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Wiggs left it all on the floor every game at KU.
Howling!
Does this mean K-State is ready to drain the swamp of Aggieville next?
KU may have lost a President with Kansas ties, when Barack Obama left the White House,
But it gained an interim National Security Advisor that graduated from KU in Lt. General Keith Kellogg.
General Kellogg was reputedly NSC chief of staff and NSC Secretary, BEFORE taking the interim role as POTUS Trump's National Security Advisor.
KU needs all the friends in high paces it can muster for the upcoming March run!!!!
Coach Snyder,
Please beat the pants off this disease.
I spent the first 35 minutes saying where is Devonte? Still can't figure why they waited so long to try him.
A winner between this team and 2012 would hinge on how the game was refereed. Under 2012 whistles, where bone crushing contact was allowed, the 2012 team would smash this team. Under 2017 whistles, where touch fouls favor four guards driving, this team could beat the 2012 team on a good night by getting the 2012 team fouled up.
I don't think this team is soft. This is a short team of great shooters. Other than Landen, every player is often shorter and lighter than the guy he guards. Playing against taller, stronger players and more depth necessitates much less gambling and bumping to avoid fatigue and fouling. This team has tough guys, but they have to pick and choose when they amp and muscle.
This team is kind of a basketball equivalent of a Special Opps team. It cannot depend on overwhelming numbers and force. It is a low profile, get in and get out stealthily kind of outfit that only bears its teeth in a fire fight, when it has to. Rather it depends on a lot of small, highly versatile and mobile scorers--four quick, mobile guys on the floor that can kill you a lot of ways--drive, trifectate, handle, pass and rebound. They aren't dwarves by any means, but they are not overwhelmingly bigger and stronger than anyone. They play each possession the way they play each game and the season. Get in quietly, get the points, get in a fire fight only if there is no other way, get out quietly. It's who they are now--more Marine Raiders/Navy SEALS, than Marines.
It's a different approach.
But down the stretch, WVU really brought out the tire irons and cornered KU and our guys showed the kind of force they can bring. Huggins and his players are tough sunnsabitches. In Self's words, they put a knot on his guys heads in Morgantown and beat them up pretty good for 3o-35 minutes in Lawrence. But these Jayhawks turned it into a fire fight with 5-8 to go. WVU players started going down hard. I have never seen more tripping and eye poking and nut punching and muttered taunts done as frequently and as stealthily as our guys did it down the stretch. They did a special opp on Appalachian Warlord Huggins and his gang of thugs at the end. Huggie was furious, because he knew he and his guys had been ambushed and their throats had all been slit before they realized what had happened.
Don't kid yourself, though, JSOCs wins battles but MARINES and ARMIES win wars.
KU has to keep every game a mission.
It cannot afford to fight this season as a war.
It's not deep enough and the refereeing prevents the style of play of a small platoon of Marine grunts slogging and destroying the country side as in 2012.
This team will have to Special force this thing to win a ring.
Get in, get the points, get out.
But they sure as hell proved they can win a short, vicious fire fight when cornered.
Rock Chalk.
Okay. Okay.
However you meant whatever you said; that's how I take it.
Unless doing so implies anything wrong or bad about me, or anyone else; then I flatly reject whatever you meant, however you said it.
Now, are we absolutely clear?
I thought so.
Next.
:smiling_imp:
Since you were kind enough to respond in some detail, I will try to keep the volley going amicably.
"…we beat Duke and Kentucky regularly lately!"
You didn't supply evidence the way you ask me to, but I'm cool. Let's assume you're right.
Lately, of course does not change what went on before, right? It only refers to lately, so it really serves to highlight that the origins of the dissatisfaction did not necessarily start lately. Lately Villa-refereea appeared to take over EST serve in the post season from Duke and UK, when Duke and UK went on their mysteriously extreme OAD diets shedding down from 9-10 on a team to 4-6 on a team, while KU has cut down from a slim 3 to a near starvation 1.
But let's reduce the ethers further here.
