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DoubleDD said:

@wissox

You want facts? All right. Every year KU has a recruit that is subject to the long arm of the NCAA. Yet we never hear of anything about UNC, Duke, or UK. All the players they recruit are golden boys. Now keep in mind these kids are all come from the same slums. Yet somehow KU always gets the bad ones. How is that?

How is it that UNC, Duke, and UK can recruit the same kids and they are golden. Yet when KU gets a kid well the NCAA has to investigate?

Where are the facts in your statement?

@DoubleDD I don't know. I wasn't privvy to everything that went down there, as I assume none of us were. Sure it appeared that way, but we don't have facts of that.

When we see a conspiracy behind anything that goes against KU it makes us look paranoid.

I will say, present facts that Duke, UNC and Kentucky receive NCAA favors and I'll believe you, but they must be facts! Because believe me I do want to believe that those programs are being allowed to cheat by the NCAA!

(I should retract all of my comments that the NCAA cheated for Duke against Wisconsin in 2015 :) )

@DoubleDD I doubt the NCAA goes easy on those three programs. They couldn't get away with it. Sadly, to me anyways, it's a common theme here.

@DoubleDD I doubt it friend.

BeddieKU23 said:

I for one could care less about his story.

Now we wait til the big dave saga starts. Odds are he's not as good of character as we think? Hopefully kidding when I say that. I'm a really kidding because I believe Dave will be a fine young man here

Who is Dave?

@dylans Wow, that makes him just like me, no stats!

@bmensch1 Whoa, didn't realize White was playing for the Hawks and doing so well. He's the third leading scorer among former Jayhawks. Who'd a thunk it?

@jaybate-1.0 That happens here on occasion, but not too much. @drgnslayr, love your line about us knowing how to complain even though we don't really know what we're complaining about! That's social media in a nutshell!!!

@Kcmatt7 MU is Marquette?

But to think it singles out KU is my beef. Last year 1 seed Villanova had to play 8 seed Wisconsin. Wisconsin was horribly underseeded, and proved by knocking them out in their customary 2nd round exit. Time doesn't permit me to go back and see who else has had a tough 2nd round even though they're a top seed, but it happens to a lot of teams.

Did you know the man who wrote the song "Oh Happy Day" passed two days ago? I forget his name, but it was on the news. That's what I thought this post was about.

@Kcmatt7 your point, the way I read your post was the NCAA will screw KU in the seedings. I think I agree that they do try to set up TV worthy matchups, but it's not screwing KU.

@jaybate-1.0 You're wrong, I'm right, discussion over!

No harm, some malice!

@Kcmatt7 It never ceases to amaze me (and I'm not picking on you specifically Kcmatt7!) how often board rats complain about tournament seeding. I just don't get it. We have no one to blame for our losses but ourselves.

Take 2017 for example. What about a regional as a #1 seed in KC says the NCAA was screwing us over? What about a first and second round game in Tulsa against some hapless 16 seed and then MSU makes you think the NCAA was screwing us?

The NCAA didn't make Joel get hurt and Cheick not know how to play our system. They didn't cause Cliff to screw up big time and for injuries to slow Ellis. Thems the breaks as they say.

I could go on and on and show you how every year we open the tournament no more than about a 5 hour drive away from Lawrence.

If we want to make excuses for under performing in March the last 5 seasons remember this, when you're pointing a finger at someone else, 3 fingers are pointing back at yourself!

Scott Drew gets a deer in the headlights look like no other coach I've ever seen when he's being outwitted. I still don't know how he gets so many good recruits.

"How can you criticize Trae? He had a double-double." The sarcasm font was being used on that great statement by @gunman. Too bad it was missed by some people.

@JayHawkFanToo Racism is still alive and well in the north too.

Well put sir. Why didn't they check replay?

Most don't remember that in 1963 Loyola of Chicago won with a predominantly black team upsetting Cincinnati in the final. On their way to the championship Mississippi St. had to sneak out of the state to play Loyola because state law prevented them from playing African American teams. These were crazy shameful times in our country's history.

@Crimsonorblue22 I know. We don't lose to anyone frequently, that was my point.

