HuscurAdam

His pride was bruised during the loss to Nebraska so he's been granted a medical hardship and will return to Wisconsin as a 6th year Junior.

The pack line that we currently run has always been a poor fit to pair with Fred’s system and its inherent trade-off of size for skill. A ball pressure defense would mesh better by creating more opportunities for turnovers to run off of. If you’re going to give up some mismatches no matter what, might as well try to maximize transition opportunities. However, no defense is going to be effective unless we get more athletic on the perimeter, with the classic 3 & D guy being a glaring hole in our lineup. Trey could be that guy if he could knock down 38%.

Great article... Omaha.com: Nebraska commit Blaise Keita is chasing his basketball dream for his family and country I absolutely cannot wait to root for this kid next season!

Speaking of what might have been, imagine if we brought in Verge out of Juco instead of Cam Mack. He could have gotten his growing pains out of the way during the first year rebuild. Who knows where he could have led this team. Only question is whether he would have made the jump to the NBA after last year. The history of Nebrasketball always sees to come back to "what if."

Key target for whoever UNO's next coach is.

Corn 77 Not NU 73 1 win

Corn 78 Brad Davison's Punchable Face 73

This is all 100% true, but there is still one big open question. They have been right there in a bunch of games this season right up until the last few minutes. In those critical minutes, it seems like everyone wants to be "the guy" and everyone stops running the offense. Even in games where the ball movement has been pretty good, they revert to hero ball in the closing minutes and, predictably games go off the rails. The blowout vs PSU didn't tell us anything about whether any progress has been made in that area.

Corn 77 Nuts 84 3 players w/ zero TOs

Yeah, I didn't realize Beilein is quite as old as he is. Marshall has to much baggage to even consider and I wouldn't be excited about Turgeon at all. He was good, not great with a pretty good situation at Maryland; I have doubts he could produce similar results in Lincoln.

John Beilein fits *exactly* the mold of Trev's previous hires at UNO. Older, experienced coaches with a history of winning big who are currently out of coaching for one reason or another. (See: Blais, Dean & Warming, Bob)

Bad Corn 105 Good Corn 62

Corn 77 NW 79

People should consider Trev's track record of coach hiring when thinking of candidates. Trev seems to have "a type." His high-profile hires at UNO were Dean Balis (Hockey) and Bob Warming (Soccer). Both are very experienced coaches who won at a high level in their previous jobs, and as it happens were out of coaching at the time they were hired. Another point is I recall Trev being asked about NU never having a Black head coach in any sport, and noting something to the effect of...the time has come for that to change and hurts in recruiting in all sports. I suspect he'll look to hire a Black coach if he determines there is a *well-qualified* candidate who is a good fit here, not necessarily with this hire, but at some point in the next handful of openings. These things may have no relevance to a potential replacement for Fred, but I would at least keep it in mind.

Same (only 12 years though)

Who TF voted for Tom Crean?!?!?!?

I Like Turtles 69 Corn 75

Good Corn 81 Bad Corn 77 (Shock Shuck the world!) 3 Huskers w/ 5 rebounds

That makes sense, but if competing for championships was more important to him than playing with his brother, then he could have done that this year.

Respectfully, I disagree with your argument but agree with your conclusion. The optics would be bad not because of the economy, but because the university and athletic department are in a tough place financially due to the pandemic and its impact on revenue. It looks bad to pay one guy $18.5 million to go away when you were just laying people off last year. However, the broader economy impacts everyone differently based on the particulars of their finances. Inflation due to economic growth isn't bad for some (such as myself) if wage growth outpaces the price increases, but for others on a fixed income it is a significant burden. I'm sure there are lots of Husker fans in both categories who have opinions all over the map about the buyout (and the economy).

We're not in a recession though. Quite the opposite, actually.

If he plays another year in college I'm somewhat confident it would be at NU. I think Bryce would still want to play with Trey, and he can't transfer again without sitting out.

Go-furs 69 Corn 73 (I gotta be right picking NU at some point )

Mildcats 69 Corn 73 (Gotta happen eventually, right? RIGHT?!?)

Corn 65 Wolvies 82