Varsity Kansas - The Blog

By Joanna

Some musings:

• Did you see Jeff’s blog post? It’s his second since I came back 2 1/2 weeks ago. It’s about time if you ask me. The dude had a lot to say, huh?

• It’s signing day and I’m waiting for the calls and e-mails to start flying in. It’ll be interesting to see who goes where, especially for those ones we didn’t already know about.

• Check out these signings stories on North’s Darius Parish here, Garden Plain’s Logan Dold here and Northwest’s Chris Harper here as well as all the expected signings that ran today.

• I should have written on this last night, but I was stunned to see how much South struggled with the East girls.East is 2-13 overall and South knocked off top-ranked Heights. Go figure. South’s Christine Elliott was amazing. She scored 28 of the Titans’ first 37 points. Wow. Another interesting stat was South had only six fouls. Um, that’s amazing.
• Here’s a comment from Austin:

“The South-East game was poorly reffed. A full on two hand push to the floor isnt a foul but a love tap on a layup is worthy of free-throws? I felt like there were new refs every 2-3 switches of the ball. Jowanza Polands reverse jam was def a highlight worthy of praise. I also didnt understand why one ref told Deon Allen “DONT EVEN START!” when he asked for a foul but Ron Allen was talked to in a calm manner when he said the same thing to the same ref about his team. It seems refs have there favorite coaches as well as players”

My response to this comment is that I thought there were questionable calls — find me a game that doesn’t have them. But I do think that the refs got way too fed up way too quick with the coaches. Both of them. I saw when Deon Allen was told that, but I also saw an official turn to Ron Allen, who made a very good point that the foul was called on Marcus Adams and not on Leon Flowers, as it should have been. The official was quite snippy with Ron.

• I gave East athletic director Kevin Hartley the plaques that were sent to us to give to East linebacker Arthur Brown because he was a PARADE All-American. It would have been nice to hand them to Arthur himself because it is a huge honor and a rarity. But I hear he’s working his butt off in Miami, getting ready for his first season.

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