If Missouri offers millions to a guy who has minimal Round 1 opportunity in the future, I got no problem with that someone making a financial decision. Days of an athlete wearing his letter sweater back home at the shake shop with everyone sitting in awe of him are quite over.

@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!

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

The Iowa State Cyclones had five transfers on campus this weekend; all five committed. Remarkable.

Anyone willing (brave enough?) to visit Ames is quite likely to already be 90% interested in ISU anyway.

@DCHawker UNC getting returnees "despite" a new coach makes some sense. Malone's background in the NBA and his contacts there may make guys feel like that could increase their pro chances. At least they could get a new coach while remaining somewhere they are familiar with.

@rockchalkjayhawk I like A&M being tied with itself at 12.

Actually tied for 33rd, won $121,000.

And most of the fans here will say Bill can't adapt no matter which strategy he tries.

After a decent 1st round (-1) and mediocre 2nd and 3rd (+7 total) at Augusta National, Woodland started the day in @51st place at +6. 4th round was a charm, though: 6 under par for the day with 6 birdies and bogey free, so ended up even par for the Masters. Tied at 36th for the moment, but likely to end up @40th the way scores are going. GREAT recovery!!!

@RockChalkinTexas-0 Looks like a position lots of college students end up in off the side of their beds. Cool pics!

@RockChalkinTexas-0 Did he enter the portal?

@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.

@drgnslayr Well, you don't know how long they have thought about it, and coaches may also have advised a few to do it. But one thing to consider...why would anyone hesitate if thinking about the portal? Only a few super-elites could be successful in keeping potential suitors in suspense. The vast majority would benefit by seeing many offers early.

I went to Michigan for law school but never really cared. Didn't go to even 1 basketball game. I thought it was very interesting to have both my alma maters win titles in successive years (88, 89) but UM winning wasn't exciting like Danny & The Miracles was... Spoiled by AFH, I guess!

There is a very interesting article in The Athletic about Luka Doncik's hamstring injury yesterday that will cost him the last 5 games of the regular season and most likely most, if not all, of the playoffs. He came out in the second quarter, was cleared to come back, and soon after came out for good with a 2nd degree sprain.

The article discusses 3 other NBA stars whose hamstring injuries cost them significant time on IR, ususally somewhere between several weeks to 2 months. All 3 had strains that were relatively minor so they tried to play after a couple of games, only to suffer 2nd degree tears and long times recovering.

This is what DP was trying to avoid. You can't just will yourself through hamstring sprains (the next step after cramping and tightness). The yammering seems to have died down mostly, but I still read comments by people here who think he really was just avoiding playing because of being soft.

@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.

@wissox83 Mario's choice was improbable and mind-boggingly clutch. But it only ties the game. The others were game-winners. That is the difference I've seen cited over the years.

@crimsonblu22 said in Gary Woodland still dealing with repercussions:

@rockchalkjayhawk duh! No wonder! I got a lil to excited!

Ok, you can get excited now! I actually started crying when he did.

@wissox83

"Gong Owens!" was a rallying cry that started in, I believe, 1978 (year I graduated). Only KU coach to be fired (1983).

@nuleafjhawk I've seen that on Amazing Race but it was in Switzerland.