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@HighEliteMajor

I believe the logical answer would be view this from Rick Pitino's reported perspective and start looking at recruiting pool sizes as having some proportional relationship to which shoeco-agency complex one is aligned with.

Hypothesis: reliance on shoeco-agent complex A with a larger pool to draw from than shoeco-agency complex B with a smaller pool to draw from increases the probability of signing sufficiently high ranked talent at all 5 positions.

Remember those buttons a few years back.

"That was easy." :-)

Especially so, I believe, since Rick indicated that he thought the NCAA viewed what is going on, whatever specifically he may have been referring to, as okay.

I infer therefore that it does not matter if you change shoeco-agency complexes, contractual relationships permitting.

I am frankly more concerned about what we do, if we get the players without changing shoeco-agency complexes and have to deal with the apparent current "approach" of the NCAA to seeding the Madness, and then have to deal with the officiating the last ten minutes appearing to evidence XTReme Asymmetry.

I was proud of Wisconsin making it to the Finals, without what Bo Ryan tactfully called rent-a-players, but would like to avoid KU and Coach Self having to experience a similar phenomenon, what ever may have actually triggered the appearance of the phenomenon, just because they happen to have a strange circle pattern on the belt lines of their uniforms, as Wisconsin did, too.

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@JayHawkFanToo

MAC is my erroneous reference.

Shaka coached in both the CAA and the A-10. He achieved equivalent winning percentages in each after three years in each.

It shows that the lightly regarded CAA and the better respected A-10 are in reality equivalent conferences and that the probable reasons for the greater number of A-10 teams making it into the Madness is seeding bias.

When a program changes conferences it moves up to a conference that gets it more money and a better chance at admission into events like the Madness.

But the beauty of this comparison is that it exposes that conferences the pay more to members and get seeding bias are not necessarily better.

Shaka's equivalent winning percentage evidences it.

@BeddieKU23

Hypothesis: because Fred is sick, and Shaka has been lured to Austin, TEXAS is the new designated stack in the B12, and a push is on to make SJ the new stack school in the Big East to pre empt Adidas. Hence, two dump truck drivers are being moved into the BIG APPLE to make absolutely sure this happens.

Alternative hypothesis: Slice has been hired away by a new dump truck company.

@JayHawkFanToo
Good points, but if Smart had about the same winning percentage in the CAA and the MAC, the MAC and CAA have to be quite comparable--certainly no sharp edge to MAC.

Second, Stumpy's ranked higher, but just slightly, because of him getting to a major with dump trucks several years sooner.. There is some time series effect that has to be indexed for. Give Smart the same dump trucks and 5 years of dumping, and he is likely to be ranked higher. If Smart were to rank just a little higher in 5 years, he would equal Stumpy. With dump trucks, he could be much higher.

St. John's (SJ) tried Okie Ball the right way with Norm Roberts and a NYC newspaper reported Norm got forced out, because some AAU and juco coaches reputedly channelled recruits away from him.

Next, SJ tried turn-the-other-cheek and tried Okie Ball the compromising way with Steve Lavin promising to work with the locals. He brought in his mentor Gene Keady--an Eddie Sutton disciple--for strategy. But the locals still wouldn't budge. By the end there was again no local talent playing for SJ., even though Okie Ball produced five 20 win seasons before Lavin got s-canned a year before the end of his contract.

Now, SJ is trying former SJ star and never a coach Chris Mullin who said he would recruit every local gym. Mullin has been an NBA exec, s-canned, then a scout. SJ is trying the Hoiberg model--a former school star with some NBA Front office experience. He hired Hoiberg's recruiter, a former SJ guy. Zip. Now Mullin has quickly added UK recruiter Slice Rohrssen apparently to try to get an in with the locals. If you can't beat them, join them.

Mullin wants Diallo.

Forgive them father, for they know exactly what they do.

Cal has failed at the ring game two straight seasons with all of the marbles; i.e., in apparent maximum stack mode. Before that he squandered things with Nerlen Noels team, when Noels was injured. Is this the beginning of the end of Cal's gravy days?

Or have the powers that be just decided that St. John's needs to become the designated stack in the Big East and they need some feet on the ground there.

