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.

@wissox83 said in Past jayhawks:

@RockChalkinTexas-0 The NBA is such a bad and boring product to me I stopped checking on former Jayhawks. Nearly all of them were OAD's for us like all three on the 76ers, and I just don't care as much.

Goodness, look how much Joel Embiid makes. He's never won a championship. Crazy. Do these owners ever consider they could make their games more affordable by slashing these salaries? The Bulls are terrible and their games are out of reach. I haven't gone in years.

NBA owners can't really lower prices that much because teams have to spend at least 90% of the salary cap per the current CBA. If 76ers ownership slashed Embiid's salary, that money would have to be spent on other players instead.

@stoptheflop said in 2025-26 Portal Thread:

Quick question: did KU have a spring practice or a spring game? I never saw one thing about spring ball.

Most teams have moved away from a traditional spring game these days.

@patoh3 said in KState Game:

I hope they can bear him.

He was Scott Drew's version of Kurtis Townsend until he took the KSU job.

Mordini is essentially a practice player. Self's own words pretty much confirm that one. Any minutes he gets this season will be extreme foul trouble or at the end of blow outs.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

@FarmerJayhawk said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

Mel coming back would be huge. Kinney wouldn’t have to start that way. He could be a very valuable 6th man.

Meh.

I am grateful for this time at KU, but historically it seems we could and should do better than Melvin as a starter.

Melvin coming back would make him the instant leader of this team and his attitude, work ethic, and passion for KU would be way more valuable than anything on the court, which would still be pretty high because he would likely be KU's leading scorer next season if he were able to gain another year of eligibility.

@bskeet said in Past jayhawks:

Did this come from Perry's insta account? if it's from Facebook it's probably fake. That platform is a wasteland of slop.

Yes, Perry posted it himself after the surgey.

@BeddieKU23 said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

2 more visitors for Monday.

Former LSU and Oklahoma St guard Vyctorious Miller and former Duke/Clemson/College of Charleston Center Christian Reeves are coming.

Miller is a former target from HS and interested to see how that one ends up. Averaged 10ppg on 37% from 3, 85% FT. Great Size for a guard, Capable ball handler and passer. I thought we’d look at him last cycle and would like to see him here as our main backup guard.

Reeves started at Duke, had some injuries derail things. Had a breakout yr for College of Charleston. Was an efficient scorer, rebounded and rim protected well. Excellent size at 7'2

Landing Miller could get KU a fun Late Night performance if his dad and uncle wanted to show up and perform.

@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.