Dead Dog Alley

We will be waiting until Miles moves on or gets fired. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk If he doesn't get it done in the next two years, that is what is going to happen.

Morrow's offensive skills are offensive at this point.

Start the f**king half with Tai and Benny again, get ass kicked. Lather, rinse, repeat.

All that said, these refs are terrible.

It's too bad we are sacrificing offense for the sake of defense, because this defense sucks.

Shields must be in matador school the way he's playing defense, too. This is friggin' awful so far.

Much more of this Tai and Benny combination and I'm going to find something better to do than watch. That would be a bad backcourt combination in NAIA.

No more of the Tai and Benny show, please.

Please please someone play defense against Zierdouche

Well there is a Maynard G Krebs look-alike who is showing major improvement. As far as any recruits with NU on the radar, there's not much information out there. With only two seniors next year it might make sense to try the grad transfer route, but that hasn't been real productive in the past.

Unless you appreciate the inner beauty of clutching, holding, grabbing, pushing, shoving, swiping, bumping, tripping, and hacking, then, most Cincinnati Bearcat games of the last 25 years have been ugly.

I don't think Watson can play more than 25 minutes a game, unless you want him completely worn out halfway through the season. So if you sub Benny for him with Shavon or AW at the 2, does it work? They went with that backcourt lineup twice in the first half for two possessions, and both ended with Benny turnovers and neither looked good at all. So if Watson goes out you're pretty much stuck playing Tai and Benny together, and we've seen how well that's worked in the past.

We have seen the real Parker and Webster for 2+ years now. Nothing is different. BP can give you a good 3 to 4 minute flurry off the bench a few times a game but as a full time player...

If you ranked Nebraska's starting back courts for the last 40 years where would tonight's pair rank?

The refs will call this even the rest of the way now that they've made it a blowout. Classic way to cover your trail.

Tai - well, moving forward, they are going to find another way to go at the 2.

Gene Steratore involved in a crooked officiating job? What a shocker. Not that it would have mattered for this game, but these refs are not incompetent but are crooks.

So . . . Never mind-- he isn't on a Regents Scholarship:https://twitter.com/huskerextrabr/status/665010341831557120 Earlier reports did say that he was: https://nebraska.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1770843 The 6-foot-8, 270-lb. Gothenburg product is a two-time All-Nebraska champion in the shot put and has a number of Division I offers, including Wyoming, Ohio and Colorado State. But Borchardt has chosen to decline those offers and is instead heading to Nebraska as a student on a Regent's scholarship.

So . . . Never mind-- he isn't on a Regents Scholarship:https://twitter.com/huskerextrabr/status/665010341831557120 Going back to the rule, I think either Bronson Schliep or Tony Wilbrand (or maybe both) went on a Regents and did not count against the limit, but I may be mistaken on if they were. I do remember that Jeff Hemje was on the football team in the late 90s as a backup cornerback, was on a Regents, and could play and not count against the limit because he wasn't recruited in any sense by the football team or even invited to walk on, but showed up and asked for a tryout.

Here's another comparison, vs. a walk on who contributed a lot: Trueblood vs. Velander. If you looked at who was better at what at a similar stage in their careers, Trueblood would probably have an edge with regard to everything, with the exception of shooting the three. But the ability to shoot the three can be a big role and can make someone a contributor who otherwise wouldn't be.

1. You're assuming an awful lot to say that I've only seen JTB play for 4 minutes in an exhibition game. And your assumptions would not be correct in that regard. 2. The point about who might be better grew out of a larger discussion about the talent level in the program having increased by so much. The point wasn't made in a vacuum just for the sake of dissing Jake. It was part of a larger discussion. 3. I have always maintained and will continue to maintain that you don't need to watch a guy a lot to get a decent sense of whether or not he has game and, if so, how much. 4. I think the comparison between the two players is a natural one because: a) they're both guards; from Nebraska; c) about the same size; d) with similar strengths and weaknesses in their offensive games. 5. I realize it's tough to compare a guy who started as a true freshman on a bad team 14 years ago with a guy who's probably not going to see many minutes at all on what now might or might not be a pretty decent team. But it's offered for the sake of discussion, so either make the comparison based on 4 minutes of footage or don't make any comparison. One thing that you have to ask yourself, and I think Norm is hinting at it (I could be wrong) is are you comparing the two with their certain situations? Because they are different. Put Jake on this team as a frosh and does he get the PT? Put JTB on that team as a frosh and could he realistically challenge for some PT? Those are the questions you need to ask. How about Jake as a freshman vs. Benny or Tai the last few years? The stats aren't close but the teams were completely different, so there wouldn't have been as many opportunities on offense. Also it depends on what you want to do defensively as to who you take. I'd probably go with Jake. As to Jake vs. Johnny, if you look at the individual skills of each it appears that Jake would have a small marginal advantage in a lot of areas. But a lot of times it's the margins that determine how good someone is going to be. JM is probably slightly quicker, slightly stronger, it is pretty close as to shooting and driving skills, JM might have an edge as to court vision and passing skills. A lot of areas would probably be pretty close but when it's all added up, one was a double figure scorer as a freshman and the other will have to fight to get minutes.

When TP was playing at the same time as BP last year, I don't think you could say that Benny was actually the PG much of the time. In fact much of the time you could say that BP wasn't actually playing offense. A lot of the time he would bring up the ball, make one pass, run to the corner and not look to ever get it back. And against full court pressure he generally wasn't the primary or even secondary ball handler.

Ade >>> P for 3 Just saying.

And Carl Hayes. Loved watching that guy play zone. [/quote Carl at the point at 6'8". Reid in the middle at 6'8". Farmer and King on the wings at 6'9" and 7'2". Scales at 6'2" running the baseline. (I might have Reid and Farmer switched position wise.) That 1-3-1 gave a lot of teams trouble with that size.

So - if you have an eight man rotation with a typical distribution of minutes played looking like this, what are they going to look like? C PF SF SG PG Morrow 25 Jacobson 15 White 20 10 McVeigh 20 Shields 30 5 Webster 25 Parker 10 15 Watson 25