Botch; IU Prez Tired of Team' s 80 Proof Problems; Crean Boots Another
Pitino Coaching PRico Olyies; Sez Learning O and Getting UL Extra Practices; 'Bate's Guess? Looking for Talent to Run the Blockade?
Jones/Cuonzo/Kennedy: Two Haves and Have Not, or Billy Pilgrim Gets Unstuck in Time with Treys
PPritch Brand Switch; Joins KSmith in Phil Ville
UA Loses 4, Signs No OADs; Stumpy Ringless With Stacks apparently Gets the Kiss Off; Becomes a Blockade Runner with Transfers
Note: I am not picking on Nebraska, or Adidas. KU is contracted with Adidas also. Nor am I picking on Nike either. Or Under Armour. Nor on any other brand. Nor is any conspiracy, nor wrong doing, being proposed either. I assume everything is above board and legal. The question is: what IS going on?
It is hard to understand this system, how it operates, and why it takes this apparent form, and not some other.
Why does a Petro-shoeco want to pay these amounts of consideration to a university and in part in the medium of so many apparent pairs of shoes?
And why do universities want to receive consideration in this way?
I am sure there is a logical reason. I just cannot yet understand what it may be?
Rock Chalk!!!
@dylans said:
but government waste is nothing new.
Isn't adidas a private corporation giving out 15,000 to 29,999 pairs of shoes (just a rough guess-estimate) to a public university?
The government entity--a state university--is gettiing the consideration, not giving it out.
And corporations don't have a history of making contributions (other than taxes) to government just for the heck of it. They like to get something in return, right? Not something illegal in return, but SOMETHING!!!!
So: what are they getting in return?
Is paying a university $30-60,000,000 really helping them sell that many shoes?
I can't think what else Big Shoe could be seeking.
Hard to figure.
Rock Chalk!!
Re: Frank--which is more important to his leadership: shooting 43% from Trey, or being a good communicator with his teammates? I would hate to give up either. But it is an interesting question.
That's right. I forgot. Nebraska only got somewhere between 15,000 and 30,000 shoes per year with apparel considered. Howling!!!
Hey, what if Nebraska only ordered one shirt and 29,999 pairs of shoes, because the street value of the shoes was higher than the street value of shirts, shorts and hoodies?
Talk about tough choices!
I thought KU got 30,000 shoes 0r so each year from Adidas.
How can Frank, Devonte and Svi not have any?
Did they sell them? 😄
Blockadeds can't be choosers.
Coach Howard's performance is hard to assess IMHO.
Pro: He brought a highly ranked player in Alexander.
Con: Alexander did not pan out.
Pro: he brought some youth and energy to the staff.
Con: He got caught with a small amount of pot.
Pro: He dealt with the legal fall out prudently.
Con: Self appeared to claim not to have been informed about it by Howard.
Pro: He helped coach a team that won the WUGs.
Con: He was not kept home to recruit, while the team went to Korea.
But the biggest factor making it hard to assess Coach Howard's performance as a recruiter is whether or not there is a real recruiting embargo making it difficult for KU to sign recruits not informally aligned with adidas.
To me, the jury is still out.
Time will tell, though.
Hey, I just wanted to let you know I have never edited another alias' post and only did yours, because when I posted my post that precedes yours, it first appeared, and then disappeared seemingly replaced by your post. I assumed you accidentally edited my post, so, rather than repost my original post separately, I reinserted my post into "our" post.
Looking back on it, I think I should not have done that and I apologize. I was trying to do the right thing, but I think I made the wrong choice. We are not supposed to be editing each other's posts. My mistake.
Rock Chalk!
With Diallo? Good potential for exploiting a strong perimeter game with good rebounding.
No Diallo? Trouble.
Your wife is an absolute woman! Tell her thank you for her heroic service at that perilous time.
And thank you for taking time to inform me. It was a shocking episode.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of Katrina in your usual cogent way. I really appreciate it.
Does your wife think things were as badly bungled and out of control after Katrina as reported? Or was she too busy saving lives to get a big picture? I have always wondered. And have heard different stories.
Svi's Thoughts on Graham: Baby face? Vould like to have meet sister in Crimea.
On off nights: Vick the Brick Stick
On On Nights: The Super Sliver
I can neither confirm nor deny rumors that Case Officer @VailHawk is on a basketball intelligence mission.
I can only say that he is not getting paid a healthy salary.
I refuse to comment on whether or not he is not receiving hazard pay.
Respectfully submitted, while in a bunker awaiting word on Diallo's eligibility,
Director/Janitor
BIA
Area 59.7
Near Pocatello, Idaho
How much might adidas pay UK to join the revolution?
