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@kjayhawks said in West Virginia- a game finally:

People continue to roast Bill on Twitter/X for continuing to defend KJ and play him as much. He said the last play was drawn up for KJ (stupid). He defended KJ saying he just had a bad game and then threw Storr and Griffen under the bus. Hes gonna lose this team if he already hasn’t. If he has any coaching sense he’d start the two of them and actually let them play thru those mistakes like he does KJ, Juan and Hunt.

He’s lost this group. And I can’t blame the transfers. You miss one defensive rotation or jumpshot and you’re pulled. KJ gets to go out there and put out a prime Matt Kleinman stat line and gets to play 25 minutes no matter what.

There’s no solution. They’re just not that talented and outwardly look like they’ve quit on their coach and vice versa.

We just have to wait it out cause Self has a fetish for the core 3. If things look this bad next year with Darryn and Flory then conversations will be had.

@approxinfinity said in Peterson:

Its a pipeline. Need continuity. Think of all the players you did appreciate since Embiid / Wiggins. Now consider that their decision to come to Kansas was influenced by their success.

They don’t get it. You don’t get Udoka without Embiid. You don’t get Oubre, Josh and etc without Wiggins.

Peterson being here is huge…we need a new face in the nba and we just need to see what it’s like having elite guard talent after watching Dajuan for 5 years.

Go get me some dawgs

We had too many pretty boys like Jamari Traylor said last year. I can deal with losing but not cause we were getting out toughed. Those Houston losses still piss me off

@SlimShaddy54 said in The portal.:

@TYOHawk E - - X – A - -C - -T - L - -Y ! ! get a couple of bruisers, mix it up, players that love contact and drive looking for contact . Kina like ol time Daryl Dawkins ( Choclate Thunder was his nick name )

He said when he went up for a flush/slam don’t gt in my way because that is MY TIME-- need those kind of players, guys that can out tough you Physical- or players even like Christan, guys that play with some edge , cockiness to them , some one who can talk the stuff and yet who has game to back it up- – No more tippy toe , emotionless that just show notjing

For the first time in decades…opposing teams came in the Phog and weren’t afraid. It was a rough season

@Jhawk69 said in The portal.:

@TYOHawk What have you heard about him off the court?

Leader, competitive, fiery kid and excuse my language but he gives a damn.

After what I just watched for 30 plus games…sign me up for that. No more smiling after mistakes or players wilting as soon as things get tough.

Well deserved…he earned that. These sites typically have a bias for EYBL kids… so to be # 1 as an Adidas kid says it all.

I was still celebrating the Furphy commitment and now I get Flory. Bro this is euphoria to me.

Our guards and wings kicked their ass. Shout out to Flory too…he grew up last night.

Coach Self still has it

We got the two most athletic guys in this class. I trust Self to do the work with skill development.

Dajuan is atrocious. He is the worst PG of the Self era by far. KJ played with effort but he isn’t very skilled so at some point it becomes harmful. Hunter wasn’t into it at all yesterday.

At this point I’m just looking forward to next season and getting some new kids in the program.

@BShark said in 2026 Recruiting ( Crazy but ):

Officially a Hawk. More to come this week…

I’d trust this guy.

Like the havoc Shak and Flory were causing defensively man…

He literally just needs to play Dajuan/Zeke/Rylan/Flory and Hunter.

Stop with the preferential treatment to the core 3

@Woodrow said in Peterson:

DP will be at KU next year. Also, coaches from all schools go and watch committed players. It is called continuing a relationship. You don’t just ignore players when they commit. This isn’t difficult to figure out.

Yup you gotta keep the kids and their camp happy and still make them feel wanted. It’s especially important with how much we’re gonna need Peterson next year.

@BigBad said in The portal.:

@drgnslayr said in The portal.:

This is going to make you sick…. Duke seems like they have D1 figured out. I hate that school.

What is working for Duke? Signing FOUR top 20 recruits last year including the overall number 1 guy? They’ve done this crap for years. Cal made final fours too.

There were people around here crying that we needed more one and dones when that was “the thing to do”.

The idea that you want a coach who has 25 years of success doing something to instantly change is hilarious.

