Posted on October 7 at 3:01 a.m.

not buyin it...

if Memphis is truly better than Kansas and if committing to a school early is the measure for greatness of a program as you suggest, then X should have committed to you by now. I see I have you scrambling trying to defend an indefensible statement. One of many! Measure your words before they are made available to the public.

Now you question why I might put you through so many hoops. The fact is you come here talking out of the side of your neck about how great Memphis is versus Kansas. I have no problem saying Memphis is a good ball club. But dont you come on here disrespecting my Jayhawks and then bitch and moan that Im insulting YOU!

I WILL have something to say, you can trust and believe...

PS. Hows that Championship celebration goin'? Oh...wait a minute...

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Posted on October 7 at 2:43 a.m.

i agree thats whats rational, but thats not his assertion. in fact there IS NO satisficatory answer. nothing can satisfy his own claim. to do this, Xavier would already have had to have committed to Memphis. Not in the future...NOW! He hasnt...

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Posted on October 7 at 2:29 a.m.

MORE OF THE SAME BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!

WHY HASNT X ALREADY SIGNED WITH MEMPHIS ACCORDING TO YOUR LOGIC? IN SOUTHERN ENGLISH, WHY HADNT OL BOY DONE DID IT ALREADY?

Im not interested in your prognostication for the future. Im asking you a question, one in which you laid down the logic for but when the same logic is applied to you you have difficulty answering. Is this how they do it down there? You just spout off at the mouth, disregarding whether or not you can defend your own logic?

Once again for the kid in the back: Your assertion is that if Kansas were "all that" X would have committed. But uh...he's not committed to YOU.

So you spend all this time talking up Memphis, yet by your own reasoning Memphis cant be that great. Ive heard rumors about how terrible Southern education was. Prove me wrong. I dare ya.

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Posted on October 7 at 2:16 a.m.

You used the words "BY NOW", as in if Kansas was so great he'd have chosen us "by now". Yet you sit here and talk about what Xavier is GOING TO DO in the future, i.e., that he will choose Memphis. That may or may not be but using your own logic, Memphis can not be that great if he hasnt chosen you BY NOW.

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Posted on October 7 at 2 a.m.

thats a copout. answer the question!

your charge is that if Kansas is so great then X would have chosen us by now. then you go on and tell about how wonderful Memphis is, but acknowledge X hasnt chosen you yet either.

now make some sense since you are so ready to point things out as "ridiculous". youve got a conundrum on your hands.

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Posted on October 7 at 12:54 a.m.

Is that how they talk in the South? "Blah, blah, blah" every few sentences? Or is that just the rambling of someone who has nothing better to say.

Im fittin'a step on your blue suede shoes. Step back or step up. Nobody talks trash on Kansas and wins. I hope you had your caffeine cause you got a long fight ahead of you...

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Posted on October 7 at 12:50 a.m.

Yes, some of the things said in these posts ARE ridiculous, and do you know why? CAUSE YOU KEEP TALKING. Need an example?

Heres one:

"if he were sold on you guys winning a Natl Championship,tradition & Danny Manning and blah blah blah then dont you think he would've signed by now!"

Well point that high-powered perception at yourself and regale all of the Kansas faithful with something coherant about why Xavier hasnt signed with Memphis by now.

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Posted on October 7 at 12:44 a.m.

Dont get it twisted shunngunn: I am not your buddy.

The kind of education you need lies outside of anything you can learn in a book so dont give me your damned resume. Your degree is probably a B.S. anyway. You say youre here defending Memphis because some of the things said here are ridiculous. I could spend several DAYS proving how many of the things YOU said were just that so dont act for a moment as if youve cornered the market on sanity. Yes, you made a couple of good points, but now youve gone and lost your head. Like Elvis said, "If youre lookin' for trouble, you come to the right place." Dont get me warmed up...

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Posted on October 7 at 12:08 a.m.

shunngunn...

you think youre a bully? if you want a fight, bring one right here. Ill defend Kansas to the death. youre sorely mistaken if you think anyone is intimidated by you. making a couple of good points doesnt entitle you to strut around like a peacock. this is KANSAS, here, and on the subject of basketball it takes a whole hell of a lot more than you got to impress anyone. sit down and get an education.

you better rethink that bully mentality cause youre in way over your head. I promise ya.

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Posted on October 6 at 8:36 p.m.

The news is mixed.

I can never remember Kansas being in on so many high recruits in the country. Clearly a championship helps recruiting, and Bill Self was already an excellent recruiter to begin with. Still, it remains to be seen whether or not Coach can close the deal on these blue-chippers. Time will tell.

If any of the rest of you are like me, this shunngunn gets on my nerves a little bit. The audicity of a Memphis fan to come and breathe fire on our message boards takes a lot of courage, Ill tell you that. But you know what? He's right about a lot of things.

1. Memphis didnt even recruit CJ, and had even orally committed to Kansas! Makes you wonder why he chose Memphis if X werent heavily considering going there too.

2. Tradition doesnt win championships, players and coaches do. If tradition won championships, we'd win the tournament every single year. That's not the case. The reality is you have to recruit. You have to coach. You have to gel. You have to play.

3. Memphis' rise to prominence is akin to UNLVs of days gone by. I hadnt even considered this until it was stated. The outstanding question is whether or not there will be any longevity to this resurrection of sorts.

4. Memphis' facilities are probably better in the eyes of recruits than are Kansas'. We need to pour money into the program like everyone else is doing to modernize, and that includes the living conditions as well.

5. Calipari's NBA connections should not be underestimated. Even if his actual sway is not as great as advertised, his PERCEIVED power by recruits has value. This may be the big advantage Memphis really has: an NBA Coach speaking NBA language in an NBA facility.

I will say shunngunn is smoking crack about Conference USA. That place is a JOKE!

Jaybate. Those last two posts of yours are poetry. Issues are very well put and I gotta say you hit at the heart of a lot of what's going on. It appears that the Kansas vs. Memphis battle didn't end with the final buzzer in San Antonio.

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