Red Tape

Certainly helps, but Atewe wasn't an "elite" recruit, just a solid big. The type of recruit that mid major and low tier power conference teams need to maintain competitiveness. Auburn was 9-23 this year in coach Tony Barbee's 3rd season. He has a record of 12-32 in the conference after 3 years. Not exactly taking the vaunted SEC by storm with winning. Auburn last saw the NCAA tourney in 2003. Historically, though, Auburn has a much richer tradition for men's basketball, as do most Div I schools.

Agreed to a certain extent. But at this point in the season we know this isn't a team you will find attacking the basket... It's not what they do, and I don't expect them to start now. They had a shot towards the end of the game and I am a proud nebrasketball fan. Miles will get them to where they need to be!

I guess you can question them if you like but he was the B1G Freshman of the Week last week. Aware of this... Illinois and Northwestern games have no relevance to last weeks award.

Shields has been making some questionable decisions the last couple of games.

Would love to see this team go for the throat. Do they have the confidence to do it?

No joke. haha Makes nebrasketball hard to watch, but I think help is on it's way. Miles will get us there.

Wow. just wow...

And I really hope this changes. But I'm skeptical. Not about Miles. Just anyone trying to recruit to Nebraska. There's not a bunch of huge schools on the offer list of the commits we have now. A couple decent ones but I'm not sure how strong each was. I know it's still early and I truly am rooting for Miles. Here's my issue: there are too many competitive division 1 school of which most are a lot closer to 99.9% of the recruits than we are. Take for example the Chicago area - a huge population center that's relatively close to NU. If there is a good prospect in Chicago, he could choose Illinois, Indiana, Ohio St., Michigan St., Michigan, Minnesota or Wisconsin - all of which have a lot more basketball tradition that the Huskers, are as close or closer to Chicago, and all have been or will be in the Top 25 this year. And that's just our conference - with Purdue not far behind. Then you get into Louisville, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Xavier, Marquette, Cincinnati, DePaul or Creighton. Throw in a few wild cards like Pittsburgh, Butler, Missouri and your at about 20 schools that would be "better" basketball schools than Nebraska and are all closer to home. I really hope I'm wrong. Maybe a couple good pickups and some good coaching will change momentum but we have a lot to overcome. Sorry, I'm done now. We aren't going to go from perennial bottom dweller to Duke in 1-2 seasons. I would say, with the exception of 5-10 teams, that most teams in the tournament every year aren't composed of mostly blue chip recruits. You pick up a solid cast of players, coach them up, and hope to pull 1 or 2 guys every couple years that are next level type of players. Nebraska does have enough solid players in close proximity to fill several roster spots (Biggs, Agau, Gassell, etc.) We just need to win those recruiting battles. Amazing (NBA Quality) facilities and an extremely likable coach are great steps. Winning is the next step. Before you know it, we have 5-10 solid players that want N each year and we can be selective. Remember, we are talking basketball here. It doesn't take near as much time, nor near as many studs, to make a solid team.

How about they don't release ncaa14 and focus on making ncaa15 NOT a bucket of turds. Show me where I can vote for that.

I would love to go. Makes me miss living in Lincoln... Regardless of the outcome, I am really encouraged by what Miles has done with this rag tag bunch. Lets see Gallegos break that cold streak!

I expect the interest from other programs to be higher next year, as I fully expect a our offense to be even better. But we will see how good of OC he really is in 2014 when he has to replace Martinez.

But it's so simple. All Beck has to do is divine from what he knows of Georgia: are they the sort of team who would put the focus into it's own weakness or strengths? Now, a clever team would put the focus into his own weakness, because they would know that only a great fool would attack whats proven to be a strength. Beck is not a great fool, so he can clearly not choose to attack the other teams strength. But Georgia must have known Beck was not a great fool, they would have counted on it, so Beck can clearly not attack Georgias weakness on D.....

I think as Shields continues to mature, gets healthy, and is coached up, he will prove to be solid. He hasn't shown much as far as mid-long range shooting or true ball handling skills, so he has plenty to work on. He's average defensively... Rivers is tall and lanky, therefore is assumed to be a good basketball player. He isn't particularly good/great at anything. His length allows him to provide average defense, pick up some rebounds, etc. With the coaching staff we may see him progress, but I don't have high hopes here. Fuller looks like a bit more complete offensive player. I anticipate he will see playing time next year as a Freshman as a role player initially. Defensively he will need to adjust to the college game, but I think he will be fine there. I expect him to be starting within his first 2 years. Hawkins is a pure shooter. He will be a threat any time he is open within the half court line. Based on what I have seen of our current roster and incoming players, he could very well play a role next year simply to be the guy plays are designed specifically for in order to get him shots. He has decent athleticism but isn't elite in a sense that he can create plays consistently on his own. Tai Webster will play some SG as well. He has pretty much all the tools, so we will be in great hands there... assuming admissions doesn't screw us. I don't really know anything about Pettaway... might have to do some research, but I recall looking up some of his highlights and wasn't overwhelmed. He would likely be an upgrade over Rivers, though.

We had them totally outsized with Almeida in the game (insert almeida joke #1), we should have been feeding him constantly (insert Almeida joke #2 here) But seriously. He has a great touch when he gets it inside. We just need to find ways to generate offense instead of getting in these 6-10 minute slumps. Those have been killing us for years. Seems like we will have it going, then in comes Peltz to spell Parker and Almeida goes out for a snack break and then our offense stalls.

I haven't followed recruiting all that closely for years, its just too unpredictable, but I must say... after watching those highlights, we need to pick this guy up. Difference maker... Although those defenders tackled like the blackshirts in the CCG.

Is your Internet service provider plugged in? Perhaps that's your problem.... I would try turning it off for 30 seconds, then restore power. Power switch can be found on your fuse box in the basement. (Seriously, though, Why aren't any local channels televising it???)

Nebraska

For the first time all year I am confident we will win handily. I haven't felt this way about a game all year, including the Minnesota game. I just think we are ready and focused this game. Rex is back and will be on a mission... 45-20 24-17 at half but nebraska pulls away in the second half.

If we don't get Webster I will be incredibly bummed. Finally a break on a big time player. Need some big guys to go with him though... Hopefully Serg and Pitchford are going to step up next year.

Any word... Is he still visiting for the USC game?

If Gallegos hits 2 of his wide open 3's, like a real pure shooter should, this game takes a whole different feel.

Gallegos is a streaky shooter... Hopefully as the season goes on his cold streaks are less frequent. (Even though it probably won't matter)

It's sad to say, but this team is way better with El Grande on the floor.