Did we beat Kentucky with its 6 OAD stack in 2012 for the championship, when we had no OADs? No.
Did we beat Kentucky with its 10 OAD stack in 2015 (or whatever years they had the long stacks)? No.
Did we beat Duke with its 9 OAD stack in 2015? Not sure if we even played them, so let's say either no, or we did not play them, or if we did they were 'nicked up" at the time.
Have we beaten Duke in pre conference after their long stack teams were reduced to medium stack teams and we had the remnant of short stack (3 OADs)? Yes.
Have we beaten UK in pre conference, when Cal's long stacks were reduced to a medium stack (4-6 OADs) and we had the remnant of a short stack (3 one time OADs)? Yes.
Have we beaten Duke this season with a short stack and Coach K apparently sick, while we have 1 OAD and a bunch of 3 and 4 stars? Yes.
Have we beaten Cal with a medium stack in pre conference, while we have 1 OAD and a bunch of 3 and 4 starts? Yes.
Does any of this matter? Well, it at least suggests that Self can sometimes beat Coach K and Cal, if Self has 3/4, or 2/3s, or half, or a third, or a 1/4 of the OAD talent that those coaches have, when it is pre conference season, and when apparently asymmetric seeding and apparently asymmetric refereeing of the kind that appearances suggest (at least to me and perhaps to some others) occur in the March Carney, are not appearing to occur so egregiously during pre-conference season.
It also raises a question: why DOES KU have to compete with elite EST programs at an OAD disadvantage in total numbers of OADs? And a 5 star disadvantage in total numbers of 5-stars?
Here is your explanation: "Could it be, just asking, could it be that kids see Duke and UK playing on the final weekend a little more regularly than KU and decide they want that as well?"
Zero evidence. Nada. Zippo. Just a question.
But that's okay. I'm not strident about lack of evidence, when we are just brainstorming hypotheses here, and not talking theories.
Here is my answer: Because complexity is a female dog, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. An alien fart on the nearest exo planet COULD have caused OADs to favor Duke over KU by as many as 9 to 3, or UK by as many as 10 to 3, or in 2012 that same alien fart on the nearest exo planet COULD have caused OADs to favor UK over KU 6 to 0.
To reiterate: because of complexity, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
But do you seriously think your question hints at the highest probability of why OADs favor Duke and UK over KU at such anomalous and varying levels, seemingly barely correlated to differences in NCAA tourney performances? I just can't quite find that the most PROBABLE hypothesis yet, much less view it as a proven theory.
And now to your final point...
"I’ll believe your tournament engineering theory when you give me evidence."
I will too, whether you, or I, or someone else provides it.
As I try to remind readers here, including you, I know of NO "theory" about tournament engineering. Regardless of how you may wish to use the word theory, "Theory" as I use it is a proven hypothesis. Hypothesis, as I use it, is an explanation posited to start inquiry into an apparent phenomenon. Its utility is in focusing inquiry and directing collection of evidence. It is not a conclusion. It could easily be wrong. It probably will be wrong to some degree, or other. It is a starting point. To my knowledge, no one has proven a theory of tournament engineering. I know I have not. I have only posed a hypothesis of tournament engineering, as a possible point of beginning inquiry to order the collection of evidence to try to explain the appearance (at least to me and maybe a few others) in recent years of the tournament's seeding and refereeing looking less than symmetric at times. I don't suspect any illegal conspiracy, or any kind of illegality involved. March Madness just appears to look more and more like professional wrestling and professional prize fighting to mois. Those are both legal sports in my understanding. It could be a complete coincidence that it appears this way. Or it could be engineering of the tournament based on entertainment values coniciding with those sports. I don't know which it is. I only know the NCAA tourney just doesn't appear the way it used to appear to me. Maybe it is because I am getting old? Maybe its because of alien mind control from reptilians living amongst us? Or maybe its because of economic pressures and strategic dynamics of the myriad participants in the college basketball industry? Or maybe I'm misperceiving? I thought about it some and decided to take a first cut at possible explanation of tournament engineering underpinned by economic pressures and strategic dynamics. You don't find it persuasive, as I don't find your implied hypothesis that OADs are drawn like flies to Duke and UK simply because you believe Duke and UK may survive a little later in the tourney. You need to bring me some evidence on that.
