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@approxinfinity

I wonder if partially corrupted post and identity data of undetermined extent knowingly either stored, or migrated to, a new platform may raise legal exposure to exploits in a complicated way.

Consult a lawyer?

Look at the Cav's GM and you will understand why Blatt was signed to coach and why they want Love! Their GM appears the classic NBA basketball-lite type; that I can recall, he never played for a champ in the L, never coached a champ, never managed a champ, never even promoted a champ. wiki indicates he started out running a Nike camp for a year. Then was an assistant at Scottsdale juco 2 years. Then mail room and 23 years with Suns rising to prez of bball operations. He appears to know less about how build a champ in basketball than THE FED knows about how to maintain effective, humane wealth distribution to the bottom 98% in a republic!!!!!!!

Hypothesis: Wig's posse and adidas smelled the coffee in Cleveland and recognized it brimmed with incompetence and Nike--in turn they signaled through lawyers that Wigs will play elsewhere and so the the effort to trade for Love recurred with Wigs in the mix. Just a hypothesis though!

This could be the time when the Lakers step in. Wigs and Xavier. Sweet!

@VailHawk

Or to put it another way:

"The only thing that changes is constancy."

Riles did exactly what he should have done. After I read up on Cav owner Gilbert and his Rock holdings, no one can dare compete with him until the next crash, maybe not even then. Gilbert is an EMPIRE builder of scary vision and integration.

Riles got Napier and Mario locked in and next drives down Bosh and Wade's salaries. Next he positions for the next super center, or retires.

Flush.

Upgrade.

Restart.

@nuleafjhawk

But it's now YOUR fault if adidas has KU wearing camisole style shirts!

😱

@nuleafjhawk

Howling! Thx 😄

@icthawkfan316

The problem with Alexander is that everything that made him dominant in high school will only translate against mid majors, not majors. Cliff is going to have the same problem that The Designer has, only he lacks as long a menu of offensive skills as The Designer showed up with. The Designer could play rough and tumble in high school, just like Alexander could. But in D1, Alexander, like The Designer, is going to be looking up at a lot of guys and shoving a lot of guys that outweigh him. Looking up while outweighed makes dominating difficult. I'm not sure he's a 3 year project as TRob was, but I don't see how he can play more than 15-20 mpg this season, unless he's just got one heckuva lot of game that doesn't show up on the feeds.

@drgnslayr

I feel the same way about baseball. Get a hit 3 out of 10 times and you are an all star. Make 3 out of 10 FGAs and you had a terrible shooting night.

@JayHawkFanToo

Oh, and I forgot to weigh in on the cammies. I much, much, MUCH prefer colorful Euro corporate logos to cammies. Cammies have to have been the dumbest idea for basketball uniforms ever.

But here's something I bet we can agree on. KU wearing traditional white silks with crimson and blue trim on Naismith Court can't be beaten.

Rock Chalk!

@JayHawkFanToo

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/jun/07/glazers-manchester-united-fortunes-wane ↗

Whaddaya think it means? 4 years later? On the brink of another reputed market melt down? In relation to Adidas new deal? If anything?

"The ShoeCos are coming! The ShoeCos are coming!"

-- from "The Midnight Surf of jaybate Revere 1.0

@Kip_McSmithers

$1.28 B is kind of cheeky, no?

It feels like someone buying access to more than Manu eyeballs and clicks!

Like maybe preferred access to the Crown's Commonwealth of Great Britain--the largest private economic entity in the world.

Question: Will Man U have have to wear cammies?

@ralster
"Not sure if Wiggins sandbagging or not as jaybate insinuates..."

Hypothesizes, not insinuates. :-)

@DoubleDD

Dude, I'm a goat-free board rat. :-)

But can anyone deny that we did not get near the maximum out of last year's team?

@HighEliteMajor

IMHO Self completely maxxed what last year's team could do and here is why.