@JayHawkFanToo

I stand corrected on Stumpy. Thanks for making me think. I needed to, because I was way off.

Stumpy did much better at Xavier than I recalled.

So let's explore this some more. Why? Because Stumpy went to the Pac 12 and dominated it with his apparent Nike Stack. And now Shaka is going to Texas to get his own Nike Stack. Should we expect some thing more, or less dangerous in Shaka, that Stumpy?

STUMPY TOOK OVER FOR THAD MATTA, WHO HAD BUILT XAVIER INTO A STRONG MID MAJOR.
SHAKA TOOK OVER FOR ANTHONY GRANT, WHO HAD BUILT UP VCU INTO A STRONG MID MAJOR.
Call this even.

STUMPY MADE THE TOURNAMENT 4 OF 5 SEASONS.
SHAKA MADE THE TOURNAMENT 5 OF 6 SEASONS.
This is pretty close, but a slight edge to Shaka.

OVERALL WINS-STUMPY 72%, WHILE XAVIER.
OVERALL WINS-SHAKA WON 74%, WHILE AT VCU.
Slight edge to Shaka.

CONFERENCE WINS-STUMPY 71%
CONFERENCE WINS-SHAKA 71%
Tie.

STUMPY'S CONFERENCE FINISHES: 1ST-3, 2RD-1, 7TH-1
SHAKA'S CONFERENCE FINISHES: 2RD-3, 4TH-2, 5TH-1
This favors Stumpy, but you and I are the only ones that put much stock in conference titles. Still we do, and Stumpy holds a sharp edge.

STUMPY NCAA EXITS: 64, 32, 8, 16.
SHAKA NCAA EXITS: 4, 32, 32, 64, 64
This cuts both ways. Shaka went deeper and made more tournaments, but seemed to be trending bad. Stumpy's average finish was better and his trend was slightly positive. This is hard not a clear call IMHO, because everyone says the Madness is a crap shoot the depends heavily on your match-ups. I can't recall which coach got the easier match ups most seasons, so I have just have to side with going deeper and more often, but can see your favoring higher average finish.

YOUNGER COACH TO 100 WINS: Shaka--only Brad Stevens beat Shaka to 100 wins younger. Edge Shaka.

CONFERENCE DIFFICULTY FACTOR: Xavier is in the A-10. VCU was in the CAA 3 of Shaka's seasons and in the A-10 3 of his seasons. Shaka did similarly in both conferences, so I am going to rate the conferences similarly. Stumpy got to face the same teams all five years. Shaka had to adapt to a new conference. It seems like Shaka faced the greater difficulty factor. Edge Shaka.

HEAD TO HEAD FACTOR: They played in the same conference three seasons and Stumpy finished higher all three seasons. Edge Stumpy.

SCORE:
Shaka 4
Stumpy: 2
Ties: 2

ADJUSTED SCORE:
Shaka 2
Stumpy 2
Ties: 4

This ranking of mine suggests Shaka was a little better, but there were two categories that were pretty tough to call, and could be argued even. Either way, this analysis suggests we have something to be concerned about, if the dump trucks start backing up to Austin for Shaka, the way they did for Stumpy.

At the same time, Stumpy entered the Pac12 when UCLA was down and none of the other programs were dominant; thus, Stumpy didn't have much to over come when he got on his run of Pac 12 titles. In contrast, Shaka is coming into a B12 long dominated by a very vigorous national power: KU. Still, dump trucks are dump trucks.

@HighEliteMajor

Yes, it is all true. I am the conspiracy in the cloud become sentient. I am both nomad and vger. I am the virus and the host. I have come to impose a fibonacci pattern on basketballs matching that on a sunflower to complete the connection among KU basketball, the state of Kansas the state of nature, black matter. And White Castle.

@JayHawkFanToo

I agree he may be overrated.

