Posts made by rockchalkjayhawk

Ha, not that I want to rile up @dylans any more, but this link is right up your alley. Calipari agrees with you. Don’t let the door hit ya in the arse on the way out…

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46596467/calipari-retire-becoming-transactional-coach

“Things change. Hating change is a little bit pissing into the wind unfortch. Not everything can be as immutable as good ol KU buckets! “

@approxinfinity you talk funny

Oddly i never had a bad feeling about last night’s game, even after the Detroit opening drive. Thought it was a win from the start. Chiefs seemed pretty calm and collected. With Detroit’s injury woes, i did think we’d take more deep shots, but we hit the magic 30 points scored number, so all good.

Hoping we don’t hear devastating news about our left tackle…

2025-26 Preseason AP Men’s Basketball poll The men’s college basketball season officially starts Nov. 3.

1. Purdue
2. Houston
3. Florida
4. UConn
5. St. John’s
6. Duke
7. Michigan
8. BYU
9. Kentucky
10. Texas Tech
11. Louisville
12. UCLA
13. Arizona
14. Arkansas
15. Alabama
16. Iowa State
17. Illinois
18. Tennessee
19. Kansas
20. Auburn
21. Gonzaga
22. Michigan State
23. Creighton
24. Wisconsin
25. North Carolina

Others receiving votes: NC State 101, Oregon 98, San Diego State 74, Texas 35, Ohio State 23, Kansas State 13, Mississippi 11, USC 10, Missouri 8, Washington 7, Vanderbilt 7, Iowa 6, Boise State 4, Mississippi State 3, VCU 2, Virginia 2, Saint Mary’s 2, Indiana 1, Oklahoma 1, Baylor 1

Boy, these massive runs are inexcusable.

@kjayhawks said in TTech Game thread:

Well you could script a worse start just not sure how?

Apparently you could script a worse start! Ha.

I think we should just close our eyes and enjoy that we’re on national tv today. Then forget quickly.

How is there not a single linebacker up the middle ?

May have to switch over to the professional bowling channel.

Lovely.

Finished watching. Yea, a mostly very weird game/formation/lineup. Like zero players started who could impact the game in any creative way. Poch to blame for that. I can’t figure out what he’s doing with these guys.

We were truly disorganized with players seemingly not having a clue how to play in those positions and space.

When will the experimentation end?

Look at Weah. A fast, skilled wide player who barely had any freedom. Just odd.

The defense was lost, left with lots of 1 on 1s. Two yellow cards because of it.

Oh well. The energy spiked a bit with the subs.

I truly liked Flo’s energy today.

Didn’t realize the men’s side played yesterday. Just started watching.

Immediately confused with wtf Poch is thinking seeing the lineup and formation. 5-4-1

With Westin McKennie seemingly playing close to the front line outside as a skilled playmaker. Wtf?

Will Poch ever take this team seriously???

Within the first 5 minutes all I’ve seen is Flo making 50 yard north / south runs with the ball to nowhere.

Oh, and we’re down 1-0 after disorganization in the back left literally a 1 on 1 for zero reason.

I sure hope this pays off at some point, Poch. I’m losing faith.

I started watching “The Lowdown”, starring Ethan Hawke.

I admit i wasn’t in the mood to watch it, but so far it seems pretty awful. He doesn’t seem like a good fit at all.

It is getting decent reviews, so maybe i need to pick it up when i have the attention span available.

Not sure how good or bad to feel about the Chiefs’ season so far. It’s never good to be sub-500, although we’ve played some good teams. Lost a few we shouldn’t have lost probably, too.

The easy thing to do is blame the lack of starting WRs, which is reasonable of course.

We beat the Giants, who beat the Eagles, who we lost to. Same kinda deal with the Chargers, beating KC but losing to the Giants. Weird.

I think they have to cut down on some mistakes. And the sked looks tough the next few months!

Grr. Stupid Chiefs.

Hardy anything worse than losing to the Jaguars.

A massive self implosion tonight.

I was all good with Butker before the game, but that kick off out of bounds was a just a killer. I can’t even fathom how he’d be even close to the sideline in that game situation. maddening.

Mahomes got away with more than a few risky passes tonight. That pick was amateur hour though.

Hats off to Trevor Lawrence. If the Chiefs refused to attempt to contain him, why not take advantage? And he did. Boo defense!

I thought Pacheco had some good, violent running tonight. That’s a good sign.

And a tiny bit of life from Kelce! Maybe Taylor was out of town this week …

Finally, for those of you insistent that the NFL refs are rigging games … c’mon, man.

I’d like to take credit for this win. I left the chat to get dinner ready when things were sketchy, and we won! The defense woke up?

@patoh3 said in LANCE THE KNIGHTS:

UCF RB has 99 yds rushing already.

On what, two runs? Jeez. The D needs to wake up. Or we gotta score every possession.

Honestly, each week I set the minimum winning score for KU at 30 points.

Touchdown! Finally.

Can any football experts tell me why on 3rd and short we try a wide pass behind the line of scrimmage like that?

WR has no momentum. Why not a short, quick slant??? I recall running those simple quick pass routes in Pop Warner!

The DL is certainly not eating so far. Maybe they hit the buffet too heavy before the game? Zzz

On the bright side, only gave up one TD so far.

And the sea parts in Florida. Mack truck coulda labored thru that massive hole.

The Jayhawks are favored on the road by 4.5 points.

So, certainly rooting for a win, but who the heck knows.

