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Clester Johnson. I've been there once, about a year and a half ago, I think. It's nice, you should definitely check it out.

So, who was the lucky KSU fan who got to sit in his fart dust?

Bill Snyder's assistant coaches hate the man's micromanaging, he frequently left his starters in for entire games against hapless, 1-AA opponents, and I recall hearing something about him using rental cars issued to coaches for bowl games to make recruiting trips which is not legal. So yeah, screw Bill Snyder.

I say it was a real nice team win. Or I'm just too lazy to come up with any real answer. EDIT: just saw somebody else gave the whole team a game ball well there you go, I should read the whole thread next time.

He strikes me as a little flakey like that now and then, but laid back enough to not have any "pet" teams like some guys in the business and always give teams their due.

It got doc fired, right? Not yet, but he's not in his 8th year as a head coach, either, nor was he handed a top 10 quality team. If Doc fails again this year, I won't be broken up if he gets canned. Nor did he make the Elite 8 in 2005, or win the programs 1st game ever there. Larry Coker won a national title in 2001. Where is he now? Things sure went south once he could no longer ride the coattails of Butch Davis. We are almost 6 years removed from the College World Series, no more Van Horn recruits, no more pitchers taught by Rob Childress (no, not asking for Rob to come back as head coach, he's more valuable as an assistant IMO, just like Anderson). Nebraska will never reach the CWS again, and will be lucky to host a regional, but even if they did all we would have to look forward to are further losses to teams like San Francisco, Oral Roberts and Manhattan (combined score of those three regional losses: 17-2, not even competitive against the dregs of our own regional). 2006 and 2008 both lost their mental edge completely in the months of May and June. The combined efforts of 2007, '09 and '10 manages to come out to 2 games above .500. Thank god we scheduled Southeast Missouri State this year, although if we faced them in a regional at home, I shudder to think of what the outcome would be. Bottom line: Mike Anderson sucks as a head coach, without Rob Childress to hold his hand, he has dropped off the map entirely in 5 seasons. He has not proven that he has the ability to instill any mental toughness in his own recruits, nor has he ever shown he can build/rebuild a program. The problems that plagued his teams at the end of '06 and '08 have begun to show up in February and stick around the entire season the last two years, not surprising considering they did not have players like Johnny Dorn who experienced superior coaching under Rob Childress. I am reminded of what Lyons said over in another thread. His own players on this year's team call Anderson a "complete jackass." Anderson proved them right when he kept Farst on the bench for his last game at Haymarket park until the final half-inning. A guy who worked his ass off, team (and possibly conference?) leader in batting average a year ago and had been playing well through the last 10 or so games of this season. Gets benched in his last game in Lincoln. Whatever MA's motives were, it was a classless move, but not the first one he's made (talk to Jake Mort when his family came for "Jake Mort Day" to see their guy. . .ride the pine the whole game.) Ah well, baseball season's over so I'm going to go drink a lot and watch tapes of old football games for 3 months Take 'er easy.

I don't pay nearly enough attention to basketball anymore Hope this guy does well.

It got doc fired, right? Not yet, but he's not in his 8th year as a head coach, either, nor was he handed a top 10 quality team. If Doc fails again this year, I won't be broken up if he gets canned.

Depends on how far we want to lower our expectations. I can see the team finishing above .500 next year, but they had more than enough talent to do that this year, so I'm not putting money on it.

What part of regional don't you understand? As in, when it's not nebraska, it's not going to be on here. If you look at any of the non-FSNMidwest FSN channels, you will see a decent amount of college baseball, i watched it. Herr wasn't good. And wild pitch-fest? You realize that a wild PITCH is just that, NOT THE CATCHERS FAULT. That, sir, would be what the scoring "passed ball" is for. And Hanson was 4 for 9, but he was NOT a good defensive catcher, so I don't know how him behind the plate would help wild pitches.... Mariot could potentially go and sign a contract, it happens. I don't see Yost going anywhere. Our pitching staff is still young and improving. And freshman are playing in baseball just as much as they are in football. Stewart hit .286, that's good? I know what regional means, and that's part of the horrible Big 12 TV deal, if your provider only gives you one FSN channel, you're hosed. I could have watched several games on the Big 10 network, but since Nebraska has not yet joined that conference, I didn't bother. I don't recall the last time ESPN carried a regular season Big 12 game, but I saw a lot of SEC games on. Sure, Zach Herr wasn't any good. Neither are many of the other younger pitchers brought in since Childress left. All have been prone to give up walks, hit batters, and just generally have ERAs so high they'd make your nose bleed. Because they're not being coached very well at any point. Part of that's Newman's responsibility, then again he's the 2nd pitching coach hired by Anderson, and the staff ERA has sucked harder with every new hire (save for being carried by Johnny Dorn and, for a while anyway, Thad Weber in '08). So either Anderson can't hire decent assistants, or it's true what they say about him being a micromanaging freak. Or a little bit of both. Did you see the wild pitches? These one's ricocheted not all that far from whoever was catching, it's not impossible for a catcher to smother a bad pitch, so yes, senor caps lock, SOMETIMES THE CATCHER CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. But you may be right, Hanson might not have been any better at defense, however he had a pretty good year going here at UNO (ended with an injury), so I'm still not entirely convinced. Same thing goes for Stewart, scouts were bullish on his upside potential, he hit 3 home runs in two games to start his season at Grayson County college down in TX after leaving here, then got hit by a pitch and broke his hand or something, ended his season. I suppose Anderson knew that was going to happen so he sent him off. Of course, those two guys are the least of Anderson's problems, the dude is sabotaging the program.

