Bracketology 2024/2025

[LincecumFan]

2 hours ago, nustudent said:

Which is disgusting 

C'mon dude, look up the word "disgusting". It maybe turned out to be unfortunate, but it wasn't disgusting. Use your freaking brain once in awhile.

[nustudent]

30 minutes ago, LincecumFan said:

C'mon dude, look up the word "disgusting". It maybe turned out to be unfortunate, but it wasn't disgusting. Use your freaking brain once in awhile.

It’s horrible roster management if it’s true.   You should be able to find a pretty good player for $500k+.   Again, if the rumors are true on that.  
 

We supposedly didn’t/couldnt write the check for Chuckie, but we spent over a million on Berke and Meah.    That’s a very poor choice.  

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[cornfed24-7]

53 minutes ago, LincecumFan said:

C'mon dude, look up the word "disgusting". It maybe turned out to be unfortunate, but it wasn't disgusting. Use your freaking brain once in awhile.

Seems appropriate to me

[LincecumFan]

29 minutes ago, nustudent said:

It’s horrible roster management if it’s true.   You should be able to find a pretty good player for $500k+.   Again, if the rumors are true on that.  
 

We supposedly didn’t/couldnt write the check for Chuckie, but we spent over a million on Berke and Meah.    That’s a very poor choice.  

First, let me say I shouldn't have added that last sentence. I admit it was uncalled for. My bad. I just thought "disgusting" was too strong a word to use for this situation.

 

And yes I know in hindsight it appears these roster additions didn't turn out as planned. But it's water under the bridge. I also recognize the coaches need to do a much better job during this upcoming portal season.

[nustudent]

3 minutes ago, LincecumFan said:

First, let me say I shouldn't have added that last sentence. I admit it was uncalled for. My bad. I just thought "disgusting" was too strong a word to use for this situation.

 

And yes I know in hindsight it appears these roster additions didn't turn out as planned. But it's water under the bridge. I also recognize the coaches need to do a much better job during this upcoming portal season.

Is it really hindsight though?   Both of those bigs have been nothing but mediocre for their college career.   
 

that’s not to say you can’t bring them in….but if your dropping over a mil on them…..you screwed up.  For that money, you should be finding significantly better options.  
 

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[hskr4life]

6 minutes ago, nustudent said:

Is it really hindsight though?   Both of those bigs have been nothing but mediocre for their college career.   
 

that’s not to say you can’t bring them in….but if your dropping over a mil on them…..you screwed up.  For that money, you should be finding significantly better options.  
 

We did add Meah close to June and Berke in June/July. Someone mentioned teams getting desperate and overpaying later in the portal cycle on here. So I’m sure we didn’t *want* to pay that much for both. Chuckie we were recruiting in April, so not totally apples to apples, but I get what you’re saying.

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[nustudent]

9 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

We did add Meah close to June and Berke in June/July. Someone mentioned teams getting desperate and overpaying later in the portal cycle on here. So I’m sure we didn’t *want* to pay that much for both. Chuckie we were recruiting in April, so not totally apples to apples, but I get what you’re saying.

I understand that.   But we should’ve known what was out there and what we needed.   Open the purse earlier and it saves you what you occurred.   You had Brice at a good cost.    You wasted him by being cheap early.   We went all in on Rollie way too early as well.  He was never going to be in high demand.  You basically had Ulis on board for being your shitty shooting, turnover making distributor.   
 

and I don’t think Rollie was a terrible add. But not as early as we did.  Especially given what we paid for others and what Chuckie reportedly got paid.  

could’ve been a top 10 season in school history but you pretended Berke and Meah were good because you misplayed things and got desperate 

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[GhostOfJoeMcCray]

42 minutes ago, nustudent said:

I understand that.   But we should’ve known what was out there and what we needed.   Open the purse earlier and it saves you what you occurred.   You had Brice at a good cost.    You wasted him by being cheap early.   We went all in on Rollie way too early as well.  He was never going to be in high demand.  You basically had Ulis on board for being your shitty shooting, turnover making distributor.   
 

and I don’t think Rollie was a terrible add. But not as early as we did.  Especially given what we paid for others and what Chuckie reportedly got paid.  

could’ve been a top 10 season in school history but you pretended Berke and Meah were good because you misplayed things and got desperate 

Unfortunately, this is correct. We didn’t get some of the guys we brought in and ended up desperate and overpaid to get Berke and Braxton. 
 

The highest paid player on a Big Ten team shouldn’t be a career 4.9 and 4.4 big man from Fresno State/Washington. 
 

I hope we do a better job being aggressive with some studs right away this year. The way I see it we have 4 starting lineup spots up for grabs. Our money better be heavily spent on dudes who can score the ball. wait too long to lock in some dudes and you’re at risk of spending the same money on players who aren’t as good. 

Edited 1 hour ago by GhostOfJoeMcCray

[nustudent]

12 minutes ago, GhostOfJoeMcCray said:

Unfortunately, this is correct. We didn’t get some of the guys we brought in and ended up desperate and overpaid to get Berke and Braxton. 
 

The highest paid player on a Big Ten team shouldn’t be a career 4.9 and 4.4 big man from Fresno State/Washington. 
 

I hope we do a better job being aggressive with some studs right away this year. The way I see it we have 4 starting lineup spots up for grabs. Our money better be heavily spent on dudes who can score the ball. wait too long to lock in some dudes and you’re at risk of spending the same money on players who aren’t as good. 

We need to be dropping the bag on a legit point card and an explosive power forward to pair with Mast.   A season can be a good role player in the starting lineup.   And wings are relatively easy to find.   A legit point guard and a legit power forward or two things that we have never really had consistently under Hoberg, and that’s where we need to spend.    You add those two things to go alongside Mast and you’ve got a very nice core.

 

Berke isn’t a focal point. He’s a role player at best.   And he can be a nice role player because of his ability to be somewhat effective at both the four and the five.   He’s just not good enough to occupy one spot or the other.   He can still get 20 to 25 minutes per game in a backup role.   

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[Nebrasketball1979]

1 hour ago, cornfed24-7 said:

Seems appropriate to me

I honestly had no idea that Meah had poor oral hygiene.  If true, I do hope he uses some of his NIL money to get that addressed.

[HuskerFever]

9 minutes ago, Nebrasketball1979 said:

I honestly had no idea that Meah had poor oral hygiene.  If true, I do hope he uses some of his NIL money to get that addressed.

 

That finally explains why this logo is on our court...