I miss Jaybate

Always believed there was a legit chance of this happening, made too much sense. Glad the door was able to remain open long enough for this to happen! Rock Chalk!!

Just want to say i love all the discussion here and everyone brings great insight and opinions. And thank you for allowing me to share mine from time to time. Appreciate you all very much. Hopefully our hawks reload and put together another title contending team for 2023.

I highly doubt that he is reconsidering his decision to attend Alabama. I’m not quite sure why these elite recruits are still choosing these mid level schools with average coaches. I think its one of two reasons:

1. PT is more important than winning.

2. If they do care about winning, (meaning winning an NCAA championship, final 4 appearance, even a conference championship) they have been drinking too much of the cool-aid fed to them during the recruiting process. Its clear that its not going to happen… lets take an early look at last year’s examples…

Cal: After finishing 8th out of 12 last year in their league, they landed two top 10 recruits. They are currently 4-2 and on a two game losing streak yet they have not even played another ranked team.

Miss St.: After finishing 12th out of 14 in their conference last year, they landed a top 10 recruit which many claimed to be a top 5 guy. They are currently 3-3 even though they haven’t played a ranked team yet. One of those losses came against the perennial doormat of the Big12 in Texas Tech.

LSU: After finishing 3rd in their league they landed the top overall recruit and have been at the top of the hype train all offseason. Unlike the other two teams listed above, I actually think this team will make the NCAA tournament this year despite their current 3-2 record (also yet to play a ranked team) and two game losing streak.

So… lets take a look at TFerg’s Alabama choice. How are they doing so far this year?

After an early season embarrassment loss to unranked Dayton 80-48, their current 4-2 season is at a historic high right now as they have defeated two ranked teams in a row for the first time since 2006! (beat #20 Wich St, and #17 ND). Wow, almost 10 years since they have last done that. I guess these are the kinds of things one can expect to celebrate at one of these type of programs.

Of course its still early and teams can get hot late and go on a run but its rare. The early indications that I see tell me that these schools are not changing very much from previous seasons based on these star recruits joining the team.

@jayballer54 Try to think of it this way, there are only 13 spots on the roster (scholarship spots) and when you subtract returning players, we can really only “win” on recruiting on a handful of players each year due to that alone. Don’t let the “misses” get you down.

Well how about that for timing, there is the first domino! Wow, that’s a big commitment that really wasn’t on the radar until Friday. Amazing.

Good, really didn’t want this guy. Not interested in the players that think they are above the program.

Piss poor game last night, team looked terrible in many ways. The biggest question I have after letting it set in for a while is “What is wrong with Coach Self?” Forget what I saw last night, its what I didn’t see. I didn’t see Coach Self getting heated, face red, trying to light a fire under the team that played flat, no energy, putrid defense, and just went through the motions. They weren’t diving for loose balls and lost almost all of the 50/50 balls, rebounding was terrible and got out worked for them all game, and so many stupid turnovers. Where is the Coach Self that I come to know and love? So many times last night somebody would have a bonehead turnover and I’d expect Self to lay into him but nothing. I knew they were going to lose last night in the first few minutes of the second half when nothing had changed. The energy level was the same, still not competing for rebounds, still playing lax defense, I knew at that point that they would lose. I’m used to seeing the team come out with a newfound energy after halftime with everybody suspecting the paint on the walls was being peeled off by Self’s “motivational” halftime talks. But not this time. Nothing. No fire on the sideline, no fire at halftime, nothing.

What is wrong with Coach Self??

@HighEliteMajor this is perhaps the best post i’ve ever read on here by anyone, i needed this. Thank you.

One of my all-time favorite Jayhawks was Kevin Young. I see a lot of similarities between the role that KY had and what KJ could be. Young managed just fine playing alongside Withey.

@Texas-Hawk-10 you can see the future now? How do you know that would happen? You don’t and neither does the dumb committee. The Michigan/Iowa game was eerily similar to the FSU/Louisville game watching both. FSU’s defense is better than any of the teams in the playoff.

I actually think FSU would beat Michigan, I’m a huge FSU fan and my dad is a huge Michigan fan, watched them both very closely through the year.

What do we have cooking here?

@jayballer67 said in Bowl game tracker:

I’m not worried about Lance going anywhere , like was said --he stated that Girod & Geoff had treated him & his family extremely well and they loved Lawrence, and on top of that a big factor you have to consider is AGE. Lance is in his 60’s and pretty sure sounds like he is ready to settle and not just keep jumping around. He likes it here and wants to stay here

He was on another podcast and said unfortunately this time of year your going to hear a lot of rumors and they are just not true

Damn - if jayballer thinks he is staying then that’s just more evidence that he will likely leave! .

Also, another correction: Lance is 59 years old.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Bowl game tracker:

@RockkChalkk coach said yesterday, publicly, they want to end their career here! End of story. Put the rumors to rest.

I would love it and hope its true. However the reality is there is this green paper stuff that in large quantities makes minds change in a hurry.

Yeah, isn’t this the behind the wall section? Do we need a behind the behind the wall area?

@wissox said in Bowl game tracker:

@mayjay I like the thought of KU in the Rose Bowl. No insult, but I do find some of those projections right now to be a lack of respect for KU football . I kind of understand that of course in some respects but this team has earned some respect this season, don’t you think? And no self respecting football team should ever feel good about being invited to the Pop Tart Bowl.

I read this while eating a Pop Tart. lol! I hope us KU fans don’t start putting our noses up like we’re too good for certain bowls. Lets go play the game we get selected for, which will be a good one, and win it! I fear we could sink back into the doldrums once we lose a few key players and possibly our coach. Coach is being talked about for other job openings out there, would really suck to lose him after the progress that has been made.

May be a bit of a longshot but how interesting it would be to face Mizzou in a bowl game this year!

Heard this morning on the radio from a reporter that Bill Self is looking slim and trim. Also that he had broken a few ribs a couple of weeks ago. Apparently it happened playing around with grandkids? After last year, I’m really hoping we have a full health team AND a full health coach to give us the best chances to put another national championship trophy in our case.

@dylans said in Myron Medcalf Disrespecting Kansas Basketball:

@BeddieKU23 What’s your definition of chode? Around these parts it’s synonymous with taint or abc if you prefer. Nebraskans call it chode when a certain appendage is bigger around than long. And I’m sure there are others, thus my curiosity.

Girth >/= Length

Hoping they catch Texas looking ahead to the OU game and somehow find a way to escape with a huge win this week. Would be massive.