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Scoreboard operator was obvious training on the job. Half the time it wasn’t even updated to reflect the correct players in the game. ** thought I heard a guy yelling next to me and realized it was a male cheerleader using the cone of amplification. Took me by surprise. ***Saw Nicklin Hames and Lauren Stivrins down in the front row with a handful of football players, most on the o line. Saw fans ask to take a photo with the volleyball team, and the football players were basically ignored. We live in strange and uncertain times!!

UNL vs UNO there as Grand Rapids has Tra-Deon Hollins and Tre'Shawn Thurman

This just sounds cool.

My thinking is Luka is 20 and Por(can't spell) is 24. In two years those 3 will be 22, 23, and 26. Play Roby as much as you can for these two years because that's when I think the contend. And then hopefully he's ready and management looks like geniuses

Roby needs PT & a LOT of it. He has to polish his offensive game & work on that jumper. It is too bad Copeland has that bum back because he WAS one of the most talented players to ever roll through here...

Nothing will beat the days “at the Bob” when Neil Smith, Doug Dubose etc would roll in all pimped out in new suits, surrounded by an entourage of leggy farm gals. Always set under the same basket...

Roby was a rare sight for the Mavs in the pre-season games, and was a DNP in his one game that he suited up in the real deal. I think the decision falls squarely on playing time. The Mavs invested for the future of what Roby could be. But he needs time to develop. While it's not apples to apples, think of it as a MLB team investing a ton in a 1st round pick, but playing that guy in A and AA ball for a year or two.

It's akin to getting reps with the third team while still learning to play within the offensive and defensive philosophies of the coaching staff. He's kind of a tweener at the 3-4 and has some pretty good players ahead of him at both spots on the Mavs roster. I think he'll be called up as a utility guy for the first year or two before ultimately being on the roster full time.

The apparent answer to the Roby inquiry is abundant playing time to learn the pro game from their organization. It's a heady business decision, for the long term.

It's a crap loss and trying to polish a turd of that magnitude is pointless. Most of us knew this was going to be a painful rebirth, with no guarantees that the baby isn't going to be Rosemary's. I'll worry a lot more if there's no substantial response to this debacle over the next few weeks. We'll find out at the very least what kind of character these dudes have.

Saturday will be a special game for me, and let me explain why. But before I do that, six quick thoughts on tonight. 1. Tonight will absolutely be rock bottom. Losing by double figures to a sub .500 Big West team without their best player at home was miserable. Cal Riverside will be lucky to hit 13 wins this year. We had no energy, couldn't hit the broad side of a barn and didn't look anything like a team on offense. It was individual play. We are young and don't have defined roles or defined leaders/letter winners yet. This will come with time. 2. We will get a LOT better as the season goes on. Because: 3. We have the right guy at the helm with a terrific coaching staff. 4. There are 4 guys on this roster who will be a big part of our NCAA Tournamen team in year #3. That's good news for the future but not good news for this year. Because: 5. The rest are mostly place holders and guys who wouldn't see the floor by then. 6. I love this team and program, and I hope negative energy Husker fans from football will stay the hell away. I heard a few boo's after a possession where we missed a few layups late in the second half. I heard mock Bronx cheers on made free throws. I get it, I get it. It's frustrating. It was brutal. But come the hell on. It's season one, game one and this has nothing to do with football. Next, let's talk about Southern Utah. I'm sure I made this same post a decade ago when we last played them, but here's the info. From 1988-1990, I was 8-10 years old. My Dad was the Music Department Chair at Southern Utah University (SUU) in Cedar City, Utah. He directed the pep band and we went to ALL the football and basketball games. This is where I fell in love with basketball as a kid. I became a ball boy for SUU. 1988-1989 was their first Division I season (as an Independent) and they struggled. Our second year there, 1989-1990, they won AT Xavier, who was in the Top 25. I'll never forget being 9 years old and listening on the radio. They also played Stacy King and OU and KSU and lost those by about 45 points each. Even lost to a D2 team at home that year. Go figure. They had pretty good basketball teams for several years after that. Their coach at the time (Neil Roberts) got arrested for stealing a $15 tie during a road game at Idaho State and was fired. He was the coach when I was there. Bill Evans took over (now at Idaho State) for many years and took SUU to the NCAA Tournament in 2000-2001 where they almost beat Boston College as a 14 seed in their one and only NCAA Tourney. Football wise, they've been REAL good in FCS. Several guys have gone into the NFL. Basketball, they've never had an NBA player. They're a Big Sky team. The Thunderbirds. This is a legendary Native American bird that didn't exist but in their tales, were "canyon birds." Pretty sweet mascot and the only Thunderbirds (or T-Birds) in existence. Southern Utah University is in Cedar City and is 45 minutes from Zion National Park, 2.5 hours from Las Vegas. It's BEAUTIFUL and they play in a small arena that the Utah Jazz used for training camp a few times. I have quite the cool connection to this small D1 school. I've always followed them from afar. From their times in the Mid Continent Conference to Summit League, to nowadays, the Big Sky. They are much better than Cal Riverside and are expected to compete in the Big Sky this year. 3rd or 4th pre-season. I believe they'd beat Riverside by 10-12 points head to head.Their head coach is a very nice guy named Todd Simon who for a brief time was interim coach at UNLV. He's a great recruiter with a Big 10 background (he grew up in Michigan as a Big 10 fan). That's way more info than you ever wanted to know about the Thunderbirds of Southern Utah. I'll be driving from KC for this game. Definitely going for the Huskers, but if one school has to beat us and have it help them (which their program could really use a shot in the arm), I'd much rather it be them than Cal Riverside. Go Big Red but if not, let this be our last loss of the season. Hoping the Hoiberg era sees its first win against Southern Utah. 38 year old me, 30 years after my first year of ball boy in Cedar City, thinks it would be quite ironic and quite the small world if that happened.

Would have had no impact on the game, but were the people that controlled the score board asleep? They never seemed to catch up on stats or on who was actually playing.