Timforthewin

Thanks for the correction. My minds been in a tizzy lately with all these updates lately

New Mexico is still available and has struck out on every candidate they've interviewed so far per John Goodman.

Does this statement have anything to do with the post a few days ago asking if a certain someone would consider falling on his own sword?

Sorry I didn't clarify very well. Terran would be my choice too, but I meant to say a player who played at Nebraska as an incoming freshman

As the dog days of summer are upon us and activity on this board slows down, I thought I'd pose a hypothetical to keep our interest up as basketball season comes right around the corner. With the roster we have currently, I am probably more optimistic than most thinking that this team will surprise a lot of outsiders and nonbelievers this year. However, with one open scholarship, I'd like to pose a question to have some fun with. If you could have one former Husker back as an incoming freshman for this year's team, who would it be? But heres the catch: Since I'm relatively young, it has to be somebody from Barry Collier's tenure or later. So from 2000 up until now, who you got? Taking into account our roster: Guards: Tai Webster, Glynn Watson, Anton Gill, Malcolm Laws, Evan Taylor Wings: Isaiah Roby, Jeriah Horne, Jack McVeigh, Nick Fuller Posts: Ed Morrow, Jordy Tshimanga, Michael Jacobsen From the demographics of our roster, it'd be pretty easy to take a guy like Aleks Maric and throw him right into the thick of things. But with this coaching staff, boy I'd love to have another shot with Joe McCray and keep him in line. I feel like this current staff (nutritionists and Coach Wilson included) would be able to do wonders with the talent that he had. So who you got?

ok, but he's from virginia and they have been a top seed in the tournament the last 3 years. that was my thought process. Virginia Tech might be more likely, even though they're really not much of a step up from us. But Buzz Williams has a good track record and he's a "predator" who would whisper in a kid's ear, if the rumors about other coaches recruiting Andrew are true.The Hokies weren't great last year, but they have players enough players returning that they look decent on paper. AWIII would definitely increase their shot at the NCAA. Interesting but I doubt it, Miles and Buzz Williams are very good friends if I remember correctly.

I understand and agree with everything you said, but Roby is very, very talented and I think people will realize that quickly. Roby hasn't played a minute of D-1 ball yet. I think we are doing him a major disservice if people are expecting him to come in and be all world. He is going to have his freshman struggles just like last years freshman went thru. Unfortunately this staff is going to have to ask a lot of him because we are very thin at the 2/3. The minutes will help him down the road...assuming he stays at Nebraska which based on the past 4 years is a question mark...but this team is going to go thru some ugly spells again next year. If the writing was on the wall one would think Miles was doing some 5th year transfer recruiting of his own but there is no evidence of that. If he wasn't doing so, he better be on the phones now. We need another body for minutes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Andrew is a very well-mannered kid, but quiet. He doesn't show you when he's too high or when he's too low. He could keep things bottled up inside of him and you'd have no idea it was going on. Sometimes, it's difficult reaching these types of players. Coaches struggle trying to find the "right" way to coach them, trying to squeeze out every ounce of potential they have. Every player responds to coaching differently. Walter Pitchford took things extremely personally, and any inkling of negative feedback would cause him to check out completely. Someone like Benny Parker on the other hand, could be screamed at until Miles' head falls off and it would only cause him to play better and harder. It takes time to find that adjustment in each player, and I think when Miles think he found it, Andrew didn't like the way he was personally being coached. But Andrew wouldn't tell Miles that, because he's quiet and just kind of a go-with-the-flow kid. With that being said, that falls on Andrew. You have to man-up and learn how to confront someone (i.e. texting Eichorst). You can't keep running away from problems in life, which brings me to my next point. I personally do not think Andrew will ever play a minute in the NBA, and this decision only strengthens my belief. The way I see it, Andrew doesn't want to be "the guy". He is very one dimensional in his 3 point ability, and teams can find a way to guard that. Without Shavon this year, teams are going to be putting their best defender on him, and I don't think he was ready for that. Especially after NBA teams telling him that he needed to work on ball handling and playmaking decisions.... Have you seen the guy dribble with his left hand? He said what he wanted scouts to hear which is "I'm going to go back to college and tell my coach that I need to show these things in our offense next year", but I don't know if he personally believes he can do it. I think he foresaw be a season of low numbers with every team's best defender guarding him night-in and night-out, and not being able to showcase the things they want him to. Man-up and take the challenge head on, don't run away from a challenge for your own selfish reasons. My prediction: I believe he avoids the scout's advice all together and goes to a team with a couple studs, and falls into a 3 point specialist role getting about 20-24 minutes a game. That way he has an excuse that their were other players on the floor that were playmakers and deserved the ball in their hand. I think it'll be a team with a coach who has a history of getting players to the League, and I don't think he'll be one of them. All in all: Nice quiet kid, very poor decision.

