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  1. This is awesome. Thanks HB. I guess I’m just skeptical that hoops is still second fiddle when we’ve pleaded for years to just put effort into it, not just money. If he’s firing Miles like most think he will, is that 7 year, $28 million deal accurate? The Frost contract came out before announcement. If it’s Hoiberg, I think the state will embrace it like no hire before.
  2. I was just thinking if he would have released that statement after the football season. So if Riley went 5-7 instead of 4-8...nobody believes he’d have a wait and see statement. What does knowing if they make a tournament have to do with 7 seasons of work? Can someone explain why this makes sense?
  3. Today? Tomorrow? Whenever he comes back from California?
  4. I’ve heard that some people think we don’t want the Mavericks because it makes Nebraska look bad. I hate creighton with a passion but I do not mind cheering for Omaha at all! Only went to college at UNL but was a huge fan even before college. Is is it acceptable to make Omaha your second favorite team and...be called a Mavsker?
  5. Guys...penn state was #2 and it’s not close.
  6. The Huskers (16-15 overall, 6-14 Big Ten) scored 16 points in the final 47 seconds of regulation ? and made 10 of their final 11 field goal attempts? including nine in a row at one point, over those 47 seconds? and overtime. Huge thanks to @nebrasketball10 for the tickets. My family has an awesome time joining me. Everyone saved the game, didn’t they? If Palmer and Watson go 3-4 instead of 4-4 in the final minute, we lose. If trueblood doesn’t come up with that, we lose. If Roby doesn’t do his thing, we lose. If Harris misses that layup, we probably lose. Too hard to single one one thing out because it was all so important. Amazing team effort is what I’d call it.
  7. Please, whoever goes to the game tomorrow, give the seniors some love. Has the season or even their play always been what we expected or hoped for? No, but Cope made a ton of sacrifice to transfer and stay with us. Watson has been team first his whole career. Palmer could have left and Borchardt worked hard as a walkon. These men deserve as good of an ovation as any. Also, does anyone have extra tickets? Need two—any level, any section. Want to take my kids and I wanted to start looking here first.
  8. Brfrad and I are not the same person. But great minds think alike.
  9. Based on score, effort, whatever you want to go by, NU was competitive. NU should have won the game. Some will bring up rebounds but when there’s 9 missed threes by one dude...I don’t know. There were some bad ones where all we had to do was box out (45) but most of the time I wasn’t terribly concerned about effort etc. Amir’s foul was clean on the sideline swipe. Purdue shot ninety whatever percent from the line. But what bugged me about flow was Roby seems like he can get hacked with no call but he gets fouls called on him. The dunk was horrible. Palmer is going through something that is unexplainable at this point. His shots just will not fall. Cope plays today and we win by double digits easily. We all know what’s coming in two weeks though.
  10. Let me start by saying I don’t think NU should be in and am not getting my hopes up. However, I know we are in some brackets so I’ll ask. Does anyone know how many brackets Nebraska is in?
  11. People at work said sharp and benning quoted a projection that Nebraska is Firat Four Out. I mean if a seven game skid still keeps you on the discussion, it doesn’t take a huge winning streak. But they haven’t been able to compete. If NU wins both this week, we’ll have so many optimistic posts to read ?
  12. I think we see some optimism in this huge meltdown because, we have the most talented team in a long time, and it doesn’t take that much to turn it around. Yes, it is possible, but time is out. It’s now or never.
  13. Some of these responses and we are left wondering if they are creighton trolls or something? Guys, slow down just a bit.
  14. One more thing. I hope no matter how the season turns out that he gets a huge ovation on Senior Day.
  15. I appreciated so much about him. He persevered through just a bunch of stuff. He worked extremely hard. He was...no, he is a great teammate. He has a positive attitude and is a good leader. This is so tough to see someone like him get injured, again.
