Swan88

A little historical revision going on here, courtesy of our Jay friends?

Whoa Nellie, Norm!! [No offense taken, by the way--now, if you'd suggested I'm still the ugly duckling . . . ] But back to the subject--what's this about "hoped would happen to us" and "under-the-radar kid comes along" and "luck that we've always wished we would experience"? . . . as if that never happened to us??!!! Ever hear of a player by the name of Teran Petteway? Here's a high schooler with the top college teams in pursuit of him being Colorado St. and Texas Tech; his results as a college Freshman are middling-to-poor, and his commitment to Nebrasketball came with a bunch of yawns and ho-hums from us fans. And it was well into his redshirt sophomore year that we internet geniuses started figuring out that he might be pretty good . . . and it's toward the end of last season that he begins to achieves all-B1G status. And he's now projected as among the best at the highest levels of college basketball. Oh . . . but sure . . . poor us. We never luck out like others do. But, hey, the current reality for Nebrasketball is that we no longer need to hope for luck. Heck, we now have a top-50 recruit signed-up and in school--and we signed him in direct and extensive competition with a full range of high-majors. We have a four-star point guard visiting who, despite being pursued by many other schools--both high-majors and otherwise--appears to be leaning toward NU. We have another four-star recruit visiting in a couple weeks with whom odds are also looking pretty good. The point, Norm, is that we've had our lucky break (actually, we've had a bunch of them--Shavon Shields held low-star status and is pretty darn good, Benny Parker held no-stars and played an incredibly important role last year, Walter Pitchford came to NU as a Florida reject and became a superb player at NU, and Tai Webster is making huge progress. Not only did we experience our lucky breaks all-at-once with Tim Miles--but we no longer need to pine for such breaks as our only way to thrive! Tim Miles & Co. have now created their way into successful competition for the four-stars--who knows, perhaps five-stars are just around the corner. Bottom line in recruiting the best players--I'll take "good" over "lucky" any day!!!

The Creighton discussions on this board over the years present an interesting study in human nature. The Husker faithful have endured a long stint of Jaybacker posts on this board explaining in great detail how their MVC (now Big East) team and program are, simply, better. The Husker faithful took great umbrage at such explanations and tried to fire back with contravailing arguments, only to be met with what seemed to Husker faithful as absurdities in response. But now, the worm seems to have turned in many respects from the Husker faithful perspective (with Nebrasketball on the ascendancy and the Jays looking in the rear view mirror at their McBuckets glory days). And the perceived turn of fortunes is, therefore, a pleasing turn of events for Husker faithful with inclinations to celebrate and gloat just a but on a message board like this.

Rumor is, apparently, not true.

Rumor has it that Ed Morrow will be visiting this weekend with Glynn Watson.

Check out these Tai Webster stats in today's Omaha World Herald: Tai Webster is "coming off a 21-point performance in a 102-96 upset of Serbia" where he had "32 minutes of work with only two turnovers. He hit 11 of 13 free throws and 2 of 3 3-pointers." Scheesh . . . that's a new Tai in just about every respect!!

He also went two-for-two from the free throw line with 9.7 seconds left.

Results (wins and losses) is pretty objective. Obviously relies on more than just recruiting, but it's a big part.The Nebrasketball cellar-dweller to 4th-place-finish in the B1G last season is incredible, given the low-star and other-team-rejects and Doc-holdover nature of the team. The incredibility is particularly pronounced when compared with exceedingly high-star teams like Illinois and UNLV who underachieved their talent and were lucky to accomplish a win or two between them in the NIT. The long history of over-achievement of their talent by Tim Miles' teams is what makes the prospect of higher-level talent in Huskerland intriguing and exciting: if he could reach excellent results with talent that was perceived to be limited, imagine what he could do with high-level talent!

"It doesn't happen without Kenya!" Tim Miles on Andrew White's commitment, during Sports Nightly interview.

Nailed itOnly shot I'll make all season. Missouri took Nebrasketball's back-up plan? That has got to be a first. Progress!

Here is a theory on this subject: nustudent is no longer a student (probably hasn't been for quite a while), so he no longer posts on this board or on Red Sea Scrolls under that name--but he still posts on both this board and Red Sea Scrolls under different names. Anyone know if this theory is anywhere close to accurate? Perhaps the gangling student has turned into a beautiful swan! Now that's funny! But I wouldn't want to cast aspersions on NUStudent by suggesting or leaving an implication that I am he. I'm not.

