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Can Nebraska Basketball be respectable with Tim Miles as coach?


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SB Nation graded the Miles hire an A.

 

Nebraska

 

Hired: Tim Miles | Came From: Colorado State | Replacing: Doc Sadler (fired)

 

Never short on energy, Miles has an infectiously upbeat personality that his players feed off of. You almost have to in order to accomplish something like taking Colorado State from 7-25 (which they were in Miles' first season) to the NCAA Tournament.

 

But work ethic alone isn't behind Miles' on-court success; the guy can coach. According to Sports Illustrated's Luke Winn, Colorado State was the fourth-most efficient team in college basketball coming out of timeouts this past season.

 

This is a terrific hire for a program that has vowed to make more of a commitment to basketball since jumping to the Big Ten.

 

GRADE: A

 

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The win-win situation: Nebraska isn't a basketball power, and despite new facilities, it has a long way to go to establish credibility in the very deep Big Ten. As such, the Huskers may have made the hire of the season in landing former Colorado State coach Tim Miles, a noted turnaround specialist known for tweeting at halftime of his team's games. Usually, a program like CSU will take a short-term hit after losing a quality coach to a so-called high-major, but the Rams turned around and landed Larry Eustachy, a very good coach who rebuilt his life and career at Southern Miss after well-documented issues with alcohol. Rams fans should be grateful to the trustee who balked at CSU's initial attempt to land former Oregon coach Ernie Kent. Eustachy is the better coach and fit in Fort Collins, and he inherits a good roster that should remain a factor in the Mountain West this season.

 

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