I'll even add that if you bring me conclusive evidence of some other form of tournament engineering than what I propose, then I will believe your theory of another form of tournament engineering.
And I won't stop there.
I'll add that if you posit a hypothesis that the March Madness is completely symmetric in seeding and refereeing, and bring me conclusive evidence of it being so, then I will believe your theory that March Madness is completely symmetric in seeding and refereeing, despite it appearing something like a March Carney to me, then I will accept your hypothesis as proven.
Just bring me conclusive evidence, if you want me to accept one of your hypotheses as a theory; that's all I ask.
I'm easy to persuade with conclusive evidence. And I think most board rats are.
Until you bring it, or I do, I guess I will just have to keep laboring along with my hypothesis and keep trying to find evidence and support, refute, or revise it.
Rock Chalk!
Agreed, it is all concerning, but...
Self had to send'em out flat, play slow, and generally do just enough to win, to keep this wheat whisker thin 7-man roster with enough gas in the tank to have a prayer against WVU's press.
WVU's 9-4 record proves they are a flawed team that can be beaten often.
But they are strong (depth) where we are weak, and are designed to attack that weakness, and that is Sun Tzu 101.
I didn't see the whole RECENT WVU game, but it appeared Huggie pressed a lot less to save his team's pressing legs for KU on Monday.
Hope our guys eat their wheaties and some power bars.
@wissox said:
Why do we so often have a world’s against us attitude?
Could it be the last decade of appearances of ShoeWars, Vitale asymmetry, Duke promotionism by ESPN, recruiting asymmetry, and being a flyover power apparently embargoed for OAD 1s and 5s have all CONVERGED to give KU fans a chip?
Hey, we never got even a single long stack a la Duke and Kentucky in those bad old days of 9 and 10 OAD rosters! Where is our long stack? Hell, where is our medium stack?
It also doesn't help that apparent seeding asymmetry and refereeing asymmetry in post season appear to marginalize wrong-time-zone KU into ridiculously more difficult brackets, while promoting certain right-time-zone EST teams into apparently easier ones.
And let's not even get into this appearance: for a decade or so it has appeared ESPN headlines (I.e., pre format change away from condensed home page headline list, which appeared to highlight the apparent asymmetry) tended to under report KU's successes and over report KU problems.
Let's just say that when you have a fabulous coach that wins 83% of his games and he is a good guy and he arguably can't sign as much quality talent and depth as BEFORE he won a ring in 2008, despite continuing to win a near historic record of consecutive conference titles, media coverage, such as it apppears, triggers a leeeeeeeeeeeeeetle skepticism.
But hey, we keep showing up and cheering despite Bo Ryan calling Duke a bunch of rent-a-players, after he apparently tired of the apparent asymmetries.
Rock Chalk!
Great itemization. Makes it all concrete. Thx.
You're right. Nix porn. That was a bad joke.
Substitute Oreos, glazed donuts and Reece's Pieces!!!!
😄
This is a radical idea, but invite 7 junior high players from the state of Kansas that can make 8 of 10 free throws. Make it a big publicized tryout. Call it "THE SELF HAS HAD IT WITH LOUSY FREE THROWING TRYOUT."
The seven kids picked get to stay with the team for a week. Pair each one with our seven rotation guys at practice for a week. Each day the pairs of players have to shoot 10 sets of ten FTs. Whoever wins the most sets each day gets to eat steak and watch porn, while the loser has to eat Brussels Sprouts with baloney and nitrites and HAS to watch C-SPAN coverage of congress.
The winner must walk the campus wearing a KU sweat shirt that reads: "I am a firm, sensitive and dramatic lover that does not need the fractionation seduction technique." The loser has to wear a KSU sweat shirt that reads: "I have a small penis and cannot satisfy even a lonely woman on a desert island."