Here is a theory on this subject: nustudent is no longer a student (probably hasn't been for quite a while), so he no longer posts on this board or on Red Sea Scrolls under that name--but he still posts on both this board and Red Sea Scrolls under different names. Anyone know if this theory is anywhere close to accurate?

And check out this information, courtesy of a Huskers.com, from Andrew White's high school days: "White attended the Miller School in Charlottesville, Va., where he averaged 22.9 points and 10 rebounds per game for Coach Scott Willard as he was named the Virginia State Player of the Year in 2012. White’s senior season featured a game with 46 points, 19 rebounds and seven assists. He was ranked No. 48 by ESPNU100 and No. 51 by Rivals.com in the class of 2012 and ESPN’s No. 11 small forward in the country that season." 46 points, 19 rebounds and 7 assists . . . all in one game??!!! 22.9 points and 10 rebounds per game on the average??!!! Scheesh . . . that's not too bad.

Two points: 1. The entire Big 8 / Big XII were our rivals before the Tim Miles era--those were high-major teams with whom we had to compete day-in and day-out. 2. Under Doc and Collier, we could never compete consistently with many of the high-major teams in our conference (hence, presumably, the "terrible" reference above), but Doc (during those "terrible" years) still went .500 against that MVC mid-major in Omaha.

Wow. That's going back a ways--like two to three decades--into the prior millenium. Spoonhour served under Moe Iba, and Bargen came in Danny Nee's first year, as I recall.

Wonder what the definition of "real soon" might be in Mr. White's lexicon. Apparently, "within four days from today" isn't it.

Keep in mind that it's quite possible that he has already made up his mind and has known for quite some time what he wants to do. He could be enjoying his summer, taking some other free visits, and getting ready for school. It would be nice for White to be here working out with the team, but he's got this year off anyway, and practice will start soon enough for him. He might not be stringing anyone along besides us fans who don't really need to know right now anyway. Good points.

On the other hand, this seems to be getting a bit ridiculous. He needs to make up his mind already--he's not exactly a newbie to the recruiting process, and he surely could get things figured out by now. Heck, it's already been several days since he texted some journalism types around NU that he would be deciding "soon." If he's only been stringing the Huskers along for this entire summer, that's more than a little tacky, not to mention a bit weird.

Perhaps his view of his NU visit will depend in part on what Andrew White III might have to say in the next couple days or weeks.

Perhaps he has been waiting to see who is being offered at his position by the various teams he is considering. Such speculation can't be any worse than any other theory proposed thus far.

The only CU commitment (according to Rivals), since its Baylor "Junior Varsity" debacle at the end of last season, is Patton. Maybe CU gets this Watson guy. Maybe not. Don't like NU's chances with Watson, because of Tarin Smith's progress as the point guard for the next four years. In any event, doubt Watson ends up at CU--but no one really knows. The late addition of other schools to the fray, however, does not seem to bode well for either CU or NU.

You mean we need to start signing players like Keanu Pindar--his commitment to Nebrasketball has been roundly pooh-poohed because he wasn't getting the light of day from any other high majors and was buried on the depth chart at prep school. But he is now blowing up as a potential recruit for other teams--can't sign him yet because he isn't eligible, but he has committed. You mean we need to start signing players like Tarin Smith, who flew under the high-major recruiting radar, except for Nebraska's, and is now proving to be an excellent catch--he is signed and here. You mean we need to start signing players like Michael Jacobson, who seemed to fly under everyone's radar, until he committed to Nebraska, when the likes of Iowa then tried to get into the mix--he has committed. Aguek Arop received an offer. Some on this board suggested the Husker offer was premature. Now the grief is that he hasn't committed yet?

Not to be THAT GUY, but come on... Arop is local. If Miles wasn't the first to offer I'd be wondering what we pay him for. Not sure what the point is here. But it seems somehow pertinent to whatever the point might be that Miles was also the first (but not the only) high major to offer Isaiah Roby--not a local guy.

Check out this tweet and the article it links:

Here is a report on the matter from NBC ("senior wing"?): "Terran Petteway closes out a strong week One of the camp’s most steady performers this week was Nebraska senior wing Terran Petteway. The reigning All-Big Ten selection consistently hit shots from the perimeter, attacked using shot fakes and also played very hard on both ends of the floor. As one of the more experienced guys in the event, the 6-foot-6 Petteway looked like an even more complete scoring threat than last season with the variety of ways he scored the ball this week in Long Beach. Petteway had minimal difficulty getting his own shot, and besides UCLA guard Norman Powell, might have helped his NBA stock more than any other player in attendance this week."