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For graduating! Makes me just as proud as success on the court.

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.

https://twitter.com/chasenscott/status/1374211304446103553?s=21

https://twitter.com/jifhawk/status/1374211437250351106?s=21

Incredible Jayhawk. He didn’t always play in situations that were the best for him, but he always played his ass off. He’s going to make life hell for a lot of good pros. Godspeed, Marcus. Jayhawk nation loves you.

It’s easy to sit behind a keyboard and say “player X sucks get him out of here” but stories like Juan’s are why college sports are so great. A kid in Juan’s position wouldn’t sniff a place like KU without sports. The guy in the jersey matters. A lot.

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.

K losing his last regular season, ACCT, and tournament game would be amazing

After a long time considering options (which, I’m incredibly fortunate to have a few), I’ve decided to finish my PhD then leave the academy and take a job with a non-profit doing some research and some advocacy on issues I care about. A huge part of this decision was it being a fully remote gig, and being able to live wherever I want. My grandparents are in their 80’s and could use some family fairly close by since my mother semi-retired to South Dakota and my uncle lives in western Colorado. So! I put in an application on a few houses and am moving back to Lawrence next summer after I graduate!! I’m unbelievably pumped to head back to the area. One of the houses is like 2 blocks from my old apartment in LFK on Ohio St. :). I cannot wait to hit up the Williams Fund and Endowment and start giving back to the university I love so much (including getting on that long ass list for hoops tickets). Who knows, maybe there will even be a wait on football tickets??

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.

It’ll be wild. I think we could see a handful of spots turn over. Self is still hungry and will be VERY active in free agency. Buckle up, bucketeers. The Jayhawks are coming.

Oh hai https://twitter.com/coachingchanges/status/1381247606786043909?s=21

We can win pretty. We can win ugly. Winner winner friar dinner

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.

Glad to have Dick has a hard commit. I feel like he has a great head for the game and has risen to occasion in the face of stiff competition. Very good length should allow a great stroke and penetration down the line.

i’m so sorry someone help me

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.

I was at the game. Man these guys play so hard. Defense was flying around in the first half, just ran out of gas. The passing game is coming along really well. Feels like Kotelnicki is learning a ton each week about what these guys do well. OL is still a a problem. Was nice to chat with some parents of players and get their feel of how things are going. Some frustrations here and there but you’ll have those growing pains. Gonna really suck to be without Kenny for the first half next week. On we go.

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.

The NCAA is so mad Wendell Carter went to dook they had to hammer Georgia Tech

Gethro was in a very serious car accident and it’s touch and go. Prayers up.

Guys we might be good at this shooty hoops thing

Lobs against Baylor. A tradition unlike any other

Just checking in to say this is fun and I am having fun

Ochai’s numbers were terrific. 6’11 wingspan, 2nd highest vertical, 4th fastest sprint. Should put him firmly in the top 10. Really hoping he goes to the Spurs

jayballer73 said:

BShark said:

FarmerJayhawk said:

https://twitter.com/andrew__slater/status/1120408420874629124?s=21

Saw this. Wondering if we are more in it than some think.

I’d rather have Holyfield (which might be cray) but I’d take either in a second.

boy if we could get Precious or Holyfield to go along with Doke and McCormack - we be good in our front line. - - -Oh and possibly get Silvio eligible this Season - man frontline would be plenty Salty.

I think we are going to see better McCormick this year - -you could see the light starting to flicker in the latter part of the season - things starting to come around - I think he will be a huge 3-4 year player for us

100% agree. A three headed monster of Silvio, Doke, and McCormack, would be epic. We may win a lot of games 61-50 but it’ll be the most dominant 11 point win you’ll see.

Former Michigan LB Cornell Wheeler announced he’s coming! 4 years to play. Give a call to Coach Simpson for getting this one done.

Also if you ever have time to kill on campus, the Dole Institute is a must see.

I hate this idea. I want nothing to do with them. Find another team. UMKC for all I care.

Jalen has nothing to do with Silvio. He wants to be a 2/3, so if anything this helps the cause!

Lonnie Phelps, DE from Miami (OH) visiting next week too. Staff LOVES him.

