Posts made by dylans

Don’t believe everything you read, the number of untested perfectly fine people is much higher than reported. My first hand experience is limited, but I know several of my friends that have it in Florida are ok and nearly out of quarantine. They are the lucky ones; they have antibodies now and should be immune for a year or two.

Lack of sports is killing the illusion that we can all get along when the only thing we have in common is KU basketball. With no other common ground it’s difficult to have a civil discussion about anything of importance. A series of monologues isn’t a conversion, it’s just exhausting with nothing gained - little to no entertainment value and most posts are only opinions with little to no factual content to absorb. Until recruiting picks up or actual games are played in front of fans I’m on hiatus. I get enough of weenies that just want to blame others on tv without actively inviting that level of jack-assery into my life. Do something if you’re that passionate other than bitch.

@mayjay said in 2020-21 Season: Will it happen?:

@dylans That cartoon is funny! I will enjoy seeing his appointment of medical expert Jared added to the cartoon!

And the unproven anti-malaria drugs are also used to treat lupus. Some lupus patients cannot get them now. Yeah, good job.

The blame game is a great diversionary tactic.

I get it you’re scared, you’re old and at mild risk. It’s people with underlying health conditions that are going to be at severe risk. The thing is they should’ve been culled years ago. Those genes are bad, but we (myself included) lack the intestinal fortitude to tell people not to breed instead we create a population that is weak and is putting us all at risk. Viruses are God’s/nature’s way of fixing this.

@mayjay yes

Meanwhile a 19 year old friend of mine is volunteering in Seattle hospitals after the habitat for humanity project he was on got cancelled and all the healthcare professionals in the area quit out of fear. Personal responsibility is the only way out of this. Blaming the government is a great way to bury your head in the sand, divert blame, and do absolutely nothing to help.

Personally I’ve donated money I don’t have to others that need it more and hired people I don’t need for jobs that don’t currently exist.

Most of what I hear is fear turning people into brain dead zombies that are going to face multiple lawsuits when the dust settles and the constitution is upheld.

@mayjay I think you’re supposed to form your own opinion as opposed to having one given to you.

You can’t help stupid people from hurting themselves. We probably shouldn’t try. It would improve the gene pool.

Another theory (put forth by a doctor that specializes in this) is we are doing everything wrong. Kids should be in school getting exposed and building antibodies to the virus. Then they would be the first line of defense against the viruses future spread. Get enough healthy people exposed and immune to protect those that are susceptible from future exposure.

‍️ even the experts can’t agree, but everyone is doing what they can and politicizing the issue is disgusting.

@kjayhawks I didn’t either, before this month…seemed relevant though. I was curious how it was handled 100 years ago. Turns out about the same. Scary to think we really haven’t advanced much on virus warfar in the last century.

@kjayhawks said in 2020-21 Season: Will it happen?:

@drgnslayr it’s a very interesting time. I think stuff will hopefully be back to normal by then. Ether a vaccine or better treatment. I was reading an article the other day that I’m having trouble finding again that was talking about how crazy it will get if this last into next fall/winter. People will go crazy and more people will die from starvation than this virus at that point. This country survived the Spanish flu and polio which were much much more deadly and they didn’t shut down crap.

Actually they shut down everything nation wide for the Spanish flu. Places like St. Louis shut down early so they didn’t have a many deaths or a high infection rate. But because not many were dying they opened back up too soon and had a second peak bigger than the first.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus

@BShark Bill and staff are having to work at it. They’ve been pretty darn good at identifying under the radar talent. Unfortunately that’s going to have to continue as the top recruits aren’t beating the doors down right now.

https://kansas.rivals.com/news/introducing-sophomore-wing-joseph-pinion

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28982980/michigan-state-basketball-coach-tom-izzo-sought-witness-2017-criminal-investigation-player

So @mayjay , is this witness tampering?

@mayjay There you go. Accept whatever punishment is coming in the soon to be cancelled 2021 season.

It only took one year of Miles to truly see how bad Beaty was.

Covid-19 likely saves the astricks management from a missing any games. Lol baseball is a joke. Systemic cheating promoted from within the organization and no punishment for the players. Sick sad world we live in.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28985240/aj-hinch-jeff-luhnow-suspensions-fulfilled-2020-even-season-canceled

Great representation of the modern jerk - win at all costs, deny responsibility for their actions, ignore the damage done to others, claim to be better than everyone…while cheating. Makes for a great heal - it’s awesome when the bad guys are so easy to identify, makes cheering for a sport you don’t care for possible, just root against the a-holes.

