How about Larry Brown takes over South Carolina and Frank Martin takes over SMU?
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I feel that Rick deserves a second chance at Auburn and Bruce Perle deserves one at Louisville.
Until an agent with ties to Nike lean power players and Nike contracted schools, and a Nike official both fall in this case, i can't yet take the stand that this involves the cavalry coming.
UL should do exactly what UK did. It should hire a guy that has left not one, but two schools in sanctions he was unaware of. UL should find a coach with a strong tie to the Nike-WWW complex.
But who could that be?
Larry Brown of course!!!!
I try to be supportive of those that appear to break "the silence."
If the greatest game ever invented doesn't deserve to be saved from whatever appears to afflict it now, what does?
I don't like that Bo was having an affair, but he broke the silence.
I don't like that Rick lead his private life as he reputedly did, or reputedly perhaps maintained ignorance of what happened in this case.
But Rick broke the silence and NO coaches backed him up in public, as far as I recall.
Now Rick and Bo are gone.
Fear and silence appear to reign in D1 hoops.
We likely will never know for sure that Rick and Bo were run for speaking out. Those that are run for most things are often run by others with plausible deniability. It would, therefore, probably be naive to expect to know for sure with Rick and Bo.
So I praise Rick and Bo for appearing to break "the silence" and note they appear to have left the game shortly after having done so .
As Gandhi said, if we wait for the perfect among us to stand up and speak out against corruption and evil, we would never make a dent in corruption and evil.
Gandhi, by the way, was nobody's naive mahatma. He was trained a lawyer in England, then groomed in South Africa for reform by a Jewish, Marxist labor organizer, before taking on and beating the British and Dutch in South Africa and India.
There are no saints, or heroes, as Admiral Bull Halsey said so admirably, only ordinary men faced with extraordinary challenges that try to do their duty.
Maybe Rick did decide: if you can't beat'em, join'em.
But once he broke the silence.
And right now, we fans appear only to have Rick and Bo that have done that.
I salute them and refuse to forget, or disrespect, what they did for the greatest game ever invented.
So far, it appears way more than any other recent coaches have done.
mayjay said:
@jaybate-1.0 Cute! But a little detail: Unfortunately you are using current prices for used Escalades. 2012s sold new for upwards of upwards $60k.
From $60k to near $85k. Hmmm. Why that's only in the range of a 30% increase in Escalades with 0% increase in bribes!!!!
Why that's outrageous!!!!
The bribes should be reduced!
Think of the Chinese prison labor not getting anything but room, board, prison clothing and mind control!
The central bank centric NWO is truly unjust and evil in its distribution of costs and benefit.
Players deserve smaller bribes, not bigger ones, and Chinese prison laborers need to be comped some adidas, too. And maybe Chevy Sonics when the guys get out of prison. None of those crappy Tata's from India for GM's Chinese Prison labor force. I know, I know. The prison labor force may not be directly contracted with GM. But those Chinese slave, ER, prison laborers are used hold down wages in the PRC, so all those Chinese parts can be made more cheaply.
By god Government Motors ought even to declare bankruptcy again and maybe get themselves an untraceable bailout from the PRESIDENT'S PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM in order underwrite a new platform for the Escalades. It's getting a little long in the tooth again!
(Note: all satiric fiction tongue inside of cheek. No malice here. Or I hope, among the prison slaves, but wonder.)
Once, a few years back, Rick Pitino appeared to break what appeared a wall of silence about an apparently sensitive aspect of recruiting. He appeared to mock TPTB that ran what now begins to appear with the FBI arrests perhaps vaguely reminiscent of some kind of film noir hustle. Now he has been been put on some kind of suspension pending resolution of legal issues for alleged, as yet apparently unspecified participation in something vaguely reminiscent of that which he appeared to mock awhile back.
But Rick ain't apparently the first to appear to fall victim to something appearing to operate out there beyond the shadows of college basketball.
Let us all now observe a moment of silence for UW HC Bo Ryan, who dared refer to Duke's team (was it 9 OAD/TADs?), as "rent-a-players" and shortly found his extramarital affair outed. He retired. Was there a connection between his retirement and the outing of his affair and his words?
Is the greatest game ever invented now at the mercy of a shrouded "system" slowly being exposed by its own ruthlessness?
The game at least seems "on dangerous ground," and the coaches appear increasingly "in a lonely place," being given the business by a system, where the real hustlers-- "they live by night."
R u sure?
Oh thank god!!!!