But Stumpy Miller proves mediocrity with dump trucks equals 30 win seasons in a power 5 conference. Stumpy only had one really good season at Xavier. He left as soon as he had it. Shaka played it save and got some seasoning. My guess is that Shaka will significantly change his offense depending on the material he has just as most coaches do. Stumpy is runnning things a lot differently with UA than he did with Xavier even though he may be running the same offense. They all change the actions use in their offenses, to fit the changing personel. Self is not given nearly enough credit for how much he changes the offense each year. Self went to at least four formations and tons of different actions. Even though in principle it remains a high low, he probably only ran the traditional Iba and Carolina passing offense portion of it 25% of the time this season. The rest of the time we were running a bunch of actions out of it that were basically cribbed from Bo Ryan and a few others. Shaka is reputedly very bright intellectually. Give him enough dump trucks and he will improvise whatever actions benefit what ever offense he runs.

The above being said, I think he will give Self some trouble and within a couple of games Self will have him figured out, just like he figures everyone else out. But enough dump trucks make it so that even if you do figure someone else out, they can be tough to beat.

@Lulufulu

Depends on how many new guys there are and how complicated he might want to make it.

Every offense is bone head simple in its simplest form. Board rats often forget that the High Low post passing offense was created by Iba precisely to be learned in 3 weeks. The idea was to using passing it around the perimeter and in and out of the posts switching high to low again and again to eliminate the need for learning any plays at all. And you could run it for both man to man and zone defenses, because the high post was always in the middle of the free throw line for a zone and for man to man. The offense substituted ball movement for person movement. It substituted compression and expansion of defenses by simple passing to create open looks, for a series of set plays with screens and timed cuts and so on, which take a lot of time to learn and get the timing down. It also meant a guy really only had to learn his one position, rather than running a shuffle offense where a player rotates through all the positions on the floor one after the other by running through a cut to the basket and then to the next spot on the floor.

The High Low remains the easiest offense to learn by far if one only one formation is used and only passing is used. It gets complicated when you start running Dribble Drive ball screen actions, and triangle actions, and pick and roll actions triggered by rules of where and how the defense is guarding you. The reliance on these actions creates all kinds of plays, but it requires a read by the player with the ball and the closest post man before initiating action the action. This is where players take awhile to learn the offense.

In the dribble drive, they just set the ball screens and dribble into spaces, and then look for a shot or pass into a post man with a hand up on a block, or pass out to another perimeter player that the other post man ball screens for and this repeats.

A triangle is another kettle of fish. It is very simple conceptually. The man with the ball and the two nearest guys form a triangle, and there are two or three options that can happen out of the triangle. If nothing works, the ball is passed to the next open person and the next closest two players form a new triangle and run through the options. And this repeats with a new triangle forming after every perimeter pass. But the reads take awhile to get down smoothly. Its is very easy to play once you are use to it.

@drgnslayr

LOL

@approxinfinity

Thx.

@REHawk

PHOF!

Just curious.

@Hawk8086 said:

You sounded more like Jaybate than Jaybate does!

I am a weak imitation of myself! :-)

@REHawk

Regarding Jaylen, we need him for all the reasons you mention.

And we need him because the ShoeCo-Agent complex mules seem to have taken away our supply of Big Man U junk we used to mainline as if there were no end to it. I know, bad choice of metaphor for young persons. Okay, they have taken away our bit torrent feed of Big Man U data packets that we used to download as if there were no tomorrow. :-)

Jaylen to me represents KU's new image.

KU = 3 Man U.

The only great one we have missed lately is Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and it cost us a ring for sure.

Really, we have to add Jaylen to stay 3 Man U.

Rock Chalk!

@REHawk

Coach, you are soooooooooo right on target about Diallo enabling Selden. So many people that have not coached get caught up in what players bring to a position, and overlook what players bring to other positions too. Similarly, when fans assess a team after the season, they too often attribute the failings of the team to the players with sub par stats without taking into account whether the sub par stats were attributable to the player, or to some other player he had to play with.

We can look around most of the team and expect ripple effect improvements in player's stats IF we can sign the right guys in the paint. And those right guys signed for the paint are NOT necessarily the death knell to our returning players minutes either. Our returning bigs may play less, but they will play better, too, because of the adds.

