Council may not have started his career as a Jayhawk, but his actions against Missouri amd KSU show he's fully bought in and been converted into a true Jayhawk.

Nice birthday present for me to see KU get a quality road win tonight!

Hilton Magic has nothing on the Phog!!

This is a national game of the year contender so far and KU is looking like they could be establishing themselves as legitimate national title contenders tonight.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Coaching Staff:

@BeddieKU23 said in Coaching Staff:

@BShark

Im fine with it all. We have a major coaching issue

what's the issue?

Advanced scouting in season has been trash in recent years. How many times has KU come out and looked unprepared against teams? That's the assistants not being good with advanced scouting

It sounds like the staff is expecting Peterson to be able to play on Tuesday night.

I hope Melvin can win his case to get another year.

Rebounding has been atrocious tonight. Someone needs to challenge Flory and Tiller's manhood to get some rebounds. KU has 1 offensive rebound and TCU has 12. No reason TCU should have 18 more FG attempts at this point.

Darryn F'n Peterson

Dan Hurley is going to be an even bigger insufferable jackass if UConn wins again. Anybody but UConn at this point.

@bskeet said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

@approxinfinity said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

@DCHawker Louisville has more money than us.

Is this true? Louisville? An Adidas school in the ACC?

If so, that's really frustrating because I thought we were the flagship Adidas school for MBB. Also, ACC doesn't have the media deals that the B1G and SEC have. ACC and B12 should be relatively equal.

So how is it that Louisville has more $$ pull than Kansas? Not saying it's not true-- just wanting to understand.

We are still the flagship school for Adidas, but KU doesn't have the corporate sponsorships that Louisville has so that's why Louisville has more money for basketball NIL. Louisville with YUM brands, Arkansas with Tyson foods, Houston with Landry's, and Memphis with FedEx (I'm sure there's others too I don't know off the top of my head) are why those schools can go out and outbid anyone and why Memphis has tried for so long to get into a P4 conference.

@DCHawker said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

To those who have more insight into the internal workings, is there actually a plan to build a roster? Nothing discernible to outsiders. Waiting on Stokes (please, I hope that isn't the case)? Focused targets in the portal, or waiting to see other entrants over the next week? At this point, we can barely field a team, and not one that can win a game. There is a good reason why we aren't in the way to early rankings for probably the first time ever.

Several of the top portal guys are already committing. I've never seen anything like the entire roster jumping ship absent a coaching change. Is the expectation that we can pull a Michigan and draw (and pay for) 5 high level P5 starters? Or, at least at UConn with 4 along with Kinney or Kohl? Any word on the latter? It seems like the only guys we are in on at this point is more non-P5 guys - is that the best we can do? Some cancelling visits with us and committing elsewhere.

We've seen the evolution of Self's approach to the portal evolve from going after the best available players and KU being absolutely terrible on defense. Last year, we saw Self put an emphasis on defense, but the offense was wildly inconsistent because KU didn't have anyone consistent from 3 other than Peterson. KU needs shooters and hopefully Kohl stays because he does fit that profile, but you still need a couple of other players that can make upper 30% from 3. You still need to maintain the level of defense from this past season too.

The question is always do you take as many players as possible early, or do you wait for some.guys to withdraw from the draft as those are the higher ceiling players and you still absolutely have to have future NBA talent to win championships in college basketball.

@DCHawker said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

What does this say about Self and/or KU? He's coming back, but the entire roster with eligibility (and no NBA shot other than possibly Flory) is jumping ship. Most of the UNC roster entered, but that isn't as surprising given the coaching change. Why are other top programs consistently able to get some of their best players to come back???

Nothing because this is the reality of college basketball these days. Most teams will be replacing the majority of their rosters every season now. It sucks, but this is the current era of college basketball.

@drgnslayr said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

What I wonder... it's that most of our team didn't hesitate at all to move into the portal. I'm not for certain, but do the rest of the upper D1 teams lose this many?

It's not uncommon at this point for teams, even top teams, to lose most of their roster every season now. KU keeping a big chunk of its roster last offseason was more of an anomaly than this offseason is.

KU is currently down to 3 returning players with Kohl, Calderon, and Corbin Allen who redshirted last season.

At this point, other than resolving the Stokes situation, it looks like a bruising big man should be the top priority in the portal. The Big 12 has become the old Big East in regards to physical play and KU doesn't Calderon and Adkins are not that style of big man.

@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

As far as Haslem, I'd say Lebron was one of the leaders as well, barking orders at Mario and doing his talcum powder thing. Things people accept because you're the best player on the team.

You're only focusing on what you see on the court. Team and franchise leadership also includes practices and off court stuff that the general public never sees. Guys like Collison and Haslem didn't spend their entire careers including many as DNP's for no reason. There's a reason why despite not being star players, each franchise retired their numbers. That doesn't happen without those guys being viewed as franchise leaders for many years.

@crimsonblu22 said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

@Texas-Hawk-10 saw that, hate to have to play him. Think they have the money to pay him?

Yes, they spent $28 million on NIL for football last year. Tech probably has the deepest NIL pockets in the Big 12 with the possible exception of BYU.

24/7 has a crystal ball for Flory to end up at Texas Tech next season.

North Carolina has hired former Denver Nuggets head coach Mike Malone as their next head coach.

@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

@rockchalkjayhawk you said it well.

The big unknown factor to me is locker room demeanor. Work ethic. Team identity. This year we had a kid who wasnt a leader getting paid the most. Scorer, good kid, smart. DP was all these things but not a leader. Probably will be with time and if he is graced with good health.

I think Flory could be a leader next year. Lets make sure we at least have our highest paid guys be leaders.

Highest paid players don't have to be the leader of a team. It doesn't even have to be the best player that's the leader of a team. Using the NBA as an example, there's a reason why Nick Collison was kept around by the Thunder for so many years and retired his jersey. Same thing with Udonis Haslam and the Miami Heat. Those two were never the best players on those teams, but they were the leaders.

The ideal leadership situation for Kansas next year is the slim possibility of Melvin Council getting one more year of eligibility.