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Optimism had nothing to do with my decision. Quite the opposite. Aside from our buyout obligations, creating a downward spiring coaching carousel at your university isn't quite the most attractive job opening to take. We're just over two years in a program (that isn't going well whatsoever), but I'd at least like to get to the point of "Okay, you've fully instituted your system and recruited your players. Now no more excuses." He's getting to that point, but 2 seasons isn't enough to right many ships. Nor is it great messaging to any future coach who has to look at this job as a historical desert, overrated expectations for its history, and you only have 2-3 seasons to turn it around.

Also: TREV: We need to find a way to fill the stadium again. We could really use you. NORM: I'm busy, but maybe there's another way to do it? TREV: Is there? I'll do anything. NORM: Stop treating adults like kids and serve some beer at the games already. TREV: Well, but... NORM: ...and NyQuil.

He is. In that all he does is shoot three-pointers. He may not make them... but nobody ever asked what it meant to be compared to Steph Curry (Actually wanted to verify my thoughts before sending... He's #1 on the team in 3pt attempts, #2 is more than 10+ attempts lower, 74% of his shots are 3PA, and he averages 7.9 pts a game.)

Miles' first year: $1.4M Hoiberg's first year: $3.57M Let's go back to 2019 one more time just so we have some context from that time: This salary was higher than all but 10 coaches, nationwide, and only 2 coaches in the Big Ten had a higher salary Hoiberg was getting paid more than Archie Miller and Shaka Smart The Big Ten average was $2.7M Nebraska basketball and football combined coaching salaries was $8.57M The only coaches making more than Hoiberg at the time we're: Calipari, Krzyzewski, Izzo, Bennett, Self, Mack, Williams, Wright, Huggins, and Beilein The bigger the pay, the higher the expectations. It's one thing if Hoiberg was getting paid $800K. It's another to be paid (at the time) as the 11th highest paying coach and you're in Year 3 with an NET ranking of #219 out of 358. Meanwhile there's a guy making $700K at a school in San Jose sitting at #226 in the NET. At some point, you need to decide what kind of athletic department you want to run. Fortunately, Nebraska has a budget to work with. But at some point after many failures, we might not have that same luxury of trial by failure.

Adding in the average number of conference opportunities during the entire tenure (Hoiberg will be at avg 19.67 after this year): Miles: 3 seasons to get to 21 conference wins (avg 18.2 opportunities per season) Sadler: 3 seasons to get to 21 conference wins (avg 16.3 opportunities per season) Collier: 4 seasons to get to 22 conference wins (avg 16 opportunities per season) Nee: 5 seasons to get to 27 conference wins (avg 14.6 opportunities per season) Iba: 3 seasons to get to 25 conference wins (avg 14 opportunities per season) Cipriano: 3 seasons to get to 22 conference wins (avg 14 opportunities per season) Bush: 5 seasons to get to 24 conference wins (avg 13.1 opportunities per season)

Does the Courtyard have free food? @Silverbacked1 might apply.

And it assumes everybody sticks around, which isn't the reality in college basketball.

I can send you my resume if you need an assistant. Not real strong in the recruiting area, but that has been the case for a while now. I might do it just for the courtside seats! I'll take the former role of either Bobby Lutz or Marc Boehm. Sounds like a comfy job with big pay.

M biggest concern with Moos, even while he was in charge, was exactly that. He was on a massive spending spree not only with coaches, but staff, facilities, etc. And I was worried we wouldn't get the ROI out of that spending. And now it seems like he treated Nebraska the same way he treated Washington State. Spend, spend, spend until there's no return and you run away to something else.

