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And ppl still aren't going to have any idea what he does. But at least they won't blame him if the basketball team loses. Or maybe they will.

I'm hoping that was freshman jitters for Lawrence. It's just gotta be. Everything else about him suggests he should be 70% plus from the line. Something to keep an eye on.

I beg to differ. Sixteen wins is a hell of a lot more than 10. And that goes beyond just math. The feel of being a break-even team with a shot at a post-season bid was soooooo much more satisfying than only winning 10 games the year before.

I don't think this is true. I made comments during the season about how he was the one guy opposing teams were orienting their defenses toward stopping. And they still didn't shut him down. And this year, he's going to have more guys around him who can shoot the ball. So defenses aren't going to be able to key on him next season the way they did this past season. Keisei is very unselfish. He moves very well without the ball. He sets good screens. He's patient, waiting for his opportunities. And I felt like as the season went along, he got a lot better sense of what a good shot opportunity looked like. His two worst shooting nights were back-to-back games against Iowa and Michigan State just before and after New Years, when he went 0-3 from deep in each game. That was AFTER he torched Purdue in early December, so the league knew what we had. And despite Big Ten teams orienting their defenses to try to stop him, he still went 4-8 from deep against Izzo's Spartans at the end of Feb. He's creative as a scorer. He's opportunistic. He's developed a sense for when a lane to the basket is there and he can exploit it. He has all these nifty little floaters and bank shots. And he's deceptively quick. Which is probably a product of being decisive and processing information very quickly than from, say, having a lot of fast-twitch muscle fibers. And now we're going to surround him with guys like Brice Williams, who's a dead-eye shooter in his own right, and Reink Mast, who is capable of launching 3-bombs as a post player. And that's in addition to Lawrence and CJ and Ramel. So, pick your poison. You're an opposing assistant and you drew the Nebraska scout. Who ya gonna try to stop? You think shutting down Keisei is the move? You put your best defender on Keisei and I'll tell you what's going to happen: He's going to just set screens while your best defender hangs out watching our other players launch bombs. Until he catches you sleeping.

Kuzu's Kebab started out in the food court at Meridian Park and then they moved to the corner of like 14th and Q near campus. And then it was just gone and they replaced it with a dollar movie theater, if I'm remembering correctly. So, can someone confirm it's the same people as Ali Baba's?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdurrahim_Kuzu

Are you serious? The guy who ran Kuzu's Kebab is still around? His were the best! I think his name was Abdurahim Kuzu and I think he was a Turkish immigrant who was a wrestler and qualified for the US Olympic wrestling team. From Lincoln!

We're a weird group of fans. Because of our history, we've been conditioned to be pessimistic about our prospects, but we still show up by the thousands.

What/who would you need to add to get it over the hump?

We've dropped three to graduation. We've dropped three to the portal. We've added two from the portal and we've added a HS recruit. So, by my math, we still have 3 spots left at this point. What do we need to get with the remaining spots to turn this into an NCAA tourney caliber roster? Is it there already? Thoughts?

How close are we to that $2.5 million-plus category?

I have some discussion topics in mind, but I was intending to space them out. Wait until after the roster solidifies before I go full OT.

I wish Ryan the very best of luck, here. I hope he gets the feedback he's hoping for. Top 60 pick and he should hire an agent and get while the gettin' is good.

George Town George Tech I knew it was one of those Georges.

The NCAA attendance record was set in the 2021 national championship game between Nebraska and Wisconsin in Omaha with a total of 18,755 fans in attendance. The world record for volleyball attendance was 91,553 set in 2022 when Real Madrid took on Barcelona in Spain. With student seats not yet tabulated and plenty of room courtside, that world record is in serious jeopardy.

I thought I saw something that he was wanting to go to Georgetown. So, my impression was that he was not simply reopening his recruitment but rather decommitting in order to go to a specific other school.

Good for us. I thought the kid was pretty good and would have been pretty goof for them. G'town?

Not sour grapes. I called this. I don't care. He was already dead to me.

I'll be honest: I don't really have an opinion on it. I was throwing some stuff out there for just kind of broader consideration. I have seen groupthink in action too many times and so I was just trying to throw out an alternative idea. So I'm not taking any of this as a heated discussion. I like sports. I liked participating in sports. Now I enjoy watching sports. And I think sports in high school is generally a good thing. But if AAU comes in and supplants some of the major HS sports, I'm thinking it might not be as bad as some people worry it might be.

Well, we know with the Huskers that only football and men's hoops are self-sustaining. Granted, HS sports teams aren't paying their coaches millions of dollars per year, but neither do they get TV deals. Surely, someone has looked into which HS programs are self-sustaining and pay for themselves with the tickets that are purchased. Or maybe not.

That's a good question. Some people advocate for "equity" and other people say life isn't fair and you should just accept that and worry about you. For the people who push principles of "equity," it seems like the argument from the speech and debate chick 3 or 4 (or more) decades ago has some merit. Why spend so much on football? An activity that automatically excludes 51% of the student population (the girls) and then only provides opportunities to a narrow slice of the other 49%? If "equity" is your bag, then you have to concede football is a very significant drain on school resources, which allocates them in a very inequitable manner. But then you can say, well, Title 9 means we come up with an equal (equitable) number of sporting activities for the girls. And that's all well and good for the uber athletic girls, but what about the slightly-less-than-uber athletic girls who get cut from the volleyball team or the girls' basketball team or the soccer team? Why should PUBLIC resources be allocated to the really fast girl with a 2.0 GPA to the exclusion of the slightly less fast girl with the 3.8 GPA? That's not equitable. I propose a rule that says that public schools can't cut. And playing time should be allocated based on a lottery or a rotating schedule. Because if experiencing the thrill of athletic competition is beneficial to one's growth and development into adulthood, those opportunities shouldn't be denied to kids whose parents couldn't afford select baseball or who weren't quite athletic enough to beat out all the fast kids. OR we can just let AAU take over. OR we can just drop the "equity" bullshit because our commitment to "equity" clearly only depends on whose ox is being gored.

I think that's certainly the counter argument. All the other activities cost something, too. Keep in mind I'm going by deep memory here, but my memory of what got the discussion started was a report that the laundry budget for the football team at our school was X thousands of dollars, and the speech and debate girl was out having to do fundraising. And she thought it was bullshit that she was having to fundraise and that the football team had so many more thousands of dollars allocated just to do their laundry. And I can't vouch for the statistic, and of course this was many decades ago so things have probably changed a lot, but I remember the argument being made that participation in football is limited to a very select few, and yet their budget is so large. Should taxpayers be footing the bill for it when resources are scarce? I mean, how do you justify significantly inequitable allocation of financial resources? The counter argument people made at the time was that football would go away if schools didn't pay for it (i.e. taxpayers didn't fund it) and that would clearly be a bad thing. But I think AAU and club sports have made that argument somewhat less compelling in the intervening decades. I gotta tell ya, I had not given any thought to that conversation for years, decades even, but as I'm trying to describe it I keep on remembering aspects of it like the cost of laundry services for the football team. For some reason, $17,000 stands out as the number for how much they spent on laundry (maybe it was $13,000), but I'm struggling to remember where that number came from, whether it was from an article in the school newspaper or the local daily or just something that someone made up and asserted as being true. And as I continue to type this out, it's triggering more recall. There was also debate about whether the cost of laundry services was for ALL the athletic programs or JUST for our football team. And I don't honestly remember how that question was answered, but it didn't really matter because no one could disprove the interpretation most helpful to whoever was making an argument about it. Anyway, I remember it being an interesting discussion back at the time and it seemed apropos to this topic.