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Maybe it's just me, but it seems like Kenya was always the coach who had the scout whenever we had a big win. So he must know something besides recruiting.

Oh, I see. Riley gets credit for being so bad that he opened the door for the next coach to come here. Ok. That makes sense.

Anyone have any information on a kid named Harrison Henderson? I know he is 6'10 and has been at USC. My nephew sent me a note last night saying Harrison is very interested in Nebraska base on what a family member of Harrison (think he said is Grandma) told him. Guess Miles recruited him out of high school but could tell he was a west coast lean. Family supposedly loves Tim too. Supposedly has a full release from USC. Sorry if he has been discussed

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Ignoring the acerbic response of your inquisitee ... I haven't seen practices (dang it) and I'm not an insider. What I would base that same conclusion on is: a. It's my understanding Kenya was in charge of the bigs; b. On defense, our bigs while Kenya was here have managed to make the other team's bigs routinely look like all-Americans; and c. On offense, our bigs have yet to demonstrate the development of good post offensive skills. As to "b" above, you can almost completely blame the losses to Incarnate Word, Samford and Gardner-Webb on our horrid post defense by the position players. For example, against Incarnate Word, Traylin Farris, a 6'8" true freshman, scored 12 points on us in 16 minutes on 5-7 shooting in the paint. See, also, this discussion:

And to add to that. Aside from stability, this move for Kenya is an important one. It gets him under another coach's system, working with different players with different talents from different regions, and exposes him to new contacts whether that's players, high school/college coaches, parents, or ADs. He's doing what he needs to in order to build his head coaching resume for a time his name may get called up to an open position. I wish him all the best in achieving that goal.

What it's like coaching Lebron's manipulative, childish, drama-queen ass in one picture.

I’m w the shower capper on this one, Hunter was very good at building relationships but his actual “coachin” is questionable at best as is the staff as the whole. Probably the only recruit I can think of that improved is Webster and I don’t know if that’s to hunters credit or another coach or to Webster himself. i didn’t realize hunter stayed here as long as he did, we should all be thankful of what he did for us while here. A lot better shape currently than we were five years ago

I agree with shower cap on this one, I never thought coaching the players was his strong point.

Nebraska didn’t offer him outta high school, but he had an okay list of offers. He was a top 300 guy outta high school. Would sit one to play two. Had okay high school numbers and just never really got a chance to play at USC. Would be a good use of a scholarship in my opinion.

A very classs announcement of departure by the young man; I would embed his tweet if I wasn't grotesquely incompetent. Good luck, Patrick.

Player development has one of the biggest flaws of this staff IMO. Not laying the blame on anyone in particular, but in general, not enough guys get better. Certainly, not enough guys get better at shooting. Yes, I know some guys have improved. During your college years, you should improve on your own. There have not been near enough guys get significantly better in their time here under Miles IMO. When we aren't getting elite recruits, we need to be able to develop them. If that is done, every so often when we have a veteran bunch, we should have a sweet 16 type of team.

Fixed it for you .

Kenya was always down there with the wings & bigs as well during pregame with Mo. After checking his bio, it says, "In his role, Hunter coaches the Husker wing players and also assists in player development and opponent scouting. He had previously worked with the Husker post players". +1

Okay. I just see Molinari lead the post players through pre-game warmups and huskers.com indicates Molinari " works with the post players and assists in opponent scouting and game-planning." So I don't know who is/was "in charge" of the post players, but it would be my guess that Molinari is/was in charge of more of those responsibilities. I could be wrong, though. Regardless, I think we'll mostly miss Hunter from a recruiting and player relations standpoint.

So did Hunter, as well as wings.

Same game he scouted, as the defensive coach, where we gave up 42% inside the arc, 48% from deep, 13 offensive rebounds and zero in-game defensive adjustments. "12 other coaches struggled" against Michigan's defense while not looking lost, minus aTm, against their offense like Nebraska did.

The game where we shot 33% from 2 and 30% overall? That was tough to watch. Especially against a team that about 12 other coaching staffs struggled to make adjustments against at the end of the year.

Nobody hears about the *defensive* scout when we lose; see St. John's (Kenya), Sparty (Kenya), Illinois (Kenya), Michigan part 2 (Kenya) as 4 examples off the top of my head. UM part 2 is a prime example of my previous comment regarding lack of in-game adjustment. He came with the exact same gameplan, and couldn't adjust in-game. That was brutal to watch. We had 1 "big win" this season, congrats on that (defensive) scout. Kenya is a loss for Nebraska, from a recruiting and player relations standpoint. Guys weren't hanging out at Lewis' or Molinari's crib, they spent their time at KH's without other coaches around much. Because of Kenya & what he means to them.

This post wasn't about calling into question Hunter's coaching ability...it was more to determine if sticking around here would one day result in him being the head coach at Nebraska. Seems like a no.

What are you talking about?

We won, which is great...but I had to turn it off mid way thru. I honestly can't begin to understand what this coaching staff saw in some of the pitchers we have in our roster. That's an area where we have no depth due to injuries but some of the healthy arms we do roll out may not even be good enough for the Mavs. If we are going to win any Big 10 series this year I hope it's this weekend. Can't keep losing to the Suckeyes

ZAY, WHAT? (The pic doesn't show up, by the way.) Hopefully it's not a euphemism for "broken", "missing", et. al.

