aphilso1

I'm not asking you to give specific names, but have you heard anything further about whether our current attrition is likely over? Just curious if there are still a couple players mulling over their options, or if everyone that's left is planning on sticking around.

Never forget: "Id' love to see Creighton win the Big East every year." -Handy Johnson, 3/16/2021

Snyder is a fantastic coach and and has one of the highest IQs in basketball. Dude got a doctorate while also working as an assistant coach at Duke. All that being said, there's no way he is returning to college athletics for anything other than the Duke HC job. He is having way too much success with the Jazz, and with a relatively young team that should be competitive for the foreseeable future. Also, the way things ended at Mizzou really soured him on the NCAA.

Oh please oh please oh please oh please SIGN HIM. Do want.

I'm not sure why we'd intentionally save a couple 'ships for '22. We are already set to open up four more scholarships next year (Shamiel, Trey, Lat, Walker), plus we are allowed to overrecruit by one in anticipation of transfers. So we are sitting at five offerable scholarships for '22, even if we fill all four of our current '21 openings. Seems like plenty.

I had the theory that this *could* happen but always caveated that it was a long shot. The argument for the free year was that he just played in his fourth season, and thus should be in the same boat as Thor and Kobe. The argument against was much stronger in my opinion. The sole reason why players like Kobe don't count against next year's limit is because coaches didn't have a way of planning for the scholarship crunch of literally no one running out of eligibility at the end of this year. So to make it so that any senior who wants to return is able to do so, the NCAA made guys with expiring eligibility not count towards next year's limit. Now look at Lakes' situation in contrast. He only played his fourth year because the NCAA decided to let all sit-out transfers become immediately eligible midway through the season as part of the COVID rule bending. And unlike Kobe, who was never on HCFH's radar to be occupying a schollie in '21-'22, Lakes was always expected to occupy a scholarship next season. So the whole point of making 5th/6th year seniors not count against next year's limit doesn't even apply to players like Lakes. This looks like the NCAA is deciding just to press the Easy Button, and not get into whether each individual player actually should count against the scholarship limit. COVID made so many weird situations across the country, that the NCAA clearly is just giving a free pass and not wasting the time and effort of making individual determinations. But hey, I'll take it. This is quite possibly the first time that the NCAA's laziness has actually benefitted Nebrasketball.

JBD committed the cardinal sin of not being the second coming of Aleks Maric. Had Diaz played for the Huskers anytime other than he did, the fan base would have appreciated him much more.

How can this be? I thought Yvan was perpetually 17.

6 out (Teddy, Yvan, Wood, Arop, plus Kobe and Thor don't count against the schollie limit) - 3 in (Keisei, Wilhelm, Bryce) = 3 open scholarships. It's a slim possibility that the NCAA will rule Lakes as being a bonus scholarship, like Kobe and Thor. In which case we'd actually be sitting on 4 scholarships.

Thanks for flushing the alley oop pass! I was hoping that setup wouldn’t go to waste.

That's a reasonable request. Hey by the way, do you like my new signature?

Sorry, all Johnsons look the same to me.

@hhcmatt can you disable Johnson's account please?

oh, gotcha. I was thinking that dropping the worst prediction was part of the bonus for not missing a game. Re-reading the rules though, I see that the -25 bonus is just for those who didn't miss a game, while everyone gets the benefit of dropping their worst score. My bad.

@HuskerFever thank you again for doing this! Always a blast, and one of my favorite parts of college basketball season. I hate to constantly be check the math guy, but...I'm not tracking how we got from the Week 15 standings to the Final. I won't even begin to dig in to the participants who got the "didn't miss a week" bonus. But just looking at a few of us that missed that bonus and it is still hard to follow. A few examples: aphilso1 1096 (week 15) + 16 (PSU game) - 5 (Bonus 1) = 1117. But somehow my score improved to 1009 in the final standings? Ralph Wiggum 1159 + 22 - 5 = 1176, not 1001. uneblinstu 1116 + (missed pick for PSU game) = 1006? It looks like something is off either in the scoring for the PSU game, or in the final standings.

The Archie Miller firing is perplexing. Not in the sense that they let him go, but moreso in the surprise that he didn't have more success at Indiana. He was not a flash-in-the-pan hire coming out of Dayton. Rather, he sustained a monster program in the A-10. Plus he is a stellar recruiter. I really thought Archie was a "can't miss" hire when Indiana grabbed him.

That would not suck.

I do have a #1, #2, and #3 finish in my six years of participation. So I got that goin' for me, which is nice... EDIT: I also beat KenPom 3 out of 4 years.

Last year we lost: Mack (best player on team) Burke (starter) Green (part-time starter) Cross (rotation player with 3 years of eligibility) Easley (walk-on rotation player who shot 41% from 3pt range at SDSU this year) Curtis (non-rotation player with 3 years of eligibility) That is in addition to losing 2 of the 4 remaining rotation players to exhausted eligibility. Result: 1 starter returning; 2 of 9 rotation players returning in '20-'21 In HCFH's first offseason we lost: Allen (starter with 3 years of eligibility) Akenten (rotation player) Harris (borderline rotation player with 3 years of eligibility) Heiman (end of rotation player with 3 years of eligibility) That is in addition to losing 6 of the 7 remaining rotation players to exhausted eligibility and the NBA draft. Result: 0 starters returning; 1 of 11-ish rotation players returning in '19-'20. In two years we have lost four starters plus a big minute rotation player, as well as multiple players with three years of eligibility. These are not as straightforward as losing a 5th year grad transfer looking for playing time, or a kid who put in two years but has yet to crack the rotation. Admittedly, there are extenuating circumstances with many of these examples. However, none as big as the circumstances surrounding the hiring of Doc Sadler in 2006. For those that don't remember, Collier left us high and dry late in the off-season and thus Doc was hired late. Maric was home for the off-season at the time and decided that playing professionally overseas sounded a lot better than rebuilding a team from scratch with a coach he had never even heard of before. So what does Doc do? First act as head coach was to fly to Australia and re-recruit Maric and build the team around him.

This is truth. The only guys who don't count against the schollie limit are guys that would have exhausted their eligibility this year, but decided to come back due to the one-time COVID rule making '20-'21 a free eligibility year. Lakes was set to be in his final year of eligibility next year before all the one-time rule changes. Ergo, he counts against the scholarship limit.

Breidenbach isn't a better shooter than Lakes, Kobe, or Thor. I'd probably put Trey over him too. He's good for a high school big man...but if he's a top 5 shooter for us next year then we are really in trouble.

Huskers 68 PSU 78 zero.

Agree 100% with all of this. He has serious shortcomings in his game that that give him a relatively low ceiling, despite the fact that he is young. But I too would like to see him return for as long as he wants to be here. Mature, hard working kids have a tendency to make players around them better.

I highly doubt a 5 point bonus is going to matter for me, but I just checked my Conference Wins prediction and I said 20%. So I believe I should have also gotten the bonus. Probably irrelevant though, when my ranking is down in the teens this year. :(

Huskers 66 Cats 75 Three.