No Coach Miles Show thread?

[Norm Peterson]

I listened to most of it.

 

What does he think of the fake Coach Miles twitter accounts?  Apparently not much.  I thought he'd say they were funny and give the guy props, but I'm not sure he follows them closely.  Just said it kind of goes with the territory, as in he puts up with it because that's what happens when you're a head guy somewhere. 

 

After Ohio State, Nathan Hawkins approached him and said "I'm not helping."  Miles agreed and said we're going to take you out of the rotation but be ready because we could stick you back in at any time.  Hawkins really needed that made 3 pointer against whoever that was against.  He really likes Hawkins and thinks Hawkins is his kind of player.  Sees good things coming from him down the road.  Needs to tighten up his ball-handling (like most guys) but really expects a lot from him.

 

Recruiting question:  Basically how does it go from start to finish?  They don't do a lot of watching individual games because they just can't.  The have a limited number of "recruiting days" per year and if three coaches go off and watch 3 different guys on the same day, it counts as 3 recruiting days.  I think they get like 130/year.  So, they try to catch the big events where they'll be able to see multiple players they might be interested in all at once.

 

Interesting takeaway was they look at athleticism first.  Skills, yeah, all of that.  But the very first question is whether the kid is athletic enough to play at this level.  Right away cull out the guys who are skilled but not athletic enough.  He also would rather see game film than highlights because you can make anyone look good in a highlight film.  (No, Tim, that's not entirely true.)  If they think the guy is athletic enough, then does he have the skills.  As far as athleticism, is he getting to balls?  Are guys blowing by him?

 

Loves Jacob Hammond.  Really happy with landing him. 

 

Some guy from Crete asked a dumb question.  (Go figure, it's Crete.)  Oh, why aren't you recruiting Nebraska kids. (Yeah, because there's just so many guys coming out of places like Crete to build a team around.)  He said it goes in cycles.  Some periods of time, seems like there are a lot.  Other times, not so much.  Danny Nee was lucky because he had Strickland from Nebraska.  And Chubick.  Aaaaaand ... Markowski?  Aaaaaaaand "I'm forgetting some people."  And Greg Sharpe says, "And Piatkowski?"  "No," Miles says, "he was from South Dakota."

 

So that's about all I can remember.  Throwback, I got your back.  THIS time. 

[Nighthawk]

I see Bo and Fake Bo had another tweet discussion during the Super Bowl. Not as funny as the cat one but still.

[Norm Peterson]

Yeah, isn't it surprising that Bo has decided to embrace his doppelganger and Miles seems at best indifferent?

[AuroranHusker]

Didn't Pike live in Scottsbluff in his youth???

[hhcmatt]

Yeah, isn't it surprising that Bo has decided to embrace his doppelganger and Miles seems at best indifferent?

 

Bo Pelini needs FauxPelini much more than Tim Miles needs Fake Tim Miles.  Tim Miles is already an established twitter brand.

[HB]

Didn't Pike live in Scottsbluff in his youth???

 

He did.  The version I got is the Scottsbluff coach at the time said "I don't play freshmen on varsity."  So Pike transferred to Rapid City.  That coach sure showed him......

[The Coach]

@FakeCoachMiles is actually pretty funny.  I wonder if someone on this board is behind that account.

[HuskerFever]

Some guy from Crete asked a dumb question.  (Go figure, it's Crete.)  Oh, why aren't you recruiting Nebraska kids.

 

If the Crete guy was listening, he would have found that this question was already answered by Miles.

 

Per Norm's post: "But the very first question is whether the kid is athletic enough to play at this level.  Right away cull out the guys who are skilled but not athletic enough."

[throwback]

Ha thanks for having my back - it's amazing how some clients have no concept that Monday night is the Coach Miles show & have the stones to schedule conference calls at the last minute for that time. 

[Norm Peterson]

Ha thanks for having my back - it's amazing how some clients have no concept that Monday night is the Coach Miles show & have the stones to schedule conference calls at the last minute for that time. 

The nerve.  If they weren't made of money, you'd show them, wouldn't ya.

[Silverbacked1]

Ha thanks for having my back - it's amazing how some clients have no concept that Monday night is the Coach Miles show & have the stones to schedule conference calls at the last minute for that time. 

Gotta learn to multitask man.

[Norm Peterson]

A few more items I just remembered:

 

Can you learn anything from watching NBA games?  Yeah, actually.  Rules are different so a lot of it doesn't apply.  (He went into some detail explaining an NBA rule where you can't get within 2 feet of the lane until the guy you want to go double-team has dribbled ... or something like that.)  But, when you need to run an inbounds play with 3 seconds on the clock and get a shot, those NBA guys do some crazy things.

 

Talked about ball handling and how we need to get better at it, but how ball handling doesn't mean dribbling.  It means passing and (pivoting?) to him.  In the NBA, they run drills where they have you pass the ball at least 10 times in a 24 second shot clock.  That's hard to do.  They don't count dribbles.  They don't say can you dribble it 36 times in a 24 second clock, but instead how many times can you pass it?  And that's something that we need to work on.

 

Interestingly to me, being able to pass that much in a short time frame significantly involves moving without the ball, which is NOT ball handling.  And it should also involve guys setting screens for other guys to get open, which is also not ball handling but is something we're not particularly good at.

[hhcmatt]

Here is a link to the audio

 

Fast forward to the 1:01 mark