TTech Game thread
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Zeke is a nickname for Isaiah/Isiah and started with Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons which also happens to be where Isaiah Marshall is from.
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Texas Tech is one of the best teams in the country and showed why tonight. They are a good team and with their remaining schedule should reach the Big 12 title game at 12-0.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 I don’t see Tech getting tested from here on out. I hope Morton is okay for their sake
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Huh. And I always thought it was short for Ezekiel.
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@Jhawk69 You are correct, Zeke is not short for Isiah. Isiah Thomas was called Zeke by his teammates and apparently a handful of folks have carried that on to other people. Isiah’s being called Zeke now are mostly done due to a misinterpreting of that. It would be like calling all Michael’s Air or LeBron’s King - it was a nickname for a specific person that got applied to others.
️ I suppose you could call any and all folks any random thing your heart desires and see if it sticks - it helps if you start with a famous one though.
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@dylans I don’t care if they call Marshall Hezekiah, Bocephus or Jim. I’d just like to see him play. I’m not dogging Daniels. I just don’t think he’s great. I have a feeling that Marshall could be really special.
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@nuleafjhawk If he can’t beat out Daniels, it’s likely he’s like any backup QB - a fan favorite until he gets extended minutes. Then the new backup is the fav!
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@dylans JD has had a very solid year thus far not sure why anyone would think he needs benched at this point. The thing is with Marshall is he is a freak athlete but that doesn’t take he is a good QB. We are not at practice every week so if the staff has Ballard above him, there is a reason.
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@dylans Might be some practical use shortening all Isiahs, at least some way:
“Isiah Thomas earned the nickname “Zeke” from a teammate, John Duren, who shortened the name “Isiah” because it was too long to say during a 1979 Pan American team practice. The nickname stuck because a song called “Zeke the Freak” was also popular that year”
Now I have to go listen to Zeke the Freak and see if it applied to Marshall as well
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Hmm there are 3 words in that song. It works.
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Apparently Lance and Joe got into a heated exchange post game over the tortillas being thrown repeatedly. Maybe this lights a fire under him.
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@kjayhawks staff picks are not always the best.
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Tech is on another planet. They likely won’t have a close game in league play.
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Did u read a Swiss Army knife was thrown at a staff member? Our staff. There was a vote before season about throwing things, 15-1 against it, lone vote, u guessed it. Lance got after TT coach after game. Read they ball up those tortillas and also throw lil liquor bottles at visiting players.
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Crazy the amount of hawk fans that want LL fired right now in X and Facebook. Insane at this point
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@Crimsonorblue22 Was the knife open or just hurtled like a rock? I’ve not heard that fairly important detail yet. If it was open charges need filed.
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Didn’t say
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@Crimsonorblue22 It really doesn’t matter. There should never be a weapon of any kind in a stadium/ arena. TT should have to forfeit the game and the win goes to Kansas. Seriously. The only way to stop BS like that is to administer harsh penalties.
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@nuleafjhawk The individual should be held accountable. Just like at any other riot. It’s not a faceless crime - there is a specific person that needs punished appropriately. That whole punish the team for some fan’s action is seriously flawed - you’re just asking for an antler to dress in KU garb and get KU in trouble or something similar.
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@dylans C’mon man, I’m trying to get us another “W”…
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The knife was turned over to TTPD. Gonna check videos. Wasn’t opened
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@Crimsonorblue22 Well that’s better. Makes it more stupid than malicious. A real head shaker - what a genius.
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Turns out the knife being thrown was fabricated by Lance. Or perhaps a case of operator gone wrong.
️“A pocketknife was thrown and hit one of our staff members,” Leipold said after the game. “It’s ridiculous. It’s supposed to be for safety and things like that, and it’s a culture that’s been accepted to a point, and it hasn’t changed. Eventually, somebody’s going to be seriously hurt, unfortunately.”
Texas Tech submitted footage to the league this week that proved the claim to be inaccurate.
In Texas Tech’s response to the Big 12’s sportsmanship inquiry, obtained by ESPN, athletic director Kirby Hocutt wrote that the school combed through all available video footage and interviewed eyewitnesses near the Kansas bench when the issue arose in the fourth quarter.
The video footage Texas Tech submitted raises questions about whether the pocketknife was initially dropped by someone on Kansas’ sideline. The video shows a Kansas player reaching down to pick up the closed pocketknife on the field apron near the 38-yard line and handing it to a KU staff member.
The staff member handed the pocketknife to Leipold, who brought it to game officials. Texas Tech was assessed a 15-yard penalty for throwing objects onto the field.
“We believe this video makes it clear where the pocket knife originated, which will disprove all claims that it may have been thrown from the stands, and certainly makes it clear that it did not hit any member of KU’s staff on the sideline,” Hocutt wrote.
The Big 12 said Tech’s fine was for the objects thrown onto the playing surface, while Kansas’ was for disparaging comments about the conference and “an inaccurate statement regarding a pocketknife by head coach Lance Leipold.”
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@dylans oops! Wellp guess we need to kick Lance to the curb. I know how you feel about liars
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@approxinfinity It’s an indicator that all things may not be as they seem. It is rather disappointing.
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So a video showing that a Kansas player picked it up and handed it to a staff member means it wasn’t thrown there in the first place? Did a miss something?
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@dylans agreed.
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All I know about this story is it’s the dumbest thing I’ve seen in sports for a while and I’m clueless as to why it’s getting all the attention it is.
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@FarmerJayhawk If we had won, they could have thrown Samurai swords and hand grenades and nobody would have said a word.
