@crimsonblu22 Looks like it changed in November. Same for me when we moved to the new host--I had to create a new name becuse my automatic sign in didn't work in the new site but 'prox got it fixed. RCIT's old user name's post count ended in November but the reputation points for her carried over to RCIT-0. Mine did, too.

@RockChalkinTexas-0 said in Big12 Tournament games. KU at 8:30:

Had to scroll waaaaaaaaaay down the home page on ESPN to find the highlights or any mention of us. This has become a trend for us.

On the other hand, our semifinal is on ESPN tonight while Duke is on at the same time and relegated to ESPN2. (But we do know the main story will be about Duke!)

@crimsonblu22 You are right. I suspect even Gary never realized how deeply scarred his psyche was from living in abject fear and panic for months and months before surgery. Our physical bodies can get healed but what a reminder that emotionally injuries can last for years.

We usually don't think of PTSD as arising from solely from the symptoms of a medical condition. I was so astounded to read this. Very glad he is talking to vets. We have a few in our heavily senior community who hunker down with headphones every July 4th and NYE because people shoot illegal (in the development) fireworks nonstop.

@rockchalkjayhawk My guess is his knee injury might not be healing well enough to make doctors sure he would be available until a number of games into the season.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7104976/2026/03/10/gary-woodland-ptsd-brain-surgery-the-players-championship/

He has been experiencing PTSD from the entire ordeal of months of anxiety and panic attacks before his brain lesion was diagnosed. Few people knew, going public.

I will repeat: The Athletic is worth every penny.

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.

Titans to sign CB Joshua Williams. That's 3 CBs and a safety.

Cardinals signing QB Minshew. Wonder who the Chiefs will sign as backup (and possible starter in early games).

@BShark Well, maybe they will find a place for Kristian Fulton this year instead of wasting his guaranteed 15 million for another year!

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.

@rockchalkjayhawk I was afraid my sarcasm might be misread. No mistaking my second post, though: WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧🪧

[Fades out singing a Wobblies' song ...]

I don’t either. It was facetious. Maybe this will help make my meaning clearer: All those bastards want to do is to reverse a decade of court losses at every level up to the Supreme Court by creating an exemption to antitrust law to force college athletes back to the days when they were allowed to earn nothing from their own image or talent (even from nonathletic endeavors), where they had no freedom to change schools without onerous restrictions, and where coaches, schools and conferences could get all the money from billions of TV revenue without any monetary compensation to the kids doing all the actual physical labor on which college sports are dependent.