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  This ought to make Bruce Weber happy
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  @REHawk Man if he stays healthy…goodness. What a beast.
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  Reflections on Feline Hair Removal
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  @jaybate-1.0 Aw, shucks, Self’s salary demands ultimate pressure from the Jayhawk community. If he can’t produce at least one more win than 30, then you will be forced to recuse yourself to allow me to step up as special prosecutor. Now that he is figuring out how to stock + win THE ADIDAS WAY we should all just kick back to enjoy the production. (That being said, if Wily Bill should take up adversarial early morning tweeting, then I plan to abort my current claim to super fandom. One of the facets which I cherish most about our current coach is that he stays quiet or remarkably sane and sensible in front of a mic or reporter’s urgent newsmaking.)
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  Coaches Need to Have the Right Answers, Not just be in the game like coaches and fans--jaybate 1.0
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  The 5 is a dying position. Players don’t even want to be called a 5 anymore. We are blessed to have Udoka. When Self has starting spots to sell, he usually does alright. Last year was brutal until Self cleaned up in the transfer market securing future teams. If things keep trending that way, then I’ll be more intrigued.
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  Same reporter now dissing Kentucky's Non-Conference schedule.
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  That’s not a bad schedule. Only 1 team didn’t play in a postseason tournament last year and only 1 team finished with a losing record. Definitely not the hardest schedule they’ve ever had, but far from a weak schedule.
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  No fouls in practice???
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  @approxinfinity That was a freak accident and not a product of the practice style. Hell, Izzo has made players practice in football pads before to build toughness.
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  Malik Newman, Please Report to the Three Point Line, Malik Newman, You Are Wanted at the Three Point Line
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  REHawk said: @JayHawkFanToo Ah-ha! I found it. Cunliffe arrived in Lawrence 6’6", 200 pounds. So: Sam is 6-4 and 195, indexed for the disk expanding anti-gravity of Lawrence, KS! A nice sized shooting guard!!!
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  Coleby to Western Kentucky
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  wrwlumpy said: He looks disturbingly like Pepe the Frog from the Cult of KEK!
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  Udoka, first team All-American
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  @Lulufulu Double allusion to Ford and David Jansen!!!
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  Some Coaches Fizzou Might Hire Next...
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  Ok now you get another upvote for the list of coaches … As you would say, HOWLING.
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  Rock Chalk Roundball Classic
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  I DVR-ed it in Lawrence, but haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. Highlights:
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  VIDEO FROM YESTERDAY"S SCRIMMAGE
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  @Crimsonorblue22 His D is what he’s known for. Played for a defensive minded coach in HS. Hopefully that translates up seamlessly
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  With Archie Miller at Bloomington, and Stumpy Not Wanting to Tread on Thad's Firing, How about Joe Dooley?
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  Joe Dooley needs another step up before being considered by major programs. Very unlikely he would jump from Florida Gulf Coast to Indiana; obviously not unprecedented mind you, but a very long shot.
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  Charlie Moore will play (actually, invited to try out) for USA in Summer U19 World Games
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  @wrwlumpy I would’ve given anything at that age to go play for KU let alone seeing the world for free while playing bundle that up with a free education and I don’t believe these guys have it all that bad.
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  NBC Sports breaks down the Big 12 for this year.
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  @JhwkrRedLegs They don’t need great. They need competence. That’s not a huge ask. They aren’t looking for a star here.
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  NBC Sports is disappointed in KU Non-Conference schedule.
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  @HighEliteMajor Ha! Love the sarcasm. Also agree with no sure-fire formula. The mid-major land mine: Self keeps scheduling very good mid-majors. The elite program danger. We’ve played Duke and KY alot recently. Only sure-fire thing would be how to get a team playing to peak effectiveness for 6 games straight, especially those last 4 against very good competition. Self’s mentioned it over the years, if he or any coach knew how, they could bottle it. Brad Stephens doesnt even know, nor does Mark Few. Nor does Coach K or Calipari. Roy’s team won a NC despite having an ugly offensive night, but actually played D. Go figure.
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  Two And Done New Law Of The Land?
