Dean Smith

If the game is over and Palmer hasn't been sent to the line once, then the officials have definitely missed some calls.

Harris lost 20 pounds and needs time to recover, Nana has been sick for a while now, and we still happen to be the 15th team in the nation in offensive efficiency. We have five guys who can put it on the floor and shoot the long ball as well as four guys that can post up their position. We have one of the best starting fives in all of college basketball. Talk to any opposing coach. They will tell you we are a nightmare to game plan for and we are good enough that even when they come upon a good game plan, it won't always be enough as we still can get the win. That's how talented those 5 guys are. As players get healthy they will play more minutes. Until then sit back and enjoy what we are able to send out on the floor.

You might be remembering previous year's teams. This year's team is rated 15th in the nation in offensive efficiency.

Personally, I think Watson should have run more clock but I understand why he took it when I factor in he was making circus shots the last 4 minutes of the game and his confidence was trending up quickly. It also was a pull up from something like 12 feet which is his best shot all the time. If he hits that shot the game is over and everyone is talking about him being a stud with nerves of steel. As I former coach I want him to run more clock. As a former player who has been lucky enough to have experienced a couple of games where the ball just seemed to want to go in the basket for me, I definitely understand that shot. You then factor in that Watson is a senior who has gone on record saying he will do whatever is necessary to get his team to the dance. We've just lost two games in a row and I'm projecting but I believe what was going through his mind was, "I'm not going to let it get to three." He also has put together a record of 3 1/2 years playing basketball for Nebraska. I'm still not thrilled with his shot selection (for the record I admit that as a player I probably take that same shot as well and when it doesn't go in I'm surprised as hell. I'm extremely biased but I don't think that means I have a low basketball IQ), but looking at all the factors up to that point in the game, adding in where we are in this season as well his track record over all his time here at Nebraska, I can say with much confidence that I strongly believe Glenn Watson does NOT have a low basketball IQ.

I didn't put any words in anyone's mouth. I just asked why walking on the football team is seen as an honor for most people and walking on the basketball team is considered a poor choice by most people.

I don't disagree with you and I know the obvious answer is the winning legacy but why do people feel walking on the basketball team would be missing out on a real big opportunity and walking on the football team is a great honor. The walk-on program here is legendary for football. There are 8 or 9 Nebraska kid's walking on this coming year and you know all of them would be guaranteed more playing time and get to go to school for free if they went somewhere else. I guess I'm hoping that someday, sometime in the future, the basketball team will be successful enough that a walk-on offer will be seen as impressive as the same offer for football is seen as today.

I don't get your comment. My point was its easier for class A but harder for individuals attending Class A schools. I like the class system in general. Wouldn't want to eliminate classes because the Hoosier situation happens once every 50 years. Lots of schools do co-op or consolidate.

I don't think I would have a problem going back to four classes. To get to 28 Class A schools you have to put schools together that go from 1069 boys at GI to 487at Gretna. That's a difference of 582. At the other end from the top of D1 to the bottom of D2, the difference between the largest and smallest school is only 34 boys. It is way easier with only 28 Class A schools for a Class A School to make the State Tournament. But it is much easier for the individual to get to the tournament from a small school. You easily could have starters on a Class D2 championship team that would be cut from every Class A team. So its easy for schools to get to the tourney from large schools but not so for individuals at large schools because they can't even make the team. You could quite likely find 12 players from Omaha Central that couldn't make the team there that would win a state championship in a lower class. I guess it all goes back to perspective again.

I don't do lectures so that wasn't my point. For some Panhandle schools, they don't have any away games as close as 60-70 miles so I was discussing the situation from the overall Class B perspective and the playing high school sports in Nebraska perspective. At least football is played on Friday night. Scottsbluff will have a basketball game in Chadron on a Thursday and the students will need to be to school the next day. For them that's not crap, that's just a fact of life. So basically we were having a conversation from two different perspectives. Maybe we were even having two separate conversations at the same time. And like most things in life, I'm pretty sure there was more than one factor in the decision from Aurora to stay in Class C. I would think travel, winning a title, and long-term cost and competitiveness all came up in the board's conversation.

I’m not comenting on anything but the “scheduling quirks.” That is not a quirk for Aurora. Schools like Hastings, Holdrege and York near Aurora have the same issues and the Panhandle school experience is about half their games are long distance affairs. As long as their is a class B there has to be long trips in Nebraska to get these roughly same sized schools together. There has always beeen large disparities concerning school size in a class. It used to be class A but now the problem has been pushed down to class B for sometime. These things are the facts of Nebraska’s population and geography not “quirks.” I have zero information on this but I do find it hard to believe that the fact that they would be a competitive school in class B but if they stayed in class C-1 they had a great chance at a state championship did not factor into the discussion determining what class they would be in this year. And I’m sure they factored in that Baylor and others won’t be there next season which make perfect sence. And maybe you can tell me if there is any truth to this rumor. I heard that there were some younger athletes that transferred out because they didn’t want to be at a class C school. I have no personal knowledge on this but did hear someone stating this at a bar so it might not have come from the most reliable source. OK I will also share my belief that if Scottsbluff had a big lead in Aurora when a storm system passed by, Aurora is not calling the game either. That’s the competitive nature of those involved and not “total crap.”

