Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Day 2 PORTAL SPLASHES, Questions for How Self Will Manage the Offseason & Can Darryn Peterson Help?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Day two of the transfer portal featured down of indent a couple other interesting names some reported Kansas interest a zoom call for KU all that and what are some of the biggest questions for Bill self and KU basketball about this portal off season for the Jayhawks. You are Locked On Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. What is going on? Derek Johnson here. This is Locked On Jayhawks. Thanks for making it your first listen every day. Thank you that every day is catching each and every episode of the show. We are free and available anywhere you get your podcasts on our YouTube page where you

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Starting point is 00:01:13 And then we're going to finish up talking a little bit about Darren Peterson and why I think having him in tow for KU should be a good thing that only helps them in the transfer portal. Let's start right there with some of the latest news with some of the day two portal splashes. And again, I'm recording this on, you know, Tuesday night, listening to this on your Wednesday morning. There's probably a good chance there's some other people that have entered in

Starting point is 00:01:38 between by the time I'm recording this and and it opens back up because it is incredible how quickly everything is moving and how, you know, many players are already in the portal even with 16 teams still remaining in the NCAA tournament but the big one today was Donovan Dent and Donovan Dent was just playing in the NCAA tournament on Sunday night lost a close game to Michigan State he had a great season he really had two great seasons in New Mexico, three full seasons there, but two seasons of like, you know, all conference level. This past season, over 20 points per game for New Mexico, really good assist numbers over six per game gets the foul line, good driver, good transition player, just a really

Starting point is 00:02:17 good player overall is Donovan Depp. And to me, he immediately becomes the number one target for KU, like forget the position, just number one overall target for KU in the portal thing is for a lot of other schools. He's the number one target as well right? I saw something about him saying Kentucky was like a dream school and you know, that could just be something that was taken out of context in a positive way to spin it that way. But there's some rumors about his

Starting point is 00:02:42 former coach at New Mexico that he could be getting a job somewhere else. Does he follow him? There's a lot of things that it could be. But the fact is that now that he is on the open market, we know Kansas has a strong NIL game. They have a strong reputation of following through with those NIL payments to a point where, you know, you have an opportunity to come in and be that next great Kansas guard who can score the basketball, you know, you would think Kansas at least gets themselves in a position to give themselves the best shot possible at a kid like this. And envisioning the back court with Donovan Dent

Starting point is 00:03:14 and Darren Peterson would just be, I mean, it just gets you salivating thinking about the potential that those guys would have. So that is very interesting, and will be one that we continue to keep an eye on. Another guy that we're keeping an eye on to see what would happen there, I guess doesn't, there's still a possibility, I guess he goes to the draft process and maybe enters the portal. In the end,

Starting point is 00:03:38 we've seen that happen many times with players, but Keishon Hall was a name that I think a lot of KU fans are circling the player at UCF who really torched KU the last two times he played them. Really good kind of wing for man who can score the ball rebound. He's entering the draft process now again, is that something where he's for sure just going to be in the draft or is it something where he's going to eventually come back and enter the portal and keep all his options open? That will be one to track as well.

Starting point is 00:04:04 According to CBB content on Twitter, Cooper Schweiger, and enter the portal and keep all his options open. That will be one to track as well. According to CBB content on Twitter, Cooper Schweiger, which is somebody we briefly touched on on yesterday's episode, thank you for that every day, or is already catching that one, who is a center from Valparaiso, previously tipped in at its reporter that KU had interest in him, six foot 10, 230 pounds, he will be a junior,

Starting point is 00:04:23 about 16 points, almost eight rebounds per game, two blocks per game. So good numbers there from the raw stuff. Feel-good percentage, 49%, little lower than you like from a center. But a big reason why is he takes almost three threes per game at 30%. So that lowers the percentage there. Really good free throw shooter.

