2024-25 NCAA Tournament Bracketology/Bubble Watch

[jickey moseph]

A bit of both. Lots of clashing personalities

A certain 7 footer at the center of it all? (no pun intended)

 

[Cornicator]

Is the hating each other a personality thing? A bad apple thing? Something else?

A bit of both. Lots of clashing personalities

I'm just spitballing here:


1. Gary and Brice are best friends and underpaid - I'd be resentful too.
2. You add 2 Mormons (Meah / Woorster) and a Muslim - I feel like that might be a weird dynamic
3. Essegian is a freaking hardcore Evangelical - I grew up Evangelical, I bet he's easily the most obnoxious asshole on team.
4. Hoiberg Junior and Morgan are normal Midwestern Catholic Dudes who just want to have a good time.
5. The True Freshman from Wisconsin is apparently annoying as Fuck.
6. Ulis is always asking everyone about spreads and O/U numbers, while dodging giant Italian guys outside the arena.
7. Griffith can't see without Goggles

 

[DrinkItIn]

- He’s not wrong
- they need one or both, wouldn’t hurt to have somebody with a basketball mindset either in the athletic department or at 1890
- everything I’ve been told confirms this, go back and listen to what Andrew Morgan said before the Illinois game in January for example, basically says it without saying it directly
- definitely going to be a rebuild regardless. Would have to find some legitimate dudes this offseason or it probably gets ugly fast next year. Do you want to start from square one with a new coach or do you want to commit to Fred and go all in. Or do you choose door 3 and let Fred flounder for next year and just pull the plug when it almost inevitably goes bad Dannen and Co will have to decide what they want basketball to be at Nebraska. Are they all the way in or going to be halfway in and halfway out. If you’re going to commit to Fred, he needs to be given every possible resource to succeed.

Unrelated, Turd wanted to fire Fred two seasons ago before they scraped their way to .500 to end the season. Somebody representing Nebraska was calling agents as late as January of 2023.

Thanks for the insights...Why do you think Turd and so many fans want or wanted Hoiberg gone? I get that his start was dreadful, but let’s be honest—it’s Nebraska basketball, and only giving a coach four years to fix it feels shortsighted. Maybe people expected instant success because of what he did at ISU? Hoiberg had five very successful years there, so I don't think he just forgot how to coach. There has to be more to it.

I don’t buy the idea that NU’s basketball struggles are simply due to hiring bad coaches. It’s part of it—but if coaching was the only issue, someone would’ve broken through by now. The bigger problem seems to be structural—whether it’s a lack of donor support, consistent recruiting pipelines, or the challenge of attracting elite talent to Lincoln.

Plus, the Big Ten is a brutal basketball conference. You’re asking a coach to rebuild a historically weak program while competing against some of the best and most well-funded teams in the country.

At the same time, I am pissed because I've seen flashes of what this program could be. When you see schools with similar or worse basketball traditions (like Northwestern) make tournament runs, it pisses me off as to why Nebraska can’t seem to get over the hump. Fixing NU basketball probably requires more than just swapping out coaches—it seems more complex than that.

 

[Huskers4420]

Thanks for the insights...Why do you think Turd and so many fans want or wanted Hoiberg gone? I get that his start was dreadful, but let’s be honest—it’s Nebraska basketball, and only giving a coach four years to fix it feels shortsighted. Maybe people expected instant success because of what he did at ISU? Hoiberg had five very successful years there, so I don't think he just forgot how to coach. There has to be more to it.

I don’t buy the idea that NU’s basketball struggles are simply due to hiring bad coaches. It’s part of it—but if coaching was the only issue, someone would’ve broken through by now. The bigger problem seems to be structural—whether it’s a lack of donor support, consistent recruiting pipelines, or the challenge of attracting elite talent to Lincoln.

Plus, the Big Ten is a brutal basketball conference. You’re asking a coach to rebuild a historically weak program while competing against some of the best and most well-funded teams in the country.

At the same time, I am pissed because I've seen flashes of what this program could be. When you see schools with similar or worse basketball traditions (like Northwestern) make tournament runs, it pisses me off as to why Nebraska can’t seem to get over the hump. Fixing NU basketball probably requires more than just swapping out coaches—it seems more complex than that.

Don’t have the alumni base of other B1G and SEC schools so that’s one issue. Going to the same heavy hitter donors for basketball after already going to them time and again for football (which is a lot), volleyball, and stadium renovations (creating fatigue). Not to mention Omaha donors who help fund football are giving to Pickle Smoochers for b-ball seems like the perfect storm of suck.

 

[BingoDingo]

I'm just spitballing here:


1. Gary and Brice are best friends and underpaid - I'd be resentful too.
2. You add 2 Mormons (Meah / Woorster) and a Muslim - I feel like that might be a weird dynamic
3. Essegian is a freaking hardcore Evangelical - I grew up Evangelical, I bet he's easily the most obnoxious asshole on team.
4. Hoiberg Junior and Morgan are normal Midwestern Catholic Dudes who just want to have a good time.
5. The True Freshman from Wisconsin is apparently annoying as Fuck.
6. Ulis is always asking everyone about spreads and O/U numbers, while dodging giant Italian guys outside the arena.
7. Griffith can't see without Goggles

It's the frickin Balkans in our locker room...