Put it here because, you know, 2008...
Penny H having big trouble with team chem. Very interesting article that is largely quotes. What came across to me, unsaid by Seth Davis, is "Why the fuck didn't you do something about it before the season? Who is the driver of this bus?"
Ah, that famously successfully Long Beach State strategy that led to so many championships......
Fun to watch, but it can get shut down by a good defensive team that makes you slow down. Then you need a half-court offense and if that is just a second priority in practice, you are likely toast.
@Texas-Hawk-10 That is all true, but sometimes circumstances change... ..ahem..Roy..cough...cough...
The amount of money flying around now is likely to occur again next year, and who would turn down a 10 year guaranteed $50 to $70 mil?
@wissox said in St Johns Game Thread:
I was so inspired I went out after the game and ran a sub 9 minute mile!
You are so young and full of vim and vigor!
Best I can do is drive a mile and spend 9 minutes eating a sub.
Thanks for the thread--got to watch the second half of that last game. Woohoo!
@nwhawkfan Thx!
@nwhawkfan Is the match on TV?
@KirkIsMyHinrich said in St Johns Game Thread:
The key to making free-throws is bending your knees. The key to playing good defense is by getting low, which can be achieved by bending your knees. We just need to bend our knees. Someone tell Self
Trying to coach knee bending would be a lot easier if they took the Game of Thrones approach..."bend the knee, or DIE!"
Didn't see this post about Turgeon, so I posted it in Past Jayhawks with links.
That's it...
If Ochai wants to cement his tentative 1st round cred, he needs to beg HCBS for the assignment, then stick like glue.
@JohntheHawk said in Two trials, similar and different:
Why do the guys with the left wing point of view have the right to group up and be confrontational any more than anyone else?
You keep going on about them. This trial wasn't about them. Had they been on trial, I would have fully supported convictions.
We are in deep shit if we decide people can just go arm themselves and wade into a riot.
Enough.
@BeddieKU23 said in Non-KU Games:
They scored 10 in the first half, 19 in the 2nd.
Best spin for their coach going forward: Hey, we almost tripled our score in the second half!
@JohntheHawk A lot of assumptions in your response about my thinking. I abhor riots, but I also abhor vigilantiism. Rittenhouse was looking for confrontation when he left his home miles away. I think anyone premeditatedly seeking confrontation has less right to assert self defense than a person who gets caught up in a riot through no action of their own.
Police failures are no excuse for someone to decide it is open season. Legally, he was properly acquitted. Morally, his and his cronies' armed presence helped inflame, not control, more violence.
@tis4tim I hope you are right. Assuming we keep the coach.
If he gets poached, KU participating in bowl season 2023 will be in polar conditions because Hell will have frozen over.....
@JohntheHawk I understand much of what you say, but I think the motivating anger about Rittenhouse is a sense that he went hunting people in the first place. Under the law, I think the result was correct, but I think the law needs to be changed to not allow people to do that.
@DanR said in Post Tournament Thoughts:
I think Dave was unfairly blamed for the Dayton loss
Absolutely. If you watch the video in the Jess Newell article carefully, you see that Dave had inside position with a free lane to the rim when Braun got the ball. But Remy took his guy through the paint under the basket, giving the Dayton guy time to move behind Dave. CB hesitated, then passed it in anyway, and Dave tried to back into the lane and received a very iffy charge call.
Newell wrote that Self was mad at Remy for an unscripted move that disrupted the called play.
With the time left, CB should have reversed the ball to the right side, or called a timeout rather than force it in to Dave.
Watch it about 10 times and you see how Remy f'd it up.
@tis4tim said in Pastries for Thought:
They're Bocce Ball tix.
The Big 12 expanding to Florida will work out well for us in Bocce Ball with its huge population of super-seniors with remaining eligibility. Our "in" is that Ol' Mitch is getting a NIL contract to be on bulletin boards for The Villages.
@Crimsonorblue22 Well, I give him credit for at least making it about a cat. Not a Wildcat, to be sure, but a video with the actual KSU mascot might scare the little kids.
@wissox said in Pastries for Thought:
@tis4tim That's all? I'm gonna hold out for more. KU tickets for life maybe?
Better make sure they are for BB, not field hockey or...golf.
@wissox Please don't ask. The answer to what that means is obvious.
@DCHawker said in Iona Game Thread:
Huggy can get his guys to do it
How has that worked out for him in the long run, compared to say, HCBS (whom your comment implies cannot do it)?
Surprised no one mentioned Iowa State over #9 Memphis!
Wow, how did ESPN make that happen?
