@truehawk93 KU doesn’t have to be the best team in the tournament, just the better team on floor 6 times.

@loyolstud88 Blue blood killer is cute, come back when you beat one.

This fanbase across various sites, including some here, are truly living down to some of the most negative stereotypes about KU fans being snobs. I don’t understand the ego and mentality it takes (including some here) to be more happy and gloating about potentially being right about the demise of Bill Self than caring more about having a successful team and program. To those people, all I have to say is fuck off, KU doesn’t need or want you as fans.

@Kcmatt7 Self knows exactly how to coach young guards. They just don’t become finished products right away. Mason and Graham each took until their third years to become elite guards.

Marcus Garrett has signed a free agent deal with the Miami Heat. The last two Jayhawks who played with the Heat won NBA titles (Chalmers and Simien) so maybe Garrett continues that trend.

@kuballin10 said in Puerto Rico!:

@mayjay lol no doubt I’m starting early.

Last year it was Joe should play more or actually year before that and then last year he showed he doesn’t have it.

This year we have the horses and both Morris and Elmarko are better nba prospects for a reason.

Gotta trust Bill

Being a better NBA prospect doesn’t equal being a better college player right now. Dejuan Harris is a better college player than Morris or Jackson right now because he is a much more polished product than either of those two.

There’s also a reason why Yesufu ended up in the wastelands of Pullman, Washington. He’s an undersized 2 with a low BBIQ that’s never met a shot he didn’t like that Self never should’ve offered.

Constructing a championship caliber team isn’t necessarily about the 5 best players, it’s a bit the 5 right players and Harris brings a lot of other tools than scoring to the table. Having a real post threat now means that Harris can focus on his defense and running the show and not worry about having to score like last season. I wouldn’t be shocked if Harris averaged 8-9 assists per game this season with the supporting cast he has.

Good to see Udeh still helping KU win games, lol!

@wissox said in Peterson:

@rcjhdraft I don’t think that’s our recruiting strategy, do you? I mean lets get a 1 year rental because it’ll bring in all the system guys we need? Of course the portal is a game changer too and maybe guys will want to come alongside him next year thinking they’ll all mesh into a championship team. Someone will probably fact check me on this but I don’t think there’s a championship team since Duke in 2015, or maybe Kentucky in 2012 that’s ridden OAD’s to the championship.

A player’s end goal is not playing Kansas (or whatever school they go to), it’s to play in the NBA. Darryn Peterson is a difference maker and him being successful at Kansas and then in the NBA will attract more of the OAD level talent. That in turn will attract a higher caliber role player to fill in around those superstar players so that in years when there isn’t a OAD caliber player on the roster, it’s still a roster loaded with players who have an NBA future.

KU and Beaty need to do everything in their power to keep Tony Hull because as long as he’s at KU, that pipeline KU now has into New Orleans is going to stay open until for KU until Hull is no longer here. Louisiana is just an entirely different culture from the rest of the country and these guys aren’t joking about the family atmosphere having a huge influence on their decisions. I know @wissox and anyone else including myself who have spent a significant portion of time in Louisiana will 100% back up this claim about the loyalty of Louisiana people being accurate and Hull has the loyalty of HS coaches and players all over the New Orleans area specifically.

Landing Tyriek Starks was the beginning. The connection with Hull was made during this recruitment because Starks played at Warren Easton under Hull. Reggie Mitchell then leaves for Arkansas and KU has a need for a new RB coach. Beaty takes a calculated risk by bringing in Hull in an attempt to get some players out of Louisiana. Almost immediately, Hull gets commitments from Mike Lee and Malik Clark (Clark is also from Warren Easton) and then gets Lee to enroll a year early at KU. In his 1st year, Hull also lands Travis Jordan and Takulve Williams both from the New Orleans area as well. In a little over a year on the job, Hull brings in 4 Louisiana players, one of whom gets a chance to play early. Getting players from Louisiana to visit KU is a big enough deal which hiring Hull allowed KU to at least talk to players in Louisiana. Seeing Mike Lee emerge on the scene however is a game changer for KU in Louisiana. Without the success Mike Lee had last year, KU does not land any of the Louisiana recruits that committed yesterday, at least not early like they did. They probably go home and tell their younger teammates about how nice KU is and that keeps the line of communication open with Louisiana prospects for Tony Hull. Lee’s success is a game changer because it shows these kids that they can come in and be successful very early on at KU instead of having to sit and wait behind other 4 and 5 star guys at LSU.

If Daylon Charlot comes in and has early success and if Tyriek Starks wins the QB job, the floodgates will be fully open for KU to talk to any recruit in Louisiana they want to and to have a legitimate chance to sign those players as well.

