Comprehensive Preview of the 2015-16 Nebraska Cornhuskers

Huskerpapa · October 22, 2015

Pretty decent analysis of the upcoming season. A couple holes, but generally a good overview. That said, I have a feeling we will exceed expectations.

http://www.btpowerhouse.com/2015/10/22/9508469/2015-16-nebraska-cornhuskers-basketball-season-preview-tim-miles-depth-chart-schedule-roster

AuroranHusker · October 22, 2015

Good read... time to prove that 2013-14 Nebrasketball is not an "outlier" season in the B1G. Newcomers will need to step up for the Huskers to get where they want to go.

HuskerBB · October 22, 2015

He lost me on the first sentence about the tenure of Tim Miles and the "several underwhelming years". Sounds like he thinks Miles has been here for a long time. I don't know how many are in a "several" but I am pretty sure most people would think it means more than one.

AuroranHusker · October 22, 2015

He lost me on the first sentence about the tenure of Tim Miles and the "several underwhelming years". Sounds like he thinks Miles has been here for a long time. I don't know how many are in a "several" but I am pretty sure most people would think it means more than one.

2 out of 3 must equate to 'several,' I'm guessing. Beyond that faux pas, it's a fairly decent overview with stats to show distribution et al.

Donkey · October 22, 2015

Considering the complete lack of depth, I feel the 2012-2013 season was incredible. Shields was hurt at the beginning of the season and needed time to recover (not to mention he was a 17 year old true frosh). Parker was a true frosh without an offensive game. Almeida, at times, was a space filler and not much else. Rivers was, and always was, an offensively limited roll player. Gallegos was a volume spot shooter who was able to keep defenses honest. Had Talley not been on this team, Nebraska's offense would have been remarkably worse. Thank god for Ubel, but, honestly, he was not a player who could take over games and carry a team.

It was widely known that the best players - Biggs, Pitchford, and Pettaway - were sitting out redshirt or transfer years. While the 2013-2014 team had an incredible march to the tournament, Miles best best coaching job was 2012-2013.

AuroranHusker · October 22, 2015

Considering the complete lack of depth, I feel the 2012-2013 season was incredible. Shields was hurt at the beginning of the season and needed time to recover (not to mention he was a 17 year old true frosh). Parker was a true frosh without an offensive game. Almeida, at times, was a space filler and not much else. Rivers was, and always was, an offensively limited roll player. Gallegos was a volume spot shooter who was able to keep defenses honest. Had Talley not been on this team, Nebraska's offense would have been remarkably worse. Thank god for Ubel, but, honestly, he was not a player who could take over games and carry a team.

It was widely known that the best players - Biggs, Pitchford, and Pettaway - were sitting out redshirt or transfer years. While the 2013-2014 team had an incredible march to the tournament, Miles best best coaching job was 2012-2013.

Many journalists only 'see' 15-18 as a "lost" season. What you wrote, Donkey, I agree with wholeheartedly.

Never thought I'd agree 100% with an A$$ (a donkey, get it?), but hey it's happening.

49r · October 22, 2015

Considering the complete lack of depth, I feel the 2012-2013 season was incredible. Shields was hurt at the beginning of the season and needed time to recover (not to mention he was a 17 year old true frosh). Parker was a true frosh without an offensive game. Almeida, at times, was a space filler and not much else. Rivers was, and always was, an offensively limited roll player. Gallegos was a volume spot shooter who was able to keep defenses honest. Had Talley not been on this team, Nebraska's offense would have been remarkably worse. Thank god for Ubel, but, honestly, he was not a player who could take over games and carry a team.

It was widely known that the best players - Biggs, Pitchford, and Pettaway - were sitting out redshirt or transfer years. While the 2013-2014 team had an incredible march to the tournament, Miles best best coaching job was 2012-2013.

I thought it was the beginning of his sophomore year that he was hurt???

AuroranHusker · October 22, 2015

Considering the complete lack of depth, I feel the 2012-2013 season was incredible. Shields was hurt at the beginning of the season and needed time to recover (not to mention he was a 17 year old true frosh). Parker was a true frosh without an offensive game. Almeida, at times, was a space filler and not much else. Rivers was, and always was, an offensively limited roll player. Gallegos was a volume spot shooter who was able to keep defenses honest. Had Talley not been on this team, Nebraska's offense would have been remarkably worse. Thank god for Ubel, but, honestly, he was not a player who could take over games and carry a team.

It was widely known that the best players - Biggs, Pitchford, and Pettaway - were sitting out redshirt or transfer years. While the 2013-2014 team had an incredible march to the tournament, Miles best best coaching job was 2012-2013.

I thought it was the beginning of his sophomore year that he was hurt???

It was freshman year.

HuskerCager · October 22, 2015

Also odd - he thinks that Jake Hammon (who is that guy, anyway, i know of a Jake Hammond) has a better chance of cracking the starting lineup (60%) than Morrow (55%). I guess you can make the case that we are extremely thin at the post and Hammond is our best option.

AuroranHusker · October 22, 2015

Also odd - he thinks that Jake Hammon (who is that guy, anyway, i know of a Jake Hammond) has a better chance of cracking the starting lineup (60%) than Morrow (55%). I guess you can make the case that we are extremely thin at the post and Hammond is our best option.

I thought it was A.J. Hammons, could we trade with PU...

Norm Peterson · October 22, 2015

He lost me on the first sentence about the tenure of Tim Miles and the "several underwhelming years". Sounds like he thinks Miles has been here for a long time. I don't know how many are in a "several" but I am pretty sure most people would think it means more than one.

Totally agree.

The writer completely loses credibility for anything he says thereafter if he can't do the basics of at least looking to see how long the coach has been employed with that school.

