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  1. Boy oh boy do I have an interesting story to share with my fellow Nebraska basketball diehards - especially ones that follow recruiting and have done so for several years. This morning, I left the worlds largest sportsbook at the Westgate Las Vegas and was Uber'ing it back to the Las Vegas airport for my return trip to KC after 4 days in Vegas. As we drove by the Thomas & Mack Center, I commented to my girlfriend, "Hey, UNLV played there last night against Boise State." I knew that because I had money on UNLV -3 (and they won by 4 in OT). As we drove, for some odd reason, I thought to myself, "I bet Boise State flies commercial and we see them at the airport since its 9 AM and they'll want to get back for classes." I kid you not, we walk into the Southwest terminal and right there in front of us - like LITERALLY in front of us - is the entire Boise State basketball team. If that was the end of this story, it would be cool enough on its own. But it gets WAY more random and small world from this point forward. Two TALL Boise State players are walking in front of my girlfriend and I as we board the escalator to go through security toward Gate B. On the backpack of the player in front of me I see the name, a name I haven't heard in 5 years, and it all flashes back to me. DAVID WACKER WAIT, I thought... How do I know that name? Then I remember reading about him on this very website and how Nebraska hosted him on a recruiting visit before he chose to attend Boise State. I had literally forgotten he played there until that moment. I had to say something, so I say "Hey David". He looks back unexpectedly (because why the hell is this random mid 30's guy talking to him). I say "Didn't you almost go to Nebraska?" He lights up and says "Yes!! I had a great visit there." And then we end up standing in line together for 5 minutes as we head through security. I asked him many nonstop questions and he asked me a couple. Here were interesting things I found out. 1. He LOVED his visit to Nebraska. Commented how cool the football game was and that everyone was so nice. Said the fans were diehards and awesome to him. 2. Craig Smith was the reason he almost committed to Nebraska. He noted "It's a good thing I didn't choose there because he left after like what would have been one year for me." He noted how he's now at Utah State and how cool it was playing against him this year. He said Craig was AWESOME. 3. His parents were really excited about the Nebraska offer and kind of steered him that way. 4. He said he ultimately chose Boise State because he wanted to win a conference championship and that he knew that would be very difficult in the Big 10. He then said, "But don't get me wrong, Nebraska can still get in the tournament every year. That's the great thing about the Big 10. But I really wanted to go to a school where I had a chance to win the conference championship." Found that an interesting mindset. He asked me a few questions about Coach Miles, the current state of the program and seemed surprise by the demise. He asked what I thought the issues were and I told him. He didn't say much but listened intently. He was shocked when I told him Nebraska is the only Power 5 school to never win a tournament game. He said he had no clue. He was an EXTREMELY nice kid and a lot of fun to talk with. I am cheering Boise State on from here on forward as he finishes off his last few college games. I thought I would share this to A. Show how small world it was that I would end up randomly seeing him without even thinking about him all these years later. B. Show you an example of what at least one recruit looks for and thought of his visit. C. Tell you that he has a very positive opinion of Nebraska and enjoyed his visit. Anyone remember him? Hope you found this interesting to read. Dave
    12 points
  2. Wow, Sometimes there is a lot of hate on this board... I don't think anyone on here knows as much as some of you think you do. Just my humble opinion...
    6 points
  3. Whew, the removal of Lue gets us a step closer to everyone's goal on this thread in retaining Miles. Disclaimer - the statement above was not written to incite anger, bring about the use of pitchforks, or cause anyone to question my intelligence. My intelligence is questioned daily from my wife so no need to have anyone else pile on here. The statement should be considered a joke.
    6 points
  4. Is there a way to mute people here? I'd love to read people's insights or opinions (even those I don't agree with) but the personal barbs seem unnecessary and add nothing to the conversation. I'm half expecting someone to Jordan Caroline their computer screen in a minute here. There's a way to disagree while being civil. It's awkward and unappealing to read otherwise.
    6 points
  5. This a thread about coaches you think should be on our inevitable list of replacing Tim Miles. Whether or not we're damned as a program is almost any other thread here.
    5 points
  6. I’m an Aggie fan. The Nevada players and coaches are in the wrong. It started with the coaches getting into an argument. The Nevada players then tried to run into the Utah state tunnel to start a fight with the Utah state players. When the truth comes out Nevada will most likely be in some trouble for the poor way they acted and were allowed to act after the game. That video shows the team after they tried to go brawl with the other team. Videos are out there. No proof of anybody touching any players, that is just was is assumed by the media. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    5 points
  7. This is nothing personal, Ron, but I am so sick and tired of our fanbase making this job seem so much harder than it actually is. This state has produced two NBA Draft picks in the last three years, one of the all-time leading scorers in NCAA Division I history who will be on an NBA roster most likely next year, and a guy who is starting on a top-15 team. I didn’t have to go back more than three years to find a handful of great (not good, great) players. We recruited none of them seriously. Our arena is is one of the nicest you will find for any college anywhere, period. AND it is consistently full despite the team never being very good. We pay our coach like we’re a top 25 program and get nothing close to that in return. History and tradition might scare away some on the surface, but anyone who steps foot in the facilities and PBA would immediately not care about that. I can promise you recruits DEFINITELY don’t care. If it wasn’t already obvious, the one shining season we had this decade was clearly spearheaded by the guy who is doing it at Utah State now. Sure there will be many coaches who say “Nebraska, shoot, no way. No one wins there.” But do 5 minutes of research and you’ll realize it’s not that bad. Hell, Creighton wins year in and out 45 minutes up the road and they probably just put themselves in some brackets today, despite having a “down year”. We don’t need someone who necessarily has ties to Nebraska. But I think we do need someone who KNOWS what it’s like here and has been here and knows it’s actually really great place to coach. Turgeon for example knows what Lincoln and PBA is like (even though he has ties here, I’m just saying, he’s a guy who could be intrigued rather than just saying no way).
    5 points
  8. Craig Smith is making $600k at Utah State and that tops out at $750k. His 5 year deal is worth 3.5M which is what he'd make here in about two years. You'd have to think being paid a lot of money to coach in the B1G would counter Miles getting fired here. It would be disappointing if we hired Smith not because he's not a good coach but because it means we struck out on everyone else
    5 points
  9. It's refreshing to know how easy it is to win in basketball at Nebraska. You just need a guy who isn't outmatched on the game strategies, understands analytics to overcome the lack of talent, and can recruit or have a staff that excels at it. It's that simple. I think I found a picture of our next coach:
    4 points
  10. 12dozen