Starting point is 00:04:40 Somebody who had a good on-off defensive rating and he finished in the 81st percentile in the Keen rate in terms of the block less steal percentage, 83rd percentile defensive rebounding rate. He had good performances against Ohio State and over the back end of the season, went to Blue Valley Southwest, so he's a local kid. He's somebody who's of interest where it's like,

Starting point is 00:04:59 when you're looking at the big market, I think for KU, you're either looking at one of two things. You're looking at somebody who can come in and be like the Parker Brown role, where you're looking at the big market, I think for KU, you're either looking at one of two things. You're looking at somebody who can come in and be like the Parker Brown role, where you're saying, hey, we just need somebody reliable to come in, who's okay being a backup big man that's going to play six, eight, ten minutes in a specific game, and you're going to play your role,

Starting point is 00:05:17 but you're going to get good NIL payment, you're going to get good notoriety being here at Kansas, and those sort of things. That's one possibility. The other possibility is do you go for a center who is gonna be good enough that you can play him, like him and Flory together for five to 10 minutes per game? I still would like a big wing, an athletic wing at the four

Starting point is 00:05:38 for a majority of the time. But if you play a big athletic wing for 25 to 30 minutes at the four, and then the other 10 to 30 minutes at the four, and then the other 10 to 15 or two big basketball, I think I can get on board with that as long as it's the right two bigs. And so when you look at Schweiger or somebody who can shoot the three a little bit, I think you could get away with playing him next to Flory in addition to him being your backup

Starting point is 00:05:58 five. So it becomes interesting that there was the zoom call. Now I have seen some other stuff that maybe he wants a bigger role somewhere else that maybe it's not just going to be about, oh, the local kid coming home and you know, I'm content whatever role I can get to. I don't know if that's going to end up being the case. So we'll see if Kansas can convince him in the end to do that

Starting point is 00:06:18 or if he, you know, shoots for a bigger role at some other school. Couldn't blame him if that's what he decides to do. Some other interesting names entered today though, I guess today at time of recording Elliot Cadeau is the former point guard from North Carolina. And he is interesting to me in terms of like, I don't want Kansas to get Elliot Cadeau. Because I think we've seen enough these past couple years of a Bill South system without a

Starting point is 00:06:45 point guard who can really create his own shot at a high level. I mean, there are so many years we were spoiled with stud point guards, right? Who could get their own shot from Mario Chalmers to Sharon Collins to Frank Mason to Devante Graham to, you know, Devon Dotson, right? to Devante Graham, to, you know, Devon Dotson, right? Those are the legendary guys in the Bill South time. And that seems to work well in his system. So I would like a point guard who has that ability, right? And Elliott Cudeau, I think is a good player in what he does.

Starting point is 00:07:18 He's a good passer. He did at least show improvement from three from this year to last year that maybe there's there's another level there. And he's former like five-star recruiter star recruit who reclassed up so realistically he should only be a sophomore. Actually, there's reason to think he will be a good player next year and that he did have some good things about his game at North Carolina this year. I'm just not really interested for the specific fit. But what if Bill Self goes, oh, I've enjoyed playing with his as much as we haven't enjoyed the results. Bill Self really like Dewan Harris. Is he what do you want to go back to a pass for his point guard?

Starting point is 00:07:49 I don't know. I hope that's not the case. But it is somebody to keep an eye on who I think would be a good player in his next school. I just don't think it should be Kansas, I guess. Michael Rittaj. I don't know if that's the right way to pronounce it. He's a foreman that becomes interesting entering the portal here today. Transfer from Oregon State, who you have to still get out of your head like, oh, transfer from the Pac-12,

Starting point is 00:08:12 like another power conference. Like, no, it's coming from the WCC now. But he's a six, nine forward. He's somebody who could play next to Flory. Not the best athlete in the world, but he's a skilled player. And I think that would be kind of an interesting combo, right? Because if you have Flory, this hyper athletic five

Starting point is 00:08:27 with somebody who is more skilled, that can be kind of a fun combo that you can play off each other. And I've seen some people be like, oh, he's a, he's a like, you know, I don't know, a 2.0 version or a B version or whatever you want to say, like a knockoff version of Jalen Wilson. Like he's a not asoff version of Jalen Wilson. Like he's not as good version of Jalen Wilson.

Starting point is 00:08:45 I actually see a different version of Perry Ellis, like a version of Perry Ellis that's a little bit bigger, but that has less skill around the basket, like less post moves around the basket. He didn't shoot super well on two point shots. But I see a little bit in terms of that vein, which somebody brought this up to me and apologies, I'm blanking right now. I wasn't planning on bringing this up.

