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As usual, good stuff Norm.

Yep, I have always thought that if we could have pulled out those few heartbreaking loses that season and made it to the dance and won a/some games....that it would have been a great/cool national story ( the mighty mites ). Maybe that could have spurred on some better things recruiting wise. Things were going well to that point ( over-achieving for sure ) for Doc and he just couldn't get that corner turned. His 5th year we had that opportunity to get that corner turned again and just couldn't at the end there. ps- Marcus was only on Doc's first team...maybe his second, almost positive not on the mighty-mite team.

Great post !!

Agree Dave, this game was really HUGE. Just a great game to capstone this amazing season. I think coach Miles has done an amazing job and I'm not using hyperbole. I fully expected this season to be just brutal, routinely getting blasted by 20-40 points by the big boys in our conference. Can we pull off yet another gutty performance tomorrow ? If not, it will do very little to diminish my enthusiasm.

I kind of remember that too. I believe it was after an away TCU game in the NIT ( not sure if we won, but Cary had 21-25 points in the game ). He had had this really nice game and Danny was dogging on him....his way of motivating I guess. Maybe like Doc with Ryan Anderson his freshman year. I'll never forget a practice I was at...it made me uncomfortable watching. I swore he was trying to get Ryan to quit the team. Now I see the bigger picture OR maybe he really was trying to get him to quit the team

He was not. Great shooter but people questioned his size for the 2 guard and his athleticism. But like Wagner, his dad was his coach. IIRC, it was between us and Colorado ( there might have been another team in there too ) for his signature.

From what I'm seeing by blowing up the picture is that there are 17-18 rows pictured in the lower bowl. I think there should be another 8-10 rows of 'floor seating' installed below the yellow railing that we see. Does anybody agree with this? Or is what we are seeing the entire lower bowl? Absolutely, if you look at the very first picture from the op, there is 10' or more of space where the bottom seating will go.

And with those added pictures ( thanks 49r ), I'll say again, it looks steeper than the previous renderings I've seen. I'm sure someone on here got to see the model display that was at the Devaney before one of the games, does it square with the actuals we are seeing here. What I am specifically getting at is....do you think the upper levels at the PBA will be closer to the action than at the Devaney ? Maybe higher but more vertical than back away ( like the Devaney), if that makes sense.

It looks "steeper" than the renderings I have seen. I hope what me eyes are seeing in these pictures is accurate.

Really is impressive. Way to go Ray !

I guarantee you this article is a complete and total fabrication. The word "again" appeared once, and it was used by the author, and did not appear in a Sadler quote. No way in hell. LOL cip !!

"....I threw all the other things out the door as fast as I could and got down here as fast as I could before he changed his mind" speaking of when Bill Self offered him a position. Pretty good line. Nothing in there strikes me the wrong way after a quick read. Still love Doc. Really love Tim Miles though.

As recent as the Collier years there was some camping out and getting there real early stuff going on IIRC.

Norm, I'm thinking the other guy you are thinking of was Norris Coleman at KSU ?

That's why.....Until things get rolling, they need to tell us nose-bleeders or "up highers" ( 49r's reference ) to "COME ON DOWN". In all seriousness, I wonder what they will do. I really doubt they will sell all those to the students next year. Unless some major promoting is going on and the students buy in. Even if they sell them, what if they aren't consistently showing up until things get more juicy ( conference season ). If they don't sell them out and there is not much hope of that, I wonder if they would do what they did in late 80's - early 90's --sell those to the general public. I'd be ALL over that.

Hopefully they work like heck to get a bunch of students down there. The new arena will surely get some added interest and coach has done his part to get the interest level up. That is still a bunch of seats to fill though. I guess since I will likely be "up top", I'm hoping game by game if the student seats are sparse, at the first media break the announcer says "come on down". Better to get people down there right ?

I was at this game !! They didn't show it on TV, but when DC fouled out they were giving him the old "left right left right" and DC points to the scoreboard. Kind of like " are kidding me...we are killing you guys, look at the score". Man, did we have a solid roster..... a little young and not crazy big, but a real solid roster.

Does Kansas count? chuckle, chuckle ...good point. Ron Kellogg, Cedric Hunter, TJ Pugh....did I miss anyone ?

I thought this was kind of neat and didn't know where to post it, so I'll stick it here on this thread... So things on the court are finally winding down about 5-10 minutes after the game. I think the players have mostly headed for the locker room. I happen to notice Shavon walking on the court in front of Matt and Kent's table heading the opposite way of where he would head to the locker rooms. He appears to be heading over to shake someone's hand like he knows them. He does that and then just keeps shaking people's hands as he heads to the end of the court long ways along the VIP seats. Finally he kind of ran out of people and turned and headed for the locker room. I assume he was just thanking people for being there or simply greeting them. I thought that was a nice touch on his part. I was standing up higher in the arena still...rats, wish I could have said hello.

As you go West on Military from 14th street there is a little side street or alley that jets to the North between the military area and the Indian Center. You can fit 20-30 cars in there--there are no preventative signs or nothing. And if that was full, I'd just keep going North and turn into the Military lot ( which is south of UNL Transportation Services ). There are signs to not park there, but clearly the hoops crowd did and they didn't do anything about it. 2 or 4 years ago, I believe the Creighton game was on a Sunday at 1 or 2 PM. I parked in this tiny church parking lot of this tiny little charismatic Vietnamese church or maybe it was Spanish speaking...can't now remember. It was north of Devaney around 14th and Saunders. I wasn't the least bit worried...church was over for the day right ? After the game, me and my buddy walk back to the car and we are TOTALLY boxed in and the service is really going on inside. I'm not about to go in there and interrupt anything...so we wait and wait and wait. Finally some people come out and they kind of see us there and after talking to them seem to understand our plight. The fella says they are almost done...it took another 45 minutes and that was after talking to a few more folks coming and going. We were in that lot for at least 2 hours after the game. Not a huge deal, I hadn't talked to my friend for awhile and we kind of got caught up on things. That was an odd situation for sure.

More than a couple of years ago ( I know, you didn't mean it literally ). Pretty sure he was the same class and therefor on the same JC team out there with Bernard Garner ( mentioned above ). I think Bernard's Sr year here was the year before we last made the tournament.

Strickland, Boone and Woodridge for sure. I keep thinking there is someone else but can't come up with anyone....Badgett was the year before. Mikki, the year after.....

Good stuff HB !! I'll add a few. -90/91 season the band playing "Another one bites the dust" as each game is winding down and victory is sure -favorite signs that I remember-- "Big Country Dork" and "Where in the Sam Hill did you get those ears ?" -Roy Williams asking me if he could barrow my blond wig when he needed to yell at the refs -pep band mocking the refs by playing "3 blind mice" when the calls were not going our way

Creighton in Doc's first season was close. I don't think we were ever down by 21, though. FWIW, that was Doc's third season where we were down by about 20 at the half. First season, IIRC, was a pretty tight game throughout and we pulled away at the end to win by 10 or so.

So was our biggest deficit 19 ? Man, sports are weird things. I was in the stands and that whole game is kind of a blur. Amazing comeback.