Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - DARRION WILLIAMS BACK TO COLLEGE & VISITING KANSAS? Plus, Could Elmarko Jackson Start for Bill Self?

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

Can the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team secure top recruit Darrion Williams, a transfer forward from Texas Tech? With Williams' recent visit to Lawrence and his withdrawal from the NBA draft, the stakes are high for the Jayhawks. Coach Bill Self's insights on Elmarko Jackson's potential role add another layer of intrigue to the team's evolving strategy.Explore the impact of international recruiting trends, as European basketball giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona reconsider their youth academies. KU baseball's recent success with Dan Fitzgerald and the university's budget challenges also come under the spotlight, alongside a pivotal NCAA eligibility lawsuit involving Tennessee's Zakai Ziegler.Join the conversation to uncover how these developments could shape the Kansas Jayhawks' future. Listen now for exclusive insights and expert analysis!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

Darianne Williams is officially coming back to school and Bills Elf in Kansas trying to close the deal as he's been on campus visiting KU. You are locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. What's going on Derek Johnson here, this is Locked On Jayhawks and thanks for making it your first listen every day. Thank you to

every dayers catching all of our shows whether you're finding us on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the show or anywhere that we're available where you get your podcast. Thanks for joining us on the show and on today's edition of Locked on Jay Hawks, we're talking Darian Williams, guy that I've dubbed as the number one portal target for KU for a long time. Well, he's officially back in school. He was at the NBA draft combine. He's coming back to college visiting KU. We're gonna get into all that and more. Plus, there's some interesting quotes and comments from Bill Self that he gave to CJ Moore of The Athletic, specifically talking about Marco Jackson, that he was almost a starter.

What does that mean for this year's team? And we get to some of the latest news, including on Dan Fitzgerald and elsewhere with possible more international targets and on and on and on. The off season goes with KU. Let's start with some Darian Williams talk though. Is Darian Williams officially this morning, I guess, if you're listening to this on on Wednesday, then it would be yesterday morning, but Tuesday morning, Darien Williams officially exited the NBA draft process that according to john Rothstein

and Jeff Goodman, and it was something where he didn't have the best combine necessarily like in some of the scrimmages, the stats weren't there. He struggled a little bit here. Didn't measure out super great. I don't know if he was ever somebody who was expected to measure super great to begin with, but even then, like, you know, you're hoping if you're him, you don't want to measure six, four and a half

without shoes when you're mostly a four man. But obviously we know he's a very productive college player and like, and none of that stuff bothers me in terms of, you know he's a very productive college player. And like, none of that stuff bothers me in terms of, you know, should you not want him anymore? Because he measured six, four and a half without no, no, okay, you should still want this dude. He's a stud at the collegiate level at the very least. So comes back from the NBA draft officially, then Eric Bossie of 24 seven sports reports that he is in Lawrence on a visit. And it's very interesting the timing of all this, but it feels like things are getting real now

because it feels like for a long time we were in a waiting period. We were in a just kind of, okay, well, let's wait and see what happens with the combine and let's get closer to the NBA draft deadline in terms of, are you gonna stay in? Are you gonna withdraw away from the draft? And now it now it feels like okay finally we're getting some action we're going to get some some movement on whatever is going to happen one way or another whether

he's going to pick KU or whether he's not and where KU goes from here but this is also a pivotal moment in the offseason because can Bill self close the door as we've seen him do time and time again? You've heard the term Spring Bill that he always comes through seemingly with that one big piece he needs to in the spring. And so with Williams, NC State, who clearly has a resurgence with Will Wade, who obviously can make strong offers himself, Ohio State is somebody of interest, like going back to tech, I guess, is a possibility. I don't know, it

seems like it's mostly kids in NC State that you hear from, but maybe those are on the forefront as well. Can Bill Self close the door and get this done for Darian Williams? Now, he did mention in an interview that was given during the draft, like, the big thing for him was going to be about development, and what school can kind of raise his stock in the NBA draft, like those are going to be key things like he has been a winning basketball player, he has been a productive basketball player at the

collegiate level, he is a little less concerned with what role is he gonna have on a team and he shouldn't be that concerned because not that he shouldn't be concerned with the role, but I think he a team? And he shouldn't be that concerned because not that he shouldn't be concerned with the role, but I think he's viewing it from a standpoint, this how I would view it, if I were him, he's a good enough player that no matter where he goes, he's going to have a role on the team and a big role on the team. So it's more about who can send you to the next level. Well, if

