IF all people are worried about is getting to 9 wins, we need to do what Tom did for Pelini by scheduling a weaker non-conference schedule. The idea that we need to schedule a tough non-conference schedule for the playoff committee is ludicrous. Put a bunch of patsies on the schedule and get 4 wins in the non-con. That's our only shot with the way the B1G treats us in scheduling.Evidently, you do it by winning 4 games. Then 5 games. Then 2 games. Go Frost Go!
In the current climate of college basketball I would almost want a guy who is more NBA. I think 95 percent of the players Who start feel they are playing in college only to get to the NBA. I would assume Hoiberg can use that to his advantage in recruiting. I feel he coaches more NBA style as well which hopefully works out long term. He isn’t really controlling each play we like it used to be 10 years ago. More exciting to watch if players do it right but what we are watching isn’t it right now.
We tried it the other way with Miles and that clearly didn't work. We don't have the cred it takes to be able to get guys in and coach them like coach K does so IMO I think you're right. NBA linked coach and let em play. It almost looked to me like Fred was getting some blowback from the players wanting to freestyle so he let them hang themselves at OSU. Pavelka and Jake were talking about the balance between letting them play freely and making them follow the system. I will guess they will play a more disciplined style their next few games. That OSU game deteriorated very early in to playground ball. This would be the point where Miles would bench some starters and run the walkons out there early.
Colorado and UCLA aren't as cupcakey as they need to be. Colorado has been well coached and they've had some dudes. Likewise UCLA always has some talent. I'm talking about scheduling KU type teams. You know, teams like Pacific that drop football a year or two after they play NU.
I about fell over when I heard during their bowl game the other day that CU hadn't won a bowl game since 2004 when Joel Klatt was their QB.
I think you are right in he let them do it themselves to show it fails. but after 40 games now it’s become old. People saying if we shoot better we win is so dumb. Well of course; but we don’t so let’s find another way to win since you won’t shoot well every night. When Creighton can call two plays for an action and switch the play based off how the defense reacts to that action and we just stand around Watching 1 guy the percentages won’t work in our favor over the course of the game. The nice thing about basketball is you can always adjust throughout a season and get better.
Creighton's talent level for right now is so much higher than NU that it isn't funny. Comparing what they can do to what Fred can do with this group doesn't make much sense to me yet. JMO. As I've stated on here several times, I wasn't as wired about the potential of these guys as some were. Yes we're longer but we're not really bigger. That lack of a legitimate presence in the paint is killing us on both ends. It's one thing to say you're going to play an up tempo game, shoot 3s and slash to the basket with a smaller lineup. It's an entirely different thing to do it in the B1G. The Golden Sate Warriors could do it but they had 3 or 4 guys who could drain 3s from outside of 35 feet. As I posted in an earlier thread, people bitched about Timmy's offense. His offense looked like Wooden had designed it compared to what we've seen these last 2 games. I'm not sure how coachable our leading scorer is right now.
Nope it doesn't matter even a little bit. There would be speculation about his termination regardless. Although it may take time sometimes, the fans generally know when a coach is underperforming.
Anybody can have a good quarter or half of football. The fact that since Frost has been here, the team has played few, if any, complete games is an indictment of this coaching staff.
Dingle is the king of making shit up, and he knows more than he let's on. Not only does he habitually back losers, he finds anyway possible to cover for them when he knows better.
I'm not putting much weight on that first class. It was a last ditch effort to fill roster holes and clearly Frost's reluctance to take the job before his bowl game destroyed that class. Yes Adrian was in that class but man other than that.... Year 5 IMO will tell us a lot. Originally I thought next year was the year to expect major improvement but I vastly overestimated that first class's impact.
DUDE!. I realize that Tom tried to schedule ONE good team as a test early in the season. One out of four or five. While they were normally a reasonably good program, they were also normally a program that he thought we would be able to beat. Unfortunately with the new conference scheduling, we only get 3 non-conference games next year and only OU and Buffalo in the preseason. IF you look at those games that Bo's teams played, NONE of those teams were having great success when they were put on the schedule. Also to our detriment, Buffalo has gotten things rolling. They are not an automatic W anymore.
None of those teams were doing jack sh## when they were put on the schedule. Our expectations at the time were that we would have a pretty good shot of whacking a team who had 3-4 losses the year before. Frost gets Oklahoma next fall. THAT was a stupid idea. Fun for nostalgia's sake....but stupid. Win the game and you're off to the races but I'll give us about a 5% chance or less of that happening.
I think OU was added pretty recently. Did Eichorst add it? In any case, OU has been really good ever since Stoops got there. It was a dumb idea when you're trying to rebuild a program. JMO.
I'm glad we're playing OU and like that we schedule marquee games outside of our lame conference full of lame and unexciting opponents.
I think it was scheduled to commentate the 50th anniversary of the game of the century. Probably not a bad idea at the time.
You better show us your source for that one. Coming from you I only will believe it when I see a legit media source.
so better not play? or try to play a team we should beat on paper?
Why Rutgers? The Rutgers game was as good as we played, offensively and defensively. The Minnesota game on the other hand, we laid a giant egg.
