HOLY CROSS CRUSADERS - Weds. 7 p.m. TWC
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Just trying to be light hearted about all of the Coach haters.
Roy in the NCAA Tournament vs. Holy Cross.
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@wrwlumpy They certainly have a beautiful campus! Can’t wait o go to the game. I’ve been fortunate enough to be at every game in the Fieldhouse so far this season outside of the Harvard game.
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@HawkInMizery so we should blame you?
guess you better not miss anymore. Have fun!
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@Crimsonorblue22 haha I knew someone was going to say that as soon as I hit enter. It’s all my fault!!! lol I wish I could attend every game but Royals season tickets don’t pay for themselves ha
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Yep, blame it on him…off with his head, get a rope or …wait, @HawkInMizery better not be Muslin or I will be in deep %hit and have the entire federal government on me for hateful speech. On the other hand, if he is a Christian I might get an innvite to the White House…:D
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@JayHawkFanToo HAHAHA not muslim. I have Christian values but I don’t know if I’d classify myself as that either. I have my views on organized religion but that’s a whole other conversation and I know that wasn’t the point of your post
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You are right. Gotta have some fun amidst the doom and gloom that seems to permeate the board when Coach Self does things differently than the forum’s resident master coaches feel he should do…:(
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@wrwlumpy you are a breath of fresh air!
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The haters on the other site refer to their Coach bashers as the “Chicken Little - Sky is falling group.” Also, I guess on Hawk Talk last night, two people called coach about why he chooses to play the Big’s that get the court time. So, now the “Anti” Self fans are taking the airways, obviously hoping that Self will say, “You’re right, I know I should listen to the bloggers and I probably should do it their way.”
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@wrwlumpy A couple of things about that game: Holy Cross had a winning record (unlike Harvard) and we won by double digits. Also, I think if you look real hard, you can see Bill Self sitting behind the KU bench whispering " run the Hi-Low, run the Hi-low…"
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@JayHawkFanToo Indeed! I appreciate the humor. I too have fallen subject to questioning self at times but until we don’t win the Big 12 for consecutive years he has earned our patience. We’re all human and it’s easy to get frustrated which makes it so easy to quickly point the finger at self. Sometimes I think he may lose on purpose or do something against the grain to get his guys to do what he wants them to do. We’ve seen what this team can do when they are firing on all cylinders. You gotta think the boys will come out firing after the way they let Harvard come back in their house. Maybe his plan was to motivate them, to show them that any team can beat them and that every opponent deserves respect regardless of competition level, record, or league.
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@nuleafjhawk Has it really been that horrible for you to watch the Jayhawks these last 13 years under Coach. Has the anger at him permeated your soul that it makes it difficult to enjoy what he has accomplished. Is this going to go on all year after every conference game that we win? I hope we score a 100 in all our games, just so I can enjoy coming to this site again.
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@wrwlumpy You might want to read between the lines. I’m just looking for an opportunity to have fun. I love KU. I DO believe we should win every game by 40 points and I think the Hi-Low offense is great for 6-9 to 7-2 guys that can’t run. We have (will have) a great team this year and I’m just keeping myself entertained until things click.
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Put Baylor and West Virginia in this mix also.
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Great article…
Oklahoma absolutely dominated reigning Big East champion Villanova on Monday night to earn the No. 1 spot in the updated KenPom rankings, and suddenly, the Big 12 is looking like an absolute juggernaut. Four Big 12 schools lie within the top 16 of Ken Pom’s rankings: Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa St. and West Virginia (who we won’t break down here, but could also vault into title contention with a few more impressive performances). Take a look at the AP Poll, and the Big 12 picture looks even prettier. Kansas (2), Iowa St. (4) and Oklahoma (7) occupy three of the top seven spots, and the Sooners are a good bet to leap a few teams in next week’s poll.
But, but, but…I though the Big 12 was not strong and the ACC and the Big 10 were the strong conferences.
KenPom adjusted offensive efficiency rankings: Kansas (14th), Oklahoma (16th), Iowa St. (20th)
How can this be? Didn’t KU just got schooled by Harvard?