Now the reputedly bribed players may not have to strike for higher bribes to afford GOVERNMENT MOTORS assemblies of Chinese parts!!!
You ask: is this the end of college basketball? That prompted the following: What if amateur college basketball died quite some time ago and what we have been watching for some time has been entertainment-value driven 🏀 ?
If I recall correctly, back around the time of UKs 2012 ring team, a Chicago newspaper reputedly reported a player was offered (or was it paid?) approximately $100,000 to encourage him to attend some school and, when said school officials challenged the report, the newspaper refused to retract its story with the allegation in it.
Now I don't wish to re-open that pustule, whatever school may have been involved; that was then and this is now.
But I do want to note that that was 5-6 years ago, if it ever happened.
Now, in 2017, if I understand correctly, it appears that the sum of $100,000 is STILL the approximate amount of a bribe.
This is outrageous!
The price of a bribe appears not to have changed, while the average cost of a Cadillac Escalade has risen sharply!
2012 MSRP: $28,410-34,348
2017 MSRP: $73,995-$95,695
The players reputed bribes have flatlined and the Escalades have gone up by NEARLY 278%!!!!
(Note: since we tax payers bailed GM's corporate ass out of some chapter of bankruptcy, and the players play for public and private universities that reputedly receive quite a lot of our gubmint subsidy, directly, or indirectly, it seems the least Gubmint Motors could do would be to hep these needy bribed college hoopers!!)
Either the players need a HUGE cost of living increase in their bribes, or GM needs to make a special bribed-amateur player discount available.
This is almost criminal to make the bribed players over stretch themselves to afford these sharply inflated Escalades!!!
(Note: all satiric fiction. No malice!!!)
Ah, Pittsburg! Home base of the Mellons and the Dapper Dan and Sonny Vacarro!
This all started because they got something on one guy, and he very quickly started helping them uncover more.
Sometimes I wonder if the FBI might have known of this sort of thing for some time and were PERHAPS encouraged to pursue a potential set of prospective state's witnesses at this time in order to move them up an investigative food chain yielding some prospective benefit to one political interest, or another.
When a problem is not solvable at one locus, enlarge the locus?
Et al,
In strategy, you encircle before attacking the real target.
One possibility is this is only expediently about basketball. Two axes of private oligarchy appear to be struggling over who gets to wage the wars and get the contracts and resources necessary to extend the private central bank hegemony into Syria, Iran, NorKor, and Russia. This struggle exposes fissures in the new world order. Players like Germany in the past allowed to have action in many of the producer oligopolies bridle at some of the risks and costs they are being asked to bear. When they don't play ball, they have to be sanctioned, right? Sanctions are the Tao of Empire that precede subjugation, right? Sanctions take many forms. Lesser players down the food chain recognize they can ply political and economic pressures to serve short sighted seemingly unrelated agendas and get help In doing things, under the rubric of the unofficial sanctioning process. Seemingly unconnected anomalous events, perhaps like this one, appear sometimes as fallout. Time will tell how serious TPTB are about global petroshoe and petroapparel market domination, and whether it is significant to, insignificant to pursuit of grand strategy. Too soon to say much right now IMHO. But I'll ask you this. Do you think the times favor a German shoe company IN American sports against two American shoecos with Nike's and Under Armour's varying origins of political and financial backing, when the USA is apparently frustrated about GERMANY feasting on Russian gas and refusing nukes, er, ABMs, to ring and villify Russia for take down? I half wonder if we won't soon be seeing a Polish tennis shoe company created!!!
To et al,
I have only been posing a hypothesis for the last few years, one of many possible explanations of puzzling phenomena in college basketball recruiting. And at the end of the day today, this is just a piece of evidence at the arrest and allegation stage. Nothing definitive .
It is thought-provoking.
I could be wrong, but I just don't see the FBI leaving it all on the floor for Cal in Lexington, while Mitch McConnell has enough clout to appear to stop repeal of Obamacare for the Deep State. 😀
I'm saying you have to make it look like you are going after "everyone", when you are going after "someone."
I'm saying leopards don't change spots until AFTER they have been hopelessly crushed.
Self talking retirement very recently (ie, appearing to make himself a lameduck) and appearing to tie it to "the way recruiting is", which was already anomalous, grows increasingly conspicuous.
Hope you're right, but it appears we are in for a very, very long and hard fought economic war for the soul/sole of the game. And I believe we are still quite early in the asymmetric strategic-tactical exploitation of the legal-political constraint.
