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  1. It's a good effort, @Buglem but probably worthless trying to talk any sense into @nustudent. He gets this way...has been for many many years and I don't think he will ever change. It's just a cycle with him. - whines and cries about replacing a coach at right about the 5 year mark, gets really pissy and defensive when anyone replies - gets all excited about potential replacement coaches, whines and pisses and moans when none of them are chosen - finally gets on board with new coach and seems actually positive about the program for a few months - disappears for 4 years from the message board Rinse...repeat. It's really just a cycle of negativity with him, despite his promises of being positive "when there's something to be positive about"....here's a hint, with him, there never is. He'll ONLY make the effort to post when the team is down. Now, having said this, I'm not casting judgement here...he is what he is, and it's his life and this is a free forum where one can freely express one's opinion. But yeah, there's only two things that can happen to shut him up in this phase of the cycle. Winning games, or replacing the coaching staff. Preferably the latter.
    4 points
  2. Hard to do when she is the focus of the opposing team, she had three people on her today.
    4 points
  3. Great Thread and Comments from everyone (at least as they pertain to the Huskers and WBB program ). I think we should all be grateful that Nicea re-affirmed her commitment to Nebraska, indeed All of the freshmen who re-affirmed, even though each one had been formally released after the coaching change. Despite the disappointing season to date, from the results on the floor so far from the incoming class, along with those who will become eligible starting next season and next year's commits, the future appears bright. I expect we will see better team discipline next season. Losing can be a big motivator (if it isn't you may have the wrong players). And next year today's freshmen will be more experienced and in a better position to exert leadership. Peer pressure may be even more important in getting the best out of your teammates than coaching exhortations.
    3 points
  4. I don't think the issues are any deeper than injuries. Give us Morrow on the last plays of each the Ohio St and Rutgers game and the chances of us pulling down a defensive rebound are significantly higher. We are more than likely 11-8 (5-2) without a care in the world.
    3 points
  5. Our only hope now is to win the B1G tournament to get into the Big Dance.
    3 points
  6. FredsSlacks

    Injury front

    i'm not sure what your source is, but adidas will absolutely make him a custom shoe that fits. they do it all the time for 7 footers that have massive feet. i'm beginning to think ed just has bad feet and is blaming it on adidas. ed just needs to take as much time off as he can until he's healthy. sadly there isn't a whole lot to play for until the B1G tourney.
    3 points
  7. Huskerpapa

    Injury front

    I would have to believe there would have to be a legal loophole since they do not produce the equipment that is necessary for the health and safety of a student-athlete. I will repeat, this is perhaps the most asinine thing I have heard in quite some time.
    3 points
  8. Let's see if the HHC community can rally first
    2 points
  9. I think @HuskerFever needs to email Ken to let him know about this...
    2 points
  10. You mean dumber than the Alvarez one? And by the way, that rock is a well known landmark on the Madison campus and not Silverback's posterior. It belongs to Barry A. and is known there as the "kissing rock".
    2 points
  11. Wisconsin goes Under Armour when they get the chance...all the 1/2 size shoes of their choosing! Meanwhile, Barry hires Eichorst at Nebraska and we extend our Addidas contract to 2018. Coincidence? I think not.
    2 points
  12. HuskerFever

