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It all comes down to the Bucket List. At 56, I've enjoyed a ton of Husker success on the football field. Almost none on the basketball court. I'm going to root harder for and die little deaths more often related to basketball games until I can check off an NCAA Tournament win. And that doesn't become a possibility unless the regular season goes really well. So hoops.

I'm throwing out the following information just to illustrate the nature of the coaching profession. There are 32 coaches in the top 6 conferences with that have been around as long or longer than Miles. Of those, 30 have won an NCAA Tournament game. The two that haven't are Miles and Chambers at Penn State. Also among major conferences, since they expanded the tournament to 64 teams in 1985, there have been a few coaches that get their first NCAA Tournament win at a school only after more than seven seasons, but there aren't many. Leonard Hamilton did it twice, at Miami and Florida State. Mike Montgomery did it at Stanford. Jim O'Brien did it at Boston College. Bruce Parkhill did it at Penn State. Richard Williams did it at Mississippi State. And that's it, as far as I can find. And in that time, the only two coaches that made it to their tenth season at a school without winning a tournament game are Bill Carmody at Northwestern, who lasted 13 years, and Danny Nee, who lasted 14. So, in general, it's extremely important to win early in your tenure, because otherwise it's extremely rare to get a chance to win late.

Norm on this one I 100% agree with you (and LadyHusker) and frankly I am shocked by how poorly Moos handled his situation and am just as shocked that all true Husker Hoops fans can’t see that. Thers were only 2 viable options for Moos after the end is the season: 1. Immediately give Miles at least a 2 year extension; or 2. Fire Miles and hire “his” coach Playing the waiting game and putting out feelers and then giving just a token 1 year extension was the worst thing he could do and if I/we/you have to take the time to repeatedly explain why then it’s not worth the effort because some will just never get it.

I agree with Dean. I don't think the poll results reflect a population that really understands what they're voting on. So I'm not sure what you can make of the results, if anything. And I'm afraid I must not have been doing a very good job of explaining my position on all of this. Let me try once more: You have a coach. The money you pay him at this point isn't necessarily just about compensating him based on his performance. Part of what you're doing with extensions, etc., is nurturing the program itself. The people who are focused on the fact that a big extension now and firing him next year would mean he'd get some kind of huge, undeserved windfall, are, in my opinion, focusing on the wrong thing. That might all be true, but it's not the most important consideration. In my opinion, the people who are most worried that Miles could "hit the jackpot" by getting fired after a longer extension are leaping over dollars to save pennies. This program has a value independent of and far larger than what we're paying the coach. You have to nurture the program. Part of having a program is having a coach. You (the AD) chose not to fire the guy this year. In my opinion, given that you didn't fire him, it is untenable to not extend him generously now even if you have to fire him next year. We just got done with one of the best seasons in the modern history of the program and we needed to leverage the obvious success (finishing top 4 in conference) in order to lay groundwork for further success down the road, including on the recruiting trail. By not being decisive and swift about either terminating the coach or extending him (to a normal-length deal), Moos screwed the pooch. He basically deprived us of any opportunity to leverage the objective success we had this year and use it to pave the way for further success in the future, regardless of who the coach is. Miles has been hamstrung in recruiting ever since Shawn Eichorst decided to not extend him two years ago. I think we've seen the results of that decision playing out on NLI signing days ever since. It's to the point that, even if we have a successful run next season, make it to the dance and win a game or two, the stable is going to be basically empty for the following year. We aren't going to have the horses to compete the year after, and we're going to be right back to where we are now. Or, actually, in worse shape. Those of you whose primary focus is that you don't want to see Miles get paid one damn dime in buyout because you think his performance doesn't justify the pay he's getting? I think you're cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I would watch football on TV and follow basketball online. Because who are we kidding, the BBall game won't be televised in this scenario.

The only category that Miles wouldn’t win is if we needed an in-bounds play

1. Tie? Nothing really stands out for any of them. 2. Collier 3. Miles 4. Sadler 5. Sadler 6. Collier

Is "None of the above" an option?

11/11/17: FB: MINN 54 NEB 21 BB: NEB 72 EIU 68 11/24/17: FB: Iowa 56 NEB 14 BB: NEB 84 Marist 59 11/19/16: BOTH HOME GAMES FB: NEB 28 Maryland 7 BB: NEB 65 LA Tech 54 11/25/16 FB: Iowa 40 NEB 10 BB: UCLA 82 NEB 71 11/14/15 FB: NEB 31 RUT 14 BB: NEB 97 MVSU 51 11/27/15 FB: Iowa 28 NEB 20 BB: Cincy 65 NEB 61 11/22/14 FB: MINN 28 NEB 24 BB: RI 66 #21NEB 62 (OT) 11/28/14 FB: NEB 37 Iowa 34 (OT) BB: NEB 75 Tenn-Martin 64 11/14/09 FB: NEB 31 Kansas 17 BB: NEB 76 SC Upstate 49 11/21/09 FB: NEB 17 KState 3 BB: NEB 90 TCU 77 11/10/07 FB: NEB 73 KState 31 BB: NEB 67 Presbyterian 52 11/11/06 FB: NEB 28 Texas A&M 27 BB: (Exh) NEB 54 SIU-Edwardsville 50 12/2/06 FB: OU 21 NEB 7 (Big 12 Championship) BB: Rut 75 NEB 73 11/12/05 FB: NEB 27 KState 25 BB: (Exh) NEB 76 Holy Family Univ 54 11/13/04 FB: OU 30 NEB 3 BB: (Exh) NEB 84 UNK 71 12/27/02 FB: Ole Miss 27 NEB 23 (Independence Bowl) BB: NEB 60 UC-Santa Barbara 57 (ASU hoops classic in Tempe, AZ)

It is a no confidence flag from the AD and of course it hurts a lot. Coaches are smart and will constantly be in a recruits ear about it and that plants a lot of doubt in kids/parents mind. What is so frustrating is if it is just about the money just reduce his buyout and extend the years, that happens a lot. So if you do end up having to fire him you are not out a lot more money. it was pretty simple and I am surprise by what Moos did. Hurts the program with or without Miles but doing it this way.

