Posts made by dylans

@drgnslayr said in The portal.:

@dylans said in The portal.:

All I know is there is a big push to get as much money right now before the ruling on NCAA direct payments puts a salary cap on it. Basically breaking the salary cap before it’s in place. More loopholes to come…

It seems like that new rule will be a big mess immediately. So I’m KU and we only have $2 mil left in our legal kitty fund. Won’t we contact a corp with big pockets (cough… cough… Adidas) and have them make up the difference with a private NIL package for the guy we want to sign? Private NIL is unlimited and will remain unlimited!

Gosh… is this another one of those KU-Adidas situations where the NCAA smells trouble so they just investigate us again for a decade and then come up with nothing?

Ugg

Dirt around the bases like 80s royals baseball. It works, but man it’s ugly! Full turf is akin to playing basketball on a carpeted floor or a rubber court. It isn’t the quite the same.

@BShark said in The portal.:

Rakease visited Miami and will now visit Tennessee. Working on one to Auburn as well. I think of all the guys that left this will be the one that ages badly for us…

Interesting take. He didn’t show anything in his brief time in Lawrence. Are you basing that off his HS production? Seems like he could be a glue guy, maybe. But I’ve underestimated players before.

@BeddieKU23 said in The portal.:

@BShark said in The portal.:

@FarmerJayhawk said in The portal.:

@DCHawker that’s why I added the disclaimer. We’re not done adding.

They have the #1 player in the 2026 class (who could potentially reclassify) visiting

Trying to gauge just how good Stokes is. Film just shows dunks in transition and some high level athletic ability. He reminds me of a more athletic Jalen Wilson, straight line speed and aggressiveness. I like the fit here but just wondering how much he could really impact a team if he joined.

FWIW I would have taken Zion Williamson. Similar (smaller) mold.

@BShark said in The portal.:

The rumor about how much Zach Clemence got is WILD.

850k…

Does that come with expectations?

@drgnslayr All I know is there is a big push to get as much money right now before the ruling on NCAA direct payments puts a salary cap on it. Basically breaking the salary cap before it’s in place. More loopholes to come…

@SlimShaddy54 said in KU Roster for 25-26:

@Woodrow Zero , for one been hearing if the recruit over Tre White he is out

Again? lol consistent I guess. To commit and never set foot on campus twice would be hilarious.

@SlimShaddy54 Tennessee just ran their QB off by refusing to up his pay to 4mil per. They had been paying him 2mil a season, starting his senior year in HS. SMH

@Jhawk69 Or some may say the Big12 looks pretty stacked at this point and KU has some work to do. But sarcasm is something my 9 year old is tying to master as well. Best of luck! It takes some practice.

The chick that ksu ran the national champ’s QB off for? Alanis Morissette would like a word.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44689483/mens-college-basketball-way-too-early-ranking-top-25-teams-2025-26-texas-tech-byu

Three big12 teams in the top 6 of these extremely way too early rankings. (Spoiler, none of them are KU). Another 2 teams ranked in the top 15 also not KU who checks in at 19.

A lot of roster left to build, but it needs to be impactful to keep pace.

I don’t recall who, but an espn radio jockey was talking about college football and the portal. He said they better figure things out to stabilize college football with contracts - you don’t want it turning into college basketball where you can’t recognize a roster from year to year. It makes it hard on the fans when they don’t know who they’re rooting for.

Yikes. College basketball is the cautionary tale for football at this point. What a mess this is.

@BShark Will KU be able to make up lost ground? Seems they are currently behind a couple other schools in his recruitment. Getting him to visit Lawrence is a big deal though.

I stand corrected. It has the ESPN+ and Amazon Prime and whatever else games on it too. No blackouts.

@BShark said in The portal.:

Bill Self baaaang

Seal the deal Bill.

Updated espn portal rankings for what they’re worth. 2 Outgoing KU players, one incoming. But having watched them play in Lawrence it’s an upgrade.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/insider/story/_/id/44394258/mens-college-basketball-transfer-portal-player-rankings-2025-26

@MR11 lol I suppose it’s as legal as any loophole until it’s closed. ‍️ enjoy it for now I guess.

If you’re worried you may miss out on baseball or something… https://uzzu.tv/

Inexpensive app that has pretty much every game for all the major sports.

If all you watch live is sports, no need to reactivate all those other services.

It’s so nice I’m not sure how it’s legal at that price. Way cheapest option. $129/year for every pretty much every game on broadcast tv. Obviously those gotcha exclusively streaming games won’t be included - espn+, paramountTV, Amazon Prime, and Netflix games.