Cracking down on adidas appears like cracking down on hub cap thieves in a 'hood, while heroin, crack and meth are reputedly being sold openly on Wall Street. 😀
Is this a serious attack on adidas market share for challenging TPTB?
adidas appears practically marginalized already in its apparent ability to supply top talent in competitive quantities!
What must TPTB be doing?
Holy cow! Whatta world!
The minute I saw KU get that big adidas contract, Self talk retirement, and heard KU had a $50 M stadium donor, coupled with rumors of KU leaving for B10, I suspected there would be blow back!!!!
But it's now way bigger than sports. Our Deep State appears to be at war with a major element in Germany and its allies in USA. Hoops and shoe wars are caught up in much higher stakes.
Artillery always fires short and long before targeting in between. Buckle helmets and fill sand bags. I sense incoming!
Is implosiveness Self's new counter strategy?
Self popularized the explosive player; then everyone copied him.
Now Self is signing implosive players.
By implosive, I don't mean hapless, flat-footed guys.
There used to be a kind of big man that was a wide body without much explosiveness. Some of them were short, like 6-6 Ed Nealy that played for Jack Hartman at KSU, and then in the pros. George and Wes Unseld were like this. These were guys that could barely clear the floor, but they developed great footwork and were great at staying on spots and moving guys off theirs inconspicuously. They flourished as a minority at a time when basketball was into long skinny guys that could run and jump in transition, or use their height b2b in close. But the bean poles fell prey to the implosives in half court sets.
Or maybe Self is betting Hudy can add 6 inches to this guy's vertical the way she did with the Morri?
Either way a good get.
This guy is too big, too strong, for today's game.
Doesn't he realize the era of the big man is over?
Who would draft this guy?
What? Is Self getting demented? Has he forgotten that small ball is the future? Signing someone 6-10 is futile. He will never be able to play, because the other team's bigs will be 6-7 and too mobile for him.
What a waste of a scholarship!!!
Ahem.
Thank god Self signed him NOW.
Sign a bunch more.
They are giving you big.
Take it.
Congrats to BStar.
Can Roger get'em a deal on some old Converse shoes?
Yes, I left it up for fun. I have a little rule.
Catastrophe is preceded by many warnings and prophecies, but only coincidentally coincides with one.
😀
Budapest Hungary is apparently stupendous also (haven't visited either yet, but by family and reading have learned a lot) , but most Americans have only heard of it from the Gabor sisters. In part, we have distorted views of much of central/Eastern Europe, because USA immigrants from Brit Isles, Northern Europe and Vatican Catholic French Orders like Jesuits and Saints-Sulpicians, plus Russian Jews from Germany of late were who have canonized the bulk of our "history." Prague descended Bohemians have never dominated our history academy that I know of. If someone knows otherwise, please share. Willa Cather and Madeline Albright are two influential American Hunkies I recall off hand, but Willa focused on America lit and Madeline on diplomacy. I don't recall any great American Hunkie historians on the oligarchy-approved order of Sam Morrison, Schlesinger, etc. No conspiracy here; rather just who wrote it and from which Ivy (big or little) academy, and so canonized USA history in its first 150 formative sovereign years. Canonized history is a sticky institution that recedes only glacially, and so informs and distorts our perception (or lack thereof) of foreign places long after. Our Anglo-Protestant-French Catholic-JudeoBritish cultural heritage was IMHO born of a rebellion not so much from the Holy See, as from the Holy Roman (Habsburgian) Empire's central and South American metals interests that cramped our style. The Habsburgs were built on global precious metals trade spanning many centuries. Metternich late administrated it as a flexibly strung together band of kingdoms spanning central, eastern and Balkan Europe in alliance with certain German kingdoms and at times with the Ottoman Empire, which itself mirrored Metternich's Holy Roman polyglot composition of kingdoms in the Turkish Middle East. Supposedly empire managers learned quite a bit from Metternich's some what flexible approach to empire administration, and from his disgust with the tendency of much of private oligarchy to indulgence, decadence and selfishness leaving administrators an unecessary need to resort to harshness to hold things together. Metternich apparently thought empires fell as much because of private oligarchy losing its cohesion and morals as other things. But of course he was a manager and blaming them was perhaps a bias. Still, looking at the behavior of our private oligarchy today, his remarks bear remembering.
