Originally Posted by PHOG (Post 17943198)

Didn't see any of the game. Let's see, we beat them down there 99-48, but up here at home it was 91-87. Sounds about right. What's wrong with Harris? (Or, what's right with Harris?)

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow (Post 17943926)

Who are these "people"? Nearest I can tell in here nobody has even mentioned seeding in the tourney. Although I haven't been following the thread during games much.

Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar (Post 17944363)

I'm saying this "struggling" team is likely a 2 or 3 seed come March. And I'm referring more to the whining that I see on KU forums. Incredible that fans could think they're entitled to a title favorite every single year of their existence.

Originally Posted by cmh6476 (Post 17944346)

I wonder if we'll start to see multi- year contacts for college players and if that would help with consistency.

Originally Posted by DJay23 (Post 17944577)

Didn't Dickinson get a 2 year deal?

Originally Posted by Bearcat (Post 17944554)

Who’s saying that? There have been plenty of great KU teams that didn’t win a Natty, plenty of fun seasons that didn’t end as a 1 seed.

Yeah, make up some insane argument and suddenly others look dumb. :shrug:

Originally Posted by KC_Connection (Post 17943797)

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.

Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 17944935)

I know KJ gets a lot of heat around here and most of it is usually justified. However, KJ was not the reason that KU struggled in this game. Actually, I thought KJ played well for what are his abilities. Flory should definitely start and get the bulk of the minutes. But I do think KJ has value in limited minutes.

Originally Posted by Lzen (Post 17944935)

I know KJ gets a lot of heat around here and most of it is usually justified. However, KJ was not the reason that KU struggled in this game. Actually, I thought KJ played well for what are his abilities. Flory should definitely start and get the bulk of the minutes. But I do think KJ has value in limited minutes.