19 of 29 drives for TDs. Is that good

KUSTEVE said:

@FarmerJayhawk Baloney. We’ll agree to disagree. If the NCAA had tried to claim that a felon ( the Adidas rep ) was not actually working on behalf of Adidas but was a “booster” for KU, they would’ve been laughed off the national stage. Furthermore, the NCAA had all the salient facts for almost a year, yet they didn’t decide anything at all until after we had declared Silvio “ineligible”. If they had all this ammo that your ego is telling you they had, why did they wait until after that? The reason is simple…according to the FBI investigation, we were the victims of a fraud…which is why the only way we could be penalized is if we both declared Silvio ineligible, and that the Adidas rep was not actually a rep, but actually a booster. Now, the NCAA could nail us to the wall, which they did. I don’t want to keep going back and forth with you, since you aren’t even considering what I’m saying. Like I said…we’ll agree to disagree.

You’re right. I’m not considering it because it’s not accurate. The NCAA has a definition of a booster (https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/Booster Guidelines with definitions.pdf if you’re interested) and they could determine with or without KU’s cooperation (see Self’s texts to Gassnola) that Gassnola was a. known to KU and b. influenced and/or facilitated Silvio coming to KU. In which case KU’s cooperation is completely irrelevant. KU had to declare Silvio ineligible in order for him to play this year. Full stop.

An enforcement investigation is a different matter from the NCAA’s point of view than an eligibility investigation. Hence Silvio was free and clear last year, not this year, and KU is probably ok since they explicitly did NOT admit Gassnola was a booster for the purposes of an enforcement matter, just the eligibility review, which are conducted by totally different people. If you’re saying KU should’ve just cut Silvio loose when they found out something could possibly be amiss that’s one thing.

KU also was not aware of the shady stuff with Silvio’s guardian when he was cleared last year. Otherwise the NCAA would’ve never cleared him. I for one want an AD that goes to bat for its student-athletes, especially when the NCAA is obviously so far from reality. If they want to vacate half our last season for playing a player the NCAA and we determined was eligible, fine. They’d better be prepared to vacate half of teams seasons going back to John MF’ing Wooden.

KU gets the last visit for Caleb Love. October 12-13.

Well we added 2 DB starters in 18 hours so that’s fun

A word to the wise, don’t read the NY Post.

@NormRoberts said in 2023 Recruiting:

We got great shots at Maki Johnson,Chris Lockett and Chris Johnson.Good shots at Omaha Biliew and Taylor Bowen. Hopefully Rayvon Griffith come to us April 1st his commitment date.

Strong first post, Coach

nuleafjhawk said:

@BShark I’m ok with that!

Honestly Aaron Miles is on my short, short list of future assistants to go after if one moves on. Head Coach of the Warriors G League affiliate now.

And you can tell from one of the photos that Mosley has elite self discipline and situational awareness

As we know, the NCAA saying soon may mean 4-6 business years.

Impeach and remove him. Tonight.

I’m super stoked for this matchup. Big contrast in styles, experience, and likability. I like KU to absolutely work the Devils in this one:

G: Dotson = Jones

This is a tough matchup to nail down. Jones is a really good defender, but not sure he can stay with Dotson in transition or if Devon drives it. Devon really needs to stay out of foul trouble. If Jones keeps shooting poorly, I’ll like KU here.

G: Moss > Stanley

I don’t love Stanley as much as some. He’s a freak show athlete, but his skill level isn’t great for a 2. Moss is bigger, a better shooter, and really improved defensively last year. Wait until Self gets ahold of him!

G: Agbaji > Moore Word out of workouts is Ochai is primed for some kind of year, and don’t be surprised if this is his last year in Lawrence. Moore is a good player too and very long for a wing. Ochai may have some trouble scoring, but should get a bunch of looks on lobs if K wants to play zone.

F: Silvio < Hurt

Silvio is still kind of an unknown given that he hasn’t played in over a year. At very least, he’ll work Hurt on the boards. I don’t know if Silvio will be great at defending Hurt in space, and whether Hurt is consistent enough as a shooter to make it a real threat. He’s just such a good passer that he could do some damage.

F: Doke >>>>> Carey

Carey is about an overrated a top 5 prospect as I’ve seen in a long time. Not really a motor to speak of and he thinks he’s a guard half the time. Also Doke is going to be angry. You don’t mess with Doke when he’s angry. Carey has never seen anyone like Doke. Carey could be an issue if he can step out and shoot or drive. In some cases we may need to go small. Which leads me to…

Bench: KU >>>>> dook.

No real contest here. K’s squad is really only working with a couple serviceable guys off the bench in DeLaurier, O’Connell, and White/Baker (are they the same person?). KU rolls in with Big Dave, Garrett, and now Jalen Wilson. Gives us great positional versatility to go big or small. It would be fun to watch Wilson guard Hurt and Silvio guard Carey. And no doubt Garrett can lock down anyone on dook’s roster other than Carey.

