Thanks for the assist.
Is Bo stepping down end of season or now?
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(Author here/RIP DFW: this post was triggered by @DanR's remark that James Naismith may have worked some at managing his image.)
Interesting points about scripting that radio appearance on Gabriel Heater's interview, and Naismith image management. Naismith needs a new biographer. The man apparently had more sophistication and savvy than is generally understood.
Consider the following:
Stellar athlete at McGill, Canada's Oxford/Harvard, a long time generator of culture managers including academics, government bureaucrats, Media officials and Intel assets and informants.
Physical education degree in late 1800s at a time when physical education and sport were beginning to be used jointly and systematically by GB/USA private oligarchy as vital tools for conditioning a stronger, healthier, more militarized and more manageable officer corps and managerial class to advance and maintain empire.
Divinity degree.
Doctor of Osteopathy degree, which remains path to being a practicing physician today.
YMCA employee assigned to center of Quaker peace and Congregationalist abolitionist/racial reform movements of Springfield, Massachusetts., at a time when the YMCA was apparently being appropriated and augmented to become an infrastructure for preparing the American culture for fitness, health, and teamwork needed for empire advancement and maintenance.
He invented a game that was within ten years being played in YMCAs, universities, high schools and by at least two professional leagues.
A student and young academic and YMCA employee coming of age in the John Dewey social engineering movement that sought to rationalize American culture through social engineering and eugenics at the time that private oligarchies of GB and USA were preparing USA to join GB in the advancement and maintenance of global empire via central banking based hegemony.
Naismith started his career amidst globalization 1.0 and left Springfield for University of Denver, a nascent elite private school for his doctor of osteopathy degree, then went to KU at the peak of the Kansas Populist Party and Populist Movement uprising that was just then being systematically strangled by Private Oligarchy in preparation for the Spanish American War and globalization 1.0.
With three degrees from respected elitist private schools, at a time when few had even been to college, this son of poor farmers in Ontario, Canada, who was prepared to practice medicine or ministry, James Naismith, picked a teaching job in PE at KU in tiny Lawrence, KS, which since the Civil War had been a center for the Congregationalist progressive social and racial agendas in the town settled significantly by Congregationalists, Quakers and abolitionists from Springfield, Massachusetts, where he had previously worked in the YMCA.
Naismith became a PE teacher, then coach, then athletic director presiding over one of the most successful athletic departments in USA including THE most successful basketball program, a remarkable football/track stadium modeled on an early Olympic Stadium, the enabler of the KU relays, one of the then Crown Jewels of track and field competition feeding into the Olympic Movement and a football team producing Walter Camp All Americans as early as the late 1890s and his athletic department along with former All American John Outland, M.D., also eventually yielded the Outland Trophy for best college lineman.
He taught the US Army his physical education and calisthenic ideas, while serving during WWI.
Along the way he and Kansas City businessmen started the NAIA as an alternative to the NCAA that was racially more progressive than the NCAA.
He was reputedly a 32rd Order Mason, same as FDR, Harry Truman, George Marshall, Ernest King, and many leading figures of his time
Despite his apparently managed simplistic image, he was a jock with a brain and some savvy about how the world really worked and ties to influential persons and to the apparatus of the dominant private oligarchy of his time.
Those that reduce him to an egg head that never grew rich from his prolific endeavors may misread his agenda significantly.
He appears a product of an Anglo-American private oligarchy that was mobilizing a British, Canadian, Australian and American academy to help it rationalize an empire. And the reward for service was a safe, secure life of pursuing what seemed to academics of those times noble, progressive ends, whether in retrospect we find them so, or no (and some engaged in some pretty awful stuff). Great Britain, Australia, and America brimmed with such developed men once, back when empire builders invested in staffing the provinces with its best and brightest enobled, rather than enriched, philosophically/ideologically motivated, instead of incentivized into epistemic whores scrambling mostly to capitalize on intellectual property rights they generate, or steal from colleagues and grad students.
