And now Devon....

Pretty sure DD is just testing the waters.
Hope like the dickens he is just testing the waters.
Doesn't hurt him to do it.

Big Plus -- with so many players doing this, and only 60 NBA Combine invites... of course, he'll be rated higher than Q.

Dang, Q can't get away from the lad.

www2.kusports.com/news/2019/apr/12/kansa...-announces-decision/

As that sage wise man Slim Pickens once said in Blazing Saddles:

“What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?”

LSHawk wrote: the least “Jayhawk” team ever?

My thoughts focus on three major factors for this feeling.

First is that the new NCAA rules on testing the NBA draft make it much more appealing for the high caliber players we want on board to get a professional evaluation of their draft stock. While we the fans support them in this, it is a bit nerve wracking for us and subconsciously— whether we want to admit it or not — we question their commitment to KU. This is a permanent change that will impact college hoops — and our impressions, at least at first — from here on out.

Second is the OAD era, and players really only being in college because they needed a good stage to showcase their talents while waiting for their shot at The Show. The kids may still feel very strongly positive about their school experience, but the strong bonds that have traditionally formed with both teammates and the fan base from three to four years in the program just don’t develop. Thankfully this factor will be going away in the future and we will only be getting players that want to be “student-athletes”. OADs will still be with us as kids explode on the scene in their freshman year, but it won’t be the same environment as today.

Finally is this is the feel/mindset/environment that develops when there so many transfer players on the roster as compared to a team being almost all KU kids from the beginning. Throw in that in today’s environment with NBA early entry and graduate transferring many of them are OADs as far as the fans getting to know them, and you have a recipe for a melange instead of an emulsion or, even better, a solution. The end product is simply not as strong and as stable as the products we have historically seen, and their and *our* connections to it simply don’t get the needed time to develop and flourish as they used to get.

Oh, and there is also this... the fact that this team didn’t continue the streak colors both their ties with KU and our ties with them. I think it’s a sad truth.