****Official 2023-24 College Hoops Thread ****

[rfaulk34]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I was impressed with Kentucky when Ive seen them play because usually Cals teams defend but can't shoot or score that easily at least in the half court. I guess he's completely sold out for the 3ball and just stopped coaching D

He never started.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by ChiefaRoo

A bundle of wheat otherwise known as a “shock” of wheat. You’re welcome.

That stopped being relevant prior to 1920. Hilariously the wheatbelt (which Wichita is in the heart of) was opened up in large part due to mechanization. Hilariously, WSU chose to focus on the remaining manual part of the procedure. In case you don't know, shocks of wheat were put together by manually cutting down a wheat crop with a scythe and manually bundling it into schocks, so they could be stored and wait for a threshing machine. That was fairly short lived until mobile combine harvesting operations came. But nonetheless, the important part of the procedure is the mechanical threshing, and WSU chose to focus on the manual, least progressive part of the whole protocol. Well done.

Fast forward a century and there is no agronomy at all and the mechanical engineering department offers nothing specific to agriculture. All this for a land grant university. So your mascot is just trying to fake it's connection with agriculture. Nice.

KSU doesn't try to fake a connection to Agriculture, because it, you know, has one. Consistent with it's charter as a land grant university.

But yeah, keep educating us on Agriculture and your mascot. Thanks for that.

[ChiefaRoo]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

That stopped being relevant prior to 1920. Hilariously the wheatbelt (which Wichita is in the heart of) was opened up in large part due to mechanization. Hilariously, WSU chose to focus on the remaining manual part of the procedure. In case you don't know, shocks of wheat were put together by manually cutting down a wheat crop with a scythe and manually bundling it into schocks, so they could be stored and wait for a threshing machine. That was fairly short lived until mobile combine harvesting operations came. But nonetheless, the important part of the procedure is the mechanical threshing, and WSU chose to focus on the manual, least progressive part of the whole protocol. Well done.

Fast forward a century and there is no agronomy at all and the mechanical engineering department offers nothing specific to agriculture. All this for a land grant university. So your mascot is just trying to fake it's connection with agriculture. Nice.

KSU doesn't try to fake a connection to Agriculture, because it, you know, has one. Consistent with it's charter as a land grant university.

But yeah, keep educating us on Agriculture and your mascot. Thanks for that.

Cool story bruh. All I said was it’s not a bundle of sticks it’s a bundle of wheat.

Go Chiefs!

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by rfaulk34

He never started.

Really? As of two years ago he was definitely an above average defensive coach

2009 - 27th
2010 - 6th
2011 - 16th
2012 - 7th
2013 - 88th
2014 - 32nd
2015 - 1st
2016 - 39th
2017 - 7th
2018 - 22nd
2019 - 8th
2020 - 52nd
2021 - 35th
2022 - 36th
2023 - 68th
2024 - 124th

That is Kenpom defensive efficiency rankings for Kentucky. Aside for the outlier season in 2013 UK has been borderline great defensively every year until the 2020's. Just weird.

[rfaulk34]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Really? As of two years ago he was definitely an above average defensive coach

2009 - 27th
2010 - 6th
2011 - 16th
2012 - 7th
2013 - 88th
2014 - 32nd
2015 - 1st
2016 - 39th
2017 - 7th
2018 - 22nd
2019 - 8th
2020 - 52nd
2021 - 35th
2022 - 36th
2023 - 68th
2024 - 124th

That is Kenpom defensive efficiency rankings for Kentucky. Aside for the outlier season in 2013 UK has been borderline great defensively every year until the 2020's. Just weird.

I was speaking more in general about the "coaching" part. His success and/or failure is directly tied to his level of talent on the court and whether they're able to overcome his shitty coaching or not.