It is almost universally agreed that one means one. A single one of something.

A pair is two. So is a couple.

Most people would agree that a few is more than a couple but less than several. Generally three, maybe four or five.

Several means more than a few. Certainly more than three. Several underwhelming years means at least 4 of them.

IMO, there's only been one underwhelming year in the Miles tenure and that was last year.

'13-'14 was amazing making the tourney when we were basically picked last in conference.

As Donkey said, '12-'13 might have been an even better job of coaching and certainly wasn't underwhelming when compared to expectations.

To say Miles has had several underwhelming years since he's been at Nebraska is so obviously wrong that it reflects a total lack of fact-checking and diligence on the part of the writer. Can't even bring myself to read what came after that part. You're so wrong on that, the rest of it doesn't even matter.

FredsSlacks · October 23, 2015

The writer of the article probably thinks coach cal is on the hot seat because his players keep leaving after their freshman year.

AuroranHusker · October 23, 2015

He lost me on the first sentence about the tenure of Tim Miles and the "several underwhelming years". Sounds like he thinks Miles has been here for a long time. I don't know how many are in a "several" but I am pretty sure most people would think it means more than one.

Totally agree.

The writer completely loses credibility for anything he says thereafter if he can't do the basics of at least looking to see how long the coach has been employed with that school.

It is almost universally agreed that one means one. A single one of something.

A pair is two. So is a couple.

Most people would agree that a few is more than a couple but less than several. Generally three, maybe four or five.

Several means more than a few. Certainly more than three. Several underwhelming years means at least 4 of them.

IMO, there's only been one underwhelming year in the Miles tenure and that was last year.

'13-'14 was amazing making the tourney when we were basically picked last in conference.

As Donkey said, '12-'13 might have been an even better job of coaching and certainly wasn't underwhelming when compared to expectations.

To say Miles has had several underwhelming years since he's been at Nebraska is so obviously wrong that it reflects a total lack of fact-checking and diligence on the part of the writer. Can't even bring myself to read what came after that part. You're so wrong on that, the rest of it doesn't even matter.

It's probably more likely that the writer assumes that Miles was in charge in 2011-12, when Doc had a 4-14 conference record & 12-18 overall. Thus, it's 3 out of 4 years in the B1G that Nebraska has had a losing record; I think it's not that far-fetched to assume such a simple misunderstanding by the author, and the attempts at burying the author for a minor infraction doesn't really refute the stats & graphs in the meat of the article.

uneblinstu · October 23, 2015

He's a young writer, college kid at Michigan. He follows the conference pretty closely. Just sloppy word choice.

AuroranHusker · October 23, 2015

He's a young writer, college kid at Michigan. He follows the conference pretty closely. Just sloppy word choice.

I follow his stuff on twitter, he's fairly dialed in on B1G hoops. It's not like he knows Husker Hoops like we all do, though.

Norm Peterson · October 23, 2015

The problem for guys like us reading articles like this is that none of these national writers know our team nearly as well as we do. Any perspective they take, any issue they try to address, has already been hashed and rehashed on this board a thousand times. We know better than they do. They do have better graphics, however.

49r · October 23, 2015

mmmmm, rehash!

Huskerpapa · October 23, 2015

Badly written or not, it is always interesting to me to read or listen to an outside perspective. Loving a team can tend to come with rose colored glasses. Perhaps that does not always happen, but getting that fresh perspective, at the very least, can generate discussion and even more excitement. As a player or as a fan, I always relish the opportunity to change perspectives. I believe that this team may have that opportunity.

Norm Peterson · October 23, 2015

Badly written or not, it is always interesting to me to read or listen to an outside perspective. Loving a team can tend to come with rose colored glasses. Perhaps that does not always happen, but getting that fresh perspective, at the very least, can generate discussion and even more excitement. As a player or as a fan, I always relish the opportunity to change perspectives. I believe that this team may have that opportunity.

It's not so much that it was badly written. It would have been helpful to read if we were fans of a different team or more casual fans of the Huskers. But we're too educated as an audience. So many different things that, if we wanted to pick it apart, we could easily do that.

For instance, here's a passage that I'm sure had atskooc on the verge of writing a 10-page rebuttal:

The final departures are Ayegba, Kurkowski, and Trevor Menke. All together, these players combined to average less than four minutes per game. Outside of a potential hit to team leadership, it's hard to call any of these three departures anywhere close to significant.

Implying that Menke's departure is insignificant is an outrage up with which atskooc surely shall not put!

AuroranHusker · October 23, 2015

Badly written or not, it is always interesting to me to read or listen to an outside perspective. Loving a team can tend to come with rose colored glasses. Perhaps that does not always happen, but getting that fresh perspective, at the very least, can generate discussion and even more excitement. As a player or as a fan, I always relish the opportunity to change perspectives. I believe that this team may have that opportunity.

It's not so much that it was badly written. It would have been helpful to read if we were fans of a different team or more casual fans of the Huskers. But we're too educated as an audience. So many different things that, if we wanted to pick it apart, we could easily do that.

For instance, here's a passage that I'm sure had atskooc on the verge of writing a 10-page rebuttal:

The final departures are Ayegba, Kurkowski, and Trevor Menke. All together, these players combined to average less than four minutes per game. Outside of a potential hit to team leadership, it's hard to call any of these three departures anywhere close to significant.

Implying that Menke's departure is insignificant is an outrage up with which atskooc surely shall not put!

Actually, that seems like a well-written paragraph. The real hit is more intangibles than on-court.

[atskooc, sorry but it's true]

Huskerpapa · October 23, 2015

Ah...to enjoy without criticism; to have low enough standards, that it is the intent that counts the most

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Elbert Hubbard

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