Cdog923

Out of curiosity, who would you want to hire? Heart isn't set on anyone in particular, and some of these are outright unattainable. But if it were up to me I'd probably consider Baker Dunleavy from Villanova. Mike Brey from Notre Dame. Jeff Capel from Duke. None of those would have been obtainable, though. I was all in on the Mark Gottfried train.

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Because of teamrankings.com?? Kansas has won 13 TIMES IN A ROW. B12 isn't that good of a conference. Period. Great basketball is played on the East coast just like football is played in the South. None of that changes the fact that Miles has the worst overall record of any coach in the last 60 years of the program.

Would that make him even more of a black hole on offense, though? /s

*Outside of Omaha. And maybe Scottsbluff.

Let's start with not pooping the bed and build from there.

Classic Nebrasketball: embrace mediocrity.

Maybe if they get some Super Devil Juice What about the Secret Stuff from MJ's bottle in Space Jam? Maybe, but I don't like MJ and I don't like Space Jam

Maybe if they get some Super Devil Juice What about the Secret Stuff from MJ's bottle in Space Jam?

http://www.hurricanesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205555851 Without derailing the subject at hand, the hires at NU have been underwhelming to say the least. I stand behind my doubts on Eichorst. Eichorst has made what, 2? And at least one of them, his hand was forced by allegations outside the program.

He had 9 D1 offers... notables such as Wyoming, UNO, SDSU, and Air Force The main knock on kids like this is athleticism, but people always forget about 'how good are you at basketball' Having D-1 offers =/= being able to play at D-1 level. He would have washed out had he gone to a bigger school. Impossible to say. I'm sure if Drew Ott played at NDSU instead of Iowa a lot of people would make the same argument that it wouldn't have worked out if he played in the B10 1. Strawman argument. 2. You're talking about a completely different sport. 3. You're talking about someone who was actually offered a scholarship by a Big Ten institution. Ott also had a Kansas State football offer. Two P5 programs identified him as someone that could contribute as a P5 player. This thread is about Mike Daum, who chose between Wyoming, Air Force, and South Dakota State. Nobody in their right mind thought this kid was a P5 level player out of high school, and if he were at Nebraska or any other Big Ten institution right now he would be a backup role player at best because of his lack of athleticism on the defensive end. Stop digging yourself a hole trying to say this kid is a legit P5 level player. He's a nice story for SDSU and not much more than that. Well, I'll just leave it at I disagree with you on the subject. Anyone at any program who can average over 25 ppg can start on the 2nd worst team in any P5 conference Now? Yes. When he came out of HS, no.

At this point, my completely unprofessional opinion is that Miles is gone, barring a miraculous run through the conference tournament.

http://www.hurricanesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205555851

That's the thing, historically we aren't a very good program, and Miles has managed to have the worst winning percentage out of all of our last 6 coaches since 1963. On top of that he managed to have our 2 worst home losses in our program history. So he managed to bring a bad program down even further. But he's funny on Twitter!

I think he'll do well in the tournament; he's an incredibly tough match-up with range out of the gym on offense, but he does have some liability on D. Had Thurmond been a better free throw shooter, Omaha would have won last night. My issue is with the false equivalency that he would be anywhere near the player he is today had he come to Nebraska.

He had 9 D1 offers... notables such as Wyoming, UNO, SDSU, and Air Force The main knock on kids like this is athleticism, but people always forget about 'how good are you at basketball' Having D-1 offers =/= being able to play at D-1 level. He would have washed out had he gone to a bigger school.

I'd actually bet on Penn State.

It's a pretty lazy assessment to watch him for 2-3 games and say "Oh, Nebraska missed on him big time". Well, so did Creighton, Omaha, Wyoming, Colorado, Colorado St. and every other Power 5 team. He simply wasn't a D-1 player coming out of HS. As BR pointed out, the kid was almost cut during his RS season; there's no way he would've been afforded the time to completely remake his body and work on his game if he were at Nebraska. He put the time in, worked his ass off, and has become one of the best scorers in CBB; there's absolutely no way to say he would have done the same thing at Nebraska or Creighton. It's the worst type of revisionist history when it comes to sports.

Hammer, meet nail.

SOS was 82, 15 spots lower than Nebraska's.

Well, if that's the hill you want to die on...

That's being extremely generous. Heh. 53%, 5.9 Y/A, nearly a 1:1 TD/INT ratio. I think it's incredibly difficult to accurately evaluate his early career considering he missed time due to a concussion and played with a broken thumb(?) most of his last season at Tulane. And.....he was playing at Tulane being protected by a Tulane level offensive line. Playing against comparable talent.

Apples & Oranges How is it apples and oranges?

Not sure I agree here. A&M (Turgeon) had a really good run and KSU (Huggins/Martin) fielded very talented teams as well Okie State and Texas Tech also fielded good teams at the time.