What now, bitch

Funny, you little snot nosed fuck. What's up now, your coach is gonna go to Kentucky and you're ass is gonna be stuck in Memphis, won't that be fun. You fuck.
This should serve notice to you and your orchestrating dick of a dad that you don't fuck with the Hawks. Because if you fuck with the Hawks, you get served.
Rock Chalk

2009 - like that crazy bitch you dated

09 Hawks made me smile at times, like when they whipped the piss out of Mizzou, beat the fuck out of them.
then there was the fun of being 5 TIME Big 12 Champs (that's in a row, we got 52 of those suckers)
And obviously there were so low lows, which we don't need to talk about.

Check this little fact that I realized after Sherron Collins missed the front end of a 1 and 1-
Last year Nova lost to KU in Detroit, in the Sweet 16, now Nova is heading back to Detroit Rock City for the Final 4.
KU lost (gave away a game) to Michigan St in Indy in the Sweet 16, and wouldn't you know it the Final 4 is in Indy next year, so dial that shit up.

Next week I hope to be able to blog about a new addition to the KU squad.
I'd bet Cole comes back and the same with Collins, although I guess there is a small chance that he gets some very favorable grades from the NBA and bolts.

So somebody is transferring or having a "back injury" that forces them to quit playing a la Moulaye Niang (you never thought we'd talk about him did you)

So we'll see.

Once we get through the McDonald's game on Wednesday I'll get some Spring Game and Spring Practice info up, it's good stuff.

09 Hawks I loved you and hated you sometimes at the same time, you crazy bitches.
Rock Chalk

Once was plenty

I have no doubt that the above is not going down on Friday.
Rock Chalk

Stubs

So since there isn't shit to do until rematch Friday and since I'm sitting in the KU room and since the all hoops frame is done I figured let's talk duckets. Hopefully a good amount of KU fans are getting duckets and heading to Indy to support our Hawks.

Since I love top 5's I gonna break down as such.

Top 5 tickets with interesting stories behind them-
5- KU at Ok state -2008I posed as a KU student and went there and back sober on a bus with a bunch of kids from SUA and my sister. KU lost and it snowed on the way home.It would turn out to be the last game they lost that year and Memphis lost that night for the first time, their only other loss coming on April 7th.

4- KU v. Zona - 97 Sweet 16- I chose a trip and ticket to this game over a car, whoops.

3-KU v. South Carolina - 2004This was a really close game and I got to sit right behind the bench. But my ticket was free and I got it from Keith Langford's dad since maybe he got discounted hotel rooms, hey he could have been a member of AAA.

2-KU v. A&M - January 2001This 3 days after I started at KU and student tickets were sold out. I bought tickets from some guy on a message board and made him meet me in Lawrence since I was too lazy to drive. I went with my dad and Bryant Nash is on the ticket.Little did I know I'd see his dumb ass at a party shortly after and tell him how lucky he was to be at KU and that he really shouldn't be.

1-KU v. CU - March 1, 2006Max's last game. Herm told me I had to go to the game and paid for my ticket. I called the jersey being retired so that was fun and earlier this year I had Max sign it, which is very cool.

Ok top 5 biggest games / most fun
In no order-

1- KU v. G-Tech - new years day 2005
I got so hammered on the night of December 30th that I puked black stuff and slept on the bathroom floor, I didn't drink on New Years Eve because I was still a mess.I get to the house early like 5:30 AM early on Gameday and camp out, we get decent seats but I sweat so much you can't tell who we played on the stub its basically blank. KU never led until overtime and won while Simien was on the bench.

2-March 2, 2005

50 Years of the Field House.
I almost turned down a job to go to this game and flew back from Colorado for it.No one, I mean no one was as ramped for 50 Years of the Phog as I was, I bought everything that had to do with that deal. Anyway throwback uniforms, senior day, free shit at the gate. Both my parents were there and the roomie was there. Awesome times. Work that next day was less fun.And we beet K-st which made it even better.

