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Try being a Royals and Cubs fan. Brutal. Just brutal Dude, we're Nebrasketball fans...

After visiting promising Rivals 150 recruit Edward Morrow in Chicago, Nebraska Head Coach Tim Miles reportedly interviewed with Marquette's coaching search committee, the Journal Sentinel has learned. Previous candidates known to have interviewed for the Marquette job are Cuonzo Martin of Tennessee, Ben Howland, formerly the head coach of UCLA and Pittsburgh, and Duke Assistant Head Coach Steve Wojciechowski. Rumors circulated late yesterday that Martin has withdrawn his name from consideration for the job. In just two years at Nebraska, Miles took Nebraska to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 16 seasons. Nebraska finished 4th in the Big Ten Conference. Losses to Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament and to Baylor in the NCAA tournament dampened what otherwise was a breakthrough season for Miles and Nebraska basketball. Formerly at Colorado State, where he also turned around its basketball program and took it to the NCAA tournament, Miles is considered both a great recruiter and strategist, according to sources close to the search. Originally considered a compromise hire after Nebraska failed to spark interest from Howland, Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon and others it sought to interview, the affable Miles endeared himself to the Nebraska fan base with his energy and enthusiasm. Nebraska fans filled its new arena this year and averaged over 15,000 in attendance. Outgoing Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne spoke highly of Miles' organizational and presentation skills during the interview process with Nebraska two years ago. Louisville Associate Head Coach Kevin Keatts, thought to be on the list of potential candidates, recently accepted an offer to be head coach at UNC-Wilmington. No other known candidates have scheduled or conducted interviews with the search committee. Several sources within the Marquette program expect a new coach to be named by this weekend's Final Four games in North Texas. --------------------------------------- Clearly we know what day it is today, but I fell for this hook line and sinker. My brother and a buddy were in on it. God, I'm laughing so hard I can't even explain it.

This board is the only thing that has gotten me today. Freaking 7 footer and this. You can't mess with our fandom like that!

official visit will be for the spring game

Oh, man!!!! You meant that I won't be able to apply? Just head down to the Final Four and stand outside the coaches convention room with a resume in hand and you'll fit right in.

IMO, more important was the individual meetings after the Michigan debacle.

What makes you say this? If anything, he might be a short threat.

Actually (and I'm not making this up) there was a sighting of the god Pan reported outside York many years ago. I guess we did not recruit him since the hoofmarks would not have been good for the floor at the new arena. He might have worked out for the pep band though.

Nice read. http://www.theday.com/article/20140401/SPORT01/304019920

I think NU needs to get that lead recruiter from Animal Planet U!

Definitely a project player but lots of upside! Did I hear somewhere he was going to major in zoology?

Don't think he will do much more growing if Miles' theory about hair on the legs is true.

Try being a Royals and Cubs fan. Brutal. Just brutal

That's understandable - they don't play major league baseball in Chicago. Well ... sometimes the Sox do.

Okay, now I want our band to do all Ska tunes next year. Reel Big Fish Mighty Mighty Bosstones Fishbone Save Ferris Man, talk about a party atmosphere!

I really wish I liked baseball. It would make things much easier. But alas...

That's a good list. Mine, in no particular order: 1. Not getting a ticket for parking illegally during the heavily-attended Wisconsin game. 2. Getting to watch selection Sunday ... from the lower bowl! 3. Getting stuck in an elevator for 2 hours with the Husker cheerleaders. (That one might have been in a dream.) 4. Getting to mouth off at the end of the game to the obnoxious Ohio State fans who bought the seats next to mine. 5. Living to see us make the NCAA tourney again. (Have no idea how close they cut it, but too close for my comfort.) 6. Winning a free Husker Hoops shirt at one of the Husker meet and greets. (I was about to give the wrong answer but they announced the correct one before I got to the front of the room, so I took the shirt anyway.) 7. Correctly predicting we'd win our last 4 home games and make the NCAA tourney. 8. Getting lit at Buzzard Billy's after the Wisconsin game and then fist-bumping Kye Kurkowski as he crossed 8th street. "You're IN, dude!!!" 9. Participating in the inaugural "HUSKER!!! POWER!!!" chant against Penn State. 10. Me: "I got you guys by 20 over Northwestern tomorrow." Coach Miles: "I hope you didn't bet too much."

If officials were programmed, players & coaches would find ways to exploit the vulnerable areas. Then programmers would adjust those rules. Then other areas would be exploited. Not only does it sound like the hacker/programmer delima, it sounds awfully familiar to the situation we're already in.

Is Standhardinger still going to be around? Only if he is doing the Grant Gibbs plan for college.

Just posted about him on the women's page. He says that UNL is padding the attendance of the NCAA game. I am having fun just posting 9,585 any time he posts anything anywhere. I would like for Royal to go get him. That would be classic, but he doesn't respond to what anybody says to him, so it is not as much fun as it could be.

There is a certain culture that exists on this board that is different from many (all others that I've seen.) We don't typically genuflect to the "insider" and we don't have the typical "internet tough guy." I can think of a couple of people who showed up here and assumed we were like other boards and it took them a bit to realize this board is different. Tone down the hostility and just have a conversation. One of them turned out to be a fantastic poster; the other disappeared. I've mentioned before what I have called the paradox of the insider. You think you want them because they will tell you secrets that others don't know. But the problem is that they then possess (and want to possess) a certain amount of "power" or "authority." And the trouble with that is that when Mr. Insider lays his insider trump cards, discussion ceases. That happened over on the Rivals hoops board and the place turned into an empty wasteland where now there is practically no discussion. When every new thread starts out "Question for Mr. Insider" you're not going to see a lot of discussion. The other fallacy that other message boards have fallen into is the thought that only the experts provide value to the board. And it's a bigger problem if your "expert" is also an "internet tough guy" or has a posse of "internet tough guys" who yap at his heals. The reason that thinking only experts provide value to discussion boards is a fallacy is because average Joes listen to experts, the defer to experts, they don't discuss things with them. So, a board that possesses the "only experts provide value to the board" culture will either see discussion disappear or turn into pissing contests between those who consider themselves the "experts" and those who don't want to yield to the "experts'" points of view. Right now, we have some insiders who don't act like insiders (they haven't adopted the "insider" status as a means of stroking their own egos) and we have experts who don't follow the "internet tough guy" approach that "either you agree that I'm right or we'll have a problem." Only because we have avoided those negative archetypes, have we managed to have such a great board. In which regard, the "Cheers" references became an apropos, if only accidental, motif.

Hate to say this, but when we "right sized" the team it seemed to be a season changer. Biggs subtraction seemed to lift the team, again, at the time it seemed like a huge negative, but it ended up being a dose of reality that seems to have lifted the team.

Fun at the games...