Tyler Self.
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@Crimsonorblue22 I wish I was that son!
Sox score four on 7 straight hits in the bottom of the 9th to defeat the Tribe 4-3. Ruined a great pitching start by Indians pitcher ol what's his name.
Could it be that Diallo became instant friends with Perry when he visited KU and thus became a Twitter/FB friend and there's not much more to read into it than that?
@JayhawkRock78 I didn't have the exact memory of that but it's not surprising.
This game is going to hurt for a long time from my perspective. It's going to fester. I hate that it's going to be the refereeing to cause the festering, but it is. My view of UW was they played that game similar to how they've played all year. They did pass it too much, but they always passed it too much. They wouldn't pound it inside when it seemed to be the best strategy
Duke gets calls. For that matter KU gets calls sometimes too. I still can't get out of my mind the FT discrepancy in 1986 when we played puke in the final four. The count was 26-14 which resulted in a 30-12 FT disparity. KU outshot Duke, outrebounded Duke, out assisted Duke. They didn't keep stats for TO's apparently but I'd guess we out turnovered them too. Manning, Dreiling and Cedric Hunter all fouled out. Archie Marshall's injury when we were leading led to their referee assisted comeback.
I sure hope KU gets back to the point that we can beat Duke and Kentucky in meaningful games. It could come soon, or we may have to wait a while, we'll see.
I will be attending quite a few LSU games next year because of these exciting newcomers. Unfortunately for LSU, they had two double double machines Jarrell Martin and Jordan Mickey who decided to leave early and potentially not even get drafted. LSU is not going to be that successful next year in my opinion because of their coach and lack of a big man in the middle.
The kid who signed today, Sampson, was a teammate of Jerrell Martins, the double double guy who left. They go to this little charter school here in Baton Rouge and the competition isn't really that great for them here.
My wife just said I couldn't do it and my cardiologist said I wouldn't survive training camp, so sorry Brooks, I wouldn't see the court with you ahead of me on the depth chart anyways!
Maybe we'll be ready for this game this year. KU doesn't run from anyone, so I have no problem with it. I'd rather see this than us playing Pocatello St in Allen Field House.
Not by coincidence the NHL playoffs are just starting.
@brooksmd Nice to see the sun today huh?
@brooksmd Wow, I have eligibility left....
Sox tried to keep Detroit with shouting distance with a 12-3 thumping today. Hopefully we got a nice little run coming up.
Wow, just watched the play ya'll's talking about. That was dirty indeed.
Holland to DL? Royals having trouble staying healthy.
You must have been at my school taking that first picture!
I am always amazed at my school how nice the shoes are. It's a cultural thing for sure. I'm a prematurely gray headed 50 year old white dude and I can buy a new pair of cheap shoes and I'll walk into class and the kids will all make comments about them. I think it's a characteristic of people in poverty to look for something that will communicate status and success, even if it's shoes, or pants. One of my students a few years ago got robbed of his pants believe it or not.
Translate that to basketball and shoes and recruiting and kids in poverty it makes more sense to them than it does to us I think.
I decided to look up World Wide Wes and found this interesting nugget from a 2011 article on him.
"John Calipari was the subject of a lengthy feature by S.L. Price in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated.
As part of the profile, Calipari's relationship with William Wesley is included.
"He's become the bogeyman," Calipari says.
Calipari first became associated with Wesley when he was recruiting Kevin Walls in the mid-1980s for Kansas. Walls eventually chose to play for Denny Crum at Louisville and eventually quit as a sophomore. Milt Wagner and Billy Thompson, close friends of Wesley, also had less than positive experiences at Louisville.
"The kid should've gone to Kansas," Wesley says of Walls."
So did the whole WWW and Cal thing start at KU? Sounds like it.
On an unrelated note, you wrote: "Coach Cal made a huge mistake in not respecting his opponents" I just read something yesterday that Kentucky watched no film of Wisconsin in their week of preparation for the game. I think you're on to something there!
Are you sure about that draft? Being a Bulls fan I thought the Bulls should have gone for Beasley instead of Derrick Rose! Shows how much I know.
