RedSteve

Sunday Aug 10th USA won the U18 Womens Gold ! Beat Canada 104-74 in the 2014 FIBA Americas Women's U18 Championship Jess had 14 pts, 8 reb, and an assist or two, lead the fast break, etc etc. Probably had her best game over all. Congratulations Jessica Shepard ! (2015 NU bball commit.) The 2014 FIBA Americas Women's U18 Championship features eight national teams from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. The top four finishing teams qualify for the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship for Women.

Shepard had 17 points in just 11 min of play against El Salvador last night. So far there's no competition for the USA in the U18 play. USA has scored over 100 pts in each of first two games. But will probably play Canada in a few days and they should be better competition. Shepard clearly belongs on the USA team.....looks real good and can dominate in the paint. And she'll be on the NU womens basketball team next year (2015)

The younger Page and Blackburn play on the same club team this summer. Page is POY in Kansas by the Wichita newspaper. Another excellent year for Yori....2014's class was the highest rated in NU history. Now 2015 looks as good!

After watching endless bowl games for several days.....it was apparent all the better passers, had very strong arms. The most accurate passers could zip the ball......even shorter passes, and get the ball to receiver when in traffic. Right now Armstrong throws a little soft. Not sure if if he's just hesitant to throw hard, or his arm needs more strength. Thus his less than 50% passing. Passing is the biggest thing he needes to work on in the off season, and the spring........he's only a freshman.. It's one thing to throw it with all you got (a bomb), and if you watch the replay of the 99 ydr, (you can see Armstrong gave it all he's got)....Q had to slow up to receive the pass, but luckly was wide open anyway . For example TM actually threw harder. Watched some replays today, and can see the difference. It will be interesting with Stanton, and Darlington this spring, to see the competition at QB. (Darlington will redshirt, but will have a chance to compete with TA and Stanton, Should be fun to watch...too bad we can't be there for practice.

And I thought they were nuts offereing schoolys to HS freshman twins

No It's been long enough for Bo to have fixed many of the issues at hand. (or at least make progress toward fixes) It this isn't the second year of his tenure. Just want to see on field progress, but where is it in reality? Same problems, and more new ones, every year. Bo and staff seems to not realize it's a problem until it's too late, and the teams preformance suffers. There are just too many issues that aren't getting fixed. Under BO I just don't see him being able to make the changes/fixes necessary. Poor recruiting, poor ST, S&C ? Some assistants need replacing. His defense is too set in his way of doing things. And has too many Ohio buddies as assistants that aren't able to get the job done. (because he hired so many buddies, he can't seem to be able to let them be replaced.) There are endless topics, these are only a few. He makes too much money to produce the results we get year after year, with no apparent improvement. Every coach can have a bad year, but our's don't get better. Under Bo we have become an "also ran" of no consequence. That isn't progress. Not to mention his endless embarassing chickensh*t bomb shells. They have made NU the laughing stock of anyone folllowing college football. If he leaves here in the next couple of years, I doubt he'll get hired as a BCS head coach anywhere. Maybe at a small college, but his "bombshells" may keep him from even getting hired even at a smaller school. No school want's that embarrasment. More than likely will have to go back to NFL as a rich assistant. It's sad that it's come to this point...the fans and media didn't have anything to do with the football problems...except in someone's head, used as crutch for some to make excuses. Worse part of it all is if he leaves. The players really identify with him. These are young guys. I'm concerned about them the most, no matter what happens. Bo has been a good life coach. Good grades, good citzenship.