Purp guard calls Greene a $*&%...

No surprises here, Hawks need to come ready to play. Nothing nicer than beating an amped up opponent and their, <expletive> fans in the house of purple lunacy...lets make some wine Hawks, I hear Manhattan grapes are sour/bitter/winey but they squish real nice.

I remember my days in High School Pep Band in Central Kansas, we also had to play the KState Fight Song. I talked with the Band Director about playing the KU fight song out of equal time. He purchase the sheet music and passed it out to rehearse and some of the KStaters put their instruments in their laps, pinched their nose, and refused to play.

Our family was a KU family in a sea of KStarters (even thou my dad was a farmer). 3 of 4 kids in our family attended KU. Such an experience is where true behavioral traits came out that definitately re-enforced my interest not to attend KSU. Had no interest in re-living my hometome as relocated to KSU campus. They seemed to reak of immaturity.

I think maybe it was an act on his part, and he just wanted to tweak Weber.

Yes, Greene did just play one minute in the next game after Self said there would be no punishment, but that minute actually came in the middle of the first half.

And I repeat....HUGE inferiority complex.

Octagon of Dumb.....

AND do they have ANY songs but their fight song and Wabash Cannonball for their band to play?

Darn! Now where did I stash that snickers?

Tweak the squeak!

....but Greene earned whatever KSU deals out on him. I'm sure the fans will be on him from the get-go, and if I were a KSU player with ANY dunking ability I'd be looking for ANY opportunity to posterize Greene even if it resulted in an obvious offensive foul.

Sorry, that's just the way it is.

Now, with that in mind, Greene's not a starter. It's entirely possible that HCBS won't make it an issue if we're in control of the game, and simply won't play him much (or at all).

Should be interesting, but in the end, Greene brought this on himself. I imagine that if he gets in the game, he'll be greeted with the loudest boos that KSU can muster. Knowing Greene, if he responds by draining a 3, he'll take the low road and make some kind of asinine gesture which will just exacerbate things. Hoping that somebody takes him aside and gives him some "instruction" on humility and sportsmanship in anticipation of what will likely be the case.

Just hope that it doesn't escalate beyond some booing and/or trash talking. KSU is 6 games back with 5 to play...out of it. With nothing left to lose on the season, it's a great opportunity for people to make stupid decisions. Our guys (and Greene in particular) need to recognize that we're still in a conference race and need to set ourselves up for a deep tourney run...no matter what KSU might have to say about it.

Beat the living tar out of the grapes and voila no court storming. In today's LJW, KSU players advocating their fans to storm the court should they win.

Beak the Squeak? I've also seen Weber referred to as Liberace which visualizes perfectly for me. The Jayhawks need to reclaim ownership of
the Octagon of Dung and return the purple court storming hordes of miscreants back to their rightful place: last place. They should be grateful, as that will get them an opportunity for an extra play-in game in the Big 12 tournament. There may be a DVD in the works...

I'm not justifying their potential actions. They're idiots and they'll do what they do. Nevertheless, "the dunk" gives them an outlet or (in their minds) an "excuse" to misbehave.

Kind of like Marcus Smart's backflip in AFH. Didn't hurt anybody, was a spontaneous act of joy. But plenty of fans took it as an affront to KU and it was used to stir the pot with the players.

Brannen obviously didn't murder anybody, but his actions can be used as a motivator. Combine that with the proven idiocy of the KSU fan base, and mix in a bunch of players whose season is in a shambles, and weird things happen.

Yep. If it's 50-3 at halftime, maybe the fans will go stumble around aggieville.

Self: Okay, BG, are we clear that your brainless move in Allen Fieldhouse against the Wildcats was immature and showed poor sportsmanship and most importantly that at Kansas we will not only be the best team on the court but we will be known as the class of college basketball and we will not allow or condone that crap...ever!

BG: yea, coach, I see that. I really do. I mostly regret it but you know it is kind of hard for me to see beyond my competitiveness.

Self: Dude, I do see that but I also need you to understand that this issue of sporstmanship is not just about how you feel but is really more about knowing and doing the right thing.

BG: I respect you coach and I hear what you're saying and I want to get it.

Self: Well, BG you can start by living into KU's standards when we play in Manahattan tomorrow

BG: What is it you want me to do, coach

Self: Well you clearly know that your little antic in Lawrence last month has made you public enemy number one and the fans are going to try their best to get into your head and make you as intimidated or angry or get some sort of reaction from you.

BG: I'm cool with that coach. I know what they are going to do and it won't faze me coach.

