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VolenteHawk

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  1. I'm far from an apologist on this stuff, I was (lightly) recruited in basketball.  I saw how dirty it was even in the 90s...it's gotta be miles worse now.  Everybody that's recruiting high level guys is some amount of dirty.

    But I actually believe that Self didn't know about De Sousa.  He's usually pretty quick to sit guys when eligibility stuff comes up.

     

  2. 5 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

    How does a shoe/apparel executive pick the school to "bless" in the first place without the school's involvement? Do these apparel companies just spin a wheel and it magically lands on Kansas? There almost has to be some type of engagement between a school and these apparel companies for a transaction to take place. 

    Adidas didn't just randomly pick players like De Sousa/Preston to go to Kansas and Dennis Smith JR to NC State. There was some type of engagement with those schools and Adidas. It's nonsensical to think "Kansas didn't know". They had to know for some type of deal to go down. 

    I don't think Adidas cares which school as long as it's an Adidas one, because they ultimately don't care about their programs winning so much as getting kids hooked in for a shoe deal when they move on.  I don't think they'd bid against themselves in a situation where a kid was down to Louisville and Kansas, for example.

    I'm presuming there are other parameters at play here, lots of recruiting pros and cons can still apply among selecting between different schools (even of the same apparel deal).  My assumption from following all this is that Nike and Adidas are working hard ($$$$$) for the top guys, we just haven't cracked the Nike egg, yet.

     

  3. 2 hours ago, trueut2003 said:

    Makes sense, but Tiger never gave us anything either, and people loved him. But, he was also Tiger.

    Tiger gave us a run of the best golf every played.  That bought him some leeway.

    Bailing on your parents and sister is a bridge too far for a lot of folks, too.

     

  4. 1 hour ago, usmc0331horn said:

    KU's banquet is tonight and Doke is still undecided. I wonder if he announces he's coming back tonight or if he's still gonna test. When is the deadline to declare?

    My reading of the tea leaves is that he’s waiting for some team to show interest in him, then he’d pull the trigger. The problem is he can’t really guard or rebound. He obviously can’t shoot.

    His one elite skill is jamming lobs on undersized front lines, which don’t exist in the NBA.

     

  5. 8 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    I'm one of the olds, and Lefty never came close to having the cool factor that Freddie had (fuck that he still has it)

    That being said, as much as I'm a huge Freddie fan, I've always thought that he did less with more talent than many other players. But I don't think he was as driven by winning. Hell in an interview the last time he was on the leaderboard (maybe 5 years ago), he said if he won another Masters he'd quit playing and just show up every year at Augusta. And I believe he meant it.

    People always blamed his back not letting him practice as much as others, but it's hard to tell if that was legit or an adoring media building a narrative for underachievement.  But he was certainly good enough to have won considerably more.

     

     

  6. 11 hours ago, Lurch said:

    Best bracket (BayernMan) heading into championship game chose not to play for money.

    63 in pool for $1,575 total

    Paying $787.50/$472.50/$315 (50%/30%/20%) to 1st/2nd/3rd:

    If Michigan wins, it appears it will be Underdog, Tailgate and Shnsajax for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.  Along with BayernMan, they were the only four to pick Michigan.

    If Villanova wins, it appears it will be Bert, VolenteHawk and BlackLab (shits rigged).

    It’s gonna be hard to root for Villanova after they took it in deep and dry last night, but I’ve got a 2nd in this and a first in another decent sized one on the line...so guess I’ll have to suck it up.

     

  7. 20 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    You going to Open Practice?  Took Jr. out of school early for OP back in '98. 

    Wife and son (9) are heading down for it. I’ve got a work commitment so am stuck here, but he’s pumped.

     

  8. 30 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    Well that sucked. Hate it when real life interferes with shit. Looks like I'm gonna have to beat y'all assholes through the waiver wire! 

    It did for me too, but I went ahead and drafted. Shouldn’t have, my team suuuucks.

     

  9. I don't play or practice nearly enough any more to ever get good again, so my lowest round to date will very likely stay the lowest round of my life.  Practice round for the Central Texas Amateur several years ago (Forest Creek) the day before the event.  Perfect greens, no wind, pins mostly in easy spots...keeping traffic off the tournament locations.  Hit it great, only really made two bad swings and both of them turned out okay.  Fourteen pars and 4 birdies for a 68.

    Three career onlys for me that day that I never equaled before or after...round at 4 under, round at 68 (on any par), and bogey free round.

    The lights came on the next day and I humped a couple seventy-somethings on it like I'm supposed to.

     

  10. 58 minutes ago, Roofle said:

    Does the Final Four tend to work like regionals do, in that you can hang out outside the arena after the Saturday game ends and practically be handed a ticket for Monday by fans of the losing teams? Thinking about going. Worst case, it looks like the get-in price Monday is $150.

    Since they’ve gone full football setup, a Monday ticket is pretty easy. Approaching free for upper level, reasonable for decent seats. The few “good” seats in the place still demand somewhat of a premium.

    And I may have a slightly tighter market view of reality, my one Final Four setup was New Orleans 2012 Kansas/Kentucky. As you might imagine, demand was high. There are just so many damn seats set up that way

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