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I love what I do. Davis worked with KU legend Max Falkenstien, who turned it over to Chris Piper, who worked six seasons on the hoops broadcasts. Max was doing it for 60 years and Chris for six What gets lost in this is Bob. Bob Davis is a legend. He has great perspective. Chris kind of had the perspective of the big guy; I was getting on Greg for having the perspective of the shooter. You get a real sense of how many people do listen. I get phone calls, letters; most are positive, some are negative.

I just take them and try to keep improving. I try to take that and run with it. Gurley, whose college coach had a remarkable. This is a really good basketball conference. To graduate the kids he graduates in bunches He deserves a ton of credit. Gurley believes a ninth consecutive league title is quite possible.

They lost six guys to the NBA and have a bunch of new guys. You are seeing a mix of seniors and freshmen playing really well together.

You win five or six on the road We were tied for the league lead. Whoever won that game won the Big Eight. I scored 13 points off shooting; from three and had a good game.

I actually got knocked out in the middle of it. I caught an errant elbow in the temple. The Leawood native and Shawnee Mission South graduate currently dabbles in coaching as well as fundraising and announcing. Copy and paste the link:. What did Max do on the radio before color? Play by play? I knew him commencing in the '72 season and he'd been around some time befor that. He hit a 3 in the corner right by the KU bench He then hit both ends of a 1 and 1 and momentum certainly went our way at that moment that day.

You'd think he would bring that up during the game which he calls "his fondest memory as a KU player". I recall that same game, Randy Rutherford lit us up for 45 points and Bryant "Big Country" Reeves was held to a goose egg in points.

The 5-point play is never mentioned - it is the only one I ever remember but never gets discussed. UNCle Roy made the students stop chanting it. I know he's been doing TV broadcasts for KU, and a KC Star article suggested that the reason he switched was to have a smaller time commitment. Chris Piper is also the owner of Grandstand Sports in Lawrence, and it has grown quite a bit over the years, so a lot of his time is devoted to that as well.

It's only 6 games a year for Pipe now instead of 30 plus. Doogie Gotlieb A--Great Majerus piece. Grimaces too much, but who wouldn't listening to Seth. Has learned to love KU and Self. Seth Davis D--Slumps too much.

Seems afraid of Doogie. Rarely adds insights worth knowing. Looks a little devious, like he would inform for relatives at corporate.

Fran Frascilla B--cheerful, knows game. Hits the high points accurately. But won't risk being a know it all to help us learn. Digger Phelps C--cheerful, knowledgeable, shamessly biased, good telestrator, too on the nose with matching ties and flow pens, expounds too often on what he thinks will get him eye balls and not on what is happening. Were he as insightful on his feet, as in his books, he would be a star.

Still under reports and over reports with the best. Never discusses why one team is winning. Maybe it's because of my upbringing in the heart of Big10 country, but I've always liked Clark Kellogg. Never thought of him being biased. To be honest, most of the hoops I watch is KU and Wisconsin, and during KU games, I'm on my laptop with all of ya'll, hardly even listening to the announcers.

Did Clark Kellog call Saturday's game? You always have to be so right. And he is likable for those reasons. He has always been a kind of guy we don't get to see much of on national TV and I am always for national TV broadening out the regions and speech patterns that our great big wide world of America is offered. I used to defend Clark and say give this guy some time. He was a pioneer for sure.

But I have increasingly come to think he has not gotten better, and that he has not really busted his butt to get better. There is nothing wrong wrong with his idiosyncratic speech. It is that he has not worked to make it understandable and to turn it into a recognizable style. I also think he refuses to tell us what he knows.

This is not entirely his fault. All announcers are dumbed down by directors trying to make the content understandable to a stereo type the director carries in his mind of a beer guzzling moron in flannel plaid--a stereotype that probably no longer exists. But Clark has had the bully pulpit of CBS Sports Basketball for a long, long time and has done nothing excellent with it. I don't feel I know the Big Ten fans and players any better through listening to Clark.