Wow look at the list of wonderful coaches we’ve been blessed to witness - Terry Allen, Turner Gill, Charlie Weis, david beaty, oh my! A veritable who’s who lost!!!

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Marcus Garrett Defensive Player of the Year:

Naismith! Highest

It’s only been around 2 years? Crazy that it’s considered the most prestigious if that’s the case. Name change?

Blake Griffin played two.

Gooden was NPOY. Nothing left to prove, but a ‘chip would’ve been nice.

Raef’s Jr year the squad was one double overtime 2pt loss away from being undefeated in the regular season.

@FarmerJayhawk I haven’t seen, has the state’s top paid employee donated any cashola?

I don’t think two bigs will be a big part of the plan, but I’ll bet Mitch plays the 4 next to Dave several minutes a game…assuming there’s basketball next season.

KU was killing it down low for a period in there - Pollard, LaFrentz, Collison. All very nice.

@FarmerJayhawk Hope so, but it’s pretty darn hard to put a cat back in the bag.

@Texas-Hawk-10 millionaires crying poverty rings hollow. It’s different for the salt of the earth who could actually miss meals, not just have to cut the caviar out.

I really don’t feel the least bit sorry for colleges. The athletic budgets are bloated beyond being responsible. Now the guy living paycheck to paycheck? Yikes, he’s in trouble. The door to door salesman? Ouch. Waitresses - not so great.

@wissox probably a bit of recency bias. It’s easy to forget how good LaFrentz was for 4 years.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/28972856/ncaa-approves-extra-year-eligibility-spring-athletes

You get a Covid19 redshirt and you get a covid19 redshirt and you get a covid19 redshirt…

Worst case scenario- KU in line for the number one overall seed, plays no games due to a pandemic. Leaving nothing but what if’s for all.

@BeddieKU23 Coronavirus?

@BShark Good for them I guess?

I hope our two top rated recruits from last season pan out. Enaruna and Wilson are both pretty rough for top 100 talent.

Otto isn’t brought up much. Nor Charlie B Black. I need to do more digging myself.

https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/mar/10/former_ku_great_schnellbacher_dies_84/

@wissox said in Games on tv:

Kansas-Purdue from 1994 sweet 16 when Glenn Robinson is on BTN at 3 and at 7. Not the most painful loss we’ve had so I might watch.

That one still stings. For the first 15 years of my true Jayhawk fandom (starting in ‘89 a year late to the party) I could tell you every stinking team KU lost to and the final score. Most of that brain space is wasted on work info now.

If you wanted to grab every single rebound Ryan Robertson as a 6’6” point guard would be alright. (Nice stroke too). You wouldn’t need too much for scoring out of the point and Jacque was the best pure point I can think of, but that lineup could use some perimeter shooting. Mario is the consummate winner and would ultimately be my choice as well though.

@wissox seems to work

AD/Commish are worried about money if his cash cow football goes away. Sounds kinda desperate - planning on playing in front of empty stadiums to keep the media dollars flowing. Sports are on life support.

—/\—/\—/_________________/\

@BShark I guess Self meant it when he said they weren’t paying attention to ranking services anymore. Funny ‘cause they just react to the blue bloods recruiting in cases like this. Bet he ends up ranked if KU signs him.

Let me attempt once more stir conversation on the topic. I don’t hold a very strong opinion myself, but would love to hear a strong supporting or opposing argument that had a little substance to it. I’m short on brain dead entertainment, normally sports occupies that headspace.

How about, if given these extreme circumstances, and given the entire regular season was complete, the AP and Coaches name a top team of the year? Not much different than a AP coach of the year or AP player of the year. Just an ! to end the season on. Not a “fake” NCAA banner, just some accolade for finishing the season nearly universally (I believe Gonzaga picked up 4-5 votes of the 100+ coach/AP votes after winning their post season tournament) viewed as the team on top.

I honestly don’t care that much about the fans, I’m curious what would be appropriate for the players as Coach Self has lobbied for some sort of recognition for the team himself. Any ideas anyone???

@BShark Hopefully more that than a sign of the times.