Starting point is 00:09:11 But I just thought about it. So somebody brought this up to me on social media on X on Twitter, whatever you want to call it, they're like, you look back at a lot of the best Bill South teams, they've had somebody at the four who can be kind of a matchup problem, who can be a score. And it's such a good point. You think of like, Daryl Arthur, and you think of Perry Ellis, and, you know, you think about it's been different iterations. I like Jalen Wilson was more of a wing when you threw Christian Brown out there at the four

Starting point is 00:09:35 Ochai at the the four, however, you viewed that when they were together, it gave you a matchup problem at the four. And those have been the best Bill Self teams. And so from that standpoint, like, can he be a big enough matchup problem for other teams? That remains to be the question. Like, is he is he too, you know, is he athletic enough to play the four for you? Does it help having Flory in that regard? I it's an interesting one, maybe not one that I would view as like the top target or anything like that, but it is an interesting

Starting point is 00:10:06 name to kind of keep an eye on there. And then some other reported interest, I guess that you would mention a note by Joe Joe Tipton of tipton edits on Josh Dix, which kind of further is what we've been talking about in terms of, you know, the impact that he could possibly have Caleb Glenn, which is kind of an interesting wing from previously Louisville and then last year, Florida Atlantic, hasn't really won wherever he's gone. Pretty good three point shooter,

Starting point is 00:10:30 not sure what else he does, but interesting there because KU needs three point shooting. Malik Renault, which kind of goes into the category of Elliott Cadeau to me, which I just realized they rhyme, in terms of like, you can be a good player, I just don't love the fit at Kansas. So again, keep an eye on there. DeAndre, Thomas, Jaden Young, Anthony Robinson, those three I grouped together because they'd probably be more like developmental or back end of the bench type

Starting point is 00:10:55 pieces. If it is true, it's also important to remember that some of the lists you see on social media are not accurate. Some of them are agents putting a school like Kansas in there to boost the rest of the list. A lot of times you can kind of snuff that out by like, oh, the rest of the schools on there are, I don't know, no disrespect to these schools, I guess, but like it's like Santa Clara and Pepperdine and Richmond and Kansas. Well, that doesn't seem to add up.

Starting point is 00:11:23 That sometimes that's the case, that you're using it to boost it up other times the kid is and it's like, Bill South in Kansas aren't going to come out and be like, No, that didn't happen because it's just gonna be a bad look for them, right. And it's going to burn a bridge with the agent. So you do have to keep that in mind. And that makes it very difficult because it makes it difficult for us makes it difficult for you the fan to be like, Okay, what is actually like a real interest from getU and what is not? So some interesting names enter the portal, some other ones that

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Starting point is 00:13:05 supplyhouse.com code S-H-5. Thank you for making a lock on J-AX, your first listen every day. Thank you that every day was catching all of our shows, plenty more transfer portal content now until football season basically. So buckle in for that. We'll have KU football content in the offseason too for you. So this is obviously it always is a big offseason, you always have, you know, lots of decisions to make in the portal era, terms of how much money you want to spend on this player and that player, do

Starting point is 00:13:39 you want this player coming back? Do you want to bring in this player from the outside, right? There's a billion players to choose from the transfer world. So many decisions to be made. Obviously this one is utmost important though for KU after how the last couple of seasons have gone both in terms of the overall record and output as well as the results that you've mustered from the transfer portal. So obviously when you look at the big decisions that Bills Health has to make, I mean number one is obviously the decisions of who to bring back.

Starting point is 00:14:03 And I think that goes beyond just who to bring back. This is no longer just, who do I want back? Okay, cool, they're coming back. And who do I show the door and tell, hey, you're probably not gonna play next year, you should probably go somewhere else. This is now also, and it always was a two-way street in terms of the player could transfer,

Starting point is 00:14:20 but now it's like a three-way street. The third street becomes the agent or the handler, the family or whatever you want to view as that party. And the combination of the agent or the handler, that party, and the player can sometimes turn into one lane, sometimes it can be two. And this also becomes a situation of how bad do you want certain players back, right? Like there could be a certain guy you want back,

Starting point is 00:14:48 but you want him back for a specific role, or you want him back for a specific amount of money or within a specific range of money. And all of a sudden the agent or the player is going, hey, I want double that. And you're like, well, at that point, I'd rather just let you walk and we'll just use it somewhere else, Right? That becomes a new decision that you

