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I think Jacobson wanted to not be a 5 more than he wants to be a 4...getting your ass kicked by centers every game that outweighed you by 10+ lbs probably wasn't a ton of fun. I think he would have stuck with it if we had been winning though....I don't think MJ believes he's going to the NBA. He would have been paired with Jordy again and probably got more minutes but when you remember all the bricks Jordy has shot in his career can you believe that MJ has never had a better eFG% than Jordy?!?!?? I didn't...I had to look at the numbers 3 times. Ed Morrow with good feet and a good attitude is the superior option as a traditional center on this team because of his ability to score in the post, rebound, and generally defend the other team's center without picking up fouls. How long were the feet or the attitude going to hold up this year? Your guess is as good as mine. BTW we're having quite the off season this year as we're re-hashing transfers from the year before.

Jacobson reminded me a lot of Greg Church who played for Missouri (for the old timers here). Just a guy that brings his lunch pail to work and does his job.

I don't think you should have spelled his name with an "o" Jay.?

When you come to the fork in the road, take it!' - Yogi Berra - my favorite and it could be used for transfers

"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." -Yogi Berra

Rebound percentage is just that - a percentage of the rebounds available that a particular player grabs. It's not based on totals. We have three full years of Copeland and two of Jacobson to go off of. Isaac Copeland is unquestionably a better player than Michael Jacobson; it's OK to admit Jacobson is the better rebounder.

I wouldn't call that sporadic. Before districts, he had 8 meets, all within 4 inches of each other. He followed this up with a season-low and then a season-high. While a little unusual, he ended the season with a PR, not atypical for someone who probably doesn't focus on track full-time.

Can't argue with the part of the article that you posted. However, when you do well, aren't you suppose to get rewarded? All the doom and gloom that has been Nebrasketball over my life time in the off season seems to have missed us this year (knock on wood) at least to now.

Now THAT was funny

Either way, you don't want to do a Google search for either. The unintended results may burn your eyes.

Those girls tryna play defense against her be like "oh shit …"

I think Both Ed and MJ are the type of players that coaches end up playing a lot...They both do a lot of the dirty work and those type of players just get minutes.... I think both would have played significant minutes if they had stayed and both will play significant minutes at their new school. Coaches love guys that box out and get rebounds...

+1. Alec Bohm is a prime example of this staffs failures on the recruiting trail. You have a Omaha kid who is projected to go top 5 in the draft and it was reported in the OWH that this staff did not feel the need to recruit him. Just mind boggling. What really grinds my gears the most though is thinking about Erstad's opening press conference in which he pumped up the fanbase with the talks of how his philosophy will be very aggressive on offense and "chaos on the basepaths." The program has been the exact opposite to where Erstad and his offense is almost too conservative. I don't want to call him a liar because again. that may very well boil down to his inability to get the job done on the recruiting trail. He has a lot to work to do and I don't think expectations should be lowered with a guy going into his 8th year at a program.