The winner gets to sleep in a bed. The loser has to sleep on the floor at the winner's feet in a sleeping bag.
The winner gets to sleep in. The loser has to get up at 5 AM and run a set of stairs, then come back and serve the winner breakfast in bed.
I guaranty the above will improve KU FREE THROW SHOOTING more than any other solution!
(Note: all fiction. No malice. Make Free Throws.)
No.
D1 needs an anti-tournament for those that have never won a ring.
Call it "The March Haplessness."
Make it compulsory for all teams not in the Madness and that have never won a ring.
The winner gets to never HAVE to play in the March Haplessness again for five years, unless it wins a ring during the next five years, in which case, it never has to return to the March Haplessness.
The public gets to vote on the worst announcers and those getting the most votes have to broadcast the March Haplessness.
The public gets to vote on the worst sports network and that network has to broadcast March Haplessness. It has to give all proceeds to charity.
Big gaming and referees and coaches and players and alumni are encouraged to cheat. Real conspiracies are allowed.
Every year the tournament is held in the city with the highest number of police murders of citizens/1,000 residents the previous calendar year.
The March Haplessness--The Fight to Escape the Bottom--the Real Tournament for the 99 Percent!
Each tournament ends with a montage of the worst moments of the tourney. It's called: "One Hapless Moment."
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
Howling! PHOF!
Ya gotta hand it to Frankie: he has competed against Self and KU and Cal and Kentucky and can hold his head up. Frankie likes his Morros y Christianos, platanos maduras fritas, y bistec empanizado con pan Cubano. I hope he gets a summer place down in Cuba and reconnects with the old homestead. I made a lot of jokes about concrete converse and one way boat rides out on Tuttle, but he was a fine coach and he had the get better gene. Rock Chalk Frankie.
Holy Scheiss! I forgot my Aricept!!!
~Mason is the best small point guard KU has ever had. I am not saying he is better than Sherron, because Sherron was NOT a small point guard. Sherron was a brawny point guard that happened to be short. Frank Mason is truly a small point guard and he is absolutely incredible. His defensive anticipation is VERY good, and his ability to maneuver defenders until he get an angle on them, or drain a shot is unparalleled. And I am actually relieved when he switches off a guard to guard big forward, because I know he will do a better job on the big forward than our forwards will. Frank is just insanely good.He has gotten tot that rare level of play where he can control a game on an off shooting night. Only really great players can do that.
~Mason coming from beyond the baseline to steal the pass to a KSU player on the wing late in the game is one of the greatest defensive plays I have ever seen a KU guard make, even though he flubbed it on the other end.
-~Devonte has become the perfect hinge between Frank and Josh and Frank and Svi. Devonte actually makes the team better, when he does not score much. He will be a smashingly good point guard next season, but this season when he is not scoring a lot it means he is enabling everyone else and him playing that role is what makes KU able to beat a lot of teams that seem better on paper.
~Josh Jackson is single handedly redeeming the OAD player. Not since Anthony Walker of UK have we seen an OAD do so many things to help his team win. IMHO, Jackson has done the impossible already. He has become a Self Baller in less than one season. He still makes bad mistakes on defense, especially the occasional switch that puts one of our guards on a guy they just can't cover, but, my god, it is magnificient to watch a potentially great perimeter player leave it on the floor for a season for the team against big forwards. It is everything I love about the "team" game of basketball. Josh is going to remember this season the rest of his life and remember it fondly. It was the year he really got play the game the way it was meant to be played. It was the year before he went to the pros and began trading on his insane athleticism the way the great players in the NBA must. He is making the game worth watching again just by being a team guy and not uncorking his gigaflop hops everywhere all the time. Its like watching Jordan at UNC. Its watching an extreme talent just play the game for the pure fun of it.
