Could have won. Not “should” have won. That term only applies when you dominate the other team and lose because of a bad break. Giving up 253 yards rushing and over 460 yds overall = “should have lost”.
It looked like KC had read too many of their news clippings.
@jayballer67 Why are you resurrecting this thread???
So far, kc defense is like wet tp
@Marco said in In other news...:
I think that he was playing. As I tend to do, from time to time.
Thank you for noticing my tongue stuck in my cheek!
@justanotherfan One pretty unique thing is lots of Pacific Islander exposure with BYU…
@Marco It was really hard to tell exactly what they were doing!
@Marco said in South Dakota:
@stoptheflop I think they’re doing it out of necessity, to try and throw the D off. The staff knows that our o-line sucks.
Possibly. I wonder, if that is a good strategy to use with a mediocre OL, should the Chiefs have tried it in the SB?
@drgnslayr I don’t think cancelling the rest of the season would be as much fun as having the rest of our games on Friday nights. We could probably pay Sunflower League schools a lot less than South Dakota, and hopefully our OL will push those HS kids around.
(Is the Sunflower League still around?)
@wissox Jr high teams are not allowed in Div 1.
Nice to have someone get a life-changing contract, and then have his best season so far! Doesn’t always work that way…
Congrats. After all, it is so hard for super high payroll teams to have any chance in baseball. (sarcasm font!)
@wissox Apparently much discussion about BYU, according to The Athletic. (I don’t know if this was posted here before.)
@drgnslayr said in Well , Well See Bryce working NIL just fine:
The NCAA definitely turned out to be the wizard in the Wizard of Oz
A big difference: the wizard was basically well meaning, in the movie at least. Anyone willing to grant good intentions to the NCAA?
@BShark said in Struggling today.:
It really is a shame that there were bad apples doing things like that.
Happened also with so many businesses that took covid emergency loans and laid off staff anyway.
@drgnslayr said in BIG, ACC, PAC12 Alliance:
Like one of those huge […insert anything here… ] that claim to do everything, cost a fortune, then completely underperform on the promises. lol
I edited your post to make it pretty much a universal truth!
@BShark said in Struggling today.:
then you have the situation where the supreme court overturned the eviction moratorium.
I know several people who used the moratorium to stop paying mortgages even though they had the money. Saw a new car, heard of vacations… A mistake that has now left them scrambling. Financial acumen is apparently not innate.
The SCt decision was inevitable. Kavanaugh said the moratorium had to be done by Congress. CDC doing it to keep people from having to move into more densely occupied housing was tenuous at best, and really it was a subterfuge to give a break to renters from a horrible financial crisis. The notion that a different group (landlords) had to foot the bill, and even possibly lose their own property (many rented houses still have a mortgage being paid by the landlord). Only about 1/8 of funds targeted for rental assistance has been distributed due to bureaucratic bungling.
The whole system in a mess, with high property prices and ever-lower-paying jobs leaving way too many people vulnerable. A moratorium should have only been a short term solution, but with most of the country opening up with people getting out in the world by the millions, the CDC’s predicate emergency to avoid infections in some homes is likely just the proverbial single drop in a storm.
@drgnslayr said in BIG, ACC, PAC12 Alliance:
Ha… I am a proud preservationist of “controlled capitalism!”
Good idea, if I get the Controller. Maybe I can get one cheap on eBay?
@drgnslayr Careful, you are going to sound like one of us Commies… 
@BeddieKU23 said in BIG, ACC, PAC12 Alliance:
The Big-12 has been flat out left at the alter. What a disgrace.
It is interesting that the same things that have allowed us to enjoy more and more basketball viewing than we could have conceived of watching 30 years ago (ESPN, huge television contracts, proliferation of networks both cable and streaming) are now resulting in so much disintegration of the conference structure in which it all has been based.
What is just ridiculous is I don’t even care if KU has fb. We are paying for years of pure crap.
@wissox Being in SC, and having no connections to anything KU-related except this Board, “out of touch” is pretty accurate!
@jayballer67 It will be crimson…and blue.
@Crimsonorblue22 What is the Brady beef? Am I missing something? Or, getting old, forgetting something?
@jayballer67 There is a world of difference between you saying “college basketball is history” in your first post, and now saying it is going to change.
Of course it will. That was my point. It will adapt, and we won’t be wringing our hands about players who aren’t there.
Drama drama, sky is falling, waah waah waah…
Say 50 or 500 guys a year go out of HS, on top of all the one and dones. College bb will still be around, lower echelon players move into the ranks, the competition isn’t quite as high but it all levels out in the end. No shortage of good athletes who will move up and be excellent. More opportunities for some to get schollies.
People will still watch their favorite teams, the Field House will still get 16,300, and the sun will come up every day for the next 4 to 5 billion years.
Lucky people in Chiefs viewing area get to watch, but not on nationally.
However, it will be rebroadcast on NFL Network at 1:00 a.m. Eastern time.
Since it is the first preseason game since 2019, don’t forget that the results don’t matter. This is more of a tentative showcase testing players’ timing and for coaches to see who gets to survive the first cuts. Reportedly, KC may play first string OL and Mahomes together for a full quarter (longer than most teams) because 3 of them have never even taken an NFL snap and the other 2 are new to Reid’s schemes. (Don’t be surprised to see Mahomes often giving himself up in the backfield rather than scrambling if a block is missed!)
