They seem to be close to firing their AD who many believe would then fire Diaz

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Will be interesting to see where they go.

Do you think Lance and his staff from Buffalo are good recruiters at the Big 12 level?

IRVING, Texas – Following a career-high scoring night against St. John’s, Kansas junior guard Christian Braun has been named the Big 12 Player of the Week. The award was announced Monday by the conference office and is voted on by a selected media panel which covers the league.

Braun scored a career-high 31 points in the Jayhawks 95-75 road win at St. John’s on Friday, Dec. 3. The Burlington, Kansas, native scored 22 points in the second half and shot 10-of-16 (62.5%) from the field, including 2-of-4 from three-point range and 9-of-10 at the free throw line. Braun also tied a season-high with eight rebounds in addition to recording four assists and a team-high three steals. The game was the fourth career 20-point game for Braun, and the first of his junior season.

For the year, Braun ranks second on the team with 16.3 points per game and he is KU’s leading rebounder at 7.3 rebounds per game. He has scored in double figures in each of the past six games while shooting a team-high 61.6% (45-of-73) from the field for the season. Braun also leads the Jayhawks from the free throw line, where he is shooting 85.0% (17-of-20) for the year, and he has recorded a team-high 11 steals.

Braun becomes the second Jayhawk to claim a Big 12 weekly honor this season, joining Ochai Agbaji, who was named the Player of the Week on Nov. 15. This is the second career honor for Braun, who previously garnered the award for the week of Dec. 28, 2020.

No. 8/7 Kansas (6-1) returns to action on Tuesday, Dec. 7, hosting UTEP for the Jayhawk Shootout at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. That game will tip off at 7 p.m. CT and be televised live by Big 12 NOW on ESPN+.

I’ve reached out to a few guys in hopes of getting a better feel for where things stand with Yohan

The rule regarding gaining back up to 7 ICs is written as the EARLIER of the final day of the school's fall term or December 15th.

Is the final day of the fall term the last day of classes or the last day grades can be issued? Someone help. See below, straight from NCAA.org:


The Division I Council this week approved a one-year waiver of the annual signing limit and initial scholarship limits in football to allow schools to replace up to seven scholarship student-athletes who leave school after the first term.

Both the Football Bowl and Football Championship subdivisions approved the waiver.

Council members acknowledged the solution was temporary but necessary; a more permanent solution will be considered in the coming months.

The waiver addresses concerns about potentially high numbers of college athletes transferring after all student-athletes were given the opportunity to compete immediately after transferring for the first time. It will apply at the end of the first term (students who depart on or after the earlier of the last day of the school's fall term or Dec. 15, 2021, which is the first day of the early National Letter of Intent signing period).

The waiver was recommended by the Football Oversight Committee, chaired by Sandy Barbour, athletics director at Penn State.

"We believe schools should have temporary flexibility to help address possible roster depletion due to
transfers," Barbour said. "This one-year waiver enables schools to properly utilize their scholarship limitations."

The waiver is effective immediately for the 2022-23 academic year only. The overall scholarship limit remains at 85 for the FBS and FCS. And, in the FCS, the limit of 63 scholarship equivalencies also remains in place.



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What a great intro!

Go Chefs!

I really think the staff wants Ellis and wants to build local recruiting. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Looks like they are going after Jay Norvell from Nevada. Inter confrence move and almost seems like a lot more work to build the program up to get back on par with what McElwain had.
As a guy who got his masters from UNR I hope they don’t get him.

Eriq Gilyard and Hassan Hall have said they may keep things close to the vest after the visit.

Gilyard said he doesn't have another visit set up but these situations change all the time with transfers.

Hall still has more visits and didn't plan to make any decisions right now.

Good chance of another visitor on campus that we will see how it pans out.

Watching the St John's players complaining about fouls that were clearly a foul. Yes I'm watching the replay right now.

Alabama up by 11 with 5 minutes left in the 1st half

Hey all,

I’m taking my 4 year old son to his first ever KU game Tuesday at the T-Mobile center and was wondering if anyone in here had 2 tickets for sell? If not I can always go to tickets4less. Just thought I would check here first!

Thanks!

Reports starting to leak now they are finalizing a deal.

We are finishing up a pool install in our backyard and will be talking landscaping next. Curious if anyone has any do’s or dont’s when it comes to plants around it.

Was a walk on at Michigan and then transferred to Presbyterian. Put up huge numbers there. Played for the no punt coach. This is the type of kid that could give us a sniff and provide competition/depth.

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WKU put up huge numbers this year. Looks like Tech will be scoring a bunch again.

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Dominating!!!!!

Cowboys lose at home to Xavier. Couldn’t have been more than 1,000 in attendance!

I know I have covered this during the year but wanted to go back over it and also provide some answers to things that have popped up over the course of the year. Here are some thoughts and topics that have come up.

Topic: Why aren't there a lot of weekends with larger amount if visitors:

The staff only has seven mid year spots to work to fill and at last count, none of them are high school players. All of the high school players committed are May grads. That means they have to be filled with portal transfers or juco players. And there is a possibility that might not even happen depending how many spots they can fill with quality players.