you're Kansas, and the thing you have to offer him is the idea of, okay, you're going to play next to a rim protector, which is going to help you on defense. him is the idea of, okay, you're gonna play next to a rim protector, which is gonna help you on defense. And on the offensive end of the floor, you're gonna get to play next to Darren Peterson, which is both A, gonna open you up for more opportunities with the attention drawn on him, but it's also going to put a lot of NBA scout eyeballs

on all the Kansas games this season, which is probably a good thing for you, assuming you're gonna have a good season, which, you know, if you're Darian Williams, you would assume you're going to have a good season because you're a good basketball player, right? So those are reasons you would pick KU. The reason to pick NC State would maybe be more so like, he could be the guy, he could be the dude, you know, and put up monstrous numbers. I would think though, like, if you're Darian Williams, right now he's projected, if you would have stayed in this draft,

as like an early to mid second round pick. And I guess those before the stuff that happened. So I don't know where he would slot at this point in time. But based on where he's projected to be, if you're gonna be a second round draft pick, you're not somebody that an NBA franchise is bringing in with the idea that you're gonna be a franchise altering player, that you're gonna be the dude. They're bringing you in with the idea that you're going to be a franchise altering player that you're going to be the dude. They're bringing you in under the idea

of, okay, we think you can be a good role player for this team. We hope that maybe you can develop into one of our starters or that you can be a key bench player, whatever it ends up being. And so wouldn't you almost want to replicate the best opportunity? Like if you're saying, hey, I go to Kansas, I get to play off of Darien, Darien, Darren Peterson, this is gonna get frustrating Darien and Darren. Anyway, if you get to play off of Darren Peterson, and succeed in that role, then NBA teams are like, Oh, hey, we have this stud, you know, on the ball player, we have a Trey Young, we have a Jason Tatum, we have whoever it is, and we know you can play off of them like you did with Darren Peterson, who's going to go top three in the

draft, right? That can be very beneficial to him. Now, all that said, you got to get the right money offer too. Like that, I don't think is something he said, but that probably is the quiet thing behind all of these recruits. Like you can't be beat on the money offer here. If you can get to the same number as these other schools that are in the running, you know, do you lean back on all the other things that you have to offer that that can be enough, but you gotta be there with that strong offer to kind of match what anybody else is doing.

And you know, the last thing you want here is kind of extending out their recruiting battle. I will say something that gives me like a lot of hope here is kind of the, I don't know, the coincidence, so to speak, of the timing of all of this. Think about this. It gets announced on Tuesday morning that he is withdrawing from the NBA draft. And then we find out later in the day he is visiting Kansas. Are we naive enough to think that not that somebody's trying to pull it over on us for this, but like, are we naive enough to think that, oh, he announced he's going to be withdrawing from the draft in the morning. And immediately after Bill Self called him up and said, Hey, I'm going to send you a private plane and you're going to come visit

Kansas. And he's like, okay, let's do that. No, if he was visiting Kansas, this had to be planned out in advance. Now, how long in advance? Could it have been a day? Could it have been two days? You know, that can be up in the air, but there's no way it was all happened in one day where he made that decision and Kansas was like, oh crap, let's get you on this last minute flight right now. This had to be planned a little bit more in advance. And that makes me think that maybe things are a little bit further along than you might

actually think because clearly there's been some sort of communication there that was behind closed doors. Because again, that wouldn't add up that it would all just have to happen in one day. It seems like there was a little bit more of a plan here than you would kind of indicate. The other beauty of this is the recruiting dead period is coming up here.

