The great escape

OakvilleJHawk -

I agree, there had to have been 3-1 Jayhawk fans vs. the other three schools. I was in my seats with 8 minutes left in the first game and I didn't see very many Arkansas or Louisville fans. There were actually a lot of empty seats at that point and throughout our game. During the day on Tuesday, I saw a few of their faithful (Ark, Louisville) around town, but not many. Memphis brought a fair number of people, but less than half of what KU was represented by at least. Seems like I saw several charter buses with mostly senior citizens making up a fair percentage of their base.

Pastner was out on the floor just like Cal used to do while play was going on. Bill, was Bill. One thing I thought was in poor taste was while our band was playing during pre-game, the usual routine, the Memphis team ran out onto the floor led by their flags that spell out T-I-G-E-R-S. Rude! Don't know if it was obvious, but when Xavier Henry was introduced, there were quite a few boos from the Memphis crowd, which was to be expected.

Speaking of Cal, don't you know he had to be fuming when Pastner brought the game down to 1 point in the final minute of regulation and ended up only losing by 2 points. Cal, with a more talented team needed OT to lose the NC against us. Is it possible X didn't have a great game vs. his potential, against Memphis for some other reason, maybe quasi-guilt? No, certainly not. No player would ever do that, right?

Final interesting thing to me, it took a Duke transfer to make a 3 pointer to get them within a reachable margin at the end.

November 18, 2009 at 6:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: KU survives Memphis, 57-55

40-0?

Imagine
(J. Lennon)

November 18, 2009 at 12:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: KU survives Memphis, 57-55

Take away the Memphis 3's and it would have still been one of our more sub-par games in years.

It appeared that we thought we were playing Hofstra again from the start. The 3's from Memphis were primarily from Mack and Kemp. There should have been plenty of "footage" of them in previous years to have predicted their focus. Second half was not really that dramatic a change from the dreadful first half.

Here's a what if: What if Brady had been in the game?

Stay tuned for Boot Camp 2.0 back in Lawrence.

November 18, 2009 at 12:22 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Memphis coach tosses bouquets Self’s way

OakvilleJHawk -

O S U wow, you should be with the FBI or something (or maybe a double naught spy!)

Mrs. Memhawk's son went to the U of M and she's agreed to pull for ol' KU as usual. She knows not to anger the god's. We'll be rooting for Pastner to do a good job, but not too good. We're here in St. Louis now and ran into one of the Memphis TV sports guys at lunch on the road. He said he didn't expect much of a game (his words).

November 16, 2009 at 4:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Morris twins Tiger targets

Pastner is a solid guy. He's grown up in the bball biz interested heavily in recruiting. Coaching seems to be where the uncertainty lies. Lute Olsen was a great mentor to Pastner and surely he is a student of the game. We'll see how much of a strategist he is. Interesting, he refused any local endorcements and other distractions for his first year as head coach in Memphis. Trying to avoid any comparisons to Cal, or, he wants to see if he will be effective as coach before he puts himself on billboards, tv commercials, etc.

Let's wish him well, but not against us. Funny how he is getting recruits without using the Acme Snake Oil approach to the same school and without the aid of Worldwide Wes.

I'm off to St. Louis in search of the three B's - Basketball...Barbecue...(what is that third thing that Stl is famous for, hmmm..) oh yeah..Beer!

Look for me there, I'll be the one with the KU shirt on. If you yell out, "Hey Memhawk", we can hook up at the game.

November 16, 2009 at 9:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Memphis coach tosses bouquets Self’s way

Yeah, but what about a Pitino connection?

Maybe the woman he was with in the men's room was somehow related to T. Boone Pickens or something. Put your best stringers on this!

November 16, 2009 at 12:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Memphis coach tosses bouquets Self’s way

Just noticed. There's no photo credit for the picture of HCBS at the top here. Whoever took this shot seemed to capture an erie sort of redness to his hair that I've never seen before. Any speculations?

November 15, 2009 at 11:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Memphis coach tosses bouquets Self’s way

lighthawk -

Since Jaybate has, by his silence, not responded, I will reveal what I had in mind.

.......The Okie-baller connection (as the nickname coined by Jaybate).

I though it was pretty obvious, but then again, I initiated this lame question!

Moe Iba - from the Iba family tree which featured Henry Iba at OSU.
Eddie Sutton - coached at OSU
Bill Self - Played at OSU.
Louisville - still, nothing.

Great input, thanks.

November 15, 2009 at 10:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Memphis coach tosses bouquets Self’s way

Jaybate -

Here's a jumbled group of people, places etc. that have commonality surrounding the teams participating in St. Louis next Tuesday.

Arkansas - Eddie Sutton once coached there.
Memphis - Moe Iba once coached there.
Kansas - Bill Self played at...
Louisville - (nothing comes to mind here)

Now, what is common thread?

November 15, 2009 at 4:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Shoot for the stars

Wells -

I wonder if an avitar could get "removed" on this site?

I think I'll keep the current one. It keeps me grounded for some reason. Kind of mouth-watering, don't you think?

November 14, 2009 at 10:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )