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  1. This right here! While this team was always better than the sum of it's parts, our game against Illinois clearly showed that we need to upgrade some of those parts. I think at a minimum we are going to take 3 from the TP. As mentioned there are several guys on this team that we need to re-recruit. Would be surprised if this didn't return: Mast Gary Williams Lawrence (he has really elevated his game and will play a significant role next season) Hoiberg (Not on scholarship, but still worth mentioning) Probably need to re-recruit if we want to keep them. Jacobson Diop Rice High chance of leaving: Wilcher Ulis is a big question mark. His legal issues need to be resolved. Potential transfers: Keita Lloyd In-coming freshman: JANKOWSKI FRAGER
  2. So have I, however I've also seen us a 9 in few brackets including Palm. DeCourcy. Katz(Mar 12).
  3. No matter what you think about Trevor Baur you should watch his youtube video's about his time playing baseball in Japan during the 2023 season.
  4. Now that you've brought it up I'm going to be looking for it. Agree about Danny, although he was also immensely likeable. Don't know if that is the case with Underwood? Danny is the sort of Northeastern personality that Nebraskan's really liked. Not sure if it was the accent, how he dressed or how outgoing he was or a combination. I'm going to be paying very close attention to Brad today. Our basketball program has not won much over the years but I've always liked the character of all our coaches from Moe to Nee to Fred and everyone in between. I've often felt bad for them as it seems like coaching at Nebraska is a career killer. When we win our 1st NCAA tournament game, and we are winning our first NCAA tournament game this season, I'm going to think of all of those guys. I imagine twitter will be blowing up with congratulations by lots of former players and coaches. FYI, I know there where more before Moe, however before 1984, growing up in San Antonio, I didn't even know we had a basketball program.
  5. Interesting take. I've watched very few Illinois games over the years and he sticks out the way Izzo does in that he is always working the refs.
  6. KSU fans used to use the abbreviation for Bill Snyder as in HCBS, back in the day.
  7. It should not go unnoticed that during our 17-0 run we were playing suffocating defense. At no point did we have a defensive breakdown. Absolutely brilliant coaching by HCFH! HCFH stayed with the hot hands in Bryce and KT. Why didn’t we go to the rim much in this game, because we didn’t have to. When did we go to the rim, in the second half when we are up by 20 and IU was standing flat footed guarding against the 3. We opportunistically would run and then walk the ball up the court. We burned clock in the second half while still scoring 43. We have broken the Hoosiers. After the game, and as it was ending we acted like this was just step one. There was barely any celebration. This looked like a team on a mission. JA, JG, RM did some serious work on boards. Those whole weekend has been set up for us to go to the Championship and broken exactly how I wanted it to break.
  8. Potential 8/9 seed vs 1 seed in the second round.... I watched parts of UConn and Houston play and oh my those 2 teams are really good. I mean really really good. I don't want any part of those 2 teams. I haven't watched either NCarolina or Tennessee play so maybe others can chime in. We need to win some games and move out of the 8/9 seed. I'm now convinced there is no way we end up as a 10 seed. Right now I think we are a high 9 low 8 seed no matter what we do in the BTT. 2 wins I think would for sure move us to a 7 seed with an outside chance of 1 win moving ups up to a 7 provided we play Illinois in the semi-finals and the game is close. I'm not convinced that winning the BTT would move us any higher than a 7. I think that everybody has their mind made up on us as far as seeding goes.
  9. In years past I'd miss a game because in the BTT because of my son playing a baseball game. This year, if we make the championship I'll miss that as I'm going to be in GI with my son as he's competing in NE USA HS State wrestling tournament (3/17). He also has another tournament the following weekend in Kearney at Heartland HS State wrestling tournament (3/23). Had to make a deal with my wife for her to take him to Heartland if we end up playing the Thur/Sat schedule. No way I'm missing our second round game, and yes we will be playing a second round game.
  10. Trev is leaving for the same reasons that Ted Carter left and also because Ted Carter left. BoR not backing or at the best slow playing renovations, along with plant and facilities renovations, and he doesn't have direct boss anymore and thus it is President by committee.. Bottom line is to many trying to micro-manage what he wants to do by in essence saying "Hold on, wait" to much. Back to that downstream impact. The guy who hired Rhule is moving on to a state that isn't going to play oversight on NIL. In case you all weren't aware, due to specific rules/laws in our state the coaches can't directly deal with the NIL collective. It all happens through intermediaries.
  11. Yep. I wouldn't want him anywhere any of our athletic events, especially the NCAA's for both the men and women's teams.
  12. This could have a huge downstream impact.
  13. Sounds about right. I would like to add that there is NIL and then there is extra's that the athlete can do on their own without fear of the NCAA comming down on them, such as brand endorsements, advertisements, etc. plus plus plus social media. This is a big one as it allows athletes to profit directly off of the money they earn from their social media. There is a D2 wrestler that I follow, maybe I've mentioned him before, Cayden Henschel who has big Youtube channel where he does a lot of brand sponsorships. Angel Reese has a monster size Instagram presence. One of the best parts of NIL is now these athletes get to earn money off of their name. Edited to Add More Context: There are going to be players who aren't as focused on getting a huge NIL deal but rather they are thinking about their future and know that they can get a ton of exposure in a State like Nebraska at the flagship University. That exposure could be to increase social media presence, get into businesses. The sky is literally the limit. I'm actually working on this right now with my son as he's a sophomore in HS and he wrestles. He did play on the freshman baseball team at HS as well, but has since quit so he can focus solely on wrestling. He wants to go to college. He's not a D1/D2 level, however we believe he can go to D3/NAIA, where scholarships and NIL are minimal to non-existent at best. Because of his unique circumstances, of which I don't want elaborate on yet, he has the potential to capitalize on that. He can document his struggles, successes, college choices, etc.
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