If KU even kind of shoots it ok, could be a 15 point game. Even though this specific group hasn’t played much together, they all have experience in high level college basketball. Every starter has played in and won a NCAA Tournament game. Silvio and Doke played in a Final Four. And Self doesn’t like losing these games. Remember how he coached circles around another inexperienced dook team? Easy to see a repeat here.

Sorry for the long post. I’m just excited and on staycation!

He’ll be in next week. I know for a fact Self REALLY wants him. Just don’t ask about the how ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Flaherty from 247 on Garrett, "In short, it hasn’t been pretty, but it might not be as far away as people think. Last season, Garrett had a noticeable hitch in his motion, something that led to him making just 12-of-49 3-pointers, or 24.5 percent. Said hitch is gone; Garrett is now shooting with a much more fluid motion, which makes sense; the Kansas staff has said before that they expect Garrett to be able to shoot eventually, as he’s one of the team’s hardest workers and few were going to get up as many shots. But he made just 1-of-9 3-pointers in the two scrimmages, and the one that he made bounced in. And while a number of those shots were on target, they rimmed out — including an in-and-out miss Tuesday — in large part thanks to a strange horizontal spin Garrett is still putting on the ball.

After the scrimmage, I called our director of basketball scouting, Jerry Meyer, who played at Lipscomb for Hall of Fame coach Don Meyer (his father), and who coached at Vanderbilt to ask about that side-spin problem. Meyer said most often, that motion was added by too much push from the off-hand thumb—in Garrett’s case, his left thumb. Another coach that I called confirmed the diagnosis, noting that it shouldn’t be a difficult adjustment to make. With no hitch and a shot that’s more consistently on line, Garrett’s already putting in the work.

Interestingly enough, when Issac McBride talked with media members afterward, he was asked — after watching last year’s team — which player surprised him the most. His answer was Garrett, with McBride noting that he had no idea Garrett was as offensively skilled as he was."

This is the dumbest move the NCAA could make. The schools and athletes haven’t broken a single rule. The athletes don’t even have a say in what the legislature is doing, yet they’re the ones who are getting penalized. The California legislature, a lazy bunch of hacks, just gets to virtue signal that they did something that only could result in a bad outcome for athletes, since it’s not like the NCAA will bend here. F the NCAA

God, this sucks. We couldn’t get many games on tv out in the hinterlands so always had Max and Bob on the radio.

I’ve got a lot to say about this since public policy & education are my areas of expertise, but I’ll try to stay brief. No promises though!

As we ask why, like @HighEliteMajor says we have to do, the answers to this are very complicated. The state has pretty consistently botched creating equality of opportunity in this country, sometimes intentionally, sometimes with the best of intentions. Just a few examples. Jim Crow obviously was the kind of de jure segregation and oppression nobody should find acceptable in a liberal society. As the SCOTUS ruled in 1954, separate cannot be equal. Even today, by some measures school systems are as segregated as they were right after Brown. We know that integration efforts worked at first, especially in the South. After busing declined and the federal government stepped back in the 80’s (arguably betraying the mission of Brown), segregation increased.

Why is this important? Schools that are predominantly minority are generally worse than schools that are predominantly white. And school quality has a strong, causal relationship with future market and non-market outcomes. See the evaluation of the Perry Preschool program and the reams of studies evaluating charter schools as examples.

Pre-Brown, state and local governments intentionally underfunded school districts that were majority minority. As an example, (and to @Texas-Hawk-10’s point) Texas only spent 83 cents on each black kid for every dollar they spent on whites in 1960. Why? Racism. What happened post-Brown? Magically, funding equalized among schools. Not really magically (it was because legislatures didn’t want white kids to have to go to the old, decaying black schools). The other major piece is that higher quality teachers tend to work in wealthier districts. The district could be better at recruiting, offer a different quality of life, or other factors like rich kids being easier to teach than poor ones. Also to @Texas-Hawk-10’s point, across the country, poor & minority students receive about 2% more funding than their wealthier counterparts, though it’s pretty unlikely that’s enough to bridge the actual gap in terms of costs.

Since schools are residentially assigned here in the U.S., controlling who gets to live where has a strong relationship with school quality. As one of the primary channels through which any given individual’s opportunity in life is determined, this becomes very important. If we look at data on home ownership and lending, we see that blacks have historically faced severe discrimination in ability to receive mortgages and even if they were able to get a loan, many whites wouldn’t sell homes to blacks in good neighborhoods, a set of practices called redlining. Many whites who were dead broke could receive credit where middle- to upper-income blacks couldn’t ever get a similar loan.