If Michigan is worth $60 M and Louisville is worth $43M, surely UK has to be worth way more, right?
Here's a scary thought.
It saved $400 M pulling out of shirts for the NBA, someone said.
It reputedly spent $200 M on Harden.
That means might have another $100 M laying around.
What the heck!
Might UK be worth more than James Harden's $200 M?
I kind of hope adidas doesn't out bid Nike for UK, but didn't someone once say...
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
I can't recall who it was now.
The verdict is in, at least IMHO.
I have heard the counter arguments and found them unpersuasive.
Cal is an average coach that wins with unfair advantages in talent.
Its been that way everywhere he has gone.
He gets excess talent, and then he wins until he runs into someone with the same amount, or more.
Put it this way: Cal is NOT known for upsets, is he?
What was Cal's last monumental upset?
What was the last season that he coached in any conference when he didn't have a sharp edge in talent?
UK? always the edge in talent.
Memphis? Always the edge in talent.
UMass? Any season Camby was on the floor he easily had the best talent in that conference.
Face it.
Cal is NOT known for being able to beat you with hisn, or with yourn.
He is known for having more talent than any other teams in his conferences that he has coached in.
Shizzzle, board rats.
This is mastering the obvious.
Contrary to some claims by board rats here, Cal has NOT proven that he can out coach other top coaches. He has only proven that he can out talent them.
Ten Deep in OADs and TADs?
How shall I put this?
No. Ring. With. That. Long. Stack.
Landing the most talent is a skill for sure.
Whether it is his, or someone else's, only time is going to tell.
Talent can win a lot of games.
It also leaves vacated seasons in its wake sometimes, when it is gotten the wrong way.
What makes me most sad is that the LSU medium stack has been given to Johnny Jones, a coach that has shown little indication so far of being much more than a .600 type coach without stacks. Good, but not in Self's, or Pitino's, or even Stumpy's brother Archie's league.
Why does this make me sad?
Because Cal is effectively going to be coaching against an equal, or perhaps someone who may not be quite as good as Cal, independent of talent, with about the same talent.
This means that Cal might beat LSU's apparent medium stack with UK's apparent medium staff, and so board rats are going to continue to labor under the illusion that Cal is an excellent coach.
If Cal beats LSU for a conference title this season, it will only mean he is better than a .600 coach.
I still argue the best indication of how good of a coach Cal is is this: with Derek Rose and a bunch of ringers, he lost to Self in the national championship. It was close, but with Derek Rose and a bunch of ringers it shouldn't have even been close, right? And with the first apparent stack of D1 in 2012, Self without a Mickey D on his roster gave Cal a run for his money the second half.
These two games IMHO reveal more about Cal than most.
Rock Chalk!
Who ever agreed to this B12-SEC matchup--and its got Zenger and Bowlsby finger prints all over it--needs to go to Jack Hopkinz Spooky JUCO (Johns Hopkins) and take some strategy and game theory classes from some embedded CIA-Mossad dual citizenship faculty. This ain't the season to take on the Southerners what with Big Shoe smiling on UK and LSU, while KU appears destined to rotate Lucas/Traylor/Mickelson again.
Playing the SEC AFTER LSU gets promoted to a medium stack and UK gets cut back to a medium stack, is nuts, unless...
The Big 12 Bush-Koch states and the SEC-Bush-Koch states are plotting an SEC-B12 merger to make a big push after the election for consolidating control of the eastern power grid with the Tayhoss power grid.
The SEC and Big 12 senators might be enough to impose something like that, with a little pork in the Mountain West Conference states, plus deep pork for Indiana and New Jersey.
10 B12 states x 2 senators per state = 20 senators
10 SEC states x 2 senators per state = 20 senators
7 MWC states x 2 senators per state = 14 senators
Indiana = 2 senators
New Jersey = 2 senators
Total senate votes = 58
Not enough to overcome a veto from a Democratic President.
But enough for a Republican President, even allowing for a few defections.
Frank Underwood, you devil you!!!!!
Has Claire convinced you to change parties?
Recruit signs.
Self looks at him.
Then Self looks at Norm.
Norm: Kids about 6-6 and 175.
Self: Let's call him 6-8 175.
The news paper guys always like it when they get to report that a guy has grown and gotten stronger.
Norm: OK.
Whew!!!!!!
@HighEliteMajor said:
I thought we’d get word he was transferring before school started.
A diabolical premonition!!!!
Never occurred to me.
But raiding players that show well in international ball, seems the next logical step for Cal to take, if Big Shoe won't give him the Long Stack edge anymore.
