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KD isn’t really all that good with the media and it hurts his image. He could have said “you know, that doesn’t really matter. I made the decision that was best for me. We had a lot of success in Oakland and I look forward to having a lot of success in Brooklyn.” Instead his words can be twisted by the media to make it look like KD got his feelings hurt so he ran away. Then the average fan who only catches the context that sportcenter puts out will think “Damn KD. You left the warriors. No reason to be a jilted lover.” The media is probably 25% of the reason people don’t like him and he could easily eliminate that portion if he was more careful how he answers questions.

I think if the NCAA can figure out how to make these contracts with recruits/players public it will drive down the prize money considerably. Obviously KU football doesn't pay guys so I wouldn't know but I have to assume the people who are actually paying players under the table aren't paying guys directly in most cases. Maybe just giving a bagman $100k and he is dispersing the funds as needed?? If that is the case then donor guy might be upset that is being asked to give a bunch of money to a 2nd string lineman to promote his Suzuki dealership. They might just want to give the money to the guy without the job and that is what the NCAA will have to REALLY hammer players/schools on. Which isn't a bad trade off. You guys can get paid but if the NCAA finds even the smallest amount of work around (looking at you rhett bomar) then you lose your eligibility for good and the school loses 2x the amount of scholarships as it has players who are getting paid under the table 2 years. That is how this thing can work and be regulated which is the best for both players and schools.

Here is how this is going to end up when you look at the total picture. Years 1-3 people are going to be throwing cash around. Especially when it is poorly regulated. However there is going to be 2-3 prized recruits in football that are going to get paid $100k up front to commit to a school. Then they won't make the starting lineup and they will enter the transfer portal. All of the sudden, when the coach/consultant goes to that booster for another guy next season the booster says "coach, I'll pay what it takes to get guys but if you can't keep them then I can't pay." Then it will change to a contract structure where kids will get $100k over 4 years. When a kid enters the transfer portal 4 weeks into his freshman year he will have collected $2k for showing up on campus. The annual dollars that are going to come to these kids are going to be a lot lower than people think. And when it becomes more regulated and transparent boosters will see the consequences of "My boss didn't give me a Xmas bonus this year but he gave $200k to Alabama athletes." The unbridled bidding wars aren't going to happen, at least not among the big donors with businesses. There is too much to lose. However a kid signs a bunch of jerseys and takes a bunch of pictures with hillbilly fans for $100 a pop will happen and that is just fine. The NCAA opening up free agency prior to this rule is going to greatly curtail the effectiveness of paying players. I've been engaged before and I spent $15k on a ring. I'm not engaged anymore and guess how excited I am to spend $15k on another ring? And oh yeah... the most regulation possible will be that universities are going to be audited for benefits they give boosters moving forward. If Mattress Mack gives $1M to players and $5k to the university then the NCAA will probably smoke UT if they give him box seats for nothing. In football, this is going to almost be a nonissue. Basketball will be more complicated because the star players are going to have much more exposure. That's when you call in Adidas to do your bidding. 😉

I’m not so sure. Assuming you have an undefeated Clemson and OSU. An undefeated bama or LSU and then the other team being 1 loss bama/LSU then I think Baylor gets left out. Not because Baylor doesn’t deserve it but because of SECSECSEC.

There isn’t a hotter team in the conference than KU right now. Moral victories left and right and one real one hahaha. Suck our taints! question, if Baylor ends up undefeated do they get in the playoff? I tend to believe not but a lot of teams are going to have a loss by then and Baylor would have 3 ranked wins including a CCG.

I also said said if we had any special teams competency at all. We missed two field goals against Texas. We would have beat coastal Carolina Witt Dearmon and we probably would have beat WVU if you watched how bad our offense was.

We need to pay Dearmon some venebles money. If he is the OC in August and we have any sort of special teams play at all we are 6-2 right now and ties for second in the conference. Kansas is coming for your jiblets.

It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if he retired once his contract is up. Even going back to his time at KU you could see that he doesn’t really love the game. I think it is one of those things where he was just always good at it and everyone told him how much money he would make. He used to do it part time and now that it is full time he hates it. Say he doesn’t walk away, what would you even pay him? $15M? He’d probably never take something like that and hold out until he joins the Kings for $25M. Then go off for a year and get another big contract that he sucks in.

What Kawhi did with Toronto solidified him as the best in basketball IMO. He's going to win another championship this year I think. Only John Salley and Big Shot Bob have rings with 3 teams. Would be awesome to see Kawhi somehow manage to get rings as the star of the team with 4.

Haha well I was thinking I’d spend 2k and be able to get me and my old man in and out of NYC for the night. Not willing to drop 3k to do it. I’ll just get ya amazing seats in Allen Fieldhouse for the best game of the year instead.

I just looked at tickets and just to be in view of the game it’s $500+. Can’t justify $1500 for an overnight trip. Going to grab some great seats to a game or two in AFH.

The shitty thing for Ku was this could have been a culture defining win under Miles. Only to have our kicker fuck it up twice. The second you guys got on the good side of the 50 there wasn’t a chance dicker was going to fuck it up. Special teams are so crucial it isn’t even funny. In the big 12 and in games like this they are more important than defense.

The truth is that KU is going to get better (and are) and Texas isn’t that bad. Defenses were bad last night but we have a new OC and newer schemes from 2 weeks ago. Our OC is a record setting guy. That’s good at any level. Chip Kelly came from a Small school and had great offense at Oregon. No reason Dearmon can’t be a success. UT will play better next week and is still a 10 win team. Ku fans have to be encouraged in week 1 of our new offense.

