Bulletin - Bulletin

It's now official, Missouri will be moving to the Southeastern Conference. The Big XII might not implode however it will look vastly different in the next few seasons. The only folks complaining (locally) are KU fans. Will they ever be satisfied? They laughed at Mizzou last year with stories of the false move to the Big 10. They laughed because they said the Big 10 didn't want Mizzou. This season the trend continued when the SEC move was first reported. They laughed again saying Mizzou was only threatening, now that the move is official they are still squawking. Despite your rich basketball history it appears no conference is seeking KU out. Could it be due to your poor football program?

Suppliers suffer too

Interesting that one of the websites I order fan gear has been blowing up my email box with offers. The latest is free shipping on any Laker fan gear purchase of $50.00 or more. I would assume their other fan gear would qualify but my email came addressed to Laker fanatics, I guess that probably fits me. We can add suppliers of fan gear to the mix of folks who might be missing future paychecks. Fans are probably not purchasing gear in the manner they would under normal circumstances.

Interesting dilemma
Mizzou has more players coming in next year than scholarships. How did we arrive here---Lawrence Bowers injury is the issue.  Bowers knee injury will cause him to miss this upcoming season but he would return next year.  There are eight scholarships for seven players so the question becomes who stays and who goes? There are several possible conclusions to this story. One of the incoming freshman could be redshirted, then perhaps Quantel Denson's legal problems prevent him from enrolling? Finally as I mentioned last week maybe somebody doesn't qualify! In any event I certainly wouldn't categorize this as a problem, there are probably several schools that would like to have Mizzou's dilemma.

Who are these guys?
That's a movie line from the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid! Last summer I introduced 6-11 Willie Cauley to several readers. Cauley from tiny Spearville Kansas had become friends with Shavon Shields son of former Chiefs player Will Shields. This friendship blossomed as teammates on the Mo-Kan Elite AAU team. Cauley moved in with the Shields family two years ago, basketball competition being severely limited in small town Spearville. The competition would be superior at Olathe Northwest in the metro Kansas City area. Last Sunday Cauley announced his intention to enroll at Kentucky, the story prompted several emails critical of Calipari and Kentucky. Just who are these guys with all their negative comments? Please allow me to set the record straight, I've never been a fan of Calipari. At the same time I don't remember referring to him as a scumbag or indicated he paid players to attend Kentucky or Memphis. The venom was most likely aimed at Calipari because he came into the State of Kansas and recruited one of the best in the state. Perhaps that's the basis for the critical comments however if that is the basis it's stupid. It's impossible for Kansas State or KU for that matter to recruit every high profile player in the State of Kansas. I don't read those kinds of idiotic comments coming out of California, Texas and Florida, three states that produce but export a wealth of talent to other parts of the country.

Betcha didn't know this
This is research I came I thought might be of interest to readers. I find it interesting to stumble on to information you were not seeking but were able to gain knowledge from it, that's the case here. Foot Locker the world-wide shoe and clothing retailer has a footprint (no pun intended) much larger than most of us realize. They also operate Lady Footlocker and Kids Footlocker under the Footlocker name. Did you know Footlocker is the parent company of Champs Sports, Footaction USA and the Eastbay Company? It would appear the corporation might be competing with itself operating this rather large number of stores under names other than Footlocker. Apparently this is not the case as all arms of this corporate giant appear to be operating in a profitable manner. Just for us older readers, the parent company of Footlocker was F.W. Woolworth the old five and dime retail giant. (portion courtesy Wikipedia)

"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit."

President Harry S. Truman