Posts made by Jethro

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in And then we have these discussions:

@Jethro said in And then we have these discussions:

@DCHawker I dunno- WSU has been to a bowl game 8 out the last 10 years. Colorado was 1-11 last year. I know they suck at basketball, but so does Colorado. Another easy win. The other team I have heard is Oregon St, but lots of folks aren’t very excited about them. I might add that the Wazzu AD used to be the AD at Tator U ( formerly known as Silo Tech).

They made those bowl games because they had Mike Leach before he went to MSU.

Martin Stadium is small and if Washington St. was in the Mountain West, they’d still have the smallest stadium in the conference. Washington St. and Oregon St. are among the smallest athletic department budgets among P5 schools and like KSU, are only in P5 conferences because they are “original” members of those leagues. WSU and OSU, like KSU, are more on par with the Mountain West or AAC in terms of athletic department budgets than they are with the bigger schools in their leagues.

I can’t see Yormark having much interest in adding WSU or OSU to the Big 12.

I don’t think Wazzu got the memo that their success on the football field was only due to Leach considering they made a bowl game the last 2 years in row without him. The people who saying the mystery team is Wazzu know alot more than you or I know about the situation. I’m going take their word for it.

@DCHawker I dunno- WSU has been to a bowl game 8 out the last 10 years. Colorado was 1-11 last year. I know they suck at basketball, but so does Colorado. Another easy win. The other team I have heard is Oregon St, but lots of folks aren’t very excited about them. I might add that the Wazzu AD used to be the AD at Tator U ( formerly known as Silo Tech).

I’m hearing it’s Wazzu.

@jayballer67 said in And then we have these discussions:

Man this stuff is so crazy. - Tibits : - - Apple wants the entire media rights for the PAC 12, which would be 100 % streaming and the Pac 2 Presidents saying - - umm nope. , so Apple saying umm NOPE.

PAC 12 running out of options, agree with them on Apple though as that would be 100 % streaming and like was said that’s a recruiting killer.

The popular belief is that the PAC 12 schools know what the Media numbers are and there comin in about 12 Millon dollars less then BIG 12 and only best they have would be 20 % linear - - NOT GOOD.

Dead on arrival. There was a graph floating around Twitter that showed that Colorado has lost over 67 million dollars since going to the Pac12 versus if they had stayed in the B12. I’m thinking they’ll be back soon.

It takes a very disturbed person to do something like that. He’s probably off the team and is probably going to have charges filed against him.

This is insane… https://twitter.com/KansanSports/status/1683698871799619584

Here’s the story: https://www.kansan.com/news/kansas-football-s-joe-krause-arrested-following-bomb-threats-to-facilities/article_b55776e4-2aa0-11ee-a1fb-4368a5feb4cb.html

I have nothing but respect for the UNC fanbase. They were very gracious when we beat them in 22. Still want to pound them, though.

I don’t think he would’ve been happy here, so it’s all for the best. We have guys that were going to play huge minutes ahead of him, so it all works out. It wouldn’t surprise me if we go get another wing.

Sign of things to come:

https://twitter.com/KUHoops/status/1678798597431734273

@Gorilla72 Gradey is like a cluster bomb- he kills on many levels.

@Gorilla72 https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1678128461196541953

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in That's My Quarterback:

Jalon Daniels names Preseason Offensive Big 12 Player of the Year by the Big 12 media.

K State has lost their minds over this. They have no idea how good our offense really is.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2023 Transfer Portal:

Tre Mitchell to Kentucky

Now they think they’re going to win the national championship: https://kentucky.forums.rivals.com/threads/this-is-a-national-championship-team.393863/

@BeddieKU23 said in 2023 Transfer Portal:

@Kcmatt7 said in 2023 Transfer Portal:

@BeddieKU23 So glad we missed on him in '18

agree. hard to believe he’s still in school/eligible

He makes Perry Ellis look a piker.

@BeddieKU23 said in 2023 Transfer Portal:

Krissa now will stay with WVU.

I’m glad. We’ll exploit his lack of defense.

a little off the subject, but the man named Dick can show out, folks:

https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1671968925024657427

I was afraid he’d turn into a Bill Walton hippie out in Cali…

Very nice!

@JAYHAWKFAN214 said in ZACH CLEMENCE COMING BACK?:

@Jethro Nothing is official

Now they’re saying he would have to red shirt unless he can get a waiver. He must’ve received some benefits at UCSB.

@bskeet said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@dylans said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@wissox Better than ‘97? I would like to see the ‘97 team play the ‘08 team. Would be a battle!

Well, this would be a fun thread: Best KU teams to never win the championship.

I would submit there are 3 that would be vigorously argued for: 56-57, 85-86 and 96-97.

Add 2020 to that list as well.

https://www.kuhearings.com/p/hearing-zach-clemence-return-ku

Holy Snikeys!

https://twitter.com/M_Vernon/status/1670875471972794368

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@Jethro said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@Jethro said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@wissox said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@dylans Obviously it’s an unprovable argument. 86 team beat the national champs twice! 97 team lost to the national champs! I know 97 was awesome and I surely would lose this argument a lot of times, but I also might win it a number of times too.