Thx for the recall of Heatter. I hadn't heard of him. Fascinatingly upbeat approach to news.
BIA MEMO
TO: @drgnslayr
FROM: @jaybate 1.0, Director/janitor
RE: NCAA Rule Section written by Dukies
The Agency gratefully acknowledges your tip and will initiate Operation Gladio C in an effort to locate and acquire with extreme prejudice these reputed rules.
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
I don't know how to thank you enough for posting that recording of the interview with James Naismith. It was one of the most priceless experiences in my long life. It is hard to describe here finally hearing the voice of the man I have so long wondered about and frankly nearly worshipped. It is like hearing the voice of my grand father that died before I was born that I have always so desperately wanted to know better. At first, I almost doubted that the recording was for real. It seemed impossible that it has not been found before now. I actually feel a kind of completeness about the game that I never thought possible. My father used to tell me about him and Allen, from a scant few memories of seeing him during my father's time on the KU campus during the late 1930s. But I never dreamed I would ever get to hear his voice. Thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Nah Mitrou-Long out with hip issues, but ISU is still undefeated.
Don’t look now but Frankie Martin has his Gamecocks undefeated. Maybe we will get a chance to square off against the stare this post season.
Don’t look now, but Janks has SMU undefeated. No, its obvious. We won't be paired off with Frankie. It will be LB and Janks.
Don’t look now, but Unibrow has OU undefeated. Its unfortunate he is such a good coach AND is at OU.
MSU, Purdue and Xavier are also undefeated. Talk about teams I loath.
Crazy hunch: UA-Little Rock—the next Texas Western? In the three point era, anything is possible.
As of today, Incarnate Word’s RPI indicates it has played the toughest schedule. Them’s fighting Words...Incarnate.
Roy out-Smarted.
Duke down to one experienced post man in Plumlee, after Jefferson’s injury, but dump truck Frosh Chase Jeter and Rice transfer Sean Obi means don’t cry for he, Mike Krzyzewski. Knowing K, he will probably have a few guys from the Olympic teams transfer in at semester that will somehow be instantly eligible, too.
6-9 235 freshman Elijah Thomas bolting Texas A&M. Maybe Kyle can send him our way? Or is he just another sulking pansy that didn't get his way soon enough?
Name (Year) /Went On To/Accomplishments
Jud Heathcote (1971–1976)/Michigan State/National champion
Mike Montgomery (1978–1986)/Stanford&Cal/Final Four
Stew Morrill (1986–1991)/Utah State/Two time 30-game, made NCAA 8 times
Blaine Taylor (1991–1998 ) /Old Dominion U/Made NCAA Tourney 4 times
Larry Krystkowiak (2004–2006)/Utah/Made NCAA Tourney 3 times
Wayne Tinkle (2006–2014)/Oregon State/Made NCAA Tournament 3 times
Travis DeCuire (2014– ) appears to come out of the Mike Montgomery/Blaine Taylor coaching tree, having assisted Taylor at ODU, and then Montgomery at Cal. Taylor had assisted Montgomery at Montana and Stanford.
This means we are likely to seem some good old fashioned rough housing sooner or later in the KU-Montana game. The last time KU played a Montgomery team was Cal a few years back and the Cal team and KU certainly got into a rough house grinder.
Good point. Conner may have to be disqualified for being Missouri Player of the Year.
Ah Justin, the guy who looked every inch a starter, but for some reason was not even a rotation guy, except that magic season!
He certainly was good, but maybe too good! He always seemed like kind of a walk on ringer. 😄
Yes!
I will second Conner.
Yes, Big Nick was one of KSU's recurring inadequate answers to KU's run of good to great big men and later had a career selling off surplus hair plugs to a variety of hair enhancement organizations.
...and not about beating Montana.
It almost makes me feel like they want me to feel afraid as they tell me they are vigilant and I should keep shopping.
HOWLING!
You were perhaps taking my playfulness more seriously than intended, but you are nonetheless likely correct, though @JayHawkFanToo raises an interesting insight also.
