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This came from reading several threads including "Are you helping us win?" and "Now or never" among others. Anyway, why don't they record a segment with Coach Miles (he'd be good at it obviously), and it would be similar to a locker room scene only Miles would be addressing the fans of the crowd? He could call us out, tell us everything we are doing wrong, question our fandom, ask us if we are helping the team win, etc. Then he could slowly build us up and turn us loose. Play it on the big screens right before the team comes out the last time before tip, tie it to the "Protect the Vault" idea, and there you have it. The one video I liked last year had kind of a crowd-rallying tune to it. It was the Morgan Freeman sound alike narrated video. I think they need to do something to get the fanbase jacked up before the game. The highlight videos and the fire on the intros this year aren't getting it done. I think this idea could work. It would have to be well written so it seemed real and not cheesy but Miles could do it.

Just an FYI...I apologize about the delay getting these done. No excuse is okay, but I have two kids under 5 and a job that has me traveling 3 days a week. Thanks to everyone for keep playing with no updates! HHCC Season Standings through Game #17 - Wisconsin Rank Name Total 1 hhcdimes 406 2 1sdpad2 421 3 HB 425 4 HuskerPower #nato73 430 5 cjbowbros 440 6 Crush78 463 7 HuskerFever 476 8 Husker4Life 494 9 DorothyLynchHometownHero 513 10 #GOT IT 517 11 huskercwg 522 12 swoof 522 13 trickey 527 14 BLB115 528 15 4NUfans 530 16 colhusker 532 17 runsoastowin 535 18 Noah121 536 19 MichHusker 543 20 UnicamMan 547 21 berlinblackshirts 548 22 LSEHusker 548 23 ShortDust 549 24 huskers29 553 25 ASCHusker 556 26 REDZONEDAN 563 27 jimmykc 567 28 hal9000 571 29 Bugeaters1 573 30 bigred4 578 31 hskr4life 582 32 LK1 583 33 AuroranHusker 597 34 Row6Seat10 606 35 HuskerCager 606 36 cornfed24-7 615 37 Busch Light 615 38 emwilliams 626 39 Marv 638 40 twinswingohuskers 639 41 NU Follower 643 42 Silverbacked1 644 43 BjoeHusker 679 44 Buglem 687 45 throwback 712 46 nutball 738 47 huskerbaseball13 773 48 Boots 779 49 ajb5856 832 50 bball23 838 51 nuhusker7 859 52 gobigredbrah 865 53 BenJammin63 890 54 Wolv77 957 55 husker8282 1017 56 WinningbyMiles 1036 57 longtimefan 1070 58 cbolte 1089 59 waverlydude 1114 60 KarlHessEatMy 1120 61 HandyJohnson 1133 62 Section_316 1134 63 CornHoopsters 1259 64 Jadler 1266 65 CanadianHusker 1274 66 a0t0w0 1293 67 tcp 1297 68 Neon Budreau 1310 69 doc1394 1356 70 MJW82 1361 71 Red Rum 1373 72 Sgt Lincoln Osiris 1400 73 KearneyMan 1420 74 jayschool 1433 75 Rome4Lyfe 1435 76 soxnskers 1462 77 president dead 1475 78 Cookie Belcher 1483 79 jdostal 1487 80 ConklinthCorner 1490 81 seaofred92 1501 82 Brandon4Real_X 1505 83 Hoops_Legend 1505 84 #GATA 1507 85 busticket 1513 86 PeltzFan12 1523 87 Swan88 1528 88 NeeandMe 1531

