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RE: B12 Preview
Iowa State and West Virginia are tough jobs because I think there is a definite ceiling on how good they can be consistently. Expectations over time make those jobs tough.
Right now ISU is up and WVU is down, but I wouldn't be surprised if that flipped in a few years.
KU should get out of last place this year because I think they can win 3 conference games. Several vulnerable teams out there, and KU should be better on the road due to coaching.
Snyder left Klienman with very little in Manhattan. He may get it turned around, but KSU wasn't very good last year, and they have less talent on hand now than they did at the same time last summer. Even KSU fans I have talked to are not feeling good about this season.
posted in KU Football
RE: Don't Mess With Chiefs Kingdom
Kietzman was constantly over the line. If he didn't have an ownership stake, he would have been canned years ago.
He's lucky he lasted as long as he did.
posted in KC Chiefs / Other NFL
Grayson Allen is a dirty player. That's what separates him from a lot of the guys @BigBad lists. Many of those guys were physical. Allen is just dirty.
He isn't playing physical and sometimes escalating. He's playing in a way that he does not care of a player is injured by tripping, closed fist fouling, etc. That's what makes Allen different to me.
But because he went to Duke, he has a better reputation than he deserves.
RE: Zion thread... or not
@KUSTEVE
If you are confident that Vick was going to continue to shoot over 60% from three, you are right to be confident in this lineup.
If you don't think that was going to continue, then that's where the floor spacing issues start.
Crimsonorblue22 said:
There are both HIPAA issues and student privacy issues at play. Certain things about a student athlete are not public and by law cannot be made public. I am not an expert by any means, but I know those issues exist.
@drgnslayr
I am concerned about how much depth KU has, as well as how KU can play their best 5 together.
If KU's best group includes Doke, de Souza and Garrett, how do you build a real D1 offense with the skillsets of those three guys.
Let's say the best group is Moss, Dotson and the previously mentioned three. How is that better than what we showed last year? Lawson was much more polished than I believe de Souza will be. Moss and Vick are about the same. Doke is what he is, and despite our criticisms, Garrett likely isn't a large upgrade over Grimes.
So unless Dotson has made a huge leap, we have last year's team with some new faces. Perhaps I am too pessimistic, but that's my concern. I just don't see large differences right now.
RE: NBA Chatter
Wiggins is a good NBA player. He is not a star. Unfortunately, he is on a star contract, so he is a hard player to fit into anyone's cap situation.
As for Westbrook and Harden, they will have to figure out how to work on the court together because there is no way Houston can avoid playing them heavy minutes together in the playoffs.
RE: Early Discussion: NonConf Schedule
@stoptheflop
Line play is the hardest thing to build. If you have a bad line (or no depth), it can be tough to get out from under. KU has been short on line play since the Weis years.
The recruits that Beaty brought in to at least get some depth up front on both sides of the ball are a credit to him. I don't know whether he could have ever gotten things truly turned around, but he at least took KU from laughingstock to just bad.
Duke did not win a national title this year because their roster was flawed.
Even though they had a ton of top end talent, that talent did not necessarily fit together well on the court. Reddish and Barrett played the same position, and would have had similar roles had they been on different teams. On the same team, Reddish was often the odd man out. Even still, Reddish was easily their third best player.
Behind the four freshmen (adding in PG Jones) Duke had basically zero depth. The NCAA is still five on five, and Duke didn't really have anyone else they trusted to give minutes to. Their four freshmen all played about 30 mpg, with most of the other players on the team playing 20 mpg or less. Had Williamson, Reddish and Jones not missed time, there's a decent chance that Duke would have had four players average 30+ minutes and four others averaging 15 or so minutes per game. That lack of depth consistently got exposed, particularly in the tournament where good teams could attack the weak link on the floor.
On top of that, Duke didn't have much in the way of perimeter shooting. They shot 30% as a team from three. They likely would have been unguardable if they had shot 35% from three, and a real nightmare at just 33%.
Duke had a flawed roster and it haunted them all March. If you could keep Williamson and Barrett out of the paint, Duke was actually easier to guard, and they always had at least one weaker player on the floor.
We all know that most NCAA champions have at least seven or eight legitimate contributors. That is just a must unless you get really lucky.
RE: KU QB Curse
dylans said:
@justanotherfan Did you see the stats for the qbs after they left KU? Much improved. Is the big12 that tuff or does KU suck that bad at the supporting positions -line, receiver?
KU's line was among the worst in D1 for a while. Tom Brady would have looked average behind that line.