ESPN came out with their latest rankings, Gradey is now number 8 overall.

Was in a boot for WVU game. Didn't see or hear anything about him before or during OU game.

He has been a tremendous leader for KU over many decades – huge loss for KU, but so happy for him!

Close game, 60-58 Kentucky 2:03 left.

Joel scored 50 points in 27 minutes tonight, tying his career high in points.

He’s the best basketball player in the world right now.

KU will host Dilworth this weekend. Talked to him for a while he said KU, Louisville, FIU and UMass are the schools recruiting him the hardest.

After the bucket, which fell through with 10.9 seconds to play, Braun let out a roar and had what he called “a discussion” with a few OU fans sitting courtside in the corner.

“They were telling me good job and congrats,” Braun said with a sly smile. “They were telling me it was a good shot down the stretch. I told them, ‘Thank you,’ and that’s all it was.”

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Braun and Wilson certainly weren’t worried about Martin’s psyche or anything else after Tuesday’s victory.

“He’s doing good,” Wilson said of Martin. “We’re all keeping him up. Games like this happen. Mentally, he’s still there. We were all cheering as loud as we could, so he’s good.”

Added Braun: “We’re really excited when Remy gets 100% (healthy). He’s going to be great for us. Remy’s the best teammate. Loves Jayhawks. Loves playing at Allen Fieldhouse more than anything. Remy doesn’t really care about how many minutes he plays as long as we win.”

This is a great conversation!! You know Aqib ALWAYS brings it with Big Dub on the mic! 🔥
Inspirational. Motivational.
Brings back a lot of great memories!
Makes me excited for what’s ahead! Anyone else!?
It’s a MUST listen!
Let’s go! RockChalk!
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One of the visitors from last week was Ronald Lewis a cornerback from Warren Easton in Louisiana. Lewis had been committed to Texas but the word on the street is the Longhorns asked him to blueshirt at the last minute.

Sources have said Lewis is skeptical of the recruiting process and has been keeping everything close to the vest and not doing many interviews. The word is he and his family enjoyed the visit to Kansas a lot.

KU really got on him after they hired Jordan Peterson. Over the last month Peterson has spent a lot of time recruiting him and convinced them to take their first visit to KU.

The next few days will be a telling story and how things play out for Lewis. On Thursday TCU cornerbacks coach Carlton Buckels is going to visit Lewis for an in-home. The one concern here is Buckels is from Louisiana and played at LSU, so he has ties to the area.

TCU has yet to offer Lewis and we could find out more on that situation in the next 48 hours. Lewis has an official visit set with TCU this weekend.

I have been told Lewis likes Peterson and his family trusts the KU coaching staff after their visit.

KU will continue to recruit corners and Peterson was in Florida yesterday to see Brian Dilworth from Hollywood, FL. He was committed to Auburn at one time and held offers from several schools in the ACC, SEC, and Big 10.

Dilworth said he had a good visit with Peterson and it was nice to see him in person after several phone conversations.

There is also another corner I am tracking and will have more if I can verify my information.

Just beat Texas on the road. They also beat TT. We'd better be ready.

Headed to Amarillo again in February for their yearly steak comp as a tune up for the World Championship Steak Cookoff in March held in Ft. Worth.
Amarillo is having a massive competition with 4 meat BBQ turn ins, Kids NY Strip Steak turn ins, and an egg roll turn in prior to the steak turn ins.

Any one have an egg roll recipe you’re fond of? Something unique? Maybe a dessert egg roll?

Got a new IPad. How do you set the layout in the AFH forum to take out the right third of the page with junk and have the whole page be the threads with the number of views and replies and date and time of the thread on the far right? Driving me crazy.

KU down 16 at K State in 4th quarter. Disappointing effort.

Now that we are where we are in the offseason, might as well have some fun and let everyone yell at me for being an idiot because I didn't put their favorite player on the second string.