I don't feel he shares with us what he knows, or used to know about the game. I don't feel he really tries hard to bring the greatest game ever invented alive. For these reasons I would like to see him replaced, or better yet, given a really good director that unleashes the inner Clark. What we have now is the broadcasting equivalent of a General Motors CEO coasting on in an undistinguished performance that endlessly caters to a least common denominator and squanders one of America's little r republican jewels.

There is so much talent, so much pursuit of excellence going on in Big Ten country, despite the siege of the build down of America. Big Ten people are still one of the cornerstones of America.

They are still persons that can get it done, if given the level playing field needed to get it done. If the TV networks need a Big Ten guy for market share, get one of the ones that makes things happen.

I wish Gurley wasn't a KU guy it pains me to listen to him. I have only positive memories of Gregg the basketball player, but Gregg the announcer is just plain painful to listen to.

I don't say "we" as if I played, I was a spectator. The game was at Wyandotte and I will always remember it as the most exciting game I've ever been to. It was like straight out of the movie Hoosiers. If any of you have been in Wyandotte's gym you know what I mean.

Even though Gurley was the rival, I've always liked him. We beat them in a very close game. Adam Peakes was our star and he ended up at Rice.

Good memories. I've been hoping someone on hear reads this and knows what I'm talking about. Greg Gurley will never be the broadcaster that Chris Piper is. Chris Piper has a much better voice and better delivery. Miss Piper's insights. He was much more informative than Gurley. Hopefully Gurley will get better. Currently he is painful to listen to. I always listen to radio with Bob Davis and the TV sound off. Greg is improving with each broadcast.

Great article. Of radio broadcasts Greg says, "I didn't really listen a lot unless I was in the car. I wish I were a bit closer to Jayhawk radio so that I could receive clear broadcasts, esp.

The important thing is, he represents a died in the wool Jayhawk who has the team's and fans' best interests at heart. You can listen to the KU bball broadcast in crystal clear definition. Just download the tune in radio app and find a Kansas radio station that is broadcasting the game. Thanks, ucityjayhawk. I am an electonically impaired old geezer who has kept to fairly simple cellphone use.

Have never downloaded an app before. I will look into doing so. Have grown damnably weary of tv announcers who fail to identify those who commit fouls, and often completely avoid updates on numbers of Withey's blocks, etc. I crave the Jayhawk play by play of Bob Davis, esp.

Yes, if you don't love a medium, and haven't studied it closely for awhile, its a little tough to just wade in and do it well. Its a theater of the mind. Great radio broadcasters create a relationship with listeners. They become someone the listeners can count on. They tell a story like a friend would to another friend if he weren't there. They are credible. And the best of them straddle the line between being passionate homers and guys who just have to tell some hard truths occassionaly precisely because they do love the team so much.

Chick Hearn of the Lakers was my all time favorite. I could listen to Chick tell me what was happening and know he was putting the best foot forward for the home team up to a point, when he had to say, "He's a great guy but he's just not getting the job done to Laker standards.

He could eat Larry Brown's caustic jibes and be the butt of his jokes, but he could with one clear, concise phrase say, "The Jayhawks just aren't bringing it right now. As a player, you are constantly being told by coaches you can't listen to the fans, because they are fickle and will turn on you in a minute. This us versus them mentality can make it hard for a broadcaster to build the kind of relationship the great broadcasters build.

As a player, also, you know a lot about the game, hopefully more than most fans, so you possess a kind of innate sense of superiority about the game. That superiority can make it difficult to build up the kind of friendship with the fans that truly great broadcasters build. As a fund raiser, you are a salesman and part of being a salesman is thinking you can take the sales target to yes, even if he may not be ready. It is a mind changing kind of a profession, rather than a friendship that great broadcasters build with their listeners.

Great broadcasters don't know more than the coaches and players about the game. They don't know more than great fund raisers about how to get to yes. But what great broadcasters do know more than many coaches, players, fund raisers and lesser broadcasters, is how to build a friendship with fans. Friends can talk. They can enthuse and diss. They can agree and disagree though not disagree on substance, on facts.

