@dylans Yet another facet of meat production that I enable myself to forget in order to stay sane. 😶
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Yay, only a capacitor! Fixed now.
Heat sucks!
Our a/c went out. 97 now. On their way!
@Jethro Possible. And a guy like that gets to wear a ring just like the starters. Perfect for someone who knows his own limitations. Bonus when he does get to play.
Since Silvio's games will likely get vacated, we need to play'em to build the record back up!
@Kcmatt7 Oh Lord, please do not resurrect the HM cheerleader!
The dunk was literally an "In your face!"
All 4 schools have stronger baseball program histories than ours (except for that aberrant CWS appearance).
Looking at the names...what a great group of guys I have spent so much time watching. (Sorry, ladies, I don't think I saw any of them!)
@wissox Enjoy the respite!!!
@wissox said in ONLY IN MISSOURAH:
@mayjay Are you telling me I should have read the article before commenting?
Heaven forbid! I would never think to question a teacher's prep!
Maybe the NCAA threats have engendered a circling the wagons mentality.
Which helps with loading them, of course.
Actually, I am thrilled to learn about that case because it is one of a very few cases that have evened the playing field against companies that force consumers into arbitration. GEICO did so, lost, and then contend they should be able to challenge it. Pretty much a man-bites-dog type of turnaround.
I cannot imagine what could be inappropriate about that story. HPV can be a serious problem.
Incidentally, I suspect most people have no idea how many transactions they have entered into where they consent to arbitration of any disputes. Most likely, you all have done so dozens of times by agreeing to "Terms and Conditions" etc. Many times, you agree to pay the other side's fees if you lose.
We had one commodity company that tried to get me to enforce a provision that the plaintiff had to pay the company's fees even if the company committed fraud. I literally laughed at them (which they also cited as grounds for appeal). They lost, surprise surprise.
@Jethro You certainly made a good point about good shooting being necessary since we may not be able to rely on a banger underneath. Z will likely get the agility and finesse boards, but I think he is a couple years away from being bulky enough to get a putback basket like Dave's against UNC!
Did anyone mention Josh Selby? My belief he would become a star certainly got dashed!
@Jethro I think it has more to do with our emotional hopes that get dashed whenever KU does something wrong, for example, if we miss an easy rebound. It gets magnified in our reaction, and those mistakes tend to be what we remember.
Happens to everybody! Just think of how baseball fans revile Bill Buckner--one misplay created a mythos of him as hands of stone despite him having committed only 146 errors in 16,661 chances over 21 years, and even setting several fielding records. But that play is seen as the one that lost the World Series for Boston.
Except it didn’t. They lost the Series the next night. Emotion affects memory!
@Jethro And same stats for conference play:
@Jethro said in Reasons to believe in next year’s team:
We had to have great shooting last year because our rebounding sucked. If we missed, there’s a good chance we weren’t getting the ball back.
I think you may have just been overreacing to times we didn't do great.
Here are the full season stats. First line is KU, and 2d line is our rank nationally.
3rd line is our opponents, and then their rank.
These returns obviously reveal the players' desire for a KU B2B.
I wonder if they might have been clued in to what our IARP sanction will be, and maybe are assured we won't be banned from post-season 2023?
I just doubt they would invest another year in what could be a dead-end effort....
@dylans Well, damn, that guy who wasn't good at distributing the ball somehow is number 10 on KU all-time assist leaders....
@stoptheflop Incidentally, I have thought a number of times about Hinrich giving up the last shot against Syracuse. But his failure to execute that play doesn't at all diminish my sense that he was a fantastic guard for the Jayhawks. He and Collison were a joy to watch on fast breaks!
On the other hand, the missed free throws by several players were too numerous to feel bad about any single one!
@stoptheflop I have not thought about that play for even a millisecond.
Did any other players ever execute anything improperly?
@tis4tim All I did was give you some more information about the sources used by the site you presented. Did I argue? If you were "researching" your reaction should have been, "Thanks, I will look at that, too."
"Looking at all sides" does not mean everything you look at has the same level of credibility. Not all opinions are based on facts, and the site you posted uses data completely out of context. Don't get into a defensive snit just because someone wants you to consider "the other side" from what you posted.
