Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - Kelvin Sampson Calls Kansas the Big 12 Bell Cow + Jerome Tang Ignites Controversy | Big 12 Media Day

Starting point is 00:00:00 What's going on? Derek Johnson, Parker Engsworth, for a locked-on crossover. We've got the locked-on coups and lost locked-on Houston. Locked on Kansas Jayhawks here. And we're at Big 12 Media Days. We're going to be breaking it down. We've got some interesting quotes from some of the different coaches. And we're going to get into all that on today's episode of Locked on. War Team every day. Thanks to joining us on today's episode of Lockdown Crossover here. We're here at Big 12 Media Days in Kansas City at the T-Mobile Center. And, oh, boy, we've had some fun quotes to say the least.

Starting point is 00:00:44 We've learned some good things from the different teams that are here and at this event. But honestly, we were talking a lot, like, what should we talk about on this show? And one of the things that we mentioned was about Jerome Tang. So you can check out Lockdown, K-State. If you want to hear more on them, you can also check us all out. anywhere your podcast, including on our YouTube page, but it would be about Jerome Tang declaring that Kansas State has the best point guard, shooter, and athlete in the country, which kind of got us brainstorming and thinking, like, who would even be our answers? Because I don't know if we

Starting point is 00:01:15 fully agree with that. I do think PJ Hagrid is a very good player. I'll give them that. But who would our answers be for the guys in the Big 12? I think is a great question, and one that honestly, like, we could both talk about guys from Kansas and Houston just to begin with So let's kind of divvy this out. First of all, do you agree with your own time? Do you think they have all three of those things? And if so, should they be national vital favorites? I think that's a really high praise.

Starting point is 00:01:39 It's concerning a year ago, we might have said the same thing, right? And it didn't pan out that way by any stretch. Maybe it's because Tech is the team that beat Houston in their only big 12 loss last year. I have trouble putting anyone in the conference above JT. Topping as far as an individual player goes. But y'all have a pretty talented freshman coming into. maybe it's a new guy we haven't seen play yet. Maybe I'm too much stuck in the past.

Starting point is 00:02:04 No, I mean, it is hard because it's like Topin's going to be a walking 20 and 10 this year, you know. I do think Darren Peterson, to me, is going to be the best player in the country. And from that perspective, but that's the thing. Like with J.T. Topin, he's a center. So if we are divvying this out and getting point guard, to me, Darren Peterson's the best point guard. Because Kansas is going to play him as a point guard. Maybe he'll be defending wings more on the defensive side of the ball. But on the offensive side of the ball, he's going to be their point guard.

Starting point is 00:02:30 point guard. And so it's like you have a guy who right now is, I don't know that you'd say a betting favorite because there's two other guys with DeBontza and Boozer that are in there too, but he's certainly one of the betting favorites to be the number one pick in the NBA draft. And if that guy's playing point guard for you, like PJ Haggerty's a really good player. He's an All-American, really good score. But there's a reason he's still in college, you know. So I don't know. I guess I would disagree with that just if we're talking our own conference here. And obviously, Houston's got a guy you can make the conversation with, too, with Milos Zuzon. Yeah, and with Yuzan, I feel like it's specific to, like, hey, he feels that role as well as anyone can.

Starting point is 00:03:07 And he might not be the one-and-done pro like Peterson or other freshman this conference who just go best player, right? But Miles is so gifted at what he does for Houston that I feel like fitting his role makes him a contender in this conversation. Best, like, athlete was part of this as well. I don't know how you want to quantify athlete. I mean, Houston's got a guy that I think could play tiny in the NFL. I don't know. I mean, could you argue Jojo Tuggler's best athlete? Because he's like a 6-7 center, but with wingspan and jumping and the physical nature of it,

Starting point is 00:03:39 like he would certainly be up there too. On the same, like, size playing a factor, we just saw Colette walking around. That dude does not look 18. And I don't mean that like he's lie. And you're like, oh, my God, he's 18 years old. He could dress up for Arizona's football team this weekend and like fit right in, right in. And it'd probably be taller than some of those guys. But he's honestly, seeing A.J. DeBanza in person, that was another.

Starting point is 00:04:03 You know how sometimes you walk by guys and it's like, oh, you're listed six, nine, you're six eight. And then you walked by him and you're like, ah, you might be like six seven, you know. There were a few guys without naming names that I noticed that was like, okay, you're listed six, eight, six, nine. You only look like six, seven. But with A.J. DeBonza, I walked by him and went, you might be taller than I thought. I thought AJ DeBonza was like six, eight. I don't know. That dude might be like seven feet tall.

Starting point is 00:04:25 He's huge. he's gigantic so like he's up there for best athletes too like that dude just glides he's got like the great first steps and everything like that um i think florida badunga is somebody i would kind of throw in there a little bit for kansas at least deserves consideration there um well and we're really favoring the big guy you're breaking it down and i probably wouldn't have assumed that when i i want to thought who's got the big vertical that's not going to be centers yeah no right frankly that typically feels like whatever one and done Baylor has for the flavor the yeah I mean, honestly, Tuna Yesafu, who's the answer to that he's in this discussion, too, for best athlete in the league.

Starting point is 00:04:59 Yes, 100%. Just a different way to quantify what an athlete is. But apparently, it's PJ Haggerty, according to. Well, no, for the athlete, it was, they have a transfer from the Jucco ranks that he was mentioning there. Which, again, if K State really does have the best point guard, the best athlete, and the best three-point shooter in the country, Final four? I mean, like, what are we talking to me? What are we talking to you?

Starting point is 00:05:28 And frankly, as much as I like Jerome and Coach Stang's in a great job, if they really have those three things and don't make an elite. Yeah, and that puts pressure on itself, right? Like that, that's pretty damning, I would say to say to Lee's. 100%. And then the last one was the best shooter. I'm trying to think, like, best shooters in the conference. Obviously, Arizona.

Starting point is 00:05:51 I don't mean to cut you off. Yeah, yeah. And I know this is going to be Parker's the hometown of San Jose. It's Emmanuel truck. I was just trying to think of other guys that we would like want to mention. I totally understand going to other guys and playing that and filling out a full, like, best shooter ever position or shoot it off the dribble. But like, Emmanuel has been over 40% a couple years in a row now.

Starting point is 00:06:12 He seems to shoot better the further back he gets. He's a senior. He's played for a long time under Samson. They don't play at a high pace. He might not have the most three-pointers made at the end of the year because he just don't play enough possessions or all. of that, but he's going to shoot a high clip. And frankly, he's going to go for, you know, four for six

Starting point is 00:06:29 more nights than not, right? Yeah, yeah. And it's going to be the volume there, too, and the importance of those threes. He would probably be my pick. I'm just trying to think other guys that you would throw in there. Again, Anthony DeLorso at Arizona, that was the name I was looking for there. Baylor, I mean, Obie Agbim, the transfer from Wyoming, he's actually a really good

Starting point is 00:06:45 shooter. And I feel like Baylor always just has like one guard who's just going to, you know, shoot really, really well. So that would be somebody I would think of. Let's see. I mean, PJ Haggerty actually, I don't know, maybe K-State does have, you know. And I don't mean to keep going back to tech. But Christian Anderson's pretty strong. Yeah, Christian Anderson's going to have an awesome year, I think.

Starting point is 00:07:02 Pretty strong. And frankly, he looked thicker, I think, than I realized he was. And maybe he put on some good weight or some of the offseason. But, like, I kind of thought of him as a slender guy. He's all right on his shirt where there's a jersey on. I was like, oh, like, that guy's got more meat on his bullet than I think he did a year ago. So maybe. Probably haven't given enough a credit to Richie Anderson.

Starting point is 00:07:21 The BYU, BYU. You would be up there. Now, different types of shooters, though, right? Like, Sharp is somebody who can, he can do it off movement, he can do it on a set shot, he can do it off the dribble. Anderson can do it off movement and set shots. You don't really see him taking as many off the triple. No, and...

Starting point is 00:07:36 So maybe he's the best, like, set shooter. Maybe Sharp's the best overall shooter. And without quantifying it, I guess, truthfully, you're sitting here thinking like... Shoot honor Huff at West Virginia. There's so many names we could go through, honestly. But if there's a big 12 fan watching this, they're like, why haven't you said this name? And that does feel like one, I mean, why,

Starting point is 00:07:53 Everyone might disagree with Jerome Tang's assessment of the Kansas State Wildcats. I do think one thing every coach has said and agreed upon is like the Big 12 is said to be the best conference all over again. That one year of the SEC or whatever, which I would contest a little bit. But that one year that feels over. Every program sitting there saying like, no, we have high hopes for the big picture of the season, not just within the Big 12. Kelvin said at one of the coaches' panels, he was like, you know, honestly, the eighth or ninth team of this conference could go on an NCAA tournament run. and you just don't know. And not to work too much into a very direct segue here.

Starting point is 00:08:29 But Calvin said something else that was really, really interesting about this conference and who the bell cow is. As we sit here, Kansas, Houston. And I want to get into that in one second. But we have today's show is brought to you by some folks over at Quo. Quo is one of those tools that helps make huge differences for your business and business owners. You used to be called Open Phone. same great business phone system you've heard us talk about before, just a new name.

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Starting point is 00:10:48 Chris Gardner, Houston Roundball Review, got the clip for us, pretty good quality here. But you hear, Kelvin Samson, has got interesting thoughts, having won the Big 12 in his first two years in conference, Houston, on who the bell cow of the conference is. That's like good in the state to listen now. Belcow, every conference has an L guy. Belfell in this conference 10. Don't get a touch. I coach against fans. It's where how many years, I came in how many years.

Starting point is 00:11:18 of the Oklahoma. Well, met, something like that. You don't lose your status. Go see that at an all near or so. They still got what top, probably the top of the best, one of the best coaches in 400. Oh, he's not. It's one of the best coaches. I did it? 80 era. He's still coached it. There's the, uh, the pay of base, yes. I would say this, and I say this from having been around a lot. I made the best basketball program in America's case. I would take it over anybody else's public. So, you know, everybody's going to, everybody's going to be territorial with their program.

Starting point is 00:12:05 There's three and go Kentucky, North Carolina, they'll just go. Well, will you walk into Alabama? Okay, so some interesting comments there from Kelvin Samson, and obviously, Houston's been the team that's won the league last year. I mean, it's not just winning the league, it's the record. It's going undefeated on the road last year. Like, that is pretty incredible. I get what he's saying, though. Like, to me, I think it's a conversation of, like, who's the best team right now versus the best program. Historically, Kansas is the best program in this conference, right? I mean, when you look at the final fours, the national titles,

Starting point is 00:12:40 the consistent relevancy and the blue blood status and all those things. But if you're talking best team right now in the conference, I think that is Houston. So I think it just kind of depends how you view that answer. Well, and I would actually be interested to look at like Kelvin again in that. Kelvin made several comments today about his transfer portal and he is an old school guy. So there's no, you know, no questioning where he stands on some of this multi-time transfer business and all of that. But Calvin pointed out like in the transfer portal era, whether it's Houston, Kansas, Iowa State, Arizona, you're going to have a down year every so often because truthfully, like, guys just move too often to not. And he was more saying that that's

Starting point is 00:13:16 kind of more with the last couple years as the person preparing for Kansas feels like than anything he was quick to point out your man Peterson you keep going on about which feels like a very consistent theme of the day for everyone with the big 12 he's very good at basketball which helps which helps a lot um I think it's interesting too though because look when I look at Houston's last year you mentioned on a few on the road they were like milliseconds away from that not happening yeah it's hard it's hard the big 12 yeah and I don't mean to to bring up bad memories but it was Kansas, but the week prior was UCF and Houston wins those two games at the buzzer and Central Florida being a program that people didn't think as highly of it, obviously. Frankly, each of those

