MikeWelch937

I came to visit to learn more about NEB's strengths and weaknesses and wondered what Husker fans knew/thought about my Bears. Pretty interesting similarties between how the seasons started well, went through big lulls and then finished strong. Will be interesting to see which "strength" wins out at the end of the day. Personally, I am worried about the size of your guards and their ability to get into our zone and create havoc. We definitely have to be able to continue to be very effecient on offense to beat NEB. One similarity I see in both teams is that they are tough minded. If they weren't, neither would in San Antonio after their respective conference starts. One thing I always find intriguing in visiting other teams' message boards is the customary slights on Drew's coaching ability. Heck, visit baylorfans.com (at your own peril) and you will find a loud minority of 4-5 posters who do nothing but complain about Drew. The most obnoxious groups of Drew haters though are the KU fans and ISU fans (a very distant second to KU). As I registered to respond to this quoted post, I didn't realize that in fact a KU fan had infiltrated this site to post Drew comments. Just for grins though, while Drew may not be Coach K, here are his tournament results over the last few years: 4 wins - 2009 NIT Finals 3 wins - 2010 NCAA Elite 8 0 wins - 2011 No postseason (Didn't make NIT - Perry Jones III suspended prior to first game of Big 12 tournament) 3 wins - 2012 NCAA Elite 8 5 wins - 2013 NIT Champs He has also led the Bears to the the championship game of the Big 12 Tournament 3 times in the last 6 years. Granted, we are 0-3 in those games. To me, the results indicate that he does have some coaching ability, especially come tournament time. Just FYI. Free advice when defending Scott Drew, don't include the NIT, doesn't help him. Scott is a great recruiter, but a sub-par coach. The reason people "hate" on Scott is because he doesn't do as much as he should with his talent. Call it hate all you want, but it's fair criticism. Miles maximizes talent and usually makes smart in-game decisions. That edge is why this game is the closest of all the 6 vs. 11 match ups, and why many are picking Nebraska.

St. Anthony pipeline is HUGE!!!! Nebraska getting to that upper-echelon of college basketball will only come from creating long term pipelines at big time schools/AAU programs. If Tarin turns out to be great, awesome! But I'm more excited about Miles & co. grabbing a kid from a factory like St. Anthony.

I have played this game out in my head over and over. I see Nebraska beating Baylor. Party on the river walk. As far that other school in Nebraska goes. Depends on Doug. If he goes off, they beat anybody. If he doesn't, Huskers dominate. I want that game to happen SO bad!

Good players in foul trouble (Petteway, Shields, Parker) screwed up the flow of the game and opened the door for Ohio State. That doesn't excuse losing an 18 point lead, but it does explain it. Coaches usually don't have enough practice time to waste it on getting ready for that kind of foul trouble. Unfortunate, but this is a very good team, and i have zero doubt they bounce back.

CBS and USA Today have Nebraska safely in the round of 64. ESPN says Lunardi "correctly picks the field" when it comes to being in or out, which is true, but his track record when correctly picking seeds is less than stellar.

I would expect the pattern to continue as well. Losing sucks, but it happens. Good teams have collapses all the time. Only thing that makes it harder is we have to wait a week to get the bad taste out, but so do the players. I would expect extra intense practices. Not just because of the loss, but because in the end, Nebraska lost their composure. Makes the taste extra nasty, and this team has shown all year they bounce back strong when they get that bad taste.

My thoughts exactly. I can live with traveling not being called tight, as long as it's called that way for both teams.

I would love to do a caller-driven show with an ex-player co-hosting on 93.7 The Ticket. Pike or Hoppen would be great. Unless Peltz is sticking around after this year, then I'm all in on Peltz. He'd have the best hair in radio. If there is a demand for it, I can try to make it happen for next year.