Regardless lets collect some grizzly claws and beat Montana!!!!
Low foundation should be the primary criterion. Low foundation can refer to extremities of height, or weight, or of lack of skill, aptitude, intelligence, or disability that ought to put an athlete at XTReme Disadvantage that the athlete nonetheless somehow finds a way to overcome and become a starter, independent of how good, or bad, his team may be.
BIG MAN EXAMPLES
Manute Bol: Almost despite his XTReme Height, 7-7 Manute Bol might have been a winning candidate in his one nearly forgotten season of college basketball at Bridgeport, because his lack of strength, coordination, fundamentals, and skill made his height almost a disadvantage. He was too tall to do anything well, except alter shots with absolute unpredictability of where his XTReme Height might actually be able to present itself on the floor in time to block or alter a shot.
Nick Pino: Largely forgotten in the mists of the 1960s college basketball, big, 7', 325-400 pound Nick Pino of KSU is yet another example of a too-big man that was so slow that team mates occasionally made two trips down the floor while Nick was in process of making one. Nick could not clear the floor jumping. He had no recognizable sense of anticipation. And yet, despite relentless scorn of fans, and broadcasters, Big Nick actually helped his KSU team to a couple credible seasons under Tex Winter.
Any TCU big man during the Trent Johnson era, each of which has had to play post in a power conference without any apparent ability to score from anywhere on the floor except by random chance.
BACKCOURT EXAMPLES:
Any Missouri guard during the Bob Vanatta era (1962-1967).
Any TCU guard absolutely unable to hit the basket from farther than 5 feet out during the Trent Johnson era.
Any guards that may have started for a D1 team, while legally blind.
Mark Turgeon--a player deficient in every conceivable facet of the game who nevertheless contributed admirably to winning KU basketball.
Valdez Ploughammer--a little known one-legged point guard that hopped for Kinesiology State Normal College of Utah in the early 1940s, while most of the draft age basketball players were over seas. Ploughhammer actually lead the nation in one legged drives and proved the jump shot feasible on one hyper developed left leg. He became the first and only one legged player to start in college basketball, who is documented to have eschewed an alumnus' offer to rent him a his prosthetic leg to improve Ploughhammer's success in the greatest game ever invented.
The above are just some examples to help guide you in your nominations.
ROTFLMAO
There is the Wooden Award for best college basketball player in which the criteria is said to include more than just on the floor production.
There is the Heisman Trophy for best college football player, which is unapologetically about which player has the best SID and so gets the most hype over the course of a season.
There is the Outland Trophy for best college lineman, named for KU's early All American lineman John Outland, who correctly believed lineman were under recognized for their decisive contribution to team success in football. (Note: more teams have won mythical national championships in football without Heisman trophy quarterbacks, or running backs, than have won same with out great offensive and defensive lines. And no quarterback, or running back, has ever won the Heisman without a great line. Perhaps only exception, that would never the less prove the rule, would be Gale Sayers, who obviously deserved to win the Heisman even without a great line, and he didn't win a Heisman for lack of a great SID. But I digress.)
And now there is the bateland 1.0 Award for the lowest foundationed starter in D1 College Basketball each season getting the most out of the least ability on and off the floor.
Nominees are hereby requested via posting on this thread.
The First Annual bateland 1.0 Award ceremony will be held in The Ritz Virtual Carlton Ball Room and Convention Center in the Cloud on the first Monday after each NCAA Championship Game at the end of each season. The bateland 1.0 Award is a Petroshoeco-Influence-Free award, at least until the bateland 1.0 Award winner is proven to have endorsement value, after which the award will be prostituted to the Petroshoeco that bids the highest amount for an exclusive contract with the bateland 1.0 Foundation in promoting this award.
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
PHOF!
Glad to hear it. It made me laugh out loud, when I thought of it, so I had to post it.
Embiid is getting up in Wilt country. If he were still mobile, which I hope he will be, he could devastate the NBA right now, with all the dwarf centers they have fooled themselves with. Embiid could almost score at will against a lot of the nano centers in the league right now.