It may be as simple as the East Sports Programming Network. They make boeheim out to be the 2nd coming of Wooden, when he'd still be title less if we hadn't missed a boatload of free throws. I can't stand the guy, probably dislike him more than Cal if that's possible.
There's actually quite a few of these done. But, I think the statute of limitations on bad losses is 5 years so we can laugh now.
You're right, could be a nice mix of experience and a few, hopefully a few more newbies.
The only problem with our returnees is there's no reliable inside presence there. Maybe Lucas will develop big time with the increased role that he is going to see. I'd like to think so. He showed some flashes when he had to start filling in for Cliff.
Should we find someone else that will contribute immediately among the players we're still recruiting, well, we could be looking at a special season.
@dylans That class also included Perry Ellis and Andrew White, so there was some value in that class!
For the life of me I can't figure out why the NBA would want kids right out of high school. They have a free, to them, minor league system called the NCAA. Why they'd even want OAD's is beyond me. I'm not even sure why the NCAA wouldn't want a system that keeps kids in school til they've used their eligibility. The tournament got it lucky this year with a very buzzworthy final four, and the ratings to boot, but a FF like this year is a rarity. But if all of these talents who used to stay for 3 0r 4 years did stay, then we'd be having some real talent playing in the final weekend. But I'm afraid we're just heading for more Butler-UConn type of finals and mid majors making it, which is kind of exciting, but hasn't created appointment viewing for me. When George Mason made it, I didn't spend all week salivating over the prospect of watching George Mason play in the FF.
As for the in-sourcing, I don't care one way or the other. As for what Mudiay did, I say more power to him. He recognized the sham that is college basketball and did what his conscience told him was best.
I guess it's just a matter of who writes the biggest cheick.
Sorry, dumb joke, but good info, you sound like the guy in TV shows who you go to for the tips on some horse or the dirt on who committed a crime. I'm liking your vibe on this one.
Perry's back and Brannen's hip. What is this, a Jayhawk med center report?
We had Cal here with Larry in the mid 80's, so why not come back to Lawrence?
I learned the difference between a football school, which KU is not, but LSU is, and a basketball school, which KU is, but LSU isn't.
I took my daughter to Lawrence last week to visit KU. I loved it, and want to re-enroll. She's not so sure. But after doing all of the campus tours and all that it was time to drive around Lawrence and see all of my old haunts. We checked into the motel and changed out of my KU stuff which I wore for the visit into my Wisconsin shirt, since it was the day of the championship game.
We walked around downtown quite a bit. People were stopping me on the street wishing the Badgers well. In the restaurant, (Limestone hippy pizza) even a little old lady stopped me and said she was cheering for the Badgers. In other words everyone in Lawrence knew what was happening that evening and who was playing.
Two nights later, we're back home and I go to an LSU baseball game. I wear a Badgers shirt. Walk around quite a bit getting snacks, etc. Not one person stopped me to say anything about the game. In a football town, they could care less, sad really in a sports kind of way.
I wish I lived in a basketball town, and not a football town!
You could call Wilt a 20,000 and done.
To me the posterchild for OAD's winning a championship, and it's a thin list, is Carmelo. I forget who he beat :( He carried that team, aided by Macnamara's hot shooting that night. They played excellent FT defense on us too.
"For KU to be great next year it needs Diallo." When have we ever been great featuring a OAD? I'll answer it for you. Never!
I hear what you're saying that it's all that's left for recruiting. But it also dooms us to be having another early exit/how to fix KU/Bill Self is great but...../ discussion next year in March and April.
Now if we can find a couple of OAD's and convince them that two years is better, well let's talk! Because the experienced backcourt @jaybate 1.0 referred to is also going to be back for one more go around in 2016-17.
Are we getting excited for more OAD's to potentially come to KU? I mean I guess we need some more players, well, not I guess, we do need some sizable players, but if some of these guys are not OAD's, then sign me up. If not, we've got to break out of this cycle one way or the other, and it might as well start now.
Wouldn't it be a cool throwback to see a college kid shooting some skyhooks?
