We all seem to forget that in the old days few people expected freshmen to do much other than to make mistakes, learn and eventually become sophomores. Extensive changes in strength, training and conditioning both in HS and private programs have made incoming freshmen much stronger over the years. Furphy looked all year like the freshmen we got back in the 60’s and 70’s.
Posts made by mayjay
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RE: You know it's a big day
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RE: Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster:
When was Perry ever a good defender?
Somewhere toward the end of his 9th year here, I think.
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RE: You know it's a big day
@approxinfinity said in You know it's a big day:
I dont think it’s dumb. It’s just incongruous
It can be both, and here is my proof: There is a helluvalot of dumb…in Congress.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
List of UFA signings:
Chiefs seem to be a magnet for guys looking to land a spot.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@AsadZ A fair grade, but I would go up to A- because they signed about 4 pretty strong guys as UFAs who were not drafted but were considered Day 3 prospects. Essentially the same as having 4 extra 6th or 7th rd picks.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@Jhawk69 One of the Morris twins made up for it with 8 TOs. Just remember, the Gospel of HEM is holy writ that it was Self’s fault because he played Brady instead of better players (who no doubt would have improved our 9% 3pt avg and overall <36% FG avg).
kuballin’ is an accolyte of the Dark Lord…or maybe a reincarnation.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@approxinfinity said in Transfer Rumblings:
@Jhawk69 that guy Bill Self is LUCKY to win 800 games!
And an amazing PR talent, fooling hundreds of sportswriters, coaches, and athletes for some 30 years.
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RE: You know it's a big day
@approxinfinity My wife watched one game when I told her about Furphy. She thought he looked so young and got a kick out of seeing him so happy when he drained a 3. So, 1 more viewer of one game…definition of a marginal increase in viewership! No one from Nielsen contacted us, though.
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@BShark said in Transfer Rumblings:
Watching sports with the intention to get angry about it is so weird to me.
That’s why I don’t go to sports bars…
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
The best draft guide I have ever seen is Dane Brugler’s “The Beast” on The Athletic. Hundreds of pages evaluating dozens of players with lots more background than most.
Anyway, by his rankings, KC has managed to pick up 4 of the top 89 draft prospects in this year’s draft. Including his no. 1 safety. In Veach we trust.
Worth the subscription even by itself, acc to many of us!
https://theathletic.com/5399690/2024/04/10/nfl-draft-2024-the-beast-dane-brugler/
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RE: Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster
@Gorilla72 said in Keeping track of the ever changing 24-25 roster:
How do we feel about rebounding next year?
I, for one, think it would be a great idea. Both in the games…and in our season.
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RE: You know it's a big day
I was highly entertained watching the kid come in and exceed initial expectations. Sports is entertainment for us, jobs for them. I don’t get why people get bent out of shape because they think college athletes are required to sacrifice their own lives to give it all for the good ol’ school. “Keep playing as long as I want you to” is a pretty entitled way of being a fan.
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
@Gorilla72 Pretty important for FedEx to get its name out there. People might forget it despite seeing trucks all over the place every day.
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RE: Fizzou's newest muck-up
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Fizzou's newest muck-up:
@mayjay I don’t think because he was religious or home schooled he was any better of a person, quite the opposite!
Ah, sorry, I misread your comment as implying your approval. We are of one mind on this!
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RE: Fizzou's newest muck-up
@Crimsonorblue22 If he was a moral and self-disciplined kid, something obviously got lost somewhere along the way. But in my experience with people who drastically throw it all away, it isn’t usually a one-time disregard of what they are taught. It is usually just the first time they get caught.
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Fizzou's newest muck-up
So UMizzery alum Jontay Porter earns a lifetime ban from the NBA for providing inside info to gamblers and for altering his performances to ensure the outcome of some prop bets on him.
Definitely heightens our awareness that stupidity keeps reaching new levels of accomplishment. Undrafted, works his way through ups and downs to earning a couple mil, and manages to blow his future.