    Injury front

    Must be the shoes
    2 points
  13. Merlin

    WBB: Game #19 vs Michigan

    Coach Williams didn't even come out for her radio post game today. What does that tell you? Michigan is a fine team but my goodness there was a lot of dribbling and standing around today. I can't figure out if they don't know how to run the offense or defense or if its lack of effort in some spots? Michigan was so much quicker than us it was scary.
    2 points
  14. The frustration is that we are in every game. The frustration is that we seem to be right on the cusp of something big. The frustration is with the loss of these close games when everyone can recognize that we are only a few plays each game from being really, really good. The frustration IS NOT with the talent, effort, coaching or lack of a future. So as frustrated as I am, for as disappointed I am; I know, I really know that our future is bright. I am not trying to show a direct correlation, but in 1989-90 our record sucked(10-18), but you could see the talent. We then won a school-record 26 games, with only eight losses, in 1990-91. We are soooo very close this year, can next year be the turn around year???
    2 points
  15. Northwestern 74 Nebraska 72 Northwestern hits a 1/2 court, behind the back, between the legs shot at the buzzer to win. After which Tim Miles and HHC members go into a fetal position the remainder of the season. 9 assists
    2 points
  16. Oh, hey Ken. I see you're in first place now. Were you even invited? This week included: Game #18 vs. Ohio State Game #19 at Rutgers HHCC Standings - End of Week 11 1 KenPom 553 2 khoock 602 3 huskerbaseball13 613 4 Crush78 638 5 Buglem 649 6 Husker4Life 673 7 Busch Light 677 8 Jugular 677 9 throwback 681 10 jayschool 687 11 hhcdimes 692 12 Silverbacked1 692 13 hal9000 697 14 NUtball 702 15 Bugeaters1 704 16 HuskerFever 705 17 Noah121 710 18 AuroranHusker 718 19 trickey 724 20 jimmykc 740 21 4NUfans 744 22 huskers29 748 23 cjbowbros 758 24 colhusker 762 25 1sdpad2 764 26 BjoeHusker 768 27 NeeandMe 773 28 MichHusker 778 29 SkersHoops 780 30 brfrad 781 31 Ralph Wiggum 785 32 emwilliams 792 33 UnicamMan 795 34 Blindcheck 799 35 aphilso1 802 36 HuskerPower #nato73 811 37 swoof 817 38 huskercwg 823 39 Row6Seat10 829 40 BugeaterZ 839 41 hskr4life 841 42 NebrasketballJake 844 43 twinswingohuskers 857 44 pmd9 869 45 big red22 876 46 REDZONEDAN 888 47 bigred4 898 48 northwillriseagain 903 49 Red Don 907 50 TheNovice 907 51 HB 908 52 Jurgey 956 53 Nebrasketball5 970 54 ShortDust 1046 55 Neon Budreau 1168 56 BDL415 1209 57 bball23 1250 58 nuhusker7 1301 59 Red Rum 1311 60 ajb5856 1399 61 NU Follower 1412 62 NoladrianSephier 1428 63 soxnskers 1433 64 Boots 1540 65 Vinny 1541 66 KearneyMan 1671 67 basketballjones 1684 68 BLB115 1685 69 HuskerCager 1692 70 KarlHessEatMy…. 1733 71 husker8282 1771 72 cornfed24-7 1773 73 huskas4real 1824 74 thattimeofyear 1895 75 Handy Johnson 1897 76 Nighthawk 1902 77 GATA4Miles 1904 78 ConkintheCorner 1907 79 Donkey 1907 80 Lifetimesker 1911 81 Thattimeofyear4 1912 82 Wolv77 1919 83 New huskers fan 1922 84 efhutton 1924 85 jason2486 1933 86 Cornhoopers 1937 87 Hoops_Legend 1949
    1 point
  17. If you have 3 people collapsing you need to try and run some things for other players to loosen things up.
    1 point
  18. Your'e exactly right! Thats why we need to do a better job of moving the ball quick and not dribbling so much.
    1 point
  19. Allie and Nicea speak with the press. So does the coach.
    1 point
  20. But hypothetically (for proper scoring), if you were to pick a team to win, would it rhyme with "childrats"? Or "smuskers"?
    1 point
  21. Tough loss tonight. Didn't quite get some things tonight the substitution timing and personal on floor together, starting guards seem to set quite a few minutes. Not sure if all our players and coaches are on the same page on offense and defense. Coach not doing the postgame on the radio. Was kinda of a strange game today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  22. Sounds like these guys need to go on a world tour and share the wealth of knowledge Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  23. They yelled at the coach told her she needed to start coaching. That didn't sit well with my wife. They also commented that if they had a daughter looking at schools they wouldn't be looking at UNL Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
    1 point
  24. Not sure why some people waste there time and fight the crowd and just be negative. Would be nice they would give there tickets to someone else. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    1 point