@tis4tim Your research should include looking into the misuse of the Vaers data by antivaxxers. Snopes.com has lots of info.
Anyone interested in attempting to participate in this discussion should read Crash Go the Chariots about the difficulty of disproving bogus science theories such as those presented in Chariots of the Gods.
Or stock up on headache relief medicine.
(Edited to remove Asimov reference.)
@approxinfinity The links after the articles sometimes have headlines that look current (a la "Self high on recruits") and have been as old as 2012 with no hint.
Cool! No secret decoder ring needed!!!
@wissox Mark Emmer3dReich?
@Jethro You gave us a PHOF candidate with that one!
@approxinfinity said in KU/Big 12 NBA draft decisions thread:
If only ESPN had a Stephen A block button
The remote's channel button is a good substitute. I have no idea why anyone chooses to watch ESPN when they know they will be exposed to his rants.
Well, we have been crowing about overtaking KY for the most total wins, and discounting the response about # of titles. Should people despise us?
@approxinfinity said in Taking the board down for a few minutes:
Anyway. I will fix it.
Thanks for working so diligently! My psychic ability assures me you will execute it flawlessly!
@approxinfinity Did it work? Is it a Psychic Hot Line plug-in that will give us more definitive predictions of next year than all the speculating here? We want certainty!
@Texas-Hawk-10 Which reversed the result of 2001 in the Sweet 16. I believe Hinrich was suffering the effects of high ankle sprain in that one.
@Jethro said in Gradey Dick NIL:
Dick for Dicks. I hope he doesn't get too cocky about all this.
How did South Carolina not monetize this?
@BShark Correction: Prey on KSt basketball.
The Athletic has a long article today talking about a new policy to be voted on today by the NCAA Board trying to control NIL activities, etc. (Link is at the end, below.) Here is what I wrote in a comment there, which is relevant to this thread:
This is really interesting for what it could mean to the KU case pending. According to the FBI reports, KU is the only school in the Adidas investigation that did not have any employees involved in passing or arranging money to recruits. (FBI called KU a victim of the scheme.) The legal theory has never been used before to impute Level 1 liability to a school for the rogue actions of 3rd party employees of independent companies.
The theory used by the NCAA is that Adidas was a booster of KU and therefore KU was required to, but failed to, supervise and control Adidas's contacts with recruits (which means prevent them from doing any steering to a school).
If the NCAA Board of Directors has to issue a new rule announcing that corporations or consortiums will be considered boosters from now on, but it is NOT retroactive, that seems to seriously undermine their KU theory that the exact same conduct by Adidas made KU liable.
The players paid by Adidas would still cause vacating of games they were in, but the failure to know and supervise theory justifying big sanctions seems doomed.
@BShark Well, the phrase "way too early" is kind of a warning...
Here is a very encouraging assessment of how The Athletic draft analysts felt about the Chiefs draft vis-a-vis replacing Hill and compared to othercteams who lost #1 receivers:
The Packers, Chiefs and Titans have all recently traded star receivers, with A.J. Brown becoming the latest on the move. Of those three teams, which has done the best job retooling?
Lee: Kansas City by a decent margin. I thought the Chiefs might make an aggressive move for a high-profile playmaker, but standing pat allowed Andy Reid and Brett Veach to patch up other holes and add necessary depth across the roster. Trent McDuffie will be able to play in the slot full time under Steve Spagnuolo, and George Karlaftis will be dependable and productive enough to keep the Chiefs from needing Chris Jones to play on the edge again. Skyy Moore is an interesting fit alongside other slot types in JuJu Smith-Schuster and Marquez Valdes-Scantling, but Reid is a master at getting the most out of receivers.
This was one of the Chiefs’ last opportunities to retool before Patrick Mahomes’ cap numbers boom, and it’s clear adding to the defense was the priority.
Baumgardner: The Chiefs are the answer here, as bringing in Moore to go along with the rest of those post-Tyreek Hill additions feels perfect. But all three teams here made some interesting changes that could work out well.
