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Kansas Jayhawks face a pivotal offseason as uncertainty looms over Bill Self's coaching future—will he return, or is a new era on the horizon? With the transfer portal opening and key roster spots up for grabs, fans are left wondering which Jayhawks will stay, who might go pro, and how donor dynamics could shape the team's next chapter.
Derek Johnson analyzes bold personnel decisions, potential NBA departures, and the critical hunt for impact transfers like Tyran Stokes. Hot topics include scholarship math, coaching staff changes, and the pressing need for offensive playmakers to reignite Kansas basketball. From player retention challenges to NIL intrigue, get the latest insights on KU’s strategy to reclaim dominance in the Big 12 and navigate a rapidly evolving college basketball landscape.
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Lot to decide in the offseason for Kansas will bill self be back.
What players are going to be back, what other personnel decisions do they need to make
Tyron Stokes question mark, you get to all the offseason decisions on today's episode
of the show.
You are Lockdown Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Lockdown
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Derek Johnson here with Lockdown Jayhawks, thanks for tuning in to us and on today's
edition of the show, we're going to be breaking down the potential personnel moves that
KU needs to make in the offseason, what additions could they be looking for, who could be coming
back, who should they want back, where do the scholarships sit, we'll also discuss coaching
staff decisions, including bill self, will he be back, will he not maybe got a little
bit of a tell on that from San Diego breaking all down on this episode of the show.
Let's start right there with the latest on bill self, because that is the first offseason
decision you have to make, right?
You're not just going to have, like, I don't know, there's certain transfer portal decisions
or who you want back, like, players deciding what they want to do are going to be based
on who the head coach is, right?
So that is going to be one big thing.
And this was tweeted out by Michael Swain on Sunday evening after KU lost to St.
John's quote from the street, self said he hasn't decided if he will coach next year,
said he will go home and discuss it with family quote, I love what I do.
I want to feel good doing it.
So a couple of different directions you can take that, right?
I love what I do, like, he doesn't want to give it up.
He loves what he does, he doesn't want to, but I want to feel good doing it.
And that can be taken in a couple of different ways as well, like, is he not feeling good
doing it?
And is that he's not feeling good doing it?
Is that more in relation to the health stuff?
Or is that more in relation to they're not having success and he's not adjoining it
as much with some of the extracurricular stuff that has happened the past seasons to,
like, could that be possible too?
Like, is the field good part, everybody I think he's going to read into that as health?
What if it's not?
What if it's just like enjoying it as much anymore, right?
Like, so it could be either one of those, obviously, obviously that I love what I do
part implies to me that he wants to be back, but who knows what he's feeling?
Like, I almost get the sense here, this is just me, I don't know, reading between the
lines, shooting from the hip, but like, I almost get the sense that like Bill Self wants
to be back, but his family and his doctor are probably like, you should probably hang
it up.
Like, let's just, you know, if you're Bill Self's family, like, let's just go retire on
an island somewhere.
Let's just go retire into more and weather, like fish, like, I don't know, you made a lot
of money.
Like, you've won two national championships.
You're going to go down as the best coach in Kansas basketball history.
You are that right now.
You don't have anything else to prove, you know?
And I don't know too, like from the standpoint of like, are you risking, are you risking
dampening the, the way that you're viewed?
If you come back another year and you lose again in the first weekend, I don't know.
Like, I figured more so I have to be like, you missed the NCAA tournament.
That would kind of dampen things, but like, I don't, I don't think that would, I
think either way, we'll look back and be like, yeah, Bill Self is the best coach in
Kansas basketball history.
But, you know, how does that enter his mind?
The finished ad against St. John's, because again, there's two ways to look at it.
There's the way of, well, you're just lost a game like that that's gut wrenching.
It's hard for that to be your last game in your last moment.
And so do you view it as, hey, like, I need to come back to flush the taste out of my mouth.
And again, in sports, like, it is rare that we get the final send off, like the Ray Lewis
winning his Super Bowl in his last game.
That's a rare thing.
Peyton Manning, right?
That's a rare thing to happen.
I mean, coach K lost to his biggest rival in his final game, you know?
So there usually isn't the perfect send off.
It is very hard to kind of tie that together.
And so yeah, you could come back and be like, I want to come back so I try to not end on
that.
But then what if you make the sweet 16 and then you lose on a buzzer beater there?
You lose getting blown out.