First, its my hypothesis that Wiggins was never going to play full out the entire season, except in a four game run to the ring, where the exposure might help his endorsement contract. Its only a hypothesis, but so far it fits the data better than others I have considered. Again speaking hypothetically, his job was apparently to stay healthy, and put up decent numbers, light it up one game for PR value, take the other games to show case one aspect of his game at a time, so the GMs knew he could board, get to the rim, guard, etc. IMHO, and based on what I can recall now, there was never an indication that he was going to carry the team on his back for a season. Self appeared to put it on him and he appeared to discreetly decline the role very early. Embiid got the job by default. It was apparent that Wigs could score 40 ppg most any game, get boards, and guard the best perimeter guy on the other team from the beginning, despite being one handed, not much of an assist guy, and a average trey shooter. He was that phenomenal of a physical talent. But he only did it once or twice and then it appeared mostly to make sure his draft rank didn't fall further.

So: if you hypothesize it about it the way I do, then Self winning a ring with a bunch of freshman starting and a largely incompetent point guard and an experienced four that folded against long and strongs, how Self EVER won a conference title with his star player playing far within his envelope, another star player playing most of the season on one good knee, and a final star player playing sporadically and with serious injury the last month a half of the season, Self winning a conference title is one of the greatest magic acts ever performed in Division 1 basketball history.

It appeared against Stanford that Self essentially put the team out of its misery. As I have hypothesized before, my best guess is that it became clear that Embiid wasn't coming back, even if they beat Stanford. And so it appears as if Wiggins organization decided that he was to eliminate injury risk as much as possible against Stanford. I mean how does a guy capable of going of for 40 plus and a Number One draft pick, go off for 4 against Team Draft Horses from the Farm--Stanford? Again IMHO, Self appeared to try to win the game without Wigs and Embiid; that is not a sign of going all out to me. He just seemed to coach everyone but Wiggins, as if it were a game, and left Wiggins alone to do what he did. The loss put an end to the season and that meant no further games of watching Wiggins stand outside the trey stripe watching the action, while an undermanned KU team struggled without the man power to win.

So: yes, I do think Self got the most out of last year's team. In retrospect, I suspect he went all out for the title, because he decided that was the most last year's team could accomplish with some luck.

I know it is uncomfortable for board rats to think about the D1 game being played the way I am describing, but let's face it, Wiggins did not perform like a Number One draft choice, yet he was taken Number One without much hesitation. This leads me to infer the GMs understood that Wiggins was not to be judged based on his D1 performance.

Just as you rightly say above that Self can simultaneously be the kind of coach that can win a higher percentage the last ten years than any other coach and be prone to late game errors and late season poor play, board rats perhaps may have to learn that a great player can play much under his potential an entire season, put up good but not great numbers, and win a conference title, while at the same time shut it down to minimize injury risk late when the team has insignificant chance of progressing. Perhaps we are through a looking glass.

Big money appears to make major performance decisions at least partially strategic calculations of whether or not injury risk is to be borne, or allayed.

But of course, it is all just a hypothesis on my part.

No one that is not inside can know what really happened.

@drgnslayr

Copy and paste on nutrition.

@HighEliteMajor

:-)

For the record, and my increasingly crappy memory, has Self said he told the players not to foul Burke?

@ralster

I appreciate you weighing in on Self's behalf here. Re-reading what I wrote it comes off too negative towards Self. I really don't want Self to quit doing it his way at all. Self is the only guy in my opinion that has advanced the game since Knight did. Self IS the most important coach in the game from the point of view of advancing the way the game is coached and played. And he is just now at the point that Wooden was in his career when Wooden started winning rings by the bushel. Self has even won a ring early on that Wooden did not and his winning percentage is higher than Wooden's until the season before Wooden had a bunch of undefeated teams and ten rings in eleven years or whatever. (Dwell on that: a bunch of undefeated teams.)

Self is a genius. He could well be on the threshold of a stunning run of championships to add to his stunning run of 82% winning seasons and ten conference titles.

I have my opinion about the disadvantages of this normal distribution assumption of performance, but if Self sees the path through the forrest requiring this assumption being central to his getting better, then I would be the first person to shout, "Bill stick to it. You know best. You are the trail blazer. You are taking the game to the undiscovered country." And he deserves this curtesy and respect always, because he is a genius and because he has already accomplished some things no one though would be done. .82 for ten seasons is insane in this era. Period.

So: thanks for wake up call.

@ralster

Donovan is an interesting case of how my assessment of a coach can change for the better and how one can be proven wrong.

I had a very negative opinion of Pitino at one time. And under the heuristic that fruit never falls far from the tree, which when distilled comes unpleasantly close to guilt by association, I had some serious doubts about Donovan early on from a character stand point. Anyone from Kentucky that doesn't leave quickly has always been suspect to me. But I digress.