  25. Hard to support any one player as "the most important." But we have found that we have not won without Ed. I would guess however, that we would also have the same issue without Glynn, Tai and possibly MJ. Hard to win when you have multiple injuries and/or transfers sitting out as well. Just to make one additional mention, and I hate to write this, but I am disappointed with the growth of our freshmen this year. At this point of the season I thought they would be much further along. The inconsistency and rookie mistakes are taking a toll. If they step up, the injury to Ed would have less of an effect.
    1 point
  26. Jacobson was avg. 8.3 points per game, and 10.3 rebounds per game when Ed played in conference. Without Ed, he is avg. 6 points, and 6 rebounds.
    1 point
  27. I think there are four players this year...that losing any of them makes it much more difficult to win Morrow Watson Jacobsen Webster Morrow and Jacobsen..because they complement each other so well...both benefit by having the other down low...both get rebounds and put backs..because both are doing their jobs. there are times when morrow gets a rebound and scores, but the hard work to get that board was done by jacobsen...and vice versa.
    1 point
  28. No way you should even discuss firing Miles this year. He has been building up for this year and the next two so we should let him follow thru. This year was messed up by White leaving and now our only real inside offensive threat getting hurt. I know it is not popular but if we have White and a healthy Ed we would be in the tournament this year, I really believe that. Just having Ed probably gets us to 5-2 right now this year in the B10 and probably on track for some sort of post season play. Unfortunately the depth right now are Frosh and that is hard in the BIG10 unless they are one and done types that we are not going to get here. They have much more talent than anytime since Nee but they need to learn how to win and that is not easy. The IU and MD wins show we can play with anyone right now but we have to do it consistently. I love Horne / Roby's upside but they were lost yesterday for sure and Jake would be a great guy coming off the bench but he is really our only inside guy right now and that is not good. I expect the frosh to make jumps like this years Sophs made and then we will have depth next year if something happens. Only weak spot I see is PG we need a back up for Glynn.
    1 point
  29. I certainly underestimated how valuable he was to the team. I think if Tai or Glynn had gone down instead you'd have seen a similar drop off. Those 3 have simlar value to the team, I think. And I think we're under estimating the loss of Gill, too. That made the guard rotation really thin.
    1 point
  30. In Sadler's last two years, we were losing a bunch of conference games by 30+ points. It wasn't just the number of losses, it was the fact that those losses were flat out embarrassing due to our talent deficiencies. There was no hope for improvement and for that reason Doc clearly needed to go. That is not the same situation that we find ourselves in today.
    1 point
  31. maybe as time goes on coach will get that figured out and start to push her more. We have to remember that everyone is new to this. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
    1 point
  32. What are WOVERINES?
    1 point
  33. I would disagree that he is our "most" important player. To me that is Watson - we would really struggle without Glynn and ultimately the team tends to rise and fall as he does. Webster is clearly critical as well That said Morrow is certainly a very important player to this team - and may be the "most" important at least in terms of getting the team to play with intensity. Something that has been missing at times during the latest stretch.
    1 point
  34. I would disagree with this. I think we are clearly better this year than last year. Record doesn't show it but schedule is much tougher than last year. Beyond that just watching the team play I think it is clear and that is true despite the loss of what were clearly our two best players on last year's team. I agree with you that we definitely waited too long to get rid of Sadler. But that is because we were trending down as a program during his tenure. We tried to hide that then by making the non-conference schedules easier and easier during that time -but people watching the team could see it. I think the opposite is true - there have been peaks and valleys in the process but overall the trend has been positive in Mile's tenure. We caught fire in his 2nd year and overperformed for a stretch which was very exciting and fun -but I think actually set us back the next season - partly because of the unrealistic expectations it created. While it has not been a smooth path the trend is upward and in that situation I think it is foolhardy to replace the coach and start over. Patience is a virtue that is missing all too often in todays fans.