There is rarely if ever a “forget the in-depth game plan and just go out and play.” More time between games allows for more time to plan and implement but coaches are scouting for a game ahead of time and not waiting for the last one to get over. You diminish the work the coaches put in with statements like that. Teams that have a deeper understanding of the game can pick things up quicker and hopefully that’s what Nebraska has.

I don't know. I've not watched a game in South Dakota since they've instituted the clock. Do you know how long the rule has been in place there? I suppose like most things, it probably started out pretty rough and got better. I still think the "no clock" gives high school basketball a little something special in the way of being different.

Sorry but I still have serious doubt. I don’t see anything wrong with the high school game being different. You can only play fast if you are good and not everyone playing in Nebraska meets that criteria. We don’t have a rash of stall ball overwhelming the state so what are you trying to fix? Then you have to deal with the real world. I’ve done no research but someone on here said $5000 a basket. Lots of class B & A schools (and lots of smaller) play JV games at the same time in different gyms. We are up to $20,000 now and finding people to work the freshman, sophomore, JV and varsity games competently would be a logistical nightmare for AD’s. We do not need to give uninformed high school fans something to yell when they get past their repertoire of “three seconds!! and “Call it both ways!!!”

I really don't care that much about this issue, hence the resorting to the multiverse storyline. But...Whatever happens, going forward will have nothing to do with how I judge past events. Maybe good things will come about but that won't change the fact that I think Moos handled things poorly in the past.

I'm still anti-shot-clock. I still see that there is a lot a bad basketball played at the high school level throughout all the classes (of course there is good basketball as well, but that's not a problem) and I can't imagine anything worse for the game then bad basketball sped up. I think it is part of what makes the high school game different and a little special. Problems to solve that are exclusive to the high school game can be entertaining to watch.

That is exactly what I am saying . It is possible though in my alternate timeline where Eichorst had not been hired but a no-named horrible AD that duplicated his horrible decisions it is possible that Frost would be unaware of how horrible Eichorst would be if in the alternate timeline he was hired when Moos was in this timeline. I’ve heard the youth taking about some multiverse with the Flash and some other superheroes I am unfamiliar with. So maybe we can find an ulternate universe where these actions actually took place. And I think I have carried this storyline about as far as I can take it.

I don’t agree with your Pedersen and Eichorst ananagy. If we could have replaced either one of those horrible AD’s with a different horrible AD that would have made the same decisions that either one of those two horrible AD’s made and then hired either one of those two that we replaced in the timeline at the time we hired Moos, I believe with the current history and facts at hand, both of those two would have also hired Scott Frost and then would go on to make different horrible decisions. Now that is a completely subjective opinion arrived at by quality circular logic but until you can get one of the two on record saying they would not have hired Frost, I stand by it.

Subjective means there is personal judgment involved. People can come to opinions weighing all the facts and be unbiased. That's supposed to be how our jury system works. They are to supposed to arrive with an objective mindset and then weigh the evidence and come to their subjective opinion. Because of the subjective nature we usually require unamous verdicts. I don't see him as rescuing our athletic program. No matter who the new AD was there was only one right choice for football coach and taking Frost's enthusiasm for the job, it would have been hard for him to mess that up. Though it seems he almost did with a clandestine meeting in Philadelphia. The department was a mess before he arrived and he made positive organizational changes. I weigh what he has done, factored in the things that probably would have happened whether he was the AD or anyone else, then look at how he has treated the basketball program and when I add that all up it comes out to a negative overall grade from me. I can respect that others can come to a different conclusion.

Or people could examine his actions, evaluate the evidence, view the results and come to an unbiased opinion that is completely contrary to yours. The question of, "Has Moos done a good job?" is subjective with no real right answer at this time. We differ in our analyses of the situation. And I'm not bright enough to get the "elephant in the room" comment. By internal bias do you mean we are naturally prejudiced against a name that sounds like cows? I knew nothing of the man before he was hired and so was unable to prejudge him or hold a bias.

I understand your statements but that doesn't change the fact that there were a couple of things I wanted to see from Moos. I am very displeased with Moos progress.

And let me predict the Nebraska vs. Oklahoma St. score. 79-56. Am I right? Looks like I was.

They already did and when I tried to get tickets for the CSF game like a week ago they were sold out. Got some for the next game but they were almost gone as well.

Not all offensive fouls are charges.

And you can draw a straight line from this away from Nebraska and right to Pitt for Xavier Johnson. And this is the last time I will mention his name but it seems there are several on this board that have a slight crush on Xavier. Amir is our guy and I'm in on him the whole way. But anyone out there that wants to defend Moos and rave about Xavier Johnson you are contradicting yourself.

I think it does say something that they were not sitting anywhere near each other. I've seen previous pictures of them sitting together on scouting visits. I think some hard feelings continue.