KU Buckets Glossary
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Please help me capture the meanings of the many acronyms that frequently used on the site.
This will be a bit like a ‘decoder-ring’ that allows the community to continue to express itself in the shorthand that is convenient, but provides a user-friendly source of answers for newcomers to the site.- OAD = One and Done (player that declares for NBA draft after freshmen season)
- TAD = Two and Done (player that declares for NBA draft after sophomore season)
- HCBS = Head Coach Bill Self
- HCCW = Head Coach Charlie Weis
- MUA = Match Up Advantage
- PG = Point Guard
- SG = Shooting Guard
- SF = Small Forward
- PF = Power Forward
- C = Center
- HEM = @HighEliteMajor
- JB = @jaybate-1.0
- PHOF = Post Hall of Fame
- AFH = Allen Fieldhouse
- JNC = James Naismith Court
- NC = National Championship
- FF = Final Four
- 9999 = Satirical Disclaimer (for thread titles)
- RCJHKU = If you don’t know, you don’t belong here
- P5 = Power 5 conference (ACC, Big10, Big12, SEC, Pac12)
- DSC = Designated Shit-Canee (player who does not get developed and leaves)
- MBMAP = Mobile Big Man Attack Platform
- LAS = Long and Strong
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IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
TAD Two And Done
HOWLING Jaybate’s laughing very hard at a previous post (I think)
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@JayhawkRock78 Thanks! I’m going to add TAD to the list above.
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Just in case someone is really green: AFH or JNC (James Naismith Court)
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@JayhawkRock78 Yes! Adding!
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@bskeet how long are you going to torture us with the MUA thing?
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@nuleafjhawk Whadda ya think, Major Under Achievers? Guess jb even has his own dictionary.
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Let’s add 9999 as a satirical disclaimer.
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@nuleafjhawk Look, all I know is that if MUA doesn’t stand for “Mutated Underaged Athlete’s”, then all my post are shot to crap!!!
It is “Mutated Underaged Athlete’s”…right??
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@bskeet Do I have to use “JB”? I like to use @jaybate-1.0 to try and bring him in the conversation. He has great insight and is much more pithy than I… well, at least with basketball stuff.
No malice intended!
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Hudyizing Xtreme Muscle Ballers and X-Axis Moles , etc. might have a place in the glossary if we want to expand beyond acronyms. I’d guess to the uninitiated our commonly held beliefs that Hudy is our beastmaster guaranteed to add 20 pounds to any frame given the time, and that there is a yin and yang between trees and moles might be of some interest.
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@jayhawkbychoice I figure it’s either that or Mizzou’s Ungodly Antlers.
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I hate abbreviations!
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@jayhawkbychoice you used MUA so I assumed you knew!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Yeah I knew, but I couldn’t resist a chance at a joke. Funny or not.
I have to admit, last year the one JB threw out about long players that gave Perry trouble (LAS’s…I think, can’t remember exactly) had me head scratching for awhile! LOL
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@jayhawkbychoice so that’s it?
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FWIW–for what it’s worth (also an oblique reference to Buffalo Springfield)
OAF–one and flush (marginal player brought in to fill out a roster spot until a major talent can be signed the next off season)
Note: I use many others that only I use that do not, therefore, require defining for the community’s posterity.
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@jaybate-1.0 Bring them on, JB! They either offer great insight or a great laugh, and I like both!
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LMAO–what I’m dong tonight after reading this thread and @nuleafjhawk’s thread about this site being his facebook! Check it out!
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Ok… so does MUA mean Major Under Achievers?? I honestly don’t know…
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@jayhawkbychoice spit it out!
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@jaybate-1.0 Here we go again jb !! Jim Messina, Steven Stills, Richey Furay, & Neil Young. The latter of which couldn’t carry a tune in a bushel basket if his life depended on it. But Messina was one of the greatest guitar geniuses of the 60’s & 70’s. Way, way ahead or his time. Played a Telecaster with 4 finger picks & a thumb pick-like a flippin banjo player. That sucker played hottern’ lil’ sisters you know what. Finally got some well deserved recognition when teamed up with Kenny Loggins. One of the most fun live shows I ever remember. I think it was at Memorial Hall in KCK, but it could’ve been the old Freedom Palace (Playmore Ballroom) in KCMO. I bought my first Martin D 18 across the street form the Playmore from an elderly husband & wife who had a music store in their old 3 story frame house called Penniman Music. $300bucks for an acoustic axe back in 1969 was a helluva lotta doah, but it was worth every dime. I still have the contact pickup I used to mic it with. Martin’s have the most prolific range from sweetest tenor sound for bluegrass or country, to the nastiest baritone & bass for blues. James Taylor played one on his old “Steamroller Blues” from back in the late 60’s. Ring a bell? Depending on the strings you used, there was virtually no comparison (IMO) to other acoustics. Only one close was a Gibson Hummingbird. I prefered De Angelico flat wounds over Gibson & they were expensive & hard to get sometimes. I broke them right & left it seemed. If you ever visit the Ryman or CMHOF in Nashville, you’ll see many of the legends Martin’s on display. Man, it’s amazing how you know how to take my ass back to the good & simple years jb, It’s just astonishing the buttons you push in my memory. Pert near like a free remedy for dimesia. What ?!
