Morning report 2024-07-11

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 begins the first of three 3-4 day Evaluation periods in the month of July. As a refresher, authorized athletics department
staff members can be be involved in "off-campus activities designed to assess the academic qualifications and playing ability of prospective student-athletes. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts shall be made with the prospective student-athlete during an evaluation period."* 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 -
It's Big 12 Media time, and the focus is on Football. But there is this for KU Men's Hoops fans --
• WHEAT STATE SUMMER SHOWDOWN: PURPLE REIGN VS. MASS STREET
Mass Street (KU Alumni Basketball team) takes on Purple Reign (K-State Alumni Basketball team) at Johnson County Community College on Wednesday July 17th, 2024.
BEAK 'EM, HAWKS!
("Urban Village Outreach (UVO) is a nonprofit organization working to revitalize communities and neighborhoods in the Greater St. Louis Area. Urban Village acts as a resource and partner to the community, bringing together non-profit organizations, financial institutions and government to make successful neighborhood revitalization." I find it ironic that players from two Kansas programs are getting together in Johnson County Kansas for an event designed at least in part to support communities in the "Greater St. Louis Area". I applaud their generosity, but have to ask is there nothing like UVO to help communities in the state of Kansas? - HE)
• KUSports.com - Greenstein: Sizable contingent of Jayhawks set to play in Las Vegas Summer League

✦ KUFB -
• 247Sports.com - Swain: Everything Lance Leipold said at the podium at Big 12 Media Days
• 247Sports.com - Swain: Jalon Daniels sets the record straight on his 2023 season, outlook for 2024
• 247Sports.com - Ritter: Jalon Daniels discusses his health, offseason focus
• 247Sports.com - Swain: WATCH: Lance Leipold, Jalon Daniels speak at Big 12 Media Days
• KUSports.com - Greenstein: ‘Quiet leader’ Robinson could steady KU defensive line
• KUAthletics.com: Big 12 Media Days KANSAS Photos
• Tweet: Leipold on Kansas internal alignment

✦ KU Athletics - OTHER
• KUAthletics.com: Voegele shines with USA Baseball Collegiate National Team
• KUAthletics.com: Dimitrios Pavlidis of Kansas Track and Field named Second Team Academic All-America by College Sports Communicators

✦ ELSEWHERE -
• 247Sports.com - Jason Scheer:Brett Yormark outlines future vision for Big 12
• 247Sports.com - Michael Swain: Brett Yormark expects the Big 12 to be 'the deepest football conference in America' this fall
• 247Sports.com - Brian Hanley: VIDEO - Big 12 Insiders: Brett Yormark pushes Big 12's new persona
• Tweet: Kansas on the rise - interview with Yormark about Big 12 and specifically KU

✦ LFK weather forecast
Today: partly sunny, high 91°F (32.8°C), (P)recipitation 6%
Tonight: clear, lo 70°F (21.1°C), (P)recipitation 23%

That is all for now.

Hope you have a GREAT day!

ROCK CHALK!

✦ Thought for the Day
”The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney

Walt was born in Chicago (1901-12-05), but the family moved to a farm in Marceline, MO in December 1906, and 5 years later to KCMO where Walt was raised from 1911-17. He began his career in the art world in earnest there before returning to Chicago with the family to finish high school. After serving as a Red Cross ambulance driver in France just after the end of World War I (he had tried but was too young to enlist in the Army to fight "the Hun", so he forged the date on his birth certificate and joined the Red Cross, arriving in France just after the armistice was signed 1918-11-11), in 1919 he returned to KCMO and began his life's work in earnest. He lived and worked there until leaving for Hollywood in 1923 to join with his older brother Roy (living in southern California for his health -- he was fighting tuberculosis) in founding and building the Disney Brothers Studio, which later became the Walt Disney Company. Countless feature films, Disney Land, Walt Disney World... In 2009, the Walt Disney Family Museum, designed by Disney's daughter Diane and her son Walter E. D. Miller, opened on my old stomping grounds of the former Army installation the Presidio of San Francisco. Thousands of artifacts from Disney's life and career are on display, including numerous awards that he received.

Walt was an American original, a visionary, and a great, great man.

Thank you, Walt.

And thank you also to older brother Roy, who ironically outlived his younger brother. After Walt's death (Walt had been a heavy smoker since World War I and died from lung cancer at the relatively young age of 65 in December 1966), Roy came out of retirement to run the Walt Disney Company, and worked to ensure that Walt's final dream, Disney World, came to fruition with the opening of The Magic Kingdom park in 1971. Roy died just three months after Walt Disney World opened, and it took 11 more years for Walt's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) to open as the second attraction at WDW. Apparently the Disney board of directors did not want to be in the business of running an actual city, so Walt's original "town of tomorrow" concept was replaced by what is essentially an ongoing "World's Fair". But without Roy carrying the flag to the mountaintop, Walt Disney World and EPCOT -- which Mrs HE and I visited in April and enjoyed tremendously, our favorite park in WDW -- would not exist today.