Tachyon?
Bravo!
@Jyhwk_InTigrtwn dang that's quite a trend Line up from Harp!
Agreed. It's kind of amazing how far he has come. It is a testament to what opportunity can do for anyone.
Something makes Players from top Nike summer game teams appear to tend to attend Nike contracted schools and coaches.
Something makes a similar appearance with players from top adidas summer game teams.
But what?
Nothing is proven yet, as far as I have read.
One only observes appearances of strong anecdotal tendencies of Players for Top Nike summer game teams going to Nike contracted D1 schools and coaches, while those of top adidas summer game teams appear to go to adidas contracted D1 schools and coaches. There is a third ascendant brand, Under Armour I have less awareness about.
It also appears there is an agency component involved.
Thus there appear to be at least two pools of players involving Top 100 talent: a Nike leaning pool; and an adidas leaning pool. The adidas leaning pool appears much smaller.
The moment Shaka was hired, I said that the dump trucks would start backing up to Nike-UT Oil Barrel Field House.
Texas appears the designated stack being beefed up to knock adidas-KU out of the saddle in the B12.
adidas, or adidas and UA, are going to have to up the supply to Lawrence, or there is going to be a problem.
Self is awesome, but he can't win behind the apparent embargo forever.
Break the apparent embargo!!!!! Free KU!!!!!
It occurs to me that if the NCAA tournament were to schedule the West Regional in American Samoa and Samoa, which straddle International Date Line, it would be quite feasible to schedule two games in one day without really taxing either team. This could really heighten the per day advertising revenues.
Well, have we seen Tyler Self's ceiling in basketball?
Speaking of Tyler Self, will he grow a legitimate neck beard before his varsity career is over?
Does the new KU athletic dorm have bidet toilet seats?
Will the next bronze statue of a KU great in front of Allen Field House be designed to accommodate a finch nest?
Does Devonte Graham's current hair do make it easier (or harder) to balance in head stands ?
Does Perry Ellis know that his lack of talkativeness almost guaranties he will have a happy marriage to a woman that says she likes men that communicate until they do?
Is Hunter Mickelson prepared to be called Opie on Steroids by Brent Mussberger on prozac?
Is it true that Holly Rowe has committed to train under Andrea Hudy to prepare to mud wrestle Britt McHenry?
Has Cheick Diallo ever considered turning side ways before driving to fool the defender with complete invisibility?
Has Wayne Selden considered p[aying focused three consecutive games in a row, while wearing gerbil skinned adidas?
Why can't Lisa Guerrero be hired to replace Greg Gurley even just for a pico second?
Was Bill Self abducted by the CIA and reprogrammed to accept 3pt attempts, while tearing off his Rollex to signal clandestine acceptance of an Under Armour contract?
Will Frank Mason lead KU to a ring and then transfer to Towson State to see if he can become the first point guard to lead an elite major and a mid major to national championships?
Is Jamari Traylor nicked up to the point that in the post season he will require both hips, both knees, and a heart valve replaced?
Has Landen Lucas taken up gardening from a window planter instead of learning to shoot a turnaround J?
Is Carlton Bragg going to martial arts training to get ready to flip Rico Gathers off his spots?
Is Kurtis Townsend going to start wearing cuff links made from Dick Vitale skin grafts?
Will Norm Roberts get leg transplants from Manute Bol so that he can better identify with the big men, especially Bol Bol?
(Note: all fiction. No malice.)
Montana is amazingly beautiful and that week of summer is fabulous. :-)
University of Montana has SEVEN guys on their roster from Montana.
Montana Populations Density: 7 persons/square mile
KU has FOUR guys on its roster from Kansas.
Kansas Population Density: 32.9 persons/square mile
Wow, Montana is generating nearly twice the roster players with a quarter of the population density!!!
It may be tougher to find a person in Montana, but if you do find one, he's probably a lot more likely to ball at a D1 level.
:-)
Double Howling!
HOWLING!
