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Can tell what little he knows. There hasn't been a 7/11 here since the 90s.

Free trip to SoCal?

Only recruit high school kids that are within 500 miles of Lincoln is my thought. hopefully at some point NIL contracts become 2 year deals between players and universities

Judging from his interviews, he knows better than that.

I'm tired of the extra seasons, but it has helped Nebrasketball, nevertheless... it's time to be done with it. Deion is a dipstick. This schtick will end horribly, I'd imagine, once his son is a QB in the league. Basketball is in a unique position in that a team basically only needs about 5-8 good enough players to go with 1 (or 2) star player(s) to be more than competitive. That's the point of development, a team can't just re-load every single year unless it's KU or Calipari at UK... I suppose now that opportunity is there for everybody, but I don't believe it is sustainable long-term. Time will tell...

He thinks his pro future is on the wing?

Maybe leverage to drive up his NIL value?

Kyle visiting UCLA is odd as they have 2 transfer PF types already (ranked higher than Kyle) and a young C they like.

Believe I heard she’s headed to Texas.

I thought we were this and next season away from being over COVID extra seasons. But nonetheless. It will be interesting. Deion Sanders has made zero visits to high schools and hits the transfer portal heavily. I'd imagine he'll lose out on some players who transfer to schools where those coaches visited them in their early years. As for basketball, you can probably get by with it a little more than you can in football. But in order to have depth, you either need deep pockets for solid bench guys or some continuity from high school or JUCO recruits.

Rhule absolutely nails it—you recruit kids that want to be there, period. This philosophy doesn’t really matter when you get the kid, but it certainly helps for continuity. Keisei wasn’t a freshman, but he wanted to be here and stay here. Gary, BW, Mast, Griesel, etc. all wanted to be here and it showed in how hard they play.

Looks like Christo will start the rematch for us.

Preseason B1G predictions in baseball are pretty much worthless every year. Guessing the predictions will only get worse when we add in the Pac-4, because everyone will assume those 4 are going to dominate. In reality, I'd guess Oregon would be the only one to make the 8-team postseason if those 4 were playing in the B1G this season.

This ostensibly will be the final COVID 'extra' season of eligibility, so recruiting freshmen will be needed to fill out a roster going forward. You can't just solely recruit in the portal anyway, so a coaching staff recruits kids from an early age to make sure they know one another for future considerations. it's basically mass free agency in the minor leagues of basketball....

You recruit freshmen, because in this next cycle, 2-4 years, this NIL lunacy will end. Just watch. I guarantee it.

Man I guess we will just disagree. Besides Garcia, Hawkins is a very good PG who led the league in assists and shoots it decent. He will be in high demand in the portal. Christie is projected as an NBA draft pick this year. Lots of big names are after Payne and we saw how good he is. Their 5th starter Mitchell is a 40% 3 point shooter. That is a very talented starting 5 and they had 3 nice energy guys off the bench. Should have been a tourney team IMO

Coaches get older, they stay the same age.

I do remember Danielle Page's 6 month recovery, but I'm not going to set my hopes that high. I'm just satisfied with a full recovery, both mentally and physically

You also only have to pay a rookie contract instead of a veteran contract when you pay freshman.

Bugs, that was a joke.

I think you recruit freshman that will come in a fit a role and might develop into an all conference type, and when available and within reason take the swings at those top 50 players (Bryce McGowen) especially when they have connections to the university. I tend to like Hoiberg strategy right now, frager/nano fit my expectations, as did Rice last year was also that type. Transfer/grad are more reliable you know there production level

Looking at the beginning of the year, we were pretty fortunate thinking we wouldn’t have to play most of the teams in the bottom half of the league. Oh how the tables have turned since then. now you’re left with games against teams like Iowa that are Q4 home games. Sucks.

And 7/11's if I remember that statement correctly from a Xavier basketball player.

Were you there as a witness to say nothing happened?

Outside of Dawson Garcia they didn’t have much talent. Ben did a tremendous job to get them to win some games and be competitive. Not elite level coaching but seemed to get some buy in. I think NIL is killing the gophers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk