@Jayhawk_69 There is no bill, only the executive orders. As is his custom, President Trump is attempting to create another wide swath of executive authority by fiat rather than by making a legislative proposal to Congress. He cannot revise antitrust law by executive order, nor can he demand concessions by funding cutoffs not related to the authorizations creating those funds. He can try, but courts are curtailing his reach in doing so right and left. As with the law firms who capitulated, some schools will try to voluntarily impose these limits on their students but there is no hope that courts will not continue to find liability. An EA is no defense. More likely, schools will realize they face legal substantial liability if they comply and will sue to enjoin enforcement by DOJ. Bottom line, the president cannot compel people to break numerous laws.

Lots of speculating going on, with people thinking they can read minds. Let's all get mad and assume bad faith by a player who may well be in the midst of being far more frustrated than all of our fan-doctors.

@ROCKCHALK2025 As a judge for 19 years, I found the legal principal of requiring evidence to draw conclusions applies pretty well to analyzing everything in life. In other words, speculation alone isn't probative. But speculation can generate theories about things, but theories without evidence are pretty hollow, so best usually to wait for actual facts.

@approxinfinity HEM always wanted to get rid of Self b/c he only won 1 title and didn't keep gettng into the F4. Then HEM disappeared (during Covid I think), and Bill won a second title a couple of years later. The "What have you done for me lately?" impatience is ridiculous considering all the drastic challenges facing coaches.

@nuleafjhawk said in Selection Sunday + Bracket Challenge:

@rockchalkjayhawk I would root against Duke if Ted Bundy was the opposing coach

Ted's team would just eat 'em alive.

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

Good rule of thumb: until a visit gets locked in take all interests with a grain of salt. Sorry for the mixed metaphor

I think a metaphor combining a grain of salt with your thumb is perfectly reasonable as a variation on drinking tequila shots and licking salt on your hand.

@wissox83 said in Kansas Jayhawks vs Towson Tigers Game Chat Tue. 12/16 8:00 CT:

Ran 5 miles saturday on the treadmill.

Just saw this. 5 miles on a treadmill...and you find some KU games boring?

@JoJoAndMe said in 2025-26 Portal Thread:

@crimsonblu22 Londoners are in the minority, thanks to their open immigration policy. (Sound familiar?)

Pretty sure London is inhabited entirely by Londoners.

@approxinfinity A special place in the darker recesses of my soul for the Slavers.

LB Leo Chenal to Washington. 3 yrs, $24.75 mil. This one bothers me.

Maxx Crosby trade has been nixed by the Ravens after his physical. Likely more to it.

From a Mike Lorio comment about the Cavaliers over on PFT on NBCSports.com:

**As it turns out, the Browns aren’t the Cleveland-based sports team having the most warped obsession with analytics.

Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson, whose team trails the Knicks 3-0 in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals, came up with an all-time glass-half-full justification for the Cavs’ struggles.

Via Matt Clapp of Awful Announcing, Atkinson claimed — with a straight face — that Cleveland is essentially winning.

“Analytically . . . we’re two out of three in the expected [score]. . . . We’ve won two out of the three,” Atkinson said.

The remark immediately flopped worse than SGA.

“I know you’re looking confused,” Atkinson said. “But if you believe in process and all that. . . . take that layer. . . .

“I think last night, it was, the expected score was like one point or two. Us shooting way below expected, them shooting way over. I know no one wants to hear that. I think you guys like hearing it. The general public . . . everyone’s outcome-based. Sure. I get that too.”

Yes, the general public is outcome-based. Because winning and losing is based on the outcome.**

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2026 KU Season:

Not thrilled to see Arkansas in KU's region given how KU has done against them in the postseason in various sports in recent years.

I keep thinking, "Okay, this time we'll show 'em!" And then, well, not so much....

@RockChalkinTexas-0 Sounds like "she shed" needs to be renamed "warehouse"! I'm very impressed by all the things you've done to keep Mike's spirit alive for yourself and the girls. So many legacies. Not many people do things for released prisoners who need so much help to start fresh.... When I go, all that will be left are a few dusty legal opinions no one will read. Well, that and a thousand plumbing, electrical, and drywall repairs in our series of fixer-uppers that no one will even notice...AND hundreds of posts here on Buckets, of course!

Good luck to everyone dealing with so many challenges. We are dealing with our own accumulated junk: We are getting ready to move and it has been chaotic trying to get the house ready to list on June 15th. Realtor's photographer coming next Saturday. Spent yesterday with her taking everything we love off the walls, evicting chairs and tables, and basically mutating the place into a vacuous HGTV showpiece. I understand it, but geez it is annoying!

Moving from our rainy coastal-SC cozy house to the deserts of the west, most likely Sun City in Las Vegas. The developers around here are putting up about 8,000 new homes within 5 miles or so, plus a new Buckees at the I-95 exit that already is backed up for half a mile every morning with workers going to Hilton Head. Gonna be a mess.... We would be a lot closer to the kids in Hawaii, and we have always dreamed of long trips through the west. Grand Canyon is my favorite spot on earth, and Her Loveliness has a lifelong desire to see the redwoods and other nat'l parks. In LV, maybe we will also get to see a yearly Chiefs game! And our sons will come for hockey.

Just have to avoid that seductive spinning wheel with all those numbers and we should be ok!

moved post to Roll Call

@HoraceZontal Youngster.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Chiefs offseason thread:

"He's the best part-time stupid receiver KC sometimes has."

Just a little edit for completeness!

@rockchalkjayhawk Chiefs can save $1.6 mil on the cap, with a dead money hit of only $430,000, if they cut him. I'm all for it. Idiots gonna idiot, as they say.

@ROCKCHALK2025 My heart goes out to you. Hospice workers are among the most caring people in the world. Good luck to you in this difficult time.

@crimsonblu22 Sorry, was on a plane. It just got over. KU eliminated by Mich 12-10. Pitchers'duel!