    Big Ten Awards announced...

    Nicea deserved to be on the All BIG defensive team.
    4 points
  11. With all due respect, royal, it appears that if someone disagrees with you, they have poor reading comprehension skills, or are unable to grasp what you are talking about. I think that may be what is causing some annoyance. Just the way I'm seeing it.
    4 points
  12. HUD

    Season ending games

    Just checked the final big ten standings on the Big Ten website and they had us with a 10-8 record. Maybe they also thought we got screwed by the Wiscy. timekeeper. Sure it will change momentarily.
    4 points
  13. Bugeaters1

    Season ending games

    We have to win the first to get to Butgers though.
    4 points
  14. Cazzie22

    Season ending games

    We couldn’t have asked for a better tournament draw. Illinois or Purdue can be beaten. Rutgers, defensively will give us plenty of issues if we handle the ball poorly.
    4 points
  15. jayschool

    Thanks, Hoosiers

    Well, coach Lue hired Erick Strickland and LeBron as his assistants, and the entire Duke recruiting class transferred to Nebraska without having to sit out. We won all our non-conference games and opened the Big Ten with two victories, both on the road, against Michigan and Iowa. Fran McCaffery threw every chair from his team's area onto the floor to protest ... well, we're still not sure, but he's suspended for the rest of the season. Bronny James is seeking to graduate from high school in a year, so he should be on the team by 2020-21. Oh, and Lunardi has us in the First Four Out group.
    4 points
  16. brfrad

