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Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Anything pertaining to basketball: college, pro, HS, recruiting, TV coverage
Morning report 2024-07-06
4 months 2 weeks ago - 4 months 2 weeks ago #32927
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"
It's Saturday July 6 and I overslept! (Sorry, hoshi!
)
Without further ado...
How many days until LATE NIGHT in The PHOG! ?
and other dates of interest...
All times shown are Central Time .*Estimate based on first Friday in October. Official announcement expected in July 2024.
RECRUITING CALENDAR DATES for D1 MEN'S BASKETBALL
Today continues the annual July dead period (with its three 3-day evaluation periods). The next full "Recruiting" Period, where both on & off campus in-person contacts are allowed, begins SEP 4.
2024-07-01 thru 07-31: dead period, except as noted below†
..2024-07-11 thru 07-14: evaluation period†
..2024-07-19 thru 07-21: evaluation period†
..2024-07-23 thru 07-25: evaluation period†
2024-08-01 thru 09-03: quiet period, except as noted below‡
..2024-08-06 thru 08-20: dead period‡
2024-09-04 thru 2025-04-30: recruiting period, except as noted below‡
..2024-11-04 thru 11-07: dead period‡
..2024-12-24 thru 12-26: dead period‡
..2025-04-03 thru 04-10: dead period‡
Recruiting Calendars linked below contain detailed info and explanation of recruiting periods.
† NCAA.org: 2023-24 NCAA RECRUITING CALENDAR Division I Men’s Basketball
‡ NCAA.org: 2024-25 NCAA RECRUITING CALENDAR Division I Men’s Basketball
KU ATHLETICS
✦ KU MEN'S HOOPS -
• The AY2024-25 Player & Staff Roster has been posted and pinned to the PINNED THREADS section at the top of forum page one. Includes detailed info about player status (scholarship/walk-on, redshirt?, injury - please, NO! -), projected starters and the NEXT UP corps, and links to both the official KUAthletics.com roster and the Rivals JayhawkSlant roster curated by Shay Wildeboor. Hope you enjoy it! Please let me know if you have any questions or spot anything that needs editing.
• 247Sports.com - Grant Hughes: Top 10 college basketball backcourts entering the 2024-25 season
It's a guard's game, and these teams have the best.
At #1 according to Hughes - KANSAS.
Here's to all this preseason hype holding true and ending in Title 7!
✦ KUFB -
• KUSports.com - Henry Greenstein: Key offseason topics to discuss with each KU participant at Big 12 media days
✦ KU Athletics - General[/b]
• KUAthletics.com: Voegele earns freshman All-American nod from D1Baseball
CONGRATULATIONS, DOMINIC!
ROCK CHALK!
• KUSports.com - podcast: Rock Chalk Sports Talk on KU, Royals and more
ELSEWHERE -
PODCAST: Business Wars - Season 95: College Football Wars
5 Episodes wondery.com/shows/business-wars/season/95/
cwobrien11, one of my favorite JayhawkSlant posters, posted about this Friday afternoon. Here is his description (why build a new wheel when one is readily available? Just be sure to give credit where due)…
kansas.forums.rivals.com/threads/podcast...f-the-pac-12.122826/ (behind the paywall)
I just came across a great podcast that I think most of you would enjoy. Wondery has a podcast called Business Wars where they do 5-6 podcasts that dive in on conflict between two separate business entities that are competing for a market.
I’m a nerd so I find it enjoyable, but season 95 is called College Football Wars. It starts as a PAC-12/B1G discussion and finishes up with the death of the PAC-12. It goes from just before the formation of the BCS through the formation of the Pac12Net to the TV rights problems and eventual death of the conference. It’s sourced well even if it’s a little campy. Lots of good information in it including some things that were speculated but not confirmed.