They have one ring since the millennium started, we have one. Duke, UConn have 3, UNC 2, heck even his rival Louisville has one. That's got to be irking some uck fans.
Oh I know that team was loaded too. Believe me that's a painful loss, mitigated somewhat that the team that did actually beat them won the championship!
But the Royals haven't played anybody yet :)
That's what kills me, and everyone else here about our 2002-2003 teams. We had 3 guys (I know, Gooden wasn't there in 2003) that are still playing in the NBA on that team, and it'd be four if Simien hadn't got injured. It was an amazing collection of talent.
I was looking at the standings today. In the west the bottom three teams all feature former KU players playing rather decently.
Minnesota 16-63 LA Lakes 21-58 Sacramento 27-52 Wiggins, Tarik and BMac all being productive on the worst teams in the west.
In the east the bottom two teams the same NY 16-64 with Cole, and Philly 18-62 with TRob.
The Twins, Pierce (and Gooden sporadically) and Chalmers are the only relatively productive KU players on decent teams.
On the best teams Captain Kirk, and Rush, and Collison are the only KU players and Rush barely plays.
Cole 19 points, 14 points up til now tonight!
Kieff had a double-double last night as well.
I wonder why any college would want him?
Nice description of the beautiful lakes of Madison! We lived near there for four years.
I have skied behind inboards like the Nautique all my life. Cut my teeth on a 50 horse evinrude, then Dad found an American Skier which was made by Correct Craft, very similar to the Nautique. We called it 7 up because it once pulled up 7 of us skiing together at one time.
@Crimsonorblue22 I hope to match my dad who skied last summer at the ripe young age of 82! I'll be glad to be on the right side of the ground at that age, but if I can, I'll ski to that age too!
Although I'd probably count as a dullard in your book too, I agree this isn't the place to bring politics into things. The board will never be the same if we do.
There was a dictator in the Philippines back in the 1980's Fernando ? Marcos. His wife was infamous for owning like 8000 pairs of shoes. I was referring to that.
While it's an honor I guess to have our team chosen for that tournament, I never quite understood the wisdom of sending the entire team. Elite players internationally of course have caught up to the US. Check out the Spurs roster for example.
Injury chance increases, the potential for embarrassing blowouts exists.
And of course, as you point out, who is going to be playing for us?
This keep up with the Jones' pressure on Self might force him to reconsider staying at Kansas. Why not go to OSU and coach a team in which he can recruit 50-100 rank players and not have to worry about losing 2 0r 3 guys every year?
If we lose Perry, I can see this team next year breaking the streak and falling to the bubble.
If he comes back, but we add no significant recruits, another crown is doable, but not a serious contender.
If he returns and we add another couple of bigs, well, the sky is the limit!
Somehow I have the Duke game on DVR and not the kenyucky game. :(
I don't know how this got from Chieck Diallo to burgers, but my favorite burgers are my own!
I've discovered about 25 years after I've been grilling that you can really make dazzling burgers right in your own backyard. I spread a little cajun seasoning on my patties, slice some cucumbers, thrown some onion slices right on the grill, flip the burgers, put Muenster cheese on it with the cucumber slices, (I'm not a cheese connosieur so if you have other cheese ideas let me know) and after removing, tomato, lettuce, ketchup. Toast up the bun a little bit. Mmmm
And since I'm on the subject, hot dogs. Nothing better than Hebrew Nationals. It doesn't matter if a pack of 7 cost about 5 bucks. Splurge! Delicious.
And Chieck, come to KU!
And their last college memory will be of Wisconsin ruining their dreams of making history!!!
The funny thing is I do think the college game is pretty awful to watch.....unless it's my team(s). Missed shots galore, turnovers, 18 year olds who think they're NBA ready, etc.
Last night I was channel surfing, caught the end of a good Mavs-Suns game. I watched Nowinsky casually drain a 3 pointer under pressure with about 10 seconds left to essentially seal the deal. I mean these guys playing in the NBA are really good, well except the 18 year olds who haven't learned to play yet.
But there's no passion. It's not much fun to watch.