Well we didnt spend $75 million on a medieval times but I suppose it'll have to do.

Kevin Thomas, WR from DeSoto, TX commits.

Not bad.

Had offers from Nebraska, Clemson, Wisconsin, and others.

Like!

The Aquarium for basketball rules will be state of the art.

Some sports traditions go back farther than 1988.

some have it, some don't

http://worldonline.media.clients.ell...6f48523261b548

I'm not up to date on the history of sports aquariums. Or medieval football stadiums. But I'm glad we have one or two experts on which we can rely.

Traevohn Wrench fails to qualify, heading to Butler County.

KU gonna go 5-7 this year. Well, probably 4-8. But I'm going to say 5-7.

I'm just hoping for better.

Aaron Garza reversed on his verbal commitment to Texas. He had offers from Arizona State, Auburn, Baylor, Okie Lite, Ole Miss, and Colorado State. Looks like he's choosing KU.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/fo...61/aaron-garza

In addition to Garza Campo gets Kentucky commitment CB Michael Mathis to flip to the Hawks. He's 6'-2". Good week for Campo, lets keep it rollin.

For those of you who avoid the Re-Alignment thread...

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3853/...93f4f17c_h.jpg

Is that a picture from your last home game in '13?

I keed, I keed!:D

no, the track would have been there ;)

Looks like we pulled in a transfer WR at the last second. Kid's from Maryland.

Link

Maryland transfer King lands at Kansas
Jon Kirby

Talk about it in Memorial Stadium Slant Suite


The wide receiver position just got better at Kansas with the addition of Maryland transfer Nigel King. About two weeks ago King announced he was leaving the Terrapins program.

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="Left" width="221"><tbody><tr><td width="215">https://ct.yimg.com/mr/uploads/897/1570449.jpg</td><td rowspan="3" width="6">https://ct.yimg.com/mr/images/spacer1.gif</td></tr><tr><td height="3">https://ct.yimg.com/mr/images/spacer1.gif</td></tr><tr><td align="center">King will have two years of eligibility at Kansas</td></tr></tbody></table>He didn't have much time to find his next home and listened to his former high school coach Otis Yelverton. A big part of landing in Lawrence is new wide receivers coach Eric Kiesau.

"He and Eric Kiesau have a very good relationship," King said. "I didn't have a lot of time and everything happened so fast. I found out about Kansas through my former coach and he recommended them to me. I trust what he told me."

King graduated from Maryland over the summer and was given his release in late last week. The recruiting process is different with transfers so the Jayhawks didn't have a chance to do a lot of selling.

"They only got one phone call and I also talked to coach Weis during the call," King said. "When we talked it helped out a lot about questions I had."

Over the last two seasons King played in all 24 games for Maryland. He was third on the team in receptions last year with 33 for 450 yards. He also led Maryland in touchdown catches. His best performance was 76 yards receiving against Clemson.

King was a member of the Rivals250 coming out of Oak Ridge Academy. He had offers from LSU, South Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Louisville, and West Virginia.

King will report with the team today and is expected to go through drills on Friday. He is ready for his next challenge at the college level. He will be eligible to play for the next two years at Kansas.

"Winning and playing," King said. "Those are my main two goals. I want to put in the time and hopefully help the team get some wins."

oh Hell yeah

Why did people hate the track so much? Did anyone really go to games under Fat Man when tailgating was good, crowds were full, we were pretty good (and damn good at home) ........and think: "You know I'd be having way more fun if that track wasn't there." Who the hell even noticed it then?

It just made the stadium look amateurish. I don't think you see other top stadiums with the track in there.

I don't think I've ever had more fun at a football game than November 3rd, 2007. The track made no impact on the experience. Building the new facility made the current situation obsolete so you simply remove what is not needed.

the North endzone seats are still way too far away from the field....

I really have to hand it to KSU fans. After years of just mentioning the track and making the lil bro fans feel so insecure in their digs, they got Hamm Asphalt to bring a single little dozer in to dig it up.

I congratulate you on your new multi green carpeted Harley track. Perhaps some windmills on that prairie in the North end zone will be next?

Don't need windmills, but you can collectively blow us.

Hi BC. You cray man. Cray.

Next thing you know, KU will build a huge fence with barcaloungers in the South end zone to block the "beautiful view of that sidewalked, slightly upwardly angled mound covered with sidewalks".

(When there aren't circus tents there)

Did Hamm Asphalt have a bunch of green turf remnants laying around? The 50 shades of green is gorgeous.

I love kstates New castle or I mean stadium.

I just realized that Hamm Asphalt apparently salvaged your goalposts too. Was that negotiated? I can dig through "The New castle" and scrounge some up, Krylon them in any color of green to match the green in the carpet outlet area.

Finishing process continues

https://ct.yimg.com/mr/uploads/897/F1073214.jpg

http://media.kansas.com/smedia/2013/...8.SlMa.80.jpeg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...e_Festival.jpg

Actually, we declared the track removal a victory. So the Goalposts took a plunge in Potter's Lake.

One team.
One Chant
Zero goalposts

Yikes.

One team
One chant.
"It's a castle"

Looking good.

Will be nice to see it once they groom it all.

You might want to learn a bit about the construction process before you come talking shit.

Just sayin

You guys set the standard with the polyshade purple basketball court.

Yea, that court is really ugly.

We don't need goalposts, Cholly will have em scoring so many TDs they won't be necessary.

We're trying to reduce the amount of points scored by the visiting team. It's called "thinking outside the box" defense.

Oh, I thought it was because we don't plan to score. :shake:

On another note, there is a thread over at Phog about Harbaugh and how it was pretty much a done deal until Lew screwed the pooch. :cuss: There are articles about it at the time and I guess Harbaugh has said in interviews that was true. :banghead:

Had he come to KU, it would have been short lived
When the NFL teams came a callin.

Maybe not. NFL teams didn't come calling until after his successful 4th (& 5th?) year at Stanford if memory serves. His first 2 seasons at Stanford were something like 4-8 and 5-7. I don't imagine he would have had that kind of success immediately at KU. However, it wouldn't have been the mess that Charlie walked into. Gill was such a monumental !@#$ up.

There was no need to hire Harbaugh because we already had our own Snyder, who was already COY and a BCS winner and who had gone to bowls in 4/6 prior years and was 5-0, #13 in the country when the ugly fool AD started his idiotic witch hunt.


On a side note, it's funny that Ogre was grandstanding about "ethics" while, as it was later discovered, he was running the dept like a total crook and personally taking kickbacks.

Gotta love the phog. To this day still believing the Harbaugh story.

WE WERE SO CLOSE

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

So true, especially Bambi and his wounded vajayjayhawk

Hey we cherish the "what could of been's" like you guys cherish the "what could of been's" DVD sets...

:thumb:

Really? You're gonna argue against this. I haven't heard the broadcast but many people said that Harbaugh admitted to it in an interview on one of the KC stations. So Jim is just a liar according to William?

"Jim" is a liar? I don't know if "Jim" is a liar. I personally don't believe that Harbaugh was ever close to signing with KU. Doesn't mean you can't believe.

During realignment we heard all sorts of rumors and speculation, 99% of which were patently false.

"Harbaugh was coming to KU".
"Larry Scott and the PAC12 plane was on its way to Lawrence".
"K-State was the anchor that kept KU from leaving the Big XII to go to...".
"KSU/KU had an agreement to join the Big East".
Norte Dame this... Norte Dame that...

And on and on. I mean it could be true. But I'm much more of a skeptic than you possibly. And As time moves away from the actual events, the tales grow longer and people tend to take a little artistic license with the stories.

Give it a rest, William... give it a rest...

Apparently Cozart, Pierson, Harwell, former tight end Charles Brooks and Christian Garrett beat Joel Embiid, Jamari Traylor, Naadir Tharpe, Frank Mason and some fifth in a basketball game last summer.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt...#storylink=cpy

Zeke, it was a question asked. And answered.

I get that, but you're trolling of all things KU is getting borderline maniacal.

I like you as a poster way too much to let it continue without saying something. :mad:

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Trolling? I wholeheartedly disagree. As BC says, "it's brothers wrestling in the back yard".

This is kind of troubling to me, Zeke. I've seen two people get banned from KU threads because certain groups of people cannot mentally handle a little ribbing on a message board. (Prison Bitch for being negative towards Bill Self and Rusty for posting about ISU BBALL or FBALL in a KU thread). To those folks I say "too ****ing bad".

I read Bambi's posts about KSU's new castle and chuckle. Cause it does looks like a castle kinda. Prison Bitch is one of the funniest posters on this site IMO. And he's as statistically sound on issues as anybody. Rusty is just a guy talking about how he really wants ISU football and basketball to succeed. So he does it in KU threads? BFD.

I know it doesn't compare to saying "ISBOOOOOOOOOO" a bazillion times or "+1" and "spot on" and " warm up the tractor" over and over. I mean, scintillating stuff as that can be, you sometimes have to take vinegar with the oil.

Long story short Zeke. I love ya man. But it's okay to have a little fun.

The banning from the KU thread is stupid.

I agree. Must not happen in the football thread because they know they have accepted they are losing to Iowa State in football... But the idea of another good team in basketball gets them real butt hurt.

Iowa State has a football team?

KU is gonna beat that ass in Football Rusty!

I know it's probably a blur with all the other teams beating you too.

To watch Prison Bitch and Saul Good destroy each other (and other posters) in the realignment thread is to this day some of the greatest wit ever presented on this board.

That people want to silence others outright pisses me off.

Is that supposed to be scary? Pretty sure the last time that guy was in the Big 12 he went 1-7.

He didn't have Wally as his DC though, or a HC like Rhoads that the players love to over achieve for. Iowa State is loaded at the skill positions, his job will be easy. There potential at QB and the OL is healthy this year unlike last.

Looking really good. I love the clean lines of our stadium, incredibly unique.

That's a nice sacrificial altar you have on that obstructed view hill thingy.

Whats up with the obstructed view?


Shit the guys down the road can build a mideveal cow milking castle/barn and we cant have an unobstructed view?

I've always heard "the view from the hill" is one of the most breathtaking sights on campus (when the tents and scoreboard aren't in the way.)

You need to put something on the back of that scoreboard. I mean, put the basketball schedule up there for chrissakes.

I feel for KSU fans, they're on the precipice of their football program goin back to the dark ages (hence the castle construction) when Old Balls retires or dies. Inevitable as the sun setting in the west. Like the sun setting on the greatest turnaround evah

From this...

http://www.thesalutepodcast.com/wp-c...2013/09/96.jpg

To this...

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/178...omOAeaxw%3D%3D

That could happen. But the probability is greater that you'll be banned from a KU thread before KSU tanks.

Just move it to the other end of the field... With modern technology in abundance around the Kansas campus, I am sure most already have the basketball schedule on the phone.

Yep, i don't agree with the bannings, but oh well... PB is dick at times, but the rise he gets out of folks (especially in the royals threads) can be hilarious.

I like Rusty, he had some amazing enthusiasm and spirit.

I met a KU fan from Kansas City at a wedding last weekend... He was actually a way cool dude. Of course he said he didn't come to CP though.

I don't. Do you think for a second that KSU fans would feel sorry for KU fans if our basketball program tanked?

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