Posts made by EdwordL

@Bosthawk So do you think that Jaybate is catfishing Duke fans now? Who might be next, Kentucky, UNC?

@jaybate-1.0 I remember a time in the late 70s when our friend Steve mentioned Bob Dylan to the neighbor lad Calvin (about 11 or 12 at the time. Calvin replied, “Who is Bob Dylan?” We thought Steve would have an apoplectic fit.

@jaybate-1.0 I always wondered what substance was used in 3-D printing. Could the printers accommodate other powdered substances? For instance, some knives are made from powdered metal.

Shoes made only of powdered graphite? Or would the printers accommodate latex and other substances?

Crimsonorblue22 said:

@EdwordL someone mentioned ped’s would not be in your system that long. I have no idea. Which means he was still using or test was wrong? No idea?

Crimson: I read something, and I cannot remember if online or in the paper, that the banned substance Trier had in him is stored in the fat cells and that is how it can stay a long time. I also erred in earlier post in saying he took it once; commentators actually said he did not know how it got into his system. The article said that if he had been re-using, the amt found would have been much greater than the trace amt which just now turned up. That is why it is suspected to be a release from fat cells. How long and how many times could this happen to him?

This actually should be a great cautinary teaching point, not only in that Trier is a likely candidate to play in the NBA and could/will be subject to continued testing, but what is the potential effect on his health, having this in his body perhaps indefinitely?

drgnslayr said:

What I will never understand… where was the DOJ when it came to the UNC bogus classes?

That should have been an obvious federal case.

Nothing.

Then… here comes this case. Perhaps this case is important because all kinds of fines can be levied?

Yeah… I smell corruption… but it isn’t just the corruption of coaches.

Yeah, at least UNC should have been prosecuted for impersonating a university. “The Carolina Way.” Really.

Trier missed, what, a whole season, then underwent a series of tests before he could play last year. It was discussed during the broadcast of one of Arizona’s games. Whatever the substance is, it stays in your system a long time. During the broadcast, the commentators said Trier claimed to have taken it once and did not know how long it took to leave the body; the series of tests measured the gradually subsiding level in the blood until it got below a max allowed level, at which point he was allowed to play. He came back to play this year because he did not feel he played well enough last year.

Even with the fouls that were called on WVU, there were a number that were missed. Jay Bilas pointed out some of them. The final number should probably have been about 42-4. The ‘Eers have been mugging other teams’ players for years; a crew finally called the majority of them in a game.

wrwlumpy said:

Um, is he allowed to wear Nike on KU property?

DoubleDD said:

I wouldn’t bash Beaty. He’s fixing a mess that was left for him. Winning is hard. You can have all the talent in the world. Yet if you don’t know how to win then it becomes a huge process. I remember when the Great Bill Snyder came to Kstate. He and the Wildcats played nothing but cupcakes in the non-con. I think he was trying to get his kids used to winning some games. Maybe Beaty should do the same thing?

The problem is that KU can’t even beat the so-called cupcakes on a regular basis, or Beaty would have more than 3 victories in 3 years.

Zenger was supposed to be a football guy, but look at his hires: People point to the mess Beaty inherited, but that mess was left by Zenger’s first major hire. And Zenger’s hire as women’s BB coach is 2-44 against B12 competition.

Zenger cannot be allowed another hire in any sport!

nuleafjhawk said:

@Texas-Hawk-10 Why do you believe that to be true? What positive impact does a terrible football team have on an incredible basketball program?

Self said back at the last CR seismic shudder that he is not a mid-major coach. If KU drops football, it would have to leave the Big 12, it would never gain an invitation to Big Ten or any other P5 conference, and Bill Self would leave. No football would have an even bigger negative impact on the university and basketball program than a horrible football program (which might still be negative enough to prevent the university moving to the Big Ten).

stoptheflop said:

I’m curious about the attendance today. All I could see on television was the bowl and student section, which I estimated to be about 2,000. I don’t pay any attention to the announced attendance. I paid for a ticket for my daughter, but she’s at home today.

Article in the Star stated paid attendance as 21,797. As I noticed toward the end of the fourth quarter, it looked as if everyone in the main sections below the pressbox had left. I saw all the blue and realized those were empty seats, the blue seatbacks.

Doke and Billy sounds like the title of a movie set in the deep South. Is there a hot car involved?

stoptheflop said:

@kjayhawks When Coach Beaty cried after the Texas win, I doubted he had the right mindset to be a winning coach. Great person, yes. But, winning coach, no. What other D1 coach would you expect to show that much emotion after an upset win? Coach Snyder? Coach Mangino? There’s no crying in football, ever.