Who ever would have suspected that the marriage of sports and legal gambling could go bad…
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
@jayballer67 I think the question mark from @approxinfinity was about your Hurley comment. Ended all his seasons “but one with a loss.” You mean “all but two”?
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RE: Arterio Morris
@jayballer67 I take no shit about propriety from UK fans, whose response for decades to the package-of-money-broke-in-a-sorting-facility scandal is a picture of Alfred E. Neumann saying “What? Me worry?”
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@AsadZ The short arms won’t, I fear, work well at tackle. Teams scheme all types of ways to get to PM around the tackles, and I think Puni may not be fast, or quick, enough to avoid getting pulled too far out. Better at guard, where Creed and the tackle can help plug the holes. But there are lots of guard options available. We need a proven tackle, not a hybrid.
My suspicion on his speed is caused by the comment in the article that he only got rated in the jumping. Why not perform in speed tests (unless that info is available elsewhere, haven’t researched).
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RE: Other bball games
@wissox I actually think they should always award the ball to the defense on a tie-up. And the losing team should get the ball to start the second half. And the teams should have beer during their breaks.
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RE: Other bball games
@wissox said in Other bball games:
Don’t know why the shot clock doesn’t reset on a jump ball when the offensive team has the arrow.
I would guess because they “retain” possession as if the tie up did not occur, and are not “awarded” possession as the defense is which is then a new possession?
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RE: 2024 Coaching Carousel
And, isn’t it just like Calipari to take the spotlight away right before the championship?
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RE: 2024 Portal Madness Thread
Anyone know if Hall from Clemson might portal? I love his potential but needs good big man coach. He participated in Senior Night but is only projected as a late 2nd rd pick. Eligible for 5th season, could get polished somewhere else…
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RE: Other bball games
@wissox said in Other bball games:
@mayjay You’re kidding, money? That’s the answer? Hmmmm, imagine that.
I always find it interesting when the reason for everything is what I have comparatively nothing of. And yes, I did made that sentence not very good. (Limited to 1.5 glasses of Scotch tonight or my posts would be even funner!)
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RE: Other bball games
@wissox Money, not logic. At least from the fan’s point of view.
Just like the Chiefs/Dolphins wild card game on Peacock. This year, the wildcard channel paying > $100 million is Amazon Prime, I think.
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RE: Other bball games
@Crimsonorblue22 Last year I subscribed to Sling for a month to get the tourney channels. That was because I used Fubo, which carries no Turner stations. This year I dropped Fubo and have subscription to YouTube TV, which carries everything in the tourney. So cable not necessary if you want to stream instead.
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RE: Deuces, Kauffman
@FarmerJayhawk Even if you don’t live in Jackson Cty!
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RE: Other bball games
This thread has so many subthreads going on that following any particular one is like trying to watch a single ant in an ant farm!
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RE: Other bball games
@wissox But he would have no hesitation using all his powers to beat the Blue Devils, and that is all that matters in heaven and earth.
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RE: Other bball games
@benshawks08 said in Other bball games:
@kjayhawks it’s really smart that the women’s game has figured out the value for them IS in getting the best teams to the later rounds for big match ups and keeping stars in the field. Both tournaments feel like they are playing off of each other well right now and I hear lots more talk about both.
The women’s tournament home games in the first couple rounds have nothing to do with any intent to keep better teams in the tournament longer. That is the effect of wanting to actually have fans in the seats.
If the women’s tournament could fill neutral venues like the men’s tournament, they would do it in a minute. And all but the top 16 teams would be thrilled.
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RE: Other bball games
“Best team” award is like Brucie’s “We tried harder” argument.
It is bizarre to be worrying that “dilution” is caused by a tournament being expanded and that this threatens the meaningfulness of a champ without an elite record.
If you are so interested in protecting the best teams, don’t have any tournament at all. Better yet, bow to reality and accept that the champ is the one that wins the tournament and don’t cry about it.
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RE: Zigging the Zags
My pet peeve?