I really like what Tennessee did — going all-in on power in offensive tackle Nick Petit-Frere and running back Hassan Haskins, taking quarterback Malik Willis for the future and leaving no doubt about where the Titans are going offensively. If the situation with A.J. Brown wasn’t going to work out, then drafting Treylon Burks five minutes later was as good a move as Tennessee could’ve made. Green Bay got receiver Christian Watson in Round 2, and new offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich gets two more very capable offensive linemen in Zach Tom and Sean Rhyan.
Tice: The Chiefs needed more tangible starters on their roster and they took all of their draft collateral to address just that. I love what Moore will bring to their receiving room, a completely different type of smooth skill set than what the larger receivers they signed this offseason possess. McDuffie and Karlaftis should contribute right away on the other side of the ball. And adding interesting defensive players in safety Bryan Cook and linebacker Leo Chanel gives the unit more useful depth. I really like what the Chiefs have done this offseason.
https://theathletic.com/3285328/2022/05/01/nfl-draft-best-picks/ ↗
@Crimsonorblue22 Proofreading on the Web? Perish the thought!
When looking at someone's rebounding rate, you have to look at how other players were rebounding. KJ not getting rebounds does not automatically mean the other team got second shots. He may have also had limited assignments to block out for other rebounders.
Don't know where those "lineup on the floor" stats would be. But cherry picking stats for a #8 or 9 or 10 player without context is pretty extreme.
I remember a couple games where one of our "experts" trashed Dave for having only 4 rebounds, but they ignored CB and JW having dbl digits. One of those posts predicting we could never get past the Sweet 16 with Dave as a starter.
Players do develop, you know. HCBS wants KJ back and has voiced confidence in him. Good enough for me.
Here is the rest of the article from ChiefsWire, if that is what you couldn't see:
He was a standout at the Senior Bowl, working against competition that was much greater than that he faced at Fayetteville State. That’s something that likely stood out to Kansas City.
Even with the team selecting a player like Trent McDuffie in the first round, this team still was lacking in size in the cornerback department. At 6-3 and 195 pounds, Williams definitely brings good size. Of the remaining cornerbacks in this class, Williams has perhaps the best ball skills of any with five career interceptions and nearly a dozen passes defended.
It feels like Williams is a player who could take the Charvarius Ward route for Kansas City. He’ll start off working on special teams as a sixth cornerback as he learns the defense and gets acclimated to an NFL weight program. He could be playing significant snaps for the Chiefs by the season’s end.
@rockchalkjayhawk said in Chiefs Draft:
I have to admit...I’ve never ever heard of Fayetteville State!
Chiefs took a bigger CB from there. Crazy. How do you scout a kid at that small of a school? :)
From ChiefsWire on USAToday.com:
"The Chiefs had a big presence at the HBCU combine, the HBCU Legacy Bowl and made it a point to really dive into these prospects this year. They were able to see Williams at both the Senior Bowl and 2022 NFL Scouting Combine as well."
@BShark said in Chiefs Draft:
Reminds me of someone…
One service says the pro comparison is Chris Harris.
Chenal, the Wisc LB, graded out at 9.99 in the Relative Athletic Score at the combine. Ranked #3 among over 2300 LBs since 1987. Expect him to be great!
Regular logo and Rock Chalk shirts are timeless and always worth it, but I only buy tourney champ shirts in addition. Final 4 shirts look like participation trophies!
@rockchalkjayhawk Apparently considered the 3rd best CB in the draft [others went 3 and 4]. Philly paper was suggesting Eagles trade up to get him at 12. Expected by most to go 16-18, so fell to KC at 21 after all picks from 15 to 20 were offense.
One draft assessment says he is virtually Mensa level in football IQ.
Biggest concern is his size, but aggressive tackler.
@FarmerJayhawk I deeply love guards who rebound!
@nwhawkfan One thing I remember about Amos was that he had a reputation of looking very nonchalant fielding center. He was one of those players whose smoothness always made it look easier than it was, so people thought he could do more "if he tried." Cursed by having extraordinary gracefulness and speed. Always liked him, but wondered if he ever got bitter about it.