Starting point is 00:13:56 games helped propel Houston. Both of those programs kind of stuttered after that. Had those shots not fallen, it's a whole different deal. And one of those shots was against Kansas in Fogg Allen. Fog Allen has a role to play in Kansas program in a way that I think everyone is a little the envious of we're all building towards having what do you call the chanting that the rock shot chant yeah it really it's it's it's ominous in a lot of ways right and so i think that's part of it too is like that can that can propel a team that maybe isn't supposed to win to where they win anyway right yeah yeah no i mean it's just building that confidence and to your point like last year i remember at the end of the season i forget if there's ryan griffin or zeke meo

Starting point is 00:14:37 i thought it was rylan who uh said after the season like it kind of all goes to back to that Houston loss when things started to fall apart. And, like, that was at the end of the season, which, like, that clearly was still on their mind at that point. So, like, you can say momentum is a real thing, you know, and it just is interesting. Like, I don't know, like, Houston was such a good team last season, and it might not have, it might not have a matter. But I have a hard time thinking with the way that you guys beat Duke in the final four,

Starting point is 00:15:05 do you wonder if Houston doesn't win the Kansas game in kind of a similar fashion, right? where you're having to come from behind and scramble, are they able to rely on that experience and win that Duke game? It's possible they do, but who knows? And Purdue in the sweet succeed in a couple, about a week earlier. In a road environment, basically, yeah. Frankly, yeah, and I feel like honestly, one of the calling cards of Samson in the last several years of being Houston

Starting point is 00:15:29 is they win more close games than they lose like that. And I do think, like you're saying, it's once you've got the experience, it's not necessarily that you run the exact same set, exact same play, get the ball the exact same guy, In the timeout huddle, no one is nearly as nervous in March and April in that situation. Because you know it worked out in February and January. You know it worked out at Kansas. So in a neutral environment that is Indianapolis with Purdue, you know, it'll work, right?

Starting point is 00:15:55 You just have faith in it working and that, frankly, goes a long way and just, like, making the play happen. I don't mean to dwell on that, but part of being a bell cow would imagine would be using kind of as a trampoline back up to where Kansas has been, And you hear Sanson say that. Do you feel like there is that trajectory this year at Kansas? Is that a fair assessment of where the programs are? Yeah, I do feel like they're going to get back there. Now, it is interesting because it still does to me feel like Houston's kind of on their own tier. If you're picking the conference standings, I would probably have Houston and tier one.

Starting point is 00:16:28 I would probably have the tier two with, you know, a lot of schools with Kansas, Arizona. Iowa State would be up there. I feel like I'm missing one off the top of my head. I forget if I said Arizona, Texas Tech, obviously, BYU, there we go. So there's a lot of schools, I think, there, that are rustling with them. I do feel like, you know, from your perspective, and I'd be curious to hear your take on this, I feel like the ceiling is still the same for Houston, like national title good. I feel like for Kansas this year, I'll be interested to see where that ceiling goes.

Starting point is 00:16:56 If you do end up having the best player in the country with Darren Peterson, maybe that is the ceiling once again. But I do feel like the floor this year is lower for Houston than it was. Not to say that they're going to hit the floor, but you're counting on freshmen, like what if the freshman don't work out, right? And obviously that's hypocritical for me to say with Darren Peterson. But it can happen, but it's a scary place to be. I think for both of us that, like, okay, I think Darren Peterson's going to be really good.

Starting point is 00:17:19 I think Cole Rosario is going to be good. I'm sure you think that, like, you know, Harwell and Senac and stuff are going to be good. But like what if one of them does have one? Because it feels like there's a couple McDonald's All-Americans every year that, you know, it just doesn't work out for whatever reason, right? And what does that necessarily mean? And so if those things do happen, though, it does feel like to me that Kansas can get back to that point because you look at some of the previous years

Starting point is 00:17:41 that Bill Self has had an All-American lead guard, which again, Darren Peterson's going to be that all-American lead guard for them. It's Sharon Collins, where they win the Big 12 back-to-back years. They get the number one overall seat in the NCAA tournament his second year. It's Frank Mason winning national player the year when they get a one-seat make the elite eight.

