Mike Daum

[Harry Caray]

Just watched him put up 37 points and 12 rebounds against the Buffs. How can we convince him to come here next year as a grad transfer?

Daum + Glynn + Copeland + Palmer + Roby would be a Top 25 team. With the right coach, anyway.

Heck, I would hire the SDSU coach (Otzelberger) if Miles can't get it done this year. He can recruit, and has coached under Hoiberg and McDermott (2 of the best offensive coaches in the game). He could do some damage with that lineup.

 

[newAD]

Just watched him put up 37 points and 12 rebounds against the Buffs. How can we convince him to come here next year as a grad transfer?

Daum + Glynn + Copeland + Palmer + Roby would be a Top 25 team. With the right coach, anyway.

Heck, I would hire the SDSU coach (Otzelberger) if Miles can't get it done this year. He can recruit, and has coached under Hoiberg and McDermott (2 of the best offensive coaches in the game). He could do some damage with that lineup.

Dang was on PAC 12 network. I would have watched had I known. Oh well it’s being replayed later.

I’m going to try to go when they play in Omaha on 1-6, but unlike last year it won’t be a game this year.

 

[nu2u]

A lot of people in Brookings talking about Daum declaring / going pro after this season.

TJ Otzelberger was the recruiting guru for Fred Hoiberg at Iowa State and he pulled in quite a few highly ranked players to Ames. Now doing the same at SDSU (high caliber mid-majors). I'm not convinced he is a top notch game day coach but he will always have a roster full of excellent talent.

 

[newAD]

I’m afraid if he wants to grad transfer somewhere he might have better opportunities than Nebraska. I was talking to one of my daughter’s basketball coaches who played at SDSU a few years ago about potential grad transfer destinations for him. I don’t know if they’d be interested, but I brought up Gonzaga to him as I thought he’d fit well in their system, which he agreed.

I’d imagine he will test the waters and see how he grades out, and depending on how that goes he could still grad transfer.

 

[Harry Caray]

I’m afraid if he wants to grad transfer somewhere he might have better opportunities than Nebraska. I was talking to one of my daughter’s basketball coaches who played at SDSU a few years ago about potential grad transfer destinations for him. I don’t know if they’d be interested, but I brought up Gonzaga to him as I thought he’d fit well in their system, which he agreed.

I’d imagine he will test the waters and see how he grades out, and depending on how that goes he could still grad transfer.

Oh I agree, I think about any team would gladly take him as a grad transfer. I just think it would be cool if he could come back and try to get his home-state team their first NCAA tournament win ever. Doubtful it happens, but it would be a cool story.

 

[Chief Wiggum]

Oh I agree, I think about any team would gladly take him as a grad transfer. I just think it would be cool if he could come back and try to get his home-state team their first NCAA tournament win ever. Doubtful it happens, but it would be a cool story.

Unfortunately more than a few Western Nebraska kids don't feel quite the same connection with dear ol Nebraska U that the kids near Lincoln and Omaha do. Not saying Daum is that way at all, in fact, I'd be surprised given his father played football at UNL. But a lot of kids out that way feel a pretty strong connection with Wyoming and Colorado...Denver is only about 200 miles away from my hometown of Scottsbluff, never really considered living in Lincoln or Omaha once I graduated. It always feels like that end of the state is ignored by the rest of Nebraska, I can remember in the 80s when there was some real talk about the Panhandle seceeding and joining Wyoming.

 

[schuele]

Went to the game. Daum was outstanding, though Colorado caught a break when a couple of their guys got in foul trouble. That forced Tad Boyle to put Tyler Bey - a very athletic freshman who Boyle doesn't play enough - on Daum, and Bey did a great job on him in the two overtimes. I think he had two points in each OT.

Jackrabbits were also missing big man Ian Theisen, who was on the bench in a walking boot. If he had played, I doubt that CU escapes with a win.

 

[TwinsRRUs]

I can remember in the 80s when there was some real talk about the Panhandle seceeding and joining Wyoming.

You wouldn't want that!

Then SB would all of sudden be windy constantly, the people would dress in Wranglers and cowboy hats, everyone would lose their phones, running water, and electricity, forget what supper is, start substituting the word "pack" in place of "carry", a pistol will appear in the drivers door panel of every vehicle, and all of the signs that say the distance between towns will change from 'miles' to 'hours'!

