@Jayhawk_69 There is no bill, only the executive orders. As is his custom, President Trump is attempting to create another wide swath of executive authority by fiat rather than by making a legislative proposal to Congress. He cannot revise antitrust law by executive order, nor can he demand concessions by funding cutoffs not related to the authorizations creating those funds. He can try, but courts are curtailing his reach in doing so right and left. As with the law firms who capitulated, some schools will try to voluntarily impose these limits on their students but there is no hope that courts will not continue to find liability. An EA is no defense. More likely, schools will realize they face legal substantial liability if they comply and will sue to enjoin enforcement by DOJ. Bottom line, the president cannot compel people to break numerous laws.

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.

@approxinfinity HEM always wanted to get rid of Self b/c he only won 1 title and didn't keep gettng into the F4. Then HEM disappeared (during Covid I think), and Bill won a second title a couple of years later. The "What have you done for me lately?" impatience is ridiculous considering all the drastic challenges facing coaches.

@nuleafjhawk said in Selection Sunday + Bracket Challenge:

@rockchalkjayhawk I would root against Duke if Ted Bundy was the opposing coach

Ted's team would just eat 'em alive.

LB Leo Chenal to Washington. 3 yrs, $24.75 mil. This one bothers me.

Maxx Crosby trade has been nixed by the Ravens after his physical. Likely more to it.

@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 A special place in the darker recesses of my soul for the Slavers.

@kjayhawks2.0 said in Coaching Changes:

@ROCKCHALK2025 the guy from Utah state wanted to finish out this season before heading to manhattan. KSU said no dice and moved down the list.

That guy dodged a bullet, big time.

@RockChalkinTexas-0 Our kids and grandkids live on Maui. I watched my son making plumeria leis from flowers he picked last Christmas for the nurses who work at the health facility where my DIL is CEO. She and my son always do a major bake as well for the office Christmas party. The streets where they live are just flooded with plumeria trees and it is spectacular!

Never realized how much work it would be to grow one in the contiguous states. Congrats!

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

Good rule of thumb: until a visit gets locked in take all interests with a grain of salt. Sorry for the mixed metaphor

I think a metaphor combining a grain of salt with your thumb is perfectly reasonable as a variation on drinking tequila shots and licking salt on your hand.

@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.

@bskeet said in Selection Sunday + Bracket Challenge:

Way to wear the ACC & SEC blinders, CBS crew.

Mizzou is a power 5 school that has an arena 2½ times the size of Cal Baptist's and has enthusiastic support across the region (as irrational as that may be). Cal Baptist is in their 8th yr of Div 1, and this is their 1st NCAA tourney. I think your worry about the horrors facing KU going to SD, to face this nationally-never-before-been-heard-of-team, may be a bit overblown.

On the other hand, it is quite sobering to note that Cal Baptist has been to as many Final Fours as Mizfuck U has. So maybe the equivalence is closer than I thought.

@nuleafjhawk said in Jokes:

@crimsonblu22 I feel like that "there" may have been intentional?

In SC we say "that there 'there'" in that there circumstance.

@wissox83 We actually were undefeated after 2 games (I had thought it was midseason).

So, this confirms what we all knew: Missouri is the first step down on the stairway to Hell.