Prague was cosmopolitan much of its existence. It was one of several key nodes of commerce and overland and river trade in the Holy Roman Empire. It was on the Trans European and TransEurasian overland trade routes. It was vital to control in Eastern and Southern Europe in the same way Bologna was pivotal to control on the Italian peninsula. It was on the way and so a pinch point. It made itself indispensable, or at least highly desirable with glass and ceramics excellence at a time when these were prized industries. Remoteness from maritime pirates of Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean-based pirate cultures and slavers became a virtue over time. They were on the overland trade route between both northern and southern pirate cultures but not so close to fall under their full hegemony before mass armies and then rail wore them down and finally crushed them. Napoleonic France was arguably the beginning of the End. WWI was the nail in the coffin. The Nazis invaded for coal, grain, and a path south to Balkan Oil and west to contain Stalin, and prized the German speaking minority and Prague's legacy of high culture. People forget the Nazis studied British American PR/Advertizing's pioneering development and mastery of propaganda through appropriation and repurposing of cultural symbols and activities (arts, literature, media, music) to be used for re-programming nations in the analog phase of mass media. Nazis sought to collect, repurpose and promote media and cultural centers, same as Britain and USA had done. Nazis thought they lost WWI, because they had not done this as well as the Allies of WW1 had. Thus the high culture of Prague was worth taking and preserving, same as Paris was. It might be appropriated for propaganda and mind control purposes and its always good to be seen as preserving high culture legacies.
But back to the Prague and Budapest of Metternich's era and before. Prague was a partner of the Vatican but again not totally under thumb. For Paris and London to eclipse Viena and Budapest and Prague, i.e., to flower and become the cultural paramounts of Europe, the Holy Roman Empire, and then its surviving Habsburg elements had to be subjugated. Prague and Budapest and Vienna accurately looked down on northwest Europe as coarse and vulgar cultures greased by and grown on the piracy of the Age of Discovery that shifted much global trade from overland to maritime routes. Their own Habsburgs and the Holy See selling them out jointly to launch the Age of Discovery from Habsburg controlled Castilian Spain and Vatican controlled Portugal (launch pads 1and 2 of a kind of Cape Canveral of exploration of western maritime trade routes efunded in the 1400s by Holy See and the Habsburgs) no doubt galled Pragueians the way today's Western private oligarchy's outsourcing of USAs economy to East Asia galls us. They were/are stealing what we built to create something much bigger that will eclipse and marginalized us over time. The Praguians probably weren't sure why they were being sold out, or by whom, until it was too late. Such are the recurring dynamics of empire restructuring throughout history. They can't be stopped when compelled by superior economies of scale. They can only be fought for control of running the odious process. American strategist for western private oligarchy George Kennan admired Metternich greatly for administrating an empire in an unstable region in a structural eclipse from outsourcing and trade Re-routing. He probably did so, because he understood the USA Empire, despite its seeming omnipotence in the last half of 20th Century, was destined for some very difficult sailing as outsourcing took its inevitable toll leading to a possibly much more transEurasian centric new world order being enabled by his team.
Anyway, Americans need to bone up on and enjoy Budapest and Prague, when they can. Lots more there than goulash and kolatchies! I'm planning a trip already!
It appeared significant timing that Self reputedly reiterated prospects of his retiring in his 50s--even speculating on 59 as one possibility in relation to the end of the contract--so close to the release of information about the new KU contract with adidas.
Any reports of negotions to enhance Self's personal contract with adidas, too?
Also, if recruiting were the way he alluded to it being BEFORE he appeared to tie the issue of leaning to retirement in his late 50s maybe with the end of the contract at 59, imagine how much more so it would appear to become that way now that recruits and opposing recruiters have him on record saying he may be out in only 5 years, or less. That ought to REALLY make recruiting MORE of however he experiences recruiting already, right? There's quite a difference between a 5 year horizon and an undefined up to 10-15 year horizon. Self has apparently made himself a lame duck. And KUAD is really the only one that can fix that. What KUAD does about it will tell a lot about KUAD plans for KU BASKETBALL.
Whatever, the new KU shoe deal would appear to reward and intensify whatever dynamics were already in place.
PROS:
80%+ winning percentage
String of conference titles
String of high seeds
Frequently making it to Selected 16 or the Engineered Eight.
CONS:
Increasingly conspicuous inability to sign domestic OAD/5-star 1s and 5s.
Increasing difficulty with fielding a 10 player rotation of D1 grade, scholarship players above 3 star rank
9 scholarship athletes this season.
Rising reliance on troubled transfers.
Generally less talent recruited than Duke, UK and UNC.
No Final Fours since 2012.
