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I am not going to say "fire Fred!" but for the love of god, I don't understand why the rebounding effort is so terrible. It's too bad the NCAA doesn't allow infinite assistant coaches for basketball like football, because he could (apparently) do well to hire someone who's only job is getting players to FREAKING REBOUND THE FREAKING BALL ;zombie:oops:
 
Don't what else to say other than, "ugh". Play out the stretch and hope for the best but being a Nebraska basketball fan I'm pretty sure it will only get more painful.
 
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I'm not sure if we hired Danny Hurley or Bill Self as HC that they would have anymore success than Fred. We have ZERO tradition and history in basketball. And for the life of me I cannot understand why a 5 star recruit wouldn't want to come here? They would almost certainly start immediately.

Hoiberg IMO is a good coach and should be way more successful than he is at Nebraska.
 
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I've always thought that if a 5* recruit came here and got us an NCAA tourney win he would be installed on University of Nebraska Mt. Rushmore. Fred runs a clean program but I think it would take somewhat of slimeball to pull off the feat now. And Self was supposedly coming here from Tulsa but Byrne didn't pay for his cheeseburger when they met. Also stories that his wife didn't want to live in Lincoln. Whether those are true I don't know.
 
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howielong said:
I've always thought that if a 5* recruit came here and got us an NCAA tourney win he would be installed on University of Nebraska Mt. Rushmore. Fred runs a clean program but I think it would take somewhat of slimeball to pull off the feat now. And Self was supposedly coming here from Tulsa but Byrne didn't pay for his cheeseburger when they met. Also stories that his wife didn't want to live in Lincoln. Whether those are true I don't know.
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Yeah who knows. He made the better chioce to goto KU after Roy Williams left. All Self had to do was maintain what Roy had. Nee had some success, but by enlarge he had a good Nebraska core of players. We haven't really seen that type of talent stay instate. At least not to Nebraska. Not sure what Fred has to do to get a 5 star player(s) to come here.
 
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And with transfer portal and NIL it makes it a lot tougher. A coach needs to develop guys but also need to find quality players through the portal. And if not getting 5*'s can't miss on transfers you do get. And strictly my opinion but if Chucky Hepburn was pg for this team I don't think we'd be in current slump. And I kind of question the IQ of student section. Why did they boo Saint Thomas? He went to Loyola-Chicago out of high school so probably didn't have any power conference offers and pretty sure Hoiberg went after him in portal. So it's not like he turned NU down.
 
Groundhog Day. Can't make a 3, can't defend 3 and sloppy turnovers. Down 52-33 with 14 minutes left. Gave up 19-2 run to open game and another 16-2 run late in 1st half. Wisconsin also just done with 8-0 run. To save your math that's 43-4!!!
 
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I'll take the win as did not expect it. Caught a break with Illinois big man out with mono but still a talented team without him. Hopefully can keep things going and make me eat crow on over/under wins for rest of season.
 
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howielong said:
Way to go boys for making the crow taste a little better. Big win over a ranked Oregon team on the road, 77-71.
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I kept clicking over to it during breaks watching hockey in the first half. Ahead and increasing the lead. Then I starting watching when they were up 32-17 with 4 minutes to go in the first half. Of course then its 34-28 at halftime and thought, yep, here we go again. Up on a team, can't hold on, lose at the end.
But they held on. Defense I thought played well. 2nd half they let them get close but kept them from getting over the hump.
Great win.
 
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