HuskerFever

FIFY.

We've kind of derailed the "Hot Seat" thread. @hhcmatt any chance we can move that dialogue over to this thread?

My point, beyond posting this outside of the MLS/soccer thread () is that having control over your product and overall brand is essential in today's saturated market. Nobody is going to care as much about the product as you are and putting it in the hands of the wrong investor can diminish that. It sounds like @49r and I are basically pointing out the same thing. It would be interesting to see how some other entity would try to compete with that ESPN/SEC narrative.

I used to really enjoy watching the Bundesliga pre and post games on FS1/2 on Sunday mornings. Ever since ESPN took the contract, they shoved them on ESPN+, took away all of that, and it really just diminishes the overall product and commoditized it. Sure, so do like the extra matches you can watch now, but the Bundesliga product in the US really dropped off and they have far less control over that now.

Not to mention that ESPN already covers the following on ESPN+ (so where do you really even stack in an oversaturated provider if they don't want to put the effort into you?): A10 AAC ACC AEC ASUN Big 12 Big South Big Sky Big West CIAA C-USA Horizon League Ivy League MAAC MAC MEAC Missouri Valley Ohio Valley Patriot League SEC SIAC Southland Summit League Sun Belt SWAC WAC

Thanks for the clarification. So ESPN basically had "first rights to say yes or no" to a deal if the Big Ten was outsourcing?

As much as I can tag on FOX and BTN, if we shifted to ESPN that could dilute the product a lot, if handled improperly. The last thing I want to do is watch a bad Nebraska basketball team on ESPN+ that has no pregame/halftime/postgame coverage, every game is on ESPN+ (we're so fortunate to watch our games on cable without having to pay and download BTN+), minimal staff at games for the camera crew and coverage, and subpar announcing. It could be great for the Michigan States of the Big Ten though.

Another way to think about it... We generated $2.6M surplus in our men's basketball program in 2019. A $3.5M/year loss from paying off Hoiberg in addition to salary for a new coach and staff flips this into a cost-guzzling program for years to come.

His contract goes through 2027. I'm not sure how extending him another year (even at $0 expense) helps recruiting. Even if a player stayed 5 seasons, he'd be under Hoiberg's entire contract.

The March Madness account picked it up too:

The Big 12 NET rankings, top to bottom, rank from #4 to #70. The Big Ten is #9 to #178 (#99 being the #13 team, excluding Nebraska). Rough.

Barely... Replacing Haas with Haarms is essentially the same name.

I just never realized there was a "FRANCON: Pity" setting...

We are currently #178 in NET rankings. The only worse Power-6 basketball teams (62 in total) are: 180: Pittsburgh (10-16) 205: Georgia (6-19) 218: Georgetown (6-17) 248: Oregon State (3-19)

Game #25 at Iowa Results (75-98 L) Picked NU: 7 (16%) Average NU Score: 71.0 Average Opp Score: 81.8 Average HHCC Score: 45.3 Median HHCC Score: 43.5 Mode HHCC Score: 46 BONUS: # of NU players with 5+ total rebounds: 2 # of Correct HHCC members: 6 brfrad, Busch Light, ConkintheCorner, SkersHoops, TheNovice, throwback 1 Noah121 -14 2 brfrad 12 3 Ralph Wiggum 13 4 hhcmatt 15 5 Busch Light 19 6 Vinny 22 7 aphilso1 23 8 UnicamMan 24 9 KenPom 26 10 Bugeaters1 29 11 emwilliams 29 12 TheNovice 29 13 throwback 31 14 LNKtrnsplnt 35 15 ConkintheCorner 37 16 jimmykc 37 17 roscoe 37 18 REDZONEDAN 38 19 bb33ch 39 20 doc1394 41 21 HuskerFever 41 22 hal9000 43 23 SkersHoops 43 24 BjoeHusker 44 25 AuroranHusker 46 26 basketballjones 46 27 Crush78 46 28 demone 46 29 BLB115 47 30 NUtball 48 31 hskr4life 50 32 Cazzie22 53 33 cornfed24-7 54 34 Nebrasketball1979 57 35 Silverbacked1 58 36 Cowboy Kermit 59 37 Huskerpapa 66 38 1sdpad2 83 39 nuhusker7 83 40 Swan88 84 41 twinswingohuskers 84 42 HuscurAdam 85 43 The Jazz Huddle 86 44 Handy Johnson 91

