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If Havers plays 25-30 minutes -- which may be a stretch -- she'll reach it.

I think there's something else at play. Something tied to the former coach and how he left.

Profile No. 1 - Andy Kennedy, Ole Miss Profile No. 2 - Rick Stansbury, Mississippi State (left three seasons ago, now an assistant at A&M Profile No. 3 - Tad Boyle, Colorado Profile No. 4 - Travis Ford, Oklahoma State Profile No. 5 - Connie Yori, Nebraska Profile No. 6 - Tony Bennett, Virginia Profile No. 7 - Leonard Hamilton, Florida State Profile No. 8 - Lorenzo Romar, Washington Profile No. 9 - Mark Fox, Georgia Profile No. 10 - Tubby Smith at Minnesota

I'm curious which coaching profiles fans see as acceptable. It's not at all a trap. It's a blind resume so as to remove the "oh, well, that's a good coach" factor that comes with names.

So none of the profiles were acceptable?

I've selected 10 Power Five/major conference coaching resumes. Without the names of the teams or the coaches -- you can try to figure them out if you like -- which ones (from none of them to all of them) would be acceptable to you at Nebraska, and why? And no - none of the below profiles are Miles, Doc, Nee or Collier. I'm just curious about expectations. Profile 1 9 seasons 192-114 2 NCAA Tournaments - 2-2 record 5 NITs - 2 NIT Final Four appearances. 1 Conference Tournament title; 0 regular season titles Profile 2 14 seasons 293-165 6 NCAA Tournaments - 4-6 record 5 NITs - 1 NIT Final Four appearance 3 Conference Tournament titles; 1 regular season title Profile 3 5 seasons 108-67 3 NCAA Tournaments - 1-3 record 1 NIT 1 Conference Tournament title; 0 regular season titles Profile 4 7 seasons 143-91 5 NCAA Tournaments - 1-5 record 1 NIT No conference tournament titles; 0 regular season titles Profile 5 13 seasons 262-153 7 NCAA Tournaments - 6-7 record 4 NITs 1 Conference tournament title - 1 regular season title Profile 6 6 seasons 136-64 3 NCAA Tournaments - 3-3 record 1 NIT 1 Conference tournament title - 2 regular season titles Profile 7 13 seasons 280-173 4 NCAA Tournaments - 3-4 record 5 NITs - 1 NIT Final Four 1 Conference tournament title - 0 regular season titles Profile 8 13 seasons 270-159 6 NCAA Tournaments - 8-6 record 2 NITs - 1 NIT Final Four 3 Conference Tournament titles - 2 regular season titles Profile 9 Six seasons 105-88 2 NCAA Tournaments - 0-2 record 1 NIT 0 Conference Tournament titles - 0 regular season titles Profile 10 Six seasons 124-81 3 NCAA Tournaments - 1-3 record 2 NITs - 1 NIT Final Four 0 Conference Tournament titles - 0 regular season titles

It's something with the former coach and the players' loyalty to him and who knows what. Something beyond the basketball court, I suspect.

And to have those 2 be 2 of the 4 best players on a given team, as was the case this year.

Unpack this for me. Do you agree with this worldview, say, in the workplace? Should a person stay in a job where they don't like their boss when the same job across town -- with a boss who wants them -- is open?

Something's up at Indiana, and I think the new coach is caught in the middle of it. AAU coaches just flinging her under the bus, and reporters being comfortable with that, is rare. I mean, these coaches are basically screaming: None of my girls are playing for you. I'm stunned they'd feel the latitude to do that.

Miles is on notice, listen to sports radio. Thats the consumer speaking. No one is ready to jump ship but they don't want to see a repeat of this next season. Honestly, it's not. Not really. The consumer speaking is the attendance at games. When that dips -- and with PBA being new and cool, we're talking dipping to 11,000-12,000 -- that's speaking. NU averaged 15,569 at home. The team could be 5-25 and still get 8,000-9,000 in that building, so we're not talking Devaney standards. 11,000-12,000 would be noticeable. I totally agree, Im assuming most of those I heard in Brewsky's last night and on sports radiio today will back up thier words with actions. It's possible they may have been over-stating thier position after watching Penn St block 16 Nebraska shots last night. I'm guessing Nebraska does very well in attendance to start next season. Fans want to believe in it. In the Collier and Doc eras, part of what kept some fans away was simply Devaney. Part of it, too, was their styles of play. After Maric left, Doc's offense became fairly punishing to endure. But Nebraska's offense this year wasn't much more exciting.

