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On 4/6/2019 at 6:32 PM, HuskerFever said:

 

We've already started to cross that grey line.

On 4/6/2019 at 8:12 PM, hskr4life said:

 

I had heard things when his name was first brought up.  Someone with some connections to the recruiting world.

On 4/6/2019 at 9:16 PM, HoiBall said:

This. Maybe hopped across the line a time or two

Unless all three posters are getting their information from the same person (and reading through past history and debates and such, that seems doubtful), it seems kind of odd to want one to give up the source (and give downvotes accordingly) but not the other two. It also would seem to not be an isolated thing either. I've been told similar as well.

I'd like to think that Nebraskans (and Nebraska fans) are as invested in the process and its integrity as we are with the outcome, but I guess maybe not.

  But you are talking about hypotheticals as if they were fact. And maybe you did and do have inside information. I take the basketball department's word when they say he wasn't healthy enough to play. I do know high ankle sprains can take longer than broken bones to heal.

Unless he's the clean one on the SJU staff I wouldn't bet on him operating fully above the line. Even their volleyball team cheats to get recruits. And I'm guessing those aren't tricks he learned in NYC.

3 minutes ago, The Polish Rifle said:

For some reason I feel like Pettit was talking about the failed Nutt situation and the worst coaching search in Nebraska history, but hard to tell

Entirely possible. I keep trying to say that, too! I have no clue what's happening and no insider knowledge or anything on this. (Easy way to find out -- anyone able to access flight records from two days ago into LNK? I have no idea how to sleuth that but it wouldn't surprise me at all if someone here did.)

3 minutes ago, B-town hoopsfan said:

Didn’t Anderson get fired after miles was fired 

Pretty much simultaneously.

2 minutes ago, The Polish Rifle said:

I tried earlier to tell people that the guy who started this fire on hogville definitley walked it back later. Seems like anytime anyone even wants to mention another name other than Hoiberg people lose their minds. 

I mean, to be fair, he kind of walked it back... according to his clarification, we were interested in Anderson, but he wasn't interested in us.

I have no idea how much of a freakout this merits or doesn't. Pettit could absolutely have been making a joke about the plane; I don't know him to ask, or know how to find that information if it was real. It's just some interesting, out-of-place puzzle pieces that could be sitting on the coffee table for any number of reasons.

@Nebrasketball1979 That's an awesome story -- and not at all surprising if you know those guys. Both just great all-around people. Definitely makes cheering for them easier. Thanks for sharing.

From the Tim Miles Send-Off thread (I have no idea how to link a post)...

On 3/26/2019 at 3:39 PM, hskr4life said:

Does Tim land on his feet faster than we thought?

 

 

I don't know if this is accurate or a joke or what, but is it possible Terry Pettit wasn't just joking around?

is it me or are they whistling this tight? 

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Of course it's probably also notable that it doesn't appear that Avery Johnson and Alabama have reached a settlement, or at least if they have, it isn't reported yet. So of course Prohm can't say he's gone yet, because there likely hasn't been a job offer extended yet.

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5 hours ago, hhcmatt said:

BTW Prohm's buyout is at least 3M as prior to the extension that boosted him to 2M per the buyout on his end was 50% of his remaining contract and he is signed through 2022.

It's possible after ISU saw Illinois buy out Underwood from Okie St that they upped that amount.  I haven't seen his current contract online anywhere though so I don't know.

 

 

From the Des Moines Register today (with a link to a story about the contract):

Prohm signed an amended contract in March 2017 that included $2 million per season, plus $50,000 raises each July. It’s through June 2022. The contract buyout, if Prohm were to leave before the contract expires, is around $3.5 million right now.

Interestingly this article was written by Randy Peterson. I don't know what he does or doesn't know, but this potentially paints his tweet the other day (yesterday? it's all kind of blurring together) in slightly different colors. Or not, I have no idea.

14 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

Most schools don't negotiate buyouts though. How much of Avery Johnson and Alabama possibly parting ways is fueled by Johnshon's son graduating this year (was a PG on the team and got to coach him for 4 years) and thus him being ready to move back to the NBA?

 

Could be this, or could be "LSU is getting absolutely embarrassed right now by Will Wade and if they come sniffing around here too we could be next so let's unload him ASAP without having to go to 'firing for cause' because that admits guilt". Just... another possible scenario.

30 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

Uh did Vanderbilt keep Kevin Stalling's number?  What a mess!

Bryce Drew had two 5 star guys in and the PG gets injured 5 games in and poof.

Allegedly trying to "reassign" him now so they don't have to pay his buyout. Yikes.

I'm all on board with one guy having the potential to derail a season, but one guy probably shouldn't be the difference between competing well and going entirely winless in the SEC.

On topic: Siena, like Vandy, is in a superfast-spinning carousel over the last couple years. About to name their third head coach in three years (by taking away the interim title they gave their guy like two days ago after the previous HC left after a single year for George Washington). Going back to 2000, I think that school has had more coaches than I've had Skittles in the last 20 minutes (and that is an embarrassingly large number).

 
Does Moos make tweets similar to this about football? I could be wrong (and call me on it if I am), but I don't think he does.

