ladyhusker

On the flip side, when they make the 30 For 30 about our amazing run this week, the asterisk and cherry on top will be when we steal their bid right back.

I get that we're in message board space and you have no reason to believe me over anyone else, and without anyone actually getting a quote from Ed it'll probably never be settled to everyone's liking, but OP isn't wrong on that, and Ed did have (seriously misguided) visions of moving more to a wing position.

Unless Texas wins the Big 12 Tournament, they'll wind up with 16 losses and they're still being talked about as a bubble team -- for better or for worse, as of this morning Lunardi still has them in with a bye, even. I know their conference record is better than ours (obviously it's up for discussion whether that matters) but just for the sake of conversation, we aren't the only potentially 16-loss team that could be in the discussion. Raises some questions, at least in my eyes, about jersey bias...

I genuinely don't know if this would do more to convince him to stay or scare him off. Great kid, but being The Guy doesn't seem to be all that cohesive with his personality.

Guessing he's graduating and moving on though, making him a senior. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Ummmm...per Huskers.com, Johnny Trueblood is a senior.

Mark Turgeon hired Dalonte Hill (of $400K-per-year at KSU fame), and then after his DUIs replaced him with Dustin Clark, who bizarrely decided in June to leave coaching altogether to go into his family's business. He was the lead recruiter for Silvio de Sousa, who the NCAA ruled ineligible for being paid. This conveniently took place between Maryland's two subpoenas. The assistant named in the subpoenas, Bino Ranson, is still on staff, and he was the lead recruiter for Diamond Stone, who also took a $14K cash payment. If multiple assistants under Turgeon are paying players THAT much money, he's either aware of it, or a poor manager of his staff. Either way, not a good look.

If you want to follow the breadcrumbs, go ahead and throw Eric Musselman on that list... his associate head coach was implicated for stuff at LSU, but it wouldn't be all that surprising to learn he didn't go through a radical change of heart when he changed time zones. https://www.rgj.com/story/sports/college/nevada/2018/02/23/ex-players-wolf-pack-associate-head-coach-implicated-fbi-probe/369038002/

And yet apparently it requires cheating to achieve even that...

Then again, we're NET #50, with wins over several teams considered on the bubble or a virtual lock now, including Creighton (54), Minnesota (55), and Seton Hall (61), with wins over each. We also have a curb-stomping win over Indiana (50), currently two spots ahead of us and also apparently a bubble team, and one over Penn State (47, with about as much chance of making the tournament as we do). I like the NET a lot more than the RPI, but it's still weird. I doubt all those teams make it (although I'd guess more than 1 does) so you're right there -- but if they're all bubble teams, by virtue of the NET, we probably should be in that conversation too.

I'd also toss Tanner in there, and even though he was a transfer, I'd say Evan Taylor as well -- not necessarily from the offensive end as much, but by the time he left that guy was a pretty lockdown defender (and better competitor) and those are teachable skills too that I would posit he improved in quite noticeably while here. Might even suggest similar for Benny Parker by the time it was said and done. They were never brought in to be scorers, but all three have played a pretty vital role on their teams and that takes coaching (as well as personality management) and all three, at least as I see it, left better than they arrived. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Yeah...gonna say that's pretty solidly just rumor.

I mean, you can assume it's a false narrative. But it's just as likely there are also a few more factors involved than what Kenya publicly said, too. Xavier jumped when Kenya left, so that part is pretty established. We keep Kenya, we keep Xavier. And it's entirely logical to believe that the lack of job security here played a pretty significant role in Kenya leaving, although that's not exactly something he's going to say in public. I just...wouldn't say it's entirely false.

If Will Wade was ever in consideration, hopefully not so much anymore...

Wish I could upvote this more than once -- not because of the results, but because of the context it provides. I just don't understand the lather-rinse-repeat seven-year cycle -- history shows it's ineffective, despite a variety of coaches (and ADs) involved. At some point it seems like it's worth it to ask the extra "why".

Aaaaand the guy who looks like one of the Von Trapp kids scores right over Isaiah. Cool. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

James screening Brady on that possession is a metaphor for something. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

If you were to show me those guys' pictures sans Michigan State identifying gear and ask me who they played for I would guess an Ivy. Not that Brady's photo exactly instills fear, but I'd trust them to do my taxes far before I'd trust them to score 20something points in a Big Ten basketball game anywhere in Michigan. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Wrong kind of assist gentlemen... Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Nana just gifted them 5 points. God we are dumb sometimes. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

How much is that going to take? If we can easily drop $3-$4mil on a coach surely we can spare a few more bucks for a national championship? Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I generally don't call out our own individual players, but man... I don't know much as infuriating as watching Isaiah Roby. No doubt he's a great kid with a ton of natural ability but his complete lack of aggression is just brutal. Not even just at the basket -- lazy passes, halfhearted defense... put Tanner's motor in him and you have an All-American. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

TURN IT OFF Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Normally this crew isn't that bad either, or at least 2/3 of them (don't recall how Rob Riley is for us offhand but the other two generally aren't awful). Didn't catch who had that call though. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Just posted something similar in another thread, and then read this -- but I'm right there with you, and didn't mean to poach your comments (just a Great Minds moment?). This isn't some new thing either -- we're STILL talking about the Shim-Sham debacle, and the nonsense of the Roburt Sallie mess -- and although things may be different going forward, history sure isn't on our side.