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Moos entering the presser:

"Is Nebraska following up hiring the most sought after CFB coach by potentially hiring the biggest name CBB coach this cycle secretly a bad move by the Athletic Department? Subscribe Now!" -OWH Probably

If you are a Husker fan all you need to worry about, if this is true, is all 10 pints of your blood rushing to your dong at one time. Don't worry about the NIT or dividing a locker or anything like that...just your dong.

Moos can have all the damn c$%ktails he wants after Scott Frost then Fred Hoiburg.

So was John Bridges.

We already have the Mike Riley of college basketball...

This hire is such a homerun that it is hard to even understand. 1. He coaches a fast fun entertaining type of offense 2. He doesn't really give a f#&% about defense but really who care as long as you score more points 3. Sure he hates recruiting but I am guessing 95% of coaches hate it, it doesn't mean he wasn't decent at it. 4. I am jealous of this hire, as an Illini fan, this makes me jealous.

It’s always interesting to see how many Hannity talking points can be squeezed into one paragraph with the fewest words.

Yup - NOTHING to do with Trump. Nothing at all.

Gonna be a meltdown if this rumor doesn't come true

I'm not, but I'm also not too concerned with what the kids think of their coach being replaced as a result of being in the consolation bracket. Hey, I hope they win the whole damn thing! And the run in the B1G tournament was a blast.... I agree that Miles couldn't of handled this any better. I am a big fan of Miles, the person.

This is a bigger hire than Frost. Everyone knew in the end Frost was the only one that the Skers wanted and I think most of us knew Moos would get him in the end. I bet most Husker fans did not think getting Fred would happen...but man this is huge.

As usual, the only 2 conclusions that can be drawn are that Trump is dumber than a doorknob to have unknowingly surrounded himself with people doing foreign adversaries’ bidding and other s#!tty things, or he knew what they were up to. Either way, he should be nowhere near the presidency.

If people don't think Hoiberg is the best guy we could get then you are delusional....

In 2012-13 Iowa State had the #2 scoring offense in the country (Iona was #1). In 2013-14 they were #5. In 2014-15 they were #12. Only in 2014-15 were there any Power 5 schools ahead of them and they were still #3 among that group.

During all of this coaching change, you always have to be interested/concerned about recruiting. I like the guys Miles has coming in....even though we still need one or two big guys. I think Hoiburg is the type of hire that can keep those guys excited about coming to Nebraska and hopefully go out and get some big guys.

Dirk is very frustrating as a writer. He has the ability to put out the most in depth and best researched articles about Nebraska sports of anyone. But then he does things like this that just seem like he’s trying to create contravercy where there isn’t any.

I disagree.

We have 2 +1's, isn't that enough?

Can we add a +2 option for the board

Thanks for stopping by again Mr. Hannity.

Didnt have to start with name calling.

you do know that your info on uranium 1 is false...right?....right? russia didn't get 25% of our uranium...they got mines that could potentially produce 25% of our production if they were actually restarted again. and if they actually do start mining uranium from them....it is illegal to export uranium mined here out of the country. if they mine it they have to sell it to the US government. how does that give russia 25% of our uranium? unless donnie is letting them break U.S. law and export it to russia?

but rush said it had nothing to do with trump!

This raid has absolutely nothing to do about any Trump business. Sounds like they are going after this guys just because he is associated with Trump. They really need to go after the Podesta brothers who were knee deep in the weeds with Manafort not to mention Hillary and the illegal deeds of the Uranium One deal of selling 25% of OUR Uranium to RUSSIA. I wonder how much the Clinton Foundation (SLUSH FUND) profited from that deal! Now there is your Russian Connection along with the unverified Dossier that she paid for that Christopher Steel was giving to the FBI to get a FISA warrant that's going to be putting a bunch of people in jail soon. Soon the liberals will be putting their heads in the sand and Trump Derangement Syndrome will be up in full force!

figured this was worth its own thread at this point after all the speculation

If the Hoiberg hire is true, it's a massive step in the right direction for the basketball program. Proof that the program is being taken seriously by the administration. I still believe, when you consider the facilities and fan base, Nebraska basketball is a sleeping giant in college basketball.

and here I’ve been waiting for press conference videos to be posted.