I ranted on Huggy on the live thread. I said he's won a ton, but has 1 FF to show for it. They said he's won a lot at places where he gets the most out of his limited talent. There are no current WVU players in the NBA. Yet they have beat us relatively frequently. I guess that means he can coach.

@Gunman Ha, I just saw that, was going to post. He gets paid for that? :)

The press beat passes looked careless and reckless. Guys seemingly chucked the ball over the top of the press and let one of our guys who was generally uncovered go and get it. I thought it would lead to fast breaks but we're generally not that good around the rim in situations like that so we just set up the O. The 2nd half it all clicked.

It's a simple explanation for the other, but we just increased the defensive pressure causing a lot of TO's, without fouling. That was key to causing the TO's.

Self Indicted into the Hall of Fame.

@wrwlumpy You mean the game where the dude stopped his dribble at the 3 point line and then took a layup? I'd forgotten, but thanks for the memories!

Sorry Jaybate, doesn't make me feel any better for tomorrow night! Too much negative history in that building and with our under equipped team this year I fear the worst.

Terrific stuff DoubleD! Being an outsider when I came to KU in 85 I had little clue about the great history. While I loved my time there, I didn't maybe appreciate it like I do now. Now is too late. Wondering if I ever make it there for a game. Even then, it wouldn't be the same as being around for a whole season, attending all 15 or 20 home games. Know anyone hiring in Lawrence? :)

Michigan state struggling. Lost to OSU last sunday, needed OT against Rutgers and lost today to Michigan.

Missed out on all the fun while driving across Ohio in a blizzard. My favorite joke is a Roman guy walks into a bar and holds up two fingers and says give me 5 beers.

Skeleton walks into a bar and says give me a beer and a mop.

A doctor, a priest and an electrician walk into a bar and the bartender says, what is this, some kind of joke?

The NCAA just made a decision I heard. They decided to go to Chick Filet for lunch instead of chipotle.

My 14 year old nephew is battling it right now. The good news, not great news, but good is it's about 85 percent beatable now, so he has a decent chance of beating it.

Since we made 5 of 13 FT's I'm glad we only got fouled 12 times.

I was shocked to look at Stubhub today and see I could get into AFH for 32 bucks tonight! That's almost worth a road trip!

@mayjay, now that the championships are moving away from bowls they ought to even the playing field and have games played in all parts of the country. Fans in my neck of the woods are very passionate about college football too, but unless they shell out some big bucks to travel to a warmer southern clime to watch a postseason game, they'll never have a chance to see one of these college football playoffs.

This year, let's say they let a one loss Wisconsin in, or even a two loss OSU, or a Pac12 team (I know the league was crappy, but just for the sake of argument) they'd have to go play a playoff game in a different part of the country where they'll likely play an SEC school in their back yard.

LSU got to win two championships, both in the 2000's, both times playing in the Superdome, once against OK and once against OSU. Home field advantage? Probably. They lost once in the national championship to Alabama which was also in the Superdome.

And to finalize my rant, Wisconsin, getting screwed all year by national media, goes to the south to play in the orange bowl against Miami, an obvious home game for Miami. Wisconsin wins that game in a comfortable manor and drops in the polls! And all year, you know who's been running down Wisconsin? (I know this because I care!) ESPN. It took them to being one of the last two unbeatens before they were talked about as good enough to be in the playoff. It's a brilliant scheme for the SEC.

Last night was the 2nd SEC Championship game in the same building airing on a network that owns the SEC Network. That same network conducts polls which are somewhat influential and gives a larger dose of highlights from that league than any other league.

They don't hold playoff games in places other than where it's warm and generally, besides California are located in states that house SEC teams.

Again, just an observation.

It's interesting that no one talks about our been to the dance 28 years in a row streak. If I'm not mistaken it's the longest in history. Don't even want to think about the Sunday when we don't hear our name called for the Big Dance. I suppose it will happen, but in some scenarios that could happen this year. Very doubtful, it'd probably take an injury for that to happen, but it could. On the other hand assuming you start paying attention to such things at an age of 35, anyone 35 and under has never known an NCAA tournament without KU in it. No one born this century has known a Big12 season without KU winning it (again assuming 5 year olds don't pay attention to such things). We've had it really good is my point!

