@Jhawk69 great posts and have enjoyed your analysis even if I disagree with some of it. Need to double back to @Texas-Hawk-10 as the wsu loss traylor played 17 minutes but Perry was clearly the 4 man and scored 17 so I had that part wrong I think your entire theory or discussion is proven wrong literally by Self’s loyalty to Juan and kj. He thinks kj effects a game as well as nba player ochai when kj will never do that (requires night in and night out stud offense and defense which he can’t do based on his offensive limitations and horrid defensive rebounding). He also believes Juan is the best pure pg in America which means he can’t throw it in the ocean. His loyalty to these two guys completely affects who we’ve been able to recruit via high school and the portal these last 3 years. These two were guaranteed starting spots no matter what. That is horrid talent evaluation. That’s 100% proof he’s incorrectly evaluated these guys which is even more appalling as they’ve been in the progrum multiple years!!! That then 100% backs up my take and @approxinfinity that there is without a doubt Self’s lack of confidence in more talented (but maybe not the best basketball player) players caused his teams to never reach their ceiling. Instead of elevating ALL players he’d only play the guys who did it “his way”. Well his way of winning rock fights 51-49 thinking that’s awesome isn’t ever maximizing talent and it is playing down to the competition which leads to early exits to lower level teams ie what we’ve seen 5/6 years…… His lack of talent evaluation after players are in his system has caused this. Now impossible to prove when we all haven’t seen practices but man you catch glimpses of certain guys in games and think “if he wasn’t looking over his shoulder every play and got to play freely like these lower level players Self loves - I sure wonder how good this dude could actually be”

@Texas-Hawk-10 I like Hunter’s skill set better than Udeh but feel like Udeh is more enthusiastic and enthusiasm is sometimes a problem with this team.

@Jhawk69 said in My crisis of faith in Bill: That year Traylor, Greene, and Frankamp combined to play 957 minutes. All of these minutes came off the bench. I would argue, that giving a substantial part of these 957 bench minutes to Andrew White III would have made him a part of the rotation. There are others who, bafflingly, disagree with this. This is the last statement that I will make about the feasibility of giving Andrew White rotation minutes 11 years ago. I would have liked to see AW3 get rotation minutes, as he proved at later stops that he was a hell of a player. Oh well. Sometimes things just don’t work out and that is fine. I thought AW3 should have gotten run over BG. But hard to really complain when BG made 50% of his 3s lol.

My Goodness. Lance and the staff really our just killing it sounds/looks like in 2026 recruiting-- - rumor has been spreading that 2026 was Lane’s year in recruiting especially local in State kids which has been lacking in past Coaching staffs. – Not in 2026 , KU at this point I checked had a top 20 ranking for their 2026 class. In 2026 so far we have the # 1 or # 2 ranked player in the State has committed name is J J Dunnigan – the # 4 ranked player in the State & ranked as the # 32 player in the Nation has committed name is Hunter Higgins - - -The # 9 ranked player in the State has committed name is Jayden Mason. On top of this read/saw today we have received CB picks for Tgren Parker - -( Athlete ) – then we have a CB down for Nate Sims -WR ( announcing his decision on the 23rd, & we are the favorite for him WR - -Then the cream from today is A 4 * OL Kayden Synder - - with receiving these CB’s means we are in really good shape. These three picks that all came in today came from the K/State analyst predicting these three are landing at KU. On top of that we are in a really good spot for the # 1 TE end in Kansas- name is Ian Premer, has been to visit KU multiple times and Jr day , Coach is cleaning up in State , no more of out of State Schools coming in and swiping quality players right here out of Kansas under our nose If we land Premer- — would give us Seven of the top kids from right here in Kansas. - - also in on Josh Galbreath a Rb right here in Lawrence- then the # 1 player WR out of the State of Nebraska Amarion Jackson- - been to visit KU multiple times and Jr day.- -Sitting up to be a massive year in 2026

@FarmerJayhawk Yeah, I think we can start to dream of better days.

@SlimShaddy54 said in Other Football Games of Interest: @dylans Wow that’s some serious money to be painted on helmets. -Wonder how much it costs for ours with the Jayhawk decal on also I’d guess about tree fiddy.

Chenal remind me of a high school sr on steroids.

Sadly it all makes sense. Or could it be full circle, and the NCAA pulled a brilliant back door scheme, found a way to get a gazillion more dollars in play, and will now thrive!?

She is out for the Season with a knee injury

Dam TCU in good spot to beat Baylor @ Baylor up three with twenty seven seconds to go. Udeh huge Game – - Sixteen points - - & fifteen rebounds- - three blocks. Welp Baylor just tied, doesn’t take away from Udeh’s game TCU WINS @ Baylor

@approxinfinity If your contention is Storr is a good basketball player and Self needs to go I believe the gulf in how we view the game is too wide to overcome. But here is where I’m coming from. Storr is no good at being a teammate, I’ll stand by that. The ball movement already isn’t great, but he’s a black hole on offense and his defense is atrocious. If he could figure out how to switch and help on D he would get some run. However his advanced stats show that he is the same player for KU he was at Wisconsin - the difference is his usage is actually down from 32%!!! at Wisconsin to 22% at KU but it hasn’t made him any more efficient. He just isn’t that great of an all around player - just an inefficient volume scorer and below average defender. https://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/aj-storr-player-stats?category=advanced&seasonType=reg

@DCHawker Agreed. They play very soft, it seems all players do everything in their power to avoid contact. I’d love to see slashers putting pressure on the other team by fouling them up. I’d like to see Flory drawing as many fouls as he gives. Improved rebounding and fouling up the other team are mostly effort plays, they can do it if they set their mind to it.

@Texas-Hawk-10 That sounds really nice. - -I think we will be just fine with him as a Coach sounds like he has done a really good job.- - Probably recruits pretty well too with that kind of record

@kuballin10 lol, thnaks - -you know I like you I really do , cause you a funny guy keep them coming

@DCHawker Hunter + kj happened. No rim protection and bad defensive rebounding

Suddenly Self mentions how KJ is rebounding better and still has the most room for improvement.

@BShark said in Offseason Roster Thread: I really like our defense. The front 7 on paper looks fantastic. I’m concerned I may have too high of expectations for them. Can’t say DK doesn’t have something to work with this season. KU has the 2nd best Transfer class in the big 12 and we are getting for it to be pretty late in the process…

My favorite is Cole Aldrich.

@AsadZ Hmm if Iowa St hadn’t blown a big lead against them in their matchup we’d be calling them the best team so far. A combo of those two teams have visually looked tops and probably a gap after that. Auburn’s defense isn’t as good as several but they certainly can score with the best of them. Gilbert of Iowa St is a sneaky top player that gets no recognition. I think he’s a baller. Just a solid team overall

@FarmerJayhawk Hunter’s steal rate is way up this year to go with decent block rate and great rebounding numbers. He’s turned into a solid defensive center, just still can’t slide for shit so he can be exploited in P&R in the wrong matchup. Ideally, we just need to avoid teams with stretch fives that can punish drop coverage.