Question to ponder: Had Miles offered Adrien White (Andrew's little brother) a scholarship, would he be staying for this final year? My guess is yes.....

Mazda SUV or Mazda car? What I saw was an SUV. Dark silver. That's the one. Maybe going for a drive to clear his thoughts...

Dark silver Mazda with Virginia license plates

The way I see it, it seems as if AWIII is just waiting until the last minute for something to change. Maybe for a team to call him and say we wanna take a chance on you? If he hasn't decided yet, I think that's a good sign he's coming back given that nobody gives him a last second call. There's no other reason to be this dramatic about it if he truly knows what he's going to do, he's not one for the attention anyways.

I just hope the papers are correctly filed this time....

https://twitter.com/HuskerHoops/status/735171061159890944 Thank you! Still can't figure out this whole embedded tweet thing haha

Nebrasketball dropping hints with this photo?! (Desperately looking for any sort of ball drop on this decision)

I actually heard that Arop was considering transferring to Central to play with Agau and that Ed Chang was being recruited by his friends to follow suit. That could be a pretty talented starting line-up with Aguir, Aguek, Ed Chang and Pooh Bear Chandler. Perhaps the new destination is South though

James Palmer is N per Rosenthal!!!!! Great get!

A funny, honest question because I'm curious of the responses You've been dating your high school girlfriend for 3 years now. She's pretty attractive but not the top of her class. Now you go off to college and a bombshell chooses to sit next to you and you can tell she's totally into you. You realize that it probably wouldn't be the best decision to leave your girlfriend and pursue this girl because she seems like one that moves from one guy to the next, but the thrill of getting even one shot with this girl intrigues you enough to think about it. What would you do? WWJD "What Would Jordy Do?"

Say..... Shaquille O'Neal?

Beckner has a personality that is very unique to get along with. He used it to develop a great player in Damian Lillard, but from what I've seen very few players enjoy training and being coached the way Lillard does. It made for poor player relations and a tough way to enter a new job. Not overly surprised to see him leave

As a practice player, you form much better relationships with the players than you do the coaches. For him to give his insight in his quotes speaks volumes, because he burned a few friendships with telling what he felt was the truth. It's easy to sit-back and speculate the reasoning behind everything when you have no first-hand experience with what happening. Norm is right, this kid owes Connie Yori nothing, I can assure you of that. He was speaking his true opinion on what he saw just about everyday. Entitlement. If you don't believe it's a problem in today's world, just go look at the twitter's of the last 4 football recruits we recently signed.

it would be a junior, not Senior. And you won't find his name in the top 100 for blocks. Atleast the name that's been mentioned to me....trying not to get too excited as I feel like these things rarely pan out in Nebrasketball's favor. The guy is not some All American or All Conference player but probably just what the doctor ordered for this team. Ah you're right I overlooked that fact. Can you at least say if he is from a power 5 conference?

Is he in the top 100 on ESPN for block statistics this year? People I found that could fit your criteria: Vashil Fernandez of Valpo, Jito Kok of San Diego, Landry Nnoko of Clemson, Prince Ibeh of Texas, or even Jordan Dickerson of Penn State.

I think McVeigh gets the start and Bakari sees some quality minutes

Not gonna lie, I think Nick Fuller would flourish in Creighton's system