On target

As a person who most of the time sees the world as a glass overflowing, let me put in a word for sooballs, not that he/she needs any validation. There's a lot of ways of expressing your passion for something close to your heart.

I don't see it as a downer trip, I see it as a person who cares so deeply for Kansas basketball, that every negative, whether large or small, is an isue to be considered.

I am with Jaybate on free expression, because the last thing I want is any restriction whatsoever on anyone from allowing them to fully express their opinions because it is the opposite ideas that help us evaluate and rejudge our own.

If not, we'd all still think the world was flat, men would think they are superior to women [four brothers and three marriages have taught me the opposite] and that the only good idea is "my idea".

Can Kansas go undefeated?...sure. Will Kansas go undefeated?....probably not. But all we truly need is a six game winning streak at the end of the season.

Everyone, sit back and enjoy the ride!!!!!

November 22, 2009 at 10:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Rise and shine

lighthawk...I was trying to put a positive spin on things...in my heart of hearts I've got us down for three losses for sure, Texas being the most likely. The only good thing is that Kansas will have played about two dozen games together and Withey/Morningstar will be available as added firepower.

Personally, after witnessing the Memphis game in person, I think the first loss is going to come a lot sooner than most of you are imagining...I'll leave it at that.

November 20, 2009 at 4:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Rise and shine

PS Random thought....maybe Xavier will have so much fun playing with CJ that he sticks around another year!!!

November 20, 2009 at 12:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Rise and shine

Can scheduling actually have this karmactic effect!!??

1]Fort Hayes, Pittt State, Hofstra - warm-ups and get feet wet

2] Memphis - first away game challenge and team marker for progress

3]Central AK, Oakland, TennTech, AlcornST - initiate and improve on lessons learned

4]UCLA - Second, enhanced away challenge at appox.20% point of season.

5]Radford, Lasalle - second round of improving on lessons learned

6]Michigan, California, Belmont - tougher home challenge force growth and toughness; home streak could be in jeopardy

7]Temple - third tough away challenge, measure team progress

8]Cornell - one more round of improvement and correction

9]Tennessee - the toughest challenge and an away game to boot; final measure of team at 30% point of season before league starts.

10] BIG TWELVE -
Games that no way we should lose: NU-home and away. CO-home and away, TT-home, ISU-home, BU-home,

Games that we should win but are traps: KSU-home, MU-home, ISU-away, A&M-away

Games that we will be tested: KSU-away,MU-away, OSU-away, TEX-away, OK-home

11. Big Twelve Tourney..win two games at least to secure seed.

12 NCAA: first/second round - KU goes to Oklahoma City, OK - Excellent
NCAA: third/fourth round - KU goes to St.Louis, MO - Huge Alumni Presence
NCAA; FinaL Four - Indianapolis, IN - KU kicks a$$ and takes no prisoners!!!!!

CAN I GET AN AMEN FROM THE AUDIENCE!!!!!!!!????!!!!!!!

November 20, 2009 at 12:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

No. 19 KU women pick up road win over Iowa, 66-55

GO Ladies GO....match the men.....40 and 0 !!!!!

November 19, 2009 at 2:12 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

The great escape

kushaw

HCBS knows that....Brandon knows that....and I think EJ and TT know that as well......it will either be Knight or Selby who will step in as frosh with a defending NC team!!

November 18, 2009 at 3:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

The great escape

Pastner played a seven man rotation..I think most if not all are coming back and
Memphis has a five man third-ranked recruiting class coming in next year. They are good now....they will be a force next year.

There's nothing wrong with undying passion for your team.
There's nothing wrong with justfiable criticism of your team.
There's everything wrong when your passion causes you to either negatively overreact to your team or blatantly overlook your teams failures.

Was HCBS out-coached last night? - absolutely. Memphis hits a marginally acceptable percentage of three's, we're looking at the Spartans as Number Uno. Is HCBS offense ineffective? - ridiculous. Just check the last seven seasons.

Think of this team as a golden retriever puppy who peed in the Living Room. Your upset with him now, but he will learn...and he'll always be cute!!

November 18, 2009 at 2:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Investigation under way

Putting all of this aside and strictly talking football,

to probably lose the last seven games of a season after winning the first five,
to have constant reoccuring failures on Offense [no running game],
to have deficencies on defense [ pass coverage/tackling],
to have holes in special teams [terrible coverage/ no return production/ a kicking game wildly inconsistent]

Based on the returning talent, these alone are items worthy of consideration of dismissal. No one expected a BCS Bowl but, c'mon, to finish last in the Big Twelve North during it's worst quality season ever???

I say this alone is enough for dismissal. If ANY of the other stuff is true, Lew.....DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!

November 18, 2009 at 11:13 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

The great escape

BCRavenJHawkfan

Good observation...we were at least twice as big as the Memphis crowd but more spread out throughout the arena whereby a largely student crowd and the band was grouped near the sidelines and the mikes....still we were pretty good but it was no Allen fieldhouse, of course.

Actually most of us were silent because we were all biting our nails in dread!!!!!

November 18, 2009 at 9:18 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

The great escape

My observations from attending the game:

1] No one is ready for the NBA, including the coaching staff.
2] Johnson and Robinson - zero factors, Taylor and Reed - minus factors, X - positive factor [just barely]
3] If Collins gets hurt then this team will be screwed.
4] Adrich [ no surprise] and the Twins {big surprise] saved the game.
5] The Kansas defense kept us in the game...the Kansas offense kept Memphis in the game.
6} The Kansas crowd outnumbered the other three schools combined.
7] Memphis coach, Josh Pastner is the spitting image of Quinn Snyder, only shorter and a hell of a lot better coach.
8] Something tells me HCBS will use the entire court and a half in practice today.
9] The shooting background didn't seem to bother Louisville who score 96 points.
10] Bottom line, we played like crap, on a neutral floor against an athletic foe with virtually no help from the bench outside of Marcus and still won. A great learning experience that didn't cost us a victory.

WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!

November 18, 2009 at 9:07 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )