Originally Posted by RustShack (Post 10647591)

I understand you not wanting to believe after being at top for so long, I'd probably feel the same way. But Fred is building something special. Something really special.

There is a reason every single NBA opening this year has contacted Fred Hoiberg gauging his interest.

Originally Posted by Chief_For_Life58 (Post 10647663)

seriously please ban this **** stick from the KU BASKETBALL THREAD. this is a joke

Originally Posted by noa (Post 10647627)

Hate to say it because he's obviously delusional, but ISU arguably had a better year than KU. Yes KU beat them at the Hilton, which was extraordinarily gratifying, and KU won the regular season, but the Hawks had so much talent on paper and never put it together. Bill Self did a bad job of coaching last year, and we looked like dogshit in the tourney and lost to a dogshit team. ISU played better than us later in the season, and that's when it matters. The huge caveat obviously is that Embiid was out for us for so long, but even then, we still had so much talent on paper, and Self never got the team to gel. They didn't play motivated. I have confidence that Self will do a better job next year, and in the long run, of course I'd rather be KU than ISU, but Rusty has a leg to stand on in terms of last year.
As for next year, we're bringing in a hell of a class, so I'd expect us to beat ISU again and be better than we were last season, but it depends heavily on a group of guys who have never played together before. The odds are strongly in our favor that KU will outplay ISU next year, but given Self's failings last year with incredible talent, it's far from certain.

Originally Posted by noa (Post 10647627)

Hate to say it because he's obviously delusional, but ISU arguably had a better year than KU.

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz (Post 10657073)

Originally Posted by Mr_Tomahawk (Post 10660107)

Bambi, can you provide a link where you got those renderings...I would like to tweet it out to a couple of my KSU buddies. :)