    Player Development

    Some players reach their full potential earlier than others. That could be Watson. Although, he is having a decent season this year. Mostly non-conference. Palmer has never been a good outside shooter. The problem with Palmer was when we lost Copeland, the lane became clogged. No one could spread the floor. He shot 42 % from 2 before the injury, and has shot 32 % from 2 after the injury. Allen is inconsistent which goes with playing full time for the first time. Big man have not developed very well. However, Ubel had a good senior season with Miles. He turned it into a good career overseas. Roby went from little interest from schools to a potential first round NBA draft pick. Andrew White went from a little used player at Kansas to an NBA player. Morrow has regressed at Marquette. Why do we have this narrative that Miles is a terrible coach? Terrible coaches don't take a team who hasn't been to an NCAA tournament the previous 16 seasons, and take another school to their third at large bid in program history. Terrible coaches don't finish with a school record 13 wins in a power conference (no matter how down the conference was according to sources). He is a good coach. It just didn't work out for him here.
    3 points
  17. If you don't pay for local journalism then the University will do whatever it wants to unchecked.
    3 points
  18. Hannah Whitish honorable mention Maddie Simon Big Ten Sportsmanship Honorees https://bigten.org/news/2019/3/4/big-ten-womens-basketball-honors-announced-on-btn.aspx
    2 points
  19. Let's just go ahead and bite the bullet now. Let's hire Bill Walton, hear all his stories about indigenous Utah trees, schedule all Pac-12 teams for our nonconference schedule, go 0.500 every season and be told we're the greatest team in the country, and slowly fall into an existential abyss.
    2 points
  20. Sadly Ignored in the B1G. (I had a different emoji in mind: 6 over & 38 down) I guess we needed to be a Top 10 class instead of Top 20. Lets go make some NOISE in the Tournament!
    2 points
  21. Can't win at Nebraska? Nonsense! You're only saying that because no one ever has.
    2 points
  22. "It is five people folks. It is not that hard to win here. We just haven't found the right coach." Finding the "right coach" seems to be the hard part.
    2 points
  23. A clean slate doesn't sound so bad to me after this past season. Being 2nd to last in the conf w/o high expectations >>>>>>> being 2nd to last in the conf with NCAA Tournament expectations. Honestly though rebuilds suck, but the good news is in CBB quick turnarounds are possible, I'm looking at Chris Beard, Will Wade, Rick Barnes, Buzz Williams - Not saying it will happen, but a coaching change isn't a death sentence of 5 horrible rebuilding years, you can turn over a roster quickly and a team of freshman and transfers can be successful.
    2 points
  24. You clearly are speaking to others on here so I won't personally take offense. Let me refresh for you and everyone else as to the brilliance of my preseason predictions: I predicted us to win 24 games, including 10 in the nonconference, making the Sweet 16 and then the University erecting a statue of Miles. As you can see, I completely nailed that non-conference piece. Now, you may suggest that I was wrong about us winning 24 games this year, making the sweet 16 and the statue of Miles. However, I will contend that I'm actually pretty close to being right on all predictions, with the exception of the sweet 16. We will beat Iowa, win 5 in a row in the Big Tourney, and make a run to the elite 8: 15+1+5+3 = 24. I not only know a lot, I'm also good at math. This thread will be deleted on March 29th after we give Miles the standard Iowa "coach for life" contract.
    2 points
  25. Is it that much easier to win at close by schools such as Creighton, KSU, and Iowa St? Or could it be that we have been laughably bad at hiring coaches? I give Collier/Doc credit...they had to try and build a winner with one arm behind their back. Also, I’m not so sure Doc gets hired if the timing was better. So that leaves Tim Miles who had all the bright shiny new facilities, an improved recruiting budget...and he’s going to likely finish under .500 at Nebraska. As I said previously, he is a guy who is better with the mic than he is a clipboard. We could very well hire another mediocre coach. But I don’t buy that it’s harder to win at Nebraska than anywhere else around this region sans KU.
    2 points
  26. Bill Byrne offered Self a million dollars per year in March of 2000. Self said no. Was it prudent to fold the tent for the next 20 years and stop trying to get a proven winner? I don't think so. When you have the financial wherewithal that NU has you should be able to fix your coaching issues. If you can't that is probably an indication the wrong people have been in charge. In my opinion that has been the problem. NU isn't cursed. It isn't like they have had a series of Dean Smith's in Lincoln who found the one place they couldn't win. We have had decades of sub par head coaches. The facilities are there ( top 10% percent), top 12 fan base, tons of money and Lincoln is a great college town. Doesn't seem to be that hard of a sell to acquire somebody good. But hey this is just my opinion.
    2 points
  27. "Synchronicity"? Dammit, Jimmy, there goes my self-esteem for the day already.
    2 points
  28. Riley came here because he had heard good things about our hotels.
    2 points
  29. I never understand why so many people think it has to be some coach or person with some sort of tie here. Why does it have to be that way? Find the best person who can recruit with assistants and can develop that talent. Its crazy to say that paying a coach $3M would put that guy in the top 15 in the country of salaries above some pretty big names and proven winners. Hope they get this hire right. I'm all for Turgeon, Sampson, Martin, Matta, or Marshall
    2 points
  30. 2 points
  31. Not at all. Just a sickening reminder of ‘what could’ve been’
    2 points
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  34. 2 points
  35. The Wofford coach has been there for like 20 years. Maybe that is what we need to give whomever the coach is.... Time. Unfortunately, I don't think our fan base is patient enough
    2 points
  36. Pat Riley? Don Nelson? Jeff Van Gundy? Larry Brown? The list goes on and on and on....LOL
    1 point
  37. I usually prefer local to corporate, but Famous Dave's does some first rate barbecuing.
    1 point
  38. Can’t win at Nebraska? How many national championships do we have in football? How many national championships do we have in volleyball? How many national championships do we have in men’s gymnastics? Van Horne got us to the College World Series a couple times. And how about other sports like bowling and shooting that have produced national championships at NU? Not many schools can boast anywhere near such things, while not cheating and also performing well in academics — like record-setting Academic All American numbers. Can’t be great all the time. Sustained bad luck in basketball is an anomaly. And it’s bound to change sooner or later.
    1 point
  39. Dang..... I feel you Thad. Straight spitting facts.
    1 point
  40. Easleys are fine. Money isn't an issue. I don't know where you came up with that.
    1 point
  41. Fastbreaker

