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[Red Don]

HCFH on Sports Nightly Tonight (Thurs) @ 6:25 for anyone interested (for sheltering at homers, what else have you got to do )

(There are some audio & video streaming links that I think may work)

 

 

Edited April 2, 2020 by Red Don

[Navin R. Johnson]

Evan Bland

@EvanBlandOWH

 

Moos praises the class Fred Hoiberg brought in. Says the wins will be coming soon as transfers become eligible and NU adds five new signees. Moos: “Don’t miss out on this upcoming men’s basketball season.”

[49r]

Not sure why ESPN decided to tweet a video from two years ago but...

 

 

...got a lot of people talking about/hating on Nebraska basketball yesterday.

[Navin R. Johnson]

Big Ten Conference

@bigten

 

The Big Ten Conference announced today that it will extend the previously announced suspension of all organized team activities through June 1, 2020, and will re-evaluate again at that time.

[Navin R. Johnson]

If you want a pick-me-up about Nebraska basketball or you want to drink the Fla-vor-ade and sunshine pump or what ever term you want to use, read the Omaha World Herald sports page today.  Chris Heady has a good read on Husker hoops for next year.

[Navin R. Johnson]

Nice honor for Thor.

[hhcmatt]

OWH will be getting a new basketball beat writer. I wonder if they'll look at Brian Rosenthal who was just let go by Nebraska.

 

 

[49r]

Will the for sure be getting someone to replace him?  Seems like papers are cutting staff every day and it would not surprise me to see them just not fill the vacancy.

[hhcmatt]

8 minutes ago, 49r said:

Will the for sure be getting someone to replace him?  Seems like papers are cutting staff every day and it would not surprise me to see them just not fill the vacancy.

 

That's certainly possible. One other thing to consider with this job is that you're also losing a football reporter and Nebraska football pays the bills.

[49r]

17 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

That's certainly possible. One other thing to consider with this job is that you're also losing a football reporter and Nebraska football pays the bills.

 

Maybe they'll just make McKeown do it?  IDK, I haven't read the World Herald in years so I don't know who does what around there any more.

[jimmykc]

Exactly what was Rosenthal's title at UNL anyway? 

[hhcmatt]

59 minutes ago, jimmykc said:

Exactly what was Rosenthal's title at UNL anyway? 

 

    Staff Writer/Creative Content Specialist

[Huskerpapa]

We may see the day where the OWH and the LJS will merge or at the very least, will share staff.

[HuskerActuary]

18 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

 

    Staff Writer/Creative Content Specialist

Maybe I just missed them, but it seemed like there were very few articles from him recently, compared to when he started to UNL.

[throwback]

https://omaha.com/sports/college/huskers/teams/mens-basketball/heady-reflections-of-two-years-and-much-change-covering-the-nebraska-basketball-team/article_b3335a45-8c81-5cb9-a281-e9121782114b.html

 

Heady's good-bye piece, some interesting stuff and perspective.

[HuskerFever]

Speaking of Heady:

 

 

[Red Don]

Excellent 'farewell' article by Chris Heady !!!  

(Some snippets)

 

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This is my final dispatch on this beat before moving back to Kansas. Though in the grand arc of history that news is rather small, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of where, frozen in this moment, the basketball program stands.

It’s changed before my eyes in two years, and it could change even more in the next two.

The differences go beyond the coach but we’ll start there, because with the transition from Tim Miles to Fred Hoiberg, there’s been a drastic shift in resources, expectations and internal operations. .....................

 

In talking with sources, Miles and his staff asked for upgrades during those five years and were told no often. That went for hiring assistants, signing recruits and even, once, an Adidas display of throwback jerseys to put outside the basketball offices.

Hoiberg’s $25 million contract pays him $3.57 million a year, which, according to the most recent available numbers, makes Hoiberg the 11th-highest-paid college basketball coach and third-highest in the Big Ten. Nebraska’s assistant coaching salary pool was doubled for Hoiberg’s staff, with Matt Abdelmassih as the second-highest-paid assistant in the Big Ten. ....................

 

Hoiberg can get into PBA to practice whenever he needs, a luxury not always open to Miles. The new administrative liaison, John Johnson, is hands off, which is what Hoiberg prefers, rather than having Marc Boehm sitting in on practice or in the locker room after games.

Nebraska lets Hoiberg — who has been there and done it twice — do what he needs to do.

 

[HuskerFever]

57 minutes ago, Red Don said:

Excellent 'farewell' article by Chris Heady !!!  

(Some snippets)

 

 

 

Or this part:

 

The first time I talked with Miles after he was fired, he was driving back from North Dakota. He told me that, days after being fired, he went to see his parents.

 

“I told them, ‘Mom, Dad, do you know who the Patriots quarterback was before Tom Brady?’ ” Miles recalled to me. “That’s who I am.” And that’s the difference. Miles sees himself as Drew Bledsoe. Hoiberg — though bashful — Brady.

[JBARGIE]

Some good nuggets from Steve Sipple’s article:

https://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/sipple/steven-m-sipple-a-prediction-on-spielman-freds-new-players-to-watch-and-hot-take/article_7af7f3bc-4258-51ae-902a-170ba3f51589.html
 

Transitioning to hoops: Keep an eye on Lat Mayen.

That's the buzz I'm hearing as the Nebraska men's basketball team pushes through the early stages of its return to workouts. The 6-foot-9, 205-pound Mayen, a transfer from Chipola (Florida) College (by way of TCU), apparently has an effective jump shot and enough of an all-around game to crack Fred Hoiberg's starting lineup, if not become the team's best player this coming season. He'll have two seasons of eligibility at NU.

 

I'm also intrigued by what I'm hearing about Kobe Webster, a 6-foot transfer from Western Illinois, and Teddy Allen, a 6-5 transfer from Western Nebraska Community College. Webster shows up on WIU film as a tough competitor and he's evidently shooting the ball well here. Meanwhile, Allen's game isn't all that pretty, but he's living up to his reputation as an effective scorer. 

 

[hhcmatt]

On 7/30/2020 at 12:25 PM, throwback said:

https://omaha.com/sports/college/huskers/teams/mens-basketball/heady-reflections-of-two-years-and-much-change-covering-the-nebraska-basketball-team/article_b3335a45-8c81-5cb9-a281-e9121782114b.html

 

Heady's good-bye piece, some interesting stuff and perspective.

 

IMO, he hit this out of the park. nailed the buzzer beater

[jimmykc]

Pretty good finale. Does anyone know where Heady is going in Kansas? I probably have been there already.

[HuskerFever]

14 minutes ago, jimmykc said:

Pretty good finale. Does anyone know where Heady is going in Kansas? I probably have been there already.

 

I think he's going to KU for grad school to eventually become a professor in journalism.