If the team is playing poorly, or the coach is not at his best, close friends notice and no amount of getting to yes with them could change the insight. When they love the same things, like sports teams, the friendship and the topics the friends talk of matter.

Greg now is out of the playing business, and out of the getting to yes business, and is in the friendship business. It is about building friendships one at a time with potential friends out in the darkness, beyond the field house, where he is coming into their homes, or into their cars--two of the most intimate places.

Frankly, until the internet age, we fans were the ones that made the fewest gaffes, because we never got to the mike, or to the printed page, or the boob tube to make the mistakes that we now make in the interactive age.

It is not about working rooms. It is not about make fans feel comfortable about saying dumb things. If you can be yourself and be a fan's friend at the game, and if you remember how you act with your close friends about basketball, you will get better and better at being a KU basketball radio broadcaster. You are young enough that if you start being a friend now, you will have a vast audience and hang 40 years if you take care of your health.

Remember, being a good friend has nothing to do with age, or where you come from. Its just a trust and a bond. Cherish the trust and don't break the bond, and you will be a good friend to thousands of KU fans. We aren't looking for a great voice, though it wouldn't hurt. We aren't looking for a brilliant analyst, though it wouldn't hurt. What we are looking for is someone we can trust to be a good friend for us at the game and let us know how things are going.

Here's the link. That is interesting. What I think will stabalize conference realignment, really, is an 8 team football playoff. When you get to 8 teams, that means everyone really has a shot at getting in. If you are a one loss team, as long as you're in a decent conference, you'll be in. Right now, even moving to a 4 team playoff, everyone thinks the SEC is so great, I wouldn't doubt a scenario where 3 of the 4 teams are from the SEC. Nearly as if it didn't happen.

Just because they're Alabama. K-State loses on the road and they're not even in the discussion. Oregon St. I hate when cynicism is proven correct. The entire mantra that the regular season matters in college football is a lie.

It doesn't. Teams can be eliminated after the first two or three weeks. Then the regular season is meaningless as it relates to a national champion. They're playing to go to the Beef O'Brady Bowl.

And the bowl games are a sham. It truly is meaningless. Again, I can hardly contain my excitement. The teams that folks perceive as the better teams start with a huge advantage by being ranked higher to begin with. Based only on predictions. Predictions that pollsters find hard to let go of. At least in college basketball, that subjective "perception" may only impact a line or two on seeding. The entire regular season in college basketball counts to most teams.

And then the conference tournaments create new hope to get to the dance. It is a continuing effort to get in the tournament. Most teams aren't sure things. The regular season means more to more teams in college basketball. The regular season means something only to a decreasing few as the season progresses. College football is such a joke in my mind, it's why I have very little interest. The bowl system is in place due to a centralized power structure that is all about lining the pockets of those associated with the bowl games I would say oligarchy, but that's jb's word , who then kick it back to the NCAA.

That structure has denied us true college football champions. It isn't about a champion. Seriously, next season, KU could run the table in college football and still not get a sniff at the title. Not a chance. Heck, the same could have been K-State's fate this season.

Or even Notre Dame's. Solely because of where each started in the rankings, and the perceptions. I think the biggest problem that my link points out, is the leagues are not playing everyone in their own league evenly. It kind of sickens me to see the Big10 not have 11 league games. They played 8, and then as a Badger fan I had to endure them against Northern Iowa and some other lightweight. Of course the same thing applies to basketball. There's no reason why the Big12 couldn't have a legitimate regular season and everyone play each other twice.

The fans would love it, the best teams still will make the dance. Waiting for one of these leagues to do something for the fans instead of for their own athletic funds. There has long been a line of thinking that the Texas Oklahoma Kansas Energy Alliance has wanted to crush the Louisiana Democratic and Federal political machine in the parishes of New Orleans, divorce Louisiana from the Feds and the Democrats, and grab its pinch point on the mouth of the Mississippi, and grab tight control of the absolutely epic oil reserves directly under downtown New Orleans' oil dome, and thus be able to:.

