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@jaybate-1.0 Well jb, if they are in fact the JarHead Jayhawks, let’s hope they don’t go through the mine field with both fingers in their ears on tip-toes !!!
No malice intended, only humor !!
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@globaljaybird
Let’s ask the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima how the Jarheads walked through Cushman’s pocket.
Um, well, we can’t, because they did not survive the battle.
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Joe Ross just posted a long post on the other site. Interesting article! Mr Page Butler said that Joe could be the new Jaybate.
Good to have you here at KU Buckets. Totally no sarcasm. I enjoy your posts.
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@Shanghai_RCJH …LOL, first thing Joe ain’t new, just a retread many, many times over. Second thing. let’s just say ole JR ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed either…
no malice intended, just the facts…
And for heavens sake let’s hope he stays over there & enjoys his new found fame.
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Criteria for being the next jaybate 1.0:
1.) graduate of KU;
2.) love The Game and The Legacy;
3.) have at least a thimble full of brains;
4.) make the length fit the content;
5.) never participate in organized iLynchings of football or basketball coaches;
6.) be amusing at least sometimes;
7.) do it for free to give back to the game, the school and the state that helped you grow up “the right way”;
8.) encourage interactive journalism;
9.) don’t forget who your Daddy is;
10.) love the players; and
11.) support limited identity posting.
Good to hear from you.
Rock Chalk!!!
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- Quote Bob Dylan
13.Quote Steven Stills
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Quote Chester Nimitz
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Quote George Patton
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Have a photographic memory of all things Basketball from the Late 50’s up to 5 years in the future.
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Make obscure references that have readers googling to understand the post.
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Must be able to defend Bill Self from intermittent detractors that emerge after a loss or a close win.
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Instruct younger readers on who real heroes are in combat and in the vast history of Roundball.
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Be a defender of a Jayhawk player that is being criticized by others and be vindicated within two games.
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sometimes be politically incorrect.
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@jaybate-1.0 #3 just as well be chlordane for board (or boring) rats. It eliminates the entire colony.
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- Be willing to dunk readers into the fast-moving rivers of your imagination, but always throw out a lifebuoy to save them.
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@jaybate-1.0 Recognized that patch. I have it on my grandfather’s WWII uniform.
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@wrwlumpy This is a very good list for the pre-qualification.
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Lucas is now a 6’10, 245lb ENFORCER (who simply needs to finish his bunnies). Tell me he cant do what frosh Cole did as the 4th big in March…
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@ralster Yeah, if we could get him to shoot better than Yosemite Sam !!
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If that patch is on his uniform, he was remarkable.
Learn everything you can about your grandfather’s life before the war, his war service and experience good, bad, or indifferent, and how he dealt with it afterwards.
He was probably an absolute man, whether he viewed himself that way or not. Based on what little I know–not the movie, but what little I have read–what he experienced was different than most of the rest of American combat soldiers of World War II. In some ways, it foreshadowed the warfare of Vietnam.
Don’t let where he went, and what he did, die, even if it seems inaccessible to you, or others in your family. It wasn’t and isn’t, if you try. Write as much of it down as you can. Ask everyone that knew him about what he was like before and after he served. Search on line for his service records at DOD, or the Army. In time, if you look long enough and deep enough, you will come to know him, and through him know your father and yourself, and much of what effect, good and bad you have had on your children. War is trans-generational in its effects on families. And what it did to men, whether known about, or forgotten, understood, or not, continues to echo down the generations, for better and for worse. You owe it to your family to find out what you can and use what you can learn to help you family keep getting better.
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@icthawkfan316 said:
Being drafted on potential is almost always better than being drafted as a known quantity, because almost no one lives up to the hype
An important insight.
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Damn, coach, your molars must be getting round as cue balls!
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Unfortunately I never met him. It is a sad story that I won’t go into but I do know he suffered from PTSD after the war and did not return to see my father.
I’ve read one book on Merrill’s Marauders and just started another called Spearhead. The mortality rate was something like 80%.
I have a email from someone at marauder.org that gives some details about the men in that unit and how much they suffered and accomplished. I also have his medals including Purple Heart, Bronze Stars and a presidential citation given to the unit.
In my office I have laminated posters with pictures of medals and info on the Marauders (and other relatives who served elsewhere). I made it with my children for school assignments on Veterans days.
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You are way ahead of me then. Hat’s off to ya and your gramp.
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You forgot Marvin Gaye.
Also, must HOWL!
Howling!
But not Kaddishing.
Only Allen can do that.
T. S… Eliot. Click!
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Actually I appreciate your counsel. Not that I’m ahead of you-When I finally grew up and got some sense of what others have done for this country I’ve always had a thirst to learn this stuff.
My father and a family genealogist did all the heavy lifting. Dad even went to a Marauder’s reunion to research. As a result of those two I’m in a position to keep passing it along to our descendants.
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@jaybate-1.0 in 1962, the Movie of Merrill’s Marauders came out. My father worked for Warner Brothers and I was able to meet the cast of that movie. With all my siblings grown and in College, I became a child prodigy in Contract Bridge. At age 14, the TV Show “Sugarfoot” was on and it featured Will Hutchins who played the title role. He was also in the film. I played Bridge with he and other cast members. I recieved a Xmas present from him that year and all my classmates thought I was cool.
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@JayHawkFanToo Whatever pro league Svi was playing in, there are many overseas. He is not in the same Pro level league that Sasha is in.
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Cool, thanks for sharing that bit of childhood.
You were most fortunate to hang around the fantasy factory at that time.
Sam Fuller could make war movies move.
And Ty Hardin should have been bigger.
And Claude Akins in any 1950s pic is worth a look.
Remember also Jeff Chandler played in The Jayhawkers. Good movie idea wrecked by Fess Parker, who later put a lousy piece of architecture down on East Beach in Santa Barbara and called it a hotel. Its still there stinking things up.
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Cherkaski Mavpy? Is that the phonetic spelling:-)
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Svi played for Cherkaski Mavpy of the #13 ranled Ukrainian Basketball Super League from 2012 to 2014. Kaun plays for CSKA Moscow of the #2 ranked VTB United League ( formerly Russian Premier League). They both also play for their respective National Teams. I understand that Svi could play for just about any League in Europe, including the #1 ranked Spanish League.
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@JayHawkFanToo But in the Big 12 he sits on the bench.
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Much like the NBA, Euro leagues also buy potential. He played in one of the bottom teams in one of the bottom leagues, and if he were to join one of the top leagues/teams, he would also ride the bench until his game has developed. Ricky Rubio started the same way and was locked into a long term contract that kept him with Barcelona of the Spanish League for a while and he had to eventually buy out of his contract (with a little help from the Wolves). I see Svi pretty much the same way. If colleges could lock players in long term contracts, don’t you think KU would sign Svi even if he would not initially play much? Kid is only 17.
I would encourage you to watch some Euro basket sometime (lots of on-line streams); I believe you would be surprised.
