Breaking Matt Abdelmassih and Nebraska basketball have "mutually agreed to part ways"

[RedSavage]

Craig Smith is probably near top of the list when we fire Hoiberg next year right? Would he leave Utah?

Idk but that's the last time we were worth a damn...it had very little to do with Miles

 

[Dell Husker]

Robin got the following quotes when asked “Does the news of the departure change anything with your commitment” from recruits:
Blaise - “Maybe I’m still going there. I feel bad, but I still talk to him”
Ramel Sr. (Dad) - “Processing it all now”
Jamarquez - “No sir”

 

[MtnHusker]

Did Tim Miles ever hire a bad assistant?

Kenya: Indiana
Michael Lewis: UCLA
Rashon Burno (for 15 minutes): ASU now HC at NIU
Chris Harriman: Cal
Craig Smith: Utah HC
Ben Johnson: Minnesota HC
Molinar:i OU to BC
Phil Beckner: very well known consultant in pro hoops


You'd think hiring to a shit program like Nebraska would at least produce a few stinkers who aren't in high major basketball anymore

Tim had some good ones but I think Miles best hire was Craig Smith. He stayed with Miles on his rise up the coaching tree all the way to Nebraska. We were a much different team after Craig left for a HC gig, and not different in a good way. I have a feeling Craig was the brains behind the game planning & Coaching while Tim was more of the Face of the program or Mouthpiece. Although very likeable it was painful to watch some of the game plans and execution after Smith left. On the other hand Smiths teams have looked very well coached at every one of his stops. Craig's only had 2 losing seasons out of the 11 he has been a Head Coach.

It will be interesting to see how Ben Johnson does at Minnesota.

 

[MtnHusker]

& your leaving out Ben Johnson & Niko Medved (on staff not a full time asst)
Timmy probably got a raw deal, 2 4th place regular season finishes in the Big10 is something we may never see Agsin in a 4 yr span
We had an opportunity to get Fred, at the time it seemed like a can’t miss

I don't think Tim got a raw deal. Towards the end of his time as HC we looked like a poorly coached team and recruiting was suffering. After Smith left we struggled in so many areas and the product we put on the court continued to go downhill. Kansas coaches even commented how poor of a game plan we had the last time we played them in Lincoln. I have my connections to the Kansas program and if Bill Self & his staff said we look like a poorly coached team under Miles then I am gonna believe him.

 

[Cash68847]

Craig Smith is probably near top of the list when we fire Hoiberg next year right? Would he leave Utah?

My buddy knew him when he was in South Dakota. Smith and wife loved lincoln he said.

 

[BBTown Bomber]

The staff hires were total misses by Fred. Gates is lazy and doesn’t like putting in extra work with guys. And Matt was just a recruiter. Then Fred wanted to take more of a backseat approach to coaching and basically had Gates, loenser, and Sadler doing a majority of the hands on coaching. What a total waste of 3 years and millions of dollars. Fred should be fired for his record here but also for the enormous fuck up that was how he built his program. This isn’t getting fixed under Fred.

Hater…….





On the other hand, maybe yore right.



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[huskerj12]

So now that his time at NU has ended... what was the deal with his "leave of absence" earlier this year?

 

[Kaladin]

So now that his time at NU has ended... what was the deal with his "leave of absence" earlier this year?

cocaine and strippers no doubt

 

[CybrrMonky71]

I don't think Tim got a raw deal. Towards the end of his time as HC we looked like a poorly coached team and recruiting was suffering. After Smith left we struggled in so many areas and the product we put on the court continued to go downhill. Kansas coaches even commented how poor of a game plan we had the last time we played them in Lincoln. I have my connections to the Kansas program and if Bill Self & his staff said we look like a poorly coached team under Miles then I am gonna believe him.

Interesting considering we took kU to the wire, losing 73-72 on a late 3 by their foreign kid
I’m not sure what should have been different about our game plan. We just had no answer for KUs big guy.
The 2017 team was the one that went 13-5 in the Big10

 

[MtnHusker]

Interesting considering we took kU to the wire, losing 73-72 on a late 3 by their foreign kid
I’m not sure what should have been different about our game plan. We just had no answer for KUs big guy.

Kansas coaches expected to lose that game because of serious roster issues. They had no bench players and only 1 big man. Kansas had roughly 8 scholarship players available for the game and only 1 quality big man, Buike. Their leading scorer Collins suffered a major concussion the game before and they didn't know if he would play. He shouldn't have but they needed him. Collins scored Zero points. Another player Vick was battling back spasms all week. And another player was coming off of a bad case of the Flu. Their back up Center couldn't play because the NCAA hadn't cleared him yet. The previous game KU had to play a 6-5 Walk On Shooting Guard in the Post as their Back Up Center. KU's starters averaged playing like 34 minutes that game and the bench had a total of like 30 minutes of play. 2 unproven raw freshman who couldn't score (Garrett & Lightfoot) and SG transfer Cunliffe who was playing in his 1st game at KU, and only played 2 minutes.

Kansas coaches expected Miles to run them into the ground since they had Zero Depth and a couple of their starters were not 100%. Instead Miles slowed it down which played right into their hands. We had 3 Post Players we could have run at Buike to tire him out and get him in foul trouble, but instead Miles went away from that allowing Buike to have one of his best games with 26 PTs & 10 RBs. Friggin tire their only big man out, push the pace. Make them play SG & SF in the post so for once we would have an advantage in the paint. KU had lost their 2 previous games to unranked opponents at Home and was not playing well plus undermanned. All we had to do was cover 3 players Svi & Graham at the 3 Pt Line and Buike in the paint. Bill Self was in shock at how bad our game plan. Bill was afraid we might blow them out and was hoping to at least keep it close.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

I'll be curious who they get but the more I think on this the more I think it was a mistake

 

[djw004]

I wrestled in high school.

I could coach us to 9ish wins a year.