Dead Dog Alley

I'd put the over/under on the eventual number of alma maters for Bynum at 2.5

I'm guessing he won't be filling the lock down defender off the bench type role

We missed out on the number one junior college player in the country in 1983, who instead went to Missouri. Missouri lost Stipanovich and Sundvold so he thought he'd go in and be the star, which he was; but it was on Norm Stewart's two worst teams between 1980 and 1995. Oh well; with him we would have gone to the tournament in 1984 and 1985, and with a regional in Lincoln in 1984 they could have been playing at home; and they most likely would have won a game or two.

Doc occasionally threw out this lineup for a couple minutes at times in 2009: 5 - Sek Henry (6'3") 4 - Paul Velander (6'2") 3 - Brandon Richardson (6'0") 2 - Steve Harley (5'11") 1 - Cookie Miller (5'7")

Anyone with an OWH subscription can get the names: https://omaha.com/sports/high-school/plus/this-is-what-happened-when-all-of-nebraskas-top-high-school-players-were-on-the/article_9915c362-ac76-5c46-a975-773433cf2702.html

Here's my choice

At 18 teams, that is still 5 teams shy of the Southern Conference at its peak:

That performance that night by Missouri was one of the most impressive ones I ever saw at the Devaney. They also brought the Golden Girls with them, as well as quite the ho-train that sat behind the bench.

Tom Shatel says it was Norm Stewart: https://huskerextra.com/news/basketball/mens-basketball/shatel-nebraska-fans-made-pba-one-of-the-best-home-court-advantages-in-college-basketball/article_2564a2fe-da78-11ee-8222-9791232dba3a.html Way back when, Missouri coach Norm Stewart called Nebraska fans a bunch of “Dead Dogs” after a game. NU coach Danny Nee turned it into a slogan and “Dead Dog Alley” became a T-shirt. Given Tom Shatel's level of accuracy I stand by my assertion that it was Johnny Orr.

Norm's contribution was to call NU a bush league operation.

https://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/lccn/sn96080312/1989-10-09/ed-1/seq-5/

The idea, from what I remember, stemmed from Johnny Orr allegedly saying that the Devaney Center crowd was a bunch of "dead dogs". For some reason, Danny Nee and crew thought this would be an excellent marketing opportunity. I'm not sure why embracing an insult from an opposing coach would be a successful marketing strategy; I never really understood the logic of it. But, as Danny described it (with some paraphrasing) "I want our crowd to be crazy, be wild like a bunch of dogs." So, every student that bought season tickets got a Dead Dog Alley t-shirt. Nebraska went 10-18 that year.

Jeff Sims and Chubba Purdy will be available again

The SEC should be forced to take Tulane and Georgia Tech back. And Sewanee, for that matter.

Nobody has ever blown a year of eligibility for just one minute of playing time.... except for:

He was on the sidelines for just about every home game his senior year of high school.

Claude Renfro's last year was 1983. 1983 team was: C - Dave Hoppen (6'11"), Terry Smith (6'6") F - Claude Renfro (6'6"), Lenard Johnson (6'6") F - Stan Cloudy (6'4"), Kenny Walton (6'5") G - Greg Downing (6'3"), Handy Johnson (6'1") G - David Ponce (5'10"), Eric Williams (6'2") 1982 team was: C - Terry Smith (6'6"), Lenard Johnson (6'6") F - Claude Renfro (6'6"), Kenny Walton (6'5") F - Ray Collins (6'3"), Jerry Shoecraft (6'5") G - Handy Johnson (6'1"), Greg Downing (6'3") G - Jack Moore (5'9")

Keith Neubert went to tell Danny that he was trying out for football. Danny flipped out, threatened to pull his scholarship, acted about as negatively as humanly possible. Neubert never talked to him again.

Without looking - C Chris Logan (listed at 6'5", probably 6'4") F John Matzke (6'6") F Bernard Day (listed at 6'5" that year, 6'4" when Danny Nee came in and all Danny's recruits grew an inch and Moe's recruits dropped an inch) G Harvey Marshall (listed at 6'3" G Brian Carr (listed at 6'1" that year, 6'0" the next) The primary backup was Anthony Bailous (6'3" / 6'2") with the primary lineup being Bailous replacing Matzke.

Unfortunately Adolph Lewandowski brought the Win/Loss record of the average Adolph down quite a bit:

Conference Win % at Nebraska Joe Cipriano 52.9% Moe Iba 53.6% Danny Nee 43.1% Barry Collier 37.5% Doc Sadler 34.7% Tim Miles 40.6% Fred Hoiberg 30.6%

He had the distinction of being the second best player to come out of Indianapolis in 1957. (No shame in that since the top player was Oscar Robertson.)

I made my first foray to the Loading Chute yesterday. They did a terrific job in revamping the interior, it's very well done. I ordered a Chute Burger, which was really good, and my wife ordered a Farm Burger, which I had a bit of and was even better. We'll definitely go back.