And so what that means is that with Darian Williams, he's not gonna get a chance to visit these other schools unless he waits till the beginning of June when the recruiting dead period comes to a close, which can go either way. If this recruitment lasts longer and he doesn't commit in the next, whatever week, two weeks,

then that's gonna make you worry that, okay, he's waiting to visit other schools. But if he's making a decision soon, that gives you hope that you would be the one in the end. And so going back to just how pivotal this is with SAR kind of feeling like that to do clean at this point, like this feels like the best chance to maximize what this team can be. Like there are still some other options that are out there, especially internationally, I guess, like Jameer Watkins and stuff. There are some options out there, but the 100th percentile outcome, the best outcome that is still available

for KU that is left in this offseason, to me, involves landing Darian Williams. It kind of starts and ends with that. And so it does become a little bit of panic mode if Darian Williams picks another school. That'll be super interesting how that impacts negotiations because they probably know too that like, yeah, you really need him too. So what are you willing to offer? Right? But overall, you know, I love me some Darian Williams. And, you know, I wouldn't let a, I guess a lower performance for him at the NBA draft call by like sour you at all on what he is. It was just a

few days of bad basketball. He's more of a team playing guy. Like you go back and look at Nevada's 13 and 18, he shows up as a freshman, they go 22 and 11. Texas Tech goes 16 and 16. He shows up as a transfer, they go 23 and 11. His net ratings the last three years, on-off net rating. Tech was almost 15 points better this year.

They were 13 points better the year before. And Nevada was almost 25 points better per year. They were 13 points better the year before and Nevada was almost 25 points better per 100 possessions when he was on the floor. He is a winning player. And so some of those scrimmage settings can be more about like the guys who are just athletes and going to get out in an open gym and run and get, you know, easy cherry pick buckets and stuff like that. What we know is Darian Williams is a heck of a college basketball player. He was the first team all big 12 player everywhere he's gone. They have been better. And I think that would be the

case with Kansas as well. So we'll keep an eye on that one as well. But what about Marco Jackson and some other comments that Bill Self had about this current team with CJ Moore of the athletic we'll get to that next. Today's episodes brought to you by fan dual sportsbook the NBA playoffs are in full swing and every night delivers highlight-worthy performances, major momentum shifts, and can't miss moments. Whether it's a game-winning shot or a breakout player, there's never been a better time to get in on the action. FanDuel makes it easy to stay in the game before tip-off and live. With player props, performance trends, and same- parlays. Fans have more ways than ever to win big and

play smart. Plus, with FanDuel you can get early action on the college football season. You can also get early action on the college basketball season. How about this, right now as I'm recording, Kansas is 16-1 to win the national title. I think last year they were around 12-1. Right now Purdue is 11-1 is the favorite. Tied with Duke at 11-1. Houston at 12-1. If Kansas lands, Darian Williams, they're probably closer to 11-12, maybe 14-1. I don't know, maybe now is the time to get in on it. New to FanDuel, it's the perfect time to sign up.

Head to FanDuel.com and place your first $5 bet. If you win, you'll get $200 in bonus bets. Make every moment more with FanDuel, official sports betting partner of the NBA and the Locked On Podcast Network. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Lockdown Jayhawks as we get into some of these interesting quotes. So the first one I want to talk about is with El Marco Jackson. So there's a

really good article in the Athletic from CJ Moore. There's great work on this stuff. And I'm not going to go over every quote, I'm not going to go over every piece in the article, you should get a subscription to the Athletic and check it out yourself. But one of the most prominent ones that was in there was Bill self talking about El Marco Jackson. And back to his freshman year, when things weren't very good for El Marco, like, I went back and I was looking at some Quentin Grimes

stuff, just Twitter interactions exchanges, Quentin Grimes had like an 8.7 PR, which is very bad. That was the worst of any Bill Self player since that stat, which I think is like 2009 2010, who played 20 or more minutes per game. Marco didn't play 20 more minutes, 20 or more minutes, it was like 18 minutes per game. But Marco's would have actually been lower, it was like six points up thing. So it was not a good freshman year for Marco Jackson, but he got thrown into the fire. And this is something that

also said he said, quote, too much too fast. He wasn't ready for that role. But if you remember that Kansas team, you know, Nick Timberlake didn't take that role down. And there wasn't enough depth on that team that you had to play Marco more minutes than he was ready for, which was probably a little unfair to him. But like to Marco's credit, he kept trying at it. Marco was actually a very good defender, at the the very least on that end of the ball. But here's what's interesting in the story. It says, self said there was no doubt he was going

to be a starter last year before the off season injury. So, yeah, I guess it makes sense, right? And I don't know how much of that is, is he thought that was going to be the case coming in here versus he just looks back on it that way now where he's like, yeah, Ryland Griffin didn't do enough for me. If we would have had El Marco, it would have been El Marco starting him and DeJuan and then Zeke Mayer would have basically been the three at that point in time.

