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No, he won’t be a Boogie Coleman clone. He’ll be a much more productive bench player. Good defender, much better facilitator, no question.

My concern is that (1) Juwan will fall in love with his perimeter game and lose site with what makes him significant player for us (2) Meah is so limited offensively that it has a negative effect on the team flow (3) Berke is a black hole and that he will have problems sharing. Also, is he tough enough to survive in the league (4) Sam's defense and hustle languishes on the bench (5) Morgan doesn't get enough minutes (6) Brice has to carry too much of the scoring burden (7) Rutgers and Wisky lose time due to defensive inefficiencies. Other than those...

Since he's been away from the game for a year, I join you in wondering what to expect. Recalling his days at Iowa are hazy; but he seemed to be a good defender. Iowa played good team ball and his role seemed to be to penetrate and kick to shooters. His perimeter game was average to mediocre. I'm hoping that in his year with Fred, his perimeter game has improved; but we shall see. Will he be a Boogie Coleman clone???

I was kind of afraid of this. About 2 weeks ago I think my email address got hacked because I can’t get to it at all. Had it for years and poof gone. life has been pretty wild in the life of Sliverbacked the last year and a half. Working full time, coaching football, cleaning out and have auction for my folks house if 59 years. Getting the house ready to sell. Selling it to my youngest ( which helped). Oh and putting my dad in a home. other things have gone by the wayside as I have been doing all this. Like my email and Facebook just kind of disappearing. any hoo I can’t get to my ticket page or Husker app because I can’t get in because my email is gone and can’t change my email address because I need my old one to get a code to change to my new one. so I am going to the ticket office tomorrow wish me luck.

Not sure if this is the right thread for this question… but can someone give me some more insight on “what Ulis is?” What kinda of player are we expecting here? What do his previous stats say? Watching him the scrimmage I can’t say I got a great handle on what to expect from him.

The two I’m not sure you can play together are Meah and Gary…. Then again, along with Berek, we should get loads of offensive rebounds. But if they aren’t score and/or getting offensive rebounds, Meah and Gary are tough to have on the court together.

Episode with TF was awesome, man. Great work. Who knew TF was so high on Brice Williams?

We got em right where we want em.

Another good one. Anxious to hear your scoop from the Utah scrimmage

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketball-rankings-cbs-sports-top-100-and-1-best-teams-for-the-2024-25-season/ I'm a bit late posting this, but CBS Sports did a ranking of the Top 100 and 1 teams in 2024-25... and we were the "and 1".

The men play aheaqd of the women.

I went to about 15 games the last two years, but now I am a first time season ticket holder. I am excited to see the view from my new seats.

Not too surprising. OSU is a name program with NIL $$$ coming out the wazoo.

Sort of surprising in my mind

Interesting choice. Just based on the program's stature of recent years, I imagine he will have ample opportunity for playing time there. However -- I don't know the specifics of their roster.

A little surprised this is a 6pm game. I know Crete is just down the road but would have thought maybe a noon or 2 pm game.

I call him Ess3gian.

I'm guessing he won't be filling the lock down defender off the bench type role

I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. I recall several years ago, there were a number of class A schools that needed to have their players play on three different levels of teams during the week just so they had enough for games. It wasn't unheard of for a girl to play on the freshman, reserve, and JV teams (or reserve, JV, and varsity). At the time, there was a limit on the number of quarters they could play (I don't recall what it was), so it took a lot of planning on the coaches' parts to make sure they weren't violating any of those rules. But why was interest in playing basketball so low in these larger schools? I think it's a combination of a lot of things, not the least of which is VB is much more enticing to many of the girls. There were also some questionable demands by many of the HS basketball coaches (possibly other sports as well although that wasn't our experience) where they indicated an athlete's playing time was directly related to how much off season 'volunteer' practices they showed up to. I'm talking off season (like summers and fall leading up to the season). I personally know of several solid basketball players that were given the message they wouldn't get much playing time because they had chosen to do a different club sport in the summer and only made it to half the 'volunteer' practices. I'm talking about kids that were very athletic who went on to play division 1 sports in something else. They would have loved to play basketball if the demands were more reasonable, and they could have contributed, but instead they quit and often played coed intramurals (and a few even continued to play club basketball when they could) rather than deal with power plays from their HS basketball coach. On the flipside, I know of several girls that gave up other sports to focus on basketball. Many went to all 'volunteer' practices, and eventually earned scholarships to play at different levels. However, many of them became bench riders or wound up quitting (burnout often cited as the reason, another was that they just weren't all that great to begin with and found out at the college level). At some point it needs to be recognized that either the talent/skill is there, or it isn't, and it doesn't matter that little Suzy gave up everything to go to all clinics and practices and was rewarded with increased playing time in HS. Kids need to be well-rounded. It's part of what distinguishes those that are skilled alone versus those that are skilled and athletic. Can she shoot the 3? Awesome! Can she run down the court without her feet being stuck in molasses and jump more than 2 inches off the ground? Because that stuff's important, too.

The 2024-25 Season finally begins Sunday ! Doane at 6 PM, at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Can be watched on B1G + (Exhibition game) Then Monday, November 4th 12:00 noon with Omaha (UNebr.), also at home. See on B1G+

looking to set up a visit