Nebrasketball1979

Whew, the removal of Lue gets us a step closer to everyone's goal on this thread in retaining Miles. Disclaimer - the statement above was not written to incite anger, bring about the use of pitchforks, or cause anyone to question my intelligence. My intelligence is questioned daily from my wife so no need to have anyone else pile on here. The statement should be considered a joke.

Michigan - 73 Nebraska - 58

Of course you don't fire him, don't be ridiculous! You obviously give him a one year extension to make sure it wasn't a fluke! ?

Maybe Moos should just send an email blast to all Division 1 coaches and state that we are willing to pay $4M/year and ask the coaches to respond to the email if they are interested?

Oh, and not to be overlooked is that Michigan is coming off a loss against Michigan St. yesterday so I suspect they will be locked in on Thursday. No, this will likely not be fun! I would suggest keeping the women and children away from the TV on Thursday night. Kidding, well, sort of. ?

Purdue - 71 NU - 65

Neither - I suspect "ocean" was code for going to Lake Mcconaughy, which is the closest thing to an Ocean in Nebraska, and where he is secretly meeting with Moos to finalize a deal. This is the same script as the "clandestine" meeting in Philadelphia when Moos basically came to terms with Frost. Please note that I have no "sources" that this is occurring, only a very logical assumption that ocean means Lake Mcconaughy and that Hoiberg is about to be our next coach.

I think you nailed it. From listening to Kent a lot before and after games, I get the sense he is a big Miles supporter and I suspect he is frustrated by the lack of commitment the last two Ad's have shown Miles in regards to his contract and how that has impacted the team. This has been debated for 30 pages on another thread so no need to have that debate here. This is just my humble opinion on it and Kent has earned the right to voice any opinion he has on Nebrasketball however he wants to air it.

lol holy cow, I assumed they lost. well, break then counterbreak. Okay, so they'll probably be relieved instead. Much better. I still expect a curbstomping, but man, even we haven't lost to a team we held under 50. Two observations: 1) Penn St. scored 95 last night while Purdue & Indiana combined to score 94. That's sad on a variety of levels for multiple teams. 2) "Even we haven't lost to a team we held under 50". Be careful here...that sounds like a challenge this team might be willing to embrace and meet!!!

That is wholly inaccurate. I took my son a few years back to see the Globetrotters play the Generals and the Generals had some dudes who could shoot! The Globetrotters needed a three with under a minute left to win. Ok, I feel like I am digressing from the main topic here!

Well, here is a glass half full of horse shit...Amir played good defense in spots and we solidified Penn State's Quad 1 status.

I wouldn't underestimate a team who appears willing to continue to dig farther down. We have shown remarkable resilience on this front.

Yes!!! If you had "use a timeout way too late" on your bingo card, cross it off!

With this mauling, at least Penn State's NET ranking should be safely in Q1 territory the rest of the year?

Man, this feels like a really pivotal game for our tourney chances. Not because a loss is all that damaging, but when you compare it to the 4 we have after this, this game sure feels like the easiest of the bunch. It's one thing to beat a couple of average to below average teams at home, it's another for this reinvented team to go prove it on the road. This is a "prove it" game for me to see if we really have turned a corner and have a chance to at least split our last 4 games. Despite losing by 19 at Purdue, I felt we competed much better in that game and you could see the signs of a team starting to come together and learn how to compete with the remaining collection of talent. We followed that up with a couple of nice and what should be expected wins. It's time to take this show on the road and see how legitimate this teams tourney chances are. I think that legitimacy begins tonight. GBR!

I think your math is off. 5 regular season + 4 Big Ten Tourney + 6 NCAA Tourney Games = 15 games left ?. Your point still stands despite questionable math!

Interesting thought but I think you prepare to win every single game. These are college kids and you never know when you run into a team whose star player is distracted by girlfriend issues, etc. What I remember from Mich. St is that it wasn't Ward who killed us but it was Winston owning Watson. If that script doesn't change, I'm not sure it matters who Michigan State is without as it seems like they go as Winston goes and we go as Watson goes. Also, Michigan doesn't appear to be firing on all cylinders at the moment, so who knows, maybe we can pick one off from them. Also, just noticed that Michigan plays Michigan St. a few days before our game with them so hopefully they beat Mich. St in a thriller and have a bit of an emotional let down against us!

Yes, that's possible and it wouldn't surprise me if he gets more run tonight. If Watkins becomes an issue, we can certainly negate him by swapping Borchardt for Harris and putting Roby on him until Chambers is forced to sub him out. Keep in mind that Watkins only played 15 minutes and 19 minutes respectively in the two previous games to their Purdue loss, which makes it 4 out of 5 he has played less than 20 minutes so I do think there is something amiss with him and Chambers and the team.

He has been relegated to the bench and played 12 minutes against Purdue in PSU's last game and 15 minutes against Michigan the game before that. He sounds like a head case but I fully expect him to come out tonight and hit a three since he hasn't made one his entire career.

NU - 64 PSU - 63

Haha, someone should have taught you to share when you were younger. ? I just want to win so I get a free year of membership to this site.

I don't know but perhaps we should just let the rest of the season play out. You're drawing grand, definitive conclusions on this season when it's still not over. The fact of the matter is that you can guess that we will go 0-5 or 1-4 down the stretch and you may be right but we could easily go 3-2, win a game in the Big Tournament, get in the NCAA tourney and who knows, maybe win a game there and then how do your arguments look today? The absolute definitive nature of your statements feels a little trollish to me.

I think your last paragraph is fair but I would counter with why do we have to be who we always have been? I love Miles and the fact that I believe he runs a clean program (it's really hard to make 100% affirmative statements on this subject!) but in my opinion, we would fill the vault regardless of who the coach is. It's ok to aspire for more and not fall back on the age old, well, "we are Nebraska basketball and we don't deserve nice things". I hope Miles is the guy and I hope he takes us to the tourney this year and we get that elusive tournament win and then another for good measure so we can hold that over Jaysker fans. However, if we don't get to the tournament or we do, get bounced in the first game, and Moos still decides to make a change, then so be it. I'll support the next coach like I did Miles and hope the new Coach elevates the program from where Miles brought it from. There is no question that Miles has elevated the talent in the program but it's fair to question at this point whether he can get us over the hump. And just because we've never gotten over the hump, it doesn't mean we should never expect to!

I think it boils down pretty simply: 18 wins - Bubbly and very close, likely NIT bound in my opinion. 19 wins - Bubbly, likely NCAA bound 20 wins - NCAA and hopefully/potentially the retirement of two threads - "Our Next Coach" and "Enjoying the Last Month of the Miles Era"! The easiest path to 18 wins is obviously tomorrow at PSU and the two remaining home games. I just don't know if collectively those three wins have enough "Wow" factor to make us a slam dunk case. My gut tells me our Quad 1 wins, which would likely be 5 at that point just don't jump off the page as some other teams Quad 1 wins might. I think that 19th win, whether a road win at MSU or Michigan or in the Big Tourney is really critical.

I hope someone gets that Northwestern player that took the Roby block off the head some Tylenol! Holy cow, what a game for Roby. He is good when he is uber aggressive, now can he bring it on consecutive nights!