So....
In the end, it seems the idea is not to change anything and enhance the subsidy for minor sports.
And Self at least might be bridling a bit at the likely path, at least that's how it appears to moi.
Numbers of scholarship players of genuine D1 talent suitable for an elite program appear trending down, as Self finds himself in a contractual situation, where it would seem logical for KU to up his benefits at least proportionally with KU's increased benefits from adidas, right? After all it is increasingly Self's masking skill, strategic mastery of the game, and hat rabbit recruiting that have enabled the consistent winning, and decreasingly adidas' infusion of OAD/5-star summer game talent. Surely KU leadership grasps it would only take two straight 9 scholie rosters, 3 at the most, to deplete the talent so low that no other replacement coach would have a prayer of winning a conference title, and would likely face a big rebuild. For now Self's bargaining position appears to be being strengthened by the declining scholarship depth. It appears Classic Self. Take what they give him. Play it any way they want.
Not sure how and where all this shakes out, but it doesn't feel like we are upping our commitment to getting better at basketball by stringing the bow to win rings. It appears we have enhanced our ability to subsidize minor sports and meet KUAD office overhead. Maybe we have also built a little rainy day cushion for realignment too. But I don't see how we are moving closer to competing for a ring, or getting Self more players. Do you?
Rock Chalk!
With this much money contracted from adidas, KUAD can afford to let Self go, hire a low salary journeyman and forget about trying to recruit and win!
Grandma jaybate was from Prague!!!
Hunter, you are at the last center of civilized western culture before the pirates of the age of discovery took over. Look beneath the scars of the last few centuries of vicious subjugation of it. Enjoy the deep beauty of it. Kafka focused on what had become of it at the hands of the barbarians, and as David Foster Wallace realized, home boy Franz Kafka was a black comic misunderstood in the west. But underneath they are a marvelous people. They left it all on the floor for ceramics and glass. Truly beautiful stuff. Everything since just cheap imitations. And when you come home, go to the Bohemian festivals in Kansas and Nebraska. A beautiful people crushed yet again in America. But even the merciless railroads and combinations couldn't destroy their spirit. Polka till you drop!
"With recruiting the way that it is, it just wears you down," said Self...
Notice it doesn't wear guys like Coach K (Nike) and Roy (Nike Jordan) down. Its so easy for Roy to recruit that he can walk around fainting his way through an Easygate scandal and still use up his scholies. Coach K probably can't even remember the play book anymore and he can still sign as many guys as he needs. And Calipari (Nike)? Cal doesn't even appear to break a sweat.
I've been telling board rats for five years now that the recruiting constraint is queering it for Self. He's no fool. He'll keep clipping the coupons till he's 59, but even Self's resilience and rabbit hat have limits.
Outrageous fortune. Slings and arrows.
The greatest coach of his era and the apparent embargo won't even let him use up his scholies.
Where is General Patton when we need him.
By god, a man that eloquent has to be saved!!!
Welcome and we expect you to pack phone inside the uniforms and check in from inside the huddle during games, okay?
Rock Chalk!
It may be time to start a cemetery where the old track used to be. Maybe build the Tomb of the Unknown Jayhawk Football Player. There could be a lot casualties this weekend.
Tell everyone he did it on purpose, because it was getting too easy to win 84% of his games with a full allotment of scholarship players.
Tell the players he did it to toughen them up this year by letting them know what it was like "back in the day" at ORU.
Tell KU fans he's tired of their complaining about him shortening the bench, so he decided to shorten the roster to really give them something to worry about.
Tell Trump that he's rolling the balls out with only 9 guys, so Trump doesn't feel like the only one facing a stacked deck.
Tell Hilary that he's rolling the balls out with only 9 guys, so she can't blame losing on him, too.
Tell General Kelly he wants to hire him to fend off all the questions about why he only signed 9 guys to rides.
Tell Rocket Man that even though KU only has 9 guys on rides that KU would still use a 4 out 1 in set to rain down fire and fury on the University of North Korea Fighting Goose Steppers if KU and they meet up at the World University Games before Rocket Man gets the whole world blown up.
Just say "shoes."
(Note: All fiction. No malice.)
KU has so few players we will have to call them the Supreme Court!
KU has so few players they can go to games in a minivan!!!
Haven't seen a Bill photo lately. Is he putting on some weight? 😀
The Bucky loss to Duke was when the appearance of engineering overwhelmed the appearance of credibility of the tourney.