Self: Don't be a fool Brannen. Of course it will get to you. That is my exact point and my worry. Unless you are ready to commit to doing what's right regardless of how you feel and until you are ready to discipline yourself to do what's right when you are feeling that anger or feeling that desire to lash out, until you are ready to make a decision with your head instead of your emotions, you are not going to react well. So I am not going to try to convince you to not let those emotions swell up when you hear the crap they are going to bring. I know pretty well those emotions will be there. What I am telling you , BG, is that when you sense that, your job is to remember that name on the front of your uniform and to commit to doing what is right and not what your emotions are going to push you to do.

BG: I think I see coach. Yah, you are probably right, I will probably get pretty worked up when they start with all that crap. So how can I keep from acting the fool?

Self: that is the question I was hoping you would ask. Brannen, I am going to get you and your teammates together and they are going to commit to keeping you acocuntable. This is not just on you. This is on all of us. But we are Kansas. When everyone else is acting the fool, we will do what is right. When they start booing or when they break out the tasteless placards or signs we will double down on playing our game and we will show them that our style of toughnosed team execution basketball is more than a match for their emotionally charged silly desire for revenge. We will grind them into the gound with our excellent team basketball play and when we have completely demoralized them with our play, we will wish them good luck and express our admiration for their effort. They will yell loud with their trash talk and their classless signs from the fans and their chants and their rushing the court and all that. We will be yelling louder with our scoreboard and our sporstmanship. Brannen, we don't seek revenge, we seek to show the basketball world that we are the best team. We don't seek to find reasons to rise to the peak of our abilities. We have more than ample reason to simply play for the name on the front of this jersey and the other 13 players wearing that jersey. We will always want it more than the other guys becasue they find their motivation in retaliation for some silly slight they perceive while we find motivation to bring honor to all that KU has stood for from Dr. Naismith, to Dr. Allen, to 5 national championships, to the repustion as the toughest home court advantage in all of sports, to the fans that expect us to give our all and represent them and their...our school with grit, class and excellence. Brannen, the loudest, gaudiest, in your face message you can send to the K-State team and fans is to exemplify the excellnece and sportsmanship that is KU. That will heap burning coals on their head as they burn in the angst of jealousy and inferiority. So Brannen, when you get on the court tomorrow, you will play with excellence, you will play to the scouting report, you will give 100% effort, you will play in the team set, you will hustle with all you have and you will keep your mouth shut and smile and look to scoreboard as you drain your 7th straight three to put us up by 30. And when the crowd boos when you touch the ball you will look at your teammates and wink and you will silently say to each other..."I love being a Jayahwk."

BG: I will coach. I promise.

Yes, sir. We're seeing this eye-to-eye, particularly in regard to this "nonsense" of which you speak (kind of like how fans will chant "nonsense, nonsense, nonsense" after a bad call by the refs, right? ).

It takes two to tango in the "taking offense" world: the original offender and the offended. If you went on TV in a press conference and called me a @##$%, after I saved it on the DVR and proudly posted it on social media, I'd have the choice of whether or not to be offended.

As part of that determination, I’d consider the motives. Did my old web buddy Konza63 REALLY mean to call me that, or did he think that my occupation involved carnal relationships with women who’ve given birth?

Regardless, I’d still have the choice, and all too often today people forget about “the benefit of the doubt” when examining motives and rush to find ways to be offended. In reality, and in this case, Greene’s cheap dunk ended up being an embarrassment to Greene, not KSU. They had 40 whole minutes to embarrass themselves without him adding to it.

Nevertheless, if they’re using it to create some kind of false indignation to rile up the team and try to prevent 2/3’s of their “home crowd” arriving from Lawrence on game day, so be it. As Greene has hopefully learned, it’s easier not to give them the shiny object to play with in the first place.
As for your point about famous callouts, nothing comes to mind outside of professional wrestling. I’m sure if I had the tolerance to rifle through pre-bout interviews from certain boxers or MMA types, there might be some examples out there. Nevertheless it’s typically not done.

Then again, KSU fans have shown how classless they can be, so nothing would surprise me. They just don’t get it. If anything I admired how the ISU fans DIDN’T storm the court when they beat us. The message was clear, “we SHOULD beat you in our house…this was no big deal.” Speaks volumes compared to tossing Self onto the scorer’s table and cheap-shotting Traylor.

Makes me wonder: if we get enough KU fans there, would it be a bad idea for the KU fans to storm the KSU court if we won? I mean, we never get to do it in our place, so it only seems reasonable.

Ok, nevermind..probably a little too much. I'll settle for hearing the Rock Chalk Chant coming through my speakers on the TV.