There just aren't many spots in this class. The number(s) I keep hearing is 13-14. That could change depending on how many players enter the portal and when they do from KU. KU can get up to seven additional spots back after Dec. 15 or that players last day of class.

For now, the visit lists will be small because there just aren't many spots open.


Topic: Will this staff go after high school players:

I think this staff will go after mainly high school players in the future. But this is a different year for many reasons. First off KU is the youngest Power Five team in the country with underclassmen. KU has 68 followed by Oregon and Colorado.

They can afford to add some players who come from the juco/portal who are more mature have been through a college S&C program and learned what it is like to play in a college type system. This is a good year to do that because there are several levels of freshmen-sophomore who will be around.

Also when you recruit high school players those relationships are built a year or more ahead of that time. When Leipold arrived and assembled his staff in May they were already behind high school recruiting for the 2022 class. Way behind. When they got here there wasn't a board filled with recruits to go after.

If you noticed they immediately started building relationships with the 2023 class. It is hard to make up ground with 2022 high school recruits coming in that late and trying to recruit to a program who is coming off a winless season.

I expect the 2023 class to be filled mainly with high school players and add the right portal of juco players when they can/


Topic: How many juco players will be in this class:

I think five or less. And they will not go out and add juco players just to add them. They are going to be very selective. The names you have seen who are on the board are likely to be the main ones. These are players the coaches all got a chance to see play in games or practice and get to know them. These are players who the staff believe would be good fits.

Who knows, they might only get a couple of them. But if they miss out on some of them they won't just run to the board and throw more juco names on there.


Topic: Will there be a QB in this class from the portal:

I don't believe there will be unless it comes in the spring. I think the staff believes in the current roster to move forward. Now, the one thing that could change is if a QB or two leaves the program. Then that could change the philosophy and they could go after one. I can also see them target a late-bloomer high school player or try to flip a QB if that comes up.

But getting a high school QB will also be difficult because that recruiting starts almost two years early. Most quality HS QBs are committed somewhere no later than the summer before their senior season. Also seeing what Jalon Daniels did might scare off high school QBs who know he has three years to play.


Topic: People have questioned the unofficial visits:

This has come up a few times and I can tell you I believe there it nothing to this at all. If there is, then it is on the recruit or their family.

I talk to parents and recruits who attend the events. Now, I must admit the people I talk to are the ones who staff is really recruiting and even those who might be PWO targets. Every single one of those people had nothing but good things to say about the events. They also get some extra attention.

But those are also the people who get extra access to the coaches in different meetings. This year the staff allowed a lot of recruits to visit for unofficial visits during game days. There is no way to personally recruit and show attention to all of those players on an individual level.

An unofficial visit you are crunched for time. Coaches are getting ready for the game. You can go all over the country and most people have a cookie-cutter approach to the unofficial visits. They are very similar.

They have food to eat and due to NCAA rules you have to pay for it. They have select academic people there to answer basic questions. They bring in Leipold, Ianello, Goff and Stuckey to talk to the group. Around an hour before kickoff the recruits all go to the field and watch the team warm up. Then they watch the game. The time is short and limited on unofficial visits.


Topic: If there are transfers coming from the portal when do we know:

This will be something that goes on all spring. I think there will be players who enter the portal from January through May. Recruiting will be an ongoing thing all those months.

Players coming from the portal don't sign an NLI so they aren't bound to any institution until they attend a class. Now, some players might announce their decisions before that. But they can always change their mind.

I believe after spring football we will see another round of transfers and I think the staff will have spots ready for that time.

I also have a good feeling KU will get seven additional spots back after Dec. 15 to use for the upcoming class.

Halftime now. Sunrise leads 41-28. Dick leads Sunrise (and I believe all scorers) with 12.

I'm waiting until Friday to see who all might visit but I am expecting a light group.

I have spent all day making calls and reaching out to people to see who might visit and who might get a visit from the KU coaches.

First of all this is so crazy to try and follow things because there are transfers involved and you can't always get info from them. Then you have the fact that coaches are on the road as opposed to last year when they couldn't be.

This is like recruiting on steroids and I believe coaches are getting their flights re-routed and changed by the day to see someone new.

Going to start with Hassan Hall the RB from Louisville. It wasn't just assistant coaches out to see him they also sent Leipold later on. So there were three KU coaches to see Hall yesterday. I'm tracking down info on Hall and and will have more later tonight or first thing in the morning.

Scott Fuchs was at GCCC today to visit with Isaiah Adams.

Wallace was in Alabama and from what I can gather he was looking at some 2023 prospects. With the early signing expected to be a very small group of players I think there are several coaches looking at 2023 guys getting a head start for the high school class.

Rob Ianello and Jake Schoonover met with Dom Orange on Tuesday.

Last night Fuchs and Leipold met Livingston and then Leipold met with Kaleb Purdy this morning.

Chris Simpson met with Mike Smith yesterday. I am tracking some things here with this one and will report back when I get more info.

Emmett Jones met Xavier Benson yesterday and from what I am hearing KU is still in it and Benson could take a visit.

I also believe there are some transfers in play but with that things are changing so fast. I am going to make some more calls tonight to see what more I can find but they are definitely on some new names. But the portal guys are picking up new offers by the hour and their lists are changing rapidly.