I agree with some of the stuff you wrote but not with a lot of other things.
I agree that Miles wined too much about not making the tournament and that he needed to let that go and start focusing on the game at hand. Which maybe he did in private and we just didn't see it.
I don't agree that it is all on the coach to motivate his players to play well. I am pretty sure we have discussed this before. Coaches motivation only goes so far. I coached a lot over a 20 year period and it is hard to get players going sometimes. As a player I don't ever remember a coach motivating me to play better.
Preparation and motivation are 2 different things when it comes to sports. Preparation involves lots of concrete things done in practice and film study. Motivation is much more of a subjective thing IMO.
I watched 2 fairly evenly match teams last night.
The biggest thing that probably played into the loss for NU was playing on the road. I believe I read somewhere that MSU was something like 18-2 at home this year. If the game is at home the outcome is probably reversed with about the same score.
NU didn't shoot the ball very well, they missed too many shots, shots that they normally don't miss. Missed a lot of bunnys.
The officiating was very uneven. I don't mean one sided I mean they called some real ticky tack stuff and then