Expecting Bland to be back on staff. He did do some interviews while Self was undecided.

@approxinfinity said in Bill Self:

Who on this staff is going to lead us to the promised land in portal talent assessment? Vaughn? That's what I'd like to know. If we lose Flory, do we get someone like Punch, do we pursue the myriad of other competent players that @beddieku23 mentioned, or do we sit back and end up with 1 too few bigs and 1 too few shooters.

Bill declaring immediately is a good sign. Hopefully, he's all in and his staff is too.

I think Case will be somewhere else next season, will be interesting to see who replaces him.

As far as bigs, keep an eye on Mouhamed Sylla if Flory leaves. If he doesn't we will still need another big from the portal. One thing I am pretty sure of is if Stokes is added, one of Flory/Tiller is out of here at a minimum.

I'd love for him to be back, and I don't think it's decided either way.

Good to be back on the board fwiw, just needed a small refresh.

Phenomenal story here, love it.

@approxinfinity You might be down again soon, I know you like Flory and I think he will actually leave this time.

@Kcmatt7 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

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

Alright fine, I'll take my 1st weekend exit glasses off. Now, I see your point.

I actually think the real indictment of the staff is they haven’t evaluated talent well enough in the NIL era.

Gone after big names instead of grinding the tape.

Yeah, this I agree with. They did a better job of it this last offseason. Melvin and Tre were hits, especially Melvin for what Bill loves but you wish he could have shot it a bit better. JD was the big miss. He got starter money to rack DNPs. That one really stung because they really could have used the shooting he offered. A big part of why things fell apart is because teams could blitz Darryn on ball screens because there was typically at most one other player out there that the defense had to truly respect from three point range. I can't really say any of those were lazy takes just going after names.

Dusty May is someone who has done an incredible job. Yaxel was obvious but none of their other portal additions were when you looked at most transfer ranking lists from last offseason.

Are we being serious in here??? Just now catching up. Yeah Maryland is what you get when Diggy is starting at guard. He was in the proper role at Kansas. Storr got benched by Chris Beard... My goodness.

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2026 Recruiting:

There was no actual date set so there was also no date pushed back.

People need to learn to read the ACTUAL REPORTING with quotes from the kid. Freaking Tipton causing this mess.

I come to you with more names...

Roberts Blums and Braden Frager

Boom!

DeSean Goode is an early one to monitor

@approxinfinity said in Money next year:

So if we spent $8million on this roster what if we pay 800k per player for 10 guys? And then create a bonus structure where for every game in the tournament they advance, each players gets an additional bonus and other incentives? Can we build a hardhat lunchpail culture where the players might be getting paid but at least they are genuinely evenly invested in the success of the team?

it was more than that on the roster by a fair bit from the little that I know

Kohl not playing more might have been the most annoying part of the season. It's clear what Jamari is at this point, Kohl could have given more/developed.

That was a pretty unbelievable way to lose. They played bad most of the game yes but it was there to take and should have at least went to overtime. Bill put in Elmarko for defense only for that to happen. Flory didn't really jump to try and block that but the worse part was guys not helping when there simply wasn't time to pass.

I'm not sure if KU will break 50 today...

Definitely some reasons to believe Bill will be back next year

@kjayhawks2.0 said in Other Games 2025-2026:

It’s weird but there really wasn’t an upset today and Sundays games will only have 1 mid major in Utah state. A lot of people were saying coming in ti this tournament, the NIL may have ruined the chance at a Cinderella. Tomorrow’s games will determine that.

It used to be you could see midmajors with multiple NBA players. That will likely never happen again. Certainly not as upperclassmen...

@nuleafjhawk said in Other Games 2025-2026:

@kjayhawks2.0 IMO the NIL has ruined EVERYTHING!

It's definitely made the tournament less fun for me

@kjayhawks2.0 I would have said 100% before the season but I'm slightly less sure now

@crimsonblu22 said in Coaching Staff:

@BShark star saying he interviewed. Guessing they’re wrong?

I don't know, but it does conflict.