There is no formula he can change to guarantee success now. It’s all over. If people want to point out Duke as the “formula” then you have to overtake them at ESPN and other media to become the darling.

I’ve moved beyond thinking this is college basketball anymore and I suggest the rest of you do the same.

You are cheering for an AAU team with a college name on the jersey. You are cheering for a bank name on the floor of the court.

Have fun watching Peterson play one season. If that is what you are interested in you could have watched him this year on youtube. Oh, he will wear a Kansas jersey for a year and he’s a lifetime Jayhawk!! Do any of you consider Embiid a Jayhawk? He’s the poster child for all this crap. The dude is nonstop injured(including at Kansas) and only cares about maximizing his bank account.

I’m sure I’ll watch the games next year but only because I have a 15-year-old son who will turn them on.

I’ve said this here before and obviously, my opinion and/or fandom doesn’t matter but when Bill Self retires I’m out.

We are partly in this position we are in because Bill was loyal to mediocre players who should’ve largely been recruited over. I don’t care if they stay 4 years if they’re bad players. I consider Joel a Jayhawk just as much as I consider Jalen Wilson one. It’s easy to tell these kids to turn down millions for our satisfaction but that’s not reality.

@BigBad said in The portal.:

@TYOHawk Just start the Fire Bill Self thread.

Wanting Bill to change and not play favorites doesn’t mean I want him fired. I want him to run the program and not a charity organization. Play the best players. Amateurism is gone so treat it as such.

@Crimsonorblue22 said in Are you watching Peterson's clinic in the McD's Game?:

Wears same number as Wiggs did and me!

We know you were a bucket back in the day so this reaffirms my confidence in the kid.

Wouldn’t mind setting aside the 14th or 15th scholarship most years for the local Direnna winner. Love to see local kids get a shot like this.

I like the 3 portal adds but I’ll also be real and say I’m underwhelmed by what they did this offseason. I understand funds may have been limited but I don’t think they planned well at all and that’s on the coaching staff.

My main takeaway was that we were a clear level above Louisville athletically and that makes me excited.

@JAYHAWKFAN214 said in 2023 Recruiting:

Maki Johnson @makijohnson3 3h Blessed and thankful to have received an offer from the university of Kansas

I’d pay close attention to this one. This is Andrew Wiggins girlfriend little brother. We should have an in here.

Didn’t do himself any favors with that article.

@BShark said in 2024 Recruiting:

@TYOHawk said in 2024 Recruiting:

@BShark said in 2024 Recruiting:

Things are looking good with Flory

I need this and a Furphy commitment

Adidas might have actually done something RE: Flory

Love to hear that. Gotta start protecting their kids the same way Nike does with their guys.

@BShark said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:

@TYOHawk said in Big Ern’s Frogs meet The Bidunga Bunch — Game Thread:

Like the havoc Shak and Flory were causing defensively man…

Shak is like a defensive back reading the passing lanes.

His POA defense as well…it had me speechless. Teaching tape at the next practice…my goodness

@Kcmatt7 said in 2024 Recruiting:

@kuballin10 the point is that Bill has to Settle vs getting who he wants.

Makes the margin for error a bit more slim. Duke gets to bring 1st round picks off the bench lol

Exactly…Coach should be picking who he wants at this point as the active best college coach in the game by far.

@kuballin10 said in Feeling the Fieldhouse magic?:

@TYOHawk d2 is the greatest pg at KU - just ask bill

It’s like I’m constantly being gaslit by Self and Dajuan apologists. I know what top tier PG play looks like. I watched Dotson, Devonte, Sherron and Frank…this isn’t that.

@MR11 said in 2026 Recruiting ( Crazy but ):

@dylans Ok lets slow down a bit with that rhetoric. Feel free to be disappointed with how he handled the situation, but that doesn’t make him a piece of shit. Would you stay at a job even if you love it if another company was coming in and offering to more than double your salary? Cause that is what we are talking about here. Flory isn’t guaranteed to have a NBA career and also has to worry about getting injured and missing the opportunity to even get there. This could be his only chance to make a decent bit of money that could have to last him the rest of his life. Ideally yes, you want players to love KU and only want to play here, but KU also can’t be lowballing their returning players that much and expect to get that kind of loyalty even with players that grow up KU fans.

