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Interesting questions. I had Sadler winning the most categories, but the categories that Miles won were by a wiiiiiiiiide margin. Overall I would take Mile over the other two, but Sadler did walk into the worst situation so who knows what he could've done with the opportunity that Collier or Miles had. Collier inherited talent from Nee but drove the program into the ground. Miles inherited the new facilities and corresponding recruiting advantages. Sadler inherited a team with no talent and the worst facilities in the conference...not exactly a fair shake.

The only category that Miles wouldn’t win is if we needed an in-bounds play

1. Sadler 2. Collier 3. MILES INFINITELY AND THAT'S WHY HE'S TWICE AS GOOD AS EITHER OF THE OTHERS. THIS IS 90% OF A COACH'S VALUE. 4. MILES FOREVER. 5. Sadler 6. Miles or Collier I don't want it to seem like these are even scores. The weight of 3 and 4 are 90+% of what makes a coach good in a power conference. Miles is a great recruiter, and he's coming around as an in-game coach. He was better than either Sadler or Collier in-game last season, and I expect it to remain that way.

Saying it again.....but really like what she has shown this year. Has a complete game. It will bode well for her coming into the college game. It's not predictable how she'll do....but....her game will fit in real well with Coach Amy's schemes. When she adjusts for the speed of the college game...and I think she will quickly ....look out fans.

When you aren’t very talented pride only takes you so far. The current state of the program is on Erstad and his staffs failures on the recruiting trail.

I would bet he isn’t the only kid in that game we are watching

I think I can agree with a lot of this. I think I might give Sadler a nod over Collier in drawing up that last second play. Remember Creighton in Sadler year 3 when we absolutely had to have a bucket at the end of the game? He got Steve Harley the ball curling from the right short corner into the lane, drew the defender off of Ade, dumped it down to Ade for a very easy lay in. Game winner. It was brilliant. And I would take Miles' ability to hire an assistant coach over either of the others. How many of Collier's assistants while he was here went on to head coaching gigs? Sadler's? Before all is said and done, Miles' Husker assistants with head jobs will include Craig Smith, Kenya Hunter, Michael Lewis and Chris Harriman. And those are just the ones since he's been here. Collier had some good assistants at Butler, but not as much in Lincoln. As far as finding diamonds in the rough, you don't want to get me started on Sheldon Jeter again, do you?

Is "None of the above" an option?

It all comes down to the Bucket List. At 56, I've enjoyed a ton of Husker success on the football field. Almost none on the basketball court. I'm going to root harder for and die little deaths more often related to basketball games until I can check off an NCAA Tournament win. And that doesn't become a possibility unless the regular season goes really well. So hoops.

11/11/17: FB: MINN 54 NEB 21 BB: NEB 72 EIU 68 11/24/17: FB: Iowa 56 NEB 14 BB: NEB 84 Marist 59 11/19/16: BOTH HOME GAMES FB: NEB 28 Maryland 7 BB: NEB 65 LA Tech 54 11/25/16 FB: Iowa 40 NEB 10 BB: UCLA 82 NEB 71 11/14/15 FB: NEB 31 RUT 14 BB: NEB 97 MVSU 51 11/27/15 FB: Iowa 28 NEB 20 BB: Cincy 65 NEB 61 11/22/14 FB: MINN 28 NEB 24 BB: RI 66 #21NEB 62 (OT) 11/28/14 FB: NEB 37 Iowa 34 (OT) BB: NEB 75 Tenn-Martin 64 11/14/09 FB: NEB 31 Kansas 17 BB: NEB 76 SC Upstate 49 11/21/09 FB: NEB 17 KState 3 BB: NEB 90 TCU 77 11/10/07 FB: NEB 73 KState 31 BB: NEB 67 Presbyterian 52 11/11/06 FB: NEB 28 Texas A&M 27 BB: (Exh) NEB 54 SIU-Edwardsville 50 12/2/06 FB: OU 21 NEB 7 (Big 12 Championship) BB: Rut 75 NEB 73 11/12/05 FB: NEB 27 KState 25 BB: (Exh) NEB 76 Holy Family Univ 54 11/13/04 FB: OU 30 NEB 3 BB: (Exh) NEB 84 UNK 71 12/27/02 FB: Ole Miss 27 NEB 23 (Independence Bowl) BB: NEB 60 UC-Santa Barbara 57 (ASU hoops classic in Tempe, AZ)

It is a no confidence flag from the AD and of course it hurts a lot. Coaches are smart and will constantly be in a recruits ear about it and that plants a lot of doubt in kids/parents mind. What is so frustrating is if it is just about the money just reduce his buyout and extend the years, that happens a lot. So if you do end up having to fire him you are not out a lot more money. it was pretty simple and I am surprise by what Moos did. Hurts the program with or without Miles but doing it this way.

I wouldn't call what Nebraska played that day football. If anyone sat through more than a quarter of that garbage they must have been a masochist.

I'm not overly concerned about the length of the contract. But am more concerned the impact it will have on finding the next assistant coach more than the next player.

I understand where you are coming from and I am not disagreeing or disparaging your opinion. But....for me, I am not OK with Moos putting all of his attention on football. I choose basketball over football all day long and from my point of view he didn't just not give it the attention it deserved, he went out of his way and hurt the program going forward whoever ends up coaching the team two years from now.

