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@jayballer54 It's been an interesting season. We obviously have won a lot of games. But I think the way we've won has taken the luster off a little bit. We haven't been dominating teams. We've had to come back frequently and sweat it out.
Here's what I do, or better what I don't do. I rarely listen/watch/read anything about the Jayhawks on anything but our reliable sources, here, KUSPorts, KUHoops and that's about it. I rarely can stand talking heads on TV who blather on and on about whatever. We've got to make them talk about us. They can't prevent us from playing for the championship and we've got to do that. If we're the defending champs like Villanova, then they'd be talking about us.
I know it's a little frustrating to hear us relatively ignored, but I'd guess if you did searches you'd see more on line about the Jayhawks nationally than you'd think, and a lot of it positive too.
Because at the end of the day, ESPN doesn't decide who wins the national championship. Sure they may talk up the others, but if we're good enough to win it we're going to win it despite the east coast bias media.
Here's another national story that's very poorly written, but it's still shedding major negative light on our program. Notice reader comments too. Besides Jayhawk fans commenting, no one has good things to say.
I know this is slightly off topic, but I loved the 2016 version of Selden. Had he stayed maybe JJ doesn't come, I don't know, but maybe we're in the same position? If he stayed and JJ came, well, goodness, it wouldn't have solved our depth issue on the front line, but it mitigates Svi's ineffectiveness for sure.
And I'll remind you of a reason why I loved the 2016 version of Selden:
And another reason:
Those may be the two most memorable dunks in my KU fandom.
He has the gall to throw his head back when he elbows the dude in the head.
Looking at the box score.
Bragg a quiet 11 points
13-17 FT's, nice to not almost lose a game at the line.
Lucas 11 and 8. He's almost our MVP. Where would we be without him?
Frank Mason. 5'11" POY, incredible.
42-30 RB margin, that's big.
It's nice when officials don't take over a game. They let this one flow pretty well.
Brad Underwood probably didn't know that we haven't won in Stillwater in a decade or whatever. This was a very satisfying win.
@DCHawker said:
This game seems headed for the 80s or 90s....
DCHawker with the prediction of the day!!!
@Crimsonorblue22 Yep it was. Fun game.
ESPN pissing me off now.
Vick gave me a heart attack taking it to the hole, but it worked!
DG gets hammered, but at least its our ball
I'm thinking Frank has locked up POY with this performance.
@approxinfinity two boards and two assists more and he's got a tripdub
I watched the replay in slomo and I'm still stumped. The gray guy reaches over Landens back for the entry pass and he gets whistled for a foul.
This has been our first entertaining game in quite a while.
I got two steaks on the grill. Can someone keep this thing going for a while?
I noticed how ESPN is starting the Duke UNC game at 7:15, you know so there's less of a chance of messing up the start of their game. I hope our game goes to about 3 OT's just to spite Duke/ESPN/UNC.
What a crappy end to the half.
Our ball off that block
Bragg got pushed on that TO
@dylans 6-6 I think
Great pass graham
I swear does ESPN intentionally try to tick off fans? How many times have we seen this stupid split screen this year?
Gotta brag just a little. This 52 year old, with heart disease, never been running before last month just completed a 10K today. I finished first among Jayhawk fans in the race who were 52 years old.
POY!!
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Graham playing a dumb game so far.
What did Bragg do?
POY on D
POY
@Crimsonorblue22 Yes they did, and the fans booed!
Two cheap fouls on SVI. The other was a flop.
Shooting slump is over at least right now.
I really can't stand fans who act all crazy for 1 game a year and then relatively ignore the team the rest of the year. OSU is kind of like that.
Is Evans a OAD?
BWAG, who you got?
Frank's my Hawk to Rock
There's nothing really new in this article, but it's interesting that it's drawing some national interest.
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/03/03/yes-baylor-story-awful-kansas-jayhawks-issues-getting-attention ↗
Yes, 6 loss UNC deserves the overall #1 seed over 3 loss KU, or 4 loss 'Nova.
@JayHawkFanToo I think that's the way officials referee frequently! They think there's something so they call a foul, guessing on the intent. Believe it or not last night in yet another Badger debacle, there was a whistle, foul against a Badger player who got elbowed in the face and fell down. So I guess when they call a foul they can't reverse it. So the Badger coach starts arguing for a flagrant 1 against the Iowa player. To the monitor they go and they call a flagrant foul on the Iowa player all the while maintaining that the Badger player fouled him in the act. The two FT's that Iowa got out of that play with less than 4 minutes left cost us the game in a two point loss.
@mayjay Wow, didn't know ya'll discussed things like that! Sounds interesting.
@mayjay Thanks for the lawyer perspective.
@JayHawkFanToo Garmin still staying afloat? I kind of figured with everyone navigating with their phones nowadays people wouldn't be using their technology much anymore.
@Crimsonorblue22 By the definition, sure it was a hate crime, but should it receive 'special' status because it involved someone shooting someone because of their nationality?
Unfortunately I've seen it not applied in cases where'd you swear it should be. "you don't belong in this neighborhood" was what a man nearby heard before he got beat unconscious and then his wife and teenage daughter as well. I've been to that gas station as it's near one of the schools I've taught at. No hate crime applied in that case where someone was attacked for being white. Was that a hate filled attack? Most definitely, but they all are.
Check out the shirt on Ian Grillot who intervened in the shooting last weekend of the two Indian techies. This is what any real Jayhawk would do.
Now let me rant a bit. The man is being charged with a hate crime. That's fine with me. What's not fine with me is attaching 'hate crime' to certain crimes only. It implies that the thousands who are murdered or assaulted in our country for various other reasons were not victims of hate crimes because there was nothing about them that would make someone hate them. If someone chooses any reason to victimize another isn't hatred a part of that?
So let's drop the silly tag hate crime to crimes altogether because they all involve hatred.
Rant over. Would be interested to hear your perspective, maybe it's different.
@cragarhawk Badgers really bad right now. And to think I was offended just a few weeks ago when the NCAA released their first pretend top four and the 20-3 were nowhere to be found in it!
@tundrahok Remember beating Syracuse in 2000 2nd round and at the press conference Roy pulled out a monkey and mimed getting it off his back, like getting the monkey off his back? That was after 3 dances without getting out of the first weekend.