GhostOfJoeMcCray

A lot. His asking price was way higher than anyone we landed.

I’d like one that has an All-American type son or transfer who will follow him anywhere.

According to Robin, Rienk Mast is 100% returning to Nebraska. Phew.

He scored 31 points against Penn State in November. It's strange that he dropped from a 41% 3pt shooter in 2023-24 to 26% in 2024-25. However, he ended the season going 3-41 from 3 after scoring 38 points on Jan. 25. So prior to going ice cold after Jan. 25, he was shooting 37.7% from 3. I'll just chalk that up to he went off for 38 points in a game, got overly pumped about his game and proceeded to miss 38 of his next 41 threes because why not. Honestly, he sounds like a perfect Nebraska basketball player.

oh I know. What's the old GIF say..."our expectations for you were low, but holy .... "

Fair. Perhaps I was a bit harsh on Worster. Just can't get over 22% shooting from 3. For a point guard. Insane.

We added 7 transfers to the squad this year. If we're defining Brice as a stud and Juwan as above average, then in my opinion our additions went like this: 0 were studs 0 were above average 3 were average role players (Essegian, Morgan, Berke) 2 were below average role players (Meah, Worster) 2 were complete whiffs (Ulis, Griffiths) That's a pretty crazy miss rate. And yet we were that close to being a tournament team. Some considerations: *Essegian could be viewed as above average for 2024-25 but hard for me to think that when he wasn't even a starter on a team that didn't make the Big Ten Tournament *Morgan and Berke are players who could have seen bench minutes for most Big Ten teams *Worster was what he was, which put bluntly is just not good enough for a team competing in the Big Ten *Meah is a borderline complete whiff but a little unfair to him because we used him in ways that went far beyond his skillset and we didn't actually utilize him for what he was OK at

Unfortunately, this is correct. We didn’t get some of the guys we brought in and ended up desperate and overpaid to get Berke and Braxton. The highest paid player on a Big Ten team shouldn’t be a career 4.9 and 4.4 big man from Fresno State/Washington. I hope we do a better job being aggressive with some studs right away this year. The way I see it we have 4 starting lineup spots up for grabs. Our money better be heavily spent on dudes who can score the ball. wait too long to lock in some dudes and you’re at risk of spending the same money on players who aren’t as good.

redshirting may not exist anymore anyway if the 5-in-5 rule is passed. Which would be good because redshirting is such a waste these days when you can instantly add new players any time you want to. Janowski might have helped us win a couple more games this year when we couldn’t buy a 3 to save our lives. It could’ve been the difference between dancing and not. Was it really worth it to see how good Nick Janowski is in 2028-29? Probably 10% chance he is even at Nebraska in 2028-29. Frager I can sort of get on board with because of how young he was. But still.

I am guilty of glossing over the fact that a lot of guys told us no last year and we probably ended up taking guys we didn't really want to but had to.

Rollie actually had the best season of his career in turnovers per game. His offensive numbers this season are pretty similar to his averages at Utah except for one key area...he averaged 2.6 assists per game after averaging 5.2 in his last 2 years at Utah. Probably some combination of our guys not being able to score, and for whatever reason he didn't create for guys. The lesson I've learned here is to not buy into transfer hype. We tend to hype up every guy that signs with us and assume they will make contributions beyond what they previously have done before. Their numbers are who they are, and the odds of someone turning out much better than their numbers (aka Brice) are low. Braxton, Rollie, Berke, Andrew, Ahron and Gavin all performed at or below their career numbers. Berke maybe slightly better only because he played a lot more, but his shooting numbers were pretty much identical. Connor had a chance to be as good as his freshman year or as bad as his sophomore year and at least he was more like his freshman year. Otherwise, nothing any of these guys did or didn't do should have been that shocking to us. That goes for GG too, who shot 32% as a freshman and 28% from 3 and had 10 more turnovers than assists. This year he shot 34% and 25% from 3.

I’m gonna have this framed and hung on my wall.

they had to think one of Berke or GG would be big-time threats from 3. Unfortunately struck out twice.