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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Let's not beat around the bush, many aren't watching as closely because the team isn't as good as it used to be under Self in this era. It's really as simple as that. If they were playing great and up to their talent level, the NIL/transfer portal stuff wouldn't matter. But they're not. Self himself also appears to be mailing it in (there's literally no justification for an NBA player in Flory getting benched for someone as limited as KJ and on some level he must know that).
That's just normal, it's not like we all don't detach ourselves somewhat from our struggling teams. It's abundantly clear how the season is ending for this group despite having a significant amount of talent, so I'm not as emotionally invested myself. I do believe there are different roster iterations among this group of players that could work to contend, but I have no expectation that we'll see those at this point.
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There's no beating around the bush, of course that's what it is and what everyone is saying... if the team hadn't looked like they were mailing it in for long stretches the past couple seasons, people wouldn't be asking if it's related to NIL, transfer portal, etc.
There's potentially also some carryover of the Chiefs' success here when it comes to not caring so much about the regular season, too (and of course the recent Natty), plus conference expansion and playing dumb UCF on a Tuesday night... but yeah it's obvious if they were worth watching most nights, everyone here would be doing so.