but after the release of the bracket, i’m angry again about our stumbling finish…
i’m not going to beat a dead horse
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Even if we would have won another 2 games finishing 19-12 not knowing how we would have played in the conference tournament, I truly believe this team would have lost in the 1st round.
of conference or dance? i’d live with getting to the dance… at one point we were a projected 10 seed….
Losing in the first round, I believe, cost both Indiana and Ohio State from making the tournament. I think it would have coast us, too.
Monumental collapse. Very disappointed in several of our players this past month.
Indiana should have got in with finishing 10-10 in the conference.
I hope I straighten my attitude out a little and enjoy The Big Dance this year. Right now I'm just bummed & pi$$ed the Husker men's team is not there... again.
I meant the NCAA tournament. They should have been in instead of the whorns..
I recall seeing NU projected as high as a 7 seed after the win at NW. That assumed NU would win 2-3 more regular season games and not completely crater their season.
But yeah - I couldn’t bring myself to watch any basketball over the weekend. It just pissed me off. I’m going to have a hard time watching any of the NCAA Tournament.
Me too. I'm just angry we didn't make the conf tourney. That's pathetic. Fred should have resigned that night. Imagine still being willing to show your face in public and feed us this line of absolute horsecrap:
"We’re going to put a team on the court that’s going to fit the values of Huskers. I think this team was. It was a hard-working team; we just did not close out games the way we needed to. We’re going to do everything in our power to get this thing right and to get a consistent winner on the court.”
The "values" of the Nebraska basketball program is losing. A lot.
Meh. I normally don’t watch much of the tourney anyway. Just don’t get much enjoyment out of it. A friend of mine who played pro overseas for over a decade says he can’t watch it. Between the traveling and wrestling matches he can’t stand it.
Fred’s good at stringing together meaningless platitudes that sound great as long as nobody has to be accountable for anything. Maybe he picked it up from our fans.
March madness is one of the greatest sporting events. Your brother in law or what ever made up friend it is this time either has an ax to grind or is made up. I am pretty sure which one it is.
Yeah f u. It’s a buddy who coached big men at Stockton’s summer camps at Gonzaga. He’s from Hartington and played at Yankton College in the early 70s.
I’m an NU fan. I’ll probably watch some of UNO’s games and root for them but NU’s absence from the tournament over the years has been a curb on my enthusiasm for it. I LOVED to play the game. Just not all that fond of watching it. Football is a different story. I’ve filled out one bracket in my lifetime and was coerced in to doing that.
We would’ve had to get a perfect draw/match up to win a game in the NCAAs. Our lack of shooting, sporadic defense and our piss poor backcourt play would’ve been too much to overcome.
It’s complete bullshit. We’re gonna be even worse next year. Mark it down 😞
Impossible to know what most teams will look like next year. The transfer portal has changed everything.
Look at St John's, coaching aside, the biggest difference is their roster from last year to this year. Probably not the norm but I don't think they have but 4 players that were on the roster last year still on the team, and those that were are either sophomores Pitino recruited or guys he brought in from the transfer portal his first year. The only players that started their careers at St. John's are the freshmen and 1 or 2 sophs. He has already stated he won't be recruiting the high school kids anymore. They don't have a huge NIL budget, unless Pitino is funding it himself, they don't have football money to subsidize the basketball programs. He just finds players that fit his style of play that were unhappy with their situation at other schools.
I'll always be open-minded, so I'm hoping this season serves as an example that the Morgans and Worsters and Meahs are decent supporting pieces - but NOT good enough to get you to the B1G tourney. That's a low, low bar and we failed to get there. Some of the wins this team had masked the fact that at the end of the day we just weren't very good. NIL and transfer recruiting better step up big time. There's no Williams waiting in the wings to rescue Fred next year.
If it turns out the team actually is worse next year? No way Fred survives that. The one thing the Nebraska has that is often discussed nationally is our crowd/arena/atmosphere/ support. If we're sub .500 and the barn is empty its time to cut bait.
If it turns out the team actually is worse next year? No way Fred survives that. The one thing the Nebraska has that is often discussed nationally is our crowd/arena/atmosphere/ support. If we're sub .500 and the barn is empty its time to cut bait.
We had a better team last year and ended up getting boat raced by A&M in the tourney. I’m disappointed this years team imploded, but when I consider the roster of this team, I’m not shocked. It wasn’t good. We had no point guard and Morgan is not good enough of a big man to make a difference. Let’s face it. This was not a tourney caliber team. I’m disappointed in Fred. But the more I read and think about it, the more I wonder if he’s strapped on what he has to work with in terms of NIL. Is the admin supporting what he needs? Maybe it’s not all Fred’s fault.