9 scholarship players including 3 postmen...is Self trying to cut down on how many players he has to work with so he can get home for dinner sooner?
If I were a typical AD hired to turn KU football around, I would keep it clean and losing till I:
1.) FIRED GILL to end the old culture;
2.) HIRED WEIS to be a broom, while I quietly cleaned out the skeletons;
3.) Used CBernie to pretend to deal with realignment, but actually delay it;
4.) Hired Beatty cheap to recruit what he could and build connections in Texas;
5.) Eased CBernie out once all the skeletons were disinfected by quietly using Easy Classgate at UNC on her;
6.) HIRED a new chancellor who was a proxy of my biggest donor/private oligarchy wanting to take over KU through the back door of the athletic department and school of medicine;
7.) used contract letting for a massive stadium refit to cement the new order fiscally;
8.) Kick Beatty upstairs to assistant AD in charge of a new post called "Asst. AD in Charge of Recruiting Development;"
9.) Hire a top coach for an unprecedented amount of money; and then
10.) start "enhanced" recruiting.
Along the way I would keep a low profile, emphasize Self and basketball, and try not to get fired for the long term rebuild that the cleanup of a toxic super fund football program had required.
Fortunately, I'm just a basketball fan and not your typical AD that would have had to execute such a long, laborious, and unpleasant procedure.
If I were hired to engineer the tourney, I would want KU in the first two rounds in the Midwest to make sure folks fill seats for TV and hold some eyeballs during the worthless rounds. But I would also want to stack KU's path with Bang Ballers to soften KU up in order to push KU out by the Elite Eight for sure. I wouldn't EVER want KU in the Final Four! And isn't my script pretty close to the drama performed the last few years?
Football is simple.
If you have at least 66 guys that are about as big, fast and mean running what other good programs are running on both sides of the ball, you win about half your games.
KU isn't winning any games. None. Zero. Zip.
Not even against cupcakes.
Inference: the problem has nothing to do with Beatty and his staff being unable to coach and motivate his players.
KU is like a guy with a Ruger .22 rifle firing at Abrams tanks. It doesn't matter how accurate Coach Beatty gets this guy to load, shoulder and fire his plinker, its not going to stop the Abrams from running over his ass and killing him.
KU has not signed nearly enough talent.
KU has not signed nearly enough talent.
KU has not signed nearly enough talent.
KUAD is apparently not willing to let KU football violate the recruiting rules with large amounts of cash, because it apparently knows the winning that cheating at recruiting would create would lead to recruiting infractions that would queer fiscal dreams of moving to one of four surviving Power conferences. KU has to stay clean to move. It cannot risk creating a toxic superfund site under Memorial Stadium.
KU cheating at football recruiting enough to win would also invite investigators into KUAD and KUAD apparently doesn't want NCAA investigators anywhere near the KU basketball program. KU basketball recruiting appears to be trending down. Bill Self doesn't really sign his share of OADs and 5 stars anymore. He produces hat rabbits to fill gaps. He is a bailing wire artist on the level of Picasso, if Pablo had ever worked in bailing wire. But there are no free hat rabbit and bailing wire supply stores, same as there are no free lunches. adidas appears not to be bringing in the hat rabbits and bailing wire spools. adidas and KU appear to have descended into a pure endorsement relationship. adidas writes a big check and gets to put their logos on KU stuff. That's all folks. adidas appears out of the player delivery action. It appears adidas technicians have come late in the night sometime in the last year, or three, wearing jumps suits and have dismantled the talent conveyor. No dump trucks backing up to AFH. Not even any 3/4 ton stake beds. Maybe an occasional U Haul box truck rented for one day with unlimited mileage comes quietly to a service entrance and delivers a hat rabbit late after everyone's given up hope. This basketball program--this gold egg laying goose--is hanging by a recruiting thread as thin as 8 pound test monofilament for an ultra light rod and reel being used to fish for marlin off Cabo. This is don't ask, don't tell time in KU basketball recruiting. Don't ask how he's getting the hat rabbits. Don't tell either. And figure the bailing wire fixes are coming from Tractor Supply, and just whistle and look the other way, if anyone ask you to 'plain, Lucy. Don't invite the NCAA "investigatutes" into KUAD until KU jumps conferences.
Until then, KUAD needs to take out long term health insurance policies for its hopelessly undermanned football roster. And it better hope that the Geneva Conventions don't have some sub category clause for crimes against football humanity, because its really going to start looking like Syria, when Israel wants its way, in Memorial Stadium, when the schools with "university of" start running up the scores to near triple digits.