~Svi is still searching for his game. it will come next season. But its a testament to how good he is that he can help the team as much as he does, while he is still trying to find his game. The moment late in the game when Josh had taken the ball into the lane and got stopped and kicked out to Svi on a wing was pure basketball nirvana for me. A great player who has dialed his perimeter game down to become a garbage 4 much of the time, could easily have taken the ball up and been fouled, and gotten is two strokes, but instead, the great player playing a season for the love of the game alone, and redeeming the sport and all of us fans at the same time, looks to kick to an old point guard still searching for his wing game, stares at him as if to say here it comes, I BELIEVE IN YOU, teammate, here it comes from one kid from Detroit to one kid from Ukraine, here it comes, I'm kicking it to you in a rivalry game that means nothing to either of us, except that we know it means everything to our fans, here it comes right at the perfect height for you to catch, plant, go up, and drain. Here it comes, because this is how the game is the most fun to play. To believe in your teammates and to play it with them on the X axis, even if I could vector out of this silage dump on the Y-axis and get a feed on ESPN. Here it comes because we are teammates. Here it comes because where we're from doesn't matter and where wer're going doesnt matter. What color we are doesn't matter. What language we speak doesn't matter. Here it comes because nothing matters but playing the greatest game ever invented the most fun way to play it with teammates. Here it comes!!!!!!! And Svi drained it on cue. And neither player even slowed down to make a big deal out of it. It was just pure fun in the moment.
~Landen? Everyone that has read me must know I have a special place in my heart for big men. I love them because they are the guys that noone truly understands. Big men have all been our height, when they were young, so they know us, but we have never been their height and so we don't know them. We have to work to put ourselves in their giant shoes and we have to admit that even doing so, we still cannot really understand that big man territorial thing.We can only marvel at it. We can only watch them walk around like big flipping grizzlies, or bull gorillas, owning the joint. Its not that they don't get challenged and some times bloodied. Its that they DO!!!! They walk around owning the lane even when they are not in control of it. They keep walking around the little guys and don't even have to say in a big deep Berry White mutherflipping voice intoning, "Play him tighter , really crowd him and I'll pick the pencil neck up quicker the next time." Landen didn't have big numbers and he didn't dominate the KSU players, but unlike in years gone by, when things went wrong, and Landen would start looking around all worried, this game when things did not go right, he just got all Barry White and into himself, and walked around reassuring the Darby O'Gills and the little people and kept owning the lane. "Daddy's steady," he seemed to say, especially after burn marks. Landen seemed to say, "Daddy may not always fix everything right the way Momma Self wants it, but Daddy ain't goin' nowhere. Yea, I know, I got to fix that door hinge so it swings the right way, but I'm here and i AM going to fix it. You little'uns just keep minding your Ps and Qs and you'll see, things'll work out."
~Finally, much as I hate to I have to say three nice things about the silage engineers, I feel I must.. Bruce Weber has been to an appearance consultant and they got rid of the helmet hair, and Bruce actually looks like a respectable D1 coach. Second, The KSU home uniforms are not bad. And third, they played well and gave us all we wanted. Congrats.
I suspect you are correct in most cases.
Awesome on the ground intel. Thanks.
Has self announced if Bragg is zero tolerance yet?
What level of infraction do you no longer get to practice, but stay on the team? I have always wondered about this?
Best new alias award!
Be a goodwill ambassador, when you visit. If we win, act like Bill Self does going through the hand shake line. It is like going to France. If you show an interest in their culture, especially their basketball culture, they will be gracious and enjoy your visit and treat you well. Americans are good people to associate with, when they are not being surgically needled about their fears. The only time I have ever been mis- treated as a visiting fan was when I attended a baseball game with a Kansas City Royals fan at Anaheim Stadium and he insisted on waving an inflatable Royals bat in their faces I tend not to wear my colors in Enemy cribs, but I do not hide that I am a KU fan from those around me. They are invariably curious and responsive, when I show them a little bit of knowledge of their program and ask them for more. They especially like it, if I can find something positive to say about their coaches past, or present. I have even had opposing fans ask me why I am not as stuck up as other KU fans? 😄
Imagine how ambivalently happy one would have been after the massacre in Morgantown to be sworn to secrecy by a fixer that promised, "Big Julie says KU will beat Texas and Baylor, but lose to ISU in OT. You can central bank on this. I, Joey Kansas City, can assure you this as certainly as Sky Masterson can assure the delivery of sinners to a mission."
