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  1. This is a fair assessment. Solid but not great. What I like about Miles is I think he would say the same thing and he is willing to learn and adapt. None of this, "we were excellent in all areas" baloney. I agree that you don't hire and fire out of fear (and I hire a bunch) but I would rather take a moldable, solid guy growing into his role than spinning the wheel of never been successful at this level. That's why Moos gets the big bucks I guess, only he might be gone in three years so its us fans that will enjoy or lament his effort (and he still got the big bucks!) Again, I have sort of resigned myself that we are planning on spinning the coaching wheel.
  2. I totally agree with this in that the job is based on your performance. But …. the thing that bothers me is that it was a 7 year contract and 7 year build and I feel like we undercut Miles in years 6 and 7 with the one year extension. I suppose you can blame having multiple athletic directors, but I would be wary as the next coach being told to come in and build your program. I get that we have great facilities and fan support and should expect better results, but in a 6 year time period we went to the dance and tied for the second most wins in school history and then we shot the puppy. I have resigned myself to the fact that a change is likely coming, but man I would love to see a team next year with Roby, Allen, Heimann, Burke, Green and Mika Adams Woods next year. I would love to see Miles and what I think is a super staff in Lewis and Gates reenergized to hit the recruiting trail with a fresh extension. Next year is already setting up to be another run at 20 wins and a tourney berth if we don't blow it up. After a while winning seasons, the bubble, tourney berths become the norm and then we step up from there. I am worried that this time we actually hire our John Groce.
  3. Did you actually listen? He said he felt like he was on the hook. The administration has clearly sent that message for two consecutive years with two different AD's . It often seems like the more honest you are the more you get in trouble with your statements. Maybe he should have blown smoke up Goodman's ass. Might have that have worked with Morrow and Tshmanga too? Moos told him that retention was an option. (I think we all know what another option is) and he didn't give him any exact benchmark expectation. Mercifully this needs to end with him caught on to the boat (fired) or set free to swim and recruit (new contract). The one year extension after the 22 win season and 4th place finish in the conference was a horses*** vote of no confidence and it will likely bite us in the butt whether we go on a run or don't.
  4. I think the one year extensions, whether it was the Eichorst one year removed from the tournament run or Moos at the end of tying the record for 2nd most wins in school history that cut the legs out from under him. Whatever happens this year we need to either support him with a new contract or let him go.
  5. Tim Miles has a 41.5% conference winning percentage. Greg McDermott (since his son left) is 43.5% in an arguably softer league. The narrative is that one is a sell and one is a buy. Maybe if we follow up our 2nd most wins in school history with a second winning season and strong recruiting class than the narratives are backwards.
  6. Nana may have missed the scout or not have been in game shape. Amir was pretty effective and with Watson and Palmer hitting we needed more D than O. The last foul reminded me of our poor close outs that cost us the Incarnate Word game a few years back. Fouling a guy on the three. You can't close out that way and have contact. (especially on the road. ;)) I am in the minority here but if Nebraska scrapes to a winning a record then I say: We won the state this year, we are starting to win the state in recruiting (with talent trending up), we have some nice pieces coming back and coming in, we had back to back winning seasons in a conference this year which was an absolute beast. Tim is my guy. I think the most likely scenario is 17-16 and a new coach, but it's not what I want. (Finish 2-4 and then 1-1 in tourney)
  7. You asked what teams in the conference would swap coaches with us, not where do I think he rates in the conference.
  8. Last night's loss was terrible. (I am neither blind nor totally stupid) but we are only one game off where I thought we would be. KenPom has us ending the year between 7-5 (our cumulative record) and 9-3 (in there game by game predictions). That is my expectation as well. I will be disappointed if we can't do it. We have given ourselves little margin for error. Have to protect the home floor and when another road game or two. I thought we should finish between 11-9 and 13-7 but these scenarios say between 10-10 and 12-8. There is an outside scenario where we finish 6-6 and slip in on the bubble. I think this scenario with a 9-11 conference record would disappointing and only remedied by an NCAA upset win. To answer another poster in the thread, this is what makes the 8 seed go bye-bye. This is a disappointing result to me only salvaged by an NCAA win. Depth and post play was going to always be the issue in a 20 game Big 10 season.
  9. Glynn Watson followed him into a fight. If rock bottom is an 8 seed projection by Lunardi then sign me up. Minnesota and Penn State would consider Miles and upgrade and Indiana is probably tired of getting beat by him.
  10. I get that eventually you have to perform but the whole spin the coaching wheel in hopes of something better often leaves programs on a hamster wheel I feel like. Who knows the next guy you get might struggle to draw up an inbounds play when you are up 3 with 0.8 seconds left?
