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You guys are like a lost kitten. It's called deception. The show. The long con. You think our record isnt by choice? HA Long con. Friends. Long con.

Is Iowa City east of Omaha? Just wondering? Merry Chirstmas everybody.

I honestly don't care what actions did or didn't transpire that led to Franny's actions. Be the bigger man.

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"...McCaffery’s postgame reaction was different from Bohannon’s. Now, McCaffery did tell ESPN’s Jeff Goodman on Wednesday that he regretted what happened after the game and that he texted an apology to Jones afterward. “I feel bad about it. I have a lot of respect for Brian Jones,” McCaffery told ESPN. “I wish it didn’t happen. I wish I shook hands. … But again, I think Brian Jones is a high-character guy and a heck of a coach. Assistant Jeff Horner is one of the best players ever to play here. I shouldn’t have done it. I feel terrible about what happened.” McCaffery is a fiery, emotional guy. That is part of it. The end of the game impacted him and it was still visible well after everything cooled down..." Land of Ten The point of my responses is to refute the statement that what happened was "fake news." This is real news, and it says a lot about the character of a man who is supposed to be teaching his kids. In this article it stated one of Coach Fran's players went up to apologize to a ND player for his actions in earning a technical. To blame the opposing teams when both teams were chippy is wrong. To throw up your hands at the end of a game and sulk off the court in a huff, is wrong. It is simply another example of behavior that should not be tolerated and should have resulted in some sort of reprimand by the Big Ten hierarchy. Husker fans lived with a coach that sometimes displayed that same boorish behavior. It was not right when he did it, and it isn't right when Coach Fran does it.

Let the prophecy be told: a day will come when we'll be very happy that Michael Jacobson did not give up on shooting 3's and that he stuck with it. Young man has a seriously pure shot. It's just not going in right now. I don't understand it, and I'm sure he's very frustrated.

Why wait? Festivus is for the rest of us.

Norm, respectfully, I think you missed my point. I don't want to throw out individual players and give a thumbs up or thumbs down. People with legitimate talent evaluation skills are not anonymous message board posters. I'm saying we've gone more than a decade without signing a Nebraska kid out of high school. I'm saying there are a number of Nebraska kids during that who have proven they were good enough to play here, and we didn't sign one of them. That is systemic. So I'm not saying we should sign Brady Heiman or David Wingett. I'm asking if we are really putting in the effort to evaluate them and other kids around the area. Who's our lead recruiter in this area and do coaches know him? With the OVERALL record of guys from around here who have succeeded and with our signing none of them, I think it's worth questioning what we're doing.

13 scholarships available...I would think that allocating a couple of scholarships for Nebraska kids would help the program...Now, you have to do your homework and find the kids that will be able to play Division 1...but there are kids almost every year that end up having decent careers at the D1 Level.... Talent evaluaton will be key, but I think you need a local kid to help spur the passion...Can it be done without local kids, sure...but I think it helps your program if you can find those local gems. And if you are going to only utilize 12 scholarships...there is basically no risk...you aren't using all your scholarships anyway.

Coach Anwar is now on a North Texas staff that is lead by Head Coach Tony Benford. Note that he lost his mustache. Of course Tony was an assistant at Nebraska from 2006 to 2008. Gotta love this paragraph in Anwar's bio: The Huskers also showed the ability to score from long distance in 2009-10, as Eshaunte Jones (40-of-92, 43.5 percent), Ryan Anderson (54-of-126, 42.9 percent) and Brandon Ubel (11-of-21, 53.4 percent) helped Nebraska set a school record and rank 15th nationally in 3-point percentage (39.7 percent).

Lol. I will do better next year. ?

We're all pros at the Airing of Grievances aspect

Maybe Geno's comment will light a fire in her to get better. Jess is a talent but has disappeared in games with excellent post defense.

At some point the player has to do the work. First you have to admit you have a problem, and decide what you want to do about it. The coach can only do so much.

Guess what Norm. Life is full of big ifs. I prefer to take the optimistic approach and support the team as much as possible going forward.

