Sigh. It seems as if Nebraska can never turn the corner with its basketball program. The past several years have been a big tease. Play well at home but lose on the road. And now we don't even win at home. I get that Rutgers has some NBA caliber talent. But that is my point. Why don't we have NBA caliber talent? Why do we rarely get that kind of talent? I like Hoiberg. I hope we stick with him. He is as good as anyone we would get to replace him. But I do wish we could turn that corner.
And please don't come back at me with, "But we do have NBA level talent!" Well, if that is true then we cannot make excuses for losing to Rutgers on the grounds that they have NBA level talent. The implication is that our loss is "understandable" because they just have more talent than we do. And that is my point. Why do they have more talent than we do? Granted, we only lost by three points but where in the hell has our defense gone? And why is our offense lousy in the clutch? To be a great basketball program requires a consistency of play that we just do not have.