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@globaljaybird
There are only two things I have ever wanted to “own” purely for the sake of their excellence due to their maker. One was a Lighthouse Bicycle by Tim Neenan of Santa Ynez, CA and I own one. The other was a Mossman Guitar by Stuart Mossman of Winfield, KS. I still haven’t got the Mossman. They became too precious after all the recognition they began to get and all the vapid collectors hustling them, to be wasted on my incompetent playing. But your recollection of Martin d bodies and Jim Messina and the great musicians of our youths has rekindled my old yearning for a Mossman. What the hell! Maybe I will look for one and play it badly without apology. We only go around once.
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IHA–I hate abbreviations (@Crimsonorblue22 )
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NMOTP----no more off topic posting
IWPWETFIW–I will post what ever the f$&@"?! I want
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Trifectate–a three point shooter
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The closest I came to a Mossman Guitar was a Mossman Guitar T-shirt I bought at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. Around 1980. At the time the hottest group was named something like Dedannon-out of Ireland. I have their album somewhere. Now a red '66 corvette with white convertable top is high on my list.
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@JayhawkRock78 I’d kinda like to own the Ark of the Covenant.
And have World peace. (not the dude)
Oh - a signed copy of the White Album would be nice too.
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@jaybate-1.0 STA, stop the abbreviations
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@bskeet is this it?
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Here are a few acronyms frequently used on-line:
IMHO - In my humble opinion.
FWIW - For what is worth.
AFAIK - As far as I know,
BTW - By the way.
ROTFLMAO - Rolling of the floor laughing my a$$ off.
LOL- laughing out loud or Laughing on line.
TMI - too much information.
WTF - What the fu**.
SH - Sh** happens.
CYA -Cover Your Ass or See Ya.
OMG - Censored, never to be used in a sports forum.
BFF- Censored, never to be used in a sports forum.
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@JayHawkFanToo OMG - you are no longer my BFF. Lol.
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STFU - Shut The $#&* Up
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WTF? you actually brought up OMG and BFF in one sentence despite been warned? ROTFLMAO!!!
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@JRyman good to hear from you! How are you?
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@JayHawkFanToo (snicker…) I’m a bit of a rebel…
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@Crimsonorblue22 Had a good June and even a good 4th of July, but shortly after my headaches came back and no one knows what to do, 85 straight days with chronic head pain is what I call ridiculous. But I feel good physically and mentally just can’t do much due to the head pain.
Thanks for asking.
Not sure how much I’ll be on in the near future, but I’ll still check in from time to time and comment every now and then.
Definitely won’t be reading any of those long rants though.
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I hope things turn around for you and you get some relief.
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@globaljaybird @jaybate-1.0 and others talking guitars. Here is my deceased friend Jimmy Foster playing one of his 7 string guitars. Jimmy was well known in New Orleans area and was authorized to sevice Martins.
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@brooksmd I’ve seen it all on here!! He’s very good.
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@bskeet MUA=Match Up Advantage
Wiggs was a great example of a MUA. He was always bigger and more skilled than whoever was guarding him.
Releford’s defense was a MUA. He could lock down almost anyone he guarded.
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@jayhawkbychoice finally! You tortured us!
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@Crimsonorblue22 Sorry, I thought you guys knew and were just messing with me!
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@jayhawkbychoice I wasn’t!
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@Crimsonorblue22 I can’t take credit for any of those abbreviations. I think most are a product of JB gifted mind!
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@jayhawkbychoice I feel like a piece of the puzzle of life was just revealed to me… Thank you! (adding to the buckets glossary)
@brooksmd Thanks much for the musical interlude. Awesome!
One more request-- someone mentioned LAS or something like that… I thought it was LABs (Long, Athletic, Bigs) but I can’t recall… So please share that one if you remember it.
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JRYMAN = absolute man (for handling chronic head pain)
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JFoster makes a beautiful axe. Thx 4 sharing your pal with us. Is the 7th string paired with a string an octave apart, like on a 12 string, or is it it’s own 7th string?
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Shizz = filter circumventing form of vulgate for feces.
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RCJHKU is the best of them all!
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@bskeet Thanks so much for starting this list. I’ve been thinking about doing something similar for months! When you’re away and miss some critical definitions, it’s hard to keep up. I’ve been struggling with MUA for a long time.
Acronyms and initialisms are the bane of my existence. I have a hard time remembering their meaning, especially when the same initials can mean different things in different settings. When an academic administrator references a Program Of Study using the initials POS I start to giggle because in my circle of friends that same initialism stands for Piece of Sh*t. Likewise, discussions of an Executive Director hire evoke memories of Bob Dole’s dysfunctional erection. Within my small sphere of influence, the initialism for deoxyribonucleic acid is the only one that gets a pass.
But as long as terms are defined, and there’s an easy place to look them up, it’s all good.