This is actually a good point -- at least as it relates to freshmen in Nebraska's program over the years -- but I think Morrow is expected to make a pretty good impact. Maric averaged 8 and 6 as a frosh. Morrow does that, and I think you have a 17/18-win team if nothing else changes. But I think White gets you 2/3 more wins. I've written before: I do not think Nebraska's poorly coached this year. I think there's some iffy on-court chemistry, I think there's no post, and I think the team leader is having a hard emotional year. But when I really bore down into it, I thought it was 16/17-win talent once L. Smith got hurt. Sam, when I say "huge impact" I'm not saying "huge" relative to other freshmen. I'm saying "huge" in general. Like having a freshman come in and put up 14 ppg or something like that. I would not be surprised to see Morrow give us 8 and 6, and if David Rivers had done that this year, we would have called it "solid" as opposed to "huge." And that's what I'm saying. Not compared to other freshmen, but compared to other players in general. 8 and 6, for this team, IMO, would be huge. And it'd be more the offensive rebounds and defense. The team will probably have 3 scorers, presuming Petteway returns, plus Pitchford, plus Smith, who's bound to evolve as a scorer.

Miles is on notice, listen to sports radio. Thats the consumer speaking. No one is ready to jump ship but they don't want to see a repeat of this next season. Honestly, it's not. Not really. The consumer speaking is the attendance at games. When that dips -- and with PBA being new and cool, we're talking dipping to 11,000-12,000 -- that's speaking. NU averaged 15,569 at home. The team could be 5-25 and still get 8,000-9,000 in that building, so we're not talking Devaney standards. 11,000-12,000 would be noticeable.

This is actually a good point -- at least as it relates to freshmen in Nebraska's program over the years -- but I think Morrow is expected to make a pretty good impact. Maric averaged 8 and 6 as a frosh. Morrow does that, and I think you have a 17/18-win team if nothing else changes. But I think White gets you 2/3 more wins. I've written before: I do not think Nebraska's poorly coached this year. I think there's some iffy on-court chemistry, I think there's no post, and I think the team leader is having a hard emotional year. But when I really bore down into it, I thought it was 16/17-win talent once L. Smith got hurt.

No, it'd be the absence of a post. Nebraska didn't get a ton of good shots in part because there wasn't a reasonable, healthy post to keep a D more honest. It's a major, glaring weakness. Perhaps Marrow by himself helps resolve that, but I think another recruit would help.

Wait Hal that was thought out and insightful. Get out of here now! I will say that I feel that the board has changed some this year, but much like the basketball season next year will be better. And we still have the women to worry about, because we know they are going to get screwed with their seeding. Interestingly enough, getting "screwed" to a 10, 11 or 12 seed is better than being the 8 or 9. There is no difference in talent or, really, coaching - and I mean zero - between seeds 6-11 on the women's side, but there's a huge difference between the No. 1 and, say, No. 3 seeds. I tell the truth: BYU, seeded 12th last year, was every bit as *talented* as Nebraska. And BYU whipped No. 5 seed NC State's rear end. You'll take an 11 or 12 in the women's tournament.

Jess will be very good, I'd guess. But Jordan Hooper was very good her freshman year. NU needs two more starters to go along with Shepard, Romeo and Theriot. And then it needs 2-3 bench players.

I'll take Iowa in that game.

DePaul's 0-6 vs. Top 50 and its best win is South Dakota State. And DePaul is projected as in at a 10 seed. Oklahoma State is 1-6 and ten spots lower in RPI. And projected in. It's not the strongest year.

The Big Ten would be red-faced with embarrassment. A 21-10/11-9/top 40 RPI should be in. Iowa made it in 2013 with 20-12/9-9/44 (post Big Ten tourney) Michigan made it in 2012 with 20-11/9-9/45 (post Big Ten tourney) Minnesota did not in 2014 with 20-12/9-9/47 (post Big Ten tourney). But Nebraska's RPI will be better, it won one more game and lost two less.

Like anyone, her shot may not always fall consistently, but you know what you're going to get from Havers. If she played 25 minutes, she'd probably average around 10-12 points per game, but there's always defensive considerations, too. Can she cover an athletic 4? Sample's very nearly the MVP of this team this year. It's her or Cady. Sample was again last night, drawing fouls, covering Grant for long stretches. Grant's a good player -- better than Illinois' system makes her look - but she really struggled last night. Some of that was Sample's doing.

Yeah, he might be that guy. He got a lot better as a senior. Basketball recruiting, aside from that top 50 kids, seems very hard to my amateur eyes, and the fact that the top 15 programs vacuum up the top 50 every year to fill after one or two-and-dones leave makes it even harder.

I think you may see another recruit this spring.

They're playing the right people in more or less the right minutes. Smith's going to be a good player. Romeo, too.

I'd be stunned if Minnesota was top 3. No Shae Kelley. NW, I'd say.