13-2 final. Obviously a disappointing end to the season, but still arguably the greatest season in Kansas baseball history.

@bskeet Please know that we all on this board care enough for one another and have this board to share in the crazy, good times as well as the sad imes. You're in my thoughts.

Yuccas do the same with a high stalk and their flowers up where the polinators can get to it. The birds went up and down the bloom gathering seeds in the late summer. They lasted for weeks. The one and only time they bloomed. I got a book by Neil DeGrasse Tyson signed when I saw him in Austin years ago. Speaking of blooms....a couple of my bluebonnets still have blooms, while the others have turned to seed. [image: 1780955316162-8f8b75c4-20ea-4feb-b5e8-191f456d335f-image.png]

@bskeet Yes... would have loved his defense. But we might improve at the 5 on offense!

@benshawks08 this is a fantastic underexplored point: all season long many of assumed that the reason the team had no chemistry with DP was because they deferred to him and that time would solve this problem (if we were optimistic) or that DP was a prima donna, or everyone else on the team was a midmajor wuss and thats why the chemistry wasnt there (if we were not). But maybe in actuality they were all worried for the kid or weirded out by the situation. Maybe no amount of extra time on the court was going to fix it because the lack of an explanation hung over every play. This makes way more sense than assuming there was something wrong with individual personalities regarding the lack of a cohesive team identity.

@kjayhawks2.0 I saw that (originally) in the movie theater with all colors of folk in attendance. And everyone was laughing equally hard. People are too dang sensitive these days.

Watched USA v Germany yesterday. Crappy start, but not a bad effort in general. I still dislike the formation Poch has chosen. 3-2-4-1 Mostly on transition attacks by opposing teams. It was quite apparent to me at least that the team struggles to organize and cover all the bodies. That’s a problem. On offense we at least to seem to have a bunch of bodies that push forward. Weston as a central attacking “mid” and playmaker just doesn’t work for me. Nor him. Not his skill set. And if you didn’t watch, at least catch highlights of Jedi’s blister! Wow.

@crimsonblu22 Not sure he is the problem, we do not have good hitters, pitching is solid but hitting and bullpen are bad.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Chiefs offseason thread: "He's the best part-time stupid receiver KC sometimes has." Just a little edit for completeness!

@BShark thx!

@bskeet Gandalf, is that you???!!!

Happy Mother’s Day everyone!!

@Jayhawk_69 not seeing it. https://notes.noteflight.com/online-masterclass-with-acclaimed-video-game-composer-chance-thomas/

NCAA likely to fight that one since he declared for the draft and didn't withdraw (and this isn't an international prospect situation). Always a chance it doesn't hold up in court, but the NCAA has been consistent that players are no longer eligible after that so I feel like like it is a long shot that RJ is eligible when this is all played out.

Boy, things are really slow on this site . . . so I thought I'd share a story. Back in 1996, UMKC was looking for a new basketball coach. For "political" reasons, they formed a search committee. The committee of 24 had nothing to do with the selection, but it made a good cover. I was on the committee. We interviewed the three finalists: Mark Turgeon, Mike Anderson (who went on to head coach at Arkansas) and Bob Sundvold. Sundvold was the choice of the AD, probably because he had coached under Norm Stewart at Misery and had "taken the fall" for Norm over NCAA violations. The interview with Turgeon was memorable. I asked what I thought was a great question: "You've been an assistant to three great coaches. What did you learn from each of them?" Turgeon responded as though he had prepared for my question. "Coach Brown is the greatest in-game coach in the game. After almost every timeout, he'd come down to me as ask, 'Turg, what would you have done?' Coach Williams is exceptionally well organized. He taught me how to organize my day; how to organize practices. And Coach Green taught me how to deal with the media." Turgeon was well prepared and had a great interview. The other great question during that interview was "Coach Turgeon, what kind of players will you recruit?" Turgeon answered, "I'll recruit players who can shoot. I can teach them my offense, and I can teach them how to play defense. But I can't teach them how to shoot." Very memorable.