Starting point is 00:15:06 have to make in this current age of the game as well. But I think the more pressing issues right now, because obviously, you know, you do have to make sure kids has to make sure they, they you know, figure that stuff out to bring back a guy like flooring, but doing good stuff, because as much as you know, been banking on the idea of having a sophomore year, flooring who goes off like, there is no guarantee right in today's day and age with the portal. But you also have to make these

Starting point is 00:15:30 decisions externally what type of player do you want to add so when you look at the positions, I think the guard position for KU, what type of player is Bill Self going to want to add? Is he going to want a more pure point guard like the conversation we're having earlier about Elliot Cadeau? Is that what he's going to want more knowing that, hey, we got Darren Peterson. I just want somebody who's going to set him up with the basketball. Do you want somebody who's more of a combo guard? That to me would be kind of the ideal situation.

Starting point is 00:15:56 Bill Self has done so well with combo guards. The guys who can pass it a little bit, can bring it up a little bit, can score it a little bit. Those have been the guys that he has had so much success with like, that was Devonte Graham coming out of high school and stuff like that. And that was kind of Mario Chalmers even coming out of college. So there's other guys that applies to as well. But then like, what about the size of the point guard? Do you require a six, two and above or six, three and above? Or do you

Starting point is 00:16:22 not care? Can it be five, nine? If it's, you know, this this electric jitterbug? Do you want a, somebody who is more of a scorer? Do you want somebody who's more of a driver? Do you want somebody who's more of a three point shooter? Do you want somebody who's more of a passer and defender? Or, and it feels like in past years, the answer to a lot of these questions has just been,

Starting point is 00:16:40 who's just the best player in a vacuum? It hasn't necessarily been based on fit, or this is what I want. It's been, oh, best player, big dollar sign, let's get him, right? I don't know that that's the best way to do things. Maybe the guard position that is one where you do it, you just say, give it the best player

Starting point is 00:16:55 because you can make a lot work probably around Darren Peterson, but I would prefer somebody who is able to hit some shots. Now, if you do bring in like a three point shooting wing, and you know, that at that point, maybe it makes more sense if they're an off ball player to bring in somebody who can create their own shot. If you bring in somebody on the wing who needs the ball in there, like hypothetically, if Keishon Hall withdrew from the draft and

Starting point is 00:17:18 transferred to Florida, do you say, okay, well, between Peterson and Keishon Hall, those two guys are gonna have the ball in their hands enough. Maybe we do go for a point guard who is more pass first, but can knock down an open three, even if they're not really creating threes and be a good defender. Maybe that's more the archetype you go to.

Starting point is 00:17:34 So that's gonna be an interesting decision for Keiun and Bill's self. But again, you have to have that plan B, plan C, based on the other players you acquire as well and kind of pivot from there, right? Because they all affect each other. At the foreman, like what do you go with? That's another big decision you have to make.

Starting point is 00:17:48 Do you go with like a traditional power forward? Who's I guess in today's day and age, traditional power forward means you're probably shooting two or three threes, but you are more of a big man in trade. You can probably play a little bit of five and slide down there. Does Bill Soule go for that? I feel like maybe that's the way he'd want to lean.

Starting point is 00:18:04 I think he likes playing too big basketball. Does he want to go for more like big athletic wing? Or does he want to go for more of a like stretch type? And that could be a wing who shoots threes or that could be a foreman who's a kind of stretch for so to speak. My preference would be getting like a big athletic wing. But, you know, I feel like Bill Self is going to want more of that that big man who can play the four or the five, especially if it's next to Flory because you know, there were times that Flory was outmuscled down low. There were times that Flory maybe struggled defensive

Starting point is 00:18:36 rebounding. So maybe you try to find the best format of defensive rebounding knowing the floor is a good offensive rebounder, but he was still working on the defensive rebounding that it would help maybe fill in that gap, right? What do you look for in a backup big? Are you looking for somebody who is just going to be the backup center? Are you looking for somebody who can, yeah, play the four and five position if you're Kansas or if you go for that traditional power forward at the four,

Starting point is 00:18:58 then you're just looking for a backup at the big position. I think for based on what I'm hoping, based on all these things, like I am hoping for a combo guard, somebody who can create his own basket, somebody who can, you know, score off the bounce, because it gets tiring if Darren Peterson has to do it every time, like Darren Peterson should have the ball in his hands, a majority of the time, and should be the guy creating a majority of the time, you still