This seems like a game with one of two outcomes. 1. Kansas is hopeless 2. Like the OU game, we play it close until 5 minutes left in the first half. Then we turn the ball over on the 5 yard line instead of punching it in. UT drives for TD. UT gets the ball first in the second half and scores on the opening drive. 21 point swing. Kansas is hopeless.

A career politician who was the only one that could fix the problems but always seemed to come up short like so many of his peers, regardless of party. Rip.

This is what the press is for. Find the people with the most to lose and ask them their thoughts. I bet if you polled all of the owners even fertitta would say they want morey gone (not because of sour grapes on winning either). The only difference is that morey is the only reason fertitta will ever win and he knows it so he keeps him hoping things blow over.

If all politicians were shamed like this continuously then they’d either spend more time with their constituents so they know what really needs to be done, or, they would not get re-elected. For the last 30+ years the name of the game has been about getting re-elected, not representing your constituents. Good on Erik. Hopefully he and his fellow voters see results.

Zion now 21-25 with 1 three pointer in the last 2 games. Defenses will adjust but his range will extend too. Dude is the real deal. In other news... AD is already hurt.

I'm not so sure about that, sure the backlash in the US will be bad, but in the US we have free speech and people can choose to watch games because of capitalism. In China they are literally just cutting the NBA out, one entity deciding for hundreds of millions of people. There is no choice by the people. I'm not sure of the demographics and numbers so I'll pull a few out of my ass. Fire Morey and the NBA fans in the US that might turn off the TV or stop buying the product are going to be a million or two at max (let's face it, most people who really care about hong kong enough to protest about it probably don't watch the NBA). If you go against China then you are 100% turning off the TV's and merchandise to tens of millions of people. There is a cost benefit analysis here to go with the geopolitical analysis. If you run into Xi's arms then you are also telling players and coaches to "shut up and play", but you are going to have more eyes looking your way (potentially) in China. If the proposition is to shut up and play and have a revenue delta of billions of dollars that get shared with the players then maybe everyone will agree that china isn't so bad and Morey is expendable. Or, you say everyone can say whatever they want whenever they want and we won't grow revenue where governments are against that sort of thing. If I were the NBA, i'd be talking with the players union because if China stands firm then everyone loses. If the NBA and NBAPA agree that they want the money more than being able to take political stances then Morey is a small sacrifice. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. The fallout either way is going to be fantastic to watch. The NBA offseason delivers at an incredible rate.

I’d like to hear pops thoughts on the statement the NBA made in China that isn’t 10000% supportive of Morey. This is what happens when you mix business with politics. Major sports team owners are some of the most diplomatically cunning executives but this might just be too big for even them to handle. The only way out might be for the Morey to get the ax upon the Chinese altar. It seems China isn’t fucking around which means this could set the NBAs best growth market back by a decade or more. If you take the above as a likely scenario then Morey might have cost his masters billions of dollars. Which will only hasten his blackballing. It’ll be interesting to see if/when the question of “if Morey goes away does that settle this” question is asked. If it does get asked then I bet he is gone in an hour.

Nice. Pretty clear to me that she’s going to be the candidate.

Has she proposed a bill about senators and congresspeople not owning stocks?

And because we have already signed a new one under the premise that they haven't done us harm then how would you propose we exit the current contract? In one post you say what we should do and then in the next you say exactly why we cannot accomplish that feat. Are you just lonely and need to type something or are you only able to create and process one thought at a time?

You know how I know you didn’t read the article? You know how I know you aren’t taking anything that is said in the correct context? also.. KU has a signed contract for 10 year with Adidas. I’m sure there is pretty tight language in that contract that says “you can’t just tell us to fuck off and go away and start using Nike gear.” If language like that isn’t in there then adidas is dumber than I thought but given they are a multi-billion dollar company I’m guessing they might have at least one attorney on staff that would sneak something like that in there.

You should read my post again. Here is a story on how Snoop became the entertainment for the night: How Kansas basketball landed Snoop Dogg for Late Night Bill Self wanted Hootie and the Blowfish. The story also talks about how Adidas was involved in Snoops procurement based on contractual obligations and mutual sponsorship. Also, what is not to believe about Self contractually being obligated to wear Adidas? Do you understand how sponsorships work? Did you expect him to wear Nike? Under Armor? Finally, have you never heard of an artist/performer getting live and just doing whatever the hell they want? I highly doubt KU sanctioned "Strippers and cash being poured on players, women, and recruits." That's just asinine and if they did then all should be fired. That money was also fake, had snoops face on it, not that it makes it any better. If you look at the FBI thread I am basically in no way defending KU. I have only ever offered up ways that I see KU can avoid punishment and stated facts of the case as the FBI, prosecution, court and jury has delivered them. Your need to twist facts that you refuse to look up into a narrative that makes all KU fans look like they are willing to defend cheating at any cost and that KU wants to cheat as brazenly as possible is comical. Especially as someone else put it "a Sooner". Having Snoop was absolutely idiotic. Not understanding the implications of having him is naive at best and grossly negligent at worst. But let's not act like Bill Self went to snoops house and said "You know what would be great? If you just came in and said "Fuck the NCAA, Bill Self and I pay whoever we want to pay, oh yeah.. if you could have some hoodrats get naked on the court that would be awesome too. Don't worry, if the NCAA says anything I'll tell them to fuck off on an open mic." Don't be an idiot.