Anyway, Donovan began coaching some very good basketball at Florida, then he won a ring with players that did the unthinkable and passed on the bucks to try to win another--and did. His ring team players interesting combination of flamboyance and business like approach to the game made me highly respect Donovan as a coach. But I still hand wrung about his ethics some. But then turned down the pros, after accepting, and then he stepped up to the plate and hired Norm Roberts with the scarlet letter the wrong way types in Gotham had hung on Roberts, and it made me a believer in Donovan's character. No one else in the country stepped up for Roberts at that time. Self would have had to throw someone overboard to hire him at that moment. But there were a lot of other right way types that passed. Donovan did the right thing at the right time and so I and the game owe him big time. Since, I am a big fan of his. I pull for him whenever KU's interest is not at stake and I frankly wish Roberts had left Joel Embiid for Donovan as a thank you for what Donovan did for the game. But that's not how good deeds are often repaid. Still, I think the coaching profession and the game of basketball owe Donovan a debt of gratitude for his hiring Roberts, when Roberts was such a hot potato. The chilling intimidation that would have resulted had no one hired Roberts would have really hurt the right way persons in the game. In short, while my list above was all about joking around, to get serious, I would be honored to have Billy Donovan come to KU and be our coach, if Bill Self ever left, though I doubt he would leave Florida. He is their greatest coach. What is best for the game is for Donovan to stay at Florida and build it into one of the right way fortresses in the deep south. The field house should one day be named for him. When KU couldn't get it done this past season, I was rooting hard for him to get a third and enter the pantheon of great coaches. I hope he gets four or five before he is done, whenever KU is not in the Finals. I hope I live long enough to see a bronze statue of Donovan out in front of their arena. He truly deserves it for the way he has conducted himself. He has been good for basketball and that is my highest praise for any coach.

As long as I am admitting misreads, here is one more admission of getting it wrong about someone. For a long time Rick Pitino seemed to me a poster boy for what was wrong with coaching. But I think I was harboring some prejudice against him for some of my impressions of Providence, and some of my parochial skepticism (often justified) of eastern basketball ethics. I fortunately don't harbor prejudice for paisans. I take each Italian-American one at a time, as I do Caucasian Americans and African-Americans and every other kind of American. I acknowledge everyone ethnic networks to some degree. I acknowledge every ethnic group has its organized crime organizations. I still call him Slick Rick, because he is slick. I doubt even he would deny that is his style. And when he took over UK to "clean it up," having been hired by Bob Hemenway, if I recall correctly, and then suddenly turning up a ring team with a sudden suspicious concentration of recruiting success, I got down on him. Then when he bolted for the pros, my inclination was to think: well, the guy is just another gunslinger making a motion play for the bones, and doing a motion play to get away from the rules he had perhaps broken. He would hardly have been the first. And I have to say I was not feeling to bad about how rotten things went for him with the Celtics.

But as the years have passed, it has become apparent that Pitino was a broom brought in to take lumps in an incredibly dysfunctional organization (at that time), and Rick still managed to get some of the right guys slotted in despite never getting an iota of credit for being the broom.

And Pitino did not run around crying about how tough life was. And when he has made mistakes, he has walked his talk that he gives to players about admitting them and fixing them. When he got into the imbroglio with the woman, it looked pretty bad for him, and I began to think, well, he was a weasel again. But a court of law found otherwise and I trust 12 Americans when the are not obviously acting with bias in their judgements, and I didn't notice any in this case. And from what little I can tell, what ever he did wrong, he has finally tried to deal with it openly, and take his medicine, and continue to try to be a coach and a mentor to his players. In any case, I am not big on smearing men and women for their sexual peccadilloes with consenting adults and so, while it concerned me, I really cannot hold it against him in the end. Personal life is personal life, so long as one is not committing crimes in it. I am dedicated to the proposition that if our public figures were held to the standard of let him without sin cast the first stone, there would be no attempts to smear public figures with peccadilloes with consenting adults. And perhaps there would instead actually be more persons coming forward with crimes that need justice. But these are just my musings in this moment. But back to Rick.

