Not to change the subject, but Baylor just blew a 15-point second half lead to lose to a good but young Washington team.
So much for that top-25 ranking. Still, it's a long season.
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Plenty to work on. Need to keep the pedal down on our next couple of opponents...a little easier road before we head to Maui.
Need to see more inside-outside movement, and not so many quick threes.
Liking the hustle so far this half. At both ends.
BShark said:
nwhawkfan said:
Well, at least we cut down the turnovers. Pretty much everything else sucked, though.
Defense had a few lapses but was mostly a good effort. Hopefully the 2nd half is better, hit some damn fts and maybe pull away a bit.
Neither team is exactly burning up the FT line. A combined 8 for 21.
Well, at least we cut down the turnovers. Pretty much everything else sucked, though.
Dickey's 'do looks like a tribute to Devil's Tower.
jayballer73 said:
nwhawkfan said:
@jayballer73 Looks like Penny found a friendly judge.
Memphis just got a temporary "emergency" restraining order to let Wiseman play tonight.
what a surprise - -actually NO ONE is surprised
Wish Bill could've found one for Silvio last year.
@jayballer73 Looks like Penny found a friendly judge.
Memphis just got a temporary "emergency" restraining order to let Wiseman play tonight.
Over the weekend I picked up this season's copy of the Street & Smith basketball annual. Some interesting articles as usual, including one that notes the success of teams with lots of upperclassmen in the era of one-and-dones.
Just for grins, I dug through my collection of back issues until I found the first issue I bought 40 years ago in 1979.
The feature article was a 14-page preview of the upcoming 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and the USA team coached by Dave Gavitt, the Providence coach who would later become commissioner of the Big East. Of course, that team never made it to Moscow after we decided to boycott the games over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Another featured 30 blue chip high schoolers. Hidden among all the "can't-miss" players (most of whom did), were three guys named Glenn "Doc" Rivers, Matt Doherty and Pat Ewing.
The big name that year, Earl Jones of Washington DC, stayed in town to play for D-2 school University Of DC. Drafted by the Lakers, he was a bust as a pro and was out of the league after two years.
The pre-season pick to win the NCAA title: Indiana, followed by Kentucky, Duke, Notre Dame and Ohio State. KU was nowhere to be found in that poll.
As it turned out, the Hoosiers would have to wait another year, as Louisville beat UCLA to win the 1980 tournament. As for the Jayhawks, they muddled through a 15-14 season, going 7 and 7 in the Big Eight.
The pre-season All-America first team: Danny Ainge (BYU), Kevin McHale (Minnesota), Mike Gminski (Duke), Mike O'Koren (UNC) and Michael Brooks (LaSalle). KU's Darnell Valentine made the second team.
No three-point shots back then...that was for the NBA only. The NCAA was a few years away from adopting the rule and standardizing the distance.
Leafing thru the yellowed pages, I noted the long-departed conferences like the Metro, Southwest, Eastern 8, Trans-America, PCAA, Lone Star, SUNY...not to mention the large number of Independents.
But the most interesting part (to me, anyway) was when I looked at the list of college transfers...a half-page of just 45 names.
Then I looked at this year's list. Two pages with hundreds of names (in very small print), squeezed into three columns per page. And that was just the players eligible this season. Plus two more pages with hundreds more who'll be eligible next year.
And toward the back of that 1979-80 book, a photo of the NBC college basketball play-by-play crew for its Game Of The Week (yep, kids, back then there was just one televised network game a week): Dick Enberg, Al McGuire and Billy Packer. Still my all-time favorites.
@Gorilla72 Sorry. I'm just basing it on some of his friends and relatives. Didn't mean to slander the whole area.
My brother-in-law is from SE Kansas (Girard). Great guy, definitely not the redneck stereotype.
Ate at both of the rival chicken-dinner places there, Chicken Annie's and Chicken Mary's. Both good !
I'm not going to come down too hard on the defense this time. They were gassed after that third quarter. The injuries didn't help either.
A lot better effort than I expected.
I've gotta laugh when I hear the network hype for the Chiefs-Packers game as a "rematch of Super Bowl I." (And not just because I'm so damn old that I remember the game!)
First off, that game wasn't even called The Super Bowl, but the awkwardly-titled "AFL-NFL World Championship Game."
It wasn't anywhere near a sellout. The game only drew a little over 60,000 fans to the cavernous 90,000-plus L.A. Coliseum.
The halftime show was bereft of any pop, rock, R&B, country or rap stars, but instead featured the Grambling State and Arizona marching bands, and rotund New Orleans jazz trumpeter Al Hirt (who had no wardrobe malfunctions, thank God).
The Packers were the better team by far that day, but I suffered one final indignity many years later...I found myself working part-time for a company owned by ex-Green Bay defensive end Willie Davis, who helped shut down the Chiefs offense. To make things worse, a year later he sold our company to another outfit without giving any of us advance notice, and we found ourselves out of a job.
Things worked out okay for me, but it made me even more of a Packer-hater than before.
Oh well...GO CHIEFS !!!
How pleasant. Almost November and we're still talking KU football ! (In a good way.)
Nite all !
@BShark Just need three more wins !
I was going to stay up late to watch World Cup rugby, but that last play looked close enough.
After what happened in the Big 12 today, every one of our last four games now seem winnable.
Time to break out the good stuff, fellas !
Damnedest finish I've seen in a while.
@DanR No, save the goalposts for K-STATE
YAHTZEE !!!!!!!!!!!
NO SACKS
Great stop ! Just in time.
SMOKED 'EM !
HOLY CRAP ! STANLEY'S GOT THE TOOLS !!!
So will special teams cost us another game like last week?
Carter getting his mojo back.
Nice coverage on the punt. Let's go defense!
If Mizzou was still in the conference it might mean something. But the way it is now, it looks like a money grab, pure and simple.
Well, time to catch the rest of the ball game and a late snack.
Thanks everybody! ROCK CHALK !
Back home for Tech and the Kitties next. Starting to look winnable after what I saw tonight.
@FarmerJayhawk Gotta bottle some of that and save it for the rest of the season.
Speaking of Texas, good luck to the Astros!
Well, moral victories suck.
Having said that, I'm impressed. Any team that can go on the road and hang 48 on a good team has my respect.
Gotta learn how to close the deal though.
We could be the first team to fire the OC and the DC in the same month
DAMN
Still think they need another 5 yards or so
Time for the D to show up
OHMYGAWD !!!!!!!!!
GO FOR 2 ?
Well, here we go...
A reprieve from the governor !
But the impossible ones we catch!
Still in business
One saving grace is that neither defense looks particularly sharp today. Still time to come back.
Dammit !
POOOOOOKA !!!!!!!!
Need a long drive to give our defense a breather.
Texas Hawk 10 said:
@Crimsonorblue22 I have PSVue which carries the Longhorn Network so I'm watching it on TV.
Watching it here on First Row Sports website.
Did I just hear the Longhorn Network announcer use the words "electric" and "Kansas football" in the same sentence?