HISTORY!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 In a row 💪🏽Rock Chalk!!! 
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HISTORY!!!
6 years 2 months ago - 6 years 2 months ago #16765
by konza63
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
Words simply fail right now, but I know that this "affliction" is a shared one across the Flock tonight.
I am, to put it lightly, just beaming ear to ear, and have been since finishing the game (on delayed DVR, sadly, due to commitments today).
Tonight is not about the Xs and Os of this particular game. That has been covered already quite nicely on the board, and we all saw the exceptional game in which our lads - in the highest-stakes game of their careers - did not just get it done. They did not falter and shrivel like many teams would, with such immense pressure of history on their backs (it's so hard to win consistently when you're motivated by the "fear of not losing" or, in this case, the "fear of being the team that failed to secure the history-making championship.") Instead, in a hostile Gameday atmosphere, with fireworks going off before tipoff, facing a very sound Texas Tech team, all they did was go out and lead (save for one tie late in the game) from start to finish. Now that is impressive!
Tonight is for this team, this coach, this staff, these players, all the support people...and ALL of their mirror images for the past 14 seasons. All the great players during that long stretch, all the walk-ons helping to make the team better day by day, in practice and through off-court team rapport and chemistry. All the physical trainers (Hudy, we're looking at you!), all the families, the moms and dads of the players, the siblings, all the support networks. To the students, the fans, the alums, the Barn, the great great town of Lawrence, and to the broader national and worldwide Flock whose support, representation, lung power, and myriad superstitions all - yes, all - willed these teams to great heights for the past 14 seasons...and counting.
(Cuz, world, we ain't done yet!) 
How sweet it is, baby. HOW SWEET IT IS!!!
RCJHKU14!!!
I am, to put it lightly, just beaming ear to ear, and have been since finishing the game (on delayed DVR, sadly, due to commitments today).
Tonight is not about the Xs and Os of this particular game. That has been covered already quite nicely on the board, and we all saw the exceptional game in which our lads - in the highest-stakes game of their careers - did not just get it done. They did not falter and shrivel like many teams would, with such immense pressure of history on their backs (it's so hard to win consistently when you're motivated by the "fear of not losing" or, in this case, the "fear of being the team that failed to secure the history-making championship.") Instead, in a hostile Gameday atmosphere, with fireworks going off before tipoff, facing a very sound Texas Tech team, all they did was go out and lead (save for one tie late in the game) from start to finish. Now that is impressive!
Tonight is for this team, this coach, this staff, these players, all the support people...and ALL of their mirror images for the past 14 seasons. All the great players during that long stretch, all the walk-ons helping to make the team better day by day, in practice and through off-court team rapport and chemistry. All the physical trainers (Hudy, we're looking at you!), all the families, the moms and dads of the players, the siblings, all the support networks. To the students, the fans, the alums, the Barn, the great great town of Lawrence, and to the broader national and worldwide Flock whose support, representation, lung power, and myriad superstitions all - yes, all - willed these teams to great heights for the past 14 seasons...and counting.
(Cuz, world, we ain't done yet!) How sweet it is, baby. HOW SWEET IT IS!!!
RCJHKU14!!!
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
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6 years 2 months ago #16768
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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6 years 2 months ago #16770
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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Rock Chalk, baby!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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6 years 2 months ago #16771
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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6 years 2 months ago #16772
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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6 years 2 months ago #16773
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
Congrats to my Jayhawks #14Straight 🔴🔵
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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6 years 2 months ago #16796
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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6 years 2 months ago #16797
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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