3- 91 Championship game / 93 Final Four

Both of these games were huge because of the stage they were played on but both involved me throwing things into the fireplace.
91 was the TV remote which caused some problems after the fact.
93 was ketchup packets and when you hit the outside of the fireplace with a ketchup packet, there's serious repercussions.

4- KU v. MU 2002 Big Monday / KU v. Ok St 2003 Hinrich Collison Senior day

KU - MU in 02 was awesome because that was the year Kareem Rush was picked preseason to be Player of the Year and Mizzou had been ranked number 2 in the land. I was spitting / coughing up blood and had an appointment the next day at Watkins but I went anyway and this was the first game with Thundersticks, which was great.You'll remember we beat the fuck out of MU in the 2nd half, Arthur Johnson's fat ass got stuffed by the rim and Kirk ran down the floor backwards after hitting a pull up 3 in Kareem's grill piece. Magically I felt fine the next day.

Ahh Kirk's last game, that was tough but weird in retrospect that it was Roy's last game too. I remember being so nervous and anxious because I wanted both Kirk and Nick to play so well that I didn't have that much fun, but it was a special day. Plus after the game I realized that Reals didn't know the difference between a giraffe and an elephant, don't ask.

5- KU v. The Dream Team - 4/7/8I paid like $40 or something ignorant for a stub from this game and the Carolina game last year because I needed them to be the centerpiece of my frame but is cool to have even though I wasn't there I was at the Phog, but its an awesome stub and the greatest game I've ever seen.
Rock Chalk

fucked around and got a triple double

Sweet 16!

I was not nervous about this game today but it was close and tense at times.
Brady was miserable today and Tyshawn wasn't much better.
(I'm at Old Chicago- post game and there are 2 Mizz fans discussing making Cosmo's- not saying they're gay but I bet they love cock)

So anyway back to the Hawks-
(WHO SWEPT #1 TEXAS in BASEBALL- claps!)

Sherron Collins played A LOT better today- I don't recall any forced shots today and he still wound up with 25 and

played a lot better D.
Sherronatron also had 7 boards and might have been close to 10 dimes if Pajamas and Reed would have hit some shots.

But here we are with Pajamas and the Twins and Tyshawnia still not having done anything blog worthy in the dance but we're still dancing.

But the real story- one of the few times I ever remember giving a standing ovation from the living room- Cole Aldrich.
13 points is nothing to talk about (although he did score our first 6 and get us off to a good start)

20 Rebounds is certainly worth talking about. I remember him getting 18 in a game this year but 20 is silly. If he had 20 boards and 13 points I would have been overly pleased.

But 10 BLOCKS! That's 20 points taken away from the other team (I never saw a possession where the guy missing a tooth blocked 2 shots on one trip)-
What a freaking stud. 10 BLOCKS!

I sent the following message to one of my buddies who used to drink - "if he gets 25 boards I getting "Cole-Play" tatted on my gut"
Well that didn't happen but the trip dub was sick.
Let's enjoy advancing for now and get busy on Friday.
Rock Chalk

i wish we would have worn Blue

NCAA must have thought it was cute to put NDSU just a short drive from campus and then all those turds could show up.
Well too bad- we should have work Blue and said let's party, you know make it a real road game.
It was odd that they were talking noise right up to Seth Davis telling KU they have bad fans (note to Seth Davis- we expect to be in the tourney, so we don't have gatherings or parties for something we should be doing. And the players were the only one's that you showed- idiot)

Well they had all the fans there, but we have one of the best bigs in the land and between him dunking and Sherronatron dropping 30 plus it was pretty clear that all the fans from the directional school we're going home.
Even 37 points from Remy couldn't help.

So here we are 7 in a row. and a chance to play a neutral game on Sunday.
The thing that has me the most fired up about Sunday is the fact that Little didn't do shit, Reed basically laid a shitburger and while Marcus played pretty well both him and Kieff could be a little bit more solid.
Rock Chalk

Happy belated St Patty's day

I can't even tell you how many beers I had.

Rock Chalk

Spring Game ---- (edited post scrimmage)

Spring game is less than a month away and since my weekend plan for being a degenerate watching basketball has been foiled by Selfish Sherron I got to thinking about the Spring Game.

