@kjayhawks2.0 sure. Lots of them. Some are even employed.

Thanks for getting this together.

@nuleafjhawk yup. Exactly. Or teachers and journalists (real ones)

@approxinfinity I love both of those posts. Every time we discuss NIL dollars, I think “what about art, scholarship, ….?” The things that really do matter. (And yet I’ve watched 99% of our games from start to finish for many years.)

@Kcmatt7 how about Diggy? Odd example I think, but he killed it at UMD. Not at the level of KU, but impressive.

@approxinfinity baseball and volleyball are not obscure. But Ultimate Frisbee!

@RockChalkinTexas-0 Ha! Is that supposed to make us mad? If the 0.03577% chance of KU v KY in the finals comes to pass, we are definitely going to beat them.

Short piece on regret by Ryan Robertson in the NYT feed today. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7093460/2026/03/07/ryan-robertson-nba-one-game-lesson/?source=athletic_pulsenewsletter&campaign=17086015&userId=11165705

Feels weird to say, but I actually don’t want an extra bye — I’d rather we play and win (of course) and gain another game on KY for the all time wins record.

@approxinfinity agree. We dismantle FB by leaving the platform, one person at a time.

My dislike of Zuckerberg drove me off that platform many years ago. It was a great decision. It does mean I have had to be more active in keeping up with my Topeka High classmates

@approxinfinity I agree re Kornheiser and Wilbon. I think they were originally and for much of their careers newspaper men. A completely different breed from the online personality.

@BShark agree. +17 with only 4 points is amazing

@ROCKCHALK2025 and also he’s 86

That was ugly. We looked disjointed. Maybe looking ahead to Monday. I also wonder if the DP press from the past week had an impact.

@ROCKCHALK2025 as for your second paragraph, from your lips to god’s ears

Yes. I’m fully aware of who SA Smith is and how the sports industrial combine churns to increase revenue. Smith’s status as a blow hard (A Howard Cosell for the 21st century) is not relevant. A bunch of commentators (including Smith), are saying the same thing as regards those who might draft DP first: in essence, if DP can’t play full games in college, how will he last in the much longer NBA season? My point is that this might have the effect of encouraging DP to play more, which would be great, unless he’s actually injured, in which case I want him to save his minutes for the tourney. I personally have no idea whether he’s being overly cautious, but reading HCBS’s reaction Wednesday night …

SA Smith was particularly harsh, especially in cautioning NBA execs re drafting DP. One possibility is that the issue is basically overly cautious load management, I wonder if this specific angle of media pressure this week will alter DP’s and his team’s calculus in favor of playing through cramps, discomfort, etc. a bit more.

Too bad he wasn’t facing the other way

@mayjay as a lawyer for many years, I concur. The stories about the assistant AD and DP’s “advisors”, assuming they are accurate and thus evidence, allow for different interpretations. In this case, we (I include myself) tend to prefer an interpretation that supports our gut feeling that something is off. This is a form of confirmation bias, even if we turn out to be correct. I am really looking forward to finding out exactly what’s going on. I expect it may not be until after the season, if ever.

BTW, my favorite DP moment so far was after the TTech game during the presser. DP called Flory out for being too modest and said Flory was the best defender in the league/nation. That was a sweet moment between the two of them and raised my opinion of DP as a player and a leader.