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Going to watch the team practice today, will post my thoughts in here afterwards!

Practice thoughts: 1) Dachon looked like the best player on the team as of now. So stinkin' quick and hard to guard/or have him guard you. Jervay, Haanif, and Derrick Walker impressed me as well and Samari and Thor fit right in. 2) We are about to experience an offensive efficiency and movement we've never seen here before. The way the ball flies around with constant cuts and screens and movement is really a joy to watch. The whole time we were there we only saw 1 mid range jumper, the rest were threes and layups/dunks. 3) Cam and Dalano weren't practicing today. 4) Kevin has some skill, just really needs to get in shape. 5) Shamiel did not impress me as much as I thought he would, seemed too have a bit of an attitude. 6) Doc is the man

Both guys fit in, Akol is fun to see since he's from around here. I thought his shot actually looked good and he is super athletic, him just figuring out which position to play and getting more skilled will be huge. He blocked Samari off the backboard to win a scrimmage drill and everyone went nuts, a lot of fun. Matej has a pure stroke, will be a good guy to have just to keep the ball moving and hit some shots for us.

I think the problem the OWH has identified is that for every walk-on Charley Easley on the basketball team, you have to find a spot in intercollegiate athletics for a woman to participate. And, evidently, adding walk-on swimmers to the women's swim team or walk-on runners to the women's cross-country team is viewed by some as trying to circumvent the rules. So you might not see 5 years of Charlie Easley. Because his presence on the hoops squad basically either takes away a walk-on spot from the football team or forces the athletic department to find another spot for someone on the female side of the ledger. And I'm saying this in as non-political, purely objective of a manner as I can muster, so don't read anything extra into it.

Oh I agree the likelyhood of him staying 5 years is slim and none. But I don't think the reason being would be because the walkon numbers as a whole would be the reason. It's my thinking if he would stay 5 years he wouldn't be taking a spot from any other program other than a different walkon spot from the basketball team. And I don't recall there never not being a walkon on the basketball team. So grind away young man. Become the walkon legend you were born to be

When Cam is out, who plays point?

Well at least since some of Danny Nee's very good teams. Not saying they won't be better, but there was a day we could score in bunches. And thanks for the update Noah, very much appreciated from someone who will not be able to see the team until the first game on TV.

Whew, just recovering from my Heart Attack (after reading Whoop's Headline ).

Good news heading to Italy.

By shuffling his feet the entire time?

Great points, Norm. I will get political for a moment, though. I'm not going to cry about lost opportunities for male athletes when Division I football programs hand out 85 scholarships and have another 15 to 65 walk-ons on the roster. Nebraska, like most other schools in the top tier of college football, can't afford to NOT play football with as many bodies as possible, but I always get a little rankled when people blame the loss of athletic opportunities for men on women's sports. I'd be in favor of a system first proposed by Rick Telander back in the late 1980s in his book "The Hundred-Yard Lie": First, separate the top tier of football (Power 5 or 6) from the NCAA by making it a development system for the NFL, call it the NFL D-League. There would still be a team called the "Nebraska Cornhuskers" that plays on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln against teams from the Big Ten, including the "Iowa Hawkeyes," the "Minnesota Gophers," etc. Each university would be considered a "host" and a "sponsor." The players get paid a living wage based on the market they're playing in. Someone in Lincoln might make $100K, but someone in Los Angeles might make $150K or more. Someone in Manhattan, Kansas would get $38.46. All players would receive a voucher to attend classes and earn a degree, whether they do so while playing football at the university or after their playing days end. You could even go so far as to assign each of the 65 to 80 NFL D-League Teams to an NFL club. So the Chiefs could have KU and Mizzou as its D-League teams. The NFL could also hold a post-college draft to get players from smaller programs that aren't a part of the D-League. Second, get the NFL to "hold harmless" every university by making up the difference in what they'd lose financially. Some schools already lose money on their football programs, so the school would now have that burden off their books. In 2016-2017, Nebraska football made $120.2 million and spent $112.6 million, so Nebraska would be owed at least $7.6 million that would then be paid by the NFL to the athletic department. That payout could vary depending on negotiations between each school and the NFL and what each school feels it needs to make the athletic department whole. That would include royalties on merchandising and other ancillary revenue streams attached to the football program. Third, begin to right-size every major athletic department with true Title IX balance in mind. 15 basketball scholarships for both men and women. 15-20 baseball scholarships and 15-20 softball scholarships. Equal numbers between men and women for track and field, swimming, gymnastics and other non-gender specific sports, including a new men's soccer program at UNL. Add other men's sports where appropriate if a women's sport already exists. Find roughly equal scholarship numbers in sports where only one gender fields a team: volleyball and wrestling, for example.

Would he be eligible to play given he hasn't danced at the bowling alley with Doc yet?

Also, I had heard that Jervay "looks like he belongs" but is definitely having an adjustment period to D1 basketball. He's not by far the superior player on the court anymore like he was in JUCO and has struggled at times with that so far, but still showing flashes.

Or, perhaps, the Wisconsin’s JV reference means that everyone on Latvia’s team looks like a cousin to Thorir Thorbjarnarson?

Escargot Big Red!

Latvia looks like the Wisconsin JV squad.

He will have to adjust to Big Ten officiating, though. Which means that if he's wearing a shirt that reads "Nebraska," he'll have to be super-stationary when he's setting a pick — and that might not always be good enough.

#Normandie

I don't see anyone on his list of offers yet that we can't hang with and they all have only medium interest. If we could get him to take an interest, it would firmly establish a "French Connection" which would not be bad, N'est-ce Pas?

Game 3 France 73 - Latvia 63 Yvan Ouedraogo's line: 22.5 minutes 11 points 5-6 from field - 1/4 from FT 5 rebounds (2 offensive) 4 fouls 2 assist, 4 steals, 3 turnovers In game time Q1: 4:20 to Q2: 5:08 Q3: 10:00 to 2:48 Q4: 6:07 to end

He's currently playing in a close one with 3 minutes to go. His shot is falling today as he's put up 8 on 4-5 shooting

Until we can not only sell out the arena but actually have the seats fully occupied for all B1G games and at least all mid majors and up, we don't need to ruin the atmosphere by putting in a couple thousand more of the least occupied seats. Leave it as it is unless we can consistently sell and occupy the current 300 level seats for perhaps 3 to 5 years. If we do that, it means we have had success. Perhaps then and it will be time to expand. Before that time, we should strive to make Husker PBA games a very tough ticket.

There's so much movement in hoibergs system I could see it. One of the positives I know of Thor is he's a good passer and makes the right play. That alone is something that could get him on the floor for good stretches at a time

OK, Imma gonna kick some ass with this one: "Road to Shambala." Original version by BW Stevenson (who also recorded the original "My Maria" redone by Brooks and Dunn.) One week later, (re)done by Three Dog Night in the kickass version.

THIS SONG IS A NEBRASKETBALL NATIONAL TREASURE AND I WILL CELEBRATE IT BY EATING A BAG OF LUCKY BEEF JERKY TO INDICATE ITS WINNING WAYS

 Not even close. Need Hotels with lots of meeting rooms in addition to more rooms than all the hotels we have in Lincoln combined. has to have at least one 1000 room hotel in it...and I think with all the boutique hotels Lincoln might just be over that number. HOWEVER (I help put on conventions) I know that there is not even close to enough meeting spaces to meet their requirements. And an airport that is bigger than a "turn left for Delta's gate and turn right for United's gate."