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End of an era.
 

We simultaneously have too many and not enough scholarships available

Put both feet out the door, then stepped back in to audition against us and go 4/7 from deep in 12 minutes.

P.S. in that game mentioned above for Essegian, Wisconsin was up 46-37 with 13:50 remaining when Gard put him in, and that basket he allowed made it 46-39, and Gard benched him 22 seconds later at the next dead ball. Some might call that tough love coaching, others might call it being a d!ck, and others might call it showing up and embarrassing your player. You're going to pull a guy after giving him 20 seconds and one mistake while you're up 7 on Jacksonville State? Why even put him in then if you have that little confidence in him? Just strange. I would imagine at that moment Essegian put both feet out the door. 

I read an article on Essegian. Fans were very high on him and excited about him coming into the season after being on the All-Big Ten Freshman Team. He hurt his back in the first game of the season, then received little playing time because Gard didn't like his defensive effort. 
 
Yet as Essegian jogged from the scorers table out onto the court, the ovation was loud. He grinned wryly as he settled into his defensive spot. And as quick as Essegian's joy revealed itself, it vanished. Jacksonville State guard Caleb Johnson cut backdoor, with Essegian allowing a layup to Johnson on his first play of the game. Gard called guard Isaac Lindsey off the bench, who replaced Essegian on the court just 25 seconds after he entered. The cheers for his arrival turned to boos as he departed. He draped a towel over his head and paced for a moment before finding his spot on the bench, again, to wait.
 
"We can't afford to let him play through it," Gard said. "The stakes are too high in terms of what this team wants to accomplish."
 
After Essegian's eighth game of less than 10 minutes, the waiting still continues. The sophomore did check in again, hitting a 3-pointer to finish with three points on 1-of-2 from deep in four minutes, but it's his play on the other end of the floor that put Gard in a position where he feels he cannot allow Essegian to find a rhythm with court time."
 
**I don't know enough about his defensive effort, but I do know Wisconsin fans more or less despise Gard and how he "developed" Essegian. 

Sir Edmund Hillary?  Did he lead an expedition to Panorama Point or something?

No serious person would think this could be even a remote possibility, plus it wouldn't move the AAU needle in even the slightest for U of N.
 
 
This is the path, and it should have been done before we lost AAU membership.  We had at least a decade to get this done and failed to do so.  This move would also put us in line with our peers like Kansas, Mizzou, Iowa and others.

but, AAU accreditation or not, NU is a top ten revenue generating college athletic department, and top 5 in the upcoming Big Ten.  Our place seems fairly secure IMO.
 
 

Thanks for that link.  Interesting, I hadn't been aware that there was any talk of any kind of consolidation like this.

https://journalstar.com/cutting-programs-merging-campuses-nebraska-university-leaders-ponder-bold-changes-to-compete/article_4aaa4013-bd96-5524-bd83-05a8a5b8e251.html
Well perhaps but it is being discussed 

Y'all probably thought I was being hyperbolic when I posted this:
 
 

conference realignment geeks are the absolute worst

With all due respect to Fansided and this author, they will let any moron print anything on that site.

Maybe with some NIL money he can afford to get lasik.

Maybe with some NIL money he can afford to get lasik.

Yeah, I mean, didn't Indiana have like 3 5* guys in their starting lineup last year?  I don't think talent acquisition has ever been their main issue.

PERFECT FIT FOR OUR SYSTEM WOO HOO

Wouldn’t you love it if a kid was an absolute stud and had a good sense of humor, and a coach said something to the effect of “I have no idea why the NIL collective offered this kid what they did. He must have a co-sponsorship lined up with a pine processing company because that’s what he’s gonna be riding.” 
 
You know, just to mix it up a bit.

At first glance I thought that was a Scott Frost jersey, but upon closer inspection it appears to be an Eric Crouch instead.  Which, given his age, makes a bit more sense.

Highlights....

Wow!  What an amazing environment.  72,000 fans!  It's too bad we couldn't get a result but man that was a fun game to be at.

Wow!  What an amazing environment.  72,000 fans!  It's too bad we couldn't get a result but man that was a fun game to be at.

They had real good players last year, too.

Creighton fans in absolute shambles over this devastating piece of news.