    1 point
  35. I think we got to see what her style of play will be like at PSU game. It was a fun to watch it, just hope she can get better and more concsistant shooters.
    1 point
  36. oh man, hate to think where this team would be without the presence of Nicea. soooooo glad she became a husker. just a little surprised to read/hear the comments about coach williams style. although, first season and did walk into a hornets nest. just wonder if things won't change somewhat when the roster starts to fill up with more of her recruits. time will tell.
    1 point
  37. Regrettably, not so sure if many of the old school hard nose coaches can exist much longer in today's women's game. It only seems to take one whiner, and schools out for the coach. (unless your winning big, and in the Top 10, and the AD and Chancellor are happy) Anyway, Actual...Coach Williams is in a little of a predicament right now and needs every body she can get on the floor. Hopefully the depth will improve. So, next year with more players on the squad, the staff can be a little more demanding.....if that's her(their) style. Nicea's been a huge asset to the team already...so glad she wasn't swayed by what were basically threats. Still feel like the team will keep improving...and will continue to develop... pretty much based on coach Amy's past track record. Needs good recruits to succeed. Not a new story.
    1 point
  38. Some people need to get a grip. We've lost the last three games, one home and two on the road, by a combined total of eight points. And that is without Ed Morrow, who, if he had played, probably makes the difference between us going 0-3 and 3-0 in those last three games. Other guys, you might be able to replace their productivity with another player or combination of players. Not so with Ed. Everyone kind of needs to keep that in mind.
    1 point
  39. On another note, kind of a funny story. We took our visit to CU Boulder and coach Linda Lappe - who was let go at the end of last season - seemed very pleasant. She wanted Nicea really bad. Which was understandable bc Nicea was the #2 player in Colorado and it would've been great to sign a homegrown kid to her program. We knew she was on the hot seat and we asked her and the AD about that on the visit. They both assured us she wasn't going anywhere anytime soon at all. Anyway, at the end of the visit she wanted Nicea to verbally commit, but we refused bc we told her we were going to Nebraska the following weekend and we'd decide after that visit. So the night before we're set to go to NU Coach Lappe calls Nicea at about 10p and I can see Nicea has a kind of worried look on her face. I ask her what's wrong and she says Coach Lappe said if I go on the trip to Nebraska she's taking the scholarship offer away. Needless to say that conversation pretty much took CU out of the equation bc I was not going to have a coach bully Nicea before she's even one of her players. Coach Lappe had another losing season and was let go, and I'm sure she's not an ugly person, but the pressure had her acting otherwise. We obviously made the right choice with Nebraska and in spite of our current struggles winning, Nicea loves everything about being a Husker! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk
    1 point
  40. We're also playing without Morrow. While most people would say Tai is our most irreplaceable player, I actually would say Ed is. What Tai brings to the table in terms of scoring and slashing can be somewhat replicated by a number of other players on the team. But Ed, in addition to being that third scorer, is far and away our best rebounder, is the guy who sets the tone defensively, and is one of only two bona fide shot blockers we have. Put Ed in the paint, and Rutgers doesn't drive the lane with nearly as much success. And Jordy/Jacobson don't pick up 2 fouls apiece in the first 4 minutes against OSU. I know it's idle speculation, but with him in the lineup I think we win both by double digits and are sitting at 5-2. So yeah, even against some of the lesser teams in the B1G, losing by a single point without Morrow is understandable. If we're in the same position 12 months from now, then I'm OK having the fire Miles debate.
    1 point
