Norm Peterson

They are. You just don't get to see them very much because we don't feed him in the post. But there have been a number of occasions where he gets the ball down low and he's deadly. He's quick, he's decisive, he's a good leaper, and he has some moves.

Which way do they bend? Do we have photos?

our guys they needed to work on? And how much better are we if they do it?

Agreed 100%. I think he has the potential. It's just someone showing him the right way to do things and then just repetition from there.

You're really trying to take this off the rails, huh?

Are you able to factor ambition out of the equation? Ambitious people probably do better than non-ambitious people. Ambitious people are probably also more likely to go to college. But ambitious people who don't go to college probably do better than their non-ambitious peers. And what is it about college grads that they're more likely to be married? Did going to college do that? Or is there something else about them that explains both their propensity to graduate from college AND their propensity to get married? Or are you saying that the FACT of going to college makes one more likely to get married? Hence my comment that you're mistaking correlation for causation.

Not sure that’s the roster attrition he had in mind, but ...

Good gawd what the hell was I thinking?

You're mistaking correlation and causation.

Probably either him at the 2 or Palmer slides to the 2 and you fit Jordy in at the 5. Depends on who gives us the most at that position because the other guys are versatile enough to shift one spot up or down.

Seeking that good old-fashioned liberal arts education was one thing back in the day when you could pay your own way through college, when tuition at Nebraska was $20/credit hour, and you could emerge with a degree and not a lot of debt. AND when college was something not everyone did when they graduated high school, and having a degree actually meant something and allowed you to separate yourself from your peer group. Nowadays, college is expensive as hell, primarily because so many more people are attending (law of supply-demand) and a college degree in and of itself no longer gives you the advantages it once did. So, now, people have to be more pragmatic about what they choose to study. There are a lot of fluff degrees out there that didn't exist 30 years ago. And you can study those things if you don't have to worry about crushing student loan debt when you graduate. But, if you're going to incur a bunch of debt, you really can't afford to go to school just for the learning and seeking knowledge as its own end. #Reality

No. Edit: Strike that last answer. That's not true. He was actually very bright and willing to do work that he could easily and understandably have viewed as being beneath him. I actually respected him a lot for that.

Sophomore Glynn would be huge for us. His shooting attempts from sophomore to junior season were nearly the same, but his sophomore accuracy was much higher. He could be a 14 ppg scorer without having to take shot opportunities away from anyone else. The players coming back should return better than they were. The biggest question for me is who will replace Evan and Anton at the 2-guard spot.

By the way, I checked his bio on the SMU website. Akoy was working on his Masters in Management. Probably gives him a little more advantage in the job market than a Masters in Soc. Good for Akoy. There's a certain symmetry in him returning to where he started.

The last barista who served me a cappuccino at Starbucks had a Masters in Sociology. My first job out of high school, I worked unskilled, minimum wage labor next to a guy with a PhD in English.

What percentage of people with Masters degrees in sociology are working as sociologists and what percentage are working on the fry line at Jack in the Box?

So, that's a picture of Dorian Green? I think he looks younger in real life.

Oh, you mean the game where Creighton alumnus, all-around asshole, and part-time pugilist Joe Dabbert tried to start a fight with Shang Ping? Yeah, I don't think the issue was "bragging rights."

I get it.

This is the sport in which I'd rather have Nebraska develop a rivalry with Michigan. We're shooting low if we shoot for Iowa. Actually, I think Wisconsin lines up to be more of our natural rival in football, and those things tend to bleed over into other sports in which both schools are competitive. I'd like nothing more than to have Wisconsin become a natural rival in football and, therefore, in basketball. If our two schools can become the top two programs in the western half of the Big 10, we'd be doing OK. Let Iowa have Minnesota. Let them fight over Floyd of Rosedale. I'd rather rival Wisconsin, a more worthy foe.

I think I was at that same game, Swan. Going into that game, I didn't expect much of JR. After watching him I was like, OK, this kid can play.

This is actually where I was going with this thread. I think we have some underrated players in this recruiting class. I think we have some recruits who are a lot better than a lot of the gurus expect them to be. And, from time to time, it happens that you have a player who comes in and turns out to contribute right off the bat when you didn't think he was likely going to amount to much at all. Or gets there a lot faster than you even hoped he would. Whoever said Shavon Shields upthread is on the mark. Shavon is a good example. I think Davis could be that kind of player for us. It'd be nice to have one or both of these freshmen guards be that Trey Burke kid who is so much better than anyone thought he'd be and who comes in and commands serious minutes if not a starting job right off the bat. Actually, this would be a really good year for us to have that kind of player. Be nice if one of these freshmen is like a poor man's Trey Burke in that way.

I'll start. JR Strowbridge was a whole lot better than I thought he'd be. The players we'd typically picked up late in the late signing period had historically not been very good. Can't even think of some of their names because they'd be here a year, never play, and then transfer. So, when we suddenly extended a late offer to JR and we brought him in, I was expecting another guy to sit at the end of the bench and never see the floor. I figured it was particularly likely since we had a lame-duck coach at the time. But dayum. He comes in, he's a smart kid and a hard worker, and even though the new coach never thought he was quick enough to be the kind of guard we needed, he played really tough man D and developed a solid jump shot. Would have liked to have seen him stay 4 years. Another one that fits that mold is Evan Taylor. No real offers until we came along in June with a need for a guard. He was so much better than we had any reason to hope he'd be. Very fortunate for us that he was still available when Andrew White bailed on us.

In the Huskerpapa spirit of getting some off-season banter going, thought I'd throw out a question about which recruit came in and turned out to be a lot better than you were expecting? We've had guys come in and fail to live up to hype. But who do you remember doing the opposite? Are there any players you remember coming in thinking "man, I wasn't expecting much out of him, but dayum!"?

There was a period of time that our most heated rival was whoever Dana Altman was coaching. While he was at KSU, we seemed to be battling with them year after year for the 4/5 seed in the Big 8 tourney. Back then, we didn't really care so much about that other team he coached. Then, when he took over Creighton, he put a big target on our backs and their fans followed suit. He left but their fans stayed, and so CU continues to treat this as a rivalry game.