Fred currently has 5 conference wins in about 2.25 (conference) seasons. With 15 more regular season conference games this season and 40 more coming up over the next two seasons, he needs to start winning 27.3% of all remaining conference games to get to 20 total conference wins. His first two seasons were 10% and 15.8%. Miles: 3 seasons to get to 21 conference wins Sadler: 3 seasons to get to 21 conference wins Collier: 4 seasons to get to 22 conference wins Nee: 5 seasons to get to 27 conference wins Iba: 3 seasons to get to 25 conference wins Cipriano: 3 seasons to get to 22 conference wins Bush: 5 seasons to get to 24 conference wins

Game #16 at Rutgers Results (65-93 L) Picked NU: 20 (39%) Average NU Score: 69.1 Average Opp Score: 71.9 Average HHCC Score: 76.4 Median HHCC Score: 72.0 Mode HHCC Score: 66 1 hskr4life 1 2 1sdpad2 41 3 Busch Light 43 4 aphilso1 49 5 ConkintheCorner 53 6 SkersHoops 53 7 doc1394 54 8 roscoe 55 9 BjoeHusker 60 10 KenPom 60 11 LNKtrnsplnt 60 12 Crush78 62 13 demone 63 14 huskerbaseball13 63 15 Ralph Wiggum 64 16 Cazzie22 66 17 jimmykc 66 18 NUtball 66 19 tcp 66 20 twinswingohuskers 66 21 brfrad 69 22 REDZONEDAN 69 23 Vinny 69 24 Huskerpapa 72 25 Noah121 72 26 throwback 72 27 UnicamMan 72 28 BLB115 73 29 Bugeaters1 75 30 hhcmatt 75 31 hal9000 81 32 HuscurAdam 93 33 pmd9 95 34 HuskerFever 96 35 AuroranHusker 97 36 MichHusker 97 37 emwilliams 98 38 DudeAbides 99 39 Handy Johnson 99 40 jason2486 99 41 Cowboy Kermit 100 42 huskers29 100 43 Silverbacked1 100 44 TheNovice 100 45 thrasher31 100 46 4NUfans 101 47 bb33ch 101 48 Nebrasketball1979 102 49 basketballjones 103 50 Jurgey 103 51 nuhusker7 103

Game #15 at Michigan State Results (67-79 L) Picked NU: 4 (8%) Average NU Score: 67.0 Average Opp Score: 79.4 Average HHCC Score: 14.5 Median HHCC Score: 11.0 Mode HHCC Score: 25 BONUS: # of Bench Players with 1+ Points: 3 Average prediction: 3.4 Correct HHCC Members: 25 AuroranHusker, basketballjones, BLB115, Bugeaters1, Cazzie22, Crush78, demone, DudeAbides, hskr4life, HuscurAdam, HuskerFever, Huskerpapa, KenPom, LNKtrnsplnt, MichHusker, Noah121, NUtball, pmd9, Ralph Wiggum, REDZONEDAN, roscoe, SkersHoops, TheNovice, throwback, UnicamMan 1 HuskerFever -33 2 Noah121 -33 3 Huskerpapa -6 4 UnicamMan -6 5 Crush78 -4 6 BjoeHusker -2 7 Cazzie22 -1 8 HuscurAdam 0 9 REDZONEDAN 0 10 demone 2 11 basketballjones 3 12 roscoe 3 13 BLB115 4 14 DudeAbides 4 15 HolyBobpilgrimage 5 16 LNKtrnsplnt 6 17 Ralph Wiggum 6 18 Bugeaters1 7 19 huskers29 7 20 NUtball 8 21 Busch Light 9 22 jimmykc 9 23 tcp 9 24 bb33ch 10 25 Cowboy Kermit 10 26 doc1394 10 27 hal9000 10 28 KenPom 10 29 MichHusker 10 30 SkersHoops 10 31 TheNovice 10 32 AuroranHusker 11 33 Jurgey 11 34 brfrad 12 35 twinswingohuskers 12 36 hskr4life 14 37 ConkintheCorner 15 38 throwback 17 39 hhcmatt 18 40 Vinny 18 41 Nebrasketball1979 21 42 4NUfans 23 43 aphilso1 24 44 1sdpad2 30 45 Silverbacked1 30 46 Handy Johnson 36 47 uneblinstu 40 48 pmd9 45 49 emwilliams 53 50 cornfed24-7 54 51 nuhusker7 55