QB: Daniels, Bean
RB: Neal, Thomas
WR: Grimm, Rector
WR: Arnold, McBride
WR: Wilson, Robinson
TE: Fairchild, Huggins
LT: Bostick, Sterns
LG: Grunhard, Gorzyca
C: Novitsky, Grunhard
RG: Ford, ARA
RT: Cabeldue, Robinson

DE: Phelps, DeBose
DT: Burt, Caldwell
DT: Wilson, McGee
DE: Lee, Robinson
LB: Miller, Berryhill
LB: Gilyard, Potter
Hawk: Young, Wheeler
CB: Gervin, Duece
CB: Bryant, Dabney
Slot CB: Dotson, Dabney
S: Logan, White-Schultz
S: Burroughs, Gilliom

Few general thoughts:

- We have some depth, finally, for the first time in forever. Some really pretty decent quality players--Robinson, Hatcher, Taylor, Berryhill, Alexander, Scott, Dunn, Sampson, Staley, Morrison, Hishaw, Kardell, Casey, Locklin, Skinner, Golightly--don't show up on the two deep now, but will get quality snaps.

- The transfers are basically all in the two deep, from my projection. And I don't feel like I am overselling any of them. That is pretty kickass.

- Our receiver room has a lot of numbers, even if it doesn't have any known stars yet. I put Majik Rector and Kelan Robinson in the two deep, but it could just as easily have been Tanaka Scott, Quintin Skinner, Kevin Terry in there instead.

- Our DB room is so damn green. Getting Gervin is huge. We need his equivalent at safety in the portal next year.

- I realize that I might be on an island with picking Huggins at second string TE. I don't care. I have confidence in the kid and think he is so athletic that he won't be able to stay off the field once he is healthy.

The Jayhawks are expected to add two tight ends to the roster this week in Tevita Noa and Max Dowling.

In a bit of a twist Noa did not think he would be able to enroll until the summer and show up for summer workouts in June. But over the weekend Noa got the news he was cleared to arrive at semester. He is expected to arrive today and will be in early for spring football.

And there will be another addition at tight end with Dowling. He is an interesting story and don’t discount him as someone who develop and compete.

In high school he picked up division one offers but with each situation the offer went away.

He grew up in Buffalo and decided after high school to attend a prep school. He enrolled at Palmetto Prep in South Carolina.

“I had six schools offer me scholarships, but fortunately, the way things worked out, some coaches got fired from their schools and then some they took other guys from the portal,” he said. “I had scholarships standing with a certain school and, next thing you know, they took a 23-year-old tight end over me. That's just the way it is nowadays.”

One of those offers came from Buffalo. He had ties to coaches on staff at Buffalo where he knew Andy Kotelnicki and Rob Ianello. He played basketball on the same team as Ianello’s son.

“I'm from Buffalo and as you know, the whole new coaching staff was at Buffalo and now came to Kansas last year,” he said. “I had some relations just being from Buffalo, especially Coach Ianello and Coach K, the offense coordinator. And they were really interested in me and offered me. And then, I kept the relations with them when they went to Kansas. And after some time, I felt comfortable with the coaching staff and decided to come join Kansas.”

“They were my first offer about a year ago,” Fowling said. “The schools that offered were Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Delaware, Akron and SEMO.”

Dowling said the coaches liked his size at 6-foot-6, 225 pounds and his athletic ability. He is already in Lawrence and said he looks forward to getting to work.

Noa and Dowling will increase the numbers and strengthen the competition in the tight end room.

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So Donald Sterling made racist comments and lost his team. Will the NBA do anything to this clown? Hell no, you can make all the racists comments you want if you have the CCP on your side. The NBA makes me sick.

ESPN rankings usually aren’t great but on the ESPN broadcast of another high school game Biancardi mentioned Gradey as a guy who will be moving up when they update their rankings on Wednesday. Hopefully Rivals feels the same way.

Thomas is reporting today and I talked to him when he was driving to Lawrence.