Husker4theSpurs

I think we could be better, but I don't think we will be. Who would win head to head between this year and last year? Harder to say ... if you made me wager I don't think we will make the NCAAs this year so does that make this team worse than last year's? Inconsistent shooting and lack of athleticism could be our weaknesses. I'm hoping I'm wrong!

Seeing a trip to Bandon Dunes and watching the Huskers in Eugene in my future!

I can picture a time when conference alignment doesn't matter in football ... and where Nebraska is back in the Big XII for other sports.

Doug Ewald spoke on this topic on the Husker Doc Talk Podcast a few weeks ago. He was very candid about the importance of us getting back into the AAU to potentially maintaining B1G membership. He also stated the hiring of Gold is influenced by his connections to a man who could get us back into the AAU. For the record NO university has ever been allowed back in after being kicked out. For whatever it's worth Mr Ewald in no longer employed by Nebraska, which occurred not too long after this podcast airing.

I sure hope so ... more draft picks to come :)

On some level each year is a rebuild for everyone. Gotta hope to have a core that stays, but even if they're happy where they're at that's not any guarantee anymore. :(

Let's also keep in mind people enter the portal just to check their market value sometimes. Gard has done just decent enough to keep his job quite often at Wisconsin ... it's almost to a point they'd almost like to see him have a bad year just to have it over with it seems. I don't know that his job is safe right now as it is ... It's getting more and more difficult for me to care as much with all the changes ... not to sound like the almost 50 year old guy and gripe, but it's just what I'm feeling.

It's hard to sustain that level of a-holery for a long period.

I have to give Fred credit with the re-boot he made. I wasn't sure he had it in him to make the changes he did and get a bit more re-engaged with talent acquisition. We have chose REALLY wisely in the portal for the most part (Uhlis may end up being a good choice, but it wasn't this year for certain). Maybe some of this is a bit of luck. Some will fight me on this but we were still a bit underfunded as far as NIL and I'm hoping this season will push that to another level yet. I think culture is the main thing and it seems like we've committed to being tough minded and defensive ... I think the character of our guys is really showing through and permeates the culture - Mast, Gary, Williams, Hoiberg even as a walk on, and Allick. I feel like it's been a bit of fake it till we made it and we still seem a bit vulnerable mentally but it's improved. Being experienced and older than the rest of the league has paid off. And the schedule was designed well for what they thought they had ... I'd imagine it's gone better than Hoiberg and the basketball admin even thought it could. I think Alberts and Hoiberg's values align fairly well. Again, I will give kudos to Fred because I wasn't sure he had a reboot in him or the overall hunger to do so but he has proven me wrong. Let's see how we can sustain this. I suppose the administrative support and engagement has to be mentioned as well. The entire athletic department is in a way different place. While I have my concerns about Trev in some ways, he has seemed to have done a good job leading and building an overall culture in the athletics department.

Culture Age/Experience The hire of Loenser Depth (we are not deep but we aren't reliant on one or two players)

You can resell them. They come in sessions. Usually two games to a session. I haven't gone since they became digital however.

I agree it feels random, but one thing that will hurt us is that we don't have a lot of chances for quality wins after these next 3 games. That wasn't true of the 2014 team, but I agree with your points.

That team also had a ton of steam coming into the tournament, which we are unlikely to have given just the level of competition down the stretch of our schedule. This isn't going to be the year to back your way into the tourney given the lack of strength of the Big Ten.

This might not be the year to expect to make it at 11-9 in conference ... not that conference record matters necessarily. I think we have to win one of the next three and get at least one road win and avoid bad losses at home to make it. But as stated above, a lot dependent on other teams.

That there is a bit of disconnect between Keisei and a few other members on the team.