To be completely honest, my biggest concern is that we don't have an established rotation going into conference play. Heck, we don't even have our startling lineup figured out. Early on in the season, I understand mixing and matching lineups to try and see what works best, however I would have liked to see us have our starting lineup and 9 man rotation figured out by the Southern Game. Horne: In the first 11 games (appeared in 10), Jeriah Horne scored a total of 14 points in 65 minutes. Against Southern he scored 18 in 18 minutes. What's his role? Morrow: Sets a career high in rebounds (18) and ties career high in blocks (4) in just 28 minutes against Garner-Webb. Against Southern he plays 17 minutes. We need his energy and rebounding. Would like to see him averaging around 30 minutes per game; currently averaging 24.5 My Starting Lineup: G: Tai Webster (17.0 ppg, 5.1 rpg) G: Glynn Watson Jr. (12.6 ppg, 3.0 rpg) G: Evan Taylor (3.4 ppg, 1.8 rbg) F: Ed Morrow Jr. (10.3 ppg, 8.9 rpg) F: Michael Jacobson (5.7 ppg, 5.8 ppg): Hardest to plug in starting lineup. Would like to see him STOP shooting 3's. *If not Jacobson, I'd go with Gill, but that makes us a relatively small lineup. Bench: C: Tshimanga F: Roby G: Gill F: Horne F: McVeigh I would like to see a 9-man rotation, but I couldn't justify reducing McVeigh to garbage minutes (yet...) Trending up: 1. Anton Gill 2. Evan Taylor 3. Jeriah Horne? Trending Down: 1. Jack McVeigh 2. Michael Jacobson Odd Man out: 1. Nick Fuller Just my opinion.

Chuck, respectfully, I think you missed my point. Some kids who look great in high school go to college and bust; some kids who were completely overlooked for legitimate reasons (they just weren't all that good) get to college at a lower level and the lightbulb goes on and they blow up. I don't care who the coach is. You'll always be able to find players that they could have recruited and didn't who end up going somewhere else and doing much better than anyone anticipated they would do. And, by the same token, you'll always be able to find players they recruited who don't live up to the expectations. It's just the nature of the beast. Recruiting is an inexact science. THEREFORE, you can't just tick off a list of players who we didn't recruit who went somewhere else and did well and offer me that list as some sort of proof that (insert name of whichever coach you're trying to attack) blew it in recruiting by not going after said kid. Honestly, the way most fans evaluate recruiting is bullshit because we're doing it based on the benefit of hindsight. Not only did Miles not offer Daum, but he also didn't offer 50,000 other kids who went on to lower level schools and didn't do shit there. But we're not talking about those other 50,000 kids who didn't get offers and didn't do shit; we're only talking about the extremely limited numbers of players who either vastly exceeded any reasonable expectations (Daum and Kyri Thomas, for example) or were already known quantities who just chose to take their talents elsewhere in spite of our best recruiting efforts (Agau). I do NOT accept the premise that you get to throw out names of recruits after the fact and wag your finger and say "Why didn't Miles offer?" If you want to play that game, then show me where you or anyone else identified those players as potentially scholarship worthy before they went off to somewhere else and had a good career there.

I also believe I was on record saying Khiry Thomas could play at NU. I'm not gonna go dig it up, but I distinctly remember being really impressed with him at the state tournament. I've also been the leader of the "get David Wingett to Lincoln" campaign.

A lot of the subbing out for defense hasn't been about avoiding mismatches, or if someone generally is an average defender. It has mainly been due to very specific, glaring mistakes. Often on plays that had been practiced against, and the mistake showed the light bulb going on. It's easy for fans to say "well just focus more on offense", but for a coach it's a little bit tougher. When a guy keeps making mental errors it shows he's not ready. And playing time can be the only way to get players' attention. All coaches would agree you have to let guys play through mistakes and you can't pull them after every one, but if a guy keeps making the same mistakes, it's hard to keep him on the floor.

The obvious question......WHY HAS IT TAKEN SO LONG !

Can anyone really think this program (win/loss) is in any better shape now than under the last year of Barry Collier? Miles has the benefit of a new practice facility and new arena and the results are the same. (Should make the NCAA tourney or Nit every year) This program cannot afford to lose players early, when they do not go to the NBA, he has lost Terran,Walt and White. This is the worst shooting team in NU history. Not being able to get any of the top Nebraska kids (No excuses) two at Creighton and one at Omaha.

They were lined up waiting to for the BIG L. but they had to go away.

Pretty classless & people thought Bo had issues.

I'm not disappointed, I thought the team played one of their better games. I was expecting a lot less.

Someone posted somewhere that it is a fake news story. It actually had little to do with the ending and mostly to do with dirty events by their opponent's players that occurred towards the end of that game. C'mon people. Stop falling for sensational headlines the media outlets report to get activity on their sites.