Starting point is 00:17:58 It's Devonte Graham when they get a one-seat make the final four. It's Devon Dotson when the tournament gets canceled, but they would have been the number one overall seed in the NCAA tournament. When he has all-American lead guards, they do really well. So yes, I feel like they're going to get back to that point this year. And honestly, the only thing that kind of stinks about all this is we only get Kansas and Houston once.

Starting point is 00:18:16 I know. And, like, I guess there are some things you preserve and some things you don't. This feels more like a part of the conference getting too big, right? Where you only have to play each other once in some of the cases. I would point in the mention about Houston's floor. We'll talk preview in the basketball season a lot. Frank, on Houston Channel and all of it. You're going to start at least one freshman.

Starting point is 00:18:35 You're probably going to start two for a chunk of the year by some point. The second one's going to work their way in. I only think one of them is a one-and-done guy. I've been really honest with myself. And so that means that those other guys are going to have kingsware of through. Last year, Houston was four and three. Like, people forget because they think. But they were four and three.

Starting point is 00:18:54 I could see Houston in December also having a couple of losses and just working through that as a program like you're saying because they have those freshmen. But I guess there is always a chance that you don't, right? Right, right. And that's part of it. And I think they were... And lower floor, you know, representative to Houston, right?

Starting point is 00:19:11 A lower floor could mean, oh, you got a two seed in the NCAA. You know what I mean? Like, it's... We're just having been a Houston fair for a while. Weird to hear. You don't have to 2014. I'm like, what are you talking about it? All right, let's continue on with this.

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Starting point is 00:20:24 You can subscribe on YouTube or anywhere to your podcast. There is a light that's been going off and on us. We're not like under arrest or something like that. I promise that's the case. Blue and red, though, a lot of... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true. So some of our biggest takeaways from this

Starting point is 00:20:38 Honestly one of my biggest takeaways was how big AJ DeBanza is Which that was a little earlier I don't know do you have any big takeaways from just being here Or the event itself or just kind of the fun factor of being here So to speak Well it's been interesting I whenever I see Kelvin in these kinds of situations I'm trying to mention who is Kelvin talking to Who is Kelvin? And like Kelvin had an interesting interaction

Starting point is 00:20:59 I thought where he and I believe this Jensen the new coach at Utah were clearly, and I don't know the full backgrounds where, but there was clearly a mutual respect there that was like, oh, that's the new guy in the block. How are you, like, I already built that up, right? Obviously, super respectful of self and Scott Drew at Baylor and all different guys that he knows, but it was

Starting point is 00:21:17 very quick to, like, go reach out and say, hey, how you doing, et cetera, with Jensen. I was like, okay, well, clearly there's something there. Maybe Jensen's the better coach and I have an understanding of or has something going on there, right? You mentioned the size of guys. I also think it's been interesting to see, you know, bluntly, which guys people bring, right?

Starting point is 00:21:35 Like, Houston's under Samson, Tivoli, brought upperclassmen. Several programs brought their star freshmen. Houston left those guys at home. And I don't know what that means about, you know, the guys that, you know, BYU brings in AJ Devonsa because he is the big meal ticket in a lot of ways, but does that say something about their upper classmen and we're not really thinking about,

Starting point is 00:21:57 what are we putting together there and we see it happen? Or is he just that good? He could just be that good. He could just, you know, Kansas has their own star freshman. What have you picked up on the day as the days unfolded with a lot of basketball conference, it's been all day? Yeah, honestly, like, going back to the conference, I don't know, like, is it the best conference, that kind of conversation?

Starting point is 00:22:17 And you heard Scott drew up there mentioning, I forget what the number was, eight of the last 12 years or whatever on Ken Palm, like being the number one league or something like that. And I just thinking more about this, because I do think you can make the argument. that, yeah, the SEC had a better season last year than the Big 12 did. But I go back to this, and it's like, I think of this from a football perspective, right? The Big 10 had a better football season in 2024 than the SEC did, right? Maybe 2023 as well.