I do agree he doesn’t need to be coddled, he got paid and now he needs to shows up this season. If come next month, he isn’t showing any improvement, then he deserves all the criticism you want to give him.

This…they lowballed him and he left to view the market. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t love KU…

Here’s the thing…he never tried to recruit over KJ and Dajuan. That’s what puzzling to me and a result of him being stubborn.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Ute came to the right place:

@TYOHawk said in Ute came to the right place:

Here’s the thing…he never tried to recruit over KJ and Dajuan. That’s what puzzling to me and a result of him being stubborn.

This is an objectively false statement. At PG, Self has brought in Bobby Pettiford, Jalen Coleman-Lands, Remy Martin, and Elmarko Jackson.

At forward, Zach Clemence was in the same class as KJ. Others expected to take minutes from KJ were Ernest Udeh, Zuby Ejiofor.

Obviously, none of those options worked out except for Remy for the last few games, but to say Self never attempted to upgrade those positions is just flat out wrong.

This is untrue imo. Pettiford wasn’t ever a threat to take minutes from him. JCL is more of a two guard than anything. Remy…no need to go into that situation but we had an actual nba player coming off the bench for a minute due to Self not benching Harris. Elmarko played the two as well as Arterio Morris even though they were evaluated as point guards. They played as secondary ball handlers cause God forbid anyone actually gets to be the primary handler when Dajuan is on the team.

Clemence came in the same class. Zuby and Udeh are 5’s which theoretically KJ is but he complained about playing the 5. So we moved him to the 4 and have yet to try to upgrade. We passed on getting Harrison Ingram who ended up being a NBA player due to KJ.

That was Kansas basketball today.

@kjayhawks said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

@TYOHawk said in Lets take the lead into the first TV timeout!:

Can’t win and won’t win anything with that level of guard play.

Yeppers been saying for 2 years, been catching shit for it too. Which starting PG in the Self outside Juan goes out there and doesn’t impact the game in the slightest? 2 points and 2 assists outta the best pure PG around. People who say that are only bull shitting themselves.

34 minutes… 2/3/2 box score from your 6th year PG. It’s genuinely embarrassing…

Bro he hasn’t even attempted a 3 in the last 3 games. In 2025 we have a PG who is acting scared to shoot a 3

We are screwed.

@BShark said in The portal.:

@TYOHawk said in The portal.:

@BShark said in The portal.:

@BShark said in The portal.:

https://x.com/TiptonEdits/status/1906676296282673549

This one doesn’t make much sense to me but we do need bodies

Yeah lets not

LMAO

Like at least we are still recruiting given all the rumors out there but my god man.

The good news is Auburn has his brother so surely they will take him if they want.

I told you man it feels like they just look for who averages the most ppg in the portal and recruit based off that. We need to evaluate for FIT more than anything.

@BShark said in Welcome Tre!:

@TYOHawk Tat Hawks. FOE. KUCMB

No more podcast mics or players with Storr merch. Just a bunch of dogs surrounding a prodigy. I LOVE IT

Would be more than fine with just taking Mikey, Evans and Chris Johnson as the class.

I’m ready for the Dajuan era to be over. I’m just gonna be honest and say it. Good kid and tough player but I want a shot creating pg in the modern era.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mikegrib8/status/1563416390245048320

Freak athlete

Keep: Furphy, Hunter

On the fence: KJ and Elmarko

The rest can go honestly

@Kcmatt7 said in 2023 Recruiting:

Simeon Wilcher will NOT be going to UNC.

Rumor is they will also be losing Ian Jackson who will reclass to '23 and be a Kentucky Wildcat.

If Hubert doesn’t win this year he’s in trouble.

@kuballin10 said in Short Handed Hawks vs Cincy Game Thread:

@TYOHawk said in Short Handed Hawks vs Cincy Game Thread:

@kuballin10 said in Short Handed Hawks vs Cincy Game Thread:

@Crimsonorblue22 Comment I referenced was with Hanni postgame which isn’t the media and espn+….I wasn’t lying

@TYOHawk - I just don’t get it. His protection of said player over and over when he’s been atrocious in his senior year and not “scored when he wants to”….is just proving what recruits see that Bill plays favorites.