Dick Vermeil says hi.

@stoptheflop Dick Vermeil says hi.

Kcmatt7 said:

@Crimsonorblue22 That isn’t the scenario we are in.

A game vs. KSU makes no sense for either team strategically. UMKC wouldn’t sell out. Wichita St. might have sold out. Maybe. Nebraska wouldn’t sell out. There isn’t anyone within driving distance who could play this game next Sunday and sell out the Sprint Center.

This is a guaranteed sell out and it will sell out in a day once tickets go up for sale. At outrageous prices I would assume.

Who else could make that work? Logistically. Who could get their team to KC to play a sold out game? Pull their players out of class for the time needed to play that game? Who would be willing to give up practices even if they flew in Saturday and left Sunday after the game? Nope.

I’m sorry, but this makes sense. Both economically and logistically.

Who would of thought the 24 year old on the forum would be the rational one in this discussion…

Do you need help with your broken arm? The one you are patting yourself on the back with? You’ll swallow any explanation given, won’t you?

kjayhawks said:

Wow it looks like less than 5000 people are at the game

Per KU Sports (the PDF of game results), attendance was 21,050. Didn’t see the game. I was out and listening to it in the car.

I’m beginning to think the administration fears that fixing football will somehow harm the basketball program. Apparently, there is no way in this world to fix irrational fear.

mayjay said:

@JayHawkFanToo

Sept 12, 2009, in El Paso

So Gill, Weis, Bowen and Beatty all have not won any KU road games.

Yes, Mark Mangino coached the last KU football team to win a road game.

stoptheflop said:

Nooooooooooo. Never. I loved the Big Eight and now the Big 12.

I loved the Big 8, but not the Big 12. Never liked the 12. It would be good if we went to the B1G with OU, and I wish that ISU would go too; that would give us some of the old Big 8.

I used to work with an engineer who was a tOSU grad; his dream was always that the Big Ten and Big 8 would merge and become the Great Lakes and Great Plains divisions of a super conference, because both are Midwest.

mayjay said:

EdwordL said:

If Doke cannot get better, then he should do what he did in the one Italy game (when he received the long pass)–toss the ball to the backboard, then dunk the FT for 2 points!

Wilt made them change the rules for FTs. He used to take a step to the line and go up with his finger roll. Can’t jump forward any more. If Doke puts it off the backboard without hitting the rim, it is a violation and ball out to the other team.

Then, I suppose that he could do what Aaron Craft tried to do against KU at the end of a close game: Craft deliberately missed the back end of two FTs by hitting the rim and attempting to rebound and score a 2-pt bucket; it didn’t work and KU won the game, but it was a game try by Craft to get the tie and go to OT as time was running out.

If Doke cannot get better, then he should do what he did in the one Italy game (when he received the long pass)–toss the ball to the backboard, then dunk the FT for 2 points!

Personally, @HighEliteMajor this sounds like antipathy toward Bill Self on your part. The series with WSU ended years ago when the series was no longer competitive, and at WSU’s request. Just because greasy Gregg has a few good seasons, he thinks he can get a home-and-home with KU just because he thinks he should. Missouri is what, pretty much a nonentity in the SEC. There is no fear here. We play Kentucky frequently. Mizzou is not even a pimple on Kentucky’s rump. We take on all sorts of heavyweight teams, playing Duke and Michigan State along with Kentucky in the Champions Classic, and we would schedule UNC if Roy would; you don’t hear Bill Self and KU representatives begging for a chance to schedule the Tarheels. It’s because we don’t need to. We’re not that needy. You are the one visualizing Self as wringing and flapping around. I don’t see him that way. Missouri lied to him. We don’t need them. The way you depict him is the way a liberal press tried to depict Ronald Reagan as a nervous senorita hoping Brezhnev would call. It doesn’t wash. Missouri made their own situation; let them fix it on their own. We ought not help them. I think God did us a favor and took the thorn out of our side. Why would we stick it back in?

From a contributor on PhogNet, regarding Joe Jackson’s tweet about the Lawsons:

Calm down. “Guns” = arms. “Pump faking” = Putting fists up with no intent to throw a punch.

Apparently, just an intense pick-up game.

@jaybate 1.0

“…since Nike and Air Jordan teams win ALL the rings under the current regime since 08 and dominate the Final Four.” Wasn’t Louisville with adidas when they won it all a few years ago? I don’t remember.

