Love how happy the guys are for Mbiya

Flory MVP for making Toppin his biotch though.

@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

Alright fine, I'll take my 1st weekend exit glasses off. Now, I see your point.

I actually think the real indictment of the staff is they haven’t evaluated talent well enough in the NIL era.

Gone after big names instead of grinding the tape.

I HATE the switch everything defense. Causes us to rebound poorly and double team too much in the post.

Offensively I’m not sure we shoot it well enough to get much better. Offense for this group has to come from defense in a sense.

I still think they will get better as a team. But we are certainly not a good team right now. Incredibly lucky to not be 0-3 in conference play.

+16 with Mbiya on the floor and +11 with DP. The rest were basically even

Imagine being UK and firing Cal and sucking even worse

At the game - DP got up okay.

@kjayhawks2.0 said in KU @ Arizona St 8pm CT:

With this being our 9th loss and 4 out of the last 6 being Ls, who here thinks this team is lost and done? Bill Self in his first 20 years at Kansas had zero teams lose 11 or more games. This year barring the biggest miracle in sports history it will be 3 consecutive years of 11 or more games. Kansas has made it out of the first weekend but 1 time in the last 7 years. It’s time to ask difficult questions. The first one is should Bill Self be coaching Kansas going forward?

I can honestly say I hope he not is back next season. I don’t think he had the right mindset to coach in this era of college sports. Yes I’m well aware we won a title technically in the NIL era but it was with guys that were upper class men he developed here, not a team that returns 2 guys that have seen the floor every season.

Old Goats got one more in ‘em.

Also just look at Indiana, UK and UCLA. Only way you move on is if you have a top guy lined up like Otz. And even then no guarantees.

@DanR said in Kansas vs St Johns:

Kohl fits this type of junk game. Put him in bill

100%. This is a hustle game.

Dreamshake from Flo

Like that they’re going after guys who can score the ball.

@Jayhawk_69 said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

Ames is a nice player but the fact that he's been at 3 different schools is a reg flag.

Not sure this isn’t going to be the normal in another year. Won’t be able to hold it against them at some point.

@BigBad said in KU ROSTER 2026-27:

I thought maybe a kid who had been developing for three years would stay. smh

https://x.com/TransferPortal/status/2041532197484527619?s=20

I feel like we know who Jamari is at this point and this is okay. He probably wants more PT and I don’t think we have more to offer him than he got a year ago. Also likely helps with Rosario situation.

Really hoping Tiller and Rosario can be recruited back. Flory obviously as well

@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

Alright fine, I'll take my 1st weekend exit glasses off. Now, I see your point.

I actually think the real indictment of the staff is they haven’t evaluated talent well enough in the NIL era.

Gone after big names instead of grinding the tape.

@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

@Kcmatt7 about as well as Kansas?

Maryland took 2nd to last in the big 10. A&M with two former hawks barely made the tournament. Ole miss didn’t make it with Storr.

Very close to a 4-seed.

@approxinfinity said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

@HoraceZontal Diggy was averaging 20 ppg before KU and it’s not just Diggy. Basically every portal get that left again had bounce back years after Kansas.

How did those teams perform?

@Jayhawk_69 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

@Kcmatt7 Andrew White III is another one. Tyon has been solid for Gonzaga this year too.

Yea I miss AWIII. But it was mostly BG beating him out more than him not getting his shot. Same skillset and BG was maybe the best shooter in the Bill era.

Tyon I guess. Tough one for me. 7th season guy and a bricklayer. I’m okay with him on another roster.

@HoraceZontal said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

@Kcmatt7 how about Diggy? Odd example I think, but he killed it at UMD. Not at the level of KU, but impressive.

He was a scorer on a bad team. Wouldn’t consider that one a miss.

@kjayhawks2.0 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

@BeddieKU23 said in 2026 Transfer Portal Chaos/Madness Thread:

Apparently Kohl has been shopping for a month or more. Didn’t work out here after a lot of buzz leading into the year.

IMO this was just another questionable evaluation for what you paid and needed from that spot on the roster. We no longer can think about long term evals. Regardless of whether Self or the system wasn’t a fit for him or he was simply too young for this stage this quickly, this is why continued improvement on roster building has to jump to the top of this coaching staffs to do list. Rosario and Mbiya could have been replaced with more experienced players ready to contribute more than a few games. The last games they both played in tells you they have potential to compete at this level but simply need more experience and reps.

Got to think a team like Miami would be a landing spot for Rosario this time around. They were a player first time, he’s from there and Lucas is building Miami up quickly it appears

That’s the one of the biggest issues with how Self is recruiting players right now. He’s stuck in 2020 thinking these guy with potential will wait their turn. Zuby is the prime example of such, Mbiya and Kohl are probably gonna be the next examples of such. I personally don’t blame Kohl looking at Mari and Elmarko stats that stole all of his minutes. They were both good for about 3 games and serviceable about another 3 and that was it. Add in he was a starter early in the year and it probably felt like a slap to the face. We should look at how Arizona and UConn build their rosters by example. Looking at Arizona they picked a much better group of freshmen than we did. That’s why whomever is in charge of our recruiting and roster building should be relieved of their duties right think this second because they are less accurate than the worlds worst weatherman.

Zuby is not a prime example at all. He only got 11mpg his sophomore year at St. Johns and averaged 4 points.

Mbiya is not going to be some stud elsewhere. Fine 3rd big. Loved his energy. Not a majorly impactful or playable guy all season long. Should have gotten more minutes though.

Kohl will be one of those guys we regret leaving.

Honestly there aren’t many guys that Bill didn’t play that left and went on to be a stud elsewhere the very next season. Q Grimes maybe, but he started and got plenty of run/opportunity. Bryce Thompson maybe, but also got a lot of run.

Zuby may be our biggest ever transfer portal loss, but again he still needed seasoning as a Sophomore