Starting point is 00:19:18 need somebody else for Darren Peterson goes on the bench, you need somebody else for, you know, what if the other team double teams Darren Peterson, what if the other team has such a good defender, or Darren Peterson, you know, as a freshman is having an off night, can somebody else get buckets and you look at the best teams in the country, they have multiple guys on the floor. I had a theory after Kansas won the title a couple years ago that you need at least four players on the court at all times, who can get their own bucket. Now that can come in a different version of ways, right? Like I counted David McCormick to that because if you got him the ball in the post,

Starting point is 00:19:47 he could get a bucket for you, right? So it comes in different ways. The center can be posting up as a point guard. It does have to come from you creating the basket. Like I would count Jalen Wilson in that way in the same way that it wasn't always like, you know, freeing himself up to shimmy and shoot a jump shot like Devonte Graham could,

Starting point is 00:20:03 but it was the ability to at any point, Jalen Wilson could create a bucket by driving to the rim or get to the free throw line and grind his way to points. And I think you need at least four guys who can do that for you. Like if we look at some of the best teams in the country, I bet you a lot of them kind of pass that test. Like Houston's the one that pops up in my mind because we've seen them so many times in the big 12. But it's like, obviously LJ Cryer can get his own bucket. Milosouzan can get his own bucket. Emmanuel Sharp can get his own bucket. Those are all double digit scores at guard positions.

Starting point is 00:20:31 And we saw that with Jawan Roberts, like he can get his own bucket. We saw that in the game in Allen Fieldhouse. If you get him one on one, like, boom, he can get his own bucket. Now they don't really have a center who can get their own bucket. There are more guys who are going to catch lobs and throw down dunks, but boom, that's four guys. So I think the best teams have that. So you want that in a combo guard.

Starting point is 00:20:48 I would like a big wing, six, seven, six, eight, who's athletic and therefore the athleticism translates into good rebounding. I think people forget that Jalen Wilson, who was starting for the national championship team, obviously Jalen ended up shooting well from three his final season at Kansas the next year. But the year that Kansas won the title, Jalen Wilson like could not buy a three point shot.

Starting point is 00:21:09 Like, I think he finished like 26 or 27% on the season. But I want to say over like the course of the NCAA tournament, it was like really bad. I remember getting airballed like three in the National Championship game. But you know, I'm not advocating, I prefer a guy who's able to shoot the three at the four obviously. But like, I guess what I'm saying is I'm prioritizing athleticism. And yes, you could say, oh, they had athleticism at the four with KJ Adams this past season.

Starting point is 00:21:36 Okay, but you didn't have the rebounding. And that's where I'm going with the athleticism and the rebounding, right? To kind of combine for those things. And ideally, he's able to at least shoot a little bit. I don't know. Like, is he able to, you know, because in that case, at least Jalen Wilson could shoot threes or the defense might have had to respect it a little bit.

Starting point is 00:21:59 Like, team still sagged off of it. But like, it at least is in the game where they don't have to sag off you completely all the way to the paint. Like at least they're sagging off to the free throw line or something. So that would be interesting to me. And then, and then I would want to back up big who can play the four or the five that can play either style. If you get a good enough big, like I love the Magoon Guaaf kid at San Diego State, because he can play the four or the five next to Flory or Florida play for, he could play the five. You could have a little bit of crossover for five, 10 minutes per game. And one place, 20 minutes at the center of the other place, 20 minutes at the center.

Starting point is 00:22:30 Both are at least shot blockers. If that's the right scenario, sure. But the biggest thing in all this, honestly, above and beyond like what archetype or what player you'd like them to get, it's can you find the right fits? I thought Ben McCollum, the now head coach at Iowa had something very interesting to say about this in a postgame.

Starting point is 00:22:47 I'm just going to take the little excerpt that is prevalent here. He talked about the players that he wants are like the ones that show toughness and winning. And for so many years with Bill Self, that was Kansas winning the Big 12. They did it with toughness and winning. Of course, they had talent and they had first round draft picks and stuff. Then other years though where where, you know, they didn't have the most talented team in the country, but they're still winning the league

Starting point is 00:23:10 because they had good players, even if it wasn't first round draft picks, and they had the toughness and that winning motto. And I kind of think the idea of having like eight starters that they wanted last year is dead. Like guys have to be content, getting good NIL money to be an eighth guy. And you have to be open about that. I don't think that you can go into it being like, yeah, you could work your way into starter.

