We good.

Seriously, folks. This team is really, really good. Took some elite level weirdness to lose each game so far. First the inexplicable 28 TO’s against dook without Moss then our dude Marcus goes down early against Nova followed by Dot’s brain fart. First against KenPom #1 dook and then KenPom #19 at their place, and we lost by a total of 3 points. The Dayton win is really good. Our freshmen will only get better, just look at the games Braun and Enaruna had today. Marcus will be back. Silvio will eventually find his sea legs. Self’s teams always get significantly better over break with the increased practice time.

The other thing we have in spades is defense, and it will travel. We’re the KenPom #5 defense, essentially tied for 4th. The offense will come around. I’m certainly an optimist by nature so ignore me if you want to see things on the downside. But!

We good.

Heard from a KU source today they think they got Tucker

I’m in DC right now to see friends and was at the Kansas Society annual banquet last night where Self was honored as Kansan of the Year. It was a really cool event. Self told the story of how Rep. Yoder and Sen. Moran were instrumental in getting Doke’s mom to the states for the Final Four in 2018. She went from not having a passport or transportation to the airport to Texas in about a week. The event was sold out for the first time in a very long time. The list of attendees was absurd: the entire Congressional delegation, FCC Chair Ajit Pai (from Parsons), Sec. Pompeo, a DC circuit judge whose name escapes me, AD Long, and of course Self.

I spoke to Self and Long for just a bit. I didn’t ask about any player in particular since it was just a cocktail reception and dinner, so just told Self I loved the look of the team, and he “thinks they have a chance to be pretty good.” I told Long I was as excited for KU football as I’ve been in about a decade and he loved hearing that from an alum.

Maybe it’s my background in comms and dealing with press for a living, but am I the only one who doesn’t give a rats ass what the media says about KU and thinks KU shouldn’t take their opinions into account AT ALL when deciding punishment? Sure there’s that out of context photo, but the video is much less damning if people would just watch it (https://imgur.com/a/5znZHdo). ESPN doesn’t run KU. CBS doesn’t run KU. Twitter doesn’t run KU. The state of Kansas runs KU. Tell the press they can shove it with their hot takes and we’ll run the show like adults. Yes, there will obviously be consequences for dumbassery. But suggesting this is the end for Silvio and whatnot is absolutely without merit IMO. Would break all precedent from previous dumbassery and wouldn’t serve anyone but the press’s appetite for blood.

1:4 Silvio tea bags Hurt

The only way LOIC can stick is with the football violations. I think it gets dropped on appeal. Long is assembling a UNC type group to fight this thing, and will to the bitter end.

I do think we should self-impose penalties: vacate all wins Billy played in and a postseason ban in football this year.

Stat of the day. We haven’t scored 35+ in two league games in 10 years. Dearmon did it twice in his first two games.

BShark said:

Oh my god, was this a zero handlers class? @FarmerJayhawk do you know anything about Enaruna in that regard?

As far as Enaruna, no. I do know Braun’s recruitment was handled by the JoCo yoga moms. I think we had to back up the Brinks truck full of Starbuck’s and Barefoot wine.

But can we talk for a second about how Grayson Allen is total garbage and dook ought to be shut down for enabling his douchebaggery? https://deadspin.com/grayson-allen-ejected-from-summer-league-game-for-you-1836299774

KUSTEVE said:

This Berry you speak of…why are so many on here gaga about him?

We love our local players until they get to KU and then we rip them to shreds.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Lincoln Project Ad:

Marshall drags poor bob dole out again to say he trusts roger Marshall. I really did like bob dole too. But I not sure he’s ok to make decisions now. They are a circus!

I don’t have any doubt Bob likes Roger a lot, he’s taken a weirdly pro-Trump like over the last few years. My theory is he’s taking his role as a very senior Republican very seriously, probably more than he should. I know he’s still sharp, and will call our Members and opine on current issues. But like you, I find it odd he’s tossed his lot in with someone who’s refused to deal with entitlements as someone who bit the hottest bullet and reformed social security during the Reagan years.

@kjayhawks said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:

@benshawks08 I’m not sure what to think as a parent. My son needs the structure badly with his autism and we all continue to work. It would be impossible for his daycare to have dozens of computers and try to online stuff much. He hates doing it to boot. I keep hearing about having every other day between grades. I’m lucky because our district may have 500 kids in it from pre-K to 12th grade total. Not sure what the right answer is but it has negatively effected him and he is losing progress because of this. The first 6-8 years are huge for autism kids and what he is losing at this point, he may never recover from. Small children won’t wear mask or social distance, you’d have better luck training a monkey to mow your yard. That being said it needs to be safe. It is a lose lose for us at this point.

