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The money is too big. The NCAA wants to make more cash, and that means letting the big time teams slide every now and then, or more often if necessary.

If you want to end the corruption, you have to get rid of the money, or put more money in the hands of the athletes. I don’t think the NCAA wants to do either, so corruption will be the rule, not the exception.

Dear Blue Devils Insiders:

I want to know the details on water bottles, how often the floor is mopped, the volume of air in each player’s lungs, and how much ink K and the assistants use from the beginning to the end of practice.

Fawningly yours,

Slobbering Fanbase

@mayjay You are spot on.

@BShark Copy and paste it on here lol

As I’ve said for years Coach K has had more first weekend exits than self since he’s been at KU. We just need a few more titles.

Kcmatt7 said:

Yea I bit the bullet and got a subscription awhile ago. It’s quality content with quality commenters. People don’t typically troll at a place where they pay for the material.

Yep. The pay wall really cuts the riff raff.

Scott Chasen did a video chat that included some stuff on McBride.

Some good nuggets are that he actually visited KU on his own two years ago just to check out KU. Also had decided to come to KU long before the late night visit.

Texas Hawk 10 said:

@FarmerJayhawk Les Miles is going to be the biggest name on the list and I believe that’s who Long is maneuvering to try and land with some of these hires that he’s made so far. Vollmer has a long standing relationship with Les Miles. Les Miles is also a pretty known name in college football along with his reputation and quirks so hiring someone to specifically run the PR side of KU Athletics seems like another move to try and get Miles.

Beyond Les Miles, I don’t see a realistic candidate out there that’s going to immediately blow people away with his resume.

Yep. Miles is gonna be the guy Long really targets. Probably sooner rather than later. Guessing Willie Fritz is plan B. Not sure any of the younger G5 up and comers give serious thought to KU, even at $3m+ per year.

I was reading yesterday that Snyder was getting pretty snippy in his old age at his press conference. Told some “Just write whatever the Hell you want” after dodging several questions about why Thompson isn’t the guy going forward. I honesty wonder if he isn’t starting to lose a step mentally.

A 2nd round pick to get hm and a 3rd round comp pick for him when he leaves the next year. That’s a cheap rental.

Dodged a bullet? (Glass half full) 🤷‍♂️

Perfectly weighted long pass from Kroos to Bale but he puts it just wide.

@justanotherfan I agree, I just stole it from Facebook because it was funny.

I still don’t think trading him was the right decision considering how little he would be paid this season. But I will admit that I think Veach did a great job addressing the CB position this offseason. Nelson and Fuller both look like quality corners. Maybe underwhelming at times, but solid quality players.

Self on Agbaji

“That’s one of the ones that was luck that we got,” Self said. “We didn’t recruit Ochai hard, [assistant coach Norm Roberts] thought he could play well enough that I should go watch him. I went to watch him, and I go, ‘I think he’s better than who we’re recruiting.’”

The next step of evaluation revealed only more of the same.

“Then when you get to know him and you study him; you get to see length, explosiveness, attitude and toughness,” Self continued. “You also see that his sister plays volleyball at Texas. It’s a very athletic family. Both parents played [college basketball]. You start thinking that this kid has got some things, some intangibles.”

Of course, that final comment in and of itself would have been massive praise for any four-star freshman, especially one that was a late riser like Agbaji (even if he still finished well behind some of the more elite names in the class in the rankings).

Self, though, wasn’t done hyping up the freshman.

“I don’t want to make any predictions too bold, but he is going to be a guy who is going to start a lot of games, play a lot of minutes and score a lot of points while he is here,” Self said. “It just may not happen immediately for him because we have depth. He was ranked No. 337 when he committed to us and I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t pan out to be one of the best 30-40 players in this class.”

omg

Offensively, the Chiefs are in good shape.

Yesterday we got to see what Hill can do. The safeties were both really keying on Kelce in the middle of the field, and they were trying to take away Hill’s deep ball, so Hill was open underneath (his long pass TD was a lot of RAC yards). As @BShark and @Kcmatt7 said, Kelce and Watkins opened things up for KC against the Chargers. Once teams are having to dedicate an extra guy to control Hill, Watkins will open up, and Kelce will get one on one coverage again.

And that doesn’t account for Hunt getting going on the ground. Teams can’t put extra guys in the box, because Hill is too fast to walk up your safeties.

The Chiefs offense is going to be very good.

Now that defense…

Crimsonorblue22 said:

@BShark I wasn’t just talking KU! Athletes in general.

I know.

they forgot Fortnite.