The more I think about it, the more I think KU and the other pending schools should join together and sue in federal court to enjoin the IARP and NCAA from proceeding. The “independent” forum has publicly admitted it cannot do its job and wants to be just another tool of the enforcement arm. This was experimental, and the schools consented based on guarantees of an unbiased investigation and decision.
Even the military learned long ago that a court system has no credibility when the court is controlled by the prosecutor.
@Marco said in Self Has Covid:
You did good with this post, keep up the good work
Thx. The product of hours and hours of dealing with this frustration!
The timing is insane, as they are almost explicitly saying: “We cannot do our jobs so please let the enforcement staff do it for us.”
They should have simply refused to take more cases until these are resolved, and then propose new rules. How can any reviewing authority not believe that this cry for relief does not affect their approach to current cases?
@FarmerJayhawk Understanding people who react strongly to reports of several cases of side effects will be easier when you remember what many psych studies show about how the human brain is numb to large ststistics in evaluating risk.
People can identify with reports of small numbers of people, but cannot conceive of mass numbers as individuals. A local news report of post-vax clots has a face in it. A report of thousands of people in hospitals on respirators is just a number. The important part of that word, number, is “numb.” People are numb to victims in the thousands.
The old saying is appropos: “A single death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic.”
Fundraising for hunger goes nowhere until the ads show a starving baby with flies flitting about, and campaigns for St Jude hospital show those poor bald kids in wheelchairs – faces, not stats.
So, my advice is to (gently) present to your mom the reports coming out lately about individuals expressly regretting not getting vaccines as they go to ERs and ICUs. Find some where people talk about thinking they were safe because of (whatever). It just might make more of a difference when you say, “Mom, I saw this and my heart broke thinking this could be you.”
I had to admit to my doctor when my diabetes started getting into the uncontrolled range, “Well, I guess I am proof that denial is not an effective health care strategy.” Recognizing that we all do some stupid things may help, too…Good luck to her and you through this mess.
If I didn’t live in The Confederacy, I would chuckle nonstop at the idiots in other states’ governments. But one difference is that you guys get a mob following several nitwits who make the news because of new stupidities. Our mob and nitwits seldom make news. An occasional intelligent person is what makes news here.
@BeddieKU23 So the “independent board” no longer wants the authority/responsibility to conduct an unbiased independent inquiry, and wants to simply rely on NCAA enforcement staff’s investigations. The NCAA just gave all the schools an open door for appeals to the courts.
@approxinfinity And we are supposed to be respectful when the first post is itself disrespectful, and the poster admits he is trolling?
I wouldn’t want the dems in a foxhole with me. They would turn tail and run.
Considering the guns in the foxhole are turned on the Dems, they SHOULD run.
@ICThawk The expectation seems to be premised in the idea that to compete with the SEC for tv money, other conferences will expand, likely to 16 teams. That number offers possibly more rounds of conference playoffs, as well as the chance to create 2 geographical divisions that help reduce travel problems for the teams at the far edges. I have seen pods of 4 mentioned, too. Theoretically, expanding the teams also will provide inroads into untapped tv markets like KC (plus, you know, the real biggies, like Topeka, Hays, etc)
Dunno if those expectations are valid. KU’s weakness in fb may be fatal, but on the other hand the Big Ten may think that giving KU new areas to gin up interest and recruit in could resurrect fb in Lawrence (no huge 4-school Texas based anchor dragging us down).
@Marco Was the draft last night? We actually had the tube (anachronistic, that!) off for the evening and read.
@Marco Did you miss my extensive post about the history underlying Black suspicion?
I don’t know what underlies Latino hesitancy except possible suspicion of anything federal.
Goodbye, Danny Duffy, and thanks for everything!! Hope you recover and pitch Series winning Game 6 for the Dodgers!
@Crimsonorblue22 Unfortunately, the unvaxxed will continue to ignore anything coming from CDC because they think it is a huge power grab by Biden. After all, everyone knows getting people to wear masks or get vaxxed has such great benefits to any would be dictator.
So they will ignore it and then, when some Epsilon or Gamma or Tau or Phi or Omega variant comes along that kills vaxed people at the same rate, the unvaxxed will say, “See? The vax don’t work.” At which point any survivor has my support in knocking unvaxxed heads off.
NIL should make these interesting, as players sell the rights to their announcements. T-shirts sold to the crowds, etc, but they will have issues if they run afoul of the schools’ licensing rules. Can’t put logos on items to be sold, etc. Wonder if the schools will grant permission?
Very weird: I wrote that and posted it, and it immediately said I had posted it 8 minutes ago. Guess I time-traveled.
@jayballer67 They just want lots of hats. Future protection from the sun from breakdown of ozone layer, etc.
@FarmerJayhawk said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
@Kcmatt7 said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
Id be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous…
Anyone who isn’t is either ignorant or lying
It certainly gives us an excuse to displace our worries about the Delta variant, our political upheaval, and whether a big asteroid will strike the earth within 4 million years…
@tis4tim said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
@Kcmatt7 said in OU, Texas to the SEC?:
Id be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous…
Where’s @stupidmichael when you need him?
He realigned with another Board. He ignored the unwritten rule requiring a profane posting announcing his departure due to people saying things he didn’t like.*
*All untrue. Have no idea!
