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Wilcher is gone. I'm guessing he was going to get lost in the shuffle with both Ulis and Williams on the roster.

IDK if all these spots have already been filled, but it would be cool to get invited to one of the early season tournaments like Fort Myers or Charleston (or even like a Battle 4 Atlantis). Even if it would mean an early season loss to a good team, at least we'd get some semblance of how good the team actually is playing against legit major competition or even some quality mid-majors and it would eliminate the "But they haven't played anybody!" criticism that we get in December. The Cornhusker Classic is kind of nice, but usually the opponents are some real stinkers (Duquesne this year being a big exception)

I'd be curious to know how much money initially came in on the Nebraska side to push the spread 2 points in our favor since this morning. When the line was -3.5, it must have been like 90% of the money coming in on Nebraska, no?

People like this tweeter are completely missing the point. Literally no one is saying "Trev is a liberal and wants to get away from conservatives". He's arguing with a strawman. It's about leadership style. One governor is trying to micromanage the university and the other governor might allow more autonomy in the state university system. These two people can both be Republicans and it's not contradictory at all. For the record, I'm not saying this is definitively WHY Trev left. I'm not even saying that this is true. I'm just saying it's a theory that's valid to speculate about and "Trev is a registered Republican" or "Republicans are also in power in Texas" doesn't disprove that theory.

We split with Wisconsin this year, but otherwise yeah, exactly this. Not playing anyone except Creighton and KSU in the nonconference + lucking out with the easiest possible conference schedule kind of put a cap on Nebraska's seeding possibilities this year without doing something crazy like running the table in the B1G

Creighton has the 12th toughest schedule in the country while Nebraska has the 43rd toughest schedule (and we're probably gonna drop a bit because the last 3 games are against the dregs of the Big Ten). Also Creighton is 2.5 games better in Quad 1&2 games. The pitiful nonconference scheduling was always going to prevent us from locking in a 5 seed or better without a really dominant conference record.

I feel like if we finish the last 3 road games a combined 1-2 or better we can lock into the tournament. Losing all of those road games would require an extremely convincing conference tourney run to make it in. Dropping to Indiana, Ohio State, and Michigan and then an early exit in the Big Ten tourney will make it too easy for the committee to say "This team is 1-10 on the road, they didn't earn it"

For a long time I've tried erasing the Tanner Lee year from my memory. I'm glad you were able to.

The strength (or lack thereof, specifically) of schedule is why I've got my expectations really tempered right now. This game against Duquesne looks like the first "real" game of the season. They're a pretty legit team that could threaten for the A-10 title. They're way better than Oregon State. A comfortable W against them and I think we could be a dark horse tournament team.

"Haarberg with a better arm and worse mobility" doesn't seem like that bad of a tradeoff, IMO. Admittedly I haven't been to any of his high school games, but unless he's some kind of complete headcase, that seems like a guy you could live with at QB.

I don't know why there's so much pessimism about this game. It's difficult to find any positives about Wisconsin this year. They don't run the ball well. They don't throw the ball well. Their defense is bad. Northwestern's completely listless offense just blew them out in their own stadium (that game was not even as competitive as a 24-10 final indicates). The only nice thing I can say about this year's Wisconsin team is that Vakos looks like a guy who will be kicking on Sundays in the future. I think Nebraska will take this one with a final around 16-9, even if you bake in us losing the turnover battle.

Robin tweeted a link with an update but it requires an On3 subscription to view. Anyone got it?

I think it's time we finally admit that Frost didn't "turn around" UCF. They posted seasons of 10 wins, 12 wins, and 9 wins before he got there. There was the one absolute blunder year that had tons of internal strife, and then he just brought them back to where they were before under O'Leary. They didn't have years of sustained mediocrity. They had a solid program that just so happened to have one lone shockingly bad year.

I've been hearing through the rumor mill that Jackson State and Jacksonville State might be different colleges

Couple ideas in no particular order: Grant McCasland - Was under Scott Drew for 5 years, has North Texas relatively competitive every year in CUSA. Won a tournament game against Purdue. Niko Medved - Completely turned around Furman's program, won 20+ games at CSU the past 3 years. Darian DeVries from Drake is probably the best recruiter in the midwest that isn't already a major conference coach. If the Huskers finish in the bottom 3 of the Big Ten this year (as pretty much every publication is predicting) and Hoiberg doesn't get fired, then Trev clearly doesn't care about the basketball program and my energy would be better spent elsewhere.