I mentioned that a few years ago where I was talking about the frustration from almost 50 years ago in one game where Herb Nobles ('75-'77) committed 5 fouls. Every one in the act of shooting a made basket, and every one with a made FT resulting in a 3-point play. If you are going to foul, at least make them miss!
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RE: Transfer Rumblings
@FarmerJayhawk said in Transfer Rumblings:
@kuballin10 I laugh because I can’t imagine following something that would make me so miserable.
No cause/effect there. When someone starts out miserable, they just have a desperate need to share.
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RE: 2023-2024 Statistics
@AsadZ They were nowhere near the best players at KU when they left (McBride, backed out). They were the best players on their new teams (TGF, eventually). The best players on teams tend to have higher scoring averages if the coach figures out how to blend them in. Not predictive of how they would have done here.
No more predictive of high scoring average than, say, putting Timberlake or Joe Y on KU.
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RE: Zigging the Zags
@jayballer67 Nah, Grayson was never a leader. He just was an enthusiastic late enrollee in the Laettner School of Bad Sportsmanship.
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RE: Zigging the Zags
@approxinfinity But it feels weird to root for the “Dukes.” As if Duke multiplied and made even more people miserable.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
@rockchalkjayhawk I’m not sorry to see him go if it opens up the cap that much. 18 penalties sort of offsets the “no reg season TDs allowed” accomplishment.
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RE: Friday’s Games
@Texas-Hawk-10 From a Dartmouth independent student newspaper in Jan:
“For Ivy League athletes, NIL deals look mostly like ambassadorships, where we receive discounts for high-end athletic apparel or a humble “Barstool Athlete” in our Instagram bios in exchange for a free t-shirt.”
No athletic scholarships, no NIL consortiums. But they point out in that article that they really aren’t recruiting against P5.
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RE: Sams club game chat
@kjayhawks SLC is only 2/3 as far for Gonzaga, too, plus the west in general is their territory. JHawk fans need to get on the road…well, planes…and buy up those tickets!
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RE: Other bball games
@Texas-Hawk-10 Apparently the MW got penalized in seeding because so much of the teams’ metrics were earned playing each other. But hasn’t that been true of the Big 12 for years?
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RE: Bracket chat
So many are so upset about someone they think quit on the team that they are jumping in to join the crowd totally quitting on him.
This is why I don’t play here much. The attacks last year on McCormick were unforgivable…but oh, wow, he’s great. Now going after Dujuan and McCullar as if they seduced your sisters.
I am done. Y’all just don’t know what being a fan means.
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RE: Bracket chat
@kjayhawks said in Bracket chat:
@RockChalkinTexas best year in Kansas athletics history. Bowl win, volleyball, women’s basketball and men’s basketball all in the ncaa tournament for the first time ever.
Not so fast! The 1992-93 season has to count as the best. Football won the Aloha Bowl in December, Women’s BB went to the NCAA and ended up ranked 24th, Men’s BB went to Final Four, and KU Baseball made its only College World Series appearance. Only 31 years ago, how could anyone forget?
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RE: Bracket chat
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Bracket chat:
focusing on recruiting
In the past the coaches would have talked very proudly about the student athletes voting to take the opportunity for concentrating on their studies.
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RE: Elmarko
Hunter?
Edit: nope
Actually, I don’t see 2 but I might be missing something, being old and all…
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RE: 2024 Coaching Carousel
@Crimsonorblue22 said in 2024 Coaching Carousel:
@mayjay was he let go or did he retire?
Fired, no doubt highly deserved! Actually, he was there for 8 years, and did ok. Went from 12-21 his first year to 17-16 in his second, then 5 straight years with winning percentages ranging between .636 to .734. This year, fell to 13-20, and… kaput.
He also got fired from Okla State after 8 years. There, he had only 1 under-.500 record every year until 12-20 his final year, then…kaput.
Maybe there is a curse on Ford when he hits 20 losses in his 8th year.
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RE: 2024 Coaching Carousel
Travis Ford is available again if O State wants to give him another shot.
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RE: 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft
Signing Chris Jones 5 yrs.