  41. Very interesting. We (Nicea) were recruited very heavily by WSU. We narrowed it down to 3 schools (out of 27 offers) which were Wichita State, Colorado University and Nebraska. After our visit to WSU we were almost 100% sure Nicea was going there. We really liked Coach Jody Adams. The allegations had just come out about her so I knew the main thing I wanted to ask her was to explain that situation. She was very open and honest and we left feeling pretty certain there was nothing to worry about. Almost didn't go on our visit to Nebraska we were so high on WSU, but Britney Brown - the assistant at the time under Coach Yori was so consistent recruiting Nicea that we felt like we owed it to her. Obviously after 2 days in Lincoln we fell in love with everything about NU. But I well say one of the things about the program we liked was the hard-nosed coaching style of Yori. Like I said before, Nicea actually thrives under that style. Not as much with a laid back style like Williams...anyhoo I don't know what happened at WSU and I do believe there is alot of abuse of players by coaches; but I also believe coaches aren't being allowed to discipline players like they used to be. This generation of kids don't have the same respect for authority as my generation or those before me. When a coach is tough on today's players they're more likely to report the coach to the AD vs. sucking it up and trying to get better. It's an epidemic with all these coaches getting investigated and/or fired for player abuse. Kinda sad actually. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk
    1 point
  42. Who was suppose to replace White and Shields this year? No one expected Tai to be 2nd in the conference in scoring this year. He averaged 10.0 points per game last year. Now, he is at 18.1 points per game. Watson, averaged 8.6 points per game last year, is now avg. 14.8 points per game. He shot 26.7% from 3 last year, and this year is shooting 42.5% from 3. Contrary to popular belief, players have improved under Miles. Turner is playing much better. Next year, we will have more depth to help us withstand injuries. We have a backcourt of: Watson, Turner, Gill, and Palmer. We have wings of: Roby, Horne, McVeigh, and Nana. We have a frontcourt of: Morrow, Jacobson, Jordy, and Copleand.
    1 point
  43. With two kicks in the nuts... that means they have no more nuts to kick! That means no more of these games.
    1 point
  44. Would we be playing Tai and Glynn so many minutes if Anton was still in the lineup? Those guys are starting to look gassed at the end which is another way you lose in the last second.
    1 point
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  46. The problem I have with all of this is that would it be automatic that a different coach would have won these last two games if placed in a similar situation? We are down 2 scholarship guys from where we started this year. Excuse? Sure. The truth? Yes. Is Miles out of excuses? Maybe. The way I see it, the expectations have increased. Which they should, but I don't think there's any way a team in any of our previous regimes would be expected to win two league games down 2 guys. We weren't in the winning conversation before even at full strength. A league game was just a loss going in most of the time. I don't believe in moral victories because they don't count in the W column, but we've now played every single one of our league games within 8 points. It's hard to ignore the competitive nature of this team, look at the makeup of the roster, and be eager to get rid of Miles. That's just me. Wouldn't make any sense in my opinion. I've watched to much Nebrasketball to just assume that they next guy isn't going to have the same struggles. Some people just assume the next guy is the right answer. These last two two games are making things difficult to swallow. Ohio State. Rutgers. Two everyone thinks we should've had. Maybe it would be easier to just go back to being blown out.
    1 point
  47. Well said - Tai is the perfect example for anyone who goes through some struggles. The way he has just put his head down and worked and worked and worked -- rather than sulking and giving up and going somewhere else, as a lot of players would have -- has been simply tremendous. He has made himself into an All B1G player. And on top of it all, to be counted on to provide tons of leadership on a really young team and be asked to take and make huge shots late in games, that's a lot on his shoulders this season. Yet he has handled it all tremendously well, answering the bell every game. I hope folks in New Zealand are as proud of what he's done the past 4 years as we are here. He will be a very deserving 28th member of NU's 1000-point club in a few more games.
    1 point
  48. redsteve

    2018 recruiting Big Board

    Noticed that Prospect Nation now rates our new recruit Ashtyn Veerbeek at 3.5 stars. https://prospectsnation.com/player/ashtyn-veerbeek
    1 point
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