I just want a bowl game, i just want a bowl game, i just want a bowl game.

Go Hawks!

I’m really not sweating Butker too much. He does miss a bunny or two each year, and an extra point. otherwise all but one of his misses have been from 50+. The other 40+.

Oh crap. I thought that was a fresh story! Whew.

@approxinfinity said in KU/Bearcats:

Sounds like i chose the right game to skip.

yea, we lost momentum at the start, and never got it back really.

A stupid turnover on the goal line when about to score cost us the game probably. sooo annoying.

I’m not ready to fire Lance, but that’s not a good loss. He needs to get players motivated to make a stop or play or two.

Speaking of the crowd…every time the cameras panned to the new stadium seats, they were half empty! What gives?

Kansas football just can’t have nice things. The defense was generally bad today. Can’t even suck it up with 1:45 left on the clock and let Cincy go the distance. That goal line fumble was a comedy. All i want is a stinking bowl game! jeez.

Uh oh. The defense isn’t awake yet.

Ha, couldn’t find this thread in here! Go Hawks!

Thornton!!!

Oops. Maybe not.

Thornton!!!

Thornton!

@kjayhawks said in 2025 Chiefs:

Thornton sucks if he was paying attention he had a walk in TD.

Yea, rookie mistake. Timing.

I think we struck maybe not gold but at least bronze with WR Thornton.

I think the rookie CB No 20 is having issues today.

The chiefs are on Valium or something. So lackadaisical.

Hard not to enjoy watching Skattebo play.

He’s like a Pacheco with better vision?

Weird game for me. I grew up a Giants fan on the east coast. Maybe not too weird since I quickly became a KC fan after moving to Kansas in my mid teens way too many moons ago.

Uh, why didn’t they kick a field goal on that fourth down???

I am BBQing, so not watching entirely at this point. Did i miss something?

I’m gonna give Chernobyl a go. Is it all doom and gloom (duh).

I think @kjayhawks the main thread of this conversation seems to be about how troubling it is that the federal government is perhaps overstepping its authority and using the threat of government action on what should qualify as free speech.

We can all have our opinions on what Kimmel said, fine. It’s not about him or other people getting fired for their words. That’s not really the point here.

But, when the Trump administration punishes broadcasters just because he feels their comedic bits don’t match with his opinion … well, that’s censorship. A serious violation of our civil liberties.

What or who is next??? scary

@Kcmatt7 said in TV shows:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in TV shows:

Hmmm. I did reboot the HBOMax subscription not too long ago, but having second thoughts about sticking with it.

I admit that i really enjoyed two of their documentaries: Chimp Crazy and The Mortician. Crazy. I watched the latest Righteous Gemstones as well. That had its moments, but seemed a bit over the top – if that’s possible – this season.

There don’t seem to be too many new or worthwhile shows to watch that suit my tastes. What am i missing?

I am not a Euphoria kinda guy. Sooo depressing.

The old comedies like Veep and Silicon Valley are still top notch to rewatch, but what have they offered since then? I’m not finding squat worth squat. I see no classics.

Do they make comedies any more??

Season 1 of Eastbound and Down is good

Yup, that’s a good one. I like all those Danny shows. I guess that’s kinda my point with HBOMax…they have some great history, but is there a new show worth watching?

@approxinfinity said in TV shows:

@rockchalkjayhawk if you like cozy murder mysteries theres an endless supply of them with a britbox subscription, i am at this moment watching an episode of Ludwig.

Ahh, nice. My wife loves the cozy, non violent English mysteries on PBS. So maybe that’ll do the trick. Thx @approxinfinity !

Hmmm. I did reboot the HBOMax subscription not too long ago, but having second thoughts about sticking with it.

I admit that i really enjoyed two of their documentaries: Chimp Crazy and The Mortician. Crazy. I watched the latest Righteous Gemstones as well. That had its moments, but seemed a bit over the top – if that’s possible – this season.

There don’t seem to be too many new or worthwhile shows to watch that suit my tastes. What am i missing?

I am not a Euphoria kinda guy. Sooo depressing.

The old comedies like Veep and Silicon Valley are still top notch to rewatch, but what have they offered since then? I’m not finding squat worth squat. I see no classics.

Do they make comedies any more??

This is very unlike me, but I just cancelled Disney owned ESPN+ and sent them a note about the freedoms of democracy.

I’ll share one sports-themed sentence in my note, then I’ll shut up:

Next thing you know Dick Vitale will be “pre-empted” for supporting any university during a broadcast that Trump has sued.

I’m with ya @approxinfinity

I am growing weary of all this Trump-related censorship.

If you’re curious, Disney owns these assets:

ABC, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Hulu, ESPN, FOX, FUBO, and of course all the theme parks.

I was just being silly in my reply… of course it’s Kimmel related.

@approxinfinity said in Not paying for ESPN this year:

Disney sucks.

Did Mickey give ya the finger or something?

Ha, what do i know!!??

i was just reading a story about the Chiefs and their offensive woes, and of course they blame Noah Gray for some of the faulty plays!

Poor Chiefs. They need to figure out a way to win despite the missing pieces they are dealing with.

A simple way is to get the ground game going. But, that seems like a long shot. The Chiefs have ranked basically middle of the pack or worse in the last five years in yards per game. None of the RBs on the roster seem exceptional.

The Chiefs are all about Mahomes. And if he’s missing toys to play with, maybe a new offensive game plan is in order.

If receiving options are limited, I’d like to see them use Noah Gray more at the very least. he seems to come through when needed.