  11. I think our defensive issues in the post come down to being tentative and fearing foul trouble. Iowa (who does this well) successfully put Borchardt, Roby and Copeland on the bench to end the 1st half. I though Copeland was tentative at the end of the Minnesota game as well because he had 4 and believed (rightfully so) that the team needed him to stick around. I think our lack of depth (we are 322nd on KenPom with bench minutes) has taught teams that we will get tentative with some foul trouble especially on Roby and Copeland. I think we are the same team that went 13-5 in conference last year, which is better than last year's early non conference team. The only difference I see is a little better three point shooting with Watson improved, Allen more experienced, Copeland healthier and Nana. That team is good enough to dance and maybe win a game but is likely a middling team in this year's Big 10. I still hope for 12-8 but KenPom says 11-9. If we do that and extend Miles we won't back up too far next year with what we have coming in and staying (maybe Bubble or NIT) and we can keep building from there, searching for more consistent post-season appearances and post season success. We are really starting to gain all of the Nebraska/Omaha recruiting lead and I don't want to lose that. I disagree about this being the most talented team we have ever had. We are just not deep enough and we don't have enough post presence. I love him but you won't finish in the top 4 of this conference with Borchardt as your first big man off the bench. And finally, I need to stay off twitter after games.
  12. According to USA Bracketologist our losses are versus 3 seed (neutral) and an 8 and 10 seed on the road. We own a road win versus a 10 and home wins versus a 6 and 9. We should have won one of these early road games and Iowa will not be a cakewalk, but it is remarkable how this season is so different than last. My target is still 9-1 home and 3-7 road. That would be 22-9 and like a 6 or 7 seed.
  13. Somebody smarter can correct me but I think there is so much statistical analysis that go into rankings and perceptions etc. that we are keeping the gas on a bit longer. Kenpom predicts we will win by 17 so you don't go the bench early and let it slip to that or under that. Staying ranked, staying in the Kenpom top 15 matters to our confidence, expectations and recruiting. That's my guess.
  14. I just want to give a shout out to the "Husker" fan behind me that bet the under and thinks Miles can't coach. Timmy and the boys shoved that up your hole.
  15. As we lament our dramatic fall in KenPom from 21st to 24th. ? I found it interesting that in the related content below section was this post from 2012-2013. I for one enjoy the NCAA tourney talk, the borderline Top 25 talk, the top half of conference talk. I do not, for the life of me, get those ready to blow it up after each loss of a basketball game. 2012-2013 KenPom Rankings Thread By 49r Looked today and on Kenpom.com, and I see Nebraska comes in as easily the lowest rated B1G team, clocking in at a whopping 216.
  16. I wanted to see some 1-3-1 tonight at about the 8:00 minute mark but I am not the coach. I see the board has decided he can’t coach again tonight. We peed it down our leg tonight. This will flip our Kenpom prediction to 20-11 which would likely put us in an NCAA game we are favored in. It is going to be a grind, rollercoaster see-saw of emotions. (and all those analogies you can think of). I thought Heimann was a bright spot tonight. Thomas Allen as well, although we needed the front end of the one and one. I agree with the post that said Saturday is a big game for the psyche.
  17. I am totally pro-Miles but I will say this: When I go to my battered fan place I think, how are we any different (better) than last year's team? Just that we figured our "line up of death" earlier? Everyone is a year older? I have been pleasantly surprised at the play of Nana and some of our bench but we get thin awfully quick. I feel like you can play Nana and one other non-starter at the same time (Borchardt, Heiman, Harris) but if you get two non-starters in other than Nana it can become very scary, especially offensively.
  18. As off as the early data might be I think that is a pretty accurate cut. I think the Big 10 gets 8 bids and that PSU and Northwestern are NIT teams. The question is which one of those 9 drops to join them. KenPom says its Iowa, Maryland or Purdue right now. As long as it is not us!
  19. So after Sunday we have one game left that is predicted to be beyond single digit win. Not sure my heart is ready.
  20. I think Brady might play more in games where his lack of upper body strength won’t hurt him. Tonight we needed the muscle, another matchup might call for Brady’s skills.
  21. Thank you for the above and the work that HHCMatt does on the site. It was a good reminder. I went from reading it right to the main page and made a donation. We didn't play well last night and were a little exposed as far as our inside toughness and depth (Nana and Amir weren't ready for that and I wish we could have seen a bit of Heimann) but it is a long season. We are essentially last year's team with a tougher schedule. While that means we should improve and will at times give people fits, it also means we might go 19-12 and end up on the bubble. I don't think we vastly out-talented Tech and we certainly did not out-depth them. I think the ceiling for this team is the Sweet 16 and the floor is the NIT and under either scenario we might see a coaching change. I hope not because I like having a team this good and having a team that is starting to land the best in state recruits. I look forward to watching it play out and enjoying it as a fan and thank you guys who keep the board, the KenPom thread and all of the other things up to date for us mostly lurkers.
  22. Let me play devil's advocate here. While I agree with it being a breach of ethics, it also seems like market forces are at work. As I watch the Red River Shootout kickoff it seems like the profit generated by the game is not evenly shared by the participants generating the value. Our institutions of higher learning are the minor leagues for football and basketball. I think any solution has to acknowledge that reality.
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