Lots of speculating going on, with people thinking they can read minds. Let's all get mad and assume bad faith by a player who may well be in the midst of being far more frustrated than all of our fan-doctors.

@ROCKCHALK2025 As a judge for 19 years, I found the legal principal of requiring evidence to draw conclusions applies pretty well to analyzing everything in life. In other words, speculation alone isn't probative. But speculation can generate theories about things, but theories without evidence are pretty hollow, so best usually to wait for actual facts.

@wissox83 said in Kansas Jayhawks vs Towson Tigers Game Chat Tue. 12/16 8:00 CT:

Ran 5 miles saturday on the treadmill.

Just saw this. 5 miles on a treadmill...and you find some KU games boring?

@approxinfinity Are you optimistic about having reasons to be optimistic? When I need a dose of optimism to avoid retreating to a 20-year hideout in an underground shelter, I look at my wife (of 26½ years today!) and realize that she is always a ray of sunshine and hope.

Happy Valentines Day, everybody!

@BeddieKU23 said in Kansas Jayhawks vs Davidson Wildcats Game Chat Mon. 12/22 7:00 CT:

3pt defense has been our strength....

It seems to me that we haven't seen this comment all that often in past years!

Pretty sad. I mean, e hasn't even tried the old Squeaky routine about how KSU "tries harder" despite losing.

I think what we are seeing with DP is that his legs are strong enough to play half a game, but his injuries all season make him vulnerable. No one can possibly say the guy who leads Div 1 in first half scoring isn't giving it his all. But doing that comes at a cost of injuries. Taking himself out might be what Self wants him to do to avoid worse injuries and total unavailability down the line, a la Embiid.

@Tallturd1 said in Darryn Peterson:

just media types doing what they think makes themselves sound knowledgeable

Just like people on this Board all season thinking they can infer facts from the lack of information. I read the CBS guy's article. He has never before seen a discussion between an AD and an agent in a game so therefore it must be...X. Could be any other letter in the alphaber, but no, X is a big conspiracy so it must be true.

@rockchalkjayhawk One last observation: A number of posters have spent a few years complaining about one-and-dones first, and more recently about upperclass transfers, as not adding to the KU legacy in their short time. A number have emphatically denounced those players as ones they will never consider "true" Jayhawks like the guys on the banners.

Todays comments about our outgoing seniors White and Council, who came for just 1 year, shows that players who give their hearts to KU can always find a way into the hearts of the faithful. Maybe fans can adjust to new realities. I mean, Dear Lord, the 3 point shot didn't destroy basketball, and the DH hasn't destroyed baseball. Go back far enough, virtually every change made in most sports has been decried as bad for the sport. But sports are more popular than ever.

Occurs to me that this looks like our 3rd straight off-season where Rice's availability at season opening may be in question. Domestic assault, allegedly, and no resolution announced yet. These things affect out depth chart, FA decisions, and draft strategy. Time to bail, I think.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/kenneth-walker-iii-agrees-to-terms-with-the-chiefs

Also, Jaylen Watson going to the Rams with 3-yr contract. $51 mil, $34 mil guaranteed.

Here is the problem with this conclave being convened to "fix" college athletics: they aren't inviting the people who make it happen.

From The Athletic Friday about that alleged roundtable:

"Trump will chair the panel, working with expected vice chairs Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Yankees president Randy Levine. Invitees include college sports leaders such as NCAA president Charlie Baker, commissioners from the Power 4 conferences and Group of 6 ranks, select athletic directors, university administrators — including Trump adviser and Texas Tech board chair Cody Campbell — and former coaches Nick Saban and Urban Meyer; sports executives such as NBA commissioner Adam Silver, CEO of the USA Olympic Committee Sarah Hirshland, and New England Patriots president Jonathan Kraft; former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; media executives such as ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro and Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks; and business leaders such as Gerry Cardinale, David Blitzer and Marc Ganis, among others.

"There were no known current college athletes expected to attend."

Seems fair to me.

@crimsonblu22 said in KState Game:

@kjayhawks2.0 and......... did they get it?

Yes. It was a bad call. And they got a basket right away.

@kjayhawks2.0 said in Other Games 2025-2026:

@ROCKCHALK2025 yes the but their 31-0 is laughable and they had to know it looking at their schedule. They played 2 or 3 teams in the regular season that aren’t even D1. Couple that with zero P4 opponents and they knew what they was doing.

It is repeated in many stories that Miami tried to schedule P5 schools, but everyone turned them down. Many low tier schools say that, however, but often they want reciprocal games and most P5 schools won't commit to that. I have asked on The Athletic boards if Miami had offered just to play P5 away games, but no one seemed to know.

I'd let them in, even with a conf tourney loss, before allowing P5 teams in who are below midpoint in their conferences, or have losing conference records. Maybe teams with predictably easy schedules shouldn't be rewarded for great W/L records, but P5 teams likewise shouldn't be rewarded just for having joined a conference where they aren't competetive.

Edit: I say P5 but TBH I lost track long ago.

@rockchalkjayhawk One last observation: A number of posters have spent a few years complaining about one-and-dones first, and more recently about upperclass transfers, as not adding to the KU legacy in their short time. A number have emphatically denounced those players as ones they will never consider "true" Jayhawks like the guys on the banners.

Todays comments about our outgoing seniors White and Council, who came for just 1 year, shows that players who give their hearts to KU can always find a way into the hearts of the faithful. Maybe fans can adjust to new realities. I mean, Dear Lord, the 3 point shot didn't destroy basketball, and the DH hasn't destroyed baseball. Go back far enough, virtually every change made in most sports has been decried as bad for the sport. But sports are more popular than ever.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Saving College Sports!:

Here's how it ends up...if the athletes at Kansas aren't paid going rates, or what top athletes get on the market, then Kansas Basketball is no longer gonna be Kansas basketball. How's that leave us fans?

You want the best, you should pay the best. Why should my fandom require athletes to not be paid fairly? Isn't that what capitalism is all about?

And college basketball has paid elites for over 50 years, and football since the beginning of the 19th century, so the "pro" question was answered long ago.

@rockchalkjayhawk I have yet to hear about a single athlete forcing any school to pay him or her a dollar. The schools seem to be willing to throw millions at the elites. Most don't get anything anywhere near mid-5 figures, let alone the 4 million dollars you may think is so common.

Like baseball owners, schools spend like crazy (and thus my post about coaches' salaries) and keep crying for someone to stop them from destroying their sports with the high NILs they offer. "Oh, no, please make new laws to protect me from myself!" "But you just negotiated billions in revenue from TV because people want to see your athletes play!" "Hell, yeah, we earned that. The kids didn't organize anything, did they?"

The solution to breaking the antitrust laws should not be disallowing protections to an entire class of people. It should be to find the same solution as in all pro sports: make the players employees. Then, yes, collective bargaining can lead to transfer and compensation rules and restrictions.

@JoJoAndMe said in KState Game:

Whatever happened to Squeaky?

Not enough.

Tang would have blamed his players for not trying. Squeaky, on the other hand, would have given his players a "Tried harder" trophy. Both would have gotten demolished by the same score.