Starting point is 00:22:47 Yeah, maybe. And who knows, maybe even this year, right? Because the SEC has a lot of good team, but, you know, anyway. Point being, yet you won't hear SEC fans relent the fact that they don't have the best conference. Because they'll say, okay, I get it. maybe you were better last year, but over the longevity, over the long haul, it's been us and look at all these. So then why does it work the other way in basketball? Why does one year of saying, hey, we have the better basketball conference? When the Big 12 has been the better basketball

Starting point is 00:23:12 conference for whatever, the eight previous years before that, why does that all of a sudden mean that the Big 12 no longer is the best basketball conference? Why is it different for the two-swath? That's stupid to me. Interestingly, too, in basketball versus football, the exit of Texas and Oklahoma did not hurt it in basketball the same way doing football. Heck, maybe it even helped because they were able to had Houston and, and BYU and Anthony, like, all these different places, right? And so maybe that's part of it as well. It's an interesting take because we do compare the two sports live, but it's a very opposite reaction. Yes, yes, because again, the SEC, it's like, oh, Big Ten might have had a better year, but overall the long haul.

Starting point is 00:23:48 But then it's like, oh, one good year of basketball, and boom, all of a sudden it's a better conference. I don't know, just a thought. And I do think we are going to get the full, I don't want to say resurgence, because again, I think the Big 12 is still like, has been at the top, even last year, where even if you want to make that argument, but it's like you look at all those schools. Like, I do think Arizona is good enough to make a final four win a national title. I do think Baylor is going to be a team that's going to surprise some people and could be, you know, kind of a second weekend team.

Starting point is 00:24:15 Like, Iowa State's been just really tough year in and year out. I mean, if Jerome Tang is right about having all those things, they're a national title contender. Kansas, I think, is going to be back in a real way. I think they're going to be a top 10 team this year. Houston, number one team in the country, right? Like, you go on and on. Like, I think West Virginia could be an NCAA tournament team. Texas Tech's going to be a national title contender.

Starting point is 00:24:34 BYU, I think, can be a national title contender. So you go on and on and on down the list. Like, I am a believer in the Big 12 this year. I know we're here at Big 12 Media Days, drink the Big 12 Kool-Aid, whatever. But, like, I don't know. I truly do believe it. And I do think that when you look at, okay, Bruce Pearl now leaving Auburn, when you look at some of the players leaving the SEC from last year to this year,

Starting point is 00:24:52 I think we're going to be fully back this year into being the Big 12's the best conference. And I also think it's worth pointing out, Florida wins national titles, so that's their SECs, one of their ribbons or feathers in their cap. But Tech had them on the ropes, Houston had them on the ropes. And as much as it hurts to admit, like, both those scenes probably should have won those games.

Starting point is 00:25:10 Right? And if either one of those games goes differently, we can't even give them last year. Yeah. Right? I mean, honestly, if Tech could beat Florida in the lead eight, the Big 12 would have had half the final four and a likely champion.

Starting point is 00:25:21 Who knows? What if Tech beats Auburn and then what if you get Tech Houston for the national title? Yeah, I mean, God. That would have actually. Yeah, that would have been a little crazy. Yeah, crazy conference. And it's going to be a big year for the conference a lot of fun. I'm sure you're previewed all the way up until November with the way things we're going to Jayhawks, right?

Starting point is 00:25:40 That's right. And this Friday, actually, KU has an exhibition game with Louisville. So that's certainly making things more fun. So that's going to do it for this little crossover episode. Parker, where can you check out all your work? Locked on Couges, everywhere gets your podcast, free and available on all platforms. Mission Exhibitions. Houston's got Mississippi, speaking to SEC Big 12.

Starting point is 00:25:56 Mississippi State this weekend, an exhibition, as well as a big football game with Arizona State. We've got to break down more of them, too. That's similar to the guy is good. We'll talk about it, I promise. Go to check out Locked-on Cubs. A big week for us, too, KUK State, and obviously the exhibition versus Louisville on the road. So we'll be breaking that down as well, locked on Jayhawks. He's Parker.

Starting point is 00:26:13 I'm Derek. See you next time with another locked-on crossover or one of those two episodes. Bye.

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