Funny thing is the 08 team, while super tough and resilient, paled slightly compared to the others mentioned. I don’t think the 22 version was the best of the best KU teams either! But they both won praise the lord and are legendary teams.

The Danny and the Miracles team might be the most bizarre national title team ever. We all know why they’re called the Miracles, but if you told someone entering the season that KU would wind up winning the national title, not many would’ve batted an eye or been surprised by that outcome since KU was a preseason top 10 team. Everything between those two points tells a very different story obviously.

We weren’t even close to being Top 10 that year. Maybe preseason we were thrown in the Top 10 based on the year before, but we were seriously lacking that year.

That’s the point, KU had high expectations entering the season and that if you told someone before that season started that it would end with KU winning a title, it wouldn’t have surprised that many people. This is also why I ended my statement with the journey between the start of the season and the title tells a very a different story about how that season went.

So, you think after losing every starter off the 86’ team other than Danny we all thought 88 was in the bag? I assure you that was not the case.

Had KU entered the '87-88 season having lost 4 starters, I think that’d be a valid point, but that’s not reality now is it. KU did take some lumps during the '86-87 season which was to be expected, but still managed to finish in the top 20 of the polls with a Sweet 16 appearance, not too bad for a rebuilding year amd not all that different from our '08-09 team in a similar boat.

So, going into the '87-88 season, KU was coming off of a Sweet 16 appearance and returning 4 starters off of that team, includingDanny Manning. Based on that reality, KU was a justified preseason top 10 team with national title aspirations having the best player in country anchoring their team.

So again, if a team is coming off of a Sweet 16 appearance, returns 4 starters with one of those being the consensus best player in college basketball and you tell someone before any games tip off that season that team will win a national title, it wouldn’t surprise many people.

I’m probably misremembering it. I know I was talking to my brother in law back then all the time, and I remember us both thinking it was going to be a tough road to hoe. OU was simply better than us that year, which loomed over our expectations that year.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@Jethro said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@wissox said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@dylans Obviously it’s an unprovable argument. 86 team beat the national champs twice! 97 team lost to the national champs! I know 97 was awesome and I surely would lose this argument a lot of times, but I also might win it a number of times too.

Funny thing is the 08 team, while super tough and resilient, paled slightly compared to the others mentioned. I don’t think the 22 version was the best of the best KU teams either! But they both won praise the lord and are legendary teams.

The Danny and the Miracles team might be the most bizarre national title team ever. We all know why they’re called the Miracles, but if you told someone entering the season that KU would wind up winning the national title, not many would’ve batted an eye or been surprised by that outcome since KU was a preseason top 10 team. Everything between those two points tells a very different story obviously.

We weren’t even close to being Top 10 that year. Maybe preseason we were thrown in the Top 10 based on the year before, but we were seriously lacking that year.

That’s the point, KU had high expectations entering the season and that if you told someone before that season started that it would end with KU winning a title, it wouldn’t have surprised that many people. This is also why I ended my statement with the journey between the start of the season and the title tells a very a different story about how that season went.

So, you think after losing every starter off the 86’ team other than Danny we all thought 88 was in the bag? I assure you that was not the case.

@wissox said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

I still really kind of think the 86 team was our best team, at least since I’ve been paying attention. Great combination of veterans and young guys, great guard, great center, Danny, great shooting, would have love to see that group with a 3 point line, strong bench. Preseason #5, never higher than #9, and had won 16 in a row before being beat fair and square in the FF. @bskeet, the Marshall injury was tough and came near the end. But we had 4 guys foul out. Pretty significant factor as well.

Not the best but probably one of the Top 5 KU teams of all time, imho. That team was LOADED.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@wissox said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@dylans Obviously it’s an unprovable argument. 86 team beat the national champs twice! 97 team lost to the national champs! I know 97 was awesome and I surely would lose this argument a lot of times, but I also might win it a number of times too.

Funny thing is the 08 team, while super tough and resilient, paled slightly compared to the others mentioned. I don’t think the 22 version was the best of the best KU teams either! But they both won praise the lord and are legendary teams.

The Danny and the Miracles team might be the most bizarre national title team ever. We all know why they’re called the Miracles, but if you told someone entering the season that KU would wind up winning the national title, not many would’ve batted an eye or been surprised by that outcome since KU was a preseason top 10 team. Everything between those two points tells a very different story obviously.

We weren’t even close to being Top 10 that year. Maybe preseason we were thrown in the Top 10 based on the year before, but we were seriously lacking that year.

@bskeet said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@mayjay said in Jayhawks in the NBA -- 2022:

@wissox 37 years and still obsessed! You post about K in that game, and the Wisc game, so often that I wonder if you remember Brown, Williams, and Self ever talking to the refs. Or do they just never try to influence them and smile graciously?

That game made an oversized impression on the fans that are old enough to remember growing up with KU Basketball never being on TV, rarely making the tournament and when they did, bowing out promptly in the first round.

