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wissoxfan83
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Hi Brooks
@tis4tim You get a PHOF on your first thread. Had me laughing!! Good work!!
My wife will never let me watch a KU game again if that happens, so stop at 29 please!!
Weber is probably a nice guy and all, but his brother was the HS coach of Duke star John Scheyer. (I've told this story so forgive me if you've read it already) This was in the north suburbs of Chicago, Glenbrook North or South, I forget which. Anyways, seems like a slam dunk recruit for Bruce at the U of I, but obviously his own brother couldn't deliver his star to suffer under Bruce Weber.
@JhawkAlum If winning tonight means Weber saves his job, then maybe we should cheer for KSU and their fans will probably want to cheer for us!
@wrwlumpy Interesting to think if that statement "Something that is more important to Bill Self than any other coach" is really true. I think Bill Self stresses defense, definitely. But more than any other coach? Interesting to think about. Interesting to think about what other coaches stress more than anything else as well.
@drgnslayr The thing that's interesting is that he was very successful as a mid major coach at Southern Illinois. He took his team to at least one sweet 16 and his teams were ranked most years I believe. He also gave us fits in one of our trips to the dance in 01 or 02 I think.
There are coaches that just seem to thrive more in the mid-major role. Some obviously move up successfully, such as Bill Self! Others, and I'm thinking Groce at U of I is starting to be a bust as as well. His Ohio teams were tough as nails, drove us to the limit one year I believe, but he can't recruit for the U of I and his teams look as dead as Webers teams did. I know, I watched them last night. Awful.
I like having a strong KState. I forget the year, but a few years back we went there for a game on a Saturday night. It was the biggest game of the day nationally. The place was pumped as much as I've ever seen it. I believe we pulled it out by 2 points. It was a lot of fun, and probably would have been even if we'd lost. Not having grown up in KS, I don't hold the animosity towards them as some do, although I did pick up a hatred for Missouri.
The rivalry would be better if KSU was relevant nationally. To my memory they haven't even made the elite 8 since we beat them there in '88. They've been strong, but not elite. That's the difference between this rivalry and a Duke/UNC rivalry. If KSU had some rings, it'd be must watch TV for most of the country. Unfortunately for us it just becomes a lose-lose situation. We expect to beat them, they hope to beat us and consider the season to be successful if they beat us.
I don't have any jokes except the familiar Silo Tech reference.
The crowd at KUSports, whom we always accuse of being negative and whiny must be having a hayday reading some of the threads we've got going.
@KUSTEVE
I had to laugh today looking at an SEC baseball preview magazine today of all things. Picked last in the SEC? Misery!
@wrwlumpy Our photography expert strikes again! You're better than the AP!!
@wrwlumpy Or maybe we have a KU fan who doesn't see it very positively. What KUinLA wrote here wasn't all that egregious.
@KansasComet I scored 2 points in a real college basketball game once, would that change your view that I could have gotten 3 shot attempts? :)
@KUSTEVE Maybe he's just a negative KU fan. There are those types as well. I haven't exactly thrilled with the last two years versions of KU either!
@KansasComet
Did you see Lucas' line? 9 minutes and zeroes across the board. I'm not saying he's not trying, but I could try hard and have the same line!
What I have kept thinking about these last few weeks is imagine Selden, Mason and Graham in two years, or even next year? I'm not sure if any is an early entry candidate, so, wow, a loaded backcourt!
This question is being asked nationally too. I'm perplexed. I'm not enough of a student of the game to fully understand these things. An article last week I saw showed him as having the best per minute numbers of all of our bigs. He'd be averaging a double double if he were playing 30 plus minutes is what I recall it saying.
Oh, his name is Huey, thought they were saying Ewing.
No Crimson, I mean our manager who came in, wasn't his name Ewing?
I think that Ewing that came in is Patrick's son.
Crimson, I keep thinking Ed Neely. Wasn't he a KStater?