Injuries are far harder for a person like me to anticipate the impact of the following season. I really only know that knees and ankles can reduce explosiveness that never restores. I have no clue about a hip flexor, or back stuff, or all the myriad things that can go wrong.

Jamari's near complete loss of explosiveness the last two months worries me the most, because he depends the most on explosiveness. I sure hope he can get his explosiveness back, because with it he can still contribute a lot off the bench.

You and me both worry about Frank already. Don't want to see him wind up like Sherron with too little elasticity left to go up. Short guys can play on the X-axis, but they need the threat of up to be most effective on the X-axis.

@Lulufulu

You know, in a mix and match-up sense, Malik Newman would be the better add than Jaylen Brown. I just love 6-7 shooting forwards like X, Kidd-Gilchrist, Wigs, and Oubre. If you have strong guards and a strong front court in a High Low, the 6-7 shooting forward just becomes the stake through the heart of 99 percent of opponents. What happens is they play your guards and posts straight up an your 6-7 shooting forward runs wild.

My philosophy is all offenses reduce to front court, back court and shooting forward--the points of attack, no matter how many good attackers you have. Its better to have 5 great attackers--one at each starting position, but on any given possession, you can really only attack from 3 regions of the court: front court, back court, and wing. Good guards, good bigs, and a killer shooting forward and you are gold. That was what the 2008 Jayhawks had. That was what the 2012 UK team had. There are other ways to win a ring. But they all depend heavily on ideal tournament match-ups, which now appear to go only to apparently selected Nike stacks. The great shooting forward with the strong front and back court is just too tough to guard with fair refereeing. And there is no solution to unfair refereeing except leaving the NCAA and starting a new tournament.

Still, we can go long at the 3 with Brannen, or move Perry to the 3 when we need to get super long. So: Jaylen is kind of a luxury that keeps Jaylen out of Kentucky and UA's hands.

What we lack is a third short shooting guard to go short all the way around the perimeter when we have to. Malik could give us that in a big way.

@Kip_McSmithers

Howling!!!

YES!

@Lulufulu

Absolutely. And a PG has to have at least one 5 that is a serious offensive threat to dish to, or opponents will just ride him all the way to the rim; that is what happened to Frank this past season. He made some bad decisions his freshman season, because he was learning the position. But this past season, when he started getting the hang of it, he made good decisions. The problem was that a lot of times other teams knew he had to keep it on the way to the iron.

Our front court could be VERY strong if we make the adds of Bragg, Diallo and Thorne to go with Lucas, Traylor and Hunter. Why? First, Lucas, Traylor and Hunter are going to start out blooded AND get significantly better. They now know what the real world of D1 is like. And they will have practiced BAD BALL moves for a year, instead of be learning them in the middle of a grueling season.

I am very excited about Lucas. He is our classic 3-5 year big man project and after last season, he can now do everything we need a big man to do but one thing: be a threat within 10 feet to score on anyone, even a footer. Prezemek Karnowski of Gonzaga shows one of two things Lucas CAN learn this off season to make him a real force. Self needs to devise some offense around a passing center and have Landen become that passing center. Mark Few has revealed a huge weakness in current defenses relying on rim protectors. Everyone thinks the only way around a rim protector is to go small and pull your center out to three point land, but Few has PROVEN there is another way to skin the rim protecting cat and that is with passing out of the post to cutters, instead of just stupid kicks to three. Self should love this, but Lucas has to be able to pass behind the back, hook pass, and bounce pass to make it work. Anyone can learn to do this. The passing center is the next big counter to the footer rim protector. No rim protector can stand straight up like Withey, Caulley-Stein et al, or explode like Towns and others, when they are trying to guard a passing center. All the coaches in the 1950s that had to face the then new footer phenomenon--Iba's Bob Kurland, DePaul's Tom Gola, Allen's Lovellette, leaned that the way around a long 5 that guards the rim is with passing he is forced to guard. Turning Jamari Traylor into a back to the basket, passing center, would help Traylor a lot, when he is not outside being a driving post, too. Basically, anyone that cannot shoot the J, or the hook reliably, has to become a threat as a passing center. Any one that watched Prezemek Kanowski knows how it is done. Passing can be taught and learned. And you don't have to be a huge shooting threat for it to be effective. All you have to do is be able to "see the floor."

Next, Lucas is one jump hook, or turn around fadeaway bank shot jumper a la Wilt (note: this is so simple and exploits his long slide over his modest springs that this is what I would have him work on) away from being a legitimate force in the paint. He can guard the post. He started to show signs of being a 10 rpg in 30 minutes guy last season. He is now beginning to understand big man territoriality. I would rather he became a tree balling, stretch 5, but I don't see that he has the natural touch for that. But the turn around fade away bank shot from the low block is HARD to block, AND it always pulls the 5 out of rebounding position, because any miss always caroms to the side opposite the shot taken. It is guarantied to take the rim protector out of the stick back play, especially if Landen will use his looking legs to slide waaaaaaay out and fall away as he takes it, the way Wilt did. All and Harp supposedly taught that shot to Wilt because at 7 feet it was unblockable, but also because it saved his leg strength for jumping for on defense. A sliding fadeaway jumper is the next great thing to be revived from the old days, as Self has revived the weave. It is THE shot for for X-axis basketball. If the rim protector comes out to block it, and he will have to, then Landen dishes to a cutter timed to approach the basket as he makes his fadeaway move. And even if he cannot get the shot, or the cutter, he has his dribble and can just step out, whip it to a guard that drives it and the rim protector is out of position. And this leaves Landen's energy for defense. A game of doing this to a rim protector and he will be toast down the stretch. I frankly cannot believe Self did not try this last season, except I didn't think of it until now myself. Last season was just phenomenally complicated by injuries. Every time Self thought of something, the person would get injured the next game.

Next, we have Traylor, whom everyone is so discouraged about. Jamari most certainly is not a starting grade 5. But let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. He started to come on as a driving post the minute Bad Ball was shifted to, but almost instantly he was badly injured and played entirely without his only real strength--his explosiveness. He will get his explosiveness back because it did not appear to be knee, or ankle problem, but rather a him problem, and those often restore. With his explosiveness back, he gives us a perfect matchup for the teams that go short on us, and occasionally when we want to go short on a wide body by making him chase. And after seeing Jamari show signs of being able to put it on the deck from outside, we have reason to expect he will be able do develop at least one little offensive move off a block in the off season. One little jump hook, or drop step and reverse under the basket and dunk with his explosiveness back.

Next we have the mystery man--Hunter Mickelson--the guy everyone knows can play, but doesn't get to play. Self has to see what we see. The kid can play. The kid could have played last season. Something is going on with Hunter and Self. God only knows what. I posited that he was going to lose out overtime to any body we had that was his equal that was from a big recruiting market and I think that's obviously true. Unless you are a great player, you exactly what Self needs one season, you cannot play for Self and KU, because who plays is used to recruit next season's players. It is not fair, but its how it is. Whatever else Frankamp have done that we know nothing about, we can be pretty confident that he left because he was for sure going to be passed over for guys coming from better recruiting markets. Perry Ellis would never have had a prayer of being our star player had Self been able to attract any OAD, or even 5 star fours from big recruiting markets. It is the law of the jungle. Self played Tyrel and Brady and he learned his lesson. You can play and develop guys and they can take you to 30 wins, but if they don't make more players come into replace them, they are just not an expense you can afford in recruiting. Conner was never going to beat Devonte even with a better gun and more experience, and equal everything else. Wasn't going to happen. Devonte came from an academy that Self wants to keep the door open on. So did Naa. When Self starts out behind the Nike Stack eight ball with a small pool of adidas conveyor belt players, he HAS to play the nonaligned guys from academies and big recruiting markets or wither on the vine and die. Conner was lucky to have a dad who understood the game and got him the heck out of the situation he was in. Conner may or may not have been as good as Devonte. It did not matter one whit. He had to be waaaaay better to beat him out. So: back to Hunter. He is in the same boat, as Conner. It never mattered a whit that he was as good as Jamari and Landen and early on before Perry learned to like contact, as Perry. You don't play unless you are way better, when you come from podunk Arkansas that might not produce another recruit this century. That was why Mike Anderson unloaded him. Self only took him, because he knew he might come up short handed and needed a practice player that could block his starters from big recruiting markets, IMHO. Still, Hunter IS there. He CAN play. And he IS good insurance against injury to one of our big recruiting market bigs. And he WILL push these underachieving, self inflated, naive, freshman bigs coming in. So: Hunter IS important and a strength to this front court, even if he does sit in cryogenic ice every game.

Perry, I am not going to spend much time on. He is what he is: a 3 playing the 4, who learned to play stretch 4, pot the triceratop and drive it. He can't rebound against anyone his size or bigger, but he can guard pretty much anyone he will face at the 4. I want them to sign Jaylen Brown, but if they don't, I would like to see Perry move to 3, but that would be like asking Self to give up sure for maybe from his replacement. Probably not going to happen. The odds are against Perry going pro, but the odds are for him delaying committing, as long as he can to reduce the odds of Self signing someone that can beat him out. Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking Perry for doing it. All bets are off regarding recruiting in D1. Its every man for himself, during recruiting season. Once the team is formed, then you go back to team first. But in the off season? Fornicate the team. I am the ONLY team that counts in the off season. That is how the coach recruits. That is how the OADs make decisions. That is how a 5 start like Perry, who played hurt, and got his nose driven out the back of his head, should do it. All is fair in love, war and recruiting decisions. Team starts AFTER October 15, not before. Capice? It may not be pretty. But that is how it is until someone takes D1 back to four year rides and baseball's rules on entering the draft.

So those are the guys returning. Not the kind of group on their own you would want to go to war with next season. But now think about the incomings. And there will be incomings. People's briefs and boxers are in a wad, because fans don't like waiting to find out who we are going to get. But imagine if you are a Nike Stack fan right now. You have waaaaaay more suspense about next season than a KU fan does. Think about it. if you are UK, or UA, you've got mediocrities coaching and if you don't get 7 OADs you are treading you know what in a latrine. Things are better at Duke and MSU, because you've at least guys that can coach their ways out of a paper bag with non OADs. But still, your coaches have caved to the system and so they are apparently no longer driving their own recruiting. Their coaches apparently have no more idea who they are going to be given than you or I do. This is the weakness in the stacking system. The more schools you add as stacks, the more the risk of conflict and jealously enters into the apparently centralized distribution system of talent. We only really need two guys. We are almost certain to get two, because we have an oral on one. And even if Diallo and Thorne were to go to Stack schools., then Self would smile and dial Fratello and Hill and order a Euro lug, at least that would be my guess. But the probability is Diallo and Thorne come.

@konkeyDong has given the low down on Diallo. He makes us a LOT better if he comes. And we have the returning guys to buy him some 20 minute games early to adjust to speeds. Diallo gives us the athletic aggressiveness we need. Put him with Perry and he lets Perry be Perry. Put him with Jamari and we have guys exploding out of position all over the floor. Put him with Landen, if Landen has become a passer with one move, and we become devastating inside and tough to score on on the other, and capable of 20 rpg from our bigs any game. Put him with Bragg and we are long and lean. Put him with Thorne and we are just plain mean.

Thorne is obviously not a Tarik grad player IMHO. But what I like about him so much is his ability complement Perry, or, and this is really juicy, pair with Landen and watch the two of them shove and body the twin footer teams we meet.

So: all in all I am pretty jazzed about the prospects for next season's front court.

We are not going to have a totally dominant 5 in front court next season, but it appears we are going to have a front court that can match up and play pretty much anyway they want to with anyone, and that will buy our very experienced back court and wings to operate at a high level of efficiency.

I am psyched.

@Bosthawk

They are all going to wait to deadline.

In the age of five Nike Stacks, as many as 5 -10 roster slots are uncertain at 5 Stacks; that means 25 to 50 slots are to be determined.

Perry needs to decide too, but it's in his best interest to delay unless he is jumping to discourage Self recruiting over him TOO!!!

@Jesse-Newell said he has to improve his fg% at rim and he has no other significant flaws. His rim rate will sparkle with next year's bigs to dish to. Go, Frank, go!!!