For me, that run to the Final Four was the beginning of the resurgence of KU’s program. That game was the beginning of a rivalry with Duke. And it was validation that KU had a coach who could compete on the biggest stage.

That game lives rent free and that’s a good thing. Without that chip, maybe we don’t have the same tournament run for 37 years (ignoring 1989).

As for the reason for the loss, I ascribe it more to the Archie Marshall injury than anything else… but I think we all agree that if we play Louisville, they go down again.

That was the game where we felt we had arrived. The Marshall injury was devastating, but it paved the way for 88 and the Miracle. And we haven’t slowed down since. We have been so lucky to have followed one of the greatest dynasties in American sports history.

It is a miracle he didn’t kill somebody, or himself. .21 is almost triple the legal limit. They did him and the community a favor by arresting him. It could’ve been so much worse.

Wonder if that would shake up that excellent recruiting/transfer class he just completed. I heard 'Tucky is in the market for 5 or 6 players.

https://twitter.com/OldRowSports/status/1669546877635756033

@DCHawker said in 6/14 SCRIMMAGE STATS:

What stands out to me is that the team with 3 key freshmen and just one starter held their own against the team with 3-4 likely starters.

I can almost guarantee our starters were cakewalking.

https://throughthephog.com/2023/06/15/5-overreactions-kansas-basketball-scrimmage/

Jamari and Marcus Adams came to play- Nice!

https://twitter.com/RCST1320/status/1669100934125826049/photo/1

" On paper, this could very well be the best team KU has had since the magical Orange Bowl run in 2007."

• Fansided

Pitino = the WEASEL. Pitino is famous in KU folk lore for his part in the 150-95 shellacking we put on Kentucky. He proved once and for all what happens when you try to press a Roy Williams team.

@approxinfinity said in 2023 Transfer Portal:

https://kubuckets.com/topic/5315/rick-pitino-s-u-c-k-s/2?_=1686681728040

Gut check… hmm. Yep. Still SUCKS

I just upvoted it.

@Texas-Hawk-10 What is quicker…the valley or El Paso?

https://kuathletics.com/kansas-mens-hoops-announces-puerto-rico-trip-in-august/

@rockchalkjayhawk said in 2023 Transfer Portal:

Looks like we signed Marcus Adams’ bud?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtVJl7gJ_A_/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

He used to be quite a football player for the Vikings. sarc/

Finally get to watch KU right here in Houston and they move the damn game to Mexico City.

@FarmerJayhawk said in SCRIMMAGE SZN:

Provide Way Too Early Takes here https://twitter.com/mctait/status/1666563427198808065?s=42&t=bHaIBFjnxvQ1iKy_DKfZOQ

Great minds think alike. I was coming to post on it :

https://twitter.com/shre98/status/1666565566314717185

@jayballer67 said in 2023 Recruiting:

@JAYHAWKFAN214 said in 2023 Recruiting:

@jayballer67 said in 2023 Recruiting:

@JAYHAWKFAN214 said in 2023 Recruiting:

@jayballer67 said in 2023 Recruiting:

@JAYHAWKFAN214 said in 2023 Recruiting:

@jayballer67 said in 2023 Recruiting:

Who is Bo Aldridge that was on Campus visiting KU today ?

He’s from Topeka Kansas and he went to Highland park high school He was in the class of 2023 but he Recastify tobe in the class of 2024 He’s in a Prep school in South Carolina now He will be back on to campus to finish his visit tomorrow He’s on campus right now for day 2

ya I should of known that. I remembered aftewards , I live in Topeka and Highland Park not that far from me. He is ok , nothing special, could back someone up

I wouldn’t say nothing special

he is not all that. The quality of competition he faced here at Highland Park wasn’t top tier. - - Topeka Schools very average in Basketball. - -Highland Park had an exceptional year but to say he is a top tier recruit someone who is going to step right in and contribute - eh-- no. For sure no better then Chris Johnson u can say what u want about Bo

you figure he is a 3 * - - - -he is recruited by Oklahoma , Ol Miss & UMKC – , was asked if he would come back to 2023 if KU wanted him to, he said absolutely. Calls KU his dream School. He is just not a guy that is going to Wow you

Will he be able to play 1 minute during the Chant? If yes, I say we take him. Bo Diddley, come on down!

@JAYHAWKFAN214 said in 2023 Recruiting:

@Jethro said in 2023 Recruiting:

We’re going to need some time to learn how to say his first name. Or just call him Bo i guess.

People just call him Bo

Bo Diddley.

We’re going to need some time to learn how to say his first name. Or just call him Bo i guess.

At least Philly is smart enough to let James Harden walk. For no apparent reason, the Rockets want him. Last year was the first time since i’ve been back to Texas that I didn’t go to at least one Rockets game. The way it’s shaping up, next year isn’t looking good, either.

https://twitter.com/chrisobee21/status/1665517573666996225

Ended up winning 2.00.

Go, CB…GO! LOL.