@chriz I've had the same thoughts during this process. However, will he help us that much? Not sure. I doubt he would put us over the top and make us championship contenders. Hard to put a finger on why I stated that, but I just haven't seen too many of our freshman have the kind of impact it takes to win a championship.

Simon, I think it is, who is always calling our home "Phog Allen Fieldhouse". I might be mistaken, but I think it's just Allen Field House.

@kjayhawks "literally instantly"?

Dang, I'm all pissed again seeing pictures of Raef, Kirk and Nick that both of them played on teams that should have won it all but screwed it up.
They were great players for us to be sure. Had both those teams fulfilled their promise we'd have had 3 titles from 97 to 08, the glory years of KU hoops. As always, great photo spread!

I see they have a fellow from Natchidoches, LA named Cameron Lard. There's an oil company in Louisiana called Lard Oil. Always made us laugh when we saw their trucks.

@Crimsonorblue22 No, but if he hadn't logic tells me he'd have played all of our games. Something he did has spooked our athletic department enough to risk not being in the national championship picture.

Billy screwed up. Seems pretty plain and simple. If he's frustrated with KU, well, I don't want anyone bringing this program down no matter how good of a player they are. If he leaves, I'm cool with it. It really sucks for us fans that this keeps happening to us at KU. If he has to sit out this year but still wants to play next after getting everything cleared, then great. Next years team just got stronger.

@drgnslayr I understand. We're all stereotyping which we shouldn't. Of course we were kidding too, but kidding comments cross the line when they become personal.

It is one of the sadder states in the country. Having lived in Louisiana for a decade and in the 2nd poorest county in Wisconsin for a decade, I've seen it up close. There's a large gap between the haves and have nots in our country and it's widening.

Poverty is sometimes self inflicted, oftentimes intergenerational, and frequently ignored by much of America. We use axioms like 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps" to which they'd say, ok, give me some boots.

Tough situations for sure. Thanks for the reminder.

We know they're not that intelligent as proved by my original post that you can buy a ticket for 28 bucks to see the premier college basketball team in America. Tickets to see us play should be super bowl levels since playing us is every teams super bowl.

I'd guess there's a different perspective from the NCAA. There's probably a track athlete at UC Santa Barbara, a baseball player at Hofstra, a rower at some ivy league school, a softball player at Tennessee, and etc. that are all waiting to hear also. In other words, the NCAA would tell us that they're overworked and understaffed, and they're probably right. With an influential school like KU depending on them to certify our guys that they wouldn't want too much unnecessary negative publicity so like I said, there's probably a lot more to it than we understand.

I was wondering if Desousa said phooey on it, I don't want to waste one of my four years of eligibility, he could just decide to sit out til next fall, correct? I know if I was a college basketball player, I'll wait til the laughter stops, I wouldn't want to spend one of my four years of eligibility with half the season already gone. Now if he has leaving early plans, well, that's a different story. I don't know enough about him to know if that's the case.

@kjayhawks So you've paid 40 on stubhub for home games at AFH? I was a little confused by your post. I always assumed it was higher.

Living back in the Chicago area has been a boon for my sports fanhood. Stubhub has become my go to guy for tickets to all kinds of games that I never would have considered before. I went to a Badgers game for 11 bucks the other day in Madison. I may go to some other college games locally all because of the ease of getting tickets on Stubhub.

So today I check Kansas schedule on Stubhub and I see the cheapest ticket to buy is next Monday in Morgantown. 28 bucks! This is WVU's only big game of the year every year. They get all amped up for it and tickets are only 28 bucks? Even though WV is geographically more of a northern state, I guess it's still southern enough to not care too much about basketball.

Fans there owe us more respect! We're Kansas. You should be selling these tickets for 100 or more! I won't stand for this disrespect! (I wish I lived a little closer to West Virginia!)

Syracuse too to handle our list of most loathed teams.

Missouri and KState too.

@KirkIsMyHinrich KState lost too!