I had my doubts about Rick Pitino. But then not too long ago something occurred to me: what if Rick Pitino left UK as soon as he did, not just because of the bones, but because he got inside UK and discovered it was too corrupt for him? What if he got inside it and realized that there was no way for him to control the boosterism there? What if he did not want to have to live with NOT KNOWING what was going on behind his back? What if he went to Louisivlle, not just because it was the best offer he had coming off hard luck with the Celts, but because he genuinely did want to go back to the state of Kentucky and prove that he could do it the right way and win a ring there? What if his disciple, Bill Donovan stayed at Florida and didn't go back to UK, after Billy Gillispie got hung on a line, because Donvan knew there was no way to control the boosterism at UK?

I know, I know, maybe everything is hunky dory in Lexington and there is no out of control boosterism there anymore. And I know these are a lot of speculative what-ifs, and maybe these guys are weasels, not just occasionally flawed human beings. But for me the record of their actions, and their owning their mistakes, and not making them again, and so on, makes me line them up on the right way side of the line, at least from remote vantage point as a fan.

And so I want to applaud Rick Pitino and Billy Donovan who seem to have done it the right way at Louisville and Florida. But I want to reserve the right to call Rick "Slick Rick," because, well, he is. And there is room on the right way team for a few slicks, if they are trying to do it the right way.

Rock Chalk!!!

It lets the gamblers mingle with a lot of good players early.

It lets the spread setters knock off the rust on their spread setting, while chowing down at Le Bernardin.

It takes fans minds off former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's private oligarchy model of city government.

It helps people ignore the lightweights Lorne Michaels has put on Tonight and Late Night.

It increases the chances of New Jersey Governor Chris Christy enrolling correspondence at St. John's and playing some power forward to try to jump start his a presidential bid, if another tropical storm does not hit soon.

It reminds everyone of that great New York basketball legacy of players playing in wire cages.

It gives everyone an early look at the kind of St. John's players that Norm Roberts was denied by wrong way types.

(Note: All fiction and/or satire. No malice.)

@rocketdog

Back in the 1970s my high school won something like ten straight state championships in football without hardly any great players, just lots of well drilled good ones. By the mid point of the season the practices were so easy it was ridiculous. All the team worked on was repetition of play execution against blocking dummies and quickness drills. Wednesday and Thursday practices people barely broke sweats. Once in a great while the chin straps were buckled and contact was initiated, but not unless it was absolutely necessary to work on contact itself. Practices were always short and crisp. Guys went into games so focused on what they were going to do there was never time to be stressed about the game. The coach always found one, or two plays that were going to work against a particular opponent, but otherwise it was just we do what we do and let them worry about what they do.

Next, Wooden's UCLA way was entirely about convincing his teams they would become the best conditioned team in the country and after that focusing entirely on what UCLA was going to do. UCLA reputedly often never practiced against what the opposing team was going to run. The focus was entirely on what UCLA was going to do. The practices were short but incredibly densely packed with drills. Players never paused for lectures from the coach on the wood. On the wood, every thing was about focusing on how to do things the UCLA way. The practices were designed to develop players ability to focus on execution for an hour and a half. Period. Practices never went longer or shorter. Wooden operated with the practice outlined in 1-2 minute blocks of times on 3x5 note cards. The idea was to see how quickly, not how fast every drill could be done. The short duration of each practice component of 1-2 minutes eliminated trying to do things fast. There was no way to finish the drills faster than the short time allowed, so all focus was on quickly executing to perfection.

Both approaches created phenomenal levels of warranted self confidence--the confidence of knowing that one knows exactly what is supposed to be done and how it is supposed to be done and at what tempo.

My guess is that if the KU researchers had done this study on either my high school's football team, or UCLA, that the players on both teams would have had troughed cortisol and peaked testosterone almost every game from mid season on and with UCLA probably every game all season.

I hope this research convinces Self to abandon the one third/one third/one third distribution about performance. Whether it is true or not, proper practice routines, pre game routines, and clarity of purpose during games can raise the base line of the one third bad games, one third middle games, and one third great games so high that the one third bad games are at a very high level of performance.

Only a few coaches can organize activity so as to exude the zen confidence that is contagious that I believe lowers the cortisol and raises the testosterone levels.

So much of what the KU researchers were measuring is a product not just of levels of exertion, but of how the team is conditioned and programmed so that they pass optimally through the stress of exertion.

