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  A Script From The Steve Jobs' Playbook...
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  @ParisHawk I am not sure we can infer much from the number of fouls called; unlike the KU game, it looks like not that many fouls were called. It will heavily depend on how the refereeing crew calls the game. A tight called game favor KU since it has a deeper bench and good free throw shooters. If the refs decide to “let the players play” it will favor MSU and its short bench and inferior FT shooting.
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  Watch Northern Colorado vs KU game
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  Ditto ! And thanks for editing out the commercials…it made the seemingly endless second half a little less wearing. (Though I guess nothing could be done about ESPN’s out of sync audio.)
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  All right, might as well
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  Bet on KU. Bet on Frank and Devonte. I also think Jamari will be key against MichSt again this year, as he was last year. And this is a coming home game for senior Jamari. Fill the stat sheet, Jamari!
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  PREPARE YOURSELVES!
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  I think to say he “played the race card,” is missing the point of what he’s trying to accomplish. Does anybody recall the NCAA investigation at the University of Miami a few years back? Anybody remember the press that the NCAA got as a result? Turns out their investigation had to come under investigation because it was so incompetently managed and all it did was hurt Miami players who had absolutely nothing to do with the transgressions in question. The main criticism was that the length of the investigation was the real punishment. Schools were able to recruit players that would’ve otherwise gone to Miami because they could just say “Miami’s gonna lose their program.” The fact that the NCAA took so long to conduct their poorly managed investigation was the punishment and made the NCAA look incredibly mismanaged and incompetent. To me, the whole point is to expose the NCAA as being incapable of serving their sole purpose. Is there a connection to racism? No, probably not. But the tweet, given this person’s role in investigating student-athletes from Africa, was poorly timed and in bad taste. Therefore, anything this lawyer can do to humiliate the NCAA during this investigation and because of this investigation, go for it. What will bring this case to an end is when the NCAA will have no choice but to cut ties because the incompetence with which their investigation has been managed brings about questions of its integrity and ability to even fulfill its main function.
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  Tonights game and expectations
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  @JhawkAlum No worries. I watched the reply last nite. Wanted to watch again before I went to the office for a bit this morning, but it wasn’t available in the replay queue…just checked again and it still isn’t. Anyone know why?
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  GARY PINKEL HAS CANCER AND IS RETIRING
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  I wish the best to Pinkel. Battling cancer far exceeds our competitive rivalry focus.
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  Could anyone on this year's team have started for the 2008 ring team?
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  @Texas-Hawk-10 All teams, those that win rings and those that do not, have flaws, so the mere presence of undefined flaws is logically immaterial to this discussion of my argument, of course. What is important all the time, but increasingly decisive as the match up advantages over opponents lessen over time in the tournament is the edge in competitive greatness. Who is at their best, or nearest their best, when their best is needed? But because your heart is in the right place, and we need to unite and direct our grapes of wrath on Ratso Izzo and his tire iron wielding Michigan State Spartans, I am going to make an exception in my discourse here. Until after the MSU game, you get to assume this metaphysical, improbablistic universe all you want, without me noting its departures from a real, probabilistic one. Until time runs out against MSU, by god, there isn’t a guy on that 2008 ring team that could have held Jamari Traylor’s jock strap, much less beat him out of the starting rotation. Così è (se vi pare) (So It Is (If You Think So))–Luigi Pirandello Rock Chalk!
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  KU game
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  @globaljaybird PB did the trick! Got caught 30 minutes later. Thanks!
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  Thon Maker
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  @Texas-Hawk-10 I did not mention that a player must be 18 years old. The rules is that the player must be 19 years old on the year of the draft and one year removed from what would have been his graduating class. Maker will be 19 next February and could have graduated last season but chose to go an extra year. In many countries prep schools are considered post-HS and this is why it was widely assumed Maker chose to go to one in Canada and not one in the States.
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  To Giant Killer Syndrome, Hoping This KU Team Contracts It, and Being Thankful for Being Alive During the Age of the Greatest Game Ever Invented
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  @jaybate-1.0 Another post Im going to have to digest over a period of time after I finish watching the KU game going on right now! Rock CHalk!
