Lee Barfknecht Tweet and Article

[Nebrasketballer]

https://twitter.com/leebeeowh/status/442644130800209920

Excerpt:

LINCOLN — Tim Miles doesn't get caught short for comment often, but a question about the spectacle that Nebraska men's basketball has become in just his second season as head coach was cause for pause.

Then came this: “I think real life has exceeded my expectations.”

Truer words were never spoken about the sport that long has been the black sheep of the Nebraska athletic department. It will play out Sunday when the Huskers (18-11, 10-7) host No. 9 Wisconsin (25-5, 12-5).

The atmosphere that has surrounded Husker football for decades will be on display for Nebrasketball.

http://m.omaha.com/article/20140308/HUSKERS/140308745&template=mobileart

[jimmykc]

When Randy York was still a reporter for the LJS covering Moe Iba's first visit to the NIT he called Nebraska basketball fans a "sleeping giant". Minus a few restless periods, the giant has largely stayed abed. A couple of more wins this year and he will hopefully arise and stay that way permanently.

[cipsucks]

 A couple of more wins this year and he will hopefully arise and stay that way permanently.

If it lasts more than four hours, you're supposed to call your doctor. 

[tcp]

 

 A couple of more wins this year and he will hopefully arise and stay that way permanently.

If it lasts more than four hours, you're supposed to call your doctor. 

 

 

If the new rumor about Johnny Carson is true, it would appear Nebraska had another giant that woke up occasionally. I'm still trying to process that one and really wishing I hadn't ever read it.

[jimmykc]

I read the book on Johnny written by his sleazy lawyer last year and unfortunately found it to be quite believable. Incidentally, the lawyer struck me as a real life counterpart of Saul Goodman the sleazy lawyer in Breaking Bad who was supposedly exiled to Nebraska at the end of the series. That will keep the thread remotely connected to NU basketball instead of highjacked into some other direction. But we do need something to pass the time until tonight, right?

[hhcdave]

Wait what am I missing about Johnny Carson?

[jimmykc]

Best selling book, available in any bookstore or Amazon, which is a tell-all saga about Carson portraying him as a big time jerk. Read it at your own risk if you want to retain your image of Johnny as a good old Nebraska kid who made good and an affable nighttime tv icon.

[Silverbacked1]

Best selling book, available in any bookstore or Amazon, which is a tell-all saga about Carson portraying him as a big time jerk. Read it at your own risk if you want to retain your image of Johnny as a good old Nebraska kid who made good and an affable nighttime tv icon.

 

Well wasn't he born in Iowa and moved here early in his life?  So... you know the Nebraska good living can only do so much to change DNA of other states.

[Ron Mexico]

I appreciate this acknowledgement a great deal.

"Now, Marc Boehm, Nebraska's associate athletic director who oversees basketball, has so much good news to discuss that he hardly knows where to start.

There is one cluster of folks, though, he's really happy for. It's the loyal 6,000 who showed up at the Devaney Center all those years through very little thick and a whole lot of thin, and have followed the program to PBA."

This is also a very important acknowledgment:

"After my past hammerings of NU about long-term administrative indifference toward men's basketball and an acceptance of durable mediocrity, today I applaud the foundation that Boehm and former A.D. Tom Osborne built."

[trickey]

When Randy York was still a reporter for the LJS covering Moe Iba's first visit to the NIT he called Nebraska basketball fans a "sleeping giant". Minus a few restless periods, the giant has largely stayed abed. A couple of more wins this year and he will hopefully arise and stay that way permanently.

 

 

 

It's Alive!...and for much longer than 4 hours.