Bol Bol = Point Center
Self Self Sign Sign Bol Bol.
Bol Bol will be part of KU's new Needle-Gauge Post Rotation also known as the Carbon Nanotube Front Court.
(Note: The Political Correctness Police came to my virtual space [i.e., a long wave neural net visit to my frontal lobe] and evaluated this post before allowing me to make it. Their conclusion was that since Bol Bol was an American citizen, raised in our culture, it would be okay to use his name in this way. However, they made clear that had I done some thing similar with Manute Bol's name, who had not grown up in America, and so was not fully Americanized, I would have been renditioned to Columbia, MO and tortured 24/7 with Kim Anderson videos uploaded via the supposedly but not really decommissioned HAARP array in Gakona, AK, while being dipped in cracking Sudafed by the latest de-evolution of The Antlers.)
Time open up a branch office of KUAD on Maui on the condition KUAD provide a volley ball team in Lawrence. We will have one yesterday!!!
It's funny. I never thought of Odysseus as a hacker. Odysseus and Achilles have always seemed quintessential myths of the ordinary, yet timeless complexities and ambiguities of military (and now national security) service. What about his myth makes him seem a hacker to you? But that could be an idiosyncratic assumption due to my having had a father in the military.
I ask, because I am always interested in the dynamics of myth over the long haul. A myth to me is kind of a skeleton key to the world view at any particular time we choose to analyze it. These two myths had supposedly been told for perhaps a 1000 years or more before being instituted in composition by Homer. Obviously they have great staying power and a great capacity for being adapted to many presents. I was using them in rather traditional interpretions for characterizing the present, but myths often are reinterpreted in the present and also then used to characterize the present. I am interested in your apparent reinterpretation. When and how did you come to your reinterpretation? Is it something that has come into vogue recently as a kind of fallout from Snowden and his ilk, or is it something older that grew up with the net that I missed, or just a spur of the moment thought. I kind of see something to it. I have always thought the national security mind controllers might one day roll up their sleeves and update the reinterpretations of these two myths for The New World Order business. Maybe they already have? 😄 Seriously though I am interested in this way of viewing it, if you care to expound further.
Speculation to which we all are entitled and ought at least contemplate.
As for me, Odysseus would have understood implicitly a republic with 24/7 torture prisons, a parallel national security government, problems with terrorist organizations getting off the leash in the Middle East, conflicts with the Turks and Russians, and sports being appropriated for a hegemond's business, and especially the kinds of waters coaches swim in. The O-man was quite a guy. I would never bet against him, just as I would never bet on Achilles.
For what it's worth, even Knight finally went to work for ESPN; that was perhaps his contribution to the Odysseus legacy. 😄
Whew! That fellow swung the hammer!!! Thanks for sharing the link.
I started worshipping Wooden.
Then met him briefly for a few days after he had retired and found him a brilliant and kind person exceeding his reputation.
Learned of his Gilbert connection and felt great dis illusionment.
Studied his career as closely as I could and assessed him relative to the standards of his time.
Decided he spent 15 years playing entirely by the rules and by seeking an edge through integration, but losing out to inferiors like Pete Newell, Sam Berry and his successor, An OSU coach, a Washington coach, and others east like all the New York coaches, and Rupp, and Bubas, that had long relied on sugar daddies like Gilbert AND some that had looked the other way at gambling connections to win big. and even our Phog Allen once he turned a blind eye to the informal forerunner of the Outland Fund that later became the Williams Fund. Wooden was on the brink of losing his job and he had made a huge enemy list by pioneering integration. He finally apparently compromised, hired Jerry Norman, and started apparently recruiting exactly the same way everyone else apparently was during those years. He apparently used the same model. He apparently used an assistant to get the sugar daddy and allow him--the head coach--the same plausible deniability that most of the other top coaches maintained. Wooden to me made the same compromise that all his peers and predecessors had made after 15 years of resisting and being laughed at and mistrusted for not going along to get along. When he leveled the playing field, all his long reputation with African American integration came into play, and he suddenly found himself holding all the aces. His school that had started as a Podunk Normal school added to the UC system in 1947 had become the flagship university of the most desirable region of the country by 1962. The great coaches he had learned harsh lessons against began to retire. The gambling scandals had hollowed out NYC ball and UNC and Rupp refused to integrate. Allen was gone and replaced with Harp who, tried to buck the corruption of the system, as Knight later would, and of his own school, as Knight later would. Harp, the genius innovator of pressure defense, quickly went down shortly, to lack of recruits available to the right way--ruthlessly marginalized as one who would not go along to get along in the game generally or within his own fund raising compromised program itself. But nice mannered Harp went quietly, and unsuccessfully tried to build a fundamentalist flank in FCA. Knight would not later go quietly and flaunted his abusive tendencies.