Robin Washut has reported of at least one recruit who was set to sign with Nebraska but backed off when it was pointed out that Miles contract, at the time, expired in 2020. Washut has not identified the the kid but has stated the recruit signed with a BIG school. Speculation is that the recruit was Eric Hunter who went to Purdue. Opine all you want, but I trust Robin Washut’s reporting. Coaching stability matters to kids. The easiest way to overcome it is by having coaches signed for 5 year periods.

I think you missed the point of @Norm Peterson post. The majority, if not all, of recruits know the length of a coaches contract. They do not dig any deeper than that. They don't have the time or energy to do a deep dive and understand the nuances. A recruit is being pursued by multiple teams. They are buried in the process of recruiting along with juggling everything else in their lives. They are more focused on what it is going take to play as soon as possible, because that is the goal of the most of them. The length of contract is reality. Competing coaches can try to spin it however they want but a 4/5 contract is a 4/5 year contract and a 3 year contract is a 3 year contract. Those contracts say a lot to a recruit because it is understandable to them.

I hope Roby has a season good enough to be ranked that high. He has much to improve upon but he has much ability and I am happy he is a Husker.

Dean Smith agrees with me, so I got that going for me. Which is nice.

I understand where you are coming from and I am not disagreeing or disparaging your opinion. But....for me, I am not OK with Moos putting all of his attention on football. I choose basketball over football all day long and from my point of view he didn't just not give it the attention it deserved, he went out of his way and hurt the program going forward whoever ends up coaching the team two years from now.

Here's the thing -- I think 2018-19 is only another do-or-die year because that's what the narrative became after the season. Rewind six-ish weeks. Selection Sunday just happened and we were left out, but Bill Moos had spent the last week calling everyone in his phone to tell them how awesome Nebrasketball is. We're sitting at 22-10, which by most standards (especially in Nebraska) is a good season. We had a double-bye in the Big Ten Tournament, and yes, we lost to Michigan, but so did a couple really good teams, so while that sucks, it's not like we're not in good company. And the NIT may have inexplicably just crapped on us, but it's a team we played once already to start the season and jumped out to a 20-point lead at halftime so a win isn't impossible. Let's say that, at that point, the AD announces that despite what the committee decided, this was a really good season and we believe we're heading the right direction (because dang it, everyone who ever met Bill Moos in a bar once at a Final Four has heard from him this week about how great this team is and why we deserved to be in the tourney), and so with that in mind, we're looking forward to building on this year's success and taking the next step in 2018-19 with Tim Miles, who has received a 2-year extension. Could he still fire Miles if next year goes poorly? Sure. But does it also highlight the good things about this season (I can think of at least 22 of them right off the bat...) and give us a little momentum in the offseason? Yep. Maybe we still lose in Starkville, but maybe everyone isn't so pissed off when they go, knowing that at least their administration thinks they accomplished something. Or maybe we even say this conversation and announcement all happens after Moos and Miles met the first time...probably still works out OK. Instead, we got a whole bunch of silence, a ton of rumors (some of which may or may not be true, but it plants speculation regardless), and now a pall over what could have been a pretty important offseason with a coach who now looks like a lame duck and an AD who looks like he doesn't believe in his coach. All this so he could weigh out whether to fire a guy who just got a school record for conference wins and placed 4th in the Big Ten? Wait on it a year. If we suck, call your coach of choice and offer him a boatload of money then, and we're really no worse for it. If we win, great, we've got a winner. But this do-or-die narrative was cosigned, if not created, by the administration's lack of support and decisive action at the appropriate time. The ultimatum season didn't need to happen. Maybe Shawn Eichorst painted Bill Moos into a corner, but Moos turned around and pooped in it. He (and his staff) had the opportunity to write their own narrative and this is what they chose. I think that's certainly worthy of criticism, because I think all this could have all been avoided with some competent PR, and instead, we're treated to a doom-and-gloom offseason and a pressure cooker inside PBA next year.

He certainly wouldn't make that program any worse than it was this last season.

Nebraska is a lot more interested than Creighton. The Jays' "contact" was mostly a courtesy call. Creighton already has a similar yet better player signed in the class.

They recruited him for 3 years then let him go to Washington is probably more accurate. It's not like Washington won a fierce recruiting battle for him.

The point I was making is that most "fans" are just happy to have something to do between the Bowl game and Spring Football. Remember last season was supposed to be Tim's "prove it" year and now he get's to have another one. I find the lack of commitment to Tim and the Program not only troubling, but disheartening on an institutional level...

Can he get lost on defense consistently and make a highlight reel block once every 6 games. If so...sign him up!

Tough call in determining who has more upside between him and one of the multiple open spots we'll likely have.

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