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This is a Wednesday

FWIW

We play a minimum of 29 or max of 31 games, depending on if we play in a tourney. Currently where we're at 0. D-1 Exhibition game open to the public 1. 11/12 Sam Houston 2. 11/19 Idaho State 3. 12/19 Kansas St 4. Kennesaw State 5. Creighton 6. ACC Team 7. SEC Team? (per Hoiberg on the Big Red Blitz) 8. 9. 10. If tourney 11. If tourney

I think we play Idaho State on Nov 19th, which is a Friday. Also it would seem we've guaranteed them at least 90l to come here, in case anyone was curious about the scale of money we pay teams to come play us.

6'0" PG out of Kenwood in Chicago. I wonder if Iowa St will offer.

Of the 3 2023 guys we offered from Mac Irvin, this is the 5 star with offers from Duke, Kansas, etc

5'11", 2023 PG out of Charlotte, NC

He's brought up in a couple of places. The SI scout on him seems pretty thorough. https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-combine-invitations-suggest-could-110741019.html https://www.si.com/nba/2021/06/14/2021-nba-draft-sleepers-jason-preston-raiquan-gray

Coaches are visiting around the state on Wednesday, June 16th. You can get the full details here Here is where the basketball coaches will be Hoiberg with MC Kent Pavelka: Grand Island (TRAUDT!), Hastings Armon Gates: Alliance, Scottsbluff Doc Sadler: Ogallala, Imperial Nate Loenser: North Platte, Kearney Buzzy Caruthers: Lexington, Holdrege

I don't know if the dates are accurate but here is a spreadsheet that is being kept of all the schedules https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f92l7DfP9PVPQYJ3w9tHe24UNDVPvsV-OikpSxqlJ6s/edit#gid=265726261

Kenwood Academy is now coached by Mike Irvin, the youngest son of Mac Irvin and the current coach of the same Mac Irvin AAU squad.

6'3" PG from Minneapolis https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/taison-chatman

Nebraska is adding on Hallice Cooke and Keenan Holdman, who will join Athan Katsantonis. Cooke is probably a familiar sounding name as he was a high level prospect who we've talked about before on this board. Cooke played for Fred at Iowa St in addition to playing at Oregon St. and Nevada. Holdman played at Hardin Simmons University and Mary Hardin-Baylor, putting up over 900 points in his career and graduated in 2020. Apparently he worked some with Phil Beckner in player development.

There was an article about Albert in the LJS on Sunday. Wasn't familiar with his life at all so it was a good read. https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/being-black-in-lincoln-albert-maxey-recalls-his-days-walking-the-beat/article_8b1a1013-b9fb-5a3a-8a09-db343eaf13fc.html Also added a couple of more as Al has led and is still leading a remarkable life https://nebpreps.com/a-walk-with-albert-maxey/ https://journalstar.com/news/local/cindy-lange-kubick-albert-maxey-and-teammates-leading-the-parade/article_097d27b3-3321-5f83-84ed-450829be764b.html

I would think of the NIL stuff as lifting restrictions placed specifically on college athletes, not as some sort of additional benefit.

This isn't exactly accurate This is a response from the "power 5". All the conference released the same statement The "Autonomous Power 5" deal come from 2015

Regional Final for the first time since 2007 for a squad picked to finish around 6th in the B1G. Remarkable outcome.

You'll find that if you go to the verbal commits page on a guy it will often link his twitter account. It doesn't seem like a great idea to focus on that sort of stuff here though as we've all have seen the bad side of social media.

Weird, we didn't make him try on 3 different uniforms.

Here is hoping it turns out as well as your salsa

Opendorse has 20+ college clients and counting. Lot of other schools are doing their own thing. At the end of the day, NIL is a selling point like the arena or the fanbase...it's something that the coaching staff has at its disposal for selling a kid on why they should come here. The NIL stuff is nice but at the end of the day It's the combination of Fred and Matt that has all these kids here.

Doc, getting the news at his vacation house

Really neither have anything to do with one another because either would happen without the other; that doesn't mean they can't enhance each other. The dead period ended on Tuesday so we were always going to gear up to have visits in June. The NIL era starts in July so opendorse was going to gear up for that. Thus, Opendorse and Nebraska talking up their relationship this week makes a lot of sense.

BLOWING UP THE ROSTER IS OUR THING!!!