And like, you know, but he also said self quote, he's at an unbelievable rehab year. He'll be better than he ever has been before. Now it's important to remember, Bill Self has had some, some all timers in the off season with blowing guys up. Zach Clements, the most improved player on the team, Quentin Grimes, the most complete guard we've had here.

Bobby Pettiford, you know, there's some hype there with being a great guy. Like there has been lots of ones that have not always worked out. Sometimes you just get the off season hype because you want to hype up the player, right? You want to give them confidence or you want to hype up the player, right? You want to give them confidence or you want to hype up the fan base, right?

There's different reasons that you would do some of that stuff. So, you do have to take it with a grain of salt, but point being, if he's had an unbelievable rehab year, that's the one where I'm like, okay, and you can say he'll be better than he ever has before. That part is one of those where it's like, okay, I don't know, we'll see on that. But it makes sense, he's getting older, he does be better than he ever has before. That part is one of those where it's like, okay, I don't know, we'll see on that.

But it makes sense, he's getting older, he does get better. It's the great year rehab year that concerns me, or doesn't concern, that's a bad word choice, that enlightens me, I guess, because the whole idea I've had is, okay, point guard especially, that's a position where you're going to really

need things to slow down for you. And if they're going too fast for you in your freshman year, that's like that in center are the hardest positions for that to happen. And so with El Marco, it seemed like he was playing well in the offseason. He suffers the injury. So the question coming in this year was, okay, are you getting a third year former McDonald's All-American who's ready to break out?

Or does the fact that he's coming off a season ending injury where a lot of times guys coming off season ending injuries, it takes them time to get back. They have to shake the rust off. Does that neutralize the improvements in El Marco's game? The fact that he's saying that about the rehab tells me that maybe it won't neutralize the improvements that he's had, maybe he will be a real player.

So honestly, like, is there a chance El Marco starts on this team? Yes, I think there is. I think right now you pencil it in as, I would Sharpie in Darren Peterson. I would Sharpie in Florid Badunga as starters. At this point, probably Sharpie in Trey White because you don't really have any other wings on the team.

And then after that, it's like, okay, who are going to be the other two starters, right? If you add a player like Darian Williams, we think they're going to add some other big splash player, whether it's Williams or somebody international or whatever, maybe you'd say that's one of the other starters. And then it's like, okay, you have a guard, Melvin Council, you have Jayden Dawson, you have Elmarco Jackson, maybe from a shooting perspective, it makes the most sense for it to be Jayden Dawson. You know, it seems like the staff very high on Melvin Council. But if El Marco, like if you're making comparisons

of what El Marco could be to Melvin council, both athletic guards who should be good at driving into the pain, maybe have some questions about the three point shooting should be good defenders. But El Marco's had more time in the system now. And if the staff is really high on both, I don't know. Maybe there's a chance that El Marco could be

one of the other starters on the team. At the very least, I think it tells you this. El Marco Jackson's going to be in for a big role. And I don't know that that necessarily is a surprise, but like I think El Marco could be in a big enough role this year and show good enough flashes this year to where you're not only is he having contributions on this team, but you're going, okay,

in another year from now when El Marco at that point would be a Richard Jr. or a fourth player, whatever, and Darren Peterson graduates, El Marco's ready to take over the reins as the guy on the team. Like, that would not surprise me in a real way. So, cool to see that stuff from Bill Self. The other thing that I wanted to mention from the quotes, and again, there's many more good quotes in there and good stuff from CJ Moore,

but it was talking about Bill Self, the recruiting portal. He said, quote, recruit fits rather than talent. That's something we've talked about all off season long, so it's good to see. That's kind of been the idea here. He said, interchangeable parts, versatility. We want guys that can shoot, but guys that could beat their man off the bounce, that can touch the paint off the dribble, that don't need a ball screen all the time to get there. That's what I thought we obviously didn't have last year. They want guys who can create, right? You have that with Melvin council. Yeah. You know, you have it a little bit with Trey white.

