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He was part of the family in my mind and a quality young man whom I am sorry to see go. Keep in touch, Nick. Thanks for all you have meant to us and I wish you well.

I believe it was Dimes who observed -- please correct me if I am misrepresenting you, Dimes -- that if Miles is NOT given an extension AND the Huskers make the NCAA tourney, that success may lead to a lot of interest in Miles' from other schools. That makes quite a bit of sense. IF he takes us from where we are now to an NCAA bid, he is likely the B1G coach of the year again and a LOT of programs will come knocking. Whether SE gives Miles an extension may tell us a lot about whether SE really BELIEVES in Miles or not. If he thinks Miles will get it done next year, he should give him the extension to establish a pricey buyout that makes it less painful financially for Miles to leave. If he does not, then no extension will make a firing after next season less expensive. This could be interesting to watch.

While I can't say this wrong - because I have NO idea if it is right or not -- LB's sources when it comes to Nebrasketball have often been incorrect. In fact, I believe is nose is still bent out of joint because no one let him in on Tim Miles' hiring when that happened and the LJS scooped the OWH on the story. Just saying LB is as likely to be pushing an agenda here as he is reporting a story.

I can live with this. Let's see how the roster changes/fills out. It will be an all or nothing season next year, though, IMO.

My all too often faulty memory banks seem to recall Jacobsen diving out of bounds trying to save a ball. Shortly after that, he got the bandage and not long after THAT he left the game. He might have played some minutes later on but not many.

IF Eichorst were to fire Miles, I could certainly understand it. To say this season has been a disappointment to me is a huge understatement. Some things rest on Miles' shoulders and some I'm not sure about. But I hope Miles is retained. -- AWIII was to be the lynch pin of our outside shooting. We sucked from outside all year. Should Miles have buckled and given in to whatever White wanted to keep him here? Don't think so but his exit hurt a lot. -- Gill and Morrow getting hurt had huge impacts and there is nothing Miles could have done about that. -- Jordy's development as a player has been tremendous. He has a huge upside and Miles deserves some credit for bringing in Kenya Hunter to help with that. -- Roby and Horne showed flashes of their potential but they never showed their abilities consistently. IMO this is a real test for whether Miles can really coach or not. At this point I would say it is a negative against him. -- I thought we were in good hands with Glynn Watson at PG but he was a very inconsistent guard as both a scorer and as a ball handler. I have no idea if this is coaching or offensive philosophy (or lack thereof) or something else but something is wrong there. -- A LOT of talent here or coming here next year. It would be a huge loss to send Miles packing and lose it. -- What kind of influence does Molinari really have on the team? Is he a plus for Miles or not? Just wondering. IMO Miles should be retained but on a VERY short leash and without an extension for next season. Yes that might impact recruiting but we have the talent to compete next year and a good year will make recruiting much easier. A bad year and the new coach won't have an empty stable to work with.

Didn't work for Chicago. They just went out and a good team. All of a sudden the curse lifted. Amazing how that works! Though I DO know where we could get a goat if that was the direction that was chosen

I was glad it did not come up in either presser. That's not where handling something like this OUGHT to come up. I suspect it should come up privately between Miles and Chambers and then give Chambers time to address it. You know, it was a field day in the sports media when Grayson Allen tripped a player. Allen was compelled to apologize and was suspended by Duke. Unlike Allen, Reeves' play was a one time thing but there ought to at least be a phone call to Coach Miles and Tai somewhere along the lines if there hasn't already been one.

Well you gave great answers so I'll ask another one. The foul fairly late in the game when Tai absolutely got body checked at the FT line was rightly called as a foul. However, it was not a "basketball" play and it seems to me like the PSU player was VERY intentional about knocking Tai down. Why wouldn't that qualify as a flagrant foul? And is that the kind of thing the league could revue and act upon resulting in a game suspension or something?

Question: Unless it is just my imagination, it does not seem like Jordy plays many minutes at all in the 2nd half of any games. Is that correct? If so, any idea why?

just once before Tai ends his career at NU, for the team to learn and perform the Haka warrior dance. Or perhaps bring in his New Zealand national team mates to do it? It would be epic. I believe that is Tai wearing #15 in the video below.

I know some good people who can help with that!