Some good, some bad from this week. I'll put as much effort into the notes of this update as our team did against Rutgers. ... HHCC Standings - End of Week 09 1 LNKtrnsplnt 537 NC 2 Ralph Wiggum 565 NC 3 BjoeHusker 568 U2 4 HuskerFever 572 NC 5 KenPom 580 U1 6 hal9000 587 D3 7 Cazzie22 598 U1 8 demone 602 U3 9 BLB115 614 U1 10 brfrad 616 D1 11 Busch Light 620 U6 12 Crush78 627 U6 13 aphilso1 629 U3 14 hskr4life 634 U12 15 TheNovice 647 D3 16 ConkintheCorner 652 U3 17 roscoe 656 U4 18 huskerbaseball13 661 D11 19 MichHusker 662 D4 20 jimmykc 674 U2 21 NUtball 686 U4 22 tcp 686 U2 23 Bugeaters1 693 NC 24 Noah121 693 U8 25 emwilliams 699 D12 26 UnicamMan 700 U3 27 Vinny 707 NC 28 Silverbacked1 716 D8 29 hhcmatt 729 U1 30 Cowboy Kermit 744 D2 31 AuroranHusker 746 NC 32 REDZONEDAN 752 U3 33 doc1394 754 U4 34 SkersHoops 757 U4 35 NeeandMe 762 D21 36 Huskerpapa 774 U4 37 4NUfans 786 D4 38 huskers29 792 D2 39 Handy Johnson 797 D5 40 throwback 799 U1 41 bb33ch 807 D2 42 1sdpad2 813 U2 43 basketballjones 830 NC 44 Nebrasketball1979 834 D2 45 twinswingohuskers 847 NC 46 uneblinstu 971 NC 47 HuscurAdam 982 U1 48 northwillriseagain 1050 D1 49 nuhusker7 1058 U1 50 Jurgey 1084 U3 51 BugeaterZ 1100 D2 52 DudeAbides 1110 U4 53 cornfed24-7 1111 D2 54 HolyBobpilgrimage 1158 U3 55 Rosno 1174 D3 56 nubest79 1188 D2 57 NU Follower 1195 D2 58 pmd9 1266 U1 59 The Jazz Huddle 1296 D1 60 75unlgrad 1340 NC 61 bigred4 1349 NC 62 EAbby 1363 NC 63 colhusker 1474 NC 64 hguy44 1485 NC 65 dustystehl 1496 NC 66 Blindcheck 1514 NC 67 Husker Hoops Penitent 1519 NC 68 huskerbill85 1523 NC 69 jsthusker 1551 NC 70 Go Big Fred 1559 NC 71 Nighthawk 1615 NC 72 Nebrasketballin 1623 NC 73 Jugular 1624 NC 74 Red Don 1640 NC 75 timofarmer 1646 NC 76 Buglem 1652 NC 77 jayschool 1680 NC 78 thrasher31 1688 U5 79 CanadianHusker 1695 D1 80 HuskerPower #nato73 1695 D1 81 Bill Self's Toupee 1701 D1 82 bball23 1704 D1 83 CamHuskerbballfan 1716 D1 84 jason2486 1748 NA 85 HuskerCager 1752 D1 86 Ron Mexico 1752 D1 Biggest Rise hskr4life U12 Biggest Fall NeeandMe D21 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

And it might go without saying, but those prior coaches had about 22 or so games to get those 7+ wins. This era, you have 30+ games.

And yet he's breaking program records, both coaching and on the court, for how terrible of a program this is right now all while having the greatest talent in the Rivals era that we've ever had. Say what you will about where this program was when Fred took over it but it's very clear, at this specific moment in time, that it's worse than it's ever been in recorded history. The last time we had a 7-win season or worse was 1963-64 (Joe Cipriano's first season). Before that, Jerry Bush had 3 of them. That doesn't mean there's no hope for this coaching staff, but it certainly isn't started off in any sort of positive direction.

Here's his old bio: https://redstormsports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/matt-abdelmassih/23

It's saying something when you're like "we could've won that game had Iowa shot 58%."

I can't wait to see Caitlin Clark again on January 16...

Turnovers and steals seems to be the only reason we're in this game right now, with Iowa's shooting.

Games like this, you need the hot shooting opponent to simmer down. Then you're right back in it. Let's hope that's happening right now.

Iowa hasn't shot 60%+ this entire year. And even their 3P% is 60%+. Of course it would happen against us.

Starting to see what shooting 68% looks like and how that can take over a game against good teams...