 

[chipotlehusker]

Unfortunately more than a few Western Nebraska kids don't feel quite the same connection with dear ol Nebraska U that the kids near Lincoln and Omaha do. Not saying Daum is that way at all, in fact, I'd be surprised given his father played football at UNL. But a lot of kids out that way feel a pretty strong connection with Wyoming and Colorado...Denver is only about 200 miles away from my hometown of Scottsbluff, never really considered living in Lincoln or Omaha once I graduated. It always feels like that end of the state is ignored by the rest of Nebraska, I can remember in the 80s when there was some real talk about the Panhandle seceeding and joining Wyoming.

Omaha/Lincoln, at best, have always considered "western Nebraska" as not worthy or even to be considered. Snobbery everywhere, sorta like the rest of the country thinks of "Nebraska"! Have you seen Lincoln or Omaha even thought of as a civilized area....Look at all of the major leisure magazines: they skip over Nebraska from Missouri to Nevada. Nebraska only has steak houses.....So the eastern part of the state needs to recognize that western Nebraska exists....and yes, has football players.....

 

[yort2000]

all of the signs that say the distance between towns will change from 'miles' to 'hours'!

Be careful on what you joke about. I grew up "50 minutes to the west of Lincoln" and referred to all locations in reference to time and not distance.

 

[dinglefritz]

Oh I agree, I think about any team would gladly take him as a grad transfer. I just think it would be cool if he could come back and try to get his home-state team their first NCAA tournament win ever. Doubtful it happens, but it would be a cool story.

Most people don't understand that kids who play at SDSU love being there and wouldn't go anywhere else. I visited several weeks ago with somebody who knows the Daum family and who was at one of their practices this fall. He said Daum would either go to the NBA or stay in Brookings. He loves it there. The Daum family's roots are actually in western South Dakota too. He's not going to grad transfer to NU.

 

[newAD]

Oh I agree, I think about any team would gladly take him as a grad transfer. I just think it would be cool if he could come back and try to get his home-state team their first NCAA tournament win ever. Doubtful it happens, but it would be a cool story.

I talked to some of his family after he dropped 33 on UNO last year when they won 88-83. There were plenty of schools that somehow got word to the family (not sure how? maybe the high school coach?) that they’d be interested in having him if he wanted to transfer after how he played in the dance his freshman year. This included Nebraska. I got the impression that it was too late.

 

[Baxter48]

Unfortunately more than a few Western Nebraska kids don't feel quite the same connection with dear ol Nebraska U that the kids near Lincoln and Omaha do. Not saying Daum is that way at all, in fact, I'd be surprised given his father played football at UNL. But a lot of kids out that way feel a pretty strong connection with Wyoming and Colorado...Denver is only about 200 miles away from my hometown of Scottsbluff, never really considered living in Lincoln or Omaha once I graduated. It always feels like that end of the state is ignored by the rest of Nebraska, I can remember in the 80s when there was some real talk about the Panhandle seceeding and joining Wyoming.

I think there were some pretty hard feelings that frank didn't recruit Danny woodhead lots of ground to make up from Kearney on west

 

[Harry Caray]

I think there were some pretty hard feelings that frank didn't recruit Danny woodhead lots of ground to make up from Kearney on west

On the football side, I hope Miko Maessner from Kearney is on Frost's radar for 2020. He is FAST.

Being from Wood River, I don't think Frost will neglect the areas west of Lincoln.

 

[schuele]

As long as we're grabbing players from South Dakota State, can we get David Jenkins too? I can understand how Daum ended up in Brookings, because he was a major project coming out of high school. But Jenkins could start right now for any team in the Big Ten, in my opinion, except maybe Michigan State. SDSU landing him was a recruiting coup.

 

[TwinsRRUs]

Be careful on what you joke about. I grew up "50 minutes to the west of Lincoln" and referred to all locations in reference to time and not distance.

True.

In SW Nebraska, we have a town about every 10 miles, so when someone asks how far, we say 10, 20, 30, or 40 miles...

But when someone asks how far it is to North Platte, Kearney, Grand Island, or Lincoln, it is always by how many hours.