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by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
How many days until LATE NIGHT in The PHOG!
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and other dates of interest...*Estimate based on first Friday in October. Official announcement expected in July 2024.
KU MEN'S HOOPS -
Even without Furphy, KANSAS remains #1 in the preseason Top 25 lists.
CBSSports.com - Parrish: AY2024-25 Top 25+1 2024-05-30
ESPN.com - Borzello: WTE AY2024-25 Top 25 2024-05-30
Well, okay, not everyone has our Jayhawks preseason #1... and that's okay...
sports.yahoo.com: Alabama basketball is projected to be the No. 1 team in the nation
OTHER KU ATHLETICS NEWS -
• KUFB - The nonconference schedule info is out.
KUAthletics.com: Kansas Football Non-Conference Slate Highlighted by ESPN Primetime Matchup vs. UNLV
• KUVB - Next game is today May 31 – vs. B1 Volley Modena (Modena, Italy)
Click the link to see where our Jayhawks are today!
www.google.com/maps/place/Modena,+Provin...20vMGd3Mnc?entry=ttu
• KU Athletics - KUAthletics.com: Kansas Student-Athletes Tie Department GPA Mark for Third-Consecutive Semester
Way to ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS!
ELSEWHERE -
SI.com: SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey Again Suggests NCAA Tournament Expansion
As a rule I dislike the tremendously spiteful and exceedingly biased mOOster Pat Forde, but even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while... And if Sankey is so keen on expanding the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, and he truly believes his previous recommendation that the top 25% of all Division 1 programs should get a chance to participate in the postseason for the national championship in their sports, then why is the College Football Playoffs for the 134 Division 1 Football Bowl Series programs not set to have 16 (11.9%) or even 32 teams (23.8%) in it so there are no byes, everybody has to play the same number of games to earn the title? Having 16 teams (no byes) as opposed to the 12 now set for next season (where the top 4 teams get a bye that they certainly do NOT need if they are as good as they always seem to be) does not add another week of play to the postseason schedule. If just means that 4 more programs get a chance to compete for the ring while the big boys don't get the additional advantage they shouldn't need of a week off to recover and prepare for their first playoffs games.
[steps off soapbox]
The weather today in Lawrence is projected to be cloudy and cooler with a high of 71F (21.7 C), a low of 62F (16.7 C) and an 88% chance for showers and a thunderstorm later in the evening and into Friday morning. Well, that 88% is now of *further* precipitation today as it just finished raining as I post this morning.
That is all for now.
Hope you have a GREAT day!
ROCK CHALK!
Thought for the day
”"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
Vince Lombardi
and other dates of interest...
DAYS DATE EVENT
2 Sun 2024-06-02 Recruiting dead period ends (began 05-22)
90 Thu 2024-08-29 Days until KUFB 2024
126 Fri 2024-10-04 Days until LATE NIGHT in The PHOG!*KU MEN'S HOOPS -
Even without Furphy, KANSAS remains #1 in the preseason Top 25 lists.
CBSSports.com - Parrish: AY2024-25 Top 25+1 2024-05-30
ESPN.com - Borzello: WTE AY2024-25 Top 25 2024-05-30
Well, okay, not everyone has our Jayhawks preseason #1... and that's okay...
sports.yahoo.com: Alabama basketball is projected to be the No. 1 team in the nation
OTHER KU ATHLETICS NEWS -
• KUFB - The nonconference schedule info is out.
KUAthletics.com: Kansas Football Non-Conference Slate Highlighted by ESPN Primetime Matchup vs. UNLV
• KUVB - Next game is today May 31 – vs. B1 Volley Modena (Modena, Italy)
Click the link to see where our Jayhawks are today!
www.google.com/maps/place/Modena,+Provin...20vMGd3Mnc?entry=ttu
• KU Athletics - KUAthletics.com: Kansas Student-Athletes Tie Department GPA Mark for Third-Consecutive Semester
Way to ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS!
ELSEWHERE -
SI.com: SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey Again Suggests NCAA Tournament Expansion
As a rule I dislike the tremendously spiteful and exceedingly biased mOOster Pat Forde, but even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while... And if Sankey is so keen on expanding the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, and he truly believes his previous recommendation that the top 25% of all Division 1 programs should get a chance to participate in the postseason for the national championship in their sports, then why is the College Football Playoffs for the 134 Division 1 Football Bowl Series programs not set to have 16 (11.9%) or even 32 teams (23.8%) in it so there are no byes, everybody has to play the same number of games to earn the title? Having 16 teams (no byes) as opposed to the 12 now set for next season (where the top 4 teams get a bye that they certainly do NOT need if they are as good as they always seem to be) does not add another week of play to the postseason schedule. If just means that 4 more programs get a chance to compete for the ring while the big boys don't get the additional advantage they shouldn't need of a week off to recover and prepare for their first playoffs games.
[steps off soapbox]
The weather today in Lawrence is projected to be cloudy and cooler with a high of 71F (21.7 C), a low of 62F (16.7 C) and an 88% chance for showers and a thunderstorm later in the evening and into Friday morning. Well, that 88% is now of *further* precipitation today as it just finished raining as I post this morning.
That is all for now.
Hope you have a GREAT day!
ROCK CHALK!
Thought for the day
”"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
Vince Lombardi
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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