What KU did yesterday in getting commitments from Jason and Harris (3rd and 4th best players in Louisiana with offers from LSU, Alabama, and basically everybody in the SEC) is something that has definitely caught a lot of people off guard including everyone who follows KU football. We knew Hull would allow KU to talk to some players out of Louisiana, but to actually land commitments from players the caliber of Jason and Harris is something I don’t even think Tony Hull thought was possible at this stage in the game.

Don’t be surprised to see KU land possibly 3, maybe even more recruits out of Louisiana this year. Warren Easton has a couple of 3 star prospects who we know Hull has a relationship with and there’s a DE out of Baton Rouge that KU is the favorite to land.

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Florida is the team that’s getting brought up that could potentially make Leipold reconsider things. That’s a program that can win a national title pretty quickly and who I would be most nervous about of they decided Leipold was the man they wanted once they fire Napier after this season.

@wissox said in Beat the Hillbillies:

@Texas-Hawk-10 I understand, but did it cost us yards?

That did not cost KU any yards. Even if it did, defending your QB is worth it from a dirty hit. I’d be pissed off as a coach if my QB took a dirty hit and nobody defended him.

@wissox said in Beat the Hillbillies:

Stupid for KU to push the guy who committed the penalty.

He was defending Daniels after a dirty hit. I have zero issues with what 70 did on that play.

@kjayhawks said in Not paying for ESPN this year:

@Texas-Hawk-10 @FarmerJayhawk maybe I’m off base and little off topic. I just don’t think it’s right that anyone with remotely right wing train of thought for the last decade and half had been silenced outside of the garbage known as Fox News. Could you imagine the back lash if De Niro said F Obama or Biden when he accepted an award. You can’t say blacklisted fast enough. I will move on from the thread. I have spoken my opinion on the matter. I zero issue with the government stepping in to prevent fake news and unjust propaganda.

Thanks for confirming that you support government censorship and are anti-1st amendment.

@kjayhawks The difference between the situations you’ve mentioned and what happened with Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert for that matter is that their cancelations came as a direct result of FCC meddling and interference. The chair of the FCC has already said they’re going after the View next.

The head of the FCC, a government organization, was offended by Kimmel’s monologue and threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of ABC affiliates if they didn’t cancel Kimmel. Nexstar, who owns a lot of the ABC affiliates nationally, caved and indefinitely pre-empted Kimmel.

Regardless of how one feels about Jimmy Kimmel or Charlie Kirk, this is government influencing censorship and free speech and a violation of the 1st amendment. This is a canary in the coal mine moment for the US in regards to how important our rights are to value and protect, especially the right to criticize our government.

Texas Tech and Utah are currently the two best teams in the Big 12. Tech just looks dominant even if they haven’t played the strongest schedule so far. I would put Iowa St. 3rd best because they’ve at least been able to win their games so far. Then I would put KU in with a group that includes BYU, TCU, Cincy, and Arizona as teams that could sneak into the Big 12 title game with some fortunate results.

Our 4 road games could conceivably include at least 3, possibly all 4 games against teams that finish top 6 in the Big 12 this year. KU has to figure out a way to put away these close games or we could be sitting at 5-4 with @ISU, @Arizona, and home against Utah to get a 6th win and I’m not super confident in that right now.

@Jhawk69 If Perry was a better player, those double teams wouldn’t have mattered. In an Elite 8 game, your star senior can’t disappear the way Perry did. He just wasn’t athletic enough to overcome those double teams.

Perry is too high. He was a below average defender, playmaker, and rebounder. You talk about Marcus Morris in March, but Perry was worse in March. The loss to Stanford, 9 points on 3/10 shooting and 4 points on 1/5 shooting in the 2016 Villanova loss. Those are unacceptable performances from someone who was supposed to be a top player. I would flip him and Marcus.

There’s a reason why he’s one of the guys on this list who never really sniffed the NBA.

@kjayhawks said in Hate Missouri Week. Game chat here!:

Thinking this morning, Mizzou just maybe a ready good football team going forward. Not sure I could name 10 teams that go into Columbia and are favored right now. Fresno beat Oregon State by 2 scores last night and we spanked them. The conference continues to look wide open after yesterday’s disappointing non-conference showing. Iowa state maybe the only clear favorite at this point in the season. WV our next opponent was just beat by Ohio 17-10. We have a lot of winnable games left on the schedule. We must reset and refocus this off week and get ready fro the meat of our schedule.

Fresno got a field goal to go up 2 with 30 seconds left and then a pick 6 to create that margin. They did not dominate Oregon St. at all.

I also can’t say anything about ISU being a clear favorite when their two FBS wins are 3 point wins over teams two teams who right now look like they will finish in the bottom half of their conferences. They have not been dominant at all.

Texas Tech and Utah have looked like the two best teams so far to me, but I also fully acknowledge neither team has played anybody good yet, but Utah did at least play a P4 team on the road and dog walked UCLA. I think now that Whittingham has moved past Cam Rising at QB, they’re going to be back to being really good.