    Season ending games

    I do have my TV on. BTN has had the brackets wrong all weekend
    1 point
  42. Nobody said he was a terrible coach. I don't think that's true. Good head coaches in D1 are ultimately judged by their ability to win. He will be lucky to hold a career .500 record at NU when he is done. He only beat McDermott once in 7 years. He did not earn his paycheck. Period. No need to go to the extreme and accuse anyone of calling him terrible. He's below average, and that won't cut it for 2.5 million. Bring us the next guy.
    1 point
  43. Seems like a redundant sentence. That's just two different ways of saying that you no longer have taste buds.
    1 point
  44. You've hit on one of the less obvious problems of lack of depth: inability to limit playing time to correct mistakes. It's all taken a toll: too many minutes means physical fatigue, mental fatigue, foul trouble, declining morale, etc., etc. etc.
    1 point
  45. There are plenty of people on this board with whom I often find myself in disagreement but also respect. Coaches come and go; how people interact on this board tends to remain fairly constant over the long run.
    1 point
  46. Nice try. It's called context. It wasn't being a spelling policeman on typing "there" instead of "their" (or my favorite one on this board, that I always let slide, "dominate" for "dominant"). When you want to rip on someone as famous as Dr. Tom and misspell his name twice, well, it just had the appearance of being deliberate. And probably trolling. And undercutting what you purport to be an "actual objective discussion." I have plenty of objective discussions on here (3200 up-votes on 4100 posts didn't just fall out of the sky), but I can pick who I have them with. And something about your post caused me to say, "Nah....."
    1 point
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