I have gone through my Protestant disillusion and reformation against the Wooden basketball catholicism. I met him. He was a good man. He compromised, but he did much more good than harm in my book. No one stood up for him all those years before he compromised. He was alone.
Knight apparently thought he had some allies inside and out side his university, when he stood up, likely same as Wooden and Harp did. But when push came to shove, when Wooden compromised, and Harp allowed himself to be marginalized, Knight fought on alone. He enlisted persons to write books to defend him. He spoke out. But he became hung on the petard of his own flaws and then the absence of allies finally got him. The bad guys never forget, whether they are in the shadows or in positions of authority and dignity. Knight had called them out. He had exposed the system through his cooperation with the writing of College Sports, Inc. by Murray Sperber. Nothing in the book was ever cleaned up. The system has apparently morphed up to a new higher scale of normalized asymmetry.
In the movie business, immigrant and America loving Elia Kazan learned the hard way about speaking truth to corrupt power. He, like Wooden compromised and flourished for a time. But then once both had played their parts after compromising, they were both hit by historical revisionism and their greatnesses at what they both did were later trivialized and smeared over in coming decades.
There are different kinds of greatness.
Wooden and Coach K have apparently both compromised. They are represented by the myth of Odysseus. Bend before being broken.
There are others like Knight that refuse to bend and so get broken. They are represented by the myth of Achilles.
The ancient poet Homer expressed the complementary and countervailing myths as he did for a reason. They have survived as they have because they reveal a truth older than recorded human history.
Their is a tragic dimension at times to the great individual's interaction with his culture.
And heroism is largely defined there.
But greatness?
It happens where it happens, how it happens.
Rock Chalk!
I think this is a fabulous idea and a great potential synergy for both sports!!
Self needs to get our guys playing volley ball off season.
Becherd needs to become the footwork and reach coach for KU BASKETBALL! Like Hudy is the team's weight/strength/flexibility coach.
Any KU basketball players that don't pan out, could be moved to the volleyball team. Basketball sucks up better athletes generally than volleyball cause of the career potential. Volleyball could be hugely improved by basketball's sloppy seconds. And basketball could be sharply improved by volleyball training. Wilt saw the connection waaay back!
That was the essence IMHO, also.
But it's important to understand not to paint the organizations in a single black stroke.
This story really only describes the preconditions of the legacy of university accounting methods one needs to grasp in order to get on to the bigger picture of compromise facing the greatest game ever invented.
It establishes why the system is vulnerable to sharply greater compromise and abuse by those beyond the system--by those not just "downtown," but by much bigger and more dangerous predators.
Because of a legacy of bending the accounting rules to make the university system satisfy via compromise the diverse agendas of education, entertainment, taxation, downtown business interests, donors, and state and local politics and economics, the D1 universities organized regionally (by conferences) and nationally by association (NCAA) are easy prey for political/financial coercion by private oligarchs, and national and transnational corporations and agencies of government, at a time when college sport is useful to such players in their pursuit of regional and global agendas.
Ultimately Sport is caught up in being an instrument of spreading culture and its economics and politics over new regions, and of redistributing control over existing ones.
Remember, the Romans did not just bring armies, roads and water infrastructure to the conquered lands, they brought stadia with sport and amphitheaters with drama.