Here's what I'm going to be looking at through Spring Ball and the Spring Game.

1- Can Kale Pick do how Dodge City do and be the backup QB?
My guess is yes, while I could care less who our backup QB is, KP bringing the noise will make it easier for Kerry Meier to get even better at WR and earn some $$ playing on Sunday's (Just so there's no confusion there is a 100% chance I'll be sporting a Kerry Meier Houston Texans jersey next year)

2- How is Tanner Hawkinson doing at LT?
Since should probably be #1, but if he can go in and nail down the LT spot, we'll be a lot better for it.
Tanner manning the LT will allow us to put Hatch at Center (the position he was recruited for and played in HS) and keep Spikes at RT (where he got progressively better throughout the year and was somewhat studly there at the end)
At the Guard spots I'm hoping that Lueken can lock down one of the spots, but I think he's going to have some competition from RS FR Trevor Margonelli, who's a mean SOB.
Also look for Brad Thorsen, transfer from Wisconsin, to figure in the Guard rotation and Sal Capra who got a lot of reps there last year.

At the other guard spot I really think its Big John Williams' to lose, he's a big big man.

3-Kevin Young at DE
He's a true freshmen but has been on campus since January. Can he at his young age give us a rush end? I hope so. (this isn't of paramount importance since we have 4 Star Juco, Quinton Woods coming in for next year)

4- Kick Returner
I hope its not Briscoe. Not because I dislike Dez, because nothing could be further from the truth, but I really don't think someone that is critical to our aerial attack should be returning kicks.
In my mind there are a couple of candidates-
1- Joc Crawford- I'm not ready to write this guy off yet, he was good on Kickoff coverage unit and serviceable against OU returning kicks, broke one to about midfield.
2- DeShaun Sands - son of TD Tony Sands, has wiggle and could be real solid in the role, he's already on campus so getting reps shouldn't be a problem.
3- Isiah Barfield - converted to WR from CB, and has good speed.

I'm sure someone else could do this, but I look for it to be one of the 3 listed

5- Who the hell are the corners?
Mangino recently said Daymond Patterson is staying at CB, so he'll be there on one side.
On the other side you have Thorton, who is physical but not the fastest guy around.
Chris Harris- maybe he can regain his form, but right now he's slotted as a Safety.
Greg Brown - RS FR- highly regarded coming out of HS
Corrigan Powell or Anthony Davis - Both saw time last year but with mixed to poor results
Calvin Rubles- might be the guy, he's a Juco transfer and went to the same HS as Talib.
Whoever the hell it is, they better lock it down, no wavering about who it is.

Rock Chalk


After getting some inside info, it appears that everyone looked good. But the most encouraging news to come out of scrimmage was that Joc Crawford looks a lot better than he did last year, so that's a real good sign.

that guy is always right and other misc BS

I got a lot to get to so let's get it poppin-
1- LJ (litigation Jesus) called the loss to Baylor- he said it was based on a gut feeling or it could have been our lackluster performance over the last couple of games.
2- if we lost one game earlier we wouldn't be Big 12 champs- but we didn't and we are.
3- this team goes as Sherron goes. Sometimes he looks like an All American- see OU. And sometimes he looks like an undersized, streaky shooting point guard and that's not a basket that you want to put all your eggs in.
4- I don't believe in losing can help. Sorry not buying it. Maybe it opens your eyes but I don't buy it. The positive of losing this game is that this team looks tired and could use the rest (and yes that hurts to write that and its hard for me to convince myself that they needed an extra day off)
5- this team needs Sherron to get hot, Cole to get healthy and the others to understand how important the next game is.
6- I thought Tyshawnia was pretty solid today and Marcus had his moments. If they both can step up and help Sherronatron and Cole we'll be in good shape.

I'm still very proud of this team and they still have a chance to do some damage / something bad ass in the coming weeks.
No matter what happens we're still Big 12 champs.
Rock Chalk

whatever

We're still the Big 12 Champs and the Spring Game is less than a month away.