Subsequent comments in the same thread -
XpertDesperad0
I listened to that the other week. It was very well done and provided a lot of background information that I wasn't aware of. It's crazy to think there was a timeline where 5 Big 12 schools could have went to the B1G around 2010/2011. As well as the fact KU would have been part of the Pac-16 if A&M opted for the SEC like they always wanted.
It goes to show that the Pac-12 had the upperhand in pretty much every situation and decided to misplay their hand every time. They could have survived if they make any number of decisions over the years and just messed it all up. Them not taking the ESPN deal that Yormark did is what really put them under. If they took it we'd be talking about which Big 12 schools were left behind when schools went to the Pac on life rafts.
cwobrien11
It almost happened twice…once when they added Utah/CU and they almost pulled it off after the Big 12 lost A&M/Mizzou. If they had been able to find a financial solution for the Longhorn Network it probably happens. Pretty damned crazy.
What stood out for me was that at almost every single turn over DECADES, they overvalued their own importance and political pull. It’s insane how many times they made the same basic mistake over and over without learning from it or questioning it. They were told over and over again for a decade that they didn’t draw eyes nationally but they never believed it or did ANYTHING to change. They believed it so it must have been true.
I have yet to listen to it, but if cwobrien11 recommends it, I can recommend it sound unheard.
Enjoy!
The Lawrence forecast from Accuweather.com:
Today: Mostly sunny and pleasant. Hi: 89° F (31.7° C)
Tonight: Partly cloudy with a thunderstorm in the area. Lo: 65° F (18.3° C)
Chance of precipitation: 1% during the day, 40% overnight.
That is all for now.
Hope you have a GREAT day!
ROCK CHALK!
✦ Thought for the Day
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
- Allen Saunders.
Often attributed to John Lennon and his song "Beautiful Boy", it was actually originally published in Reader's Digest in January 1957 and credited to American writer, journalist, and cartoonist Allen Saunders. Lennon later slightly modified the quote and popularized it in his song.
)Without further ado...
How many days until LATE NIGHT in The PHOG! ?
and other dates of interest...
All times shown are Central Time .
DAYS DATE EVENT
54 Thu 2024-08-29 KUFB v Lindenwood, Children's Mercy Park, KCK 7PM, ESPN+
90 Fri 2024-10-04 Days until LATE NIGHT in The PHOG!*
125 Fri 2024-11-08 UNC in AFH
129 Tue 2024-11-12 Champions Classic v Michigan St, State Farm Arena, Atlanta
143 Tue 2024-11-26 Vegas Showdown v Duke, T-Mobile Arena, LV
151 Wed 2024-12-04 Big 12-Big East Battle @Creighton University, OmahaRECRUITING CALENDAR DATES for D1 MEN'S BASKETBALL
Today continues the annual July dead period (with its three 3-day evaluation periods). The next full "Recruiting" Period, where both on & off campus in-person contacts are allowed, begins SEP 4.
2024-07-01 thru 07-31: dead period, except as noted below†
..2024-07-11 thru 07-14: evaluation period†
..2024-07-19 thru 07-21: evaluation period†
..2024-07-23 thru 07-25: evaluation period†
2024-08-01 thru 09-03: quiet period, except as noted below‡
..2024-08-06 thru 08-20: dead period‡
2024-09-04 thru 2025-04-30: recruiting period, except as noted below‡
..2024-11-04 thru 11-07: dead period‡
..2024-12-24 thru 12-26: dead period‡
..2025-04-03 thru 04-10: dead period‡
Recruiting Calendars linked below contain detailed info and explanation of recruiting periods.
† NCAA.org: 2023-24 NCAA RECRUITING CALENDAR Division I Men’s Basketball
‡ NCAA.org: 2024-25 NCAA RECRUITING CALENDAR Division I Men’s Basketball
KU ATHLETICS
✦ KU MEN'S HOOPS -
• The AY2024-25 Player & Staff Roster has been posted and pinned to the PINNED THREADS section at the top of forum page one. Includes detailed info about player status (scholarship/walk-on, redshirt?, injury - please, NO! -), projected starters and the NEXT UP corps, and links to both the official KUAthletics.com roster and the Rivals JayhawkSlant roster curated by Shay Wildeboor. Hope you enjoy it! Please let me know if you have any questions or spot anything that needs editing.