FWIW the current belief by some doctors is the people who survive have anti-bodies that make them immune in the short term, likely 1-2 years. They are urging any health care professionals who have recovered from covid-19 to go to the front line as they should be safe or if reinfected it should be much milder. They are also trying to extract the anti-bodies out of recovered patients to see if they can use them to help critically ill patients recover. It’s one hell of a battle, but with any luck nothing beyond football should be cancelled.

@mayjay

@mayjay I see nothing compelling in your name calling, maybe if I was 6. Are you sure you’re feeling okay? You normally are fun to chat with…and fairly nice. The argument you presented seems way below you.

@mayjay Nope just recognition for the guys who poured their hearts and souls into a number one ranking that will not amount to a hill of beans given no tournament. I said name them regular season champs not NCAA tournament champs. Really they could do that every year. The regular season champ is more legit imho. Just look at the Big12 tournament. KU wins the regular season most years, but only half the Big12 tournaments. So how does a single elimination tournament save hurt feelings, much less crown the best team champ? I’d say if people get upset so easily they’d better stop watching sports as that’s not healthy.

If Duke was the unanimous #1 team at the conclusion of the regular season I’d be fine with them hanging a banner. I don’t think the NCAA needs to recognize it the same as a tournament champ, but that level of excellence deserves some level of recognition.

@mayjay lol I told you not to read. It really does seem to piss you off. Embrace your anger let the dark side empower you. Lol

Too much money in football to shut it down for a thousands dying? I’m not optimistic there will be sports next year. The growth curve of the spread of the virus needs to be slowed before any predictions can be accurately made and we are very much on the upswing side of the curve. Hopefully we get this virus shut down, but the NCAA tournament had never been canceled before either. Never say never I suppose.

@kjayhawks No one cares to watch a Cinderella team after the round of 32. When you get a crap team in the final four viewership goes down. Everyone wants to watch the blue bloods. The NBA gets it right with best of 7 series, but you can’t have that many games in college. Double elimination would definitely give us better matchups come the final four; the best teams would actual get a chance to play each other. i.e. Virginia a couple years ago got bounced in the first round as a 1 seed, but that 16 seed wasn’t the better team, just better that night.

I don’t expect they will name a champion this year, but I would like to see what the NCAA would do if there was no tournament the next year, as KU doesn’t stand a chance, and I’d like to see what they do if Villanova or Duke is the presumed number one team. The way things are going there may not be football or basketball next year anyway. People are not taking steps to slow Coronavirus down enough, it’s not going away anytime soon if ever.

Paul lays out his all time KU team. Pretty salty.

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=28950667

Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein

Interesting Stat:

A year ago, 14 mid-major players who averaged in double-figures during the 18-19 season opted to grad transfer to power conferences.

None averaged in double-figures last season.

Here’s Myrons argument flimsy as it may be - the regular season was completed. KU had, in his words, by far the best regular season. (Cover your ears @mayjay) he went on to say the NCAA tournament is the worst way to crown a champion in sports - it is great at determining who is hot at the end. Ie 2014 UConn was his example. ( you could’ve pointed out a hot shooting Michigan team from earlier this year of an example of a team that got hot in a tourney and won it despite not being able to sustain that success in the long term. They vaulted near the top of the rankings only to be exposed, but if that tournament was all we saw they were amazing. ) Myron also pointed out that the NCAA football in lieu of a playoff picked its champion for years. Metcalf went on to say that this is not an ideal situation, but The NCAA needs it have a contingency plan in place to make a champion. What if it happens again next season?

Will just bashed on the idea. No NCAA tournament no champion.

I say why not name a regular season champion if there is no tournament? KU beat 2 presumptive top seeds on the way to its top ranking. KU is not ncaa tournament champions, but I feel they should be named regular season champions!

Myron Metcalf has endorsed KU as national champion. Will Cain is not impressed. So he’s taking calls to support his argument. Guess who the first caller was? A guy from Columbia Missouri, guess what he didn’t like the idea.

Another funny thing is no one remembers the Helms championships. They act like it’s never been done before.

Wouldn’t it be better to pay Beaty and sweep the violations under the rug instead of dragging them up in the midst of everything else that’s going on? Seems counterproductive. Maybe not sweep under the rug, but why dredge up new issues most of which were minor? ‍️

@drgnslayr This way we get to play spoiler in the early game against (MSU/Duke/Kentucky?) during that “tournament”.

I like his highlight reel. Looks like he could help KU next season. Bill might look at it and say 5 minutes of highlights and only one steal?!? Lol