The 1 is locked in for next year and so is the 4….there will be a reason we miss on big time recruits at those positions yet again……

Coach told us the guys around Juan have to be better. Which is 100 percent true. But if you’re only serviceable when you play next to pro wings and all conference bigs…then how good are you truly?

The constant defending and pushing the blame on other players just shows Bills true colors. It is literally never Juan’s fault in Bills mind.

I thought I would never see a player beat out Jamari or Frank as Self’s favorite. But I truly believe Dajuan has surpassed them.

Get me Passmore next and I’m walking on the moon.

@kuballin10 said in Looking back at Hilton:

@TYOHawk The more I look at the program since 2013 the worse it actually gets on how he handles players and his system

The best teams as the other poster pointed out were 4/1 and yet he’s talking about playing 3 bigs because he’s so frustrated with our wings. Maybe coddle them like you do the big 3 and they’d produce better.

If he Embiid or Oubre’s incoming DP he needs to be “retired” next year because he will have effed up yet another roster.

He’s going to value Elmarko and McDowell and somehow Clemence might get minutes because they know what he wants and practice well versus all the young guys and 1-3 upper classmen transfers he brings in and gets mad at how they do things in practice.

He runs a program like the 80’s

He’s gaslit the program for multiple years that Juan is the truest pure pg and incredible - people said “self knows more than message board idiots” and actually the people watching the games from their house could see it clearer

He thought Hunter is the next Jokovic and he can’t defend a ball screen or the rack, roll quickly to the hoop or hit 3’s consistently. Yet Bill knows more and plays him

He’s gaslit us that kj is as impactful to a game as Ochai was. He had the game against Duke and watching Duke that would go different if we played again. Every other game he can’t score outside a dunk, kills all offensive spacing (doesn’t matter Juan can’t beat his man off the dribble consistently anyways) and can’t rebound.

He plays a pg who isn’t a threat to score and can’t shoot - when he shoots a lot the other team loves it. And he plays a 4 man that is zero threat to score and other teams don’t guard. We then can’t score but he doesn’t care because defensively he’s happy getting beat 74-57. Oh but with 4 minutes left it was a 6 point game. Did you all watch? We never had control, we’re down the 15-11 and NEVER took the lead again. OH YEAH BUT WE WERE RIGHT THERE BABY AND ALMOST HAD THIS ONE!

Yet Self never sits these three - thinks they are his best shot to win and has yet another year where we aren’t even conference contenders let alone a title

Hope you all keep those title hopes alive and keep on believin because you clearly are seeing the same stuff I have for 3 years and somehow expecting different results which is the definition of insanity

He keeps calling Juan a winner but we’ve gotten our ass kicked more during his era as PG than ever before in Coach’s history. If it wasn’t for Remy we would’ve never saw the second weekend during Dajuan’s tenure.

@FarmerJayhawk said in 2024 Recruiting:

@TYOHawk also don’t write off Flagg

Honestly think he would be the biggest get for us since Wiggs if possible.

I can’t believe I’ve had to watch this guy be the PG for my favorite team for the last 4 years but I’m finally almost free.

https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/news/cassidy-s-takeaways-hoop-exchange-fall-festival

Only coaching staff he mentioned was ours…

@kjayhawks it’s even more frustrating when you think about we likely lost out on a future NBA talent in LaBaron. His camp didn’t want him sitting the bench and they know Coach won’t bench Juan ever. He’s held us hostage for years.

Yet last game we got told “he just needs pros around him.” Like no crap every player would look good if they had pro teammates around them.

Wiggs was thought to be a UK/FSU battle. Joel was thought to be a Florida/UCLA lean. Get em on campus and see where things go. He could decide to come or not but take the shot.

@BeddieKU23 said in Feeling the Fieldhouse magic?:

Here we go again with the fatigue excuses. He has Shak and barely played him yesterday for whatever reason.

Coach has allowed his affinity to override his common sense when it comes to those two. No matter what side you’re on…there is no world where Dajuan should play 46 minutes in a game when we have Shak healthy.

@BShark said in Liam McNeeley:

We good.

The source has spoken