Like, is that going to really make you feel that much better?
So that becomes a big question.
Now the folks side to that is, do you look at it and go like, Bill Sof does view him as
a caretaker of Kansas basketball history.
And you know, from his perspective, does he view it as man, I've lost in the first weekend
four consecutive years, like, is this becoming too difficult for me to handle?
And there's so much drama and the transfer portal and the NIL game and the style of today's
basketball where it's like, I don't want to leave this place in a not great position.
And so I'm going to leave.
So I think there's a lot that goes into this.
Obviously, the health is going to be the main part of this.
Um, I've always thought like, I don't know what, what would it shock anybody if Bill
Sof did retire for whatever a couple of years and then he got the itch to coach again
and the health was doing well and he decided to come back and there was a job open that
he liked.
I don't think I would ever shock me.
But like, I guess I'm at a point where I feel like he wants to come back to coach, but
will the other things around him prevent him from doing that.
Now what makes this interesting is obviously he's going to go back to his family and, you
know, um, discuss all of this stuff.
But like, it's hard to, you can't take two months to make this decision, you know?
The transfer portal opens up on April 7th, right?
It's a day after the National Championship.
That's coming up in two weeks.
And so between having to come together with exit interviews, having to contact agents,
having to contact other players that are, you know, whatever that are going to be in
the transfer portal, um, having to start getting scouting done on that stuff, having to
like, you have to almost come to a decision like sooner rather than later.
It makes things very difficult because if you don't come to that decision till, oh, you're
a week into the transfer portal and you're like, all right, what's going on in the transfer
portal?
Let's catch up.
You know, that's not a good position to be.
So it makes, I don't know, does that make it more likely to come back because it would
have to be a quicker decision or less likely?
I guess you could kind of decide on that.
So, um, when I look at it right now, um, I feel like we'll do that notion, get a picture
sooner rather than later if that makes sense because specifically, like I just mentioned
that from the transfer portal.
You think about the guys coming back, you know, if you're bill self and you're not coming
back, you don't have an exit interview with a player and go, yeah, I think it's in your
best interest if you go somewhere else, you know, if you are coming back, you have that
exit interview.
And if there's a player that you're basically being like, hey, you're not going to play
here next year.
We think it's in your best interest to go to another school, you tell them that.
So you have to almost have figured out before that as well and that can kind of complicate
things as well.
And then from there, just like staying on the coaching path thing, um, if it's not bill
self, what decision does Travis goff make and how quickly can you do that?
I'd imagine as high profile as a job as the Kansas basketball job is and as good of an athletic
director as I think Travis goff is and as good at hiring coaches as I feel like he has
been, you always have to have some sort of a running list in terms of like, okay, these
are the guys that I'm focusing it on.
And I truly do believe that he is going to be prepared for that to move quickly and move
swiftly.
Certainly would be very interesting.
If you, I mean, North Carolina might open up, could you imagine an offseason where Carolina
and Kansas would both be open and that might not be good for either school because then
there's a bidding war and then all of a sudden you're cutting into a potential like an
IL budget, but that'll be very interesting too.
But if self does decide to come back, then it's figuring out, okay, what's going to be
the assistant coaching staff, right?
Do you make even more changes, um, and figure that the continuity has not been great here.
Now you did bring two guys in in jock Vaughn and Tony bland feels like bland was making
an impact on their recruiting trail.
Everything I heard about jock Vaughn was, you know, that that was going well at the same
point in time.
Kansas had their worst offense of the bill self-era.
So adding jock Vaughn didn't just completely revolutionize the offense or something for
Kansas.
So what happens from an assistant coaching perspective?
You know, I think those are going to be interesting questions too for KU.
And then kind of the next question is, where are the dome in all of this?
Do the donors have some sort of say because obviously from a player retention from player
addition perspective, you need cash, you need money and you need the donors to be able
to do those sorts of things.
If you know, are the donors upset with how the recent years have gone enough to a point
where they're going to almost wedge bill self out and be like, hey, if you come back,
I'm not donating or I'm donating less money, you're going to have less money to work
with because it hasn't been working the recent years.
Does it go the opposite way where a donor says, okay, maybe like us missing out on Darian
Williams for instance, maybe us missing out on that one final piece that cost us.
And so now this year we need to spend even more money.