Where to start… Recruiting overall – The talent level on this team simply isn’t high enough. Sure, we have 2 or 3 guys who will be drafted high in a couple of weeks, but the talent level falls way off after that. I believe in this staff’s 2nd or 3rd year they had a handful of high level recruits signed, but they chose to turn professional. Since then, NU has shied away from going after those players, not wanting to be burned again by the draft. You just can’t do that – you have to try, that’s just the nature of college baseball. Recruiting in-state – NU’s in-state recruiting has been awful the past few years. Just awful. You look at the number of in-state kids they’ve given scholarship money to who are non-contributors (and have been for multiple seasons), it’s almost criminal … especially when you think about how many Nebraska kids are having success elsewhere. Among NU’s returning in-state players for 2019, you could argue that Hagge is the best of the bunch, and they didn’t deem him worthy of a scholarship out of high school, so technically they whiffed on him too. Miss after miss after miss on in-state kids. NU has a nice crop of in-state kids coming in next season, so hopefully they can turn this around, but some of the stories you hear about Silva and many Omaha coaches not getting along doesn’t make me hopeful. Pitching injuries – Something isn’t right here. I don’t quite know what’s happening, but NU’s serious arm injuries numbers the past few years are staggering. It has to be more than just bad luck. This problem is going to start hurting NU on the recruiting trail … if it hasn’t already. Then you have the added factor of NU’s guys coming back from injury struggling to stay healthy or just not rebounding as quickly as expected, Hohensee probably being the exception, and you end up with the mess that you had on the mound in 2018. Friday night starter – For whatever reason, this NU staff has not been interested in giving extra scholarship money to a top flight pitcher to put that dominant Friday night guy out there. Perhaps Silva believes he can develop Friday night worthy starters? It isn’t working. Relying on an extremely inexperienced pitcher like Alvarado as your Friday night guy was a dangerous plan in 2018, and put a lot of pressure on him. Then NU had no backup plan, and the starting rotation was a disaster much of the season. In college baseball, it all starts with that Friday night guy having success and everyone else feeding off him. NU needs a new thought process here. 2018 – The above problems are nothing new, but NU was able to win at a relatively high level the past couple of years, and this staff deserves credit for gaining the most from what they had on the roster in 2016 and 2017. But to win at that high level with so little talent and with no dominant Friday night guy in college baseball, you have to do almost everything else right. NU has been really good in the late innings on the mound the past few years, excelled on defense, and did a decent job moving runners. In 2018, the pitching injuries decimated NU’s mid-level bullpen, making it tougher to hold leads. Then the starting pitching collapsed, and NU was constantly playing from behind. The defense was atrocious most of the season. And NU’s ability to move runners and batting average with runners in scoring position was horrible much of the season. NU did not have anywhere near enough talent on the roster to overcome all of this crashing down at once and even have the bare minimum success level in a season of making the Big Ten Tourney. 2019 – It’s hard to imagine this getting much better next season. NU loses its 2 best hitters by a mile (assuming Wilkening turns pro) and its best pitcher in Hohensee. Some guys are going to have to take huge steps forward, which could happen – Wilkening certainly did it in 2018. The Waldron twins also made some nice strides in 2018. Otherwise, you’re relying on a lot of freshman arms, who typically have not excelled under this staff; guys coming off serious injuries, which did not work well in 2018; and hitters who did not do much to impress in 2018. Plus the Big Ten the past several seasons has been dominated by teams with older players, so relying on a bunch of freshman has not been a recipe for success. Perhaps the staff can get the defense fixed and avoid the arm injuries in 2019, which would help quite a bit to avoid missing the Big Ten Tourney. But this program is a long way away talent wise from being a team that competes to host regionals. I really hate to see this going on, as I’m a big Erstad fan and want him to have success. But I really think the team could use a fresh perspective on the recruiting trail at the bare minimum. And they absolutely have to get this pitching injury issue figured out. The coaches, to their credit, have been very careful about pitch counts and holding guys back when they aren’t feeling right, so it has to be something on the training end. It's going to be one of the strangest sporting events in this state’s history this week with the Big Ten Tourney in Omaha and no NU playing. That can never happen again.

Maybe I'm off base, but baseball seems like the B1G men's sport where we should be what Ohio State is to football, or Michigan State is to basketball - obviously not expecting the national success. But with our support, history (in relation to the rest of the B1G), and facilities - whoever wants to win the B1G should expect to come through Lincoln to win the title. Sitting at home when the B1G tournament is in Omaha is just so deflating. Not to mention when it has been in Omaha, Iowa seems to benefit more so than Nebraska.

But based on the OWH, we should be lowering our expectations and settling for less.

It is interesting watching players as they develop from freshman year through senior year. For MJ he came in and put on a lot of muscle and was asked to play the 5 while still recovering from injury. The kid had good form, but simply could not get his outside shots to fall consistently. He worked his ass off rebounding and doing the little crap that many others don't like doing. From all accounts he was unselfish and was a well liked teammate. He will play well this coming season....I will be surprised if he doesn't.

Going to be frustrating watching his shots go in at Iowa St when we were unable to get him over the hump shooting the ball.

Congratulations on your new position and Best Wishes on your upcoming marriage!