I met my high school coach many times, though injury and modest talent prevented me from playing for him. But though I never played for him, I got to know him and he was the greatest coach I ever met until I met Wooden. My best friends did play for him and won three of his ten titles and I am sure they would agree that he was the best they ever saw, too.

I spent three days with John Wooden once, as I have repeated so often in posts. I repeat, because it is important for players, former players and fans that never met him to understand what great coaches are capable of. Today's coaches are not scratching the surface of what Wooden tapped into. He must never be forgotten. His ten rings are not important, except as results of what he tapped into. It is the mother lode of player performance that Wooden tapped into and left behind his pyramid of success as a bread crumb trail pointing the way, but not the how. Until someone meets and gets to know one of these persons, even briefly, one cannot really begin to comprehend just how far most of us fall short of them, yet how far we can develop ourselves down the path that the trailblazer of human performance ventured down.

These two coaches I was lucky enough to meet and who both approached their games through focusing on what their teams were going to do and minimizing the emphasis on what the opponent was going to do, had something else in common. When they looked at you it felt like they could see all the way through to your soul and you knew they weren't going to hurt you, or ask you to do anything stupid, anything that wasn't completely logically worked out. They were both quiet men of few words with great clarity. Wooden was a ferocious referee needler in games, but I have heard that his harshest criticism of players was goodness gracious. The other man was the same in practice as in games. But in practice, both were about the same based on what I have been able to learn. You never feared what furies they were going to unleash on you, because they never did unleash furies They just saw everything wrong and right you did and what you hated was when they looked at you and said it was not done right. It was something terrible not to do something right for these men that distilled the game to its essence and never asked you to do more than you could do. Each player was treated as an individual. To know that the coach had worked it out and put you in the role you were in precisely because he knew you could do the job, made failing for him feel a thousand times worse than all the severe tongue lashings and verbal abuse I had heaped on me by other ordinary coaches. I was only with Wooden three days and all he had to do was look at me once as I had said something that was less than what even a common college kid should have been capable of, and I wanted to go somewhere and practice until I said it right.

The interrelationship of cortisol and testosterone are going to be more complicated than just the extent of exertion and rest. It is going to be about how do you get guys to focus on what needs to be focused on in order to operate at such intensely purposeful levels that the level of exertion has far more favorable impact on the biochemistry of the player.

But the level of cortisol and testosterone are going to open a feed back loop for exploring that capacity of coaches with an order of magnitude more sensitivity.

@Wishawk

Selden = red flag! He can't one step jump which is the litmus test for getting your explosiveness back.

Oubre looks good at 2/3 speed this game was played. But it will take a good 2-3 months for him to figure out D1 speeds and getting roughed up for real.

Ellis has really improved his create a space to shoot move on his jump shot. And he still has that uncanny ability to score inside when persons are trying to block him rather than muscle him. But this feeds show nothing about his ability to take it and dish it out.

Alexander will be lucky to play 20 mpg this season.

Brannen Greene appears to have had the neural nets grow together enough to play under control this season. Now we just have to see if they grow together enough to hand D1 speeds. Reason for optimism about Brannen.

Frankamp looks about the same.

Mickelson moves well, but I saw no sign of rim protection.

@HighEliteMajor

But there is zero chance that Love can produce for Cleveland what he has for Minnesota, precisely because he will be playing with Lebron and Irving, or Lebron, Irving and Wiggins. or Lebron and Wiggins.

Wiggins is a big risk, but so was Lebron once upon a time. Great talents are great risks, because many of them don't measure up.

Cleveland's management would have to be on severe mood altering drugs to trade the best prospect since Lebron. And Wiggins is the best prospect since Lebron, despite all his inadequately developed game.

The bottom line on Wigs is that he played about 1/2 speed the entire season and still was the best player on KU and good enough, had Embiid stayed healthy, to have played for a ring. I mean, I have been XTRemely critical of Wiggins protecting the merchandize all last season, but that only bodes well for what Wiggins can do when his handlers take the governor off him.

This guy was exceptional at half speed.

He likely will tear up a lot of the NBA at full speed. And what he does not tear up at full speed this season, he will annihilate after three seasons of unrestricted play in the NBA.

Cleveland, for god's sakes don't trade away the chance for the next great transcept team. Lebron and Wigs on both wings is solid gold in two seasons, three at the most. And at that point, its is as many rings in a row as Lebron will hang on for.