@BShark Would prefer better coaching…

@Texas-Hawk-10 I had no idea they would withhold the playbook from Tiller while he recovered. Figured he would be at practice soaking it in like Elmarko. That seems like a ridiculous strategy.

@MR11 I don’t hear much about Tiller. He’s been with the program practicing for a semester. He was rated around the 25th ranked recruit. But no hype, it’s interesting. I expect someone ranked that high with a 6’10” frame to find some minutes. But it’s pretty much crickets.

@drgnslayr They’re taught to switch. It really confused Duke early.

@Kcmatt7 said in The portal.:

@approxinfinity said in The portal.:

Someone rightly pointed out that the list we are discussing is valuation and not program revenue. However, the revenue numbers from this nasdaq article in 2023 were more alarming: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/schools-that-make-the-most-money-off-college-basketball

KU’s public filing has them right behind Nova on the list, and $22.6M just for men’s BB.

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/ukansas.sidearmsports.com/documents/2025/1/15/FY_2023-24_NCAA_Financial_Report_final_version.pdf

Less than 3mil profit. Not much wiggle room. Definitely not enough to contribute to the NIL fund. Crazy that they only pull in 23mil. TV revenue must not be optimized or the revenue isn’t there. You’d think with the fan support they would generate enough money to pay the players. They do not without significant donations - that’s wild to me.

@TYOHawk said in KU Roster for 25-26:

@BShark said in KU Roster for 25-26:

He won’t contribute

Jeremy Case part 2

lol locker room cancer too? No coaching invite!jk

@dylans said in The portal.:

This makes me respect Hunter more and mercenaries less.

“I gave up money. I gave up six figures to help our team get better because obviously, everybody thinks Kansas has all this money," Dickinson stated. "We weren’t even in the Top 15. We probably weren’t even in the Top 25 in spending. But they came off the rumor that we spent $5 million last year, and [players] were all on the bus like, ‘S***, who got the $5 million?’”

https://throughthephog.com/kansas-jayhawks-land-outside-top-10-in-wsj-s-list-of-most-valuable-college-basketball-nil-brands

Point being, I don’t believe KU can just pay for every player they want. There is still an element of recruiting involved. It would be nice to better understand the budget to understand the direction of recruiting a bit more.

@msanchez AZ is #6. Florida and Auburn are football centric money wise and have no shortage of funds. MSU ‍️ what have they accomplished since that title a quarter of a century ago in 2000? How does Izzo keep his job? No crying poverty for these schools.

Houston has a good coach and has had pretty good player retention, hopefully they keep it up and don’t fall apart soon. The Big12 needs more than just KU basketball (assuming KU returns to prominence).

@approxinfinity Makes me wonder if there will be transparency at some point. Most of what we have is speculation.

Hopefully a salary cap or the like will return a better competitive balance. - it probably doesn’t help KU, but whatever. I’d like to win over a level field.

This makes me respect Hunter more and mercenaries less.

“I gave up money. I gave up six figures to help our team get better because obviously, everybody thinks Kansas has all this money," Dickinson stated. "We weren’t even in the Top 15. We probably weren’t even in the Top 25 in spending. But they came off the rumor that we spent $5 million last year, and [players] were all on the bus like, ‘S***, who got the $5 million?’”

https://throughthephog.com/kansas-jayhawks-land-outside-top-10-in-wsj-s-list-of-most-valuable-college-basketball-nil-brands

@HoraceZontal I didn’t notice him either. The rankings are likely mostly based on counting stats - points mainly.

@BeddieKU23 said in Congrats, Frank!:

You definitely got me.

Sorry

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14iuUEmLvi/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Over 5000 d1 players on over 350 teams. That’s a lot of new tax revenue! lol the nfl only has around 1500 players and average pay of 2.8mil per year. College basketball may pay better soon to fill a top tier roster.

As the pay escalates the yearly roster churn will continue. The haves and have nots will swap players.

ESPN’s portal top 100 fwiw

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/insider/story/_/id/44394258/mens-college-basketball-transfer-portal-player-rankings-2025-26

Any interest in Acaden Lewis? The PG recently decommitted from Kentucky. Not a wing but another ball handler might be nice. (I keep forgetting about Elmarko).

That’s a lot of freebies by Duke.

