Sports in Perspective
They say that the best things come to those who wait, and based on the seemingly infinite recruiting process of Perry Ellis, and his body of work, the University of Kansas might have landed the best basketball player to have ever come out of Kansas on Wednesday.
With the word that Syracuse and Pittsburgh have now been accepted into the ACC, it has become clear that Kansas continues to be that old guy sitting on his front porch when all others have evacuated ahead of the inevitable hurricane that’s about to come in.
With the newly announced “Legends of the Phog” game a little more than a month away (http://www2.kusports.com/news/2011/aug/22/legends-phog-exhibition-set-sept-24/), what better way to get pumped about seeing some former Jayhawks than to watch them dunk on people’s heads.
The pressure is on for Coach Bill Self to land Ellis. With less than stellar classes the last two years, 2012 looks to be like the year that could build a solid foundation for future title runs in Lawrence, and letting an in-state talent like Perry get out of Kansas would fuel the fire for his critics that say that Self is not a superstar friendly coach.
Okay, so it’s not THAT kind of “who would you”, but more a series of questions that determine what kind of a friend you think former Kansas basketball players, coaches, and others related to the program would make, based upon public perception, for any given situation.
Now that college coaches are free to call prospects in the 2013 class, which recruits had a Lawrence number show up on their phone shortly after 12:01 a.m. this morning? Here are a few that Coach Bill Self and his staff are currently racking up minutes on.
The big news of the weekend was the visit by the number 9 overall player in the class of 2012, Kaleb Tarczewski. The 7′-0 from St. Mark’s in Southbourogh, Mass has long been thought of as a Kansas lean, and judging by the comments over the weekend, I’d say that remains the same. “This trip [...]
Over the next few weeks, we will be looking at those names that every Jayhawk fan needs to get familiar with, starting with 6’-1 guard J-Mychal Reese of Bryan, Texas.
Kansas Jayhawks got help off the bench by sophomore Thomas Robinson with 12 points and 14 rebounds in Friday’s blowout win against Richmond.
Kansas overcomes ghosts of Northern Iowa in victory over Illinois.