You're trying to get it with Darian Williams, trying to get basically bucket getters. We talk about this all the time, but also looking for good fits. And it seems like Kansas has done that very well. But none of it works if you don't add that one other good player, because if you have just too many role players, then it's like, okay, you don't have enough pop. If you get the right amount of star players or all conference players, which you have with Darren Peterson and possibly Florid Badunga, if you can get that one more like a Darianne Williams, then those role

players it's like this is perfect. You found the right fits for the rest of the roster around you. So just ethics of injury quotes. And again, you can check out that full article in the athletic. Okay, let's get to some of the latest news, including internationally in the transfer portal, Dan Fitzgerald KU baseball and CAA basketball fifth year stuff as a whole hiring freezes and layoffs all the likes coming up on Lockdown Jayhawks.

Thanks for joining us on this episode of Lockdown Jayhawks. Alright latest news there's a lot to get to this one quick touch on we had a deep dive on Boogie Fland. He is going to Florida he committed to Florida was on a visit and so I think you know looking back on it we mentioned this when we had the deep dive on Boogie Fland, he is going to Florida. He committed to Florida, was on a visit. And so I think, you know, looking back on it, we mentioned this when we had the deep dive, we weren't sure like, is this real interest or is this just, you know, maybe agents trying

to drive up price a little bit with them? Probably a little bit more of that. Now I would believe Kansas checked in, do your due diligence, right? But I don't know, that seems to have made more sense, but that's a good pickup, I think for for Florida, I guess another name to keep an eye on. And maybe this would be one that I don't I don't know, is it

possible they can land Darien Williams and one of these international studs or the international studs backup plants Darien Williams. And if you land Darien Williams, that it puts you in a different pool of players. I don't know. But I talked about some international recruits on a recent episode. Thank you to the everydayers who already caught that one. But Marco Redunovic is a six foot six wing from Montenegro playing with KK Podgorica in the Montenegrin

First League and the ABA like the Baltic League Second Division. He would go up there. I mentioned that you'd have a Dallas as the number one among the guys I talked about on I think it was Monday show. And I'd have Hensh Dallas as the number one among the guys I talked about on I think that was Monday show and I'd have Henshaw as the number two. Henshaw I just loved his game of Dallas is the better fit for KU. But I would put Redunovic up with a Dallas. I mean he you could make an argument for Redunovic over a Dallas. for Radunovic over Avdolos. You could go kind of either way with that, but Radunovic, 18 year old, 26 games played in the combination of those two competitions,

about 23 minutes per game, 11.2 points per game, five and a half rebounds per game, two assists per game, 1.2 seals, 0.6 blocks, is a six, six wing, just does a little bit of everything. And what's really impressive is the shooting percentages. 49 and a half from the field, 36 and a half from three, 74.7 at the line. Now the beauty of Evdolis is he's a little bit taller, he's like two or three inches taller. So you

get more of a guy that maybe you'd feel a little more comfortable playing the four even though I've dollars can dribble and play more like a wing. Whereas we're doing a bitch is maybe more of a true three. But you can make an argument for either guy. And so yeah, if you don't land Daring Williams, then maybe he's the guy you go to. Maybe it's Abdollah that you can try to get in on that recruitment as well.

I don't know. Por que no los dos, right? Try to get Williams and this guy. I don't know. Anyway, he would certainly be a fun one. Speaking of European basketball though, this was interesting. Euro Hoops tweeted this out. Faced with rising departures of young players

to the NCAA's lucrative NIL deals, Real Madrid and Barcelona reportedly considering shutting down youth academies and reallocating resources directly to their first teams. That'll be very interesting because there's been some interesting articles that have come out about how college is changing the game for these international clubs because a lot of times if they lose their player to sign with the NBA or to the NBA draft, they're getting a buyout. But if the kid goes to college, even though the, you know, college is paying that player to

come with NIL money, they're not given a buyout to the the team. So it'll be kind of interesting, because it feels like there was a big flood of international talent. You know, last year, there was and this year, there's going to be one and maybe it just will be moving forward. That's kind of the new moneyball. Like where can you find good talent for a little bit cheaper than on the transfer portal? Or where can you, you know, unearth even more talent that maybe you find some more diamonds in the rough? KU baseball news as well. Dan Fitzgerald won Big 12 baseball coach of the year, which is a well deserved there for Dan Fitzgerald.