Cal cannot hope to compete medium stack to medium stack with other coaches. He is not that good of a coach.
He depends on having more talent.
Oooooh, now I am not going to sleep well, and its all your fault, @HighEliteMajor!!!! :-)
The more I think about this, the more I think no one is safe anymore.
Why shouldn't Cal and his Shoe-Agent Complex allies go back channel and offer all of Self's rotation guys that are freshmen and sophomores life in Lexington, plus whatever improved informal down stream endorsement expectations?
Imagine how well Cal could do with some guys that were coached-up by Self before he got them?
Chilling thought.
Wrong Shoe-Agent Complex alignment.
Little more IMHO.
How can recruiters close on recruitsperhaps only talking with them for appearance sake.
The anecdotal evidence makes it kind of appear the recruits tend to channel to coaches/programs with same brand-agent complex leans as the leans of recruits before they enter D1. The exceptions appear to tend toward certain very highly regarded players, and sometimes highly regarded foreign players. It all at least hints at some kind of encouragement to switch leans in a few cases, while a lot just sustain prior leans.
The pro journalists reported on the underlying shoe dynamics back around Y2K, then kind of only infrequently reported on it since based on what I have found so far.
The 501.c3 Drake Group reputedly on U of New Haven property claims it advocates for integrity in college sports (who doesn't?), but appears more focused on NCAA deficiencies than apparent Shoe-Agent Complex driven asymmetries in D1 talent distribution so far. But I haven't visited their web site for quite awhile.
There seems to be a bit more interest of late, what with Pitino's brief related remarks sometime ago now, and the survey of coaches linked by @konkyDong recently.
Hopefully, some coverage will clarify what, if anything, is going on.
I am still doubting BG takes the floor this seAson. Med Red!!!!
...and religious beliefs and disabilities.
Damn! Way to wield reason!
Damned beautiful what she wrote.
:globe_with_meridians: :satellite: = earth to...
:cow2: :shit: = bovine excrement
:panda_face: = not enough sleep
:loop: = tautology
:cyclone: = ISU
:hamster: O = hamster on a wheel, remarks going nowhere
:revolving_hearts: = means well but circular reasoning
:dizzy_face: < = head in a vice
|:eyes: | = looking with blinders
Speaking of border wars (and it's only my opinion), read first 100 pages of David McCullough's 1992 bio of Harry Truman called TRUMAN. It's one of the best discourses on how the Kansas-Missouri border hostilities evolved that I have found and I have read a few. It's tilted a bit to the Missouruh perspective since it serves telling Truman's life story.
@drgnslayr
Comb backs for everyone!
First day of school--1866.
Adventure. A new page of their lives. The hope to get ahead. The thrill of new learning. Some fear about whether they could cut it at college.
But also in these students minds...
Bloody Kansas of the 1850s--the students' wonder years--and what was by then called The War of the Rebellion 1861-1865--the students early teen years.
They had grown up with a free capital in Lawrence and a slave capital in Lecompton. Now the state capital was in Topeka. They knew of Kansas towns, Lawrence among them, being burned by Missouri raiders and of Kansas raiders burning Missouri towns. They grew up with news of atrocities--Raiders showing up in the night on both sides and hacking innocent farm families, whole towns sometimes, to pieces with swords and burning their farms to the ground.
As teenagers, the students in the picture knew the raiders to have joined Union and Confederate armies and continued their raiding through the Civil War that was by then being called by their government the War of the Rebellion. Having been children and early teens most probably did not realize the raiding, atrocities and war had been fomented and underwritten from early on by a small handful of wealthy industrialists in the North and the same handful of plantation owners in the South hoping all along to use violence, subterfuge and finally war to get control of the state, and then the Federal legislature, in hopes of controlling the building of the transcontinental rail and telegraph infrastructures, so their sides could grow incomprehensibly rich controlling the North American pinch point on global maritime trade needing to pass through the Western Hemisphere. What the kids knew was many of their families had lived a long time in fear of the raids and atrocities and more than a few of them had lost family members to the struggle, or knew families that had.
Terror was real to these students. It had been amplified by propaganda by both sides so as to stampede the state and nation free, or slave. The shortages of war had been felt by them for years. They were not distracted by media 4-10 hours per day. Most were sons of merchants, or farmers. They grew up with many languages in small towns with descendants of many European cultures and even an African American town or two. The railroad already informed some of the eastern part of the state and construction of much more was expected. Yet Native American villages of tepees remained and the buffalo herds remained though in far fewer numbers. Plans for moving the Indians to Oklahoma Territory were openly discussed as progress.
