TheGov21

Gonzaga has had 7 players drafted in the 1st round since 2006 and that included Morrison who went 3rd overall. Gonzaga is a brand name in college basketball. Plus if you're an NBA level talent, the NBA will find you.

Gonzaga has had 7 players drafted in the 1st round since 2006 and that included Morrison who went 3rd overall. Gonzaga is a brand name in college basketball. Plus if you're an NBA level talent, the NBA will find you.

Gonzaga has had 7 players drafted in the 1st round since 2006 and that included Morrison who went 3rd overall. Gonzaga is a brand name in college basketball. Plus if you're an NBA level talent, the NBA will find you.

This kids older brother went to the blue school in Omaha 

This kids older brother went to the blue school in Omaha 

Maybe with the depth being better next year Arop can red shirt and continue his development. Probably won't. Also wouldn't shock me if he is gone after this year. No inside information but I get the feeling that Arop was only kept because Hoiberg wanted to honor his commitment and they needed bodies in this first year.

Maybe with the depth being better next year Arop can red shirt and continue his development. Probably won't. Also wouldn't shock me if he is gone after this year. No inside information but I get the feeling that Arop was only kept because Hoiberg wanted to honor his commitment and they needed bodies in this first year.

All you had to say was Sipple/Jake....those guys are a joke. 

Neb 77
PSU 75

He also performed very well during the team's pre-season scrimmage at the Vault.

Well said Norm
 
From everything I've been told makes me believe that Donovan wanted to play for the Huskers but wasn't quite sure that the new staff wanted him. While Hoiberg didn't necessarily want him but honored his commitment because he was a highly ranked city kid who just suffered an injury.

Well said Norm
 
From everything I've been told makes me believe that Donovan wanted to play for the Huskers but wasn't quite sure that the new staff wanted him. While Hoiberg didn't necessarily want him but honored his commitment because he was a highly ranked city kid who just suffered an injury.

I'm gonna suggest a scenario that I think is more than plausible that puts everyone involved in a better light. No one's being a diva; no one abandoned anyone or didn't try hard enough to re-recruit him. Etc. etc.
 
So, you're a HS kid who's a 4-star-level recruit. And you suffer a bad knee injury in the off-season so you can't do the AAU summer circuit and your senior season is in jeopardy. It's a bad deal. Extremely disappointing. Extremely. Fortunately, you've already committed to a school ... but they have a new coach after the one you originally committed to got fired. Which sows a little bit of doubt in the back of your mind.
 
You've never had a bad injury before, certainly not one that knocked you out of commission for almost a year and one that might be difficult to overcome. Not impossible to overcome, but certainly difficult.
 
You have doubts - however unfounded those doubts might be - about whether you'll be able to return to the same level of ability that you had before. You worry that you'll lose some of your quickness. You worry that you won't regain some of that leaping ability. You worry that you won't be able to live up to the hype and hope that the fans of the program you committed to probably expect of you.
 
You worry that the new coach who runs the program you committed to has the same doubts about your ability to recover from your injury that you have.
 
You don't want to come across like you're "needy" but you'd like some reassurance. Some affirmation. Something. Just give me a sign that you believe in me the way the old coach who I committed to would have done. Recruit me like I'm not committed. So that I know that you think I will still be the player I hoped that I was going to be before I got hurt.
 
Send me a sign. Something. Anything.
 
Oh.
 
Word is you're recruiting a juco kid who seems to maybe, possibly fill the role I had imagined for myself. OK. Well then.  Now what do I do?
 
Switch gears. Now you're that new coach. You're an alpha male and not in the habit of trying to put yourself in the brain of a talented high school basketball player who's already committed to your program and who has seemed very firmly committed ever since you first met with him.
 
You've got a program to run. You have hit some bumps in the road and have some internal issues to deal with. You're looking at your roster and trying to figure out your needs for the immediate future. We need some rebounding. Gotta find a kid who can get some boards. Man, oh man, need some shooting. Gotta land a shooter.
 
Kid with ties to the state and some high-level D1 experience comes on your radar. OK, so him and Donovan. That should address a couple of those acute needs, right? Right.
 
So who's the bad guy in this situation?
 
Nobody.
 
Would have preferred Donovan handle things with a bit more tact and discretion after the fact. But if you are that talented recruit who got hurt and felt doubt about how complete your recovery was going to be and was worried that the new coach wasn't as committed to you as you wanted him to be and, therefore, decided to decommit, you would want everyone who was following you to know that your decision was justified. That it wasn't just based on emotion or silly crap like that.
 
A person in that situation might feel the need to sell the decision so that others would accept it. Sometimes our sales pitches don't reach the mark. A 19-year-old kid with no sales experience might have that problem.

Lol, this is so funny. Everybody loves him while he's committed but as soon as he decommits he's back to a diva and uncoachable. Meanwhile he's been the same person the entire time.

Lol, this is so funny. Everybody loves him while he's committed but as soon as he decommits he's back to a diva and uncoachable. Meanwhile he's been the same person the entire time.

Lol, this is so funny. Everybody loves him while he's committed but as soon as he decommits he's back to a diva and uncoachable. Meanwhile he's been the same person the entire time.

Bartender, I'll have whatever these fine gentlemen are drinking.
 

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Neb 88
The other school 80

Probably get stuck with Nick Bahe

Did you check his Tik Tok?

If you told me Nebraska is going to win only 1 game each year, I'd pick the Creighton game 11 out of 10 times.

You just have to be a year removed from playing high school

Creighton fans are just bummed because their football team is not bowl eligible for the third year in a row.  But yeah, it's probably just you.
 
...and me too, but that's largely because I'm pretty checked out on the whole deal.  I have given some thought to picking up a ticket to the Kansas/Colorado game, that one would probably be worlds more entertaining even though I violently hate both teams.