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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Dare yourselves to be optimistic! KU Football: With KU gaining bowl eligibility, the new longest active bowl drought among Power 5 school belongs to Nebraska. Well, crap. I hope LL doesn’t think he HAS to be rebuilding somewhere.

@Lulufulu that’s what everyone said when TCU joined the big 12…they’ll get creamed by everyone else. (Mostly what happened, but I remember one game… ) I think the tourney is perfect. two games each weekend, hopefully for three weeks.

@brooksmd dreaded no no word at Jordan Classic! Ku

@MoonwalkMafia Well here’s hoping that our worst fears don’t happen…2 quick fouls and to the bench for Cliff. But I’m glad he is getting the chance.

@MoonwalkMafia great post dude. Spot on too. That continuity of strength and swagger found in past KU teams has been filtered out by the OAD era. KU lost that battle to UK, Duke, Arizona. You are doubly right about the 07-08 team. They were a veritable wolf pack. With the recruiting losses and the coaching changes we’ve seen at KU, it does not appear to be likely to see that “swagger” return in the near future. It sucks.

@jaybate 1.0 I guess Hippa laws don’t apply to the NBA? I, as you can tell, don’t know much about trading in the NBA.

@JRyman Yes it is, to play in the second semester of college all you have to do is pass your first semester. It is not that simple. The player has to be enrolled in certain number of classes to be eligible to play. At KU, the Athletic Department has volunteer monitors that make sure athletes go to classes, otherwise they might not be allowed to play or could even be suspended. Once the season ends, the school has zero leverage over a student-athlete that is leaving for ther NBA. If a student-athlete leaves before the end of the semester without finishing the school work, the Academic Progress Rate (APR) is affected. Syracuse lost two scholarship when 3 players left school to prepare for the NBA before finishing the Spring semester. KU has been lucky so far that even student-athletes leaving early for the NBA. stayed on campus and finished the semester, and thus left in good academic standing and allowed KU to maintain its perfect APR. It is very likely that students planning to move to the NBA take the very minimum number of classes (electives) that will allow them to stay eligible, even if they are not making a meaningful progress towards a degree, so they can finish them early and leave in good standing.

@JayHawkFan Wikipedia footnotes.

@bskeet Let’s hope for that to happen. I would love for Bill to retire here. We already know he is HOFer. But there’s nothing saying he can’t pile on to that legacy!