  16. I am just asking. That is who we want? Sampson played a role in the controversial recruitment of star player Eric Gordon, who signed with Indiana after reneging on an early verbal commitment to the University of Illinois. Sampson was criticized by fellow coaches for failing to communicate with Illinois coach Bruce Weber about the recruitment,[7] and some observers said that Sampson's recruitment of the verbally-committed Gordon was unethical.[8] In addition to the Gordon incident, Sampson has been in the middle of a number of other controversies. Under Sampson's watch, Oklahoma was placed under a three-year investigation by the NCAA for recruiting violations. At the end of their investigation, the NCAA issued a report citing more than 550 impermissible calls made by Sampson and his staff to 17 different recruits. The NCAA barred Sampson from recruiting off campus and making phone calls for one year, ending May 24, 2007.[9] Prior to the findings by the NCAA, Kelvin Sampson was the President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), an organization that supports basketball coaches across the country. During his tenure the Ethics Committee of the NABC was formed to address the many problems with violations that college basketball faced going into the 2003 season. That very same Ethics Committee would later reprimand Kelvin Sampson as a result of the NCAA findings, placing him on probation for three years during which he would not be eligible to serve in any official capacity for the NABC, be considered for Coach of the Year honors or receive Final Four ticket privileges.[10] As coach at Indiana in October 2007, Sampson again came under scrutiny for making impermissible phone calls. Despite being restricted from making any outbound recruiting phone calls, Sampson participated in approximately 10 conference calls with recruits that violate the terms of the sanctions levied against him by the NCAA. IU assistant Rob Senderoff (who has since announced his resignation) also made some 35 impermissible phone calls to recruits from his home. On February 8, 2008, the NCAA informed Indiana that Sampson had committed five "major" rules violations. The NCAA alleged that Sampson knowingly violated telephone recruiting restrictions imposed on him. More seriously, the NCAA also alleged that Sampson lied to IU and NCAA officials regarding his involvement in the impermissible calls.[11] Indiana launched an internal investigation that school president Michael McRobbie said would take seven days. On February 14, 2008, ESPN reported that Sampson's status as coach of the Hoosiers would be decided on a "game-by-game basis.".[12] Fox Sports reported that Sampson was to be fired on February 22, 2008,[13] but later reports indicated that Sampson would be suspended without pay. Eventually it was announced that Sampson would resign, reaching a $750,000 settlement with Indiana. In return, Sampson agreed not to sue Indiana for wrongful termination. Assistant Dan Dakich was named as interim head coach for the rest of the season.[14] According to many college basketball pundits, however, Sampson had virtually no chance of keeping his job once the allegations broke. Sports Illustrated college basketball columnist Seth Davis implied that Indiana officials had already decided Sampson was guilty, based on the fact that its internal investigation would only last a week. The NCAA had given Indiana 90 days to respond to the notice.[15] ESPN's Mark Schlabach suggested that Indiana wanted to look for a reason not to pay the remaining money he was owed on his contract, and also wanted to eliminate any chance of being sued. He also said that the only reason Sampson was allowed to continue coaching was because his contract didn't allow the school to suspend him immediately.[16] ESPN's Pat Forde said that Sampson's departure was "preordained" the moment the NCAA sent out its notice of allegations, and suggested that Sampson might never coach in Division I again.[17] During a private meeting with the NCAA infractions committee on June 30, McRobbie apologized for hiring Sampson and called that decision a mistake. McRobbie said that Sampson betrayed his trust as Indiana's coach, and demonstrated that his hiring had been "a risk that should not have been taken."[18] On November 25, 2008, the NCAA slapped Indiana with three years' probation for violations largely tied to Sampson's watch. It also imposed a five-year show-cause order on Sampson, meaning that any NCAA member school who wanted to hire Sampson while the order was in effect would have to impose sanctions on him unless it can "show cause" that Sampson has served his punishment. However, most NCAA members will not even consider hiring a coach with an outstanding show-cause order, so the show-cause effectively blackballed Sampson from coaching at the major-college level until 2013. A similar incident happened to Todd Bozeman, who was slapped with an eight-year show-cause order in 1996 and was unable to find work in the college ranks again until 2006. Senderoff, now head coach at Kent State, was hit with a three-year show-cause order.[19] When he was hired at Houston, Sampson became only the fourth coach to get a head coaching job at another school after receiving a show-cause (after Bozeman, Senderoff and Bruce Pearl). In December 2008, Eric Gordon raised issues of drug use on the Indiana team, stating that some players were abusing drugs and that this led to the disintegration of the team, and that Sampson tried to stop it, but did not as he was focused on winning
  17. Isn’t that true for any team? Are you concerned we won’t win 5 of our next 7 games which are at home?
  18. My night is ruined I am so ticked off about this loss. But we won at Indiana a week ago and this is NU’s first bad loss. Unreal take here. Five of next seven at home.
  19. What’s the difference between college players averaging 38 minutes a game twice a week, and NBA players averaging 38 min a game three times a week? NBA has one or two commercial breaks a quarter, right? College has four between halves. I’m not trying to lead one way or the other here but the college players re younger and get more breaks-I do think fatigue is worth watching but I do not understand this hype that NU will have nothing left come tournament time. And further of pount, I’d expect some (not sure how many) games from now until Purdue will allow for Thor, Brady, and the walkons to get minutes to an extent.
  20. I want this game’s atmosphere to be at least like Penn State last year. Can we pull that off?
  21. Ok, Oklahoma State! Thanks for the good game. Won at West Virginia.
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