Speaking of calling the wahmbulance, I saw the Sunflower Shootout, formerly called the Sunflower Showdown, but changed due to the political correctness that seems to be pervading society these days. Maybe it's back to the Sunflower Showdown. At least Oklahoma-Oklahoma State is still the Bedlam Series and Texas-Oklahoma in football is called the Red River Shootout. God forbid what sort of politically correct names they might change them to. Something like the Red River Disagreement or the "We're Kind of Mad At You Series." It's sort of like the Border War between Missouri and Kansas being changed to the Border Showdown. This is an apt name as Missouri Ruffians and Free-Staters from what was Kansas Territory were killing each other and burning cities down. All over whether Kansas should be a free-state or a slave-state. And this started in 1854, long before the US Civil War. John Brown, William Quantrill, the Raid on Lawrence...great stuff. I still call it the Border War as it is an intense rivalry. My background in hsitory in college wells up...so excuse me.
KU laid the proverbial smackdown and opened up the can o' whoop on K-State in this basketball game. It did get close in the first half due to the inspired play of Maybank, the only person on the K-State basketball team who was animated. Well, you might include in Coach Huggins (and his days at the University of Cincinnati), where guys played basketball and failed to graduate. They did, however, get lots of free time to do stuff like domestic violence. One had so much free time, he taped someone to a lawn chair, clubbed him with a whiskey bottle, and threw weights at his head. But they won games and made it to the tournament, so that was much more important. Let's hope that K-State is happy with their decision. If you've got to put in a clause that makes payment of salary dependent on "reputation of the University," you've got a problem.
Not that I'm bashing college sports or Coach Huggins, but this is what "student-athlete" has become. A giant joke. They're focusing more on the sports part and less on the student part. The student part requires stuff like going to class and getting a grade, other than a D or an F, let alone an incomplete. It requires graduation, no matter how long that takes. College sports have become a money making business and not what college is supposed to be about like an education. But I digress.
Jason Bennett needs to take a chill pill. Seriously. Extra strength if they've got it. Yelling and screaming at the referee because you think there was a phantom foul called on you every single time is not going to go over very well. Punching chairs is not a good thing. Ranting and raving is unproductive. If Coach Huggins has to restrain you and he is acting calmly and rational, that is definitely a bad thing. If he's an example of correct behavior, that's a sign you should shut up and sit down. Or play better basketball and pay more attention in practice. You might learn something there. Like how to play basketball without fouling out. Sure you might think the call stinks and you're not getting your way, that's how things work out sometimes, in basketball and in life. Put simply, shut up, quit your whining, and deal with it.
He can get a chill pill when the wahmbulance comes on by after the game. I can't wait until the game in Manhattan Kansas. Maybe Bennett will have grown up emotionally from the level of a whiny jerk to a more emotionally stable toddler. At least the toddler knows when to cry cause they actually have a reason to cry and scream about. Heck, he might have made a big advancement in his level of maturity and become, I don't know, a seven year old. He may be 7+ feet tall, but he whines like he is 6 months.
So that is a summary of the the first Huggins-era Sunflower Showdown. Not much of a showdown as Jason Bennett got "Kaun"ed out of a head-to-head match with Sasha Kaun. I'm just hoping that Sasha Kaun learns how to hit free throws more consistently. 50% for a big guy who is going to get a lot of free throw shooting opportunities is not good. At least Kaun doesn't whine about his bad games.
That's all for now.
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