@TYOHawk said in Peterson:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqCdSmp0OI

If you remove the m. It displays differently. Like -

FWIW https://www.espn.com/college-football/recruiting/insider/story/_/id/44574905/2026-college-football-recruiting-class-rankings-top-teams-schools

@BShark said in The portal.:

@dylans said in The portal.:

@drgnslayr said in The portal.:

@DCHawker

No doubt they are well rounded. But look at that Duke game. They had 18 ORs on the tallest team in the nation! And for the game they had 11 total rebs more than Duke.

I bet if they can create 18 ORs on Florida tonight they will take home the trophy!

It’s as if rebounding is important. Wish someone would’ve beat that into this last KU team!

KU was in the top 30 nationally in rebounds per game? Top 10 in defensive rebounding. Last year’s team had a lot of issues but they did rebound. I think one of the biggest issues was the fact that they just did not get to the FT line. That screams a lack of athleticism to me. They also fouled a lot, which same deal.

KU was 67th is rebounding margin, more important than the gross number of rebounds is the positive net. Ku grabbed 38.5 rebounds to the opponents 34.7. KU was not a good rebounding team there just were a bunch of rebounds to be had (poor shooting? pace of play?). I contend if KJ could rebound, (5 per game Zeke had 4.8) KU would’ve been a lot better.

I feel like rebounding is as good of a measure of effort/hustle as any advanced stat could be.

@drgnslayr said in The portal.:

@DCHawker

No doubt they are well rounded. But look at that Duke game. They had 18 ORs on the tallest team in the nation! And for the game they had 11 total rebs more than Duke.

I bet if they can create 18 ORs on Florida tonight they will take home the trophy!

It’s as if rebounding is important. Wish someone would’ve beat that into this last KU team!

So who are the starters?

Peterson and Flory.

White?

And? The roster looks pretty incomplete at this point. Need another impactful player. Maybe that other transfer will be the 2?

@approxinfinity I’m not really mad at Flory as much as I’m infuriated with his handler.

@approxinfinity If the season started today I would buy tickets just to boo Flory! He’s just an easy target. Much easier to be pretend mad at a dumbass kid making himself look like a jackass than to deal with real life emotions. I’d rather be fake mad than sad all the time…

@approxinfinity Go to another company. I started my own. What’s the safety net of an employer feel like? Suffocation?

I don’t hate that he got more money. I hate how he went about it. It he wanted to leave don’t come back for money, that’s dumb. KU won’t get the best version of him. Go away and flourish or fail.

I understand he’s your man crush, but he isn’t loyal. I won’t go to an event he’s sponsoring, I won’t believe a speech he gives about how great KU is (I’ll just wonder how much they paid him to say that).

As of today there is not a player on the roster worth rooting for. Maybe one will emerge - Jamari perhaps will be a four year player. The rest are rentals, Flory equates to a high dollar hooker.

“I’m really excited to be back for another year to continue to grow and develop and bring a national championship to Kansas,” Bidunga told ESPN with a wink and a bag of cash.

@BeddieKU23 Depends, how much crap, and when did he give it to you for KUs wretched season? Some people are just friends who root for the wrong team and have a common thing - both our teams lost in humiliating fashion. It can be friendly, but it doesn’t have to be.

I prefer to kill the local KSU fans with kindness most of the year - it takes their legs out from under them…and then rip their shriveled black hearts out when it hurts most. When KU wins big I’m obnoxiously happy and they feed into that with their misery. Rarely is there a need to cut them down, but on occasion it’s nice to remind them of how great their football team is and ask about the last NC game they played in or BCS/ny6 bowl game they won or playoff games they’ve made…

https://x.com/CFBONFOX/status/1544426390920892416

Have fun with your Duke friend. Choose violence if that’s the most fun for ya.

@BeddieKU23 Money matters can be handled a hell of a lot better than this. There is no reason we should know he is in a contract dispute. And if you have one foot out the door the other better follow. Imperious child that can take his handler and find a new home as far as I’m concerned. Bill is a pushover or in far worse recruiting position than we realize to bow down to such actions.

True Jayhawk - makes me want to get the Pom poms out and cheer him until he draws his last breath. Rail on Harris all you want he is a true Jayhawk thru and thru and I will support him in his future endeavors. Flory - meh he’s already dead to me.

I’d like a player of Flory’s caliber, but one more loyal. Flory is a pos to me for pulling this stunt. Auburn can have his mercenary ass for all I care.

To rob from Willie Wonka - money is common, there is only one KU.

@Crimsonorblue22

There are more players in the portal than starting positions in D1. The system is broken and there is no loyalty. (Also some benches must be more comfortable)