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.

Doug Gotlieb coming to AFH on 11/3 as a coach will be interesting.

AZ & WVU representing the Big12 well by winning their regionals 3-0. The other six Big12 teams are out.

First game is Friday at 8:00pm ET against Creighton.

Going to be fun to watch! 8 teams from the big 12 made it, 3 were in the ‘last four in’ group.

Reminder that the regionals are double elimination. Just win baby. But a loss isnt the end. Rock chalk.

@TYOHawk said in Recruiting Notes:

@kuballin10 said in Recruiting Notes:

KJ’s recovery is ahead of schedule and Bill is hoping that’s his last starter

Dajuan is going the Ziegler route and will try to sue the NCAA soon as well

Please no. I pray this is just a bad joke.

What a game. Wow!

OSU tomorrow at 5:00pm. They are a hot team.

Done deal.

d1baseball put out a new playoff projection on May 18th that shows (8) Big 12 teams in the playoffs! The 8th team is OSU as speculated above. It shows KU as a #2 seed and TCU as the only team hosting a regional likely due to their RPI. I think if KU wins the Big 12 tournament they have a shot at being one of the top 16 seeds and hosting a playoff regional, how cool would that be? Link for the playoff projection:

https://d1baseball.com/stories/2025-d1baseball-field-of-64-projections-may-18/

After yesterday’s win and how the rest of the games played out, I think KU is a lock for the tournament. ASU also lost yesterday which actually gives KU control of their own destiny. Cincinnati has made a case to be one of the last few teams in the post season, actually saw them included in a tournament bracket projection that had 7 teams from the Big12 in it. That would be a lot. Purple kitties should be nervous. Also, OSU has quietly been creeping up the standings, nobody has been talking about them and they are normally one of the top teams in the conference, could they possibly sneak in if several bubble teams end on a low note? WVU, KU, TCU, ASU, and AZ are probably in the post season. Cincy, KSU, and maaaybe OSU have a chance to get in as well. OSU resume looks pretty weak to me, I doubt they have much of a chance.

Its an exciting time of the year - would love to see KU bring home a conference championship in a very unlikely sport!