Norm Peterson

Best answer? Worst answer? I guess it depends on your perspective.

@TheGov21 I was making a joke.

It was a joke.

Fire water.

And burn his redshirt?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait just a second. Are you trying to flip the whole script on whether we should be fielding a team with a bunch of in-state players? I thought that was one of Miles' failings. Now someone is advocating that we do what Miles was doing. It's all so confusing. I think I'll just go drink. Water. Or something.

Hey, take it for what it's worth. I'm just passing along what I've been told.

Is that what I said? I don't think that's what I said. That's really not what I said. You're taking a snapshot at a moment in time and expecting a guy with a 9-iron to hit the ball as far as a guy swinging a driver. If they hit the ball the same distance, and the guy with the driver is underperforming, does that mean the guy with the 9-iron is also underperforming? In your world, apparently it does.

How many times in the last 30 years has Nebraska football played for: a national title?; a conference championship?; reached the post-season; finished in the bottom 1/3 of the league? Now ask yourself the same questions about Nebraska basketball. After you do that, tell me how you can make any meaningful comparison between Tim Miles and Mike Riley.

I assume you meant "sweet talk." If not, then the state of basketball recruiting is worse than I thought.

I've been told just now by someone legitimately in-the-know, who would be in a position to have had unfiltered, candid conversations with Tim directly, that the above statement is not true.

I don't know that it's fair to say "sat on that knowledge" because that implies deliberately suppressing information that public would want to know. Unlike message board posters, the news guys have like some sort of duty to not engage in rumor mongering and not report something unless they can verify, generally from more than one source. LJS got burned on this when Frank Solich got fired. John Mabry wrote a "poor us" column complaining that they were forced to jump the gun because all of us message board heros don't have the same constraints as actual journalists, which allows us to scoop the hard news guys. Suffice it to say "hearing chatter for months" is not the same thing as having verifiable, credibly-sourced info to run a news story on.

You wanna explain that?

Am I dreaming or was Copeland hurt during the Ohio State game?

Curious, is Hoiberg Nebraska's coach already? Might want to wait until those chickens are hatched. I know you're confident about this, and you may have reason to be, but unless you've seen the papers and they've been signed, sealed and delivered, a lot can happen between now and … whenever the press conference occurs announcing who will be coaching us next year.

I don't know. Go back and look at the threads at the time. Or the sportswriters who were tweeting about it. They reported that Miles understood Moos was releasing a statement in 45 minutes (from the time they talked to Miles) and that Miles wasn't sure the content of the statement but thought it would say something to the effect that any announcement of any decision regarding Miles' tenure would not be made until after the NIT selection show. And lo and behold, Moos released a statement about 45 minutes later saying basically exactly what Miles said he thought the statement was going to say. It seems evident someone -- either Moos or perhaps Boehm -- told Miles a statement on his status would be released and gave him a rough idea of what the statement was going to say. That doesn't sound to me like Miles forced Moos into a corner on this.

Don't take this the wrong way because I'm not trying to be a dick here, but that theory doesn't make a lot of sense. It's one thing for a guy who already has a job to leverage an offer to get a better deal from his current school. But that's not what we have here. I suppose there's some possibility of trying to get two schools into a bidding war, but if Hoiberg's agent was trying to do that, they would have tried to fan the UCLA flame a bit. If anything, the UCLA angle was tamped down. So, I don't see some opportunity to use this offer as leverage. Assuming there has been an offer, which seems a reasonable assumption.

No. They were told Moos would make an announcement. They weren’t told exactly what it would say, but something along the lines of what it said.

Soil Blom.

Leakers? Like your source? And Hoiball's source?

No, he didn't know. Not then anyway. I didn't listen to the podcast, so I don't know how it was brought up. But if Miles was the one who brought up the name Hoiberg, it was purely coincidental. That name is an easy guess, though, for anybody speculating about a coaching change. Didn't take any kind of rocket scientist to speculate Hoiberg would be an attractive candidate given ... he's not currently employed. And has connections to the area, etc. Duh. Miles isn't stupid. He can make the same kinds of educated guesses that literally dozens of other people made. How is that manipulation? Seriously, how?

I was just trying to make a joke about Basnett being the next official tweeter because his tweet implied something that hadn't been stated publicly. I mean, there's two rumors contained within a single tweet: 1) the job is open; and 2) Hoiberg had been approached.

Seven years ago, Brian Rosenthal tweeted that word was Doc Sadler had been fired. Someone on this board said "It's official!" I tried to point out it's only official when someone who's "official" says it's official. Until then, it's un-official. By definition. It became a running joke on this board that, whenever Brian Rosenthal tweeted something, that made whatever it was "official." Brian now works for the university. That joke no longer works for Rosenthal tweets. Enter Chris Basnett, who works for the LJS and who says we've contacted someone about a job opening. Well, if there's an opening, that means ...