More musings…

Of Our recent acquisitions – Moss, Wilson, and Enaurua, I think we can be near 90% certain that they and their families asked self and staff point blank “ what is the status of KU and the NCAA inquiry? “ I truly doubt any of these players, players who easily could sign with other high tier D1 programs, would want to choose KU thinking that there was a 50% or at least significantly high probability that they will get slapped with a level one sanction. Playing in the NCAA tournament is a big big deal to any college basketball player. I highly doubt that Self’s answer to this question would have been “what ? nooooo, we good !! At least as far as we know! ( nervous chuckling )” We can be near 100% certain that the answer was a detailed point by point dare I say scripted response, Hell, they might have even had a KU attorney on Skype with them, laying out their position Carefully and clearly, that they did everything correctly, the NCAA has nothing of substance on them, and that they would never withhold any information to a player in their family, and that they are 100 percent confident That they are in the right on this.

And following this line of thinking, of our recent transfers, Moore, KJ, Grimes, does anybody thank that at least part of their decision to leave would have been a worry that KU would be punished badly? Personally I would say no.

And Braun and McBride had to have also asked self this same question as well. Again who would want to sign on with the team that has a high probability of missing The tourney or Other major sanction

Yes true… but very interesting that they backed off on Silvio’s two year penalty. If they can decide whatever they want to do, hard evidence or not, and they ostensibly want to target us, why then give a year back from their original 2 year ban decision?? They didn’t need to do that, correct? They could have easily stuck by their original penalty.

And If they have resources, in terms of the connect-the-dots line of inquiry, the biggest dot-connecting would be Zion to Duke a very short time after the tapped KT phone conversation in which Zion-dad specifically asked for payment… Can or will the NCAA attempt to follow up on that? My guess would be no, way too much to handle at this point.

I don’t have the time or frankly the interest to do a lot of research into what’s going on with different programs (that’s why this site is so great because of the knowledgeable people here) but Did other schools sit players who were under any kind of suspicion of impropriety like we did?? And as been pointed out, we are not close to being the biggest violators in this latest round of allegations…

@HighEliteMajor

Ha ha !

No I was thinking of a word that rhymes with “tree fence”

I have to assume Jalen is fully aware of the number one thing that will earn playing time and keep him in a game with our coach…

(Pleas feel free to fill in the blank )

@KUSTEVE

“The truth is, we haven’t won dick with these OADs. All they’ve brought… for the most part… is trouble and dissension. And the teams that are using the OAD model aren’t winning anything, either. Experience wins. “

G—d. Damn. Right.

Where is there any CONCRETE evidence that any our staff was in on payments??

I haven’t followed all the details of all of this, and know that apparently they can’t use the phone tap, but help me here… we are basing KU’s supposed culpability on 2 things right??? KT saying to Zions dad “well we will do whatever it takes “ in response to him asking for money. That does NOT sound like hard evidence… and self texting “we good” to Gassnola is NOT hard evidence. If KT said… “ didn’t you get the check???” Or Self texting “ did the payment get Silvio on board?? “ well yes that would be a completely different story. EVIDENCE, not conjecture or presumption.

On Moss I would have to assume (yes I’m a bit slow on the uptake) that grimes leaving made him reconsider Arkansas and come here… plus playing for KU vs Arkansas is (ahem) shall we say an upgrade

Yes

1. fantastic foot movement on D, And he follows right thru opponents on D to the end, Which alters a lots of shots.

2. switches well, and very vocal on switching. This often fell on deaf ears, or less experienced players were too slow to pick up the switch.

3. BOXES OUT BOXES OUT BOXES OUT ( a long running pet peeve of mine for many KU players over the years… I mean how damn hard is it to, When the shot goes up, find your man or a man and body him?? I don’t know if it is possible to do a type of analysis of how many second chance points would not be scored by opponents, and games consequently won, if more players would just box out properly, but would be interesting to see…)

4. does exactly what the coaches tell him to do and was worked on during practice ( no secret why Self and the staff love him) … remember when (was it midway thru the season? I forgot) he started driving a ton during games?? That directive came from Self. Shoot and drive and force the defense to stop you … granted he of course is not at all a natural scorer, But he did as told.

5. the very definition of Team Player. 100% certain I will be watching his senior night, probably wearing a Garrett jersey when I do

@BShark Thanks So, you’re saying its basically a done deal with Moss to KU

So anybody have an idea when we may hear from moos and/or Wilson?