Husker Hoops Penitent

One down, one to go.

FSU- 62 NU- 59

I didn't notice Concordia and Queens (N.C.) as possible future opponents so five total wins appear to be the ceiling for Hoiberg's fourth iteration....

So now that we have our best player back (Walker) and still got whipped, are there any who think they win more than five games this year? If so, which game(s)? Boston College is possible, but after that it looks brutal. If Alberts doesn't fire Hoiberg mid-season I anticipate eighteen-to-twenty losses in the conference which would leave his conference coaching record as the worst in Division I history. Who would have thought this possible four years ago?

49r, you state you know I put effort into something I hate? One, you don't know how much effort I exert, and two, how do you know what I hate? It is obvious that if I put a lot of effort in to this (or any) endeavor it follows that I must not hate it, since it is a voluntary activity. Another mistake is that you speak for everyone else when it is demonstrable that some have responded to my criticisms in the affirmative. To your point, I wonder why you would spend any effort responding to me if you don't like me or my positions. You just stated it was not sensible that I do something I hate, yet you just did the same thing! You argument brings into question the very purpose and function of a message board itself. It is for people to exchange thoughts. It appears you would like everyone to accept your positions and then shut down the board. In spite of your kindergarten response, Hoiberg remains statistically the worst coach in Div. 1 history. We fans, who obviously care, merely desire a decent coach to lead the team we follow. Derp! Perhaps you would do better to find a remedial book on logic rather than waste time as a muddle-headed scold on this board.

HB, I will vouch for your predictive accuracy that NU would suck entering each of previous three embarrassing Hoiberg-led years. Incredibly, this year will likely be Hoiberg's worst, a noteworthy accomplishment should it come to pass. I don't see NU winning more that two conference games. It is more likely they win none. Currently Hoiberg is the worst coach in modern, power-conference history. The statistics do not lie. If I hadn't been an NU follower my whole life I'd not have believed it was possible to be this bad consistently for this long. Where does Fred find the stamina to face the media every week for years? Every press conference we hear the same claptrap. Does he actually believe it or is he refusing to resign because the money is too good? The Hoiberg-related contributions to NU baskeball now stand at thirteen years of losing basketball. His maternal grandfather Jerry Bush "led" Nebraska for nine years and never had a winning record. He percentages were .380 and .333 for overall and conference records respectively. Now Fred comes in and takes NU to even worse depths: .280 and .153! This is a man who makes $3.25 m. each year to produce laughable, embarrassing teams. If Alberts doesn't fire this man I don't know why anyone would waste money on tickets, concessions, merchandise or time and fuel costs. In protest I haven't spent one dime on NU basketball during Hoiberg's career, and I will continue the boycott until Alberts hires a coach who can give the fans a modicum of hope. NU men's athletics (big three sports) are a national joke. Athletic expenses are in the top-20 in all of Div. I sports yet they field losing teams (nearly) every year. Last night the announcers humorously asked the national audience to guess the last time NU won a tournament game, at which point he laughingly delivered the punch-line: NEVER! Something we who frequent this grim ghetto of cyberspace know, but is now a factoid many hundreds of thousands more know. Nearly all fans know how shitty the football program is, but at least the basketball team could fail in relative obscurity.... Does anyone not dropped on their head as a child think this team has any potential for success this season? What is success at NU? Thirteenth place in the conference? HB and I know the answer. I'm guessing Norm knows the answer too. Stop lying to yourselves. Even though NU under Hoiberg is the worst, it could get even more grim. They could fail to win a conference game, and then do it again next year. (Look at who they having coming back!) Say what you want about Abdelmassih but at least he brought talented players to the program. Granted Hoiberg did nothing with these recruits, but the type of players Hoiberg is involved with now are back to Collier and Sadler levels. Case in point: only at NU could a first-team Junior College All-American come in an be as worthless as Keita. Truly astonishing! Alberts fired an incompetent three games into the football season. What is he waiting for?

A.P.B. 66 NU 59 Fire Hoiberg now!