Turning Louisiana fully into a Red state would not be decisive, but would nevertheless really alter the long term play for control of North American energy and distribution infrastructure. Missouri went red in the last election. The importance of regime change in Missouri, i.

Very, very, very big!!!!! The point of the hypothesis is not to say with confidence it is right, but rather to keep calling attention to the implausibility of conventional wisdom on realignment by coming up with a rather striking alternative hypothesis that fits the facts as well or better.

If little ol' me can come up with an alternative hypothesis that explains the phenomenon as well, or better than the conventional one, then some one else who has resources and expertise could probably figure out and explain what the heck really is going on. More purple in the conference? As Chuck B says, "I just can't stand it". Jayhawks in the Bayou Way off topic, lil help please.

Just listened to Elijah talk about the "ball" during the Ohio st. There was period of time where it appeared as if the ball were on fire, second half? The Hawks were doing the weave and suddenly did a 3 Stooges routine? Does anyone know the inside story on what was wrong with the ball? Was the ball on fire? Covered with crisco? Or am I in another acid flash back?

Thank you, a dazed and confused monk. I'm guessing that's what he meant. After a little digging I believe Elijah was talking about the brand of ball. His comment was "we had to adjust to the ball it wasn't going to adjust, adapt to us". Adidas home, Nike Oh. Thanks, monk. I was laughing at Gurley in the beginning because he sounds a little drunk. It's growing on me though. It's a pleasant drunken sound. Like Brian Doyle Murray had too many at the Christmas party and started telling stories about "back in the day".

I've always been surprised that he's on the air. When Gurley first started, he was on the local cable rebroadcast. He was awful - almost unbearable to listen to as every sound he made was forced through the upper most regions of his nose.

But, he has obviously worked very hard and has improved greatly. He is going to give Tharpe and Rio a challenge for playing time. I thought he is too small, wasn't fast enough, had no elevation and didn't really play D. I was wrong on all accounts. This kid is the real deal. Have to agree with you. The video's I've seen so far are inspiring.

Pure gym rat. We are spoiled. I agree. His monotone voice that just doesn't do it for me. But not sure who is worse, Greg Gurley as color guy, or Tom Hedrick as play-by-play guy back in the day! Expectations for Landen Lucas.. I read the thread yesterday. It's an interesting topic. What will Lucas do at KU? Colin B. As far as teammates, I definitely have a group that I still keep in contact with but Kansas does such a great job of having reunions every five years.

We had one back in and it was really neat to be able to connect with teammates and coaches. When you play basketball here at Kansas you are basically a family of about 25 when you take into account the coaches and all the support staff that are with the team. Some of my best friends today were managers when I played, so it kind of runs the gamut as a pretty tight-knit group.

What was the most challenging part of being a student-athlete? There are academics, athletics and your social life. If you can figure out a way to have a success with all three of those then you have done a pretty good job of using your time. We had a great deal of help academically because the support staff at KU was awesome and the facilities and the resources were and continue to be so nice.

It is a very tough balance to figure out how to do everything successfully but if you could figure out how to do just two of those then really you have won. Even as a year-old broadcaster I would sit there and watch that pre-game video, with the starting line-ups, and get chills. Obviously it was a thrill to run out of that tunnel when I was playing with over 16, fans, treating you like a superstar no matter who you are. That does not happen in other places and I think sometimes we take it for granted because it is not that way at 95 percent of the other places in the country.

Really though, I just did it the way I thought it should be done and gave my honest opinion. Although, at times I can be a little bit of a homer.

Another thing that was tough to get used to was having people talk in your ear, while still trying to get across a good point. That can be a lot to handle and it definitely took some time to get comfortable, but I have been doing it now for more than 10 years. It has been a lot of fun and it keeps me close to the action of some of the best basketball in the country. You recently returned to KU to work with the Williams Education Fund, what made you decide you wanted to come back?

I was going through a transition and there was a transition going on in the athletic department that had been in the works for a while. I think they wanted to get more Kansas people in here and I love the university and the athletic program. I have been there about a month and I am still learning. I worked for myself for about 12 years, so it is a little different.