I wasn’t expecting to well up in tears for someone I hadn’t personally met, but I did. I’ve been to four funerals of friends and family this year and was able to stay composed, but this hit me harder than expected. @RockChalkinTexas apparently holds a special place in my heart. I enjoy my bucketteers; don’t any of you dare leave!

Everyone stay safe and healthy as possible this holiday season!!!

@wissox said in My crisis of faith in Bill:

Bill Self had a phase where he recruited some questionable character guys. It really impacted this program, saddling us with the black eye of the half decade long investigation. The dude with the car accident (I’ve repressed the memory of his name and couldn’t care less to learn his name), the dude with the shoebox money (ditto my other parenthesis), Josh Jackson the most talented of all the lowlifes we brought in. The dude who raped the woman. Vick, had some issues, forgetting exactly, Jalen Wilson DUI, and the aforementioned Cliff Alexander, a victim of his own ma if I recall correctly. I might be wrong but Selfs first decade with us was his strongest and we avoided these headlines.

The original post, excellent btw @approxinfinity, and @MoonwalkMafia, was what’s happened to recruiting. Bill Self is still struggling to recover from the black eyes of the last decade.

But part of this is waiting for NCAA to work out the negativity of the NIL and portal eras. We brought in some highly ranked 5 star for next year. Normally I’d be stoked but now I’m just thinking he’s another Grady or Furphy (who had like 1 good game while he was here using us to get to the league). So while maybe the character issue has been resolved, finding loyal guys to the program who see all of the ‘trappings’ that come with being a KU player has been difficult. I laugh at guys like Grady Dick who took the money and play for a gosh awful Toronto team. Must be really fun playing in a boring league in front bored fans. He was getting paid here and would be a huge part of KU lore had he stuck around. Instead he’s an NBA afterthought. Would’ve gotten paid after this year or even his senior year a bunch.

88, 08, and 22 have forever etched themselves into my mind and make enduring these down periods a little less difficult. But I fear the aura of KU ball wearing off a little bit and always look at IU basketball, or Nebraska football as examples of programs that ruled their sport that haven’t been able to get it together since. Anyone see IU fans abandon the Assembly Hall the other day against Illinois before the first half was even done? My worst nightmare for KU right there.

Having met Jalen Wilson and seeing as he has had no other issues I take offense to his inclusion on the bad actors list. He made a childish mistake, atoned for it, and didn’t have another single issue - if I’m not mistaken. His attitude and demeanor improved drastically after that and he became a model student athlete on and off the court.

Worst case scenario- KU in line for the number one overall seed, plays no games due to a pandemic. Leaving nothing but what if’s for all.

@BeddieKU23 Yes, Kelly should’ve stayed another year, but I’m still upset that Paul Pierce left early.

I love that Bill Self is being blamed for tuning out a roster devoid of post talent and yet his team is playing the best basketball in the nation, undefeated, and ranked #2.

The warts will show, but Bill is doing a masterful job once again.

Wow. Hope he figures life out quickly. He’s blowing a couple once in a lifetime opportunities.

Just realized Buckets turned 10 years old last October!!! Thanks to all who have helped make this site entertaining!

As a Chiefs fan, Mahomes is payback for watching other teams do that to our D for years.

Win at all costs and the fans cry about not looking to the future. Sit Cliff and lose tonight with an eye on the future and fans cry. It’a a good thing KU basketball coach isn’t an elected position. The man has done nothing but win games at a historic rate. KU is 14-3 with a freshman and sophomore dominated line-up in what has been the hardest schedule in the nation. I’m estatic with the win loss record, but think there is much room for improvement in play. That’s what has me excited, KU will be better in March and even better next year.

If Bill manages to win the conference title this year it will be quite the feat with 8 teams in a 10 team conference having been ranked in the top 25. That means 8 teams have been rated in the top 7% of all college basketball. KU will have to earn this championship!

Ugly half done stadium. Those light stanchions are one of the worst design decisions. Just hideous. Hope they win some games to take the stank off that stadium.