Starting point is 00:23:33 I think almost you have to view it as like six starters, maybe. You still need shooting. You still need skill. You still need scoring. But I think above all, like the toughness and the winning, that is something KU needs to be directed as. Now, the difficult part in this is, how do you fault the kid if the rest of the team is just really bad or if the coach is bad, if his team wasn't winning, but he's a really good player, right?

Starting point is 00:23:59 I think when you hear winning, it's less about, did the player have a winning record? It's just one of those things you just like know it is the player a winner? Is he somebody where when they're losing those games, he's pissed and that's part of the reason he's transferring because he wants to win? Or is he cool that he put up, you know, 15 and 10 that game even though they lost and now he's transferring to get a bigger payday? And I don't know, maybe, maybe you can't unearth that stuff in these short conversations because of how fast this moves, but I certainly found that to be very interesting there from Ben McCallum.

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Starting point is 00:25:58 It's your team every day. check out locked on college basketball for your second listen every day catch up around the portal the NCAA tournament all that good jazz. Okay so Darren Peterson committed to KU and this was interesting. This was something posted by Michael Swain who does great work at fog.net and he was saying in this quote this was when he was in Lawrence this past weekend, quote, I know I'm coming next year. A lot of people have been hitting me up just saying they can't wait for me to get here, expecting me to play well. Now, the context of that could be taken as it's, you know, people he knows or, you know, somebody who's not even in college basketball, right?

Starting point is 00:26:40 It could just be like normal people, essentially friends and family. Right. But I got to thinking about this more and you see the KU players who went out to the event and like some of them might even not be at KU next season, right? They might end up entering the transfer portal. We'll see. But like with Darren Peterson, the hype is so insane that it draws you into it. And it's not just like fan thing or coaching, whatever.

Starting point is 00:27:07 I'm sure if you're another player, like, why would you not want to play with him? A couple of reasons. I mean, one, you think about it, it's going to elevate your game, right? And if you are a player who can complement Darren Peterson, A, a lot of scouts are going to be watching those games every time. B, it's going gonna make you look better

Starting point is 00:27:25 because people are gonna be so drawn in on the defensive end to Darren Peterson that all of a sudden you end up with maybe a few more open shots or a few more open dunks or something that's gonna help your game in the very end. Then you also look at this and there is a little bit of like the coolness factor

Starting point is 00:27:39 of being able to be like, you know, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, tell your kids, tell your grandkids, there's no deep down that like, yeah, I got to be like, you know, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, tell your kids, tell your grandkids, there's no deep down that like, yeah, I got to practice with, I got to play one-on-one with and practice. I got to play with this dude who ended up being the number one pick in the draft, who ended up being a five-time NBA all-star or whatever it is, right?

Starting point is 00:27:58 That's pretty cool, you know? And so I can't help but think like, that's gotta be part of the recruiting pitch for Bill Suffin the portal, right?. If you talk to one of these kids a You want to play with the the guy who's gonna go number one in next year's draft and have more scouts watch you each And every game and have the opportunity to do that You don't get to float that around very often. Right? Maybe John Calipari's been able to float that or coach K or John Shire Kids doesn't got the flow that as often? And so I do think it is something

Starting point is 00:28:26 where if you're some of these other players, if you're a shooter, you wanna get open shots, you play with Darren Peterson. You a big man, you wanna get some open lobs, you play with Darren Peterson, you know? You just wanna win some games, you wanna have a cool opportunity to play with a really talented dude.

Starting point is 00:28:40 You wanna get under NBA scouts, like you wanna get them to like you even more because you do a lot of the dirty work. And they're like, you know what? Darren Peterson is the guy he's going to go number one or he's going to go number two in the draft or whatever it ends up being. But I got to tell you, I've been watching a lot of these Kansas games. And that kid is a winner.

Starting point is 00:28:55 He's doing all this, this and that. We should take him in the early second round. We should take him in the late first round. I don't know, man. I think Darren Peterson only has to help the KU asmanteau with the rest of their recruiting process this offseason I've got a little bit for this episode of locked on J-aux You can find their show anywhere you podcast including on our YouTube page. We're start doing some deep dives on

Starting point is 00:29:14 Transfer targets for KU coming up on tomorrow's show and the rest of the week. See you then with LOJ

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