Nebraska Cornhuskers (10-7) vs Minnesota Golden Gophers (12-7) Date: Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2015 Time: 7:30 p.m. CST Arena: Pinnacle Bank Arena Capacity: 15,000 Broadcast Information Television: BTN Online: BTN2GO Announcers: Dave Revsine and Jim Jackson Satellite Radio: Sirius (Ch. 93); XM (195) Play-by-play: Kent Pavelka Expert Analysis: Matt Davison Minnesota Scouting Thread Minnesota Info Head Coach: Richard Pitnio Location: Minneapolis, MN Conference: B1G 10 Nickname: Golden Gophers Mascot: Goldy Gopher Last time out: Beat Rutgers Typical Rotation Depth: 8-9 players Opening Line: Pick'em Fun Fact : Minnesota started 0-5 in the conference before knocking off Rutgers Fun Fact : Senior Elliott Eliason hails from Chadron, NE Fun Fact : Richard Pitino and Rick Pitino faced off for the first time with the elder Pitino's Louisville team winning easily Player to watch: Andre Hollins The 6'2" Senior shooting guard is the leading scorer and 3pt shooter on a fairly balanced Gopher attack. After slumping from behind the arc for most of conference play Hollins exploded for 31 points including 7-10 from 3pt range against Rutgers. The Skinny Minnesota's promising start has been derailed during conference play mostly due to their poor defensive play. The Gophers are still turning people over with their pressure defense but have been extremely soft in the paint, especially defending the boards. The offense has been serviceable and lead the way to their only conference win by overpowering Rutgers. Aside from the Bo Ryan Experience, the Huskers have been great defensively and look to get help from their old friend the FT line in this game. Due to matchups and lack of aggression the Huskers went from being a FT shooting team to one of the worst in conference. A hacking Gopher defense should be just what the doctor ordered. This should be a fun, fast paced game but one where the Huskers have enough D and enough size to handle the outside shooting of the Gophers. Prediction: Nebraska 69 - Minnesota 64 Click here to view the article

I hope we do not see a lot of empty seats tonight because of the State of the Union address. Do you think it will be shown on the big screen?

Great thoughts, will be trying my best tonight to help.If you're going to tackle a ref, Silver, make sure to take the bigger one and leave the little dude to me. Hey Norm, quit talking about the refs, or you are going to make someone VERY weary.....

Are some of the under-coaching issues on the offensive or defensive side? A very old friend of mine, who is a life-long Louisville fan, adamantly maintains that Ric Pitino is a poor in-game offensive strategist. Specifically that Pitino struggles devising plays in close games where Louisville is behind. He claims Pitino wins because of (a) superb pre-game preparation and ( b ) better athletes. Once Pitino has a manageable lead, Pitino's defenses can close out the games. However, Ric Pitino led teams struggle when the other side has adjusted to the offensive game plan. From what I have seen of Richard Pitino, it would not surprise me if he has that issue as well.

The rules were slightly changed last year (with most emphasis on block/charge and a little emphasis on hand-checking). However, the new rules were somewhat enforced early in the season and then basically were disregarded during conf. play. Do you remember last year in non-conf when NU was fouling at a ridiculous rate? And scores were much higher during many of their non-conf games. However, coaches and fans bitched and moaned and ultimately won the day and by the time conf play rolled around, the officiating went back to its regular ways (at least regular as of the past 5-10 years, the period of the decline of scoring and pleasing basketball). This year, the new block/charge rule was eliminated and we are now playing under the old rule again. So that experiment only last one year (and really only 1/2 a year b/c it wasn't properly implemented in conf play last year). This issue was addressed on College Gameday this past Saturday morning. Jay Bilas was absolutely adamant that the current state of college basketball, with slow play and low scoring games, is because of the officiating in college basketball. He said that the officials this year are right back to where they were before last season began and the game is more physical than ever. He challenged anyone to go back and watch games from the mid 80s, even the title games involving so-called physical teams like Georgetown, and he said they look like "ballet" compared to today's games. He said that the game has changed in many ways over the years and various rules have been changed (ie, 3 point shot, shot clock, etc.) and scoring has changed over the years, but the one thing that has remained the same year after year after year is the average number of fouls called per season. He said that number has remained flat (on average) for the past 30+ years. Knowing this, coaches are not dumb. If refs are only going to call X number of fouls each game, what is the obvious way to get an advantage for my team? Easy! Foul the crap out of the opponent knowing the refs will not call close to every foul. In the end, the the number of foul called will average out the same even though the teams are fouling at a much higher clip. Bilas talked at length about "freedom of movement". You wonder why teams can't run Motion offense. Well, if the player off the ball is getting hand check and body checked every other step, then it is hard to get to the next spot. Motion is about crisp and hard cuts and getting to the next point. If the defender hand-checks. grabs, pulls, tugs, bumps, elbows, pushes, etc. that player on his way to the next spot, everything is going to get mucked up. It is no different than a receiver in FB who gets crabbed, pushed, pulled, etc. Ironically, the NBA has cleaned up much of this issue by simply enforcing the rules as they should be called. Even in college, they don't really need to "change the rules". The refs simply need to call all fouls when they see them rather than "letting it go" b/c they don't want to slow down the game. We talked about this issue at length early on last season and this was all discussed at length. The problem is that as soon as refs start calling a lot of fouls, coaches whine, bitch and moan along with most fans. I remember many people on this board complaining early last year about the fouls and how it ruined the game, etc. Of course having a bunch of fouls called makes the game less appealing. But the alternative is to simply let the play continue to get more and more and more physical until it really isn't basketball. There is no freedom of movement, no incentive to try and implement a true "motion" offense b/c players will just get held and grabbed, etc and it just won't work. If we truly want the game cleaned up, then refs need to be told to call ALL fouls and continue to call them until players and coaches adjust. That could take 2 or 3 seasons. And yes, that would be a brutal 2-3 seasons, but after we got thru it, and coaches and players finally realized refs are going to continue to call it correctly, then they would adjust, players would quit fouling so much, and college basketball would come out as a much better sport and have much more entertainment value.