But again, if the flip side is, hey, if you retire and we bring in this new coach, I'm
willing to stroke a big check to sign the coach and to give a huge boost for his first
NIL budget in his first roster here versus if bill self is still here, I'm not given
as much, then it kind of hamstrings you in a certain way.
And then if you're bill self and you're going, oh, so if I come back, I'm going to be
coming back at a deficit of what amount of money I'm going to be able to, like, there's
just so much that goes into this that you're going to have to figure out before we even
get to the personnel decisions.
But let's get to those personnel decisions next.
What do you once again is going to have to make in terms of the career roster who's coming
in already and potentially what could they add in the portal?
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Oh, next question after we figure out all the coaching thing, which that's the primary
one.
That's the big one that gets the ball rolling here is who comes back, who goes pro,
who transfers away from the current roster slash what they already know they are adding
to the fold.
So let's take a look real quick at what cans potentially could have for this season.
So if I'm looking at the projected 2026 to 27 starting lineup and even this, I don't
feel great about Taylin Kenny is an incoming freshman.
I do feel good about him being a starter, really good shooter.
I think we'll probably add a level of scoring that we haven't seen at the point card position
or shooting.
I guess would be the better way of putting it in a bit of time here.
And then I think the two guard like, OK, I guess theoretically like, you know, if Colorsario
bottles up whatever he did in the end of the St. John's games and does that in the off season
and comes out rock and then sure, he could win the job.
Marco Jackson, Jamari McDowell, because they have a chance.
I don't think that would be the best interest for Kansas if they end up starting there.
But sure, why not?
We can at least bring them up.
Then you look at the wing position and at the three again, like, OK, I guess you could
go with Colorsario or something, but more likely than that, that feels like either a transfer
or could Kansas land Tyron Stokes, that would be kind of the big one to bring in.
Then you look at the four and five and even here, I'm just like, I don't know, like Flory
could go pro, Flory could transfer, we saw him into the board last year, Flory could come
back.
I have no idea.
Bison Tiller.
Like, did Tiller do enough in some of the games that he had against like BYU for instance,
where somebody's going to be like, Hey, we see star potential in you.
We're willing to offer you X amount of dollars, and it's more than Kansas would feel comfortable
on, especially with the way he struggled to finish season, also with the way he struggled
to finish the season, you know, what's going to be the situation there?
He was benched in the big 12 tournament game to a point where like, is he going to want
to leave, you know?
So those are all questions you have to kind of get figured out.
But yeah, I guess pointing out view like this.
So freshman coming in, Taylor and Kenny, I would view him as a probable starter right
now.
You never know exactly what's going to happen.
Maybe on adkins, that was one that the staff really liked the center position seems like
he's kind of fading in the wrong direction with his final year of high school.
So probably coming in as more of a backup big man with the way Paul and Bia finished
the season to me.
I would view him be ahead of adkins on the depth chart, but we'll wait and see what happens
there.
Then you have Luke Barnett, who's like a really good shooter and you have Trent Perry,
who is a really good defender and wing prospect would not shock me if either one was at least
playing eight to 10 minutes for game as a freshman, because they are just like a lead
at one thing.
And that can at least get you on the floor as like an eighth man, potentially.
And then you look at the potential returners for Kansas.
So Marco Jackson and Jemari McDowell, both could be retro juniors.
Those are both going to be questions about what is the cost level and what is the expected
role?
If the expected role for either guys, we want to be a starter or the expected money is,
you know, that level of investment, you have to say no thanks.
Like go find a new school.
If it's going to come at a cheap cost for potentially being your seventh, eighth or ninth
man, then I think that's fine, right?
So just kind of is a, it's like in the NFL or the NBA now, right?
Like team signs, a guy to a three year, $30 million contract and, you know, it's like,
okay, that's whatever contract like that's worse what he's paying or if you overpay
him, then it's like, man, I like the player, but you know, that doesn't go that way.
So I think it's all about that kind of the, what is the expectation here for both of
those guys with Corbin Allen.
I think the expectation would be back as a wrench freshman kind of continuing to develop
here, unless he wanted to go somewhere that, you know, more playing time was, was ample
to him.
So he's Calderon will be an interesting one because Bill Self has made a lot of strong
comments about him being like a future NBA player.
So you would think Kansas will want to get him back and continue to kind of develop him,
but, you know, maybe he views it as a going to be tough to get playing time, which, you
know, that's always a question here, Paul and Bia, another interesting one like this
he view it as, hey, I basically sat the bench all year, I'm going to go somewhere else
and guarantee more playing time or does he view, hey, the way I finish the season, I can
do this.
