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He didn’t dig his own grave with non-conference scheduling. He dug it with poor performance in every aspect of coaching for 3 years —recruiting, coaching, staff hiring, and culture. And completely whiffing on the best in-state talent in decades.

Whoops had this posted in the 2023... 2024 - Olivia Olson - Benilde Saint Margaret High (MN) #3 overall on the 2024 HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings - Super 60 Some tough competition for her.

Fair point. Unfortunately I (we) have endured our share of losing and mediocrity. Let me begin by stating IT IS TIME TO WIN AND SUSTAIN A WINNING PROGRAM. NOT JUST A WINNING TEAM, A WINNING PROGRAM. What pissed me off the last two years was the total lack of discipline and effort. I get, and generally accept a loss when effort was extended; but what was witnessed the last two years is totally unacceptable. So, to sort of answer your question, I will not like losing, but as long as we are making positive progress, which includes discipline and effort, I will be happier. Two other points...(1) I don't agree with the belief that our offense will be inept. Good defense will result in some offense. Also, we should be more efficient, which will help. And to add to the point, we are a major college team, we will not be totally bereft of shooting talent. I am hoping to be surprised that we can score. (2) Call me out, but I believe we will tell if we have improved our discipline and effort by simply watching pregame warm ups. Those of you who have watched our pregame routines the last two years may pick up on what I am putting down.

Cam Mack was a singularly poisonous figure in Husker basketball history. He was bad in all kinds of ways -- terrible influence on his teammates, etc. -- but what made it absolutely untenable was that he was untouchable. He had a protector on the staff who insulated him from ever facing accountability. And it caused a rift on the staff that was irreparable. And now, NONE of the assistant coaches at the time are still assistant coaches today.

And the subtraction of Matt A. should help in the accountability department as well.

hard to argue that.....but, look at last season (non-con). things turned out pretty good. at Creighton, at Drake, at Virginia Tech will be tough road games. Nebraska's non-con schedule with last year's final NET score and record: 276 Houston Baptist 13-11 270 Tarleton State 12-13 263 Samford 11-17 249 Omaha 6-19 239 @ Texas A&M CC (in San Juan) 16-10 109 Wyoming 15-13 80 @ Drake 19-14 60 @ Mississippi St (in San Juan) 15-14 37 Kansas 21-10 31 @ Creighton 23-10 9 @ Virginia Tech 23-10

You might be right. But context does matter. Comparing records from past years is precarious at best. For instance, the B1G how has 20 conference games. During Miles years it was 18, which meant 2 extra cupcakes on the schedule each year. During Doc's tenure, it was only 16 conference games, and Doc certainly knew how to load up on cupcakes. In Mile's first year, 9 of his 15 wins were non-conference (and he also lost by 16 to UTEP). His conference record was 5-13, and 3 of those 5 wins were against hapless Penn St and NW. The upcoming 2022-23 schedule is brutal. 20 conference games. Of the 11 non-conference games, 7 are against power 5 teams and only 1 of the 7 are home games. I would challenge anyone to find a more difficult non-conference schedule in the history of Husker Hoops, and then tack on the 20 conference games in the deepest conference in the nation. I'm not sure why Hoiberg basically dug his own grave with this non-conference schedule, but no doubt at the end of the season everybody will be comparing his end of year record to those of Doc and Collier when they aren't even remotely similar in difficulty.

Just glad to be apart of that. They must be doing something right. Hope for a good year this year and we might get a cpl good ones

I guess I don’t see this as a real possibility. It’s more of a hypothetical argument that will never happen. For a real life Husker hoops example of this, look back 10 years or so to Tim Miles’ first team. That team was bottom 12 in the country in scoring. It was excruciating to watch that team play offense. The shooting percentages were abysmal as well. Look up the stats on that team…they were atrocious. One thing about Miles’ teams was GATA. As horrible as their offense was, and the talent wasn’t all that great either, he was able to milk 15 wins out of that bunch. Over doubled Fred’s win total in his first two years! Effort and good coaching count for a lot.

I love watching my niece play basketball in omaha. She is only 6th grade in this video https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0GRkRruzBdMynknaGdZPguoCwpnbUcCryxvm3QECCzthsMpS67qiDks5tBCLHKExsl&id=501215707&sfnsn=mo&extid=a&mibextid=ep151t

Maybe they're letting him teach a class.

Why would The Big 10 have any love for Colorado just because Nebraska used to play in a conference with them? You make it sound like Nebraska is the one making all the decisions about who should be added to the Big 10. Nebraska is just lucky the made the move when they did or else we'd be like every other school hoping someone will take us and we are not that attractive of product.

It's weird they make such a big deal about AAU status. Pearlman said it. It doesn't mean much. What has changed? Nothing! At most it's a lobby group. It's a much bigger deal being a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) with the Department of Defense. Only 14 schools can claim that and Nebraska is one of them. That affiliation is prestige & money. That means something.