One thing I forgot to suggest before the storm hit.
Keep $5000 cash in hand just for boat buying immediately afterwards. :-)
You need to start shopping for a boat immediately.
The insurance totaled boats along the inland waterway are the best deals going.
And if the adjusters can't get in yet, then all the better.
Offer cash only.
Be picky though.
Insist on a Contender. :-)
Or a nice single-screw diesel trawler for motoring the Caribbean islands, while the clean up is underway.
Aw, just having a little fun.
I'm sure this situation sucks big time.
Great to hear its just a nice gusty breeze your way!!
I lived on the southwest coast of Oregon a few years and we used to get 50-60mph winds on a clear day!!!
A little gale never hurt anyone.
But 95-135 mph can put a few wrinkles in a forehead.
Hope you keep missing all of it.
Rock Chalk!
@KUSTEVE and et al
Sending following distilled for redundancy. You probably know it all and more...
IRMA FACTS
REPORT TIME: 11AM EDT; SATURDAY; 9/9/2017; NWS NHC ADVISORY 42
REPORT SOURCE: NWS via Palm Beach Post
LOCATION AS OF 11am EST: IRMA 285 MILES SE OF KEY WEST; WEAKENING ALONG CUBA COAST. Eye tracking Cuba coast east to west. Land exposure sapping IRMA down to low 4, high 3 Category.
LOCATION UPDATE: ( 210 miles from Miami latest Post update around 12:00 NOON Saturday; 9/9/2017; seems like some discrepancy between two reports given reputed 9-15 mph track speed)
STORM TRACK TO FLORIDA: IRMA PREDICTED TO SPIKE BACK UP OVER FLORIDA STRAITS AND HIT KEYS THEN FLORIDA WEST COAST WITH 140MPH WINDS: West edge of Bermuda HIGH will steer it north off Cuba coast shortly into Florida Straits, WHERE IT PICKS UP STEAM.
LAND FALL LOCATION: MOST LIKELY TO HIT AND FOLLOW FLORIDA WEST COAST, BUT EVEN SLIGHT PREDICTION ERROR ON TRACK BRINGS IT THROUGH MIAMI.
LAND FALL TIME FLORIDA KEYS: 8 AM SUNDAY 9/10/2017
LAND FALL TIME FLORIDA: 2PM SUNDAY 9/10/2017
STORM TRACK PREDICTION CONFIDENCE: "HIGH"
STORM RISKS: HIGH WINDS, STORM SURGE, TORNADOES
Palm Beach Post has a decent link for quick digest of Irma info with maps and feeds.
Uncle Sam's NOAA is solid, too, if PB Post gets disrupted.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?cone%E2%80%8E ↗
You may catch a break on the worst winds. But stay focused! Some may let their guards down. But not you.
Rock Chalk!
And remember: this is all going to be a memory, when Self rolls the balls out October 15th. We put up with all this other shit, so we can cheer them Jayhawks another season!
Follow your gut. I'm not a survival expert. But I have been reading some suggestions about bug-out bags, because of all of the natural disasters and nuclear threatening going on, and I thought I at least could share some of the thoughts they have triggered in me, regarding these two hurricane driven flooding crises some of us Americans have been bearing the brunt of. When I was a boy, before the Army Corps of Engineers had built one of its dams in the valley up river from my dad's home town, I saw impressive flooding in his home town about ever 3rd or 4th year, if memory serves me. And my dad got caught in the west bottoms of Kansas City (the stock yards area) during the 1951 flood. I remember being scared by that high and rising water in that small town, even though we made it away from it. I remember my dad's photographs of boarding a fishing boat from the second story window of his office building in the West Bottoms and seeing the silted streets when the water receded. I have been caught in two wild fires. The floods were a bit scarier, but its all dicey. I have considerable empathy for your situation, but I have never been caught in a hurricane, especially one of the largest ones on record, ever. My Dad was a Marine that survived three island invasion in WWII. He treated natural disasters like war. He said you've got to go in with a plan, be prepared for the plan to be disrupted, and then be ready to improvise with what you brought with you. Keep your head. Define the job and keep trying to do it no matter what. Find a way. Just keep focusing on finding a way. Say your prayers. And keep carrying on no matter what. If you get scared, shake it off and focus on the job. Its gotten me through two wild fires on my own and one flood with him. You get scared sometimes, but you fight through it doing your job. Likely things won't go worst case, but know you can handle worst case, because you're going to do your job no matter what. You've just got to prepare, and keep adapting to the situation, as it presents itself. Keep finding a way. Can do. If all ever looks lost, say, "Believe" and look for the door you can't yet see.