Re the dance team picture--one of those dancers is definitely stepping to a different beat!
Watching Dave, I wonder if he is one of the people who have lingering effects from Covid. Gassed in just a few minutes, sweating sheets of water, looks confused. I think there may be a hidden story there.
At least he isn't fouling a lot. About the best I can say at this point!
Mitch looks like conference Dave last year, and vice versa.....
@Marco All those qualities are bad enough, but what galls me is that he is ubiquitous. Can't escape him on ESPN family.
Spent 43 years in prison until being freed this week on a judge's finding he was wrongly convicted, and good old Missouri will provide no compensation.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction/donate ↗
Different outcomes, too.
I give up.
Meanwhile, Happy Thanksgiving! (I just was thinking of all those poor turkeys who have far more reason to be paranoid than KU fans....)
All of which has nothing to do with the article, which is merely about the several avenues players can choose from in trying to get to the pros. Again, not a word about any college failing them.
The article does not even hint at a failure by KU, which is not named in any references to our players named in the article.
ESPN should charge you for the streaming you imagine you are seeing.
A hit job on who, exactly?
I think you all need to read the article. That quote is a tiny part of it and there are dozens of other cautionary examples cited. It is actually an extensive analysis of all the different choices available to elite players and how that has changed.
There is so much desire on this board to feel picked on by ESPN that I am afraid y'all stay awake at night for fear that you will have nightmares about it.
Lots of people disapproved. Anybody who got, or gets, bent out of shape need to examine why it upsets them so much. And then, if it still seems like getting upset is worth it, reexamine it and, finally, decide to just get over it.
@FarmerJayhawk said in Non-KU Games:
Paolo will get suspended for minutes, I'm telling you. Minutes!
Absolutely correct, except wrong root. Take off the s, and pronounce with a long i and a long u, as in "a minute punishment."
@approxinfinity said in Jalen:
“ Savarino is the son of Debbie Krzyzewski Savarino, the oldest daughter of Krzyzewski and his wife, Mickie. Debbie Savarino is an assistant athletic director at Duke.”
Wait, Savarino is the spawn of K’s daughter and his wife Mickey? Only in hell man…
Los Diablos Azules
Do you need to brush up on commas used to create dependent clauses, eh, 'Prox?
A lost art I blame first on teachers who gave up on correcting punctuation, and, second on social media standards that do not include recognize anything other than speed.
@wissox You're a good man. Just having fun with you since you took all the joy out of flaming Squeaky.....
@wissox Don"t know what you are talking about, but it sounds suspiciously similar to the things you yourself were unhappy about how people make nasty comments about how a certain coach talks....
"On a side note, ...it bugs me a lot when adults mock someone for their looks, or in Bruce’s case his voice."
@benshawks08 said in Paul Rudd:
I like this comment at that link about U of Mizery losing to UMKC:
"The University of Missouri flagship beats their satellite campus in Columbia."
So much digital ink arguing over playing time after 2 games with one of our starters suspended.
Y'all should have gone to Law School and gotten paid to quibble!
@Crimsonorblue22 Dirty Dan tries for redemption!
@rockchalkjayhawk said in Tarleton Game Thread:
I go into overload trying to watch and follow game threads at the same time!
I usually just go to game threads at halftime and maybe commercials. Brainpower? Ha! More likely my limited attention span helps me when I switch. Drinking helps...or makes you think it helps.
@benshawks08 said in Ok cool Hook em:
Pretty sure we scored 60+ on Nebraska.
You are correct! I misremembered it from ESPN (well, it was late, and, to be honest, I am lazy). 57 points is the most points KU has scored in a road game.
@rockchalkjayhawk I loaded the ESPN app onto my Roku today so future games should be better. Plus, I will now be able to watch the games and follow game threads simultaneously!
@wissox Thanks for reminding me of something amazing I love about KU: the fact that we have had so few basketball coaches!
@approxinfinity said in Ok cool Hook em:
Kansas was a 31-point underdog at Caesars Sportsbook, making the Jayhawks' victory the largest spread upset ever in a Big 12 conference game.
The ESPN recap has some nice stats, like KU previously was 0-100 as an underdog against a 24+ spread. Most ever points for KU on the road, and most ever points for Texas in a loss. First Big 12 road victory for KU since 2008. Only the 4th KU win over Texas all time (1st was 1907, I think), but 2 in the last 5 years. (edited)
@wissox said in Ok cool Hook em:
Why was the coach (forgot his name) mad at the Jayhawk players after the winning 2 point conversion?
I think they were celebrating too close to the Texas sideline.