It has not been a fun summer in Kansas. Several days over 100. Stuck in a high pressure system for two months. No typical Kansas breezes.

102 and humid today before this freaky front blew through in 10 minutes before heading SE to nail the Ozarks.

Don’t have to climb up to trim the dead limbs off the pin oak in the back yard now though.

80 mph wind… not a drop of rain in Lawrence

Wait a minute… there are people who DON’T appreciate Jaybate??? This is the guy who literally invented “PHOF”.

What I want to know is with which team/players will Pony try to make a comeback?

Holy crap, I just looked them up and they still make the exact same shoes they did in the 70s! LOL.

Big omission not having Tyler Self on the list. We won nearly every time that kid was on the floor at the end of the game.

If you can’t remember Self saying such nice things about incoming players, you guys are forgetting Bill Self’s favorite athlete of all time (Not Grimes)

Sounds like all the stars are KU guys. Anthony Peeler still alive?

Sounds kind of boring, but go for it.

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A Kansas-Missouri alumni basketball game for charity, entitled “Rivalry Renewed,” will be contested on Saturday, July 28, at Silverstein Eye Centers Arena in Independence, former Missouri Tigers player and game organizer Kareem Rush said Friday.

The game, set for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff, will benefit Rush’s “Rush Forward Foundation” and the Boys and Girls Club.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/article213268914.html#storylink=cpy

HighEliteMajor said:

@DanR No, actually it is easy to argue about a kid who is told to move on. When Vick came to Kansas, what was the deal? Did he sign a four year guaranteed deal, or did he sign a deal that either party could terminate at will, with the only real condition if terminated that the player had to sit a year? It business, that’s a non-compete.

Why is it that if Vick just decided to walk away, no one worries about the position that Vick puts Kansas in? He can leave at any time, and go anywhere he wants. Heck, he can leave midseason and leave the team hanging. Self can’t cut his scholarship midseason. The only thing he can’t do, in the entire world, is play D-1 basketball for a season.

Yes, those are the current rules, and that’s what we’re talking about here – re-writing the rules. I agree that if a kid bails by choice (your second paragraph), he should have to sit a year. I think that’s a good and fair rule.

But if a coach decides to force out a player, and the kid wants to stay, I would argue that it doesn’t hurt the coach or school one bit if the kid plays for a different D1 school the next year. Discipline problems aside (breach of contract), if the kid is so talented he’ll help the competition too much instead of sitting on your bench, maybe he shouldn’t have been cut. Frankamp, for example. Did he leave us short handed? No. Obviously that situation wasn’t working out. A clean break would be better for the coach and the kid, IMO.

Every kid “cut” by Self… I can’t think of one he let go that ever came back to bite us in the ass. Don’t want them, just let 'em play somewhere else. I think there should be an option where a coach can say, I’ve released him from the “non-compete.” (That happens in the business world too.)