@Lulufulu

It is shaping up like Diallo and Thorne to KU, unless there are grande incentives under la Mesa in Lexington. These two players will realize Cal is just recruiting them to sit them on his bench to try to keep Self short handed and so they will come to KU.

I am a little worried about the dump trucks running both to Texas late, but no rumors of that so far.

Jayden IS a must get to win the ring. Like all TRUE OADs he only will want o average 20 mpg till Madness to save his legs for NBA.

That lets Svi and Greene be rotation backups at 2 and 3, each at 20 mpg.

PERFECT FIT!

Lots of depth front and back court.

Ummmmm good!

Life is soooooo good as a Jayhawks fan!!!

We even have Shaka coming in to kick around!

With Bragg, Diallo, Thorne and Brown, and our returns we should take 12th ,get a two seed (Nike stacks will always get top 4 seeds) and then March thru murders row, as UW did, and get to the Finals. Then beat the refs, then hang a banner!!!!!

Gotta get Jaylen!!!

But even if we don't, we could move Perry to three no problema!

@drgnslayr

Empty arenas? Tough way to make a living. Any word on what KY is making?

@Crimsonorblue22

"maybe no one was capable either?"

Joel Embiid might have dunked a lob?

29 against NBA competition?

14 ppg vs D1?

My, my, he must be a LOT stronger! 😎

@brooksmd

Thx.

@VailHawk

Signed and sealed.

@VailHawk

Bad Ball all the way.

@VailHawk

Best of seven. Get in shape.

These are some other posts I saw on April 1st:

KC Chiefs and KU agree to home and home.

USA and Iran Intel office basketball teams agree to home and home series.

OBama and Putin agree to Horse contest for control of South Ossetia.

Israelis and Palestinian national teams agree to home and home games.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston getting back together.

JFK Conspiracy disproven.

Three more highrises--2 hit by planes and 1 by bird droppings--fall in their footprints.

NASA's new Zeus moon landing mission finds incontrovertible evidence Apollo astronauts landed on moon and left foot prints, rovers, and golf clubs there and not at desert training site east of Los Angeles.

Nixon proven not to be a crook.

Mel Brooks proven to be Irish.

Fiction proven stranger than truth.

Clinton never knew Lewinsky orally.

Dubya joins Mensa.

Obama can dance.

Massive Pentagon budget cuts imminent. Peace dividend still to come.

Private central bank not a currency cartel.

Left and right wings not funded by private oligarchy to set limits on discourse

Media and entertainment found to have no Intel assets.

Ice cream found to taste lousy

(Note: all fiction. No malice.)

@Hawk8086

Now I get it...

@HighEliteMajor IS @jaybate 1.0!!!!!

@drgnslayr

.5AD.... Just shoot us all!

5 years from now: first ever 1.1.1.1 player.
1 game
1 minute
1 point
1st lottery pick

@stupidmichael

It SCARED me it was so long!!!

@HighEliteMajor

HOWLING! Made my day!

TRIPLE PHOF!!!!

@globaljaybird

Insane! These things should be extinct by now, but people keep finding them. If Steven Spielberg had grown up in Joplin, he would have made a movie about Spoonbills. They are what I would use for DNA supplementation in experiments to revive sea dinosaurs!

Wayne,

Get selfish. Put team on back. Carry to ring. Cha-Ching!!!

@Crimsonorblue22

Uh oh, is MSU the designated Nike stack for the B1G now?

Tom has caved, too?

Sound of dump trucks...

@Crimsonorblue22

Remember when Wigs couldn't get an assist last year?

It must make Self salivate to think about what Wigs could have done for real in D1!!

@Crimsonorblue22

Yes, but only on two now. Could kick one but Not strong enough for the drag up on one.

@Kip_McSmithers

WHEW!

I thought you were going to talk about a rhythm method, or something!!

Gott darn it, Fred, you are going to feel fantastic when the sternum heals. Keep the faith. And don't let the prospect of another beat down in AFH discourage you. You are in the class of opponents that could very well get a rocking chair when your last appearance rolls around 20 years from now!!!!!

Rock Chalk, Fred!