How do I change the type face/font that is now appearing since the upgrade?

I did not need to change the appearance before, but this is an unattractive look. Thanks.

I think what you folks are referring to are KU reactions to MSU trash-talking that was going on early and often throughout the game. Sample: Bridges trying to intimidate Frank (“Get up, Boy”). MSU needed to do that because they were out-talented and out-experienced and must have felt vindicated that, with the “unseen hand of the market” they were able to hang so close to an obviously superior team.

@Crimsonorblue22 : DG may not be leaving: About a week ago or so, his mom tweeted that her son is going to Italy this summer. I think she meant he would be going with the team. It is possible, he could go pro in Italy, but wouldn’t he wait to see if he got selected in the NBA draft?

I was watching one of those games, and the only ones I don’t remember are discussion of Wayne Rooney transfer rumors and Grand Canyon of Mars, so I am guessing all are true.

I once heard Gottlieb on radio (probably 7-10 years ago) say that when he finished playing professionally, he could not go back to France , where his last team was located, b/c he was wanted there. I did not know about the stealing credit cards at Notre Dame. Was that a real charge, or is that like the KK transgender prostitute thing?

An official from Cal (the state) responded to a question about schools being assigned to a tournament bracket in one of the affected states that the state would not deny their athletes the ability to participate in a tournament because of this policy.

@jaybate 1.0: When I was a kid I heard a story on the radio or tv about a phone call between Bear Bryant and the Georgia coach, Wally Butts, the week before their game. This happened somewhere around 1959-61. Apparently, Bryant wanted Butts to throw the game for money. When the story broke, it was reported that Butts had agreed. Butts was fired by Georgia, but Bryant suffered no repercussions from Alabama. I always supposed it was because he was only trying to win.

On PHOGNet, someone posted a link to the NCAA rules, noting that pages 69-72 specifically address the inbounds pass. There is no rule concerning 3 feet from the boundary. The 3-foot “cushion” is lateral and permits the inbounding player to make a step pass. Also, another poster on that board noted that while Gottlieb continued to whine about it, Goodman later tweeted that he had been wrong about the so-called “3 feet” rule. I say Gottlieb’s still got something on backwards.

Fellow Posters: I have read a few times that Scott Drew is always badmouthing Coach Self on the recruiting trail. Am I mis-remembering posts, or is this generally assumed to be true? If so, how would we/Self know this? Do we hear this from recruits who sign with us who have also been recruited by Baylor, or would Self hear that from other coaches who do not resort to such tactics?

I know that I harbor no animosity toward BU players, but I find myself not liking Drew at all. He gets good talent there, but I think of him as a “roll the ball out there” kind of coach. An AAU coach at the D1 level, if you will. I don’t get the intricacies of the game as most here do, so I may be being a bit simplistic here. If he is badmouthhing Self, that could be the animus. It could also be that Drew has what my son-in-law would call “a punchable face.” Examples that he has provided would include Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.

@REHawk : As I posted on another thread on another board, It’s like Zenger put the FB coffin in the ground and laid on the last spadefuls of earth, and now he digs a little hole for KU BB, just a little hole, mind you, nothing that could kill the program or anything, and those who complained about people complaining about the deal are saying, Hey, it’s just a little hole.

Yeah, the man really knows how to market this blue blood program.

@cragarhawk: Not saying that Diallo will be the second coming of Embiid, but it was Larry Brown who said that Kansas got the best recruit in this class in Diallo and that it wasn’t even close. I will take that testimonial from the coach who brought Danny Manning here. Also, didn’t Diallo also play soccer in his youth instead of basketball, just as Joel did? Just some really good reasons to be optimistic.

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I remember Braeden Anderson. I really wanted us to be able to play that kid. He really wanted to be here, at a time when it seemed we were losing the recruiting battles for the 5-star big men. He was the oldest in his family, and he had said that there was no way his mom could afford the tuition.

I had read about the accident, so it is really good to see that he is succeeding, on the court and off (someday to be “in court”).

Folks: According to USA Today, that bastion of prognostication, Baylor (Baylor!) is the team that will end the Kansas streak, and it is to happen this year. Guess we might as well go home, eh?

If he cannot practice, can he at least attend practices? I mean, that way, he could learn and absorb, even if he could not actually practice.

Larry back to the NBA?

