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The chick in the park was saying the same thing....

After following HHC for a number of years I finally took the plunge due to the recruiting board becoming members only. I look forward to seeing if Coach Miles can recruit some jimmys and joes. I believe this is a unique time in the program's history where we have a legit chance to change our stars. I'm hoping Coach Miles is the right man for the job at the right time. I haven't found a better site for Husker Hoops coverage than HHC. Always great takes.

So, just doing the compilation editing ... The legend lives on from the Amazon on down Of the big guy that Kent called El Grande Twice as big as a tree, with a vertical of three Whopping inches, he was often called Andre With a load on the floor, 330 pounds or more, The Almeida could not make a layup. That big ship, it seems, stored too much in its seams, And was beached on the bench, it couldn’t stay up As tall as he was wide, there was no place to hide When he hit the buffets in Wisconsin As big eaters go he was bigger than most And he liked fried potaters well seasoned As suppertime waned, the old cook came on court sayin' "Andre, there's no more to feed ya." At 7 p.m., with his stomach growlin' Andre said "then I'll just have to eat ya." Coach Miles signaled in he was puttin' Andre in And the wood in the floor was in peril But with the game tight, after foulin' left and right Came the wreck of the Andre Almeida Does anyone know where the leftovers go When Andre raids the fridge after hours? The experts all say they'd have let Andre play If he'd shed 50 more pounds behind him.

The chick in the park was saying the same thing.... In all seriousness, I would've liked it if he atleast got a chance at Nebraska. The guy could penetrate and make things happen. Doc just hated his premature shot. And his ball handling skills were good as well. He never seemed to have trouble rising to the occasion either.

basically i'm lazy. other people find stories for me about my favorite sports team and I get to check out other peoples thoughts.

I've never had Sturgis brand. When you eat it, does your wife lift her top?

I never get to games, with three kids a wife and two dogs I miss them all. Managing a Mimi's Cafe never leaves me free on game day. It always seems when I dvr a game we get crushes. Yet I still wait for the days when the tables are even. I think by year three I think we turn things around. My favorite Jerky is Sturgis brand, My wife got me hooked. Is yours better? I love readding the debates and thoughts of others,and when I just spent 10 weeks in Arkansas and this board was the only thing that saved my sanity. I got stuck watching SEC basketball when I was off, so instead I didn't watch any.

I can't blame him as I wouldn't wanted to play for Doc either. Can you image if we would have hired Miles a year earlier like many people wanted and he was able to land Gessell and Woodbury. That might have helped our chances to land Agau as well. Still might have not gotten him but couldn't have hurt. I'm so glad T.O. finally pulled the trigger on Doc but it was a year to late in my book. Hindsight's 20/20, KLDM. It's easy to say now that you wish we would have hired Miles last year but that would not have happened for any number of reasons. First of all, we would have had to fire Doc after a season where he took a still-young team to the NIT. We had a lot of our best players coming back from that NIT team. And you're going to fire the coach? Really? Second, if we'd had an opening for whatever reason a year earlier than we did, Tim Miles wouldn't have gotten the job. Wouldn't even have gotten a sniff. You know what Tim Miles and Doc Sadler had in common two years ago? They both had teams lose in the first round of the NIT. So, what you are proposing, KLDM, is that we would have fired one coach whose team just lost in the first round of the NIT and replaced him with another coach whose team just lost in the first round of the NIT. No way that happens. No way. And if Osborne would have hired a guy whose team just lost in the NIT first round, you would have been one of the loudest complainers. You would have been bitching that we didn't go after a "name" guy like a Tubby Smith or a Kevin O'Neill. Hell, there were plenty of skeptics of the Miles hire a year later after his team went to the dance. I'm glad that Tim Miles is our coach but there's simply no way he would have become our coach a year earlier than he did. I also have to question what waverlydude posted about Doc's visit with Gesell. Waverlydude, that may very well have been what the Gesell family told you. And it might have been sorta what was said. But I'm sure that what they told you leaves out a lot of context. I'd heard Doc say things like how he would try to leverage Nebraska's name recognition in football to build a hoops program. You make it sound like Doc was using "football school" as some sort of excuse for lack of success. I don't buy it. I really don't believe that's what Doc would have meant. WOW!!! You just know everything Norm. I'd be the one of the people bitching (as you so noted) if a certain senerio happened. I'm not saying we would have hired Miles a year earlier as it was a hypothitcal situation just like you and many other people do on this board. It's a "what if" situation!!! Just like you do many, many times with Sheldon Jeter as "what if" we could have gotten him. I like how it's OK for you to classify me as one of the loudest complainers, but seems like anything you post is just fine and dandy. I know we totally disagree on Doc as you think very highly of him and I was a huge fan of his in the beginning as well but after a few years of watching him coach and recruit, it became obvious to me that he wasn't the guy to take us to the promised land (just my opinion). You might be happy with NIT bids but I'd like to see more. I'm very happy how things have worked out and love Miles as our coach.

Apparently there's this Matt Atewe kid we're looking at? A big for the class of 2013? Anyone heard anything about him? (P.S. I thought 26 pages was enough. )