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  @Texas-Hawk-10 Some good points. I remembered the James thing wrong: he actually thought about entering the draft as a junior in HS, and that was what would have required a challenge to the NBA draft rule of waiting until a player graduated HS. Stern wanted to impose an age limit (20 yrs old) in the late 90’s after the half season debacle, but got nowhere. As for antitrust, it is not the same for all sports. MLB has a unique exemption created by the Sup Ct in 1922, where the court ludicrously exempted baseball from antitrust on the grounds that it is an exhibition or entertainment, not a monopoly. Basketball and football are exempt, according to the courts that have considered challenges, primarily because all the issues that have been raised have been deemed to be subject to collective bargaining. The unions by agreeing to CBAs perpetuate their members inability to raise antitrust issues. That is why the unions have both decertified at times–to take disputes out of labor law and into antitrust, which would apply were there no CBA. They always cave, though, when the owners cough up something they want, especially stuff like free agency. The baseball exemption is the iffy one for owners and that is why they don’t want to ever let the issue go back for review of that 1922 ruling. That is also, I think, why the players union in mlb is the strongest union in sports–its existence preserves the owners “exhibitions”.
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  Bad year for recruiting
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  JayHawkFanToo said: First, regardless of what conference KU plays in, it would not be playing elsewhere, it would still be playing in Lawrence, Kansas and that seemed to be an issue with some players that prefer the coasts. If we played in the ACC or even Big 10, we would play more teams on the coasts, and I do think that would help us. Second, KU has a lot of players coming back and not a lot of potential playing time available which naturally limits the recruits that wil be interested, regardless of conference affiliation. Third, the rankings do not count transfers which are now an important source of players. Had they counted Cunliffe and Whitman KU is probably top 10. Next season, if KU does not sign anyone else other than the 3 players that will be eligible, the Lawsons and Moore, and based on their ratings, and more importantly experience, KU class would likely be ranked top 10 but under the current ranking it would not even be listed. Someone needs to come up with a ranking that considers all incoming players. Agreed, I realize that KU has a lot of transfers and the impact that has. Playing time, etc. The lack of success in other Big XII schools is alarming and indicate of conference/region issues. Last, how changing conferences would change anything for KU? KU is ranked low on the rankings you cited but as shown above they are grossly misleading and would not be any different if KU played in the ACC or any other conference. Did you notice that Texas and Big 12 member is ranked #5, defending champion and ACC member UNC #17 and and previous defending champion and Big East member Villanova #25? Maybe the last two should change conferences? Yeah but ACC, SEC, BIG 10, and PAC 12 all outrecruited the Big 12 right?
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  KU vs Fizzou?
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  @HighEliteMajor I agree with some of what you are saying. Stanford wasn’t a great team bye any stretch, but they played a D1 SOS. That’s one down fall to a WSU or any other mid major pick in march, its tough tell how good a team really is playing in the 150+ SOS year after year. WSU should’ve been a 5 or 4 seed and Stanford a 9 or 10. WSU could beat Stanford but we’ll never know what would’ve happened there. RPI is a joke IMO, it favors SOS too much. We were I believe a top 3 RPI team in 2014. Granted we didnt have Joel down the stretch but no way we were better than an elite 8 team IMO with him. I guess we are debating nothing at this point lol. Self isn’t playing them and I can see why, maybe some can’t but its not up to us.
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  Why Self and other recruit OADs
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  @HighEliteMajor I believe you are on the right track with a tradeoff calculus. Here is how I hypothesize the phenomenon you refer to. It appears some coaches with some brands and agents that draw well in certain viewer/bettor markets experience a kind of preferred access to top talent. If true, it would probably only take a handful of such coaches to soak up so much of that sort of talent that can win rings as freshman that it would make sense for other coaches that “could” recruit such talent to become so discouraged by the low probability of signing such talent that they simply adopt a Plan B talent suboptimization strategy, where they focus on lesser talent full time, and expect only anomalies of Plan A talent to show up rarely. Until I see evidence other than exceptions that suggest a rule, my hypothesis remains. Regarding Beilin, in particular, he appears a fit to my hypothesis (and your trade off calculus) and be supported for the time being by U of Michigan leadership, which appears to have learned from its Fab Five scandal not to jeopardize its football cash cow by taking too much risk in the murky asymmetries of basketball recruiting. Rock Chalk!
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  (Almost) all hands on deck
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  @HighEliteMajor Whew. I didn’t catch all of this at first, just read about the set back with the wrist - -thought OMG no! ! ! lol, then I opened it up and saw the scenario’s you wouldn’t want to read about, But whittled right down my leg lmao. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY