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An underdog is an underdog is an underdog regardless which conference they come from. Duke vs Kentucky is BORING. And its only gonna get more boring as we get further along in the NIL era. Watching bought teams isn't fun. A bigger tent fixes that. Or at least tries to. We still probably end up with Duke vs Kentucky though

I think your analysis is correct only if the assumption used is that if the tournament expands the same format for the current 68 that make the field stays the same then the next 60 teams that make it is in some sort of ranked order. Which would obviously favor the power conferences. An easy fix to your theory is to make AQ's the regular season conference champs AND tournament winners.

Gonna be the dissenting voice here. Go to 128. It's not the 64 best teams. And I like it. Once the tournament gets to the Sweet 16 It starts to get boring. What I think makes the tournament great is the 1st two rounds. Especially when chaos ensues and upsets are everywhere. I'd bet money in the years when more upsets happen (especially from double digit seeds) the viewership is higher. So go to 128 and create more chaos

But we can't rule it out

Ol' David Cobb seems pretty high on us

I mean I am delusional

No matter how delusional I get 11 wins is going down in the prediction thread

If this ends up the case I suspect we will know relatively early in the season the fate of Hoiberg

Hell even I'm starting to come around. You know if this break this way...and that breaks that way...then maybe...just maybe...BUBBLE TEAM! MY MAN POLISH RIFLE!

I love the enthusiasm of a new season

To be honest I am feeling the same vibes. Not vibes I think he is turning this ship around, but vibes that Hoiberg is gonna be here 2 more years.

Goalie looked good

If they do ultimately sell alcohol at Memorial Stadium we could blame all the empty seats on people being stuck in the beer line... Ba Dum Tsh I'm here all night folks!

I am really shocked by the stuff that has been coming out about Frost concerning the neglect of his responsibilities. I generally take the rumor stuff with a grain of salt but there's so much of it coming out. And I'm not talking about infidelity/drinking type rumors but the not doing the bare minimum the job requires. Just shocked.

This is why I think this is a major rebuild. They are horrible. I though the D line would so much better than it is. To me this shows the portal is nice, but you really can't use it to plug as big of a hole as we had coming into the season. And I really bought the idea that we could. I had my suspicions about the O line. Seems the only way forward is development. And thats gonna take awhile i.e. years.

That would be awesome! But I suspect the battle that plays out this season is "Does this team reach the double digit win column?"

I think there's a snowballs chance in hell he's over .500 this year. And since you asked (I'm sure its obvious from my other posts on this subject) if I were Trev I'd have already shown Hoiberg the door. That said I think this year will be the most enjoyable losing season of his tenure to watch

Lucky for us it would be determining Hoibergs fate after 3 seasons and 13 games

I thought the same thing about football

If Hoiberg blinked wrong I'd show him the door

Sure, there may be aspects of ISU that are better than NU. But as a whole NU is a better job. Hell by conference affiliation alone I think you could make the argument that every Big Ten job is better than ISU.

He seems as good of choice as the other names being tossed around. From what I've read up on him he has turned down quite a few jobs/interviews in the NCAA and NFL. After Frost and Hoiberg I think hiring a coach is nothing more than a crap shoot. So whoever the next coach(es) are I'll get behind them.

Absolutely not

Ol' Lars Anderson is at it again. Says Matt Campbell is Nebraskas primary target and the will eventually be the next head coach.

I doubt Bob Stoops hasn't experienced pretty much the same environment down in Norman. And it seemed like a lot of the issues Pelini had with Nebraska had to do with the administration at that time. Bob Stoops would be my 1st choice, but I suspect thats a pipe dream. And the reason is I think Bob Stoops knows EXACTLY what its like to coach at a place like Nebraska and he retired from that type or environment, partly because of it.