I’ve been following this for quite awhile now, in part as a education scholar and in part as an interested instructor. I think we’re down to the least bad option. I’ve come down to we basically have to run schools basically as I went to kindergarten; alternating MWF/TU weeks. Basically have to quarantine teachers during the year. I hate it with almost every fiber of my being but I can’t find a better option. Entirely open to suggestions.

@approxinfinity said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/coronavirus-surge-sun-belt-could-doom-trump/613495/

The Trump aura is shattered.

That Biden is within the MoE of Trump among seniors tells you all you need to know about the state of the race right now.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Lincoln Project Ad:

@Kcmatt7 lol, those 3 are the biggest idiots I’ve ever seen run for office. I’m so sick of their ads, wonder if any one of them have any redeeming qualities or just build their platform on attacks.

The latter. Fun fact: Rick Wilson was a consultant for one Kris Kobach about 15 years ago. George Conway is a corporate litigator who happens to be married to KellyAnne (yeah, weird.) I don’t think Schmidt and Weaver have won a GOP campaign since maybe 2010?

@Kcmatt7 said in Lincoln Project Ad:

@FarmerJayhawk said in Lincoln Project Ad:

@Kcmatt7 said in Lincoln Project Ad:

I would say they would get hired now… the damage they’ve done is pretty evident.

How would you not hire some of the people involved to help you run a race at this point?

I doubt it. They’re all Republican firms. So unless they change their minds on all sorts of issues, Democrats would catch holy hell for hiring them instead of a Democratic firm. It’s also highly irregular for a PAC to funnel almost all its contributions into a firm owned by one of its founders. Very scam PAC-y.

I mean… couldn’t they help republicans run the next cycle?

Clear what kind of interest they can drum up and damage they can do.

Better than Bob Hamilton ads to say the least.

Probably not. They burned every bridge and then some. It’s such a relationship business that Wilson was dead broke and had a 6 figure tax lien by the time LP came around.

@Kcmatt7 said in Lincoln Project Ad:

I would say they would get hired now… the damage they’ve done is pretty evident.

How would you not hire some of the people involved to help you run a race at this point?

I doubt it. They’re all Republican firms. So unless they change their minds on all sorts of issues, Democrats would catch holy hell for hiring them instead of a Democratic firm. It’s also highly irregular for a PAC to funnel almost all its contributions into a firm owned by one of its founders. Very scam PAC-y.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2020-21 Non-conference Schedule:

@kjayhawks said in 2020-21 Non-conference Schedule:

@Texas-Hawk-10 I’m sure they are the B10 is looking at only playing conference games. I’d say it’s only a matter of time before everything is cancelled at this point.

There’s too much money on the line for P5 conferences to cancel football and basketball. Those TV deals fund a very significant % of athletic departments at this level. In basketball, we’ll probably see the preseason tournaments get cancelled and a reduction in non conference games to regional opponents to minimize travel.

With the B10’s decision, I’m curious what’s going to happen to Notre Dame and BYU in football since they’re independent. ND could at least probably fill out a schedule with ACC teams since that’s their non football affiliation even though partnering with the B10 this year would make more sense for football because of being geographically in the middle of the B10 footprint.

BYU might be in more trouble trying to play football this year if the MWC, Pac 12, and Big 12 go conference only since BYU’s non football affiliation is with the non-football sponsoring West Coast Conference.

https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1281319748341506065?s=20

This is the first time I’m really doubting we get sports at all in the fall.

Not a fan of the people involved with the LP (mostly washed up people nobody would hire anymore) and them giving endorsing all the Senate D’s (explicitly disregarding any actual principles they allegedly held) but their ads are good.

Stanford had the most varsity sports of any school in the country by a fair amount. I’m honestly surprised they lasted this long.

@jayballer73 said in 2021 Recruiting:

Just read where we ( KU ) cot another CB pick for D’Marion Alexander from China Texas. We lead pretty comfortably over TCU & Tech - -shows not interested in Minnesota - -would be another sweet pickup WDE right ? - -always use some rushers on the defensive front

Yep, after he decommitted from Minnesota we got on him hard. Alexander and Rogers #next