Ok Nebrasketball fans the magic run that Nebraska made last year to make the Tourney started on this exact same week. So if Nebraska wants any chance to receive a at large bid without winning the BIG TEN tourney they need to win out at home starting today and get 2-3 wins on the road and end the season 11-7 or 10-8 anything less than 10-8 conference record and BIG TEN tourney championship would be required to reach the NCAA Tourney this year. Facts are Facts everybody with the RPI where it is and the bad losses to Creighton and Incarnate Word and Hawaii this year this has to happen to make the tourney. Doable absolutely we need to score more than 55-60 a game to get there... Nobody saw the run coming last year can it happen again??? It starts this week

I'm adding how many wins in league the teams have and where they stand in league. Let me know if this something that you guys would like to see going forward or change back to the old way. And with that here's tonight's video enjoy or not.

And I'll pretend to be the EMT who insists we NOT move you. "He's pretty big. Our stretchers aren't built to withstand that kind of load. Can you get the crane operator back here to have a look see?"

49er: I thought everyone knew that cybermetrics were invented by cyborgs who are greatly superior to us humans, while sabermetrics were conceived by Bret Saberhagen while he was one of those burnt out aces, like Cone and Smoltz spending the downside of their careers on the Red Sox staff with nothing better to do.

Not to be pedantic or anything, but isn't it sabermetrics? Or is the cybermetrics thing a SOSH inside joke? That's been bothering me for like a day now.

Don't you think Kalenta matches up better with Wisy. than she would have Purdue? I don't think Wisconsin big's are as big as what Purdue brought to the table. possibly. i am a bit surprised kalenta didn't get some minutes. she's listed at 6' 3"---so, i thought she could help out on purdue's bigs. evidently, coach yori doesn't feel comfortable enough with her game to put her in that situation-----yet. she seems to be very active when she is on the floor---hustling, setting screens, etc.

At 38.1%, he'd be one of our leading 3-point shooters.

Yes, but section 316 Walter probably looks 6'3" right?

I am hoping we get off to a great start this year...if we don't...please do not panic. It is the perils of being north of the Mason-Dixon line.

This game reminded me of the days gone by going up against A&M and Okie St. It seemed when we needed that big shot down the stretch someone stepped up and made it. I thought Brandi Jeffery played one of her best games of the year. Good minutes from the bench tonight especially Chandler Smith and Natalie R. Really like what Natalie is starting to do on the defensive end of the court. Emily winds up with 13 big rebounds. Lot better from the charity stripe tonight. Good game to get under our belts. We go to Madison now, got to get that one.

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The actuary sounds like an actuary, cwg sounds like someone who is not presently geeked, Norm sounds like a nitpicking lawyer, 49er sounds like he should join SOSH, and Silverback sounds like, well...silverback. Nevertheless, everyone must agree that any streak must begin with the outcome of tomorrow's contest. Let us just hope that the Gophers continue to pull their heads back into their holes when they are on the road.

I have watched the gophers play three games so far this year. They appear to be very talented, yet somewhat undercoached...if that makes sense. When I humbly say that, these were a few of my observations: - They would defend one or two passes and then their defense would break down. Our recent style of play could prove positive. - Offensively they would look very team oriented "on occasion," but oftentimes they relied on whoever gets the first touch, shoots. They would go on binge scoring where they would score six to ten points quickly, but then stall out. - They have good inside and outside talent, yet their bigs would go minutes at a time without a touch. Overall, a game we can and should win at home.

That's what she said.