Looks like the preseason predictions (last place, yet again) are going to be correct. I have no idea what more Alberts needs to see in order to put an end to this catastrophe. The university is hemorrhaging money and all they get for it is national humiliation year after year. I would surmise any of the people who post on this forum would be summarily fired if they were so consistently awful in their chosen occupations, yet Hoiberg remains on the sidelines. What will it take? Imagine making this kind of money and producing garbage year after year. The team is as befuddled as Frost's were. No identity or execution- bad recruiting (and getting worse....). When Alberts does the inevitable, Hoiberg will take his place in the history books as the statistically the worst coach in a Power Six conference in NCAA history with a four year minimum. I'm not sure any Division One school has ever had one coach with a lower winning percentage than Hoiberg, although the official records must be sorted through again to make sure. Now that is saying something. Now let's see if the baseball team can extend the streak in major men's sports....

Every year is a long year at NU.

I second your opinion, tcp. This team is almost certainly a last-place team again, which will solidify Hoiberg as statistically the worst coach in the history of modern basketball among the so-called power conferences (he already is according to official basketball statistics). This year's iteration will struggle to find six wins. I think it is more likely they win five games than fifteen, and this in the coach's fourth year! Truly astonishing. To disabuse the optimists of any future success under Hoiberg, NU has been slipping back into their historically lowly position with recruits too. No longer do we see our name alongside good programs for high-school talent which we had with his "friend" Coach Abdelmassih. With Coach A, we at least had a chance to hope that his talented "head-cases" would do something.... This year's team can't shoot, rebound or even play good defense. I've watched this team practice, and have been suffering through NU basketball seasons for decades. This team and program is a joke- worse than any of Collier's, Sadler's or Miles'. An example of the idiocy is that Tominaga is on scholarship at a Big Ten school. This is unhinged. Hoiberg's vision is unsound. He belongs in a commentator's booth where he doesn't have to coach or recruit. He is bright and interesting, but then so am I as are many of you, but I know I don't possess skills enough to coach a basketball team, Mr. Hoiberg, alas, does not. I am wondering if or when Hoiberg will recognize what long-suffering fans have known for quite some time now: that he can't coach. Or will he be stubborn and stupid like Frost and force the A.D. to fire him? How much humiliation can one man take? He has millions. He could quietly retire and comfortably be forgotten without any worries about his finances. One depressing example of our ineptitude against CU was the meager production we saw w/ Keita against CU. He (Keita) was a first-team Junior college All-American given a chance to show what he can do with Walker not playing. Only at NU will a player with those accolades be a minor-to-non factor. I know it is only the second game, but can anyone with any knowledge of basketball think of a first team Juco All-American who plays for a shitty team without any post players and only ends up scoring two more points than a dead man? Breidenbach appears to be a total bust as well. Alberts simply needs to see if there is a coach who has the courage to take charge of the worst Power conference team in all of basketball. It shouldn't be too difficult to attract one. Remember, he will be paid a few million per year to follow the worst coach in basketball history. Perhaps Alberts takes action by mid-season, as he did with Frost. To be better, they simply need to hire the first applicant! Any coach not worried about his legacy should be happy to take millions per year to try to get NU out of the Big Ten cellar for a year or two. If somehow he has a year or two at thirteenth place in the league this will count as success. By the way, I'd agree to a contract for a twentieth of the money Hoiberg makes- and will guarantee four straight abysmal seasons, as I'm sure many of you would as well. As for the critics who will take issue with this assessment- go back and re-read my dire but completely accurate prediction of last year's team at the beginning of the season. The same fools who ineptly criticized me then will do it again this year. I was right then, and I will be right this year, and rather than offer a childish ad-hominim attack, try and offer a rebuttal to the statements made if you dare. Leave off with the kindergarten rejoinders. It makes you look dumber than you likely are. You are an NU basketball fan. inured to perpetual losing. You just don't want to be reminded.

OSU 87 NU 58 Husker Assists 10

Purdue 81 Nebraska 60

Illinois 84 NU 61

OSU 91 NU 66

You are correct about two of them redshirting, but that is part of my point: they are not good enough to break into the rotation on a rotten team. Essentially NU will be starting over for the fourth year in a row. This must end.