What must have beeen the odds of KU beating not one but two straight teams--each arguably with more talent--especially with injuries and suspensions--one on its home floor--and then losing in AFH to ISU--a team with arguably less talent than KU. The odds would have to have been comparable to the odds of Brexit, Trump and Marine Le Pen winning (if Marine does) and Bernie Sanders losing to Hilary Clinton in California.
In a world of apparent fake news and apparent fake probabilities, does a fake loss hurt more than a real loss, or less? Does a fake win feel less good than a real one, or better?
When a player fakes left and goes right in the contemporary game, which is fake--the fake, or the going right, or both?
When a referee makes a "no call," is it a fake no call, or a real one?
What are the odds of the Big 12 becoming the best conference in the country in February, when it arguably has neither the best talent, nor the most Top 100 players among the power conferences, and when it started the season as NOT the best of the power conferences?
Who has the most fake looking hair--Bill Self, or Bruce Weber, or Donald Trump? Which would have the more usefully traumatizing effect in destabilizing America: if all three of their hair do's were fake, or if they were all real, but just appeared fake?
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
This timeline is not an issue I am qualified to explore fruitfully.
I try to explain things without assumptions of illegalities of conspiracy and let the legal experts handle the rest.
Yes, but why would some one commit a felony to prove we violated some eligibility regulation?
Seems an improbable tradeoff.
Hypothetically speaking, the minute they did that then they would be at our mercy.
Context appears significant. In a legal context it would appear conspiracy would refer to pursuit of an illegal end . Outside a legal context, I would have to guess that maybe the CIA's attorneys told them that outside a legal context they could use "conspiracy" and "conspiracy theory" in media to mean anything they wanted. But it's just a guess.
In my layman's opinion, it would by definition NOT be an ILLEGAL conspiracy to use the rules LEGALLY to stop someone or group in any field of activity. A team plays defense on the court, because the rules allow it. It is not a conspiracy to play defense. Similarly, it would not be a conspiracy to seek out KU violations of rules in order to defend against KU setting a record number of consecutive conference titles. Ergo it would not be conspiracy theorizing to speculate that someone else might be doing what you were concerned about. Instead, it might be called using reason.
The mil-int-media complexes reputed half century long misinformational and mind control use of "conspiracy theory" continues to confuse a lot persons.
I hope we have done nothing wrong warranting taking away a title, if we are lucky enough to set the record.
Rock Chalk!
Coleby gets leg transplant. Will get double double.
Kevin Young has been called back and given a face transplant to look like Carlton Bragg and will be used in place of Bragg, once the healing from the plastic surgery is complete.
Landen Lucas is actually 5-11 but playing on really big titanium risers.
Lagerald Vick's performance has fallen off of late, because of a rumored Vick's Vapo Rub overdose.
Kurtis Townsend is so exasperated with the misfortunes of this team with the still sparkling 18-2 record that the coach noted for sartorial splendor has decided to junk his custom suits for Filson (Might as well have the best) oiled tin cloth pants and cruiser jacket and a tin cloth cruiser hat. Always conscious of coordination in his outfits, Townsend has opted for some mud spattered Danner steel toes.
Josh Jackson will become the first OAD to score 75 points in a meaningless interconfertnce brand building game.
Fred Quartlebaum has been promoted to Head Director of Student Athlete Development.
Frank's ankle is rumored operable, and he is said to have the inside track on the Tyrel Reed Most Valuable Player Playing Operable Award for this season.
KU’s statistics department is fake rumored to have found a fake correlation in Devonte's cramps and @JayhawkFanToo's fake conspiracy theory imputing. It seems the more @JayhawkFanToo fake conspiracy theory imputes, the more Devonte cramps. Statisticians are also regressing @JayhawkFanToo's fake graphics smears on Devonte's cramps, but results are not yet in. Of course, fake correlation does not imply fake causality.