@Lulufulu : No way did Mangino gut the program. When Perkins issued the APB for anyone, anywhere at any time who had a problem with the coach to contact the AD and tell their story, the witchhunt was in full fury. When Mangino left, potential recruits who were still considering KU went elsewhere; that included a 4-star LB who, remarkably, to my mind, had been considering both KU and LSU; obviously, he went to LSU. Gutting a program indicates deliberate cutting of personnel. Likely, Weis was not intentionally gutting, but he was intentionally changing the direction, and the program was vulnerable right at that point. I think @Texas Hawk 10 makes a good point that changing offensive philosophy got Weis the ax.

KSU fans would walk in dog shyte, track it into your living room, and think it was funny. If you complain, they would say, “Your football team is terrible. Get over it!” Actually, here, they tracked the shyte onto their own carpet. They just don’t realize that fact.

@Texas Hawk 10: Yes, Malzahn would already have left, but the difference would have been that in that one year, some improvements could have been implemented; One of Malzahn’s coordinators could have been offered the job, and KU might already be into the third year of a successful rebuild. At this point, we have to hope that Beaty has what it takes. If the players, however few, are disciplined and coached in the fundamentals, we will see the beginnings of optimism. Mangino’s first year was terrible, but the second year was 6-6 and a loss in their bowl game. Nevertheless, the “sawing wood” approach to the fundamentals gave fans a reason to come out to the games. Here’s hoping Beaty can start there. I don’t know that I will worry so much about SZ. If Beaty is successful, Zenger may get credit for the hire, but I think he was really only a figurehead in the hire. Donor alums weren’t going to allow him to Weis it up again.

I would rather the team played well and went deep. I think James T. Kirk pioneered this move at the Starfleet Academy by changing the frame up of the test question. I forget the name of the strategy. It was the something Maneuver.

@jaybate-1.0: I also assumed that the problem was that Cliff’s mom had done something that would have made Cliff ineligible, would have vacated wins, and thus they ran out the clock by not supplying the documents. I believe at the time that the attorney argued that Cliff was being asked to supply documents that had never been in his possession and that were not his. Unless Cliff co-signed his mother’s loan, he would not necessarily known about the loan until after the fact. That alone could have accounted for some of his underperformance at KU. Didn’t the situation come to light only because the would-be agent filed some document that legally made him a creditor in case Cliff’s mom did not repay the loan? I speculated Cliff told the family he thought he would have to come back for a second year, which caused his mom to tell him about the loan.

@drgnslayr : You just reminded me of the SNL sketch about people eating at the new, trendy restaurant that served Scottish cuisine: Dan Ackroyd was the server (“That’ll be two Haggises.”) Don’t think I could “stomach” the dish, but hey, I’ve never gone hungry for more than a few hours at a time. And maybe, back in the day, Scots may have learned to like it if it was readily available; it does have oatmeal in it, right?

@VailHawk: I did not watch the game, but if I recall correctly (I am getting up there in age, and that was 43 years ago), Hank Iba was the coach, US lost its first ever BB game in the Olympics by something like 2 points, and Coach Iba, I recall, took a lot of heat in the press for the loss. I too remember it as a game lost because of officiating. At the time, I did not realize what Iba had meant to the game.

Well, now maybe Brett Brown won’t question Joel’s work ethic any longer.

I think I have read elsewhere on this site that Pollard, as a Mormon, may be leaving in order to go on his two-year mission, which often is undertaken after freshman year.

Don’t they repeat those 30 for 30s at some interval? That would be a good one to watch.

@Statmachine; @ajvan – I forgot to say that the WUG would give Hunter and Nic Moore the opportunity to play together, which would give Coach Brown an additional viable big, who had experienced playing during the summer with his guard.

@Statmachine; @ajvan --What if Hunter graduates and Coach Self recommends him as a graduate transfer to SMU? Nic Moore could have been the first part of a “diplomatic-athletic” linkage between our coaches and schools. That way, nobody loses a scholarship, nobody is actually run off, and Chukwu gets to come to Big Man U without having to pay his own way during the transfer year. A win-win for everyone, as it would give us added guard depth for the WUG, which is an overseas experience for the Mustang player; Hunter would get to play on a team for another one of the most accomplished coaches ever and would get a chance to show his skills for a future overseas pro league career; and KU gets two more bigs where it looked like only one would fit. I would think that, if the NCAA has no problem with shoe companies stacking programs with recruits, they could have no problem with two championship ring-wearing coaches who happen to be friends doing favors for each other, esp. since their teams do not play each other and are in different conferences.