I too get frustrated when people think that all writers/media members are the same and have the same job responsibilities. In Nebraska print media, guys like Shatel, Sipple, and Chatelain are opinion guys. Their job is to write opinion articles or like Chatelain, do deep-dive stories, but not give wrote, factual data. The "beat" writers are McKewon, Heady, and Bland for OWH and Parker Gabriel and some other guy for LJS (after Brian Christopherson) left about a year ago. The beat writers are the guys who are supposed to give the factual data about the team, coaches, and players.

Editorialism is opinionated or persuasive writing, and columnists usually write persuasive commentaries or op-eds. These are core industry concepts. Google them if you don't believe me. If you want to criticize his opinions, have at it, because that's his job to be opinionated. But, there's a difference between this Dirk article (which is more of a commentary) vs. what reporters write (which are news articles). You're criticizing him for being opinionated when that's literally part of his job.

Hoiberg needs to hire ace recruiters, because he is zilch.

The tweet that @teachercd was referencing in his status. Obviously, the source should be taken with a grain of salt, but....

If true. I would have to say well done Moos. That would make 2 big boy hires in the 2 most important sports.

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I’ve posted these numbers before, but it’s telling how much they’ve benefited from schedule since Nebraska joined in 2011. Below are number of games against the Top 4 East schools since 2011. Record against in parenthesis. PSU 5 (1-4) Last win in 2011. 1 CCG meeting. MSU 4 (2-2) One meeting since 2012. 1 CCG meeting. OSU 6 (0-6) 2 CCG meeting MICH 3 (1-2). Didn’t play from 2010-2016. Total - 18 games (4-14). 14 Regular Season Games. For comparison, here is Nebraska. PSU 4 (3-1) MSU 6 (4-2) OSU 5 (1-4) MICH 4 (2-2) Total - 19 games (10-9), 19 Regular Season Games Wisconsin does play against 3 such opponents this year before returning to only Michigan in 2020. Wisconsin has been a division bully, and props to them for an outstanding division record, but they’ve struggled against the better teams in the East, and they don’t even bother OOC. As this financial windfall has kicked in allowing the division access to better coaches, support staff, facilities and the like, it raises the competitive level. This has to be seen as a concern for Wisconsin.

Not really someone we should be cozying up to. And yet, we are.

Forgive my bluntness, as I'm not trying to be rude, but I don't think you're understanding why I pointed this all out. Dirk is a columnist, which is not the same thing as a reporter. It may seem like semantics but it's not. It's his job to be opinionated. I don't have a problem disagreeing with his opinions - that's fair game. But, you can't use editorialism as an indictment against journalism in this way. Dirk's job is to write persuasive pieces based on fact.

That's the GOP's official Twitter? f#&%ing hell.

The Game - Pick nine teams in the tournament The Goal - Accumulate the most actual points scored by your teams during the entire tournament The Catch - Your nine teams have to meet the following criteria: One #1 seed, two teams seeded #2, #3 or #4, two teams seeded #5, #6, #7 or #8, two teams seeded #9, #10, #11 or #12 and two teams seeded #13, #14, #15 or #16 The contest is for the entire tournament. Thus, if you are selecting any teams playing in the Opening Round, your entry - posted to this thread - is due by the time their game starts. Otherwise, all entries are due by the tip of the first game on Thursday morning. If you put in an entry then make any changes, you need to check the "Edit" box when modifying your post.

Thanks I got a kick out of winning

They missed the context of his "retiring on top" phrase....

I find this paragraph very interesting: - source: https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/la-sp-ucla-basketball-coaches-20190101-story.html So Fred Hoiberg is a client of Wasserman, who is a "mega donor" to UCLA. While he recused himself from the new search, I doubt he was completely unplugged from the Search Committee's considerations. So I'm guessing that IF Hoiberg was interested in UCLA, that the UCLA search committee appeared to be going in a different direction. Thus Wasserman could leverage UCLA's interest to get Hoiberg an attractive offer elsewhere (AKA Nebraska). Not saying that this is a bad move for Nebraska, but just saying that he may have signed with Nebraska, in part, because UCLA was NOT going to be an option for him. That agent/mega-donor to UCLA/search committee thing seems JUST a little too convenient to overlook. Dec. 31st tweet by a random human: Another interesting tweet: Fred still DOES have that awkward Twitter handle (for a Nebraska coach): https://twitter.com/ISUMayor32

This is one of the best stories I've heard in a long time! Thanks for sharing.

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No. We need to be able to sniff out these bad eggs and then sick NWHuskerfan on them.