@brooksmd

Sam, don't EVER leave college. :-)

@wrwlumpy

Ah, brats on the terrace of the Student Union in summer time and renting sail boats and joining study groups for the summer term where a different person did all the work each class period and then distributed the notes so the rest of us could chase thang and sail. The Rathskellar in the winter. Yes, I once made it to every bar on both sides of State Street starting at noon and finished at closing time and the last place was playing "Its the End of the World as We Know It" and I REALLY felt fine!!!!!! And I lived over in Middleton one winter term and used to walk across the lake to class and watch the ice sail boats zing past and rock up on two rails in turns, and then on the way home from class I would stop and give this guy that ice fished every day some money for a fish to cook for dinner. And I've prettty much water skied all the lakes. My pal's girl friend's parents had Ski Nautique and we would go out after skiing and do bat turns till we were all dizzy. For anyone that hasn't been on an old Ski Nautique by Correct Craft they were about 18-20 feet long, no real dead rise at the transom to ensure good hole shot, and 302 or 351 Ford if I recall set smack in the middle. Hellacious torque for pulling up tons of skiers and a prop with a lot of bite, and a post just fore or just aft the engine box, that kept even a tournament slalom skier from yanking the boat around much. Any way the engine at the center and the shallow dead rise meant that when you weren't pulling a skier, you could open up to full throttle, go shittin' and uh gittin' across some barely rippled water, pull full back on the throttle and spin the wheel as hard as you could at the same time and do this incredible 180 degree spin we used to call bat turns. Never was in another boat that did them for about 15 years until I was up on the Rogue River on one of the plate boats with zero dead rise and a very shallow entry V and jet that will skim in 3 inches of water. We were going for some spring salmon, there real young ones with a ton of fat still in their tissue before they get too far up stream, and I am thinking of nothing but hooking one and then gutting him and pulling out the backbone and using it for raw salmon on crackers while we keep fishing. I am nearly in a transcendental state thinking about the taste of the salmon and the sunnuvabitch yanks of the throttle and bat turns on me. I nearly peed my pants, but then got hold of my senses and shouted, "Do it again!!!!!!" Ah, there are so many good memories in a life. Wish I could do most of it again, only more!!!

@REHawk

Glad to hear there are still the folk back on the unpaved roads that have had enough of the outside world and are just enjoying lake country. That means there is hope for all of us.

@REHawk

Now you've done it, Coach!!!! Spoonbill? Sturgeon properly cooked is the best fish I have ever eaten. I used to get it in Oregon once in a great while down a fish market on the bank of one of those marvelous PNW rivers. Damn, I forgot about the sturgeon laying on the bottom there getting fat and tasty!!!! No wonder you're so damned happy. You are camped out in one of the best parts of the country to be.

@drgnslayr

Since in principal the purpose of a university is to educate persons and develop them for society, it seems to me, as a layman, questionable whether the NCAA, the University, and the athletic department, fulfilled their function to Cliff Alexander, if he committed no crime and if he did not take out a loan. It appears at the very least not fair

@JayHawkFanToo

Thank you very much for posting this. It was because of the portion of this you directed me to previously that I evolved my hypothesis into the ShoeCo-agent complex and the entirety of this supports having done so, plus raises the issue if there were another piece to add to the ShoeCo-agency complex. Excellent virtual shoe leAther on your. Thanks again!!

P.S.: what I am trying to say here is that this evidences the existence of a shoe co-agency complex and that it exerts influence to significant but as yet not transparent degree. Further, this complex does not seem to explain on it's own the entirety of the apparent phenomena of biased officiating and seeding and anomalous talent stacking. Therefore, one infers another element of the complex may be waiting to be found and so far everything appears to be legal is the hypothesis has assumed.

@drgnslayr

Your generosity of spirit is commendable, but I would argue that we were not enriched by Nazi Culture and certain other extremist forms of virulent culture. Culture and cultural diversity are our friend, but even they should be held accountable. Persons raped and murdered and addicted to drugs by gang bangers, and organized crime, are not enriched by gang culture, or The culture of organized crime.

Otherwise, I agree with you we can enriched by good faith interaction with all forms of human culture.