Wistrom Disciple

Just now, Micheal said:

If he is worried about leadership issues in the university Texas A&M isn't no perfect place. 

 

I wouldn't feel super safe being AD there. You think our boosters /regents are crazy. 

Key difference... he knows who is boss is at A&M and clearly believes in the guy. We apparently don't have a firm vision or leaders in place that instill confidence that the University is set up for success. @knapplc was spot on that the problem lies with the University administration and the Board of Regents. Sad to see it play out as it did today.

8 minutes ago, ECisGod said:

He may have let the powers that be know the lack of clarity is a problem and their lack of response could be the reason he's thinking about leaving.

 

I've had jobs where I took issues to my boss & nothing happened.  It's really frustrating & part of the reason I no longer work at those places.

True, though I wish if it was causing a headache, he would've mentioned it more often in his interviews. Not necessarily airing dirty laundry, but simply "we're hopeful to have a President lined up by X date" to spur some action. Today felt like a rug pull out of nowhere, which hopefully it turns out to be a false alarm. 

10 minutes ago, Micheal said:

So we think Regents and Interim President and Vice President are in damage control to try and keep him? 

Absolutely. In reading the OWH article, Ted Carter was one of the key reasons why Trev took the job as Carter was 'a leader he (I) can follow.' Carter announced in August that he was leaving. The Board has not found a replacement, and doesn't sound like they were close to installing anyone permanent. My hunch is that lack of clarity is a key reason Trev is frustrated, though I wish he would've made it more known that it's been a problem. 

32 minutes ago, Loebarth said:

anyone able to find and post the clip of the aTm player grabbing a husker players genitals... kind of feels like that's again happening here.

Ben Cotton wishes you wouldn't, Tony Jerod-Eddie wishes you would. 

12 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

A&M is a worse job because of external expectations and booster ego's that compete to run the place. They have very little success in sports because they have 20 mega boosters pulling Athletics in 20 different directions. There's a reason they've never won anything before, it's a pressure cooker without a leader. 

 

It does pay more than Nebraska and boosters with more money. But he's going to inevitably be fired because TAMU inevitably fires all their ADs.

Some might say that Nebraska has had similar issues with boosters, administrators, and fans having outsized expectations or ego issues. Outside of volleyball and bowling, it's hard to find any of our programs that have had reasonably sustained success in the past 20 years. A strong argument could be made that A&M has accomplished more than us during that time. Unfortunately, we shot ourselves in the foot with a few coaches who were successful (Solich & Pelini) because of high expectations and it took quite a while for our administrative alignment to fall back into a good place. 

I'm still hopeful that Trev decides to stay and sees the progress through. It's been quite an impressive turnaround within the department, to lose that momentum would suck.

2 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

In all honesty, Texas A&M is a worse job than Nebraska. They have no historical success and the boosters - who run the Athletic Department - expect Alabama success.

 

Trev is valuable to Nebraska but it's also not a major loss. It'll be interesting on if the pending financial disaster that is the stadium remodel continues to move forward or not. 

I disagree that losing Trev would be a major loss. As we saw over the past 20+ years, getting the AD position right is vital to success. 

As for A&M being a worse job than Nebraska? Maybe, but it's a totally different dynamic and a whole lot more money. 

Not sure there would be a good time for any coach or administrator to be poached unexpectedly, but this definitely is unfortunate timing if it turns out to be true. 

1 minute ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

I wonder if knee is still an issue

Probably aches at the very least, still not sure his face is fully recovered from the preseason. That said, most players are sore at his point in the season. So long as they continue playing together and avoiding the Hero ball, we could have a special postseason. 

3 minutes ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

Mast has 3 rb,  poor effort.

Not sure it's an effort thing for him as two of the three rebounds are on the offensive end. With Gary & Allick combining for 17, everything seems to be flowing as well as Hoiberg could hope on the rebounding end. 10 offensive boards as a team is pretty solid.

6 minutes ago, Hayseed said:

I want to see CJ take over a game.

I really hope he decides to come back next year. His growth since his freshman year has been fun to watch. Would be nice to see him shine as a senior.

9 minutes ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

Foul shots are getting ridiculous.

20 to 6

Only getting worse. Amazing how the past five games, OSU has had total fouls of 25, 16, 20, 23, & 14. Tonight they have 9 with 2 minutes left in the game... frustrating.

Very impressed with the improved effort for defensive rebounding this year. It's a night and day difference from previous years. I hope Fred is able to find more players to maintain this effort and style in future years. Will keep them in most games if they can just have this kind of effort, even when the shots aren't falling. 

5 hours ago, MLB 51 said:

Hardy was robbed on that call at the end. He had Bartlett and probably would have erased the ride time point.

Felt like our coaches being animated helped us because every questionable decision seemed to favor the home side. I was hoping for better from Silas though, he doesn't seem to be in as good of a position as he was last year. That said, I thought we performed admirably overall. Penn State with five top ranked guys was going to be a tough deal no matter what.