Joel Embiid has agreed to use up some of his remaining fake "black eligibility" and play for truly depleted KU today. Fake Black eligibility is a new fake category of eligibility authorized in a fake Executive Memorandum by President TrumpPrime, at the encouragement of D-CIA Mike PompeoPrime, a big time fake KU booster, that allows KU Jayhawks that left early for the NBA to return and play a limited number of fake games for KU, whenever KU finds itself outmatched.
Mitch "Baby Face" Lightfoot has undergone a combination of fake DNA testing and fake carbon dating and it has been determined at a 99% level of fake confidence that he is actually only 11.5 years old.
Dirty recruited agents of the fake jBIA (the jaybate basketball intelligence agency) have confirmed that fake Julian AssangePrime of fake Wikileaks is ready to publish over 30,000 fake emails of fake Coach John CalipariPrime indicating that fake Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnellPrime is in fact a fake inter-dimensional Archon alien owning a tramp freighter for undisclosed fake reasons.
Self and Norm Roberts have decided to invite Billy Clyde Gillispie to join them on the bench the rest of the way this season in order to get some fresh offensive thinking and to get their friend back into coaching. Billy Clyde will be the one on the bench wearing the nose glasses in Rupp Arena.
Fewer and fewer board rats see Carlton Bragg as being able to replace Perry Ellis, despite having been quite confident before the season that Bragg might even exceed Ellis' contributions. Hard to believe now, but January has a habit of chastening August expectations. With sights lowered, the burning question now among them is can Mitch Lightfoot replace Carlton Bragg?
Jeremy Case, being the newest member of the staff, is being assigned blame for the team's adversity. It is a tradition that the newest staff member take responsibility for all adversity.
KU's Director of Basketball Operations, Brennan Bechard, has been offered the job of replacing interim head coach Bruce Weber at KSU after this season, but has declined the position saying it was too big of a step down.
KU's Trainer, Billy Cowgill, will fly to a fake book signing in NYC after the UK game. Cowgill's fake new book, "Playing Operable the Bill Self Way," is a Fake New York Times Fake Best Seller.
Fake word in Hollywood is that Annette Benning will play Kansan Kirstie Alley playing Kansan Vera Miles playing the lead in a fake "Andrea Hudy Story" time travel biopic that will be a story within a story within a story within a story. Benning will bulk up to take on the fake role of Alley-MIles-Hudy by working out under Hudy. Dr. Hudy has said she will not take it easy on Annette in her training as Kirstie, Vera, or Andrea. An Oscar seems a foregone conclusion in what should be the acting stretch of a lifetime for Annette.
Jerrance Howard has committed to lose weight until he is taller than he is wide.
Kentucky hasn't got a chance.
(Note: All fiction. No malice.)
Every time I see the headline of this post, I worry that Bragg has been suspended again.
Its like Groundhog Day with Bill Murray.
I keep waking up and thinking its a new suspension, but then I realize its the same one over and over again. :smiley:
Is this a corollary to the Probability/Positive Effect Hypothesis?
Naismith is the father of basketball.
Allen is the father of basketball coaching.
Coach K is the father of the nano indefinite suspension.
Do you believe Coach Self would have been totally candid about Bragg's back hurting if it had been hurting?
The beauty of Johnny Cash's prison songs was that they told the truth and said the even though they were bad men, they deserved to be treated right.
"When I was just a young boy,
My momma told me son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns.
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die..."
--Johnny Cash, "Folsom Prison Blues"
Tyler Self is Kentucky's worst nightmare.
Tyler is David Banner waiting to hulk green.
Oh, my god, ye of little faith.
Sit Frank.
Sit Devonte.
Let them heal.
Play Tyler and the other walk on.
UK won't have any idea what to do!!!!
Well, then no wonder he is suspended again, right?
Lightfoot?
Unleash Tyler Self.
But until they start changing rules to stop him, we know he has not fully taken over yet.
With his bare hands.
The man kills lions.