It is crazy thinking that like, okay, with how good Bill Self and Lance Leipold have been at KU, that the combination of Bill Self and Lance Leipold haven't won a Big 12 coach of the year for Kansas since 2018, despite the fact that like, again, KU football has had this amazing, you know, come up reversal of where they've been. Bill Self has had so many great teams since 2018 in the Big 12. And they

haven't won one. Dan Fitzgerald deserves it. And it makes sense that he won it. I just think it's funny that he doesn't have more of those Big 12 coach of the years in the different sports. But yeah, gotta be a tough time for Travis Goff because you're sitting there like, and we'll get to this next thing in a moment here. Stadium funding, NIL funding, you got to figure out you're probably gonna have to extend Dan Fitzgerald and give him a raise. You know, after doing this, like you don't want him leaving to another school, right? Probably got to work on KU

baseball facilities, got to work on KU baseball facilities. Got to work on getting the funding for Darien Williams. It's a tough time to be an athletic director and to be the KU athletic director specifically because of the football project and the stadium and everything. And part of that, unfortunately, there was like a LJ World just reported this today, a hiring freeze and layoffs happening at Kansas, which I think like 30% is what they were saying in the story, saves them $3 million, which is crazy to think that, like, $3 million of those employees are, that's a lot of employees, you know, and it's one of those things where it just sucks because you see some of these high figures that are going around for building facilities or that are going to coaches or NIL or whatever, you know, and you see a player, okay, this guy's getting $3 million to come into Lawrence for six months and you see these people losing their jobs.

It sucks. And, you know, it's unfortunately the nature of how things are going now with this whole rev share thing and KU has to find a way to get money. It's also unfortunate, I've talked a lot about this. And this isn't just a Kansas thing. This is a college athletics as a whole thing. College athletics, athletic departments across the country are they're just bad with money because what happens is you go look at college college budgets from 20 years ago, you'll look at college budgets from 20 years ago.

You'll look at college budgets from 20 years ago. And let's say the budget, this is not an accurate number, but like let's say the budget 20 years ago is $10 million. And let's say the budget now is $30 million. It's not like, you know, all of a sudden they've gone, oh, hey, you know, now that we're making $30 million, we're profiting $10 million per year, even though the, you know, now that we're making $30 million, we're profiting $10 million per year, even though the budget, no. Because what happens is when your profit goes up with these athletic departments, when you get a new TV deal that's making you more money, they spend it all like

right away. So it doesn't end up being a situation where it's like, okay, you could go from making $50 million to all of a sudden making $100 million next year. And it wouldn't be, okay, we ended up having a budget of $70 million and a $30 million surplus. It would all of a sudden turn into, okay, no, now we just spent the hundred million. And part of that is the NCAA system, right? Like I think Grand Canyon is a for-profit university. University of Kansas and many of these other universities aren't for-profit university. University of Kansas and many of these other universities aren't for-profit universities. So they have to spend what they make in.

They have to end up, you know, neutral, or I guess in the red at the end of the year. So it's a weird system to be around, but with this becoming more like professional sports, can we figure out a way to not have this happen? Can we figure out a way where, hey, if you get more money now on your TV deal, you don't have to spend it right away. So that way we can keep these people's jobs. I don't know. That's more of a big picture thing. That's not just a Kansas

thing, obviously. So best wishes to all the people who lost their jobs and hope they land on their feet. That's for sure. The last one here is Zachai Ziegler. Tennessee Guard played four years for the volunteers. He is suing the NCAA for a fifth year. Now we've heard some rumblings about, could they allow a fifth year with some of these players? Would it even be backlogged? Anyway, the fact that we're now getting legal action could speed up that process.

And if this passes, what's gonna then stop somebody from in a year from now being like, oh, well now I'm suing, I want a sixth year. You know what I mean? So this will be very interesting to monitor and we'll see if it, because it wouldn't just impact. Okay. KU could possibly have guys back. KU could look into the portal for players that would now all of a sudden be eligible in the

portal options would open up and a lot of teams would have full rosters to where like maybe, you know, they'd be able to find some cheap discounts to follow the, I don't know. It could be craziness. And honestly, I don't really want this to pass like at some point, this is just going to become kind of too crazy if that's the situation. But if it does, it is going to be even more of the wild wild west. But anyway, I don't know if it is episode locked on Jayhawks, you can find our show anywhere you get your podcast including on our YouTube page. We'll be back at you later this week to talk a little more KU basketball a little more transfer portal, maybe even KU football right here on locked on Jayhawks.