12 hours ago, zeWilbur said:

He did. Mom is from Nebraska but went to SMU. This would be a bigger coup than Raiola if we pulled it off. 

Physically, yes. All other ways, no. Would be a great addition for us no doubt.

1 hour ago, MLB 51 said:

Maybe that's a bit harsh on my part. Simply put, he isn't very good because he hasn't wrestled in 4 years and his level of conditioning still isn't where it needs to be. I hate seeing him struggle after the first period. I think his size strength helped him tremendously when he was in high school. I wish he had more practice time before the season started.

You're right, his conditioning isn't up to where he needs it to knock off Top 20 guys, but it's getting there. I really wonder how good he could have been if he were able to wrestle every offseason. I think it's also important to remember that we're in the top wrestling conference in the country and, until last night, he was holding his own pretty well against conference opponents. 

2 hours ago, whateveritis1224 said:

Their entire team was mocking Keisei after every three it seemed. 

Buie was especially animated last night and gestured towards Keisei quite often. Wish we could've had Keita set a hard screen for just one play on that one. 

It would have been interesting to see the reaction in that scenario if the races were flipped. 

16 minutes ago, ECisGod said:

After a timeout, the 10 second rule resets.  If the ball goes out of bounds and the team keeps possession the 10 seconds does not reset.  Stupid rule, but that's the NCAA for you.

I did some digging and you are correct that for some odd reason, the rules for NCAA Men's basketball allow the timeout to reset 10-seconds to pass half-court. Oddly, NCAA Men's basketball is the only level that resets as the Women's rules do not allow a reset after a timeout, nor do lower levels. 

2 minutes ago, ECisGod said:

After a timeout, the 10 second rule resets.  If the ball goes out of bounds and the team keeps possession the 10 seconds does not reset.  Stupid rule, but that's the NCAA for you.

I'm not so sure about that. We were called in violation for the exact same scenario earlier in the year. Yesterday, Northwestern was not.

33 minutes ago, gobiggergoredder said:

Against Illinois there were some pretty terrible calls at the worst time.  Yesterday was just a beating.  Only thing the officials could of done to help us was some kind of mercy rule.

I don't think anyone is looking for refs to help exactly. I think most fans just want consistency on both ends of the court and throughout the game/season. As an example from yesterday, the most obvious error was the 10-second backcourt violation late in the second half. Northwestern got trapped 5 or so seconds after inbounding and called a timeout. After the timeout, they inbounded the ball as we pressed and didn't cross half until there was ~16-17 seconds left on the shot clock (clearly 3-4 seconds after the 10 second rule). Fred and the bench went nuts, refs just ignored it. Earlier in the year, we were called on the violation in the same exact scenario.  

Northwestern's hot shooting along with some of our poor decision-making got Northwestern the win. We made a run for it the last 5-6 minutes, but just couldn't string together enough plays to overcome the hump.

Buie mocking Tominga was kind of sad/pathetic

22 minutes ago, hskrpwr13 said:

My original response was to the hubris of "Keep the guy until he hangs it up" if we wins one tourney game. 

 

I sure hope he does, but if the next few season after are similar to the seasons before this one, I won't support him staying until he decides to leave. 

Lifetime contract is a little tongue in cheek. I think it was a huge step the past year and a half with Fred leaving his ego and preferred playing style to change the program's identity. Although I think this year might be a little lightning in a bottle (several upperclassmen and complementary transfers), the style is admirable and keeps us in most games where we don't have the best players on the floor. Probably a little foolish to assume we'll knock of Top 10 teams multiple times every season, but this style works and recruiting players to it seems more reasonable than trying to be in the 5-star sweepstakes every season. 

All that said, if Fred can lead us to an NCAA tourney win, he may get the longest leash of a contract in the country. 

4 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

No it wasn't. We needed 3 to tie. Him getting fouled wouldn't have been good, since he wasn't shooting.

I'm sorry, you are incorrect. It was the correct play by Mast to pull down and search for a better shot/play. Taking a contested 3 against the best player for Illinois? Mast made the smart basketball play in trying to find a better opportunity with ~10+ seconds left. Shannon raked his hand across Mast's forearms and both the refs & announcers missed the foul. 

Just now, Moiraine said:

Why did Mast not take that 3? Sometimes he looks so clutzy out there.

Better question is why no foul call on raking Mast's hands... Good decision not to try the contested 3. Refs missed another one there.

2 minutes ago, Hayseed said:

Sounds like the refs are running this game.

It's very odd that Illinois is so physical and it took until 30 seconds left in overtime before they reached 10 fouls for the game... I think Underwood getting that tech early set a tone. Hate to blame the refs, but a whole lot of questionable decisions (again).

2nd chance point have been absolutely brutal for us today. Refs certainly not helping us all game, every 50/50 call seems to be going to the fighting Kevin Spaceys.

Really struggling with the Maryland press. This is a game where we're really missing Gary and his calming presence. The second chance points are really hurting us right now, must box out better on defense and try to draw fouls in the paint on offense. Won't work if we're trying to continue with the 3-point contest being down 15+