Husker Hoops Penitent

UI: 98 NU 59

PU 97 NU 53

I have to eat humble pie: I was one of the worst offenders re: Stevenson. I thought he would be one of our best.

Still have a shot at 0-20!

Huskerpapa, I think the new normal will be close, if not exactly like your list above. America is now a failed state, rapidly devolving into a third world disaster. It likely won't improve (look at the history of empires), but the one certainty is the last one, which henceforth shall apply to both basketball (obviously), and football. The "wait 'til next year" shibboleth will finally go into the long night once the last person born in the 1980s dies. As is said about scientific advances: they progress one funeral at a time. Happy new year anyway, Husker faithful.

Agree, hhcscott! Take heart, I worked out the simulations and the computer vomited out the following: NU will actually be a near-bubble team (in February) in 2044, so take your vitamins!

I'm with you- and writing this from the asylum in which I have been contained since the 70s when I began torturing myself each winter. I won't give up and still thank God the He sent us Coach Hoiberg. It isn't hard to let go and hope for better results next year, and as several keen observes have noted- our metrics are improving. The record isn't but eventually the math will begin to make sense in the macro. Here's to a happy and blessed new year for each one of you on this board. God be praised!

Fantastic. That likely means we will only lose all our games by twenty-five!

Looks like we will defend our last-place crown. 0-20 all the way!

MSU 101 NU 44

Unless Walker is, as a contributor to this board said, "a miracle", we can file this in the ocean-size cabinet of sad, embarrassing and hopeless NU basketball seasons. My guess is nothing good will happen and the season will bleed out as it always does. Many of us know what two blowout losses to start the conference season portends- absolutely no chance of having a good season. I'm wondering if NU wins one conference game this season. Friends, we are currently on a 0-19 streak in conference.

UM- 74 NU- 66

I hope to see Banton put together two excellent years, then be picked as a high first round choice. It is nice seeing the mention of two incoming Huskers, McGowens and Breidenbach as future draftees, and I still hold out hope than coaches Hoiberg and Abdelmassih can land Traudt which would really establish the program. As for this year perhaps we get a reprieve what with the immediate eligibility of Lakes, and the return of Andre and likely starter, Walker. With two significant contributors, coupled with Andre possibly being more than the usual stiff NU annually trots out into the paint, this season might see a real improvement. Without them I thought we were in real trouble, although when I look at the starters, plus Webster (who I really like) and Thorb. and Stevenson I am perplexed at the struggles we have seen. Surely it must be the mere lack of time together because this team has real talent. Anyway, here's to reversing the trajectory. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun!

Not exactly a glowing estimate of Andre's potential. If the coach states it this way I can only imagine what it will actually be like. How tedious. The perpetual dearth of serviceable, to say nothing of a quality post player at NU is downright grim. What the bloody, f*****g hell does it take to get someone with ability to accept a free scholarship at the university?

So far the lowest percentage is 10, the highest, a rather incredible 40. I think 10% seems about right. Should that obtain, the current staff will have a conference record of 4 wins and 38 losses. Bonus question: which team (basketball or football) will have a winning conference record first?

I agree. I really hope they can hang on to Allen and see if they can squeeze out a good year to start some momentum for future years. A big if....

We are wasting scholarships with Ouedraogo and Arop. We shall see about Wood and Andre. If Wood doesn't see minutes on a team this bad it doesn't look good going forward. I have noted good teams sign freshmen who play. Rarely do good teams sign players who don't contribute as freshmen in some meaningful way, let alone horrible teams like NU. In any case, NU has no business throwing away scholarships particularly early in Hoiberg's tenure. They may not have a large window to sign real talent if they continue to vomit up wretched squads.

How right you are UnicamMan. If Hoiberg doesn't lose the team through another win-loss record then he can teach and prepare for next year when another talent upgrade is coming to be added to the nucleus of this year's squad. I pray he can keep the contributors from this team or we will be in the same situation next year too. I thought when NU signed Frost and Hoiberg in consecutive years we'd be sailing along nicely. Now we are looking at five combined losing seasons in five cumulative years.

Great post. I do think this team will finish last in the conference again, but maybe if they return the key players (and kick loose those who can't contribute- you know who they are) then the newcomers might help NU crawl out of the cellar. This will take years to build. I'm resolutely behind Hoiberg, but it is going to be awful for a while.

Iowa will cut down the nets this year.

Perhaps Covid will mercifully put and end to this garbage. (then the dreamers can say what if....)

Perhaps aiming for the top 175 might be more realistic. (cough) NU sucks again. Nothing has changed. Maybe next year the players coming in will live up to their billing at least by half.

Revising my prediction: CU- 209 NU- 17

Hoiberg reminded the media how the second ISU team really turned it around in the second year. Yes, and so did Oklahoma football in Stoops' second year. What the bloody, f*****g hell does that have to do with Nebraska? Once again NU stinks. Once again they have no inside game. None! Once again, no consistent shooting. Neither from the floor, from the three, nor from the line. And once again I wish someone could tell me why Ouedraogo has a scholarship on a Big Ten team. Same with Arop (who wouldn't have helped had he not been injured) since he can't shoot well either (notice the theme). Nothing from freshman Wood either. Great! My guess is he was a lure for B. McGowens and nothing more. I will be surprised if Andre gives us anything when he returns given his all-too-familiar biography: the the 'new to the game but really talented' rap. Good teams almost never have freshmen/sophomores who don't play at all only to blossom later. It is highly correlative that a good player plays early on or not at all. They will get Walker back so thankfully we won't have to see Ouedraogo play anymore but it won't make much difference in the win/loss column. Look at the schedule NU has to look forward to: Creighton, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Ohio State, Michigan, Purdue, Rutgers and the rest of the conference.... Nebraska has no chance of consistently winning against these type of teams. No chance. I have been watching and studying NU for decades and I already know this team has no chance to be good, or likely even decent. Every year we seem like a team from Division II arbitrarily sent to a conference out of their class. Initially I guardedly thought we had a chance to reverse fortune with Hoiberg yet here we are doing our annual embarrassing disappearing act. Their position in cellar again looks secure for another year. Perhaps next year their "heralded recruiting class" will help them climb into the 12th or 13th position. I find this perplexing because Hoiberg has a sterling national reputation. He is reputedly a brilliant basketball mind yet we see the same rotten product on the court that we have seen for decades. It doesn't seem to matter whether Hoiberg is coaching or it is coached by all the lousy ones who preceded him. I have several old friends who think there is something more ominous and ineluctable afoot here, though that is a topic for the more esoterically inclined.... In summary, after all the delusional, pathologically optimistic contributors to this forum tell me to go away due to my negativity, refer back to this post on 7 March after Northwestern finishes boat-racing NU, which should leave them sitting at something like 0-20 or 2-18 in conference play and then tell me I'm wrong. Friends, our team is shit. We are shit in football, we are shit in baseball and we are double-shit in our beloved basketball. So mote it be.

At least a modicum of sanity prevails here, as one one deluded fan has NU winning, and by one point at that! Creighton will skull-f*ck NU as they do nearly every year. This year's iteration at NU is as woeful as any other. Once again they have absolutely no one inside that is competent. They five-out system is a joke especially if they can't shoot as a team (they can't!). I have no idea what Hoiberg is thinking, just as I think Frost is completely in over his head. Maybe they get a little better when Walker returns, but it won't likely make much of a ripple. The Big ten is a league for men. The media are correct: NU will finish last again. CU- 94 NU-61 There's always next year...!