Posts made by wissox

Dang, still up here on this roof. I shoulda thought this through a little better according to my wife.

Maybe Self could host dinners for crypto purchasers.

This baseball team is having a great season. Playing in the semifinals tonight of the league tourney, 6:30 possible regional host as well. Saw one prognosticator having them as a 2 seed in their regional which is different than 2 seed in basketball. It’s kind of like a sweet 16 seed.

This is kind of depressing, but it is just sports. I mean weather. I mean both, sports and weather depressing at the same time is too much.

Besides the man killed, her brother, who wasn’t involved, was also a KU student.

Just learned the young woman killed was a KU grad and her brother as well.

@ImmunoHawk Same in Chicago. Been awful, but I saw International Falls was 95 the other day! I have a daughter in Rochester by the way.

@drgnslayr Dreary weather all week, no sunsets!

@ImmunoHawk Ridiculous. Keep looking at calendar saying end of may and thermometer doesn’t match. I’ve got a spectacular front porch that should be useful by this time of year and just can’t sit out there yet.

I’m sitting on my roof and not coming down until Self gets Williams to Lawrence. My boss will understand. My wife may not.

Not much excitement for this signing it appears?

There’s such a thing as nipple clamps? I’m definitely not going to google it!

@PharmacyHawk Thanks, but that’s why I rarely read the recruiting news, just like I don’t watch important game preview shows because 5 dudes pick one team and then the other one wins.

So did the kid sign with Duke?

This kid is sure taking his time. Doesn’t he know that adults all across America need him to make his decision NOW? Like how rude.

We’ll be Sarry if we don’t get this kid.

Roy probably gets his ring in 97 if Jerrod Haase didn’t try to play with a broken wrist. He played 14 minutes, well below his average. Only scored 3. That game he did make 1 basket, a 3 showing it wasn’t totally an impediment, but reading recently about it KU believes it was a game changer. Still the worst loss in my KU fandom, with 2003 a close 2nd.

What’s different and scary (LOL) for our future is Bill Self was a no doubt about it great hire at the time. He’s still the BIG’s win % leader but obviously a smaller sample size (102 games). If Vaughn does become the successor as some suppose, he doesn’t have this college cred on his resume. It’s the unknown. Williams was a rookie HC, so there was some unknown there too of course.

@dylans Embiid, OAD, Wiggins, OAD, Chalmers 2 + national Champ, Morris both 3 years (?), Oubre OAD, Braun 3 + NC, Selden 3 years (?), Dick OAD.

Williams guys hung around enough for us to get to know them. Wish Williams guys could a made some FTs in 2003 or to me at least it’s a clear cut argument in his favor.

@nuleafjhawk It’s an interesting question. In terms of producing top NBA talent, I’d give the nod to Roy…a very slight nod. Hard to argue with Pierce, Raef, Jacque, Pollard, Kirk, Nick C, and Gooden. Selfs best of course won him 2 rings, but are slightly less strong overall NBA guys…maybe?

I just asked it on another thread, but will ask here. If Self was coach in 94 or whenever Jacque was coming out of HS would he have recruited Vaughn?

He’s a very cerebral guy if I remember correctly. Has KU ever missed on a coaching hire? I mean Naismith was kind of bad, especially for an inventor of the sport and everything. Wasn’t around for Ted Owens, but looking at his stats and I see he’s a bit better than I realized. Maybe he lost his touch towards the end?

We need to shave any Beard rumors right now.

I’d agree to Danny, Frank and Sherron if we could let them all play instead of coach.

I don’t work for Weber, I promise, but I’m gonna sing their praises. You get what you pay for and after throwing away some piece of crap that lasted a year in Louisiana humidity I bought a 300 dollar Weber Spirit. That was in 08. I’ve replaced the drip/flavor bars once. That’s it, still works beautifully. Even heat, amazing grill. I just unscrew the gas when it’s not working right and screw it back on and it works well.

Adam Miller, old friend, Leaving zona state for Zaga. Likes the Z’s I guess. He was a senior in HS before the pandemic when his mom told me she’s hoping he’ll be a one and done. She also told me he likes KU. So I guess he transferred after his freshman year and had to sit, draconian rules that they are, and will finish his fifth and final season next year.