The Jayhawks play faster than any Big 12 team based on adjusted tempo (17th in the nation), which is impressive when you consider they only turn the ball over on 15.1 percent of their possessions. That ranks 29th out of 351 teams in the country, forming an unlikely yet favorable combination of controlled chaos. Complement a turbo-quick offense
Again, how can it be?..I thought Coach Self was slowing down the offense and putting the brakes on the greyhounds… I’m shocked, shocked I tell you
I could go on, but you get the jest…the gloom and doom seems to be highly localized.
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@wrwlumpy gonna be a thriller!
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@wrwlumpy Love hearing people from Worcester say “Worchester”. WOO-STAH …
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Another game searching for an internet stream thanks to %&*&^$$ Zenger. The Montana game on the 19th as well…
Yep, I still hate Zenger!!!
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Bob Cousy’s team played against Phogg Allen in 1949. We lost.
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@wrwlumpy Well, we’re about due for some REVENGE!! Let’s kick us some Crusader butt big time tonight!!
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Since our president want us to play nice with the people that just want to kill us…Is the name “Crusader” politically incorrect?
Wil the DOJ show up at the game and arrest Iggy the Crusader for Islamophobia?
Inquiring minds want to know… :d
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@JayHawkFanToo What happened to keeping politics off of this board?!
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No politics, a valid question in view of the current environment and how it has affected sports and the fact that our next opponent has a name that is or soon will be under attack… How many school had to change mascots because they had Native American names ( that Native Americans in many case had no problem)? How soon before the “Crusaders” have to change mascots?
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@JayHawkFanToo I see absolutely no connection between the team name Crusaders and any of the Native American team names. I also have heard no talk of the Crusader name being controversial. Is this a conversation that has happened somewhere and I missed it?
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…other than the fact that they are both now consider politically incorrect names. You do know that the “Crusaders” were a military force created for the express purpose of fighting Muslims and recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims, right? How well do you think that sits with the politically correct crowd?
Had our opponents been the Wildcats or Bears or Cyclones I would not have even mentioned it. Keep in mind that it is the politically correct crowd that got involved with sports and not the other way around.
I am sorry if my comments offend you; I am not sorry for my comments.
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@JayHawkFanToo …and Native American tribes are military forces created for the express purpose of? Still don’t see the connection. Where has there been any call for the Crusaders to change their name? Give me a link. I’ll read it! I just had never heard that that was a thing.
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@JayHawkFanToo had a friend in college, pure redhead and Irish. Last name O’Connor even.
He used to joke he thought the term “fighting Irish” was stereo typical and needed to be stopped.
Again he was joking until someone heard him at a bar and decided together they should go and put a stop to it and march to Notre Dame and cause a ruckus.
So we used to say that any team with “Fighting” should have to change it when we’d go watch the NCAA tournament at the bars.
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Let’s go Fighting Genociders!
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THE POLITICALLY CORRECT VIEW
The postmodernist view of the Crusades today is well-and-often elucidated: that the Crusaders were rapacious, religious fanatics who looted and destroyed “the peaceful” Muslim civilization of the Middle East. That doing so, they slaughtered and destroyed and created a lasting legacy of hatred and distrust of the West among Muslims; one that continues to warp Muslim perspective to this day. In the words of Professor Thomas F. Madden of the U. of St. Louis:
"The Crusades are generally portrayed as a series of holy wars against Islam led by power-mad popes and fought by religious fanatics. They are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance, a black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and Western civilization in general. A breed of proto-imperialists, the Crusaders introduced Western aggression to the peaceful Middle East and then deformed the enlightened Muslim culture, leaving it in ruins."
This is a one-sided and narrow view at best; and specious nonsense at worst.
How long before Holy Cross is forced to change mascots?
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I used to introduce the Bass Player in a band I was in as "A total loss from Holy Cross.
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@JayHawkFanToo I don’t think they will be forced to do anything. They may indeed change their name as a handful of small schools have chosen to do (thanks for the link).
I’m yet to see the connection to Native American mascots but it’s clear you do.
Almost game time! Rock Chalk Jayhawk! (Should we change that?) Hopefully some basketball will give us something different to talk about!
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The link is that they are "BOTH" considered politically incorrect…now back to basketball.
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@wrwlumpy Great job.
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@wrwlumpy And look what happened…won easily (not always pretty) when we sit the two folks generating the talk. Now let the philosophical battle continue, right?
what we can and can not take from this game vs. Harvard and why…
