Norm Peterson

If Zay doesn't show up for pre-season camp, I think the Mavs are going to know where to look. #CoverBlown

The ship started gravitating toward mediocrity about the time we hired Steve Pederson as AD.

This thread is loaded. Herbie spinning a basketball. The efficacy of duck logos. Insulation properties of Tyvek®. And men of a certain age looking like dorks. It's the off-season, amiright?

Just to remind everyone that you heard it here first.

Our freshman hit more "big time throws" than any other returning QB in the B1G last year.

Yikes.

I was wondering if you'd seen anything more than the video I posted on his recruiting thread. Realize that he's only 16 yo in that video. And, in the one clear opportunity he had to throw it down, he did so. Significantly, he's rebounding over the top of other players and he's getting shots off as well. I guess, when I watched that vid, I wasn't necessarily worried about his explosiveness. The one dunk was one more than Brandon Ubel's highlights.

Italy should tell us a lot.

This is just me personally, so feel free to speculate all you want. But, having said that, I think it's hard to compare this year to last year when the roster is full of new players we've never seen play before and when we don't really know for sure who the starters are even going to be. I'm hopeful Cam Mack is all that, but until he suits up in a Husker uni, I'd say you can't call it a push between him and a kid who was a Rivals 4-star and 4 year starter, among the top 10 career scorers in Nebraska history. Cam has a lot to prove before you elevate him that high and I think it diminishes Glynn Watson to say he's no better than a juco transfer who will be in his 2nd year in college. At this point, I'd say you have to give Glynn some credit and, until Cam proves it on the floor, call it big advantage to Glynn. Allen vs. Jervay Green: Are you sure Jervay will start? Seems probable based on what little we know, but there's so much we don't know. I feel pretty comfortable saying that Matty Kavas will be a better shooter than Nana Akenten, and that Samari Curtis is probably a better player for Hoiberg's system than Amir Harris. And I think our bench *should* be deeper this year. Beyond that, though, I just have no idea. I'm curious if anyone thinks they have a pretty good feel for it at this point and, if so, what their thoughts are.

I liked Don. I thought he was one of the best head men's basketball coaches we've ever had. Too bad about that thing with the sheep.

Only one of our 2019 prospects remains uncommitted at this point. Where Maurice is headed I have no Calloo.

What are you basing that conclusion on?

So, we have one of the top returning corners in the B1G, a couple of the top QB pass rushers, and the leading returning tackler in the B1G starting at LB.

I think Kidney could coach Millard North to a state title next year. (Rimshot)

I saw from his twitter page that he was looking at some Ivies (Princeton, etc.) and has a 31 ACT with a 4.2 GPA.

I see this 6-9 kid from Millard North go 2-2 on 3-pointers and dribble drive for a dunk and I'm thinking (so sorry for saying this) "What the hell did I ever see in Brady Heiman?"

So, let me get this straight. Max Murrell, now with offers from 4 different P6 programs, plays on the same HS team with 2021 Rivals top 56 Hunter Sallis and 2022 Husker offeree Jasen Green. When was the last time a Nebraska HS had 3 high major D1 prospects on the same basketball team?

Ball fake, dribble drive from a 6-9 guy with 3-point range. He runs well.

This might explain some of it ...

He must have lit things up at the Midwest Showcase in KC.

Now that this kid is seeing his recruiting blow up (8 offers in 5 hours, including Creighton, Kansas State, Minnesota and Virginia Tech), I thought he probably deserved his own thread. What happened that he's suddenly blowing up?

OK, @Navin R. Johnson is trying to implement one of the suggestions of @Searching 4 Chester Surles, which was to list a player's home state in the thread title. Based on a few new threads, I see a problem with this. If a guy is FROM Kansas, how do we differentiate that from a guy who has decided to COMMIT to Kansas? Or Illinois? Or Arkansas? Can we use postal abbreviations for the states instead? Because Texas the state would be TX, but Texas the school would be UT, for example. Any other thoughts/suggestions?

I've kind of been mulling over thoughts on how to respond to this. One idea was to post a GIF of Robert De Niro saying "You talkin' to me?" And since I was the only one who had responded to this thread when you made your post, it seemed reasonable to assume I'm who you were talking about. Am I wrong? Anyway, a few things: 1. D'Andre has had a really good spring. Launched him from way under the radar to very much on the radar. From unranked to Rivals 4-star with no stops in between. Good for him; very happy for him. It's nice to have that recognition. 2. I thought from the beginning that he was a prototypical Miles zucchini recruit: long, lean and under-rated. (Which, incidentally, is why we were able to snag him in spite of Miles being hamstrung in recruiting.) In addition, he seemed to be a good fit for Miles' system in that he was a slasher who could get baskets at the rim and was respectable, though perhaps not deadly, from deep. He resembles JPJ in more than just physical appearance, though the assessment of his shooting ability might be changing for the better. I think the local sports writers had questioned whether he was a fit for Hoiberg's system but after the spring he had, I think they've answered that question in the affirmative. (Can't find the link right now, but there was a specific story about this very issue.) 3. After Hoiberg came in and revamped the roster perhaps more than most people had anticipated, he also threw out a crap ton of offers to 2020 recruits. I'm guessing about 10 new offers to players then in the Rivals 150, some of whom were very high 4-stars. We only had 2 seniors and Roby at the time. So we really didn't have room for all the offers Hoiberg was making. Most of the players taking up spots were guys Hoiberg had recruited and signed. And he'd displayed a clear willingness to make roster moves in order to bring in the kind of players he wants for his system. So, if he didn't have room for the 2020 players he was offering, why do you think he was making those offers? One reasonable, plausible and realistic guess is that he was willing to part company with unsigned recruits who didn't fit his system. But what's your guess?

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