Posts made by Jayblaze

KU is the smart money to win it all. Need proof?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2025/03/19/march-madness-bracket-ai-picks-predictions/82520443007/

You can tell our bench smells blood. Like they come in fighting and confident.

Ok, I’m sold. This team’s potential is very, very high.

DJ playing like he’s got something to prove

Looks like we’ve got some real toughness, maybe (at least at home in a big game when we’re winning, lol).

@approxinfinity Not sure if you are serious about this, but I’d pitch in something. I ain’t a rich man or something, but keeping this viable means a lot to me.

Can we please get this season started? I’m bored already and tired of waiting.

Sometimes I think it’d be ok if the top talents from McDonalds and High Schools had a semi-pro league and skipped college altogether. Then we’d preserve college sports with more traditional scholarship student-athletes. Like there would still be plenty of talent to make the games high-level and exciting. It also seems just - to give top-caliber athletes a route other than college to get paid what they deserve while they pursue the NBA without distorting the fairness of our leagues. I’d still be a Jayhawk fan, to be sure, and I don’t think my enthusiasm/enjoyment would lose a step like it might as this new status quo evolves.

I haven’t heard even one of y’all “fans” offer to marry Furphy so he can get his green card and and be paid

@nuleafjhawk I’ve picked a perfect bracket every single season for years…Every bracket is perfect - like the smile of a child or dewdrops on a flower, each it’s own delicate creation, the vessel of joy and dreams, prayerful fancy and wild yearning for a just and glorious world.

@kjayhawks I’m going with ours, though the repeat is a strong weight toward UConn’s - really want one of those baaaaaaad for Self and the Hawks. That said, I’m super proud of our conference streak. And, weirdly, a down coupla years adds pathos to the whole thing for me. I’m optimistic that the NIL era will settle into something that lets me keep on believin’ we will eventually dominate. (I’ve never pretended to be a totally rational fan!!!)

@rockchalkjayhawk Very interesting. Thx for this. I had not thought about equity implications of NIL at all.

I’m for Clemson.

Like, I don’t merely want the Hawks to win it all; I want KJ and Juan to win it all, lol.

I respect y’all who are down on KJ and Juan and I understand why you’d like to see better talent in those starting slots. That said, a much higher consideration for me is just how much I’ve grown to know and like them both. I mean, as college ball becomes an annual revolving door I really cherish the guys who stay and develop. It’s waaaaay more fun for me to root for those guys than strange new faces. I’m more invested in the vicissitudes of the season. It’s more fun to be a fan. So Juan and KJ are tip tier keepers on my wish list, moreso even than Hunter and Furphy.

I’m shifting my attention to a reduced-personnel, nothing to lose Big 12 Tournament in which Bill Self gets to be creative with subpar (though still considerable) talent and a few guys who will figure prominently in the next few seasons. I want see development and improv and tenacity and a hell of a fun time!

It helps us (maybe a little?) that Houston’s in a tough fight tonight and then has to travel home before we see them on Saturday.

Holy crap! Houston’s down at half against UCF!

KJ is having a NIGHT!

Instant meme: Just a Big 12 foul.

I’m optimistic about The Marko’s impact next year.

@DanR I worry about his bball IQ. I mean, it’s potentially high, but so far, ain’t seen it.

@kjayhawks Yeah, agreed. Marko’s coming on. But at this point he can’t run the O.

Frankly, same goes for the 4 and 5.

We don’t need a new point guard. We need a backup point guard.

Good news: the bench is contributing tonight.

I remember that game - I was about 12 or so. Saw it on TV with a super-pumped KSU family. Thinking back it was a pretty formative sports experience for me.

@bskeet And all a game’s total officiating stats could be aggregated into an index or coefficient so you could compare across games, seasons, teams, venues… I’d love to have that reported in box scores, etc Good idea!

It’s wild how I continue to believe until basically the very end. I suppose it’s a habit from watching the Chiefs.

Not to mention that that tournament-like two day turnaround gets us every time. Doesn’t bode well for Madness weekends.

I did a scientific analysis on today’s game and I have determined that Johnny Furphy is very good at basketball.

@wissox I was just beling silly, lol - thought it was too preposterous to be taken seriously. I’ll rescind my application for assistant coach now.

3D chess: El Marko starts from here on and Kev comes off the bench!

We’d have balance like last night and plenty of bench scoring/spark!

Bill looks like his health has improved since that Fentanyl commercial

Impressively athletic shot by Timberlake

Why doesn’t the tech exist to sync the radio broadcast with the streaming game? Seems like it oughta be possible.

On Furphy:

“This Irish name formerly O’Foirbhilhe in the Gaelic, is a nickname and translates as ‘the descendant of the perfect one’, the clan originating in County Tyrone. … Up to the 1950’s ‘Furphies’ were found all over Ireland being horse drawn ‘water carts’ manufactured by Joseph Furphy, these being in effect mobile meeting places, a place of gossip. Apparently in Australia to ‘furphy’ is to gossip or spread rumour!”

Man, I lost my feed. Is the game over?

Gah! Arterio Morris I hardly knew ye!

@Jayblaze no malice intended

@Texas-Hawk-10 it’s a conspiracy

Gonna say, Miles Jr. Is a stud tho

@benshawks08 Indeed. I do spend quite a bit of time in this here echo chamber!

Ya know…here’s another thing, not a measurable COY metric but worth a lot: he seems to be a pretty kind, level-headed guy. Sure fans of other blue bloods or rivals find plenty of reasons to hate him, but as far as I can tell he doesn’t generate nearly the level of abject disdain folks like Coach K and Cal and Pitino seem to inspire.

@cragarhawk Agreed, but it’s a very short list of GOAT candidates, maybe just BS and JW, at least it looks that way to me.

Just askin’: why did self sit Jalen just as he might a been getting started?

Wilson for 12 more + bench for 10 more + 8-10 minutes of superD = Jayhawks win by 12

@cragarhawk I half expect us to come out in total lockdown mode at the start of the half - passing lane and switch adjustments like against Baylor - and blow this thing open.

Fun fact: we shot 100% from the line in the first half.

Kev playing with real joy