• 247Sports.com - Grant Hughes: Top 10 college basketball backcourts entering the 2024-25 season
It's a guard's game, and these teams have the best.
At #1 according to Hughes - KANSAS.
Here's to all this preseason hype holding true and ending in Title 7!
✦ KUFB -
• KUSports.com - Henry Greenstein: Key offseason topics to discuss with each KU participant at Big 12 media days
✦ KU Athletics - General[/b]
• KUAthletics.com: Voegele earns freshman All-American nod from D1Baseball
CONGRATULATIONS, DOMINIC!
ROCK CHALK!
• KUSports.com - podcast: Rock Chalk Sports Talk on KU, Royals and more
ELSEWHERE -
PODCAST: Business Wars - Season 95: College Football Wars
5 Episodes wondery.com/shows/business-wars/season/95/
cwobrien11, one of my favorite JayhawkSlant posters, posted about this Friday afternoon. Here is his description (why build a new wheel when one is readily available? Just be sure to give credit where due)…
kansas.forums.rivals.com/threads/podcast...f-the-pac-12.122826/ (behind the paywall)
I just came across a great podcast that I think most of you would enjoy. Wondery has a podcast called Business Wars where they do 5-6 podcasts that dive in on conflict between two separate business entities that are competing for a market.
I’m a nerd so I find it enjoyable, but season 95 is called College Football Wars. It starts as a PAC-12/B1G discussion and finishes up with the death of the PAC-12. It goes from just before the formation of the BCS through the formation of the Pac12Net to the TV rights problems and eventual death of the conference. It’s sourced well even if it’s a little campy. Lots of good information in it including some things that were speculated but not confirmed.
Subsequent comments in the same thread -
XpertDesperad0
I listened to that the other week. It was very well done and provided a lot of background information that I wasn't aware of. It's crazy to think there was a timeline where 5 Big 12 schools could have went to the B1G around 2010/2011. As well as the fact KU would have been part of the Pac-16 if A&M opted for the SEC like they always wanted.
It goes to show that the Pac-12 had the upperhand in pretty much every situation and decided to misplay their hand every time. They could have survived if they make any number of decisions over the years and just messed it all up. Them not taking the ESPN deal that Yormark did is what really put them under. If they took it we'd be talking about which Big 12 schools were left behind when schools went to the Pac on life rafts.
cwobrien11
It almost happened twice…once when they added Utah/CU and they almost pulled it off after the Big 12 lost A&M/Mizzou. If they had been able to find a financial solution for the Longhorn Network it probably happens. Pretty damned crazy.
What stood out for me was that at almost every single turn over DECADES, they overvalued their own importance and political pull. It’s insane how many times they made the same basic mistake over and over without learning from it or questioning it. They were told over and over again for a decade that they didn’t draw eyes nationally but they never believed it or did ANYTHING to change. They believed it so it must have been true.
I have yet to listen to it, but if cwobrien11 recommends it, I can recommend it sound unheard.
Enjoy!
The Lawrence forecast from Accuweather.com:
Today: Mostly sunny and pleasant. Hi: 89° F (31.7° C)
Tonight: Partly cloudy with a thunderstorm in the area. Lo: 65° F (18.3° C)
Chance of precipitation: 1% during the day, 40% overnight.
That is all for now.
Hope you have a GREAT day!
ROCK CHALK!
✦ Thought for the Day
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
- Allen Saunders.
Often attributed to John Lennon and his song "Beautiful Boy", it was actually originally published in Reader's Digest in January 1957 and credited to American writer, journalist, and cartoonist Allen Saunders. Lennon later slightly modified the quote and popularized it in his song.
"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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