Glad my 1-3 expectation was avoided. Of course Nebraska has still lost something like 45 of their last 60 conference games, which is totally unacceptable and gets just about any coach anywhere else fired. . .

I've noticed maybe 2 games televised on FSN this year. The Big 12 tv deal across all sports sucks. Did you ever stop and wonder why, say, Zach Herr would want to sign a contract despite being a really late pick? Answer: to flee Anderson's iron fist. It's not enough to just say the draft destroyed us, how about looking at why everybody wanted to leave? Why is it that David Stewart and Jed Hanson transferred despite showing great potential in the few opportunities that Anderson gave them? Oh I suppose after yesterday's wild pitch-fest, I'm dreaming if I think having another catcher around might have helped. And of course we won't need a new right fielder in 2011, so Stewart's no great loss, right? What happens when Mariot, Yost, Ryan Hughes and a number of other players sign contracts this year? Do we reboot the draft excuse? This isn't football where freshmen and sophomores have to hit the weight room and gain 50 pounds. Many teams are playing with just as much, or more, younger players, and that's just in the top 25. Nebraska had as much senior experience in Bailey, Belfonte, Farst and Bubak to go with pretty good juniors on the pitching staff. I imagine we're looking at moderate improvement next season at best, and the best we can do is claim that we're a northern school and thus can't compete

See I don't think conference affiliation will matter that much, provided that other conferences merge into the superconferences as rumored (who knows.) So long as Nebraska schedules a good non-conference slate, they should be able to dominate the Big 10 and they'll be right there in the postseason anyway. Using the conference as an excuse to keep a lousy head coach or not pursue a better one is unnecessarily defeatist, IMO. NU still has a lot of things going for it (great facilities/stadium, fan support so long as you're not blowing smoke and/or excuses about the draft up our butt). And really, the Big 10 has much better media exposure via the Big 10 network. Good luck finding a Big 12 baseball game outside of NET's (usually tape delayed) broadcasts on CBS College Sports.

I hope so, it seems like after losing Van Horn and Childress to that type of situation, the powers that be owe us a coach who wants to come back to his homestate.

Uh oh guys, it's our fault Where was the swirling negativism in 2004 that flushed that season down the toilet? Where was the vitriol at the end of '06 and '08, when the team collapsed when it counted most after highly successful regular season runs? I was very optimistic at the start of '09, this year I thought the team would make a regional. Most people I knew felt roughly the same. This is getting stupider by the day.

The guy took over a pretty successful program at Texarkana, and :gasp: has managed to maintain that success, and before anybody says Anderson did for a while as well, Bolt hired his own staff from the get-go and did not have a crutch like Rob Childress to carry him through his first (and so far only) 3 seasons. I'd take Will Bolt in a heartbeat. http://www.texarkanacollege.edu/athletics/baseball/coaches.php

You don't need to be a seer to notice Mike Anderson is a bad head coach. Now that all pressure is off and they are mathematically eliminated from the Big 12 tournament, I think the team finishes with a 1-3 record to build some momentum going into next year

Seriously though, next season is going to be depressing, unless he gets canned in the middle.

I'm only buying it this year if Suh is on the cover anyway (unless they stick him on Wii or something).

You've heard it from players themselves? Not asking you to name names, just want to make sure this is a 1st person account, because I think not everybody believes it yet, and applaud TO for being so inscrutably wise in his decision making in this situation I have heard it from 2 players. They also said there are quite a few players that feel the same. To put it blunt, they said hes a complete jackass. Maybe thats just them being sensitive, but maybe thats how it is. But overall, something isnt right. Cool, thanks for sharing. People have been saying this for years, so at some point it eliminates the probability of merely oversensitive players and it becomes a severe cause for concern regarding the personality of Mike Anderson. And yet it seems most Nebraska fans only care about football and just go with what the read in the LJS, MOD EDIT - Language and making excuses for him. It's OK to be upset about what's going on, but let's keep it clean.

You've heard it from players themselves? Not asking you to name names, just want to make sure this is a 1st person account, because I think not everybody believes it yet, and applaud TO for being so inscrutably wise in his decision making in this situation

LINK I've waffled on Anderson's fate over the last two years. The recruits being poached by MLB had me thinking he needed more time when people started calling for his head last year (or two years ago?), but this year has been really hard to stomach. This team is dead in the water, and young as they are, you would have to think there would be a way to get something out of them other than lackluster play and blowout losses. Another problem I have is that so many of us (me included) have been saying that Doc Sadler needs new facilities to make his program take off. I think this is fair for Doc, but Mike has those facilities. Haymarket Park is one of the best parks in the Big 12, and has to be way up near the top echelon nationally. If it's not the facilities, what's the problem? Where are the players, past and present, speaking in Anderson's defense? I don't see any. That's a red flag.

#3: interesting. Don't know if we'll ever know for sure but it falls in line with what was said about the '05 team, which was basically held together by senior leadership and Rob Childress. I also felt the same when I heard Bailey said that. Kind of a weird thing to say. The attendance has already dropped about 2% from last year's sharp decline. Basically, if you compare this series to comparable series past, the crowds are about half as big as they once were (and totally passive), and while I feel bad because the players deserve support, what else can you do?

The media is beginning to turn against him. Childress feels Huskers pain

Unlike Anderson, I won't blame any of the players. He's got them playing so tight and anxious, it's a joke. If he survives this season, then my belief in a just God will be severely shaken