I think you mistook my admitting to I really have no idea if he can coach a lick for sarcasm. And you mistook the “sour grapes” as well. It was my first reaction reading your first post but after reading your reply I was saying you seemed to be implying that you know things that I do not. When I coached I was able to attend quite a few “closed” practices ranging from Nee to McDermott to Altman to Doc, etc. But I do know if I tried to show up to a practice now I wouldn’t be allowed in, therefore I also assume then you have more pull or connections than I do. I worked for a couple of guys that knew what they were doing and was a head coach for awhile as well. I know that different coaches have different styles and some delegate more than otheres but the head coach has the final say and even if it’s not their call, the final responsibility for everything including in-game adjustments. So maybe we are splitting hairs here but no matter who has what designated job title and responsibilities or whose idea it was, ultimately the responsibility and blame or credit falls to the one with the biggest pay check. So I wasn’t trying to call you out and I had no sentences that ended in a question mark because I wasn’t asking any questions. Your response is written in such a vague way, I can’t really tell which thing I said that you find so hilarious. I really don’t like baseball and follow it not at all so your Erstad reference also went over my head. I take it the Huskers are not doing so well this year. I can say that based on your over reaction, I’m glad I don’t work for you. I’m too old to have that kind of stress in my life.

Heiman signed in November

He probably didn’t commit so much to Nebraska for hunter as to more of the recovery plan Nebraska has for his injury. Either way glad to have him, probably won’t contribute next year but should be fun to watch long term. interesting that heiman didn’t sign his LOI today even tho hunter wasn’t his head recruiter.

None of your (ridiculous) non-questions will be answered, due to the bold - which is furthest from the truth. P.S. One can attend practices without them being "open". Hilarious that you would even suggest such a thing. Yep, sour grapes, while saying he's a loss to Nebraska. Your swings & misses will allow you to hit in the 5-hole for Erstad.

So, since Kenya recruited this young man, do we need to worry about him asking for his release from the NLI and not coming here? Sorry, just being a smart a**

It's an opinion from observations of watching practices throughout the years, listening to others, seeing his inability to adjust in-game (defensively, away from game plan) & lack of offensive creativity/ability. I have no issues with KH, he's definitely a loss to Nebraska, but all I see in Kenya Hunter is an assistant coach. And (IMO) there's nothing wrong with that.

Really hope he has a chance to prove this narrative wrong. Also this narrative is a great reason for him to have left his job at Nebraska.

Kenya can't coach, his best assets are recruiting & team/players relations.

How about that...good news!

Somewhere, Standhardinger is giggling right now.....

i agree rb had her moments last season and i was rooting for her all the way.........but overall, it is so obvious with those knees.? one thing i feel confident in, is if rb thinks she can deal with it------no doubt, fans will see her again.

The thing is, the kid did/does want to come here. That is why he signed a letter of intent. One thing changed, and it was the coach that recruited him, no longer is here; but his position coach still is. The kid should/will honor is commitment. Heck, if he comes and then decides he hates his coaches, his teammates, the atmosphere, his coursework, the fans, the energy, his life in general, he can then choose the path of about 600 other Division I basketball players and transfer. I personally believe he still wants to be here, but perhaps he deserves/requires a little love from the remaining staff to reinforce that feeling. Millennial's...

That is because Kidney's phone is set to auto redial.

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Assistant coaches usually don't stick around forever - the only ones we've had in the last 50 years that were here as long or longer than Kenya were Moe Iba (1971-80), Tom Baack (1978-86), Gary Bargen (1987-95), Jimmy Williams (1993-99), and Lynn Mitchem (1987-92).

And it doesn’t end there! The angles the players take in the field, swinging 1st pitch on a guy that can’t find the zone, running into outs - it’s frightening.

Nice revisionist history, Sam. The program was a mess in the fall of 2017 as well. It was more than just a "bad fit". There was no accountability or discipline in the program from the get go in the Riley era. Strength and conditioning was a joke. Player development was non-existent. The Oline coach may have been the worst position coach in the history of the program. We gave up 54 to Minnesota, which didn't score another point in its final two games. Put all the lipstick you want on that pig, but we were a sorry, pitiful excuse for a football program in November, 2017. You can "shrug" the horrible hire by Eichorst all you want, but had the powers that be not acted decisively in the fall of 2017, we may have never recovered. I agree the program is now not in bad shape. We have seen dramatic, decisive leadership completely changing everything that was going on. The mess was addressed.

What would be a surprise is if we played the game of baseball well. How the hell can a team have a bunch of players who can't lay down a bunt, or field a bunt, at this level?

I don't think he was ever a top priority. Sure we did our due diligence and inquired, and I'm sure the Miles/Smith connection was what opened that door up. Mooney and Miles do follow each other on Twitter (I've got all the twitter insight today), but other than that, I just don't think he's been a priority. Now if we think we might lose Xavier somehow, maybe we'll step it up with Mooney, but it is probably too little too late

Owens to Texas Tech. His second choice was Maryland, so at least he didn't pick the Terps. This is shaping up to be a crappy week.

Can't speak for others off the cuff but Altman was a good coach at Moberly before going to KSU

He used to have "Nebraska Basketball Commit '22" in his profile on twitter, that has since been removed. Probably not the best of news.