Norm Peterson

Sounds painful.

I hope this opens the floodgates for some upper-level 2021 guys to commit. Sometimes it just takes that first guy to open the door.

I don't know a lot, but I can tell you with certainty that Yvan and Kaleb Wesson are not both 6'9". I feel like Kaleb had him by at least a couple of inches. Which could put Kaleb at 6'10" and Yvan at 6'8". Maybe. But they for sure aren't both 6'9".

Yes. He did. That's true. He lost a bet with Jason Peter is how I understood it.

Are we allowed to comment on this or are only certain viewpoints permitted? I just want to know the rules so I don't violate them.

Work smart, not hard, amiright?

Not exactly.

I'm not going to ruin it for you and tell you how it all ends but I will tell you that Steve Spurrier cries after the last game.

We just need some frickin players to build some success under HCFH so that the next time a 5-star kid comes out of Omaha, he has a reason to consider us. For the record, I would prefer more of a mix of HS and transfer talent. So, if Sauter accurately characterized what Sallis told him, I don't really disagree with Hunter's thoughts here. It just would have been nice to make the top 12 and not make the top 5, let's say.

As most of you know, if Covid hadn't occurred, the opening game of the 2020 Nebraska football season would probably have been this weekend. I don't know about you guys, but I might just tailgate anyway, darn it. There's sure to be a full game on Youtube somewhere; hopefully it's a game we won. (I mean, who wants to watch a full game we lost on Youtube? Amiright?) But even if I don't, I'm still in the mood to offer some predictions about what isn't going to happen this weekend. I think the first game might have been against something like Troy. Does anyone know? It doesn't really matter. In any event, I think we would have won and I'm going with a final score of 56-10. I think the defense would have started out pretty strong, and would have gone for the shutout, but a muffed punt in the 4th quarter by our back-up return man puts Troy in position to score their only touchdown and then they convert the onside kick and get in FG range to close out the scoring and put a damper on an otherwise fine outing for the Huskers. Adrian Martinez would have looked pretty good, I think, and would have seemed to be passing the ball around a lot better than he did a year ago. That starting tailback, whatshisname, doesn't look too bad, either. Pretty impressive run he would have had on that third down play where he got loose and scored from 40 yards out. Don't know about you, but I'm already looking forward to game #2 that isn't going to happen. Who are we not playing that week?

One thing we have going for us that we've NEVER had going for us before is a coach with a big name who played in the pros, coached in the pros, and got it done at the college level. Never had that before. I'd say we've got a puncher's chance.

Makes me nostalgic for the good old days when "Corona times" had a distinctly different meaning.

Home-and-home round robin with six teams means 10 games, five at home. And maybe they could swing Southwest Arkansas State Technical A&M as sort of a warm-up.

That would totally NOT suck.

So the parents of white kids who don't even suit up for their own HS team are underwriting the cost of the "Super Star X" kids from Omaha to travel the summer national circuit? And this is unfair to average-skilled black kids whose parents can't afford to be exploited like that? I think I'm following this. Back in the old days, there was like ONE traveling summer team from Nebraska, and they were sponsored by some local business, and it was always a big deal who made it. I remember reading about how Gerry Gdowski figured out he wasn't cut out for basketball in college because he got selected to be on that team and got his lunch eaten by players from other places who were really, really good at basketball. It was kind of his wake-up call. And then the teams evolved into, like, Bison-Runza Green and Gold or whatever. So, then there were two. And then, about 20 years ago, some dad got his knickers in a twist because his son didn't get selected and so he went out and started his own team. (I knew the guy, so I know this is how it went down, so don't @ me.) And since then, like with everything else youth sports-related, the numbers just exploded because every kid's parents felt their child would fall behind his peers if he wasn't able to play summer ball. On a select team. Starting at age 5. So, what wasn't even a thing just 20 years ago is now a requirement even for kids not good enough to play on their high school team and there's a perceived opportunity deprivation for kids whose parents can't afford the cost of having their kid do something on a summer team that, in all probability, he's not good enough to get recruited to do in college, certainly at the D1 level. I feel sad for those kids. I feel ... relief ... for their parents.

So, among his claims (and this is just my recapitulation of what he said in his video, so I'm not vouching for these statements): White AAU, he says, is more about developing players' skills, knowledge and understanding of the game. They practice more than they play games. Real coaches work on real skill development. (FWIW, he says, as a black man, that he's coaching in White AAU and talked about some of the development he works on with his players.) Black AAU, instead, according to this guy, is about individuals maximizing their visibility to college recruiters and they play far more games than they practice. Some of the coaches aren't even really coaches; they're glorified team managers who (apparently) get a lot of money for the access to players that they control. He makes the case that, on the whole (there are exceptions both directions, obviously, and he acknowledges this) that black people in general are better basketball players than white people. I'm not going to argue that point. I think it's self-evident. If those things are all true, though, is it *possible* that black kids are more prone to become players at a higher level while white kids are more positioned/developed to end up as coaches? Because if you look at the composition of the playing ranks in the NBA and Power 5 schools vs. the composition of coaching, that's the way it shakes out. Is it *possible* that kids coming through Black AAU are at a disadvantage at transitioning to coaching when their playing days are over because they were developed as he describes above? Where the emphasis is on individual visibility rather than skill development and playing as a team?

@hhcmatt feel free to move this if you think it belongs somewhere else. This is a black AAU coach who is basically making the point that Black AAU is to White AAU as men's hoops is to women's. That's my recapitulation, not his words. But he says it in a way that makes it sound like White AAU is better for developing players and Black AAU is a bit sketch with shoe money and shady AAU coaches having more influence than the HS coach. Interesting vid. Agree or disagree, it's still an interesting perspective I hadn't really seen before.

One of the better workouts I've seen, actually. Like they're coaching basketball moves instead of some of the weird "what are they trying to accomplish with this" kind of stuff I've sometimes seen.

If he ever gets over his mommy issues, he could be a really good player one day.

He's about to pick a top 6.

Thanks for the reply, @basketballjones. The direction of the question about how you'd fill out a roster was intended to be sort of a "what do you think his recipe is?" kind of question. In the old days, a basketball roster might be constructed in such a way that you ideally had a couple of back-to-the-basket centers, including a talented youngster you were developing, and then you might have 2-3 PFs, one or more of whom could swing to the 5 in a pinch. Then, you'd have a couple of small forwards, 2-3 shooting guards, and a few guys who would be your classical point. In this era of "positionless" basketball, however, rosters are described more in terms of what a player does: rim-runners, stretch 4s, wings, etc. And, in the Hoiberg "recipe," you probably have to factor in at least 2 sit-out transfers per year. It used to be easy to look at our roster and say, well, we need another big man with our last scholarship, or we need a backup point. With this new staff, I find myself questioning exactly what it seems he wants in order to field the type of team he envisions. So, what does that ideal Hoiberg roster look like, and is there anything this current iteration is missing in order to check all of Fred's boxes? Does that make those two questions more clear?

Article also says we beat out Grand Canyon for her commit. Not sure I've ever heard of Grand Canyon as a school. Can I assume it's somewhere in Arizona?

First test any Iowa men's basketball players have passed this calendar year, I'm guessing.