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Beard was an assistant under both Knights at Tech for 10 years.

For the sake of thoroughness Steve Prohm is making $2 a year but his buyout is about $3M

Some of it is because of a lifetime of basketball being an afterthought. Some of it is because we've kept a coach around where it very much seems like he's been on the chopping block for 4 years (him not winning is definitely part of that) It's inevitable that Miles is going to be fired and the point is that doesn't fix anything. Is hiring a mid-major guy or assistant while leaking stories of the big names we *almost* hired any different from hiring Miles or Sadler or Barry or Nee or Cipriano? Is 'we couldn't spend enough because we're paying the football coach an awful lot and the academic side is doing poorly so here' so this is the hire a commitment to basketball? It's not about not believing Bill Moos can't spend money on a guy he knows he can win; he's done it with Mike Leach and hopefully Scott Frost. The issue is whether or not we will make our biggest hire since picking up Harry Good in 1946 from Indiana because Branch McCracken was back from the war. Do that and there is your buy-in. Otherwise we're just gambling that an Athletic Department that really doesn't seem to know how to achieve basketball success is gong to get lucky. I'll go to bat for whomever we hire but for the love of Jumbo Stiehm get very, very serious here.

Notes and quotes Nebraska Postgame Notes *-Nebraska committed only five turnovers against Purdue, tying for its fewest turnovers in a game this season. *-Nebraska held Purdue to 37.7 percent, making the ninth time NU held an opponent under 40 percent. NU is 7-2 in those games. *-Glynn Watson Jr. finished with a season-high 25 points, topping his season high set against Western Illinois on Nov. 24. It was his 13th career 20-point game and the first time he has scored 20 points in a Big Ten Conference game since a 21-point effort at Penn State on Jan. 12, 2018. *-With five 3-pointers against Purdue, Watson tied Ray Gallegos for seventh place on Nebraska’s 3-point chart with 158. *- Today’s game marked the fourth time this season that Glynn Watson Jr. connected on at least four 3-pointers in a game and the first time since Dec. 29, against Southwest Minnesota State. He also had five 3-pointers against Mississippi Valley State and four against Missouri State. *-James Palmer Jr. had 15 points – his 24th consecutive game in double figures – and a season-high eight assists. Palmer’s eight assists ties were one shy of his career high of nine assists at Minnesota on Feb. 6, 2018. *-Palmer went 10-of-10 at the free throw line, marking the second time this season Palmer has been perfect at the line in at least 10 attempts (11-for-11 vs. Michigan State on Jan. 17). With his 10 free throws, he moved past Terran Petteway (167 in 2013-14) and into second place on Nebraska’s season chart with 175 free throws this season. Palmer is just nine away from tying Jack Moore’s school record of 184 free throws in the 1979-80 season. *-Amir Harris tied his career high with six points, which he also had against Mississippi Valley State in the season opener. *-Tanner Borchardt’s seven rebounds marked the seventh time this season he has grabbed seven or more rebounds in a game this season. Borchardt also made a career-high four free throws, hitting 4-of-5 from the charity stripe. Nebraska Coach Tim Miles On what he takes from the last two games “I don’t take much from the Penn State game. It was extremely disappointing, right? Tonight is disappointing in its own way, but obviously I’m proud of our guys. I thought they were just a couple plays away from winning. I think that things you look at, like Purdue really [made] a couple hustle plays at the end of the clock out of Grady [Eifert]. He gets the cut (on the inbounds play with one second on the shot clock). We’re zoned up to try and take away the lob or cut, and he ends up scoring. Then he catches the air ball and puts it in. Those are two big plays. Their sprint-and-slip thing, they got us at the end of the first half. Those are, what, seven points, if I do the math. We miss a couple bunnies inside that are point blank. It just doesn’t take much. Your margin of error is not great.” On the disappointment from key plays “I threw my water bottle. You know, I look at it overall and I’m like, ‘Okay, did we follow the game plan?’ Yes, I thought we did. We did a good job harassing their perimeter guys. We did a very good job on Carsen Edwards. His efficiency was not great. You know that when you’ve committed two to the ball on all those DHO’s that you might be weak rebounding. We knew we were going to play [Matt] Haarms and [Trevion] Williams straight up in the post, but two at a time. So you put yourself in a position, and it comes down to a couple extra effort plays or whatever it might be, and that’s why Purdue is Purdue. Matt Painter is one of the best coaches in the country, there’s no doubt about it, but I thought our kids really did a great job.” On how close the team is to overcoming the costly errors “First of all, I think you just credit Purdue and Grady Eifert. Those are very good plays. Credit the victor, right? Second of all, I don’t think we made a mistake. I don’t think we’re out anything. It was a scramble situation defensively. Sometimes the game breaks you. The locker room… well you could see how Glynn [Watson Jr.] was. They’re a disappointed bunch of guys.” Senior Guard Glynn Watson Jr. On his hot start today “Just playing hard, just playing within the offense.” On defending Carsen Edwards and holding him to 3-of-16 shooting “I’m just going to step up to the challenge no matter what. Try to bring it on defense, just trying to play with energy and confidence on defense.” On if he felt they played a full 40 minutes “I’d say 35. We had a couple breakdowns at the end that cost us rebounds and stuff like that. I thought we played hard the whole game.” On if he felt the team was in sync “I think we were on the same page. We’ve just got to communicate more on the floor and execute.” Purdue Coach Matt Painter On Purdue’s offensive rebounding “Our effort was really good. I thought when our shots went up, our guys were very active on the glass, keeping balls alive, getting some kick-out threes, getting some put backs. Grady (Eifert) has been huge for us all year with his effort with kind of those 50/50 plays. It’s something that when we were struggling to score right there at the end a little bit. Him getting those put backs made the difference.” On Purdue’s changes in the second half of the Big Ten season “Obviously, our defense has gotten better. I’ve said this, it’s not like we’ve arrived defensively, as we’re a great defensive team. We’re just a lot better than we used to be. But you can’t gauge your efficiency on missed shots, especially when you shoot a lot of threes. You have to be able to make good decisions, pass the ball, move the basketball and when your shots aren’t going down, it’s a hard thing to move past that. Especially for us, with all the threes that we take, but you find a way to win. A lot of people will dig at how you win as you progress, but you find a way to win. We went to Indiana, we were fortunate, but we found a way to win. When we came here today, we were fortunate again, but we still found a way. I think this is what good teams do. And to be able to hang in here, make our free throws, not turn the basketball over, and out-rebound them by 17 and have 19 offensive rebounds, you’ll take that. Obviously we have a lot of misses in there, but as long as your effort is good and your energy is good, normally things are going to work out for you.” On how tough it is to play on the road in the Big Ten “For Nebraska, they have great fans. Indiana has great fans. You know you’re going to go into a hostile environment. To be able to come here in blizzard-like conditions and see all these fans, it’s pretty cool. It shows the loyalty and support they get here at Nebraska. Just hostile environments in the Big Ten. I think our attendance has been the No. 1 in the country as a conference for 43 years. It speaks for itself, but we have great venues. If you got to go on the road and play, you know it’s going to be difficult. It doesn’t matter if that team is ranked first in your league or 14th in your league, it does not matter. You know it’s going to be difficult.”