This meant many blacks who would move couldn’t and were stuck in a bad neighborhood and possibly a bad school. In addition, blacks weren’t able to access the capital necessary to develop their own neighborhoods. This kind of hopelessness led to many of the societal ills that still exist there. Put simply, the channels to success that exist for whites exist to less of an extent for blacks.

But racism wasn’t the only culprit. I’m a libertarian so I’ll keep dumping on the state In response to this concentrated poverty (that the government in large part created) they tried to fix it with the War on Poverty and related efforts. Some of the programs were effective (SS and Medicare greatly reduced senior poverty, but have severe issues with solvency, thanks Boomers). One major program was AFDC, a means tested cash benefits program for families who had a male in the house who was unable to work for whatever reason. The program was started in the 30’s, but black women weren’t allowed to access it until the 60’s! Crazy. The program was wrought with administrative issues as well. It discouraged marriage since benefits could be cut if a beneficiary married someone with higher income. This drives some of the increase in out of wedlock births among those with low income (who are more likely to be black.) In addition, the phaseout of benefits was very sharp, which discouraged anyone to work since the marginal tax rate (when including lost benefits) became extremely high, more than 100% in some cases.

And we couldn’t talk about failed wars without bringing up the giant cash fire known as the War on Drugs (and the criminal justice system as a whole). Let’s use a specific example. Why does possession of crack cocaine carry much more severe sentences (about 1/3 longer) than powder? Could it have anything to do with the fact that crack is more commonly found in majority black neighborhoods and powder is more common to white neighborhoods? Even though powder cocaine is worth much more in street value? Not difficult dots to connect there. Another question. Why do blacks get pulled over at nearly twice the rate of whites, even controlling for factors like type of car, even though whites are more likely to carry contraband? Another fun fact: marijuana prohibition was largely based on the fear that blacks would “entice” white women to become addicted to weed. That legacy remains. Blacks are 4x as likely to be arrested for weed possession as whites even though they use at essentially the same rate. Blacks are 12x (!) as likely to be falsely convicted of drug crimes as whites. The U.S. Sentencing Commission found that, even controlling for other observables, blacks were given 20% longer sentences than whites for identical charges. Want a really huge part of family breakup and why young, black men have issues as a group? No wonder they don’t trust the institutions.

So what’s the result of all this? Well, glad you asked. Look at the maps here: https://www.opportunityatlas.org. It tells the story that both private and state actions have created a perverse kind of inequality in this country where it’s a lot harder for the average black kid to succeed in this country than the average white kid. When society continually beats a set of people down for, like, no reason it’s perfectly predictable that that set of people will have problems. One surely wouldn’t expect an abused kid to have the same outcomes as one from a perfectly healthy and safe family.

So what do we do about it? I’ve got a couple ideas. In a paper that hopefully will come out soon, I argue for universal school choice for every student in the country. If we believe primary and secondary education is positive right in this country (most states have constitutional provisions stating such) that it makes sense to allow people the freedom to exercise this right however they want, and allow for the marketplace to work to improve school quality, like we see in the charter sector. As these schools have grown and matured (and been allowed to innovate) their outcomes have gotten better. Now, it’s rare to find negative outcomes of charters, even with the strongest experimental designs.

Second, I believe strongly that we should repeal the entirety of the current welfare state and replace it with a universal basic income. The math works out to about even if we give everyone $800/month, deposited into a bank account, as soon as they graduate high school or turn 18, whichever is first. That’s enough to get above the poverty line for a couple and drastically increase bank usage.

Third, decouple employment and health care. Because of a quirk of WWII tax law, employer sponsored health benefits aren’t taxed like income, incentivizing employers to pay for health insurance instead of increasing salary. Replace it with expanded HSA’s or something similar. It would increase job mobility since your health insurance would be portable and not tied to your employment.

These three things have a common purpose: empower the individual to take control of their lives and live up to their potential unimpeded by the state. Other things like opportunity zones could help attract capital to the areas that need it.

Finally, everyone should read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/dp/0525534733/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=chris+arnade&qid=1551149213&s=gateway&sr=8-1. The author did the unthinkable: he went out and talked to people! Crazy thing to do these days. It really drives home the point that people in large swaths of the country feel neglected and hopeless, so they turn to drugs or other vices to escape.

Anyhoo, I’ve said too much. Have a lovely evening, everyone.

Braun is really forking good for a kid who just went through 6th grade graduation