It's how the empire thing is done.
The rule changes have had a much deeper effect than I ever expected. It's like a new game early this season. I haven't found stats on shooting percentage variance yet, but as I noted previously it seems like teams three point shooting percentages are yoyoing more than previous years. In prior year circumstances, I would say we weren't close, but this seems some kind of tipping point in dependence on Trey balling. It's as if there is some kind of Golden State effect. It's not necessarily a raw increase in 3ptas, but more like the coaches are all embracing Selfs idea of shooting the Trey ball to get leads, and then defending those leads with short treys. This means whoever Trey balls the best percentage is even MORE the best team. The shift that seems to be occurring seems to be happening the year KU has its best outside shooting team. This could mean KU is the best team under new norms. But still too soon for me to say. Gotta see KU go cold and find a way to beat a good team, like MSU; that's the acid test for me.
READ....THIS....EXPLANATION of athletic department and university accounting regarding student-athletes by an anti trust economist that gives expert witness testimony. He may not be totally objective, but think of him as the leper with the most fingers.
It tells a significant part of how each organization cooperates/colludes with the other via creative accounting analogous to a buy/sell contract from an oil pipeline pricing model to obscure the amounts each maybe spending on educating a student to justify a tax exempt money transfer between the two organizations. Reliance on the buy/sell contract accounting analogue is apparently driven by the university's and its athletic department's mutual desire to attract tax deductible donations that are also tax exempt for the two organizations to receive and use. Both are chartered after all as tax exempt organizations and wish and are required to remain so. It also enables the receipt and use of vast gate, concession, TV and shoeco revenues under similar tax exempt status. There's a lot of revenue that has to not be taxable and this accounting is part of the way it gets not recognized as taxable profit.
Also read the comment thread, which adds considerable insight.
This goes a long way to wising us lay persons up about why the university presidents have never cleaned up the money in D1 athletics and why their athletics departments were spun off as "independent" tax exempt 501c.3 entities not only to capture the revenue streams of donation, etc., but also to distance themselves from and manage the businessmen and more questionable interests "downtown" that have been instrumental from the early 1900s in developing and exploiting the business of sport in their communities and states. It also reminds one how the masquerade accounting helps enable the "non-profit" exploit. In turn, one can infer the great vulnerability of university and athletic departments operating on such a distorted accounting system to exploits by predatory wealthy individuals, corporations, intelligence organizations, and organized crime organizations with strategic/political and/or criminal purpose. When good people run disingenuous systems, even if with good intentions, they become the targets of predators.
http://regressing.deadspin.com/how-athletic-departments-and-the-media-fudge-the-cost-1570827027 ↗
I have thought for awhile that UA and adidas ought to join forces sponsoring a school, like KU.
I think our staff is tops right now both as recruiters and coaches.
As recruiters almost no new young guys could recruit successfully against the apparent shoe embargo, unless KU shifted brands. Our staff is getting their share of the adidas leans and they have long and deep channels in the remnants of the old high school feeder system young guys wouldn't have. Young guys would never have gotten Frank or Devonte here; that hinged on old contacts.
Regarding staff coaching shooting, our staff has coached some fine shooters, and we are a fine shooting team this season, so at the very least they know how to keep good shooters out of glitches. Wooden altered almost every players mechanics and limited them to spots they could make a certain percentage from. Our coaches seem less rigid. It works for me.
Re: Wayne's form--I'd have to go back and look at tape of his shot in HS to be sure, but it looks like he has worked with a video machine and a coach. Can't say who. He has always varied his mechanics from the waist up too much in the past, which he no longer does on good or bad nights; that's usually coaching, or working with a teammate that's a maniac at reps. Maybe Svi? Frank or Brannen could also have clued him to stop varying mechanics so much. It would take about this much time together to trust teammates enough to learn from them. Finally, Hudy might have finally zoomed in on the right combo of muscles to strengthen to keep him from needing to compensate fatigue with varying mechanics. Arm Strength is vital to the long ball.