Trueblood is a great story right now. For him to get on the floor earlier you have to give him some of Thomas Allen’s or Harris’ minutes and that would have been a mistake. Hindsight being 20-20, he could have taken Nana’s minutes. Repeat, he is a great story right now and I’m cheering loudly for him sore throat and all. But if this team had stayed healthy and had a chance to live up to what it could have been then Trueblood could not have played big minutes. More yes - but nothing like he is doing now. Enjoy him for what he is and for what he is doing now for the team. But don’t romanticize him into something he is not. I do promise he will never have to buy a beer if we ever end up in the same bar. 

 

You have your beefs and that's fair. Moos has only been here for one season btw.

 

Two. I understand football was a focus at the beginning of last season, but Bill Moos became Nebraska's AD in October of 2017.

I also still fail to understand the phenomenon in which our chancellor offers more public support for this team than our athletic director.

Sometime between Friday and Sunday (or Monday?) is all we know. It's at least partially based on campus site availability -- so, for instance, if Sam Houston can knock off the under-coached TCU boys (as they did just fire their cheating assistant...), the game would be at PBA. But since there's a concert on Saturday, the game would either have to be Friday or Sunday, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure what TCU does/doesn't have going on at their arena if they win, but it could dictate the date/time of the game.

1 hour ago, Marv said:

 

Actually it sounds like Tim knew exactly what the statement was going to be.  I'm not sure I follow how @KnightHusker thinks this was all part of Miles' master plan to manipulate the admin.?.?

 

Sipple (on 1620/USC): “Tim knew what the statement was, He knew going into his press conference what that statement said, I know that for a fact.”

I mean, if that's the case, Sipple is calling Heady a liar...

https://www.omaha.com/huskers/mens-basketball/husker-a-d-bill-moos-will-wait-until-postseason-fate/article_5e22ad9d-2b0b-5765-9739-ee7cf8cce4ad.html

It's probably somewhere in the middle (i.e. what @Norm Peterson said -- Miles may have gotten a heads up at some point of what it might say, but didn't know for sure and therefore couldn't be quoted on its contents, and likely didn't know what it was when he was directly asked) but I tend to believe more from Heady, who was physically there, spoke with several people, and reported on what he saw and was told as a first-person account, over Sipple, the AD's lapdog.

I have no problem with him spending time with his family. I've said that a few times, even saying that I appreciate that he skipped the Bethune Cookman game for his daughter's wedding. That's a big deal that's way more important than a make-up football game, and I'm glad he was there instead of here. HOWEVER -- the optics are pretty bad, from just about any objective source, for him to fly in for a single Big Ten tournament game and then head back out while using the Cal spring game on Saturday as the reason. It sucks to make the decision to spend a couple more hours with family vs doing a job, and I don't think anyone would fault him for wanting to be there for his son -- but he absolutely could have done both and CHOSE not to, and created unnecessary speculation and discussion. As an athletic director for a high-major program, this is just part of the job, not unlike the on-call doctor who would probably prefer to spend Christmas with his family but has to go deliver a baby instead of have family dinner. By doing it the way he did -- and then following it up with that non-statement nonsense -- he created a storyline where there didn't need to be one. That's utter incompetence. Maybe locally we don't put much stock into the national talking heads, and that's each person's individual prerogative, but that does have an effect on the university's national perception -- again, something it is his literal job to curate, and something he has once again done exceptionally poorly when it comes to basketball.

16 minutes ago, Ron Mexico said:

My own conspiratorial mind wants to know why basketball players are commenting on the AD when I have never heard them comment previously.

Spitballing, but because we had an AD who actually attended games and spent time around the program?

And it doesn't seem all that transparent to me to leave the staff in the dark as to what the contents of that announcement would be. Chris Heady's entire article about it is pretty much a testament to how non-transparent it was.

It looks bad to attend a Wednesday night game and then leave when it would have been just as easy to go after an afternoon game Thursday (played at noon Pacific time -- he literally would have had to shift his flight a matter of a couple hours). Doing what he did gives the appearance that he was only there to fire him after we lost. If that was just message board angst it'd be one thing, but it isn't; that's the storyline his actions led to, which was reported on both locally and nationally.

Look, I don't like Bill Moos for a lot of reasons. You do, and that's fine. But objectively speaking, this whole ordeal was a mess of his own making. He's paid handsomely to do the exact opposite of what he did in the last three days, which is to make Nebraska Athletics look foolish on a national level, as evidenced by several well-known pundits weighing in on it when it would have been just as easy not to.

3 minutes ago, Nebrasketball1979 said:

Howdy...excited to see this team play at least one more time, especially if they continue to play with the heart and effort they did over the final week of the season.

 

Question - does anyone know how/when/if the University is going to release tickets to the public?  My son and I are going to fly in for the game and I'd love to get tickets sooner than later so we don't pay super high prices on 3rd party sites.  Learned this lesson for the Cal St. Fullerton game!!!

Per Chris Basnett, on sale now through the ticket office online, or calling them in the morning.

Here's hoping this is Bender Larry talking and not an actual thing that has happened...

1 hour ago, The Polish Rifle said:

Source that we’re 11th in spending?

In 2016-17 we were #10, but only just barely ahead of Iowa ($7.6M vs $7.5M).

https://www.nj.com/rutgersbasketball/2018/04/how_much_does_rutgers_spend_on_mens_basketball_and.html

That article was published in April of 2018 about the previous year. I'm not sure if there's been anything published for 2017-18 yet, but if timelines hold, I'd probably expect something in the next month or so from one source or another.