P.S.: I totally agree that Hunter is the much more interesting and important issue. :-)

@Hawk8086

If you are Minnesota, you need bodies you can keep long enough to get lucky and land a franchise player in the draft. Love is not a guy you can keep. So you dump Love for anything you can get ASAP, so he doesn't just walk on you next season. Love is not the answer to any question worth asking in Tundraville. He's a west coast guy and no west coast guy will ever be a long termer in tundraville.

@nuleafjhawk

Niang understands that KU has no one proven able to keep him from a big game. And he knows Hoiberg can keep it close. Therefore his confidence is justified. KU without rim protector in the paint and draft choices ready for the draft is just like any other good team.

Wilt got two rings with fine coach/GM combos that knew how to put winning teams together. None without.

Lebron has never had a good coach/GM combo, just a good team President that knew how to run the team on the floor from upstairs. He has 2 rings, none without.

Oscar never got a good pro organization till the end and got one ring.

Thus the NBA HAS squandered the three greatest talents in the history of the game.

Jordan, and Big Russ, and Jabbar, and Tim Duncan, who clearly had less talent than Lebron and Wilt in their primes won way more rings than Wilt and Lebron and Oscar.

Only great organizations win many rings. They have to have a great coach and an extremely savvy GM.

Everything else is a freak ring.

Lebron should be hiring a great coAch and GM that already know how to win.

Otherwise he is just going home to futility.

P.S.: I forgot to include the guard that I personally would want on my team even more than Oscar, or Jordan--Magic Johnson, because he was the greatest MUA on the perimeter of any player of all time.

Magic flat out got good coaching from childhood and Jud Heathcote, whom I was not any more warm and fuzzy about than Ratso Izzo, was still a solid coach. But it was under West and Riley that Magic really blossomed into the greatest point guard of all time--the player that no team ever had MUA on. Magic's bunch of rings came under two masters of the game, while playing with one of the three best centers of all time--Jabbar. But put Magic in a dumb organization that did not know how to put the pieces together, and he would have been added to the great talent squandered list. Organizations are the only way to win many rings.

The Cavs have always been a lousy franchise fighting to overcome a legacy of stupidity. If they trade Wiggins for Love, they are doomed. Lebron likely will back out and go to NY or LA. He has the bargaining power to break any deal. And he will if they trade Wiggins for any one but a proven superstar 2-3. But again, even if they keep Wiggins, the Cavs and Lebron are doomed without a great coach. Lebron has wasted his career with lousy coaches same as Wilt did his first ten years. Phil Jackson will come for Lebron. But the savvy political move is Doc Rivers as head coach and Phil Jackson as coach emeritus. Teach Lebron and Wigs the triangle, pick up two brawny journey man centers, and it's 5 straight rings starting season after next. If the Cavs had Jackson right now Irving would already be traded for Love, but the Cavs don't have leadership at the top with a pair and hoops IQ. Irving plus Lebron equals failure without wiggins. Lebron plus Wiggins and average guards and journeyman centers equal rings. Next.

LEbron and Wigs will be perfect trancept style offence I.e., for the Cavs to bring Phil Jackson into, either as HC, or as a Tex Winter style coach emeritus. The need a good defensive center. This is Chicago Bulls 2.0. And Lebron can give Wigs room and time to grow.

Great move by Cav management, but only if they bring in Phil.

"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
--Epicurus

@nuleafjhawk

Your's is the better turned epigram. Thanks for sharing it.

"All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way."
--Epictetus

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
--Epictetus

"All empires require an endless string of weaker opponents, or they collapse from within."--jaybate

"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."
--Diogenes

"A conspiracy theory is whatever someone is incentivized not to want to hear." --jaybate

"Many historical truths are false."
--jaybate

"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one."

--Diogenes

"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
--Heraclitus

"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
--Heraclitus

"If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."
--Heraclitus

Possible Successor for Bill Self If Recruiting Were Paramount: Herbert Hainer, current adidas CEO

Possible Successor for Bill Self If KU Were to Hire Phil Knight as Chancellor, Mark Parker as Vice Chancellor and George Raveling as AD: Stumpy Miller.