Like, I can be part of the rotation.
And I would, if you told me, Paul and Bia is, if you told me you're a Florida, as you're
starting center and Paul and Bia is the backup center next year, I'd feel great about
the center position for KU going into it.
Then with Taylor, that's the most complicated of it because of the, the idea that I just
kind of outlined and how it finished the season.
So I don't know what you do there.
Bill Self does best when, and again, this goes back to the coach.
Bill Self does best when he has player retention and player sticking in the system.
And so it's one of those things where it's like, okay, do you just try to bring everybody
back and hope there's improvement like we've seen in other years?
The flip side to that is a lot of times when they've had the player retention, those
are like really good players, you know, now I do remember like Christian Brown having
kind of an up and down sophomore season and people are like, oh, Christian Brown needs
to be coming off the bench, you know, and then he comes back and, and he's a first round
draft pick.
So I would prefer they get Taylor back and play the consistency game with Bill Self.
But again, going into those conversations, if the price gets out of your range, I'm
not willing to like pay a huge figure to make it happen either.
If that kind of makes sense.
And there you have, let's see, I think that Colorsario, who I just kind of mentioned,
like what's going to be the idea for Rosario?
Like is that going to be he wants to go somewhere else that guarantees more playing time?
Again, the way, I don't know, like he might be looking for more playing time elsewhere.
But he's somebody with a high ceiling that I would like to retain because he's somebody
who if it all comes together for Colorsario, he's going to be a really good player.
So that's one where it's like, okay, with El Margo Jackson and Jamar Mika.
If bringing back like a Colorsario costs you one of those guys, I think you have to do
it from the standpoint of like with El Margo and McDowell, it's more of a floor play with
those guys.
Whereas with Rosario, it's more of a ceiling play if that kind of makes sense.
And then Florey is the last one, like I said, he could go to the NBA.
He could enter the transfer portal.
He could now it was interesting.
There were a lot of rumors kind of like Duke's going to snipe him away for $3 million.
Who knows if that's true or not, but Bill self kind of addressed that like without actually
addressing the exact rumor in a recent press conference a couple weeks ago where he was
just basically like, you know, sometimes agents can do that to float numbers out for negotiations
and stuff.
But basically, it sounded like to me that they were taking care of it that their impression
is Florey's either going to go pro or come back for a hefty dollar amount, right?
Now, I do think it's important.
Let's say Kansas loses Bryce and Tiller.
You need somebody at the floor who can score for you inside.
If that part of Florey's game doesn't develop as much as you hope from this year to the
next year, if you do get Florey back, but the crazy thing about this is all of these
are question marks.
The only guy I feel confident about being like, I think you'll be in the starting lineup
and be here is Taylin Kinney because Tiller could transfer wouldn't shock me or he could
come back.
Florey could go pro or transfer.
None of it would shock me.
And then it's like, okay, you're adding transfer portal players, you're adding freshmen
gets very difficult to try to figure out right now, but that's starting line up would
be which is crazy because on paper, can you only ask three scholarships to work with?
All the players I just mentioned, that is 12 scholarship players, you have 15.
That's only three available spots.
Now we know some players are going to transfer away, more will open up.
So what could KU add in the portal?
We'll get to that next.
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So what positions is K you need to add now in the transport again, the portal opens
up April 7th and it'll be open until April 21st, which is just a, that's just a window
for players to enter now.
So a player could enter on the final day and then commit two weeks later, they can commit
whenever just those are when they enter.
If the coach leaves, there's a 15 day train for window that opens up for players five
after a new head coach is hired or not.
So those are good things.
And then also this the other one, graduate students, sometimes get different deadlines.
And I don't know, it feels like with graduate students, at least in like, feels like graduate
grad students could go whenever also felt like I think with like two co guys and D two and
like those those guys, they could kind of go whenever to, I don't know how much K you
will be in those markets, but so yeah, those would kind of be interesting here.
So you have three scholarships available, but realistically, like at least one or two
players, you would think are going to transfer away if you're Kansas or GoPro or something.
So probably going to end up being more than than the three, but you look at it right
now.
And I think you need another starting goal or next to Taylor and Kenny, right?
And how you want to do that will be very interesting.
