jayballer73 said:

A friend of mine has a Nephew that plays for one of the Pac 12 schools , and we were talking and his Nephew was in need of something very minor but needed badly but didn’t have the means to buy it - - My Buddy said when he heard he thought well Hell I’ll send him the money so he can get this myself - - then like I told him when I heard and he said before I even had the chance to say - - NOPE can’t do that - -that would be impermissible benefits and would instantly make him ineligible and him become a booster.

Believe me we are taking tiny amount of money , just another example of these kids not being allowed to get any kind of support - -crazy rules - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

For me, @jayballer73’s post raised a question. Can these scholarship players accept money for their parents? I can’t imagine that a parent wouldn’t want to provide basic necessities. Are parents allowed to help and the line is drawn at extended family members, or not even the parents are allowed?

@mayjay It appears BU should have kept the separation. Wasn’t it only two or three years ago there was a big scandal involving BU football players inappropriate treatment of BU co-eds?

bskeet said:

Raef was simply amazing. That 1997 team… sigh… I loved them. The polls loved them.

Arguably the best team ever.

The Monday following the 1997 loss to Arizona I arrived in New Orleans for a trade show. I don’t think there was anyone there that I was acquainted with, but many of these complete strangers who noticed my name tag said I was from Kansas, offered sympathy. I thought it was cool that those people just automatically assumed since I was from Kansas I must be a KU fan.

@dylans I don’t think you’re in the minority. I don’t think a player’s image without the uniform would be all that marketable so I’m not sure this would be that much of a windfall.

@nuleafjhawk

Yes, I remember Justin Wilson, too. His TV show was always entertaining to say the least!

tis4tim said:

mayjay said:

@tis4tim I tried in vain to remember if it was in any vocabulary lessons in high school. I remember “angst” and “dystopia”–I even remember “antidisestabishmentarianism”–but not that one!

Twain mentions it in “Life On The Mississippi”, apparently. I thought I read that as a youth, but I either didn’t read it, skimmed over the word entirely or maybe thought it was a publisher typo.

Still, not a word one might readily come by, unless you live in Louisiana … or seriously love Mark Twain.

I don’t remember the word from Twain. If memory serves, I believe I learned it from a cookbook written by Chef Paul Prudhomme who became known for his blackened red fish. He had a restaurant called K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen on Charles Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans. I remember waiting in line to get into it. I was travelling for business and so was dining alone, but at K-Paul’s you got a chair rather than a table so you dined with whomever was seated at the same table. I don’t remember the gentleman’s name, but he was a teacher visiting NO for a teacher’s conference. I’d like to think it was @wissox

In the cookbook, a lagniappe followed each recipe.

tis4tim said:

Crimsonorblue22 said:

@tis4tim lady Smart lady!

Ugh! No wonder I don’t know “lagniappe”. I don’t even know the gender of some of our posters!

My apologies @bcjayhawk. I’ll try to do better next time!

@tis4tim

No apologies necessary. While I’ve come to believe in my time of following this site that some posters know each other in “real life,” when we’re chatting back and forth here, we’re all happily anonymous

@Crimsonorblue22

Thanks, Crim! I love that word. I’ve been fortunate to visit the Louisiana Cajun area a number of times and that’s where I learned it.

I love this site for my KU basketball fix, but the lagniappe is being privy to thoughtful and respectful discussions of topics that for some are difficult. Thank you all for the great exchanges in this thread.

@BeddieKU23 OMG!!!