I AM NO EXPERT, and its probably too late, but...
I think most persons hoard the wrong things and try to carry too much.
Get a big back pack (70L and up), or water proof duffel bag with shoulder sling. Olive green or coyote brown. NOT CAMO. Get reversible rain cover for it. Orange one side, camo on the other. Use orange side to signal to search parties with. Use camo side at night to help conceal the bag in shadows. Stow rain cover day time to keep pack inconspicuous. When asleep, use the bungee cord off a boogie board, or surfboard and tie the back pack to your wrist. Fill it with:
-2 water filtration systems (like back packers use, one for back up);
-2 single propane burners and bottles (one burner for back up, and as many bottles as the
back pack will hold with the following gear);
-2 STRIKE/SPARK fire starters
-imodium (one bottle for each person);
-antibiotics (however much you can scrounge up);
-power bars (3 bars per day/person x 7 days);
-beef jerky (2 bags per day/person x 7 days)
-fixed blade camping knife;
-4 nested camping cups;
-2 nested pans for boiling water (one a back up);
-1 pair walkie talkies (radio shack sells some super good ones for under a hundred, 2 pair is better. one pair for back up. Both pairs batteried.)
-1 little weather resistant NOAA weather radio in a zip lock bag.
-1 hatchet (preferably single forged piece);
-1 waterproof tactical flash light for you and 1 for each member of your party;
-1 mosquito net for each person;
-1 light cheap back pack for each person other than you;
-1 light sleeping bag with a water proof divvy bag for you and 1 for redundancy if you have more in your group (1 1-person bag for each two persons; sleep in shifts, SOMEONE HAS TO WATCH THE BACKPACK)
-1 life jacket for you,
-1 life jacket for your back pack;
-1 life jacket for each loved one.
-1 BRIGHTLY COLORED HAT FOR EACH PERSON
-batteries (ideally a folding solar battery charger for a place like Florida) all kept 2 batteries taped together per 1 zip lock bag, as many zip locked bags as needed)
-a roll of trash bags;
-poncho, or rain gear, for each person;
-100 feet of 750 paracord (with fishing bubbles clipped to it every 10 feet or so), or else just water ski rope (note: the rope is for staying connected while walking in water, or for lowering persons up or down. hold the rope, don't tie it to people, except for raising and lowering. note also: the 750 paracord is tough to find, but 550 is not strong enough for raising , or lowering much.).
Keep everything in THE big back pack, or lashed to the big back pack and it stays in your reach all the time. DISTRIBUTE AND USE ITEMS AS NEEDED. The back pack and its contents are Noah's ark.
If you have to abandon house, divide the propane bottles equally among all members of your group's back packs. You carry one burner, the next most physically fit and mentally robust carries the other burner. Divide the strike/sparks between you two also. Divide the walkie talkies between you two also.
Assuming you have tons of can goods hoarded already and bottled water hoarded already.
BUT DON'T RELY SOLEY ON THE BOTTLED WATER. IT CAN GET SWEPT AWAY. IT CAN GET BURIED UNDER FALLEN STRUCTURES. IT CAN GET STOLEN. GET A BACK PACKER'S FILTRATION SYSTEM AND A PROPANE BURNER AND KEEP THEM EITHER HIDDEN, OR IN YOUR PACK ON YOUR PERSON. TURN THE FLOOD WATER INTO YOUR LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM. WITH THESE ITEMS, AND WITH THE LIFE JACKETS, AND IMODIUM, YOU CAN SURVIVE ON THE MOVE AGAINST THE MOST DAUNTING ODDS, IF NECESSARY.
BOTTOM LINE: YOU ARE IN A ONE WEEK SURVIVAL GAME. MAYBE TWO. THE GAME IS CALLED "KEEP HYDRATED AND WITH ENOUGH CALORIES TO LAST TILL SERVICES RESUME, OR HELP COMES," EVEN IF YOUR HOME GETS WASHED AWAY. YOU DO THIS BY FILTERING AND BOILING DRINKING WATER, AND BY FIGHTING OFF DIARRHEA, AND KEEPING YOUR MOUTH ABOVE WATER. ALMOST ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN SURVIVE, AND CREATE A WORK AROUND FOR.
GOOD LUCK AND ROCK CHALK!
Thoughts and prayers at ya!