Like would you be good finding a mountain council type, right?
When you when you think of Kenny being a shot making guard, does it make sense to have
more of a defensive past first point guard?
Now that being said, I still want them to be able to shoot at least a little bit.
I, if there are 35% shooter on three times per game, like that can be good for me, because
if you have that and Kenny, then great, but like we've been, it's been so long since
we've had two guards that could shoot at the same time for Kansas.
And I would like to kind of get back to that.
So I think that would be good.
Get somebody who's quick athletic can guard another player on the other team pretty well.
That would be my preference, but I could understand getting in a Melvin council type to go
with Kenny that can kind of play off each other.
Then again, we had the council type next to Darren Peterson, and that didn't mesh as much
as we wanted to.
And that would be kind of the same idea.
So again, I would prefer guys that can shoot at every level of the floor for KU and guys
who are quick and athletic.
We'll see what happens.
Then the wing position, I mean, if Tyron Stokes signs up to be a Kansas J Hawk, like that
answers that question.
Now Stokes is somebody who could, I mean, offensively, he almost becomes a one.
And then defensively, he could play with a three or the four.
So it gives you a little bit of flexibility with what you want to do there.
Let's say KU got Taylor and Bedouin go back.
You get start Stokes, Taylor and Bedouin go.
And then you definitely need that other guy.
I mean, Stokes actually had a seemingly a pretty good three point shooting season from
everything I was seeing.
But you would still want more shooting at the two in that situation to play next to Kenny.
Now if you don't get Stokes or let's say, you know, let's go down that path first.
If you don't get Stokes, then you're looking to add a transfer portal player and you're
looking to me to add a 3 and D wing, right?
Somebody who can knock down three is next to Kenny, but be a good defender.
And just in general, I would like KU to have at least two wings on the roster this next
year, right?
I guess it means Calderon.
If he comes back, then I would like it to be three.
If he's one of those three this year, you only had one wing as part of the rotation.
You know, Tray White, he was the only wing in the rotation.
And that really limits you.
Like, go back to the national championship team for Kansas.
They had three pro wings in the rotation with Ochi, Jalen Wilson, and Christian Brown.
Having wings makes you such a more versatile team in terms of how you defend other teams
and how you can find buckets offensively.
I want more wings in line up for KU.
And that's why the idea, if let's say Bryson Tiller were to transfer away for instance,
and you did lane Tyron Stokes, get me another wing and then play a wing of the three and
four, right?
And then you have your two guards at the one two and then you have Florian at the center
position.
Would it be who Kansas to find a big man that they can bring in as a play the four and five?
Yes, but if you trust Paul and Bia and you bring your other two bigs back, then that can
probably be okay as well, especially since you're bringing in Davey on Adkins, a top
50 recruit in the class also.
So, you know, there will be rotation fillers or developmental guys or end of the bench type
of guys for KU, but those are the two on main they're looking at a guard who can shoot
and is an older player to pair with Kenny and a wing who can, whether it's a three or
four, who can fervently somebody who can play both, who can defend wings and to bat your
bodies, give you versatility and knock down an open shot.
Those are the biggest ones that I'm looking for and you need that other, like you need,
you need multiple bucket getters on the floor at all times.
I say this all the time and Kansas ran into this problem this year, you didn't have
enough bucket getters on the floor, right?
So like, bill self continually has good defenses, he figures out a way, even the teams that
don't have as much defensive talent, usually he figures out a way to at least get them
like top 30, but we've seen now over recent years, the offense for KU has dipped outside
the top 50 for three consecutive seasons.
It was 60 at this year, which is the worst of the bill self era.
Give me the offensive talent, the bucket makers, the scores and let bill self figure out
the defense, especially if you'll flurry back as the center and you have Paul and Bia
behind him, then just just live with live with having those guys on the interior to help
your defense at least be okay and get a bunch of bucket getters around him.
That's what I want from this off season for KU, but it has to be guys that like it can't
just be AJ store type of bucket getters, guys who need the ball in their hand, I want bucket
getters who can get make shots off the bounce or off off the catch, right?
I want guys who are not going to be selfish with the basketball and then you have a couple
of those guys that can do it with the ball in their hand.
We need bucket getters back in Kansas.
All right, that'll do it for this episode of the show.
Thanks so much for joining us and we'll have plenty more off season content coming
after right here on L.O.J.

Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball

Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball

Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball
