@BShark Love me some Dok!

Another huge area… school athletic programs are having solvency issues. We all think of how much money is in college sports. But the cost to run these programs is astronomical, especially if schools want a competitive program. Think about how many entities have a say in college sports… NCAA, Board of Regents, several areas within the university, state legislatures, federal government in several areas, municipal authorities… lots of watchful eyes, legislation, rules, redundant everything… and it all draws money from the program, directly and indirectly. All schools, including the blue bloods, can use a real boost in the financial arm. This will trickle down to the athletes beyond whatever royalties they can receive.

@HighEliteMajor maybe the distance out will discourage us from trying to double team.

@Bosthawk Ask yourself: “Is this really what we have to do to win?” These OADs are the “fools gold” we’ve all been talking about for a few years now. It’s the “let’s take the lazy approach” to college basketball. After all, it is hard to find good players who will work their butts off through college. And I mean WORK! I mean maximizing their time to make it all about basketball and academics. We get a team of these guys and we beef up our developmental coaching, we are going to win a lot of games. More than we win now. I don’t know how much more of this OAD drama I can handle. The quality of D1 has dropped so far it is unrecognizable. But until we change to a true developmental program, I’ll cheer on the big talent. It’s about all we have now. I don’t want us to become another Duke. Duke was the laughing stock of college basketball last year… losing with all that NBA talent. Coach K looked like a washed up coach. He could hardly have wished for a better scenario than he had. I miss real basketball!

@bcjayhawk It was fun to write as well. Took me a few days actually, unlike anything else I ever post. I’d write a little, come back to it later, do some more, etc.

I think it was pretty obvious what happened to this team at this point. It prob ends up in the stack of teams where we are wonder what could’ve happened had injuries and other circumstances not showed their ugly head. I still say we are a 2 or 3 loss team easily winning the big 12 with Doke, Garrett healthy all season, SDS able to play and Vick playing like he did early in the season. But we can play the what if game all night as most people can in not only sports but life. What if Simien never go hurt in 03 or Mari and BMac were cleared in 2012? It sucks but its life…

Not sure if it’s an aberration or simply a true reflection of who we are outside of AFH. I will say this: It is ugly and I hope I don’t see this again for a long time. It reminds me of Baylor.

I don’t see Dotson leaving after this season. While he has incredible speed, his athleticism isn’t eye popping. He’s a backup in the NBA right now. I think he’s at least back next year, maybe the year after as well. His size, while solid, isn’t on par with a lot of NBA PGs. Remember, Grimes likely will move to the point in the NBA. He’s at least 3 inches taller than Dotson. That’s the type of player Dotson has to be prepared to go against every night in the NBA. I don’t think he makes that leap after this season. Steph Curry is thought of as a smaller player, but he’s listed at 6-3 and people attack him defensively because of his size. That’s the challenge Dotson faces at the next level.

Bwag said: Anyone seeing it on ESPN+? I did really actually I though pretty decent quality probably gonna stick with this for the 6 games and the next exhibition - -wasn’t sure how I would like it , but no complaints

sorry just thought about this - -just random thought nothing but a hill of beans but anyways – Who here remembers When good Old Billy Tubbs and his beloved Sooners - you remember when they used to or sure the hell seemed like they had the ol furnace cranked up and it was always like a dam Sauna in there ? I remember how there was talk about that -trying to make it as uncomfortable for opposing teams? - Then we had CHEW Kennedy he was a piece of Cake - -I like W Tisdale sad he left us so early in life - see told ya just babbling --have a great day guys. - - -EIGHT DAYS - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

We should go ahead and make t-shirts like UK did in 14-15 to start the hype machine! Get some KU NCAA 2019 championship hats made too!

@BShark No way! Gambling is involved in D1? That’s impossible! Why the next thing that will be spread is the Deep State laundering black money through betting on D1. Just ridiculous!! Gambling? There’s no stinking gambling!!! No connection between gaming and media either. It’s all conspiracy theory stuff!

Thank you, to everyone, for all the great discussions!

Devon Dotson and Marcus Garret are a top tier duel pg option and Charlie and KJ are two vets that are great back ups. I think the only question is whether Legerald leaves. If he does I suspect Romeo Langford will commit and if not then we have our senior leader talking mad shit on the court. Wouldn’t mind having LG back for another year.

@wissox Unfortunately that is what most of us believed for a long time but information that came up recently indicates KU was one whisker away from getting the death penalty for a number of violations by Larry Brown. Apparently the penalty was deserved, that is not to say that if the name was Duke or Kentucky, KU would not have gotten away with it.

Ditto everyones sentiments. I love our Jayhawks, always will. But, they just got their asses handed to them by Okie state. I am officially tempering my expectations even further for the remaining guaranteed games. 1 Big 12 tourney game and 1 NCAA tourney game.

JayHawkFanToo said: @jaybate-1-0 rule #1 of posting…if you can’t dazzle then with brilliance, baffle them with the bull…and a few buffer posts, whatever that is. @jaybate-1-0 Rule #2 of posting…if you are called on your nonsense, go back to rule #1… getting personal this time around. So predictable, never changes and likely never will. The funny parts is that if he knew for a fact what he posted was true, he would not need to do any leg work for any one, as he calls it, he would just post the information. Hogwash is hogwash…even if it is 2,000 word post. We are all entitled to our own opinions, we are not entitled to our own facts. $$$$$ Boo, I really like that splatter job!