If someone wants to criticize Moos for the policy, so be it. But making this out to be a major factor in the basketball team's meltdown is just nonsense. First Miles goes on a podcast right before an important game to blubber about how he got hosed out of a 2018 NCAA bid. Now his personal stenographer writes this load of crap right after the team gets absolutely dominated in every phase of the Michigan game. Way to be accountable, Timmy! Just because your team completely quits on you every other season, you can't possibly be at fault.
I believe Eichorst was the one who started the policy about using only department paid psychologists and Moos continued it.
The point of the article IMO was that there are in fact things that other major college basketball coaches get to use and NU basketball doesn't. Many of the successful basketball programs allow their head coach to hire an outside counselor of their choosing to work with their team. NU currently does not for basketball. They have let that happen for football and volleyball. The next head coach of NU basketball needs to be able to bring in who he wants then there's no question about who success or failure lays at the feet of. I don't know if losing an outside motivational guy hurt this team this year or not, but having one sure couldn't have hurt. They look like a bunch of guys moping around feeling bad about how poorly things are going for them. People want to say we need to open up the checkbook for a name head coach. It appears to me that there are some other things we could open up the checkbook for such as recruiting that might be as important as the name of the head coach.
Heady talked about this a lot with Severe on the bottom line. But it's a moot point at this time because it's a foregone conclusion that Miles will be fired regardless of how the team does the rest of the season. As a proponent of firing Miles a long time ago I will say there is administrative stuff that was not afforded to Tim Miles that was afforded to Football and Frost and other basketball coaches in the B1G. If Nebraska were an NFL team Scott Frost would be the general manager/head coach. he can hire and fire whoever he wants whenever he wants. Whenever a need arises Scott's needs are immediately met. The big boy coaches in the world of college football and basketball get these privileges. Tim never did so if he wants to make excuses that he wasn't able to succeed because he couldn't hire his own strength coach, psychologist, or nutritionist and cannot fire/hire assistants at his own discretion those excuses are poor but valid. Bill Moos I imagine realized that we are not spending enough money to compete in basketball (we are 11th in spending in the B1G) and could have invested heavily in Miles and the program after last year. As we all know Moos kicked the can down the road because he wasn't sold on Miles as being the guy. It ended up being the right decision and Moos will now get to find his guy and give him all the power and control that Frost has with football with an expanded budget to hopefully get this program over the hump.
