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    I thought I was the only person in Austin that doesn’t like Fonda. I’d rather bum somebody’s leftovers at Dart Bowl, and it’s not close. I feel a lot better now. Good thread.
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    Could be true or he could be a late bloomer. We’ll find out. He hit all 5 of his shots in the exhibition games, 3 from deep, so he’s probably not completely unskilled. On the other hand, Self thought he had a contender in this group, and he was redshirting, anyway...so how good can he really be?
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    I use “suck off a homeless guy” pretty often, though I use it more as a bartering tool than in the face of dread. I’m not 100% sure when I started it, but I think it was during a KU ass-whipping at a sports bar when I declared (drunkenly) that I’d suck off a homeless guy to have Mark Mangino back.
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    Meh, there is an argument to be made that Self is better when his hand is forced. Last year’s team was everything he hates and was the closest he’s gotten a team to its ceiling since 2012...when KU went about 6 deep and his hand was forced. I’m as down on KU as anybody, but the league is gonna have to be taken from them. They’re not gonna go 11-7 and just give it away.
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    Yeah, half the league is in KenPom’s top 10 in defensive efficiency. This is what that looks like. That shit travels in the tournament, though.
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    Not really. I haven’t lived there since 99, but I’d bet significant money the best Mexican food in Kansas is still in some podunk town with a slaughterhouse or refinery in it.
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    David Beaty

    VolenteHawk replied to cdain3's topic in Football

    Jhawk, you are spending a lot of words venting Beaty’s failures to a fan base that isn’t hiring him for anything in the same universe as what he was asked to do in Lawrence. This has been mostly a done deal since the week of the Big 12 championship when he “consulted” on the offensive game plan against OU. The timing is strictly logistics and convenience.
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    Choked at the game pun here. CarusoSunglasses.jpg
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    Ninfa’s in an odd choice, but at least it’s in Texas. The Kansas winner is in Missouri.
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    Joe Public seems to be on Clemson here, though. The resistance against the line moving down, which has been there for 36 hours or so, seems to be on Bama. Bama ML never got to a valuable spot, so I teased it with a couple NFL sides next weekend.
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    Meh, it’s not like I live in upstate New York.
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    Yeah, they're statistically tied with OU and TCU in power ratings...if Norman or Ft Worth aren't bad losses, neither is Austin. All 3 of those will be pick 'em-ish lines when Tech, Iowa State, and Kansas come to town.
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    I'm counting on that thinking driving some money line value on Bama. Currently my local guy has -5.5 -115 but Bama at -205...for slightly more than a dime worth of value on what the true price should be for that ML. You see this in the Super Bowl pretty often, where the public money is either favorite to cover or dog for plus money and the price on the favorite ML trickles down cheaper than it should be in response. If I can lay less than -200, I'll play it fairly big.
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    At Home Depot on Saturday. That white car spent over a minute blocking me while waiting for the spot next to that family on the right, as they walked to their car and got their kids secured into car seats. There are two open spaces next to the blue ford down there, where I parked. They invested a non-trivial amount of waiting time to save 28 feet of walking on a 70 degree day. Drove me semi insane.
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    Yeah, and most years it's just crazy overreaction to one game. Similarly, there's no harm in losing in Ames, KU has done that a shitload and still won the league. This game probably has nothing to do with who wins the league. This is "likely" the year, because of the way the pieces fit together. They're not elite at anything useful and the only times KU has put together dominating performances it hinged around teams having no ability to stop Azubuike. Oops. Edit to add: It's not all KU that they're vulnerable this year, having two apparently legit contenders matters, too. KU has had teams that weren't their best still win the league, because most of the competition was from a group of fringe top 25 teams that beat each other up. I think Tech and ISU both could rise above that fray to provide two legit contenders, and that's what it will take for somebody to take it away from KU.
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    I’m not sure if I’m missing an inside joke or something, but that’s not an NCAA rule.
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    I think there is a lot to that. Two years ago they won by surrounding Landen Lucan with 4 guards, but that’s the exception not the rule. Self usually has some big guys. I think McCormick will be good eventually, but not this year. I think this is probably the year the streak ends. Tech is legit and should protect home court and that defense travels, plus. KU just has too many weaknesses to be a true top end team; poor shooting, mediocre rebounding, good but not great defense. They’re usually elite at something that carries them through the grind and that’s missing this year.
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    I don’t know that that matters so much in say 20 years when we’re comparing skins on the wall, that’s the point I was referring to. History isn’t written on LeBron’s “bullets” in that debate, because most are still playing.
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    I’m seeing it at 58/42 toward Bama, but these numbers are often unreliable.
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    Maybe but history is going to look back fondly on LeBron dominating a finals against a team that had Westbrook, Durant, and Harden on it. Im a Kansas guy, so I’m supposed to drive the Wilt train...but I just can’t do it. His counting stats are a perfect storm of insane pace of the era, nobody being able to shoot, and most teams having to guard him with a guy that would be selling insurance in even the 80s NBA. It’s not even clear he was better than Russell, and nobody but trolling haters would “yeah but” Jordan or LeBron with another player from their era. Wilt can simultaneously be an athletic freak that caused rule changes and not quite be the best player of all time.
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    1) This conference is going to be a meat grinder. 2) Falling down to draw charges is the single biggest problem with the product in college basketball. Make everything where the defense isn’t set for a half hour a block and lets start rewarding good defense.
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    GIA has always quietly sucked ass. If Okie State isn’t really good, that joint’s reputation far exceeds the reality of it.
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    Good, gritty win for Tech on the road. It’s not impossible that they’re the best team in the league.
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    If you make every game a race to 60 you don’t need much offense. WV is having a hard time even starting their offense, they aren’t even close to getting good shots.
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    Dear Lord...Tech is so good defensively.

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