@mayjay Finished recently a book by Tim Alberta an Atlantic writer. Some hard takes on the Christian Nationalism that’s taken over many parts of the evangelical church. I don’t read the Atlantic Per Se.

@RockkChalkk Sorry/not sorry if I can. The topic was threaded into the discussion of someone being deported who’s here to play basketball. I see a lot of parallels. It’s not a hogwash narrative. Hyperbole has been used to make points a lot in writing. I was employing the same. Trumps policies are already leading to deaths and so I’ll speak up, even on a great basketball blog.

Icestapo is what I call it. “illegals” is the equivalent to Jews 75 years ago and the detention centers that the border czar is codeword for c0ncentration camps. This is a nightmare situation unfolding in our country and one small impact is on sports and the aforementioned outrage.

@BShark Think I shared before but we’re not huge cheese officianados. Every time I’ve had ‘odd’ cheese I seem to think I should eat more from authentic small town cheese makers. The raw honey discussion sounded interesting too, maybe we don’t know what we’re missing!

Our home games will truly be home games this year, correct? I’m fairly optimistic, thinking we can scratch 8-9 out of that schedule. While I’m not predicting this, it seems to me that every game is winnable. There’s seemingly no national title contenders on there. We ‘own’ ISU, will in no way no how lose to Utah, and Lance has had manhattan jr. college on his to beat list and just might pull it off this year.

@approxinfinity Whadya mean, those schools were major powers back then! Good point though, but my comment just reflects my general mood on all of this portal madness.

Scott Drew has zero guys on his team right now. Portal madness X100.

College football players who portalled back in December are now portalling again in the spring portal period.

Whilst living in Louisiana our town had a little league complex with 4 turf fields. While i bristled as a tax payer I soon saw the park filled nearly year round with tournaments. Friday night to Sunday evening. Restaurants and hotels filled. Lots of money coming into the town. But in the majors, grass is what it should be.

We got a kid from…St. Bonaventure. Wow, KU basketball is so back.

@mayjay I forgot I’d entered the portal. That makes me exportal I think and means I can charge a tariff I think on my exportals.

@BeddieKU23 Thanks for the info, hadn’t heard, but the question almost becomes now who isn’t in the portal?

@FarmerJayhawk As we were holding off OSU at the FF Tyshawn made a bad pass that went right to Bill Self!

@approxinfinity I think he’s already drawing social security so he wouldn’t need NIL $$.

@drgnslayr They only had 15 OR’s, compared to Flo’s 8. Maybe 3 more would’ve helped.

4 fouls total called in 1st half, 26 in 2nd half. They can’t review a goaltending call if they don’t call it. If they call it, then they can review it, so why not avoid a million miffed Houston fans by calling it and then reviewing it? That was a 5 point swing.

1983 loss has to be the worst for Houston ever, maybe the worst championship loss ever for any team. To now be the butt of jokes on social media for that last possession is going to hurt a lot as well.

Wow, the ‘foul’ on the loose ball leads to the winning FT’s. Florida guy steps out on his own. Ref makes up a push call. Would’ve been nice to see the Big12 get another championship, but Houston seized up at the wrong time and couldn’t make shots to save their championship.

Seeing it in lots of places, looks like Flory is back!

https://x.com/FansOfKU/status/1908954491958722889

Is this true? I can never tell

@nuleafjhawk I understood that and didn’t intend to make you feel badly about anything.

@Crimsonorblue22 I was joking about Scheyer!

@Crimsonorblue22 Yikes, I just started reading a CBS article. Exonerated but also not completely cleared of some really inappropriate stuff.

As I’ve thought about young guys who could be our next coach I thought about him. NOT anymore! Scheyer is young, maybe we could get him. Wouldn’t that be a coup?!!

@Crimsonorblue22 Really? He has some skeletons?

If they can pull it off it’s titles for the league in 3 of the last 5 tournaments.

Bye bye Duke!! (pitiful to have to cheer on someones demise, but it’s all we got!)

Duke reaches in and holds a lot.

That dunk by the Florida kid, was downright filthy and disgusting and if a Duke kid had done it he’d already be immortalized in Springfield or wherever they immortalize mere mortals these days…