Let's keep the 1% talk to the 1% of coaches please and thank you

The issue here isn't about keeping Miles; it's about what sort of roadblocks or self-sabitoge we will come up after that happens.

I think TO would give an introspective look into what would generally make for a successful coach here but could he do so under the frame of mind that basketball is as vital to this school as football? When he was offering the job to Gregg Marshall last time would a bigger sell of resources, salary, commitment, etc have done the trick?

You didn't actually listen to this if you think it was a pro-Miles rant. He is essentially saying that the administration has no more excuses, a sentiment that should extend well beyond firing the coach.

Combination of playing at home and Purdue isn't an elite defense. Michigan might hold us under 50

Purdue 67 Neb 62

Nebraska Cornhuskers (15-12) vs #15 Purdue Boilermakers (19-7) Date: Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019 Time: 1:00 p.m. - GAME TIME HAS MOVED BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER Arena: PBA Broadcast: BTN Courtesy of @HuskerHoops Purdue Info Head Coach: Matt PainterLocation: West Lafayette, INConference: B1G 10Nickname: BoilermakersMascots: Boilermaker Special, Purdue Pete Last time out: Beat Indiana Conference Record: 12-3 Typical Rotation Depth: 9+ Line: Purdue by 12 Arena: PBA Player to watch: Carson Edwards The 6'1" Jr PG is a B1G POTY candidate and leads the league in scoring at 24.5 per game. If you haven't had a chance to see him this year you'll find that he is always open because he can create a shot whenever he wants. He's only scored under 20 in seven games this year. KenPom Helps explain the Roster PG SG SF PF C Pct 1 3 Carsen Edwards 6-1 200 Jr 14 Ryan Cline 6-6 195 Sr 20 Nojel Eastern 6-6 220 So 24 Grady Eifert 6-6 220 Sr 32 Matt Haarms 7-3 250 So 24.3 Purdue runs the 3rd most efficient offense in Div 1 as they have a post players surrounded by 3pt shooters and it's all driven by Edwards Cline and Eifert are career 40%+ 3pt shooters. Cline is hitting over 50% in conference play Eastern is a slasher and elite defender who will be tasked with guarding Palmer Haarms is an elite shot blocker and efficient scorer who is now coming off the bench Talented 6'9" 280 Fr Trevion Williams has worked his way into the starting lineup and is an aggressive rebounder and scoring threat Freshmen 6'9" Aaron Wheeler, 6'3" Eric Hunter, and 6'4" Sasha Stefanovic are 10 minute a game backups who aren't as good at this point as the starters Dartmouth grad transfer Evan Boudreaux hasn't proven to be quick enough defensively or skilled enough offensively to find playing time recently Last time vs Purdue: A Nebraska team that bottomed out at home vs Maryland went toe to toe with Purdue on the road in the first half. Purdue came out on a run and Nebraska could never close the gap. Carson Edwards led all players with 27. The Skinny: Nebraska comes in here after a true beat down on the road at Penn St and their overall trend outside of PBA makes Michigan and Michigan St look like lost causes. At home Nebraska tends to play defense and typically tends to respond with effort after loses but who knows where those guys are at with all the noise swirling around the program. Purdue very recently finds themselves in a mini slump playing on the road where they haven't scored over 56 points in their two games in February. As poor as Nebraska has looked offensively since losing Copeland this isn't an elite defense that Purdue rolls out so you can see the path to a win. While it's a very dangerous game trying to make Edwards beat you by himself isn't the worst strategy because he will continue to shoot regardless of whether or not he has it. Taking the rest of the team out of the very well ends with them just sitting around like what you often see with Nebraska when it's too Palmer heavy. On offense you'll probably end up seeing a bunch of 3pt shots because that is what Purdue gives you. In some ways it seems like driving to the rim will be extra futile this game as referees are also people who do not want to drive in a blizzard and it's tough to see them slowing down this game with incidental contact. On the other hand hopefully this helps to keep Roby and Borchardt in the game. Due to the weather this has the potential to be one of the smallest crowds Nebraska will play in front of at home this year and a chance at becoming a Devaney Center-esque 'come down to the lower bowl' game. This is the type of game where you can say you can see how the Huskers won this one. It's more likely a game where you can see how they lost it. Prediction: Purdue 67 - Nebraska 62 View full article

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I'm rolling solo and the people I sit with won't be there. If there no one at this game I'll try and move to a section and I'll tweet it out and post it on here. I'll probably shoot for behind the basket student section because we can yell at Purdue FT shooters in the second half if it's a close game

He had a second FT coming so it's possible he wins this without the extra one. He did miss the second one on purpose after the freebie to run out the clock

I think I"m right about the position we are in to move but whether or not we do is a whole other deal

The foundation of the built facilities, the financial position of athletics, and our current AD having the reputation of spending puts us in possibly the best position at any time in our history to go out and land a big fish.

I'd assume that the publicity shot would show the brand new NCAA banner we're hanging somewhere in the background

The ol' "make Happ shoot until he is tired" strategy from last year

Exactly. The athletic department doesn't have the formula for winning in basketball on a budget here. VCU, Xavier, Butler, etc have the combination of support system internally and general idea of what type of coach will work in their conference and at their school where they can find the right diamond in the rough. This is why they are "basketball schools". If you gave us 10 mid-major or assistant coaches and there were 2 of them that would absolutely work here do you think we would pick one of those two? Seems unlikely because we'd just try to pick the guy that was opposite of whatever flaw we thought was the problem with the last guy. For all of Miles shortcomings and failings we know the guy can recruit players capable of playing in this conference. Mid major guy who can coach...can he recruit? Assistant can recruit...can he run a program. New guy comes in and what he needs can't be done "because football". We're talking about blowing up everything for the chance to do the same thing again. In that scenario, let's see if Jervay Green is the NBA level combo guard that Miles absolutely needs to be successful. Now, if we can look ourselves in the mirror and know that we need to bring in a guy who absolutely knows how to get it done and we can go out and make it happen? Are we ready to get a guy from the 'list of obvious guys' and prepared to make it happen? In that scenario, we're most likely going to get a guy who will be more successful than Miles and we should proceed.

Formula for beating Purdue 1. Slow pace 2. Make Carson Edwards beat you (him taking over 35% of their shots) and hope he's not up to the job

Please do not because it's not like a hit job fixes a hit job here. Internet search engines will typically provide the answers one is looking for.

This is something I tweeted out last night (the second one). If you felt I went over my ski tips here, feel free to let me know

So Purdue has been in a mini-slump after blowing us out of the water, especially on the road. It took Indiana playing even worse offensively for them to win last Tuesday. It's hard to think they will take us super seriously