@DCHawker TCU is a tough team. THis the 2nd time we've found out.
Wikipedia tells all!
Chris Washburn on TCU is the son of the NCS player who we beat twice in 1986 including the Elite 8. He's been a shady character ever since with his last arrest in 2014
Beddie, we're shooting 54%. That's positive!
I'm gonna keep banging this drum. They need to put the total fouls for the half on the running score for the game. It's important information that's on all arena scoreboards, but not on our screens.
Every time the refs talk we lose the ball.
Since I live in Baton Rouge I get to see them play on occasion. WIth their recruits coming in and two studs at forward, him and Jordan Mickey they could be a tough team.
Anyone see that through the legs dunk they just showed?
NBADraft,net has him as the 42nd, a long shot for staying power for sure.
I don't see Perry in the league. TRob was a beast in college and he's barely hanging on.
We are in your virtual living room
I really hope Mason, Graham and selden are all playing together here in 2 years. What a guard combo that will be!
TCU is bad because it feels like we're losing by 10.
@Crimsonorblue22 Hmmm, those are big shoes to fill.
Working? He didn't call in sick? No dedication at all.
To be fair, we all need to post a picture of our faces so we can make fun of the way each other looks too! I'd post a pic of mine, but I don't know how.
@drgnslayr To my knowledge, me and @KUSTEVE are the only ones to have pictures of ourselves on our avatar.
@Crimsonorblue22 We'll let @HighEliteMajor decide if my maybe is valid!
@nuleafjhawk I say maybe :)
@nuleafjhawk I'd like to see if I'm getting smarter or dumber since this thing started, although I think I know the answer!
@Blown My profile just shows recent ones unfortunately.
Since we're kind of talking about KUBuckets, is there any way to go back and find my old topics that I have posted?
@JayHawkFanToo If you look up that 85-86 schedule it was very light on cupcakes. Almost of all of my post focused on the regular season. Louisville 2x, Duke, NCState, Kentucky, all elite 8 teams or better we played in the regular season. A bunch of other non-con games against NCAA tournament teams. That's not apples and oranges, it's an eye test, and at the end of the season we probably will not have played a schedule that tough, not even close.
I agree, although I think, maybe? that UNC did call a TO to set up the final game winner when it was tied, although I might be thinking of OT. Nonetheless, UNC blew it more than Duke just overwhelmed them with amazing play. I'll always cheer for ole Roy, although he might really need to be retiring soon. Something's missing that used to be there.
The other damnable offense was the refs not going to review the shot clock violation that WVU scored on. I'm pretty sure that's reviewable at any time. The coaching staff should have caught that I thought and pointed it out when it happened.
A couple of weeks ago I had some time on my hands and did a little research. There's a site that I found that has teams schedules, I looked up ours, clicked on each opponent to see how they did and had my info.
It was my first year on campus and my first year following KU basketball. Memorable year so I do remember quite a few of those games.
Yes we have a tough schedule but in my life it in no way is the toughest. I posted about this several weeks ago. In 1985-86 we beat Louisville twice, they were the national champs. We played Duke once in the regular season. They were runners up. Then we played them infamously in the final 4. 3 games, and in effect 4 games against the top two teams.
Of the elite 8, we beat Kentucky and NCState, then beat NCS in the elite 8. Of the 7 elite 8 teams we played 4 of them a total of 7 times, winning 5, Duke beat us twice. The Big 8 was extremely tough, ISU was a sweet 16 team of course we played them twice as well. Oklahoma was a 4 seed, we beat them twice. Other non-conference foes also made the dance like Memphis St, Washington and Pepperdine.
Now that's a tough schedule. Maybe it was pre RPI, I don't know and I don't care. The problem this year is we haven't handled our tough schedule as well as I thought we would. Of course it comes down to who can win 6 games in March and April. Just ask UConn!
@VailHawk Yeah, but she'll remind me the crazy bus is pulling up to the house.