I have a couple of questions regarding how we defended the OSU inbounds play last night and would welcome your insights. One is a coaching decision and the other is a player's real time decision when Watson fell. First: I am not certain I would have had a man on the player throwing the ball in. However, once the coach decided to do so, why choose Jacobson for that instead of Roby or perhaps even Jordy? They both have physical advantages over MJ that would seem to create more problems on the inbounds pass than Jacobson. Second, Watson is beating himself up because he fell -- it looks to me like he had a lot of help falling from the foot of #2 but it was nothing egregious. However, stuff like that happens and, while it is incredibly easy to second guess someone after the fact, successful teams have players who make correct split second decisions when things go amiss. It looks to me like the real burden for this is on Roby's decision to leave his man which forced Tai to leave his man. My question is, did first Roby and then Tai make the correct basketball decisions and why? IMO, they, especially Roby, made the wrong choice for the following reasons: 1) It leaves one of two players with NO ONE between his man and the basket. Who did he expect to pick up his man once Watson fell? 2) It creates an easier inbounds pass than would have been the case to any other player even if #15 was left unguarded. 3) Tai is guarding OSU's best scoring threat for a reason and leaving that threat is the last thing Tai should do. 4) If ANYONE should have left their man to cover #15, it should have been Taylor whose unguarded man would have had to catch a ball outside the arc and put up a 3. Thanks in advance for any feedback. Edit: To be clear, IMO the principle onus on all of this is on Roby leaving his man. It makes Tai choose something he should not have had to choose.

I hadn't about the names of the refs until you mentioned Eades. This is the same ref that said "BOOM" when he T'd up Shavon Shields. A Google search turned up this SB Nation article with a video of the call.

It is certainly fair to raise questions about coaching moves but Miles wasn't officiating the game. I HATE to ever say that officials decide a game but that 22 pts off FTs differential for no good reason was awfully hard to beat.

What I am hearing so far is no one can say. The refs, apparently, just did a really bad job. In my business there are certain key result areas that we assign numerical standards to and, when we find that employees are failing to meet them, they are held accountable in a variety of ways. It helps the employees to be held accountable. How are officials held accountable? Is it a league thing or an NCAA thing? A combination? And what standards are used? Or is it just a "feel?" This kind of game should be a red flag to whomever is supervising. It really stinks because their poor performance, not the team's play, hurt the Huskers' standing in the league and chances for an NCAA tourney bid.

I am going to start a new thread on this because I would like to be able to learn from the rest of you. To lay a framework: 1) The Michigan game was decided by how the game was officiated. We went 4 of 5. They went 26 of 30. The rest of the stats either were about even or favored us. 2) I have always assumed that officiating TENDS to favor the home team but a 22 pt disparity is hard to fathom. 3) Unless someone has a smoking gun to the contrary, the refs were probably not engaged in some nefarious effort to purposely give the game to Michigan. Toward that end, please don't just say things like, "the refs were awful." HOW were they awful? 4) As I watched the game, Michigan and Nebraska both played with about the same measure of physicality though one would think the team running offense that "loves the rim" would get more calls rather than so MANY fewer. With those thoughts and perhaps other factors that ought to be considered, what was it about how we played today that could possibly explain the disparity fouls called? I welcome your insights.

I believe Miles' use of analytics to talk with Copeland about his game was a big factor in Copeland choosing NU. Someone here posted a link to a Hoya board that spent a fair bit of time lamenting the fact that they didn't use those tools to help develop a player. Copeland seemed to be quite thrilled that Miles and crew KNEW his game and KNEW how to help it get better. A second thought comes to mind. AWIII did not believe NU was a place that could advance his NBA aspirations. Perhaps Copeland is seeing just the opposite. I have long thought that a really talented player should see Nebraska as a great opportunity to elevate a program that has struggled to win and thereby establish himself as a player to be taken seriously at the next level. Example: Larry Bird might have had a very good career at a place like Indiana but he put himself on the map by playing at Indiana State. I am not saying Copeland is the next Larry Bird but this could be a real career maker for him if he is able to play up to the hype he had coming out of high school.

At least for the moment, the signing of Copeland is significant enough to be mentioned under the "Top Headlines" banner at ESPN NCAAM page. I don't know how long the link will reflect that but it was cool to see as of my posting this.

In spite of the confidence we should have after two quality road wins, no team that lost to Gardner-Webb at home should think TOO much of themselves.

For those that are fans of the show "Arrested Development" it made me think of this:

In his postgame BTN interview Miles says they put the 1-3-1 in after Gill went down. Perhaps someone has an idea why that mattered. Or perhaps it was just a coincidence of timing.

If the shim shams did that dance it would be scary indeed!

You appear to be channeling William F. Buckley speaking to Gore Vidal. I like it!

IMO they were ticky tack both ways. I don't think it really worked much against us. May have even helped by keeping MD from getting into any kind of rhythm offensively.