Possible Successor for Bill Self If a Botched Clone Were Sought: Vlad Matta

Possible Successor for Bill Self If Coaching Players that Take Joy Rides with Heat Were Part of the Job Description: Bruce "Palladin" Pearl

Possible Successor for Bill Self If an Interim Head Coach Were Needed: Bruce "Interim" Weber

Possible Successor for Bill Self If Man Breasts Were Part of the Job Description: Bob Huggins

Possible Successor for Bill Self If Woman Breasts Were Part of the Job Description: Heidi Klum

Possible Successor for Bill Self If Finding a Coach Facing Allegations of Verbally Abusing Players and Who Was Not Reportedly Recruiting Right Now Were Job Criteria: Doug Woijik

Possible Successor for Bill Self If Experience as Sideline Cheese Cake Were Part of the Description: Erin Andrews

Possible Successor for Bill Self If a Ford Not a Lincoln Were Sought: Travis Ford

Possible Successor for Bill Self If Cell Phone Addiction Were a Hiring Criterion: Kelvin Sampson/Frank Haith (tie)

Possible Successor for Bill Self If KU Only Had $1.4M a year in Salary and Wanted to Hire a Coach that Had Not Yet Coached in D1, But Had Been Hired by a School Full of Sudafed Cracking Bone Heads that Passed on Hiring Bill Self: Kim English

Possible Successor for Bill Self If KU Wanted Someone That Would Do a Motion Play After Playing Ringers (While Not Knowing About It) and Losing to KU in a National Final: John Calipari

(Note: All fiction and/or satire. No malice.)

ESPN: Mark Emmert talks to Senate

JSN: Emmert talks "college for life:" but does that mean players never get paid and get their likenesses marketed without consideration?

ESPN: Rick Pitino: 'Can go for a long time'

JSN: Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

ESPN: Doug Wojcik not recruiting this week

JSN: never a good sign when they start reporting what you are not doing.

(Note: all satire. No malice.)

Let's get a bidding war going between adidas and Birkenstock!

Petro vs cork!

What are the Vegas odds on Embiid signing with Nike? 1 in a Graham Number?

Above all don't go for the $98.

This is market research to come up with estimates for costs and benefits for going 100 percent pay per view.

I wonder if any of these guys were going to class under Roy?

Imagine my (complete lack of) surprise! :-)

In related news:

Night follows day.

Water is wet.

SHOECOS rule! :-)

ESPN: UNC hopes to set up meeting with McCants

JSN:   Has he got them by the short hairs?

ESPN: Wojcik won't resign after abuse allegations

JSN:  Sticks and stones may break his bones, but insult allegations will never hurt him??

ESPN: Battier joins ESPN as college hoops analyst

JSN: Battier = More EST bias.

ESPN: Cal C Rooks likely out for year after surgery

JSN:  Footer’s ACL puts him out for a year at Cal, at KU might he only be nicked up? 

ESPN: Boise State to pay $2.3M in AAC settlement

JSN:  BSU pays to stay in the Frack Pack aka MWC

ESPN: Charge dropped against ex-UNC professor

JSN:  Is teaching UNC football players without a class meeting "Indirected Study"?

ESPN: Former educator files lawsuit against UNC 

JSN:  alleged “paper classes” and alleged “low reading levels” = alleged higher education in Chapel Hill?

ESPN: Gators and Hurricanes will renew hoops rivalry

JNS:  Dueling sun screens?

ESPN: Recruit Adams picks UConn over KU, L'ville 

JSN: Typical ESPN—KU bold, L'ville abbreviated to where you barely see it, how about LOUISVILLE, K'sas instead?

ESPN: Former longtime coach Messbarger dies at 81

JSN: Ed, ya did good, R.I.P.

ESPN: Big 12 unveils modern-looking logo design

JSN:  Its not only modern-looking, its annoyingly inaccurate, too!

ESPN: Miami: Probe into PEDs found no wrongdoing

JSN:  Calling Frank Haith--don't have to worry about this one

ESPN: He's got mail: Pearl saved Barkley message

JSN: Charles says teams “take up” the personality of the coach; so what do joy rides with heat say about Bruce?

P.S.: Suggested UNC cheer--"Litigate, Tar Heels, litigate!"

(Note: All satire. No malice.)

@JayHawkFanToo

In the short term it is unlikely.

In the long term it is a near certainty.