I think this might be an agree-to-disagree thing, but I do think the expected outcome is assumed differently in the two scenarios. A multi-year contract extension assumes good seasons are ahead. A one-year contract extension assumes a poor outcome unless you can prove it wrong. At the risk of getting a little too Eichorst-y, it makes a heck of a difference how you perform when someone thinks you'll succeed vs. when someone thinks you'll fail. Moos and Co. have basically said they expect Miles to fail. How do you go about proving him wrong without turning into Bo Pelini and making it an us-against-them thing? That's a pretty fine line to balance, and while it's possible, I continue to believe that creating the need for it was unnecessary. You can turn your nose up at the "goodwill" stuff, but personally, I think that's a mistake because I think the fact that we're even having this conversation means that it matters.

Here's the thing -- I think 2018-19 is only another do-or-die year because that's what the narrative became after the season. Rewind six-ish weeks. Selection Sunday just happened and we were left out, but Bill Moos had spent the last week calling everyone in his phone to tell them how awesome Nebrasketball is. We're sitting at 22-10, which by most standards (especially in Nebraska) is a good season. We had a double-bye in the Big Ten Tournament, and yes, we lost to Michigan, but so did a couple really good teams, so while that sucks, it's not like we're not in good company. And the NIT may have inexplicably just crapped on us, but it's a team we played once already to start the season and jumped out to a 20-point lead at halftime so a win isn't impossible. Let's say that, at that point, the AD announces that despite what the committee decided, this was a really good season and we believe we're heading the right direction (because dang it, everyone who ever met Bill Moos in a bar once at a Final Four has heard from him this week about how great this team is and why we deserved to be in the tourney), and so with that in mind, we're looking forward to building on this year's success and taking the next step in 2018-19 with Tim Miles, who has received a 2-year extension. Could he still fire Miles if next year goes poorly? Sure. But does it also highlight the good things about this season (I can think of at least 22 of them right off the bat...) and give us a little momentum in the offseason? Yep. Maybe we still lose in Starkville, but maybe everyone isn't so pissed off when they go, knowing that at least their administration thinks they accomplished something. Or maybe we even say this conversation and announcement all happens after Moos and Miles met the first time...probably still works out OK. Instead, we got a whole bunch of silence, a ton of rumors (some of which may or may not be true, but it plants speculation regardless), and now a pall over what could have been a pretty important offseason with a coach who now looks like a lame duck and an AD who looks like he doesn't believe in his coach. All this so he could weigh out whether to fire a guy who just got a school record for conference wins and placed 4th in the Big Ten? Wait on it a year. If we suck, call your coach of choice and offer him a boatload of money then, and we're really no worse for it. If we win, great, we've got a winner. But this do-or-die narrative was cosigned, if not created, by the administration's lack of support and decisive action at the appropriate time. The ultimatum season didn't need to happen. Maybe Shawn Eichorst painted Bill Moos into a corner, but Moos turned around and pooped in it. He (and his staff) had the opportunity to write their own narrative and this is what they chose. I think that's certainly worthy of criticism, because I think all this could have all been avoided with some competent PR, and instead, we're treated to a doom-and-gloom offseason and a pressure cooker inside PBA next year.

The point I was making is that most "fans" are just happy to have something to do between the Bowl game and Spring Football. Remember last season was supposed to be Tim's "prove it" year and now he get's to have another one. I find the lack of commitment to Tim and the Program not only troubling, but disheartening on an institutional level...

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/plus/nebraska-women-s-basketball-coach-amy-williams-a-d-bill/article_32197005-32e5-5dcb-973f-741dc730ff2b.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share LINCOLN — Nebraska women’s basketball coach Amy Williams and Athletic Director Bill Moos are in sync on the program’s future, Williams said in a recent interview. Williams met with Moos April 9 for a sitdown following the Huskers’ surprising turnaround season that resulted in a NCAA tournament bid. An extension on Williams’ contract — which currently runs through the 2022 season — and extensions on her assistants’ contracts (which run through 2019) should come at a later date. “We’re completely on the same page with the way things should work and the way things are working,” Williams said last week. “He’s genuinely as excited as we are about the direction of our program. All of those things make me feel awesome.” After a 7-22 season in Williams’ first year, the Huskers finished 21-11 overall and 11-5 in the Big Ten. Nebraska swept rival Iowa. Williams won Big Ten coach of the year as the team earned a No. 10 seed in the NCAA tournament. The 73-62 loss to Arizona State — in which Nebraska was badly outrebounded — still stings Williams and the team. “They got a taste of the NCAA tournament, but they’re not satisfied with that,” Williams said. “It created more of a hunger. That was a fun ride, and we enjoyed being there, but now that we got a taste of that, we want more. It’s incredible how that works. We feel like we could have put a better performance together in that game.” With a couple weeks remaining in the academic semester, Williams said she doesn’t expect any players to transfer to other schools. A few are examining their options from a “health or academics” perspective, though, including forward Rachel Blackburn, who continues to battle chronic knee pain. Blackburn averaged 1.5 points and 1.9 rebounds last season in 29 games off the bench. “There’s just some question marks in the evaluation there that her family will go through,” Williams said. “We’re just going to support her no matter what.” Notes » Nebraska would consider adding another signee to the 2018 class if it finds “the right fit,” Williams said. NU is thin in the post, especially if Blackburn chooses to retire. » Women’s basketball coaches have one more evaluation period this weekend. NU will also host a 2019 prospect, so Williams plans to split her staff to accommodate both tasks. The next evaluation periods aren’t until July 6-12 and July 23-29, after which teams usually schedule official visits during football games in preparation for the fall signing period. » Incoming freshmen Leigha Brown, Sam Haiby, Kayla Mershon and Ashtyn Vanderbeek are set to arrive the first weekend in June in time for summer classes.

I would watch football on TV and follow basketball online. Because who are we kidding, the BBall game won't be televised in this scenario.