Game #24 vs. Minnesota Results (78-65 W) Picked NU: 17 (38%) Average NU Score: 69.7 Average Opp Score: 74.1 Average HHCC Score: 42.4 Median HHCC Score: 50.0 Mode HHCC Score: 52 1 nuhusker7 -14 2 SkersHoops 16 3 twinswingohuskers 16 4 DudeAbides 20 5 Silverbacked1 21 6 brfrad 24 7 ConkintheCorner 24 8 HuscurAdam 27 9 throwback 28 10 AuroranHusker 29 11 4NUfans 30 12 basketballjones 30 13 jimmykc 30 14 doc1394 33 15 Nebrasketball1979 34 16 1sdpad2 36 17 Cowboy Kermit 38 18 Noah121 46 19 UnicamMan 46 20 NUtball 47 21 Bugeaters1 49 22 bb33ch 50 23 BjoeHusker 50 24 Busch Light 50 25 hal9000 50 26 Jurgey 50 27 cornfed24-7 52 28 demone 52 29 hskr4life 52 30 LNKtrnsplnt 52 31 Ralph Wiggum 52 32 BLB115 53 33 hhcmatt 53 34 HuskerFever 53 35 aphilso1 54 36 Huskerpapa 54 37 REDZONEDAN 54 38 Crush78 55 39 emwilliams 55 40 TheNovice 55 41 KenPom 56 42 Cazzie22 58 43 Vinny 58 44 roscoe 64 45 Handy Johnson 67

How's the saying go again? "Don't cry because you suck at basketball, smile because you won a conference game." Did I say that right? HHCC Standings - End of Week 14 1 KenPom 790 NC 2 Ralph Wiggum 812 NC 3 LNKtrnsplnt 845 NC 4 ConkintheCorner 870 U4 5 HuskerFever 902 U1 6 BjoeHusker 903 U1 7 Crush78 903 D3 8 brfrad 912 U7 9 Cazzie22 915 D4 10 BLB115 918 D1 11 aphilso1 924 NC 12 hskr4life 938 D2 13 demone 945 D1 14 TheNovice 948 D1 15 Vinny 957 U1 16 NUtball 964 D2 17 Bugeaters1 972 NC 18 Noah121 979 U4 19 hhcmatt 980 NC 20 jimmykc 985 NC 21 Busch Light 995 NC 22 roscoe 1010 D4 23 UnicamMan 1025 U2 24 AuroranHusker 1026 NC 25 Huskerpapa 1069 D2 26 SkersHoops 1070 U6 27 emwilliams 1080 U1 28 hal9000 1087 D1 29 throwback 1089 U4 30 bb33ch 1097 NC 31 REDZONEDAN 1097 D2 32 doc1394 1121 U3 33 Silverbacked1 1125 U1 34 1sdpad2 1128 D3 35 tcp 1174 D9 36 basketballjones 1184 U1 37 4NUfans 1211 D1 38 Nebrasketball1979 1227 U1 39 Cowboy Kermit 1293 U4 40 Handy Johnson 1321 NC 41 MichHusker 1331 D3 42 twinswingohuskers 1342 U2 43 NeeandMe 1381 D2 44 huskers29 1398 D2 45 cornfed24-7 1494 U1 46 nuhusker7 1545 U3 47 huskerbaseball13 1553 D2 48 HuscurAdam 1588 NC 49 DudeAbides 1615 U1 50 Jurgey 1624 D3 51 uneblinstu 1863 NC 52 northwillriseagain 1942 NC 53 HolyBobpilgrimage 1953 NC 54 BugeaterZ 1992 NC 55 pmd9 2031 NC 56 The Jazz Huddle 2043 U1 57 Rosno 2066 D1 58 nubest79 2080 NC 59 NU Follower 2087 NC 60 75unlgrad 2232 NC 61 Husker Hoops Penitent 2235 NC 62 bigred4 2241 NC 63 EAbby 2255 NC 64 dustystehl 2282 NC 65 colhusker 2366 NC 66 hguy44 2377 NC 67 Blindcheck 2406 NC 68 huskerbill85 2415 NC 69 jsthusker 2443 NC 70 Go Big Fred 2451 NC 71 Nighthawk 2507 NC 72 Nebrasketballin 2515 NC 73 Jugular 2516 NC 74 Red Don 2532 NC 75 thrasher31 2535 NC 76 timofarmer 2538 NC 77 Buglem 2544 NC 78 jayschool 2572 NC 79 Ron Mexico 2575 NC 80 CanadianHusker 2587 NC 81 HuskerPower #nato73 2587 NC 82 Bill Self's Toupee 2593 NC 83 bball23 2596 NC 84 CamHuskerbballfan 2608 NC 85 Swan88 2637 NA 86 jason2486 2640 D1 87 HuskerCager 2644 D1 Biggest Rise brfrad U7 Biggest Fall tcp D9 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

