uneblinstu

My hope is that he wants to stick it to whomever comes out on to the court in a different jersey than his.

I threw FGCU on there mostly for a chuckle.  And I'd imagine that "relationship" with Pitt is more similar to my divorced parents relationship.  Don't really want to go there.

Again, if the info Crazy4NUHOOPS is accurate, both Kentucky and Gonzaga are not the team.

Pitt will be a tough program to beat out and so will his hometown Sun Devils. Hopefully Miles can work his magic.

Maybe.  Get him on campus and it might become a rather easy sell.

https://twitter.com/RobinWashut/status/322184186624622592

Let's, for a moment, assume that CrazyforNUHOOPS' information is correct we can rule out the Big 12, the SEC, UNC, Duke, Maryland, Miami, FSU, NC St, UCLA, Arizona, Stanford, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico, SDSU, UNLV, Colorado St., Creighton, UMBC, Wichita St., Gonzaga, VCU, St. Louis, Notre Dame and Wyoming.  

If it's a school with a significant name as nearly everyone has been alluding to, that leaves Clemson, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Xavier, St. Joseph's, Temple, FGCU, Boston College, Virginia, Georgia TEch, Cincy, Pitt, Providence, DePaul, Rutgers, Seton Hall, South Florida, St. Johns, Syracuse, ASU, Cal, Oregon st., USC, Utah, Wash, WSU, Memphis, BYU, St. Mary's or UNO.

We've now had just about program with a name of "significance" listed in this thread.  If I'm putting money on it, I'm going with Xavier, Cincy or UNO.  I'm probably wrong.

Was Oregon a 4 year deal?

https://twitter.com/SaiTummala24/status/322091709297217536

Tummala's coach just deleted the tweet that had the 5 schools. What's the deal here? Is Tummala just looking for a free visit here?

If the coach deleted the tweet it would indicate to me that he might have sent it out without all the information.  Let's get him here, see what we have to offer and see what happens.

I thought there were rumblings that at least UGA and Pitt were sniffing around.  ASU is a new one, i think.

https://twitter.com/RobinWashut/status/322058705921245184

Illinois has a lot of talent coming in and PSU and NW are the two worst teams until they prove otherwise much like we had to do last year.  I have no idea what Minnesota will be.

Wow.  Brand-spankin-new arena and all of a sudden we're selling a ton of season tickets.

 

OMG, are we gonna all start wearing red sweater vests to the games?!?  

I've got a red Nebraska sweater vest, if I wear it to the opener, will you sign it?

https://twitter.com/SwagAir/status/321805227693072384

So, if they've sold 10.3K, plus 1,500 student seats and the building holds 15.3K, that mean's 77% of capacity is already accounted for.  That's impressive considering the product on the floor the past 15 years has been...lacking.

 

14,970.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Bank_Arena

 

So it's more like 79% sold already.

Huskers.com and the PBA site both have it over 15K.  I'm gonna go with those.

Saw that, uneblinstu.  But where did it say he was cleared?  I saw it said he cleared himself in the late 80s when he dismissed the report and said, "I didn't make any mistakes, I don't care what anyone says."

 

But not a major pedigree before he took over at Providence.  A couple (bad) seasons at Hawaii as a grad assistant and then assistant coach (and then interim head guy) followed by a couple of seasons as an assistant to Boeheim at Syracuse before taking the head job at Boston U in 1978.

 

I'm struck by the comments of Tim Miles at the presser announcing him as our new head coach.  He basically said we took a chance on a guy with no pedigree.  Which is true.  He wasn't an assistant to Coach K or Boeheim or Pitino or anyone like that.  But neither did Pitino have much pedigree before he got his first head gig.

 

Upshot:  Pedigree might be helpful but obviously isn't absolutely necessary for someone to know what the heck they're doing as a coach.  And, while we don't have the athletes at this point, I'm wondering if Miles doesn't assemble a squad similarly to the way Pitino does it.

Whoop, you're right.  I misread this: " In 1989, Pitino would dismiss the report, saying "I didn't make any mistakes, I don't care what anybody says."  As this: "In 1989, Pitino would be dismissed from the report, saying "I didn't make any mistakes, I don't care what anybody says."  

My bad.

I know there are a lot of coaches further down the coaching tree from Rick Pitino -- guys like that one dude at Florida and the other guy who used to be at Memphis and UMass before that and Kentucky now.  But is he on anyone else's coaching tree?  Who's further up the tree from him?  What pedigree did he have before Providence?  Anyone know?  Wikipedia maybe?

According to that Wiki thing, he was the first assistant Boeheim hired when he got the job at Syracuse.  He also was at Hawaii under Bruce O'Neal when they came under NCAA scrutiny.  He was later cleared.  He also was an assistant in the NBA under Hubie Brown.

So, if they've sold 10.3K, plus 1,500 student seats and the building holds 15.3K, that mean's 77% of capacity is already accounted for.  That's impressive considering the product on the floor the past 15 years has been...lacking.

I don't know if Biggs is as quick as Siva, but he's as quick as anyone we've had since Nate Johnson, at least.

Who's gotten lazy?  The players or the refs?  If the refs start calling it, the players and coaches will adjust.  They'll have to.  It will be interesting to see what adjustments and emphasis they'll have next year.

Meh, I'm not worried about them.  Clowney's ok with it.  They had a nice run, they'll be fine.

He's athletic, runs the floor well and isn't afraid to play defense.  Seems like a Pitino guy to me, maybe not from day one, but he'll be just fine.

If we can find a kid that makes the team better, we absolutely should use it.

I love how they are all upset at losing to this kid.  Thats terrible.  How moraly wrong is it to be upset with this?  This was one of the greatest acts that we have seen in sports in a long time.  I mean come on...  This should win an ESPY!! 

Who's upset about it?

I think OSU turned him down because they already had Craft

He's from Columbus, isn't he?