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It's bad business if you are taking away from other more profitable programs and not taking from other less profitable and otherwise lower ceiling programs. (I.E Taking away from men's hoops while not taking away from women's hoops or track and field, etc) Volleyball's reputation is pretty much as high as it can be...and it's still well behind MBB....a perennial underachiever. Don't handcuff your #2 sport to invest in a sport with a semi-capped ceiling when you have plenty of others who also don't perform/have a very low ceiling. Especially when you already have an elite level NIL program outside the university for VB

I think the VB team will get a higher % than 95% of other VB teams. But I still think it falls into that 'Other' Category. It's not going to take away from Football or Men's Basketball. That's bad business. Those programs have underperfomed but are still the two most prominant programs in the AD. And their ceiling is so much higher than where they are at now. It's going to take away from Baseball, Women's Hoops, Wrestling, etc. Those programs don't have the ceiling or impact that Football or MBB do. That's smart business.

I'm not saying it's not important. But all it takes is one sweet 16 run in basketball to offset that real quick. And I still think there is a monetary value to everything. If you have one of the top 2-3 volleyball programs in the country and you are still that far behind the men's basketball team who is nothing....the value can only be carried so far. And god forbid that value drops with Cook stepping away....

Is it? If Nebraska volleyball goes 0-35 next year, I wouldn’t care one bit. It’s a pretty subjective thing. Don't get me wrong either. I'm not rooting against them. I'd would just watch the same amount of volleyball either way,

And some things aren’t.

I'm sure they will. And they will get more than other schools too. But that doesn't mean we're going to partake in bad business and take away from football or men's basketball. Women's basketball and olympic sports are going to be the casualties in the women's volleyball debate. Not FB or MBB.

Is the brand that valuable, if it makes 10 times less than what the men’s basketball team does. And I’d also argued that the men’s basketball team won’t have as many fans showing up in two years if they regress back again and again like they have this year

It makes sense. We aren’t getting him. Focus your resources on what you can actually land.

They can try. Doesn’t mean they’ll get it. For as good as they are…..men’s hoops still makes 10x as much as they do.

That pretty much jt. It’s going to be a 75-15-10 model. That aligns with the percentage of revenue at most schools. 75%-Football 15%-MBB 10%- Everything else

If you put half that money in basketball, you’re going to have a really bad football team. most p4 schools will put around $15m towards football and $3.5-$4m towards basketball. They’ll allocate it based on revenue %

We’re not in a position to be choosy this year. find the best players available, regardless of year. Don’t waste Mast’s last year like we did Williams and Gary. Griffiths, Berke, Jankowski, Frager and Rhymes (along with Perez if we add him) all have multiple years left. That’s 6 of 13 scholarship players. That’s a foundation. not to mention legit players with multiple years cost a lot more and are wanted by everyone.

For me: Transfer PG Essegian (or Transfer) Transfer SF/Wing (or Frager/Rhymes) Transfer PF (Kyle or Bangot) Mast 3 starters from the portal with 2 internal. Rotation: 6. Berke 7. Essegian/Frager/Rhymes 8. Sam 9. Frager/Rhymes 10. Transfer combo guard Deep Bench: 11. Janowski 12. Griffiths 13. Perez (Euro HS PF) 14. Bolis

Most could. It was a bad add on any level. Only gets worse for $500k

You aren’t. Diop/Keita/$500k > Meah and I’m not saying we should’ve held pat with Diop and Keita. Just don’t spend stupidly like we did. We could’ve had three points and three rebounds for free.

No one said it was. Diop isn’t good. But for $500k, he can give us what Meah did

Not to mention it’s likely the adults in the room who are telling a lot of those players to do it.

Did he get hurt. I thought I saw him playing quite a bit early and then falling off late that being said….id take him back for depth. It’s better than spending $500k on a guy like Meah

Yes please

Right call. Dumb rule

Those are from Rollie and Berke’s shot attempts.

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His personality would’ve been fine when he was winning

I don’t see why they are sad. Spring football practice starts in 36 hours.

I would say in general. Kids individually are fine. But the organization isn’t exactly good