@FarmerJayhawk yeah. I understand ne Kansas farming. It’s much more relaxed than the big farms out west. This area is one of the most intensely farmed and managed areas in the row crop world. If you get even 60 miles away the work load and income crater. I’m not saying there is no stress though. Everyone has stress even if you do nothing you will manufacture stress for yourself. Folks are mentally weak to buckle under something so trivial as work stress - suicides over work, are you kidding me?!? There is another job. There is another day.

I just had a fucking disaster the last few days. A well cratered in one of my pastures and 6 cows and a calf died before I found and fixed it. The last 4 died in my arms as I tried to save them, that last breath is heart wrenching. It’s beyond shitty, but you do what you can and move on.

I bet this conversation would make @KUSTEVE ‘s head exploded. not an ag fan. @approxinfinity - it’s definitely time for KU basketball. Thankfully pre-season nfl football has started. It’s a crappy version of football, but it’s still better than baseball!

@FarmerJayhawk If you don’t have stress you aren’t breathing.

2 out of 10 years drop out on the insurance deal. Hail and wind insurance covers the top end. Federal crop insurance the bottom. Irrigation guarantees a steady yield line. If they don’t have irrigated land - they barely work and I’m not listening about stress caused by not working. Dryland farmers have one of the easiest jobs in the world - no boss, no set hours, 9 months out of the year doing absolutely nothing. Most have inherited what they have too (I’m describing family here - he has zero stress and will retire that way). The young guys that are getting into farming with no ground given to them by family are very impressive to me.

I work for farmers as crop consultant. I don’t check for ingrates, miserable people, or assholes. The growers I have all enjoy life and their work. My job just requires that I’m right in what I tell the farmers 100% of the time - there is no partial credit, but by doing it properly it helps reduce the stress on the growers - I tell them when/what to plant, when/what to spray for weeds, insects, and disease, when to water, how much fertilizer and when to apply it, when to shut the water off, when to harvest. I’d like to think that reduces their stress a little.

@FarmerJayhawk said in To hell with the summer:

@dylans farmers have a time honored tradition of complaining about the weather. It’s a skill honed over many generations of Kansas farming communities. I just talked to my grandpa the other day and he was upset about the heat burning up our fall crop. This cold front is much needed. It’s not a nice day in Kansas when a storm destroys your income for the season.

That’s what crop insurance is for. Sometimes you actually make more with the insurance check and whatever is left of the crop.

There is no way an economist would ever work out as a farmer. The numbers rarely work up front, but do on the back end - it would be infuriating to know all your number crunching is 100% wrong every time. It seems you made a good career choice, it appears you’d be very stressed as a farmer and that’s no good.

@FarmerJayhawk said in To hell with the summer:

The nice thing about Kansas is not only do the summers suck, the winters also suck.

I was born in Wilcox Arizona. Every day is nice in Kansas. But I guess the weather sucks to others. It’s pretty pleasant if you ask me, right up to 100 degrees. Low humidity, almost always a breeze. The winters are pretty mild, very little snow and generally it’ll be in the 50s sometime in January.

The people that complain the hardest about the weather spend the least time in it I find. The problem is between the ears, not the actual temperatures. It’s always hot in July and August and cold in December and January, it’s normal.

It’s kids from the city that always complain the hardest at work and quit when it gets hot or hard (excuse me, young men are the problem, the women I’ve hired have always finished the job. They seem to have more follow through when the guys just wimp out). I’ve seen 4’11” 90# young lady out work a 6’3” 215# workout fanatic and the thing is it repeats constantly. Too many young men in general are giant pussies these days. Culture shift to mental weakness - it’s not physical. It’s ok they’ll learn, it’s just later in life now.

My friend’s grandfather who was 98 at the time was driving a cab-less tractor in 107 degree heat - it got too hot for him. They found him laying in a hole under the tractor. Fearing the worst they approached his body. Man, was he pissed they interrupted his nap.

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Out of curiosity how many of ya work outside in the heat? It’s not that bad if you spend the entire day outside. AC has ruined perceptions.

@wissox So you were at the “The Sandberg” game? Nice!

@approxinfinity I’m enjoying the last of us. Pedro Pascal is in fantastic 4 too…oh boy, is it bad though.