These kids all knew their President had been assassinated a year before, and that several reputed southerners had been quickly arrested, tried and hung as conspirators. Some few probably recalled that an attempt had also been made to assassinate one of Lincoln's cabinet members. None probably knew or even suspected that certain legislators in Washington claimed that John Wilkes Boothe's body had never been conclusively identified, or that the alleged conspirators appeared to some to have been railroaded. They all probably knew President Andrew Johnson, who replaced the murdered Lincoln, was embattled. But they had probably heard of a dominant group of Republican senators fighting with Johnson to alter Lincoln's plans for occupation and reconstruction of the conquered southern states. It was probably not clear how decisively a few industrialists and Morgan guaranty bank in New York and the Rothschilds investment bank in London were by then controlling the country through its vast war debts and need to borrow more.
To these new students, probably almost anything seemed possible after surviving the terror and hardships of the raiding and the war, plus the assassination of their President Lincoln. Kansas and USA were free.
But probably all these students knew how perilous and uncertain state and nationhood could be.
But school was starting and they intended to seize the opportunity.
They knew how uncertain and violent life was.
Nor I.
The BIA likes your spunk.
You have now been given a fake raise we cannot pay.
It would be a frontier war in the age of frontiers as the nation state's ability to enforce specific borders deteriorates.
But yes, we must defend against it.
Rock Chalk!
Sincerely,
Director/janitor
BIA
Did you read my post?
Do you ever read my posts?
Will you ever read one of my posts?
Do you ever read anyone's posts?
Will you ever read anyone's posts?
Did you even read my post in a parallel dimension?
Is reading my posts something you have ever considered doing?
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the post-reading party?
Oh, my, this is a fun rhetorical device.
May I keep using it along with "zinger plus n0 further discussion" and "I really get into your head" rhetorical devices, too?
For what its worth, I believe (in my opinion) that nothing more can be gained by discussing this further.
And I believe (again in my opinion) that there is no point to further discussion after I have my say.
Note: the above is satire. No malice.
Yeeeeeeeeee Hawwwwwww!!!
Satirizing seemingly disingenous rhetorical devices--its post-tastic!
(Note: I just couldn't take your post seriously this time, when it started with "Did you read my post?" You didn't mean it seriously, did you?)
I am as entertained by the pithiness of Nathan Jessup's quote from A Few Good Men as any, but I try always to use it playfully, for Jessup was the antagonist. All ought to keep in mind Jessup was an awful villain of the movie that created the conditions that got Private Santiago murdered and helped cover up the crime. We are supposed to be glad that in the ideal world of fiction, Jessup probably spends a good long time after the film in Portsmouth Naval Penitentiary cleaning his cell with a tooth brush, or at the very least busted out of the Corp in disgrace.
Jessup was supposed to represent all of the villainous jerks that wrap themselves in the flag and patriotism, plus hide behind virtues like duty, honor, and country in order to keep from being held responsible for unethical and even criminal abuses of their authority committed by themselves and those encouraged by the climate of the organization they have created on their watch. Jessup was supposed to show us how such weasels will never cease trying to rationalize the wrong they have done; that they will even go to the extent of using our own worst fears of an opponent to try to save their own hides. The Nathan Jessups of the military are despicable soldiers, not just despicable men. We really don't need their kind up on that wall. We need their kind in military prisons. And they have counterparts in corporate and political life as well that we would all be better off with in Federal penitentiaries.
When Jessup rails at Lt. Daniel Kaffee that Kaffee cannot handle the truth, we learn that not only can the Lieutenant handle the truth, but that he can wield it as a weapon for the greater good of the military service. He can risk his own career to rid the military of one of the worst kinds of commanding officers that sometimes insinuates itself in the chain of command.
In the fictional world of the movie "A Few Good Men", there is no question that the Marine Corp will be better off as a fighting force without Nathan Jessup.
Regarding the truth, we absolutely can handle the truth and the greatest game ever invented can greatly benefit from the NCAA being held accountable for whatever wrong it might do.
I want an NCAA that is analogous to Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, not Colonel Nathan Jessup.
Though I know that is not fashionable these days.
@JayHawkFanToo said:
Interesting article but I don’t understand why Boulevard Brewery is mentioned as not making the cut…I would be very surprised if it did considering it is not in Kansas but in Kansas City, Missouri…
We no longer live in an age of state boundaries.
We live in the new age of frontiers.
There is no national boundary between USA and Mexico.
There is a frontier between two nation states.
Likewise with the state line in Kansas City.
It is now back to being much more as it was in the 1850s. :-)
But we have said enough on this and we have to agree to disagree. And you must say no more. ;-)