Miles is on a plane to Lawrence today. He needs to be on a plane to recruit tomorrow.

Apparently Vick’s shooting hand is still the hottest thing on the planet.

The Chiefs defense with Berry back at his level of play would look something close to league average. With this offense, that’s a luxury.

Twitter is saying the deal is nearly done for Miles.

Beaty is coaching for a coordinators job somewhere at this point. He’s not going to be a head coach, but if he shows something in the next couple of weeks, he could find himself a decent landing spot.

As @Texas-Hawk-10 said, the new staff has some significant recruiting work to do. KU is the only school in the country with fewer than 8 commitments for next season. That’s a huge hole to fill. Every second that passes is a wasted opportunity for next season. Whoever gets this job needs to be on the recruiting trail immediately, if not sooner.

It looks like KU may, for once, be playing this exactly right. They look like they are hiring a HC (and maybe coordinators) that are not currently tied to CFB programs. This means that group may be able to salvage this recruiting class if the hiring happens by Monday. That would be a distraction for the current staff, but honestly, this season is lost anyway, so it makes sense to salvage what you can for the future.

JayHawkFanToo said:

@justanotherfan

Here is info on the other topic…nothing really changes.

Automatic voter registration is something that happens in nearly every new democracy where the U.S. goes to oversee elections. They simply register everyone to vote that is eligible, then hold an election.

And before you start talking about voter ID, most countries (aside from the U.S.) issue each citizen a voter ID when they reach voting age. Nearly every developed country on the face of the earth does this. It’s actually one of the ways those countries combat fraud because everyone is registered to vote, so you can’t double register, or use someone else’s ID to vote, because that person is already registered to vote and has a voter ID.

Automatic registration makes double registering more difficult because everyone is accounted for. There’s no possibility that you aren’t already registered, so there’s much less confusion. Automatic registration with an automatically issued voter ID is even better because then you have a unique identifier for each voter. If the GOP was serious about rooting out fraud, they would have proposed this years ago (hint: they aren’t). And before you say no one has suggested it, this exact system exists in many countries around the world. The U.S. has even helped implement a similar system in new democracies.

As for Citizens United, you should understand that it extends free speech to corporations, and more specifically, to donating money to political candidates, saying that money = speech.

If you are against politicians being bought by large lobbying interests, you should be against Citizens United because that’s some of what that ruling essentially allows. Now, obviously I am generalizing here a bit, which is always dangerous, but I can’t really type up an entire rant on this opinion.

As for gun control, universal background checks and mental health screenings have been proposed (and rejected) for years. I doubt we see anything substantive on gun control because too few people lack the political will to do anything on the subject, other than offer their “thoughts and prayers” after the next mass shooting.

What we will likely see over the next couple of years is the Senate rejecting every proposal coming out of the House simply because the Democrats support it, and the GOP and Trump speed packing the courts - Republicans complain when the Democrats question judicial nominees now, conveniently forgetting that after the GOP took over the Senate, many Obama nominees didn’t even get hearings because the Republicans wouldn’t even bring them before the Judiciary Committee, let alone the full Senate. But that’s another story for another day.

JayHawkFanToo said:

In a somewhat relayed story, creepy porn lawyer can now add domestivpc abuser to his resume. What will CNN do, replace him or give him his own show? 82 guest appearances in a couple of months has to be a record.

This story is bizarre. It was originally reported that his estranged wife was the victim, but almost immediately after that was announced, his wife/ex-wife? announced that she had not been the one that filed the charges.

I’m curious who the accuser is on this. Perhaps a new girlfriend? This story is off to a strange start. I don’t want to assume anything without more facts because this is already really weird.

dylans said:

@justanotherfan How fast do you think Hill can run down the field with an oxygen tank?

Still probably faster than me.

Air quality could be an issue for this game.

We may see guys needing to take breathers more often, as even if the wind direction is ideal, the air quality will probably be low with all of the smoke in the area. It should be a good game, but it could have some interesting moments because you can’t really condition to breathe in that type of situation.