I guess we can expand this to ALL basketball coaches (men and women) at Nebraska. Fred still takes the cake. Winning % in NU WBB History: 1. Connie Yori: 63% (2002-2016); 280-166 (121-107) 2. George Nicodemus: 63% (1975-1977); 42-25 (N/A) 3. Marcia Walker: 62% (1977-1978); 18-11 (N/A) 4. Lorrie Gallagher: 61% (1978-1980); 46-30 (N/A) 5. Angela Beck: 60% (1986-1997); 191-128 (80-76) 6. Jan Callahan: 56% (1974-1975); 9-7 (N/A) 7. Paul Sanderford: 56% (1997-2002); 88-69 (37-43) 8. Amy Williams: 53% (2016-2022); 90-81 (46-54) 9. Colleen Matsuhara: 51% (1980-1983); 46-44 (5-9) 10. Kelly Hill: 44% (1983-1986); 37-47 (15-27) Conference Winning % in NU WBB History: 1. Connie Yori: 53% (2002-2016); 280-166 (121-107) 2. Angela Beck: 51% (1986-1997); 191-128 (80-76) 3. Paul Sanderford: 46% (1997-2002); 88-69 (37-43) 4. Amy Williams: 46% (2016-2022); 90-81 (46-54) 5. Kelly Hill: 36% (1983-1986); 37-47 (15-27) 6. Colleen Matsuhara: 36% (1980-1983); 46-44 (5-9) When looking at both men's and women's programs since Danny Nee / Angela Beck, here's the results (note the conference results for the men's program): Worst Winning % since 1980s: 1. Fred Hoiberg (25%) 2. Barry Collier (49%) 3. Tim Miles (50%) 4. Amy Williams (53%) 5. Doc Sadler (53%) 6. Paul Sanderford (56%) 7. Danny Nee (57%) 8. Angela Beck (60%) 9. Connie Yori (63%) Worst Conference Winning % since 1980s: 1. Fred Hoiberg (11%) 2. Doc Sadler (35%) 3. Barry Collier (38%) 4. Tim Miles (41%) 5. Danny Nee (44%) 6. Amy Williams (46%) 7. Paul Sanderford (46%) 8. Angela Beck (51%) 9. Connie Yori (53%)

The benefit of Hoiberg's system is that we're going to expect larger-than-average turnover each season. The downside of Hoiberg's system is that we're going to expect larger-than-average turnover each season. So you hope you can recruit players who don't need coaching or development, who can replace those who do. Unfortunately, the odds of that happening are very low.

Because it's Zac Taylor, Stanley Morgan Jr., and Jim Burrow, I think I'm going to have to go with a pseudo Skyline Chili Dog for this Super Bowl meal. For the prediction, I'm probably going with a 23-17 kind of game (but the Rams win).

Actively Coachless Team - 66 Coach Left In the Middle of the Season - 72

...the bus arrived to Carver-Hawkeye Arena. So there was that.