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  So, some random thoughts.
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  @DCHawker maybe coach knows we have some locks for 2017?
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  Self
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  @Jesse-Newell That was a great great article!! Thank you very much!
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  Bragg #27 on ESPN Draft Board.
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  @BeddieKU23 Geez I remember a few posters that thought I was completely off my rocker to think Bragg could wind up being a OAD. Granted he’ll need to climb up the draft board a bit more, but it’s not to far fetched now is it.
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  NORTHERN COLORADO
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  @wrwlumpy wow!
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  Sources: Kansas' Cheick Diallo hires attorney for possible NCAA eligibility fight
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  @drgnslayr There’s certainly no offense taken by me at all slayr. I understand fully that it’s pretty difficult to separate politics from other equations & not just sports. I also understand these young kids are trying to make a difference in their lives & the future lives of others, hopefully in the right way. I’m not quite so old that I’ve forgotten , as the favorite old Statler Brothers song says. The Class of 57 Had It’s Dream." We all thought we’d change the World with our good works & deeds." Old farts were young once too. But I live less than 10 miles from misery & have spent a lot of time in my life all over that entire state-county fairs, road trips, reunions, funerals; etc. In fact just spent 5 days last week at Table Rock plus have another funeral close at hand. There are countless places all over misery I have seen through the years that still fly a Confederate flag, & some even mere miles from Columbia. That shit seems wrong to a lot of people & not just those of color IMO. But I don’t feel the same things that a black guy feels when he knows what his ancestors lived or did not survive through. But I will tell you that my Mothers GFather lost his leg at 17 years old in the Battle of Fredericksburg fighting for the Union Massachusetts Infantry. But he didn’t die & married a young Irish girl a couple of years later. They actually homesteaded in NE Missouri and had 11 children before they passed. They, & many family members are buried on that family farm not far from the Mississippi. But I don carry a chip about it & don’t feel the need to. But if someone rattled my cage or got ugly about it I might. I honestly don’t know how I would react. But I’m an adult with a little more wisdom than a young kid. They are raised differently than my generation. They want things NOW & I understand that. I just don’t understand why they couldn’t find some legal counsel chomping at the bit to make a name, to carry their flag. Its just my take, but using the FB team & monetary method to get results was an improper way to proceed on their crusade. Yeah, it’s getting lotsa publicity but people set in their ways of thought may not perceive the reasons/methods as sympathetically as they should That’s’ just life. But due process should be an integral aspect of this problem also & IMO the legal road should have been more thoroughly considered if in fact it wasn’t. Now, having ground out this yappy schpiel, &kinda being swirled & sucked into this, now I’m gonna try to get out & let it be. probably won’t hurt just to sign on out & let it be.
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  Bill's toughness games and players.
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  @jaybate-1.0 I presume that you mean MIKE Anderson?
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  Would You Rather Live in Pyongyang, North Korea or Columbia, Missouri?
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  @jaybate-1.0 HA! Sad to say, I was born about 13 blocks from The Paige. Fates handed me a pre-adolescent escape, eventually to MO borders east and west, then to the Ozark backwoods. At the moment, I am kinda like Norm Stewart in reverse: don’t care to spend any more time or dollars in Columbia, MO, than I might absolutely have to.
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  Glad These D-bags Left The B12!
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  @drgnslayr Hey -European is one our favorite sayings out here in the country… Cept we spell it a ill’ different but pronounce it the same. Plus “You’re a peein” has just a slightly different definition out here as well…
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  Skal vs Cheick in eligibility
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  @Statmachine Bah, I hate hearing stuff like this because it barely tells us anything. I mean, sure I want him to play but “this season” is so vague. Its so unsatisfying. I want to hear that he thinks he is going to play soon or he thinks that he likely won’t play soon. That’s all. He could sit out for all games except the last one and the statement about playing “this season” is still correct.
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  Post Exhibition Games talk
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  http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/story/kansas-jayhawks-basketball-bill-self-frank-mason-perry-ellis-111215?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=kansas-jayhawks-basketball