Mavric

So we're in it .... but not really in it. https://twitter.com/bigaaronbanks/status/806936200724418560

Also named second-team all-american by USA Today. Interesting that he's getting more attention nationally than from the B1G

Interesting.... I'm assuming that means White was asking for a higher profile so we scheduled this game to help him out.

OWH

That was just Mav's opinion. IMO, if we have 0 DBs committed by December 19 and we're turning away some decent prospects for hopes at bigger fish near signing day, that would concern me. If the kid wants to commit here, and Darnay and the like can't get their sh#t together, I'd love to have him. Like I said earlier, this guy is very much in the mold of Chris Jones and he turned out alright. This is true. And it's complete speculation on my part. That guess came from how excited he seems to be about Nebraska, his relative lack of other "big" offers and the other - seemingly more attractive - other guys we had been after. However, it's also entirely possible that he just wanted to wait and have a special signing ceremony. That didn't seem to make as much sense at the time because he would risk losing his spot. But perhaps we aren't as in on the other guys as we'd like to think. Or perhaps we like him more than I think. It was just a hunch. Could be wrong. I still think it's possible that he never did have a committable offer. But if he did, he definitely missed out by not committing when he had the chance.

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More reports saying we've pretty much moved on. Hiring Williams put us in on guys we like better.

Pretty impressive. It was almost impossible for the twins to live up to they hype. Yet they've done it.

Can't find any profiles on him on the recruiting sites....

https://twitter.com/youngdamo4/status/806659319953498113

Player: Damon Gibson Hometown: Houston, Texas School: Westbury Position: Safety, Linebacker Height: 6-2 Weight: 205 40 time: Offers: Nebraska Visits: Twitter 247 Composite: Rivals: 247: Scout: ESPN: Hudl

Kamren Curl and possibly Greg Johnson (could play a few spots) seem to be the ones we're really in on at the moment.

Done

A basketball team that actually plays basketball. Whoda thunk that would work out?

I also find it interesting to compare the basketball and football programs right now. It seems to me like both coaches have largely underwhelming results that are being somewhat overlooked by one really exciting game - basketball beating Wisconsin on No Sit Saturday and the football team beating Michigan State last year. Those were both really good wins but they seem to be somewhat obscuring the far bigger picture of relatively poor performances in many other games. If we hadn't found a way to win those individual games, I think most people's outlook would be significantly different. Which means that too much importance is being placed on one game. For Riley, there is a lot of "he needs more time to get his players and (hopefully) upgrade talent." And that is true to a large extent. But we've been hearing the same thing about Miles. And he's now in year five. There is still a lot of "this is a young (basketball) team - we need to let these sophomores develop and see where we are." But these ARE ALL Miles' players. The reason we're having to rely on Sophomores at this point is because he was a failure at recruiting for about three years. And this despite all the talk - all along - about how much better recruiting was going. If Miles' is given two more years for these Sophomores to become Seniors, that will be seven years. So I think the "he needs more time" argument is not really holding water. And that makes me wonder about the "more time" argument on the other side.

See if you can find a pattern here: LJS: Miles' ongoing challenge: Find enough offense OWH: Scoring droughts familiar refrain for Huskers LJS: Offensive shortcomings exposed again And a really interesting source: Huskers.com: Offensive woes costly in loss to Jays I mean ... none of that is exactly surprising. But it seems like Miles has no clue about how to play offensive basketball. And what may be worse is that he's run through several assistants and either hasn't been able to hire anyone who has a clue or won't let them do anything about it.