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I voted talent because all-conference talent makes up for a lot of things, but the problem is that all three crop up in different games. Are we as talented as Northwestern? Did our talent have the right scheme to beat Northwestern? Was our execution why Northwestern beat us?

For Fred to walk away without full buyout, while the right thing to do, would be seen as a dangerous precedent. The one thing that Nebraska needs to work on is finding a way to offer incentives that make success more profitable than failure buyouts. We seem to have abandoned the idea that success leads to wealth...we pay more for potential than we do for proof. My wife is begging me to get a job that I can fail into a million plus $$$$.

Is the AD position at Butler open?

I think it has to be a PR question...cutting budgets at state Universities and doling out 18.5 million is a bad look. I know it is different funds sources and uses, but if athletics and boosters have 18.5 why don't they donate it to successful program at the University? How far would 18.5 million go to recruiting students who can do be successful more than 20 percent of the time?

Exactly. If a town is big enough to have a college, it's big enough. It's not like Chicago, Miami, Dallas and NYC are dominating the hoops world. Spokane, Tucson, Lexington et al seem to be fine. But, what is the missing ingredient because we have literally changed everything in this bball program over the last 10 years and WYO can turn things around in a couple? I get that the level of competition is better, but we are losing to summit league teams so we can't really scoff at MWC competition

Norm this is an unfair comparison...who is going to be able to get recruits to Lincoln when they are competing with....uh Laramie? ... Yeah Laramie (No disrespect to Laramie, was a fan in the Dembo/Leckner years and still watch Foot-Bohl games, but the old excuse of location doesn't hold up when MWC schools are top 50 rpi)

That just might work...has someone mentioned it to Fred?

We need to find out how NW recruits guys who can hit open 3s and open layups...that kind of thing would revolutionize our offense

Let's not be modest, this team has more things that kill us than Australia

Must be from that no-call elbow to the face.

I think it's the difference between idealism and world weariness. I'd like to believe that people will do the right thing...but in my 52 years, I've seen enough to know it's far from a sure bet. Money talks and bull crap gets us a multi-year seat in 14th place.

The problem isn't that highly skilled, productive leaders are overpaid (though many are) it's that this model is designed to reward people who fail. We aren't moving on from Fred because ha has a .590 winning percentage and an NIT 3rd place finish. In business and in sports, the buyout should only apply if you meet certain standards and to be honest FH and his agent would have agreed to a winning percentage of say 40% as a minimum when they signed.... that's fair and was easily within expectations (joke is on us all) you can't lose, fail, ruin, and profit that's a dead end system

I'm sure they could scrape it together but it's a really bad look for all involved. But if Hoiberg won't take a lesser settlement, keep him around let him sit in his office all day for 3 a year and let someone else coach. Otherwise it's $21.5 million in one year to buyout and hire

So I have to ask...if $18.5 million is too much to buyout...if we keep Fred, we are only paying $3-5 million each year...can't we just reassign him to developmental coach of the under 12 camp and bring in ANYONE else? Because there has to be some accountability for being this awful and if he's going to get the money either way I would rather we pay two HC salaries for 7 years rather than 7 years up front and also have to pay the next guy.

Joke is on the tv announcer when he said this was a gut punch to the Huskers...this team has no guts...no heart...no brains...an no B1G wins...and the beat goes on.

Disappointing in an offense predicated on shooting.

I think our guys really like to watch basketball...that last possession they were all standing and watching Trey...they love watching other teams shoot threes and rebound

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How about, since we can't tank for draft ping pong balls (take note FH), in the interest of fairness, we try a different game of chance. Put all the B1G coaches names on a wheel of fortune at the start of media weekend in Chicago, each AD gives it a spin and gets to take that coach off the wheel for the season. That will let it be a true coaching challenge.

On Nebraska Star steaks...no no no no

At least the conference is filled with skilled and talented players and teams that do play fundamentally sound basketball.

With the bench callouses Keon has gotten as a Husker, he's already sat out a year. I've been positive, against all reason, for decades, but once we moved to a "big time" coach, spending truckloads of money, it stopped being a Cinderella story.

It's like the difference between Agatha Christie and Alien...somebody dies, but at least Agatha has some mystery as to the culprit.

I'm trying to figure out why I'm watching. Normally, at this point in a lost season I'm watching out of loyalty to the seniors who gave years to this program...and I am watching for the youngsters who are getting solid development opportunities to face B1G opponents. But neither of those feel accurate. If you go all in on transfers and free agents, you have to win, but if you have no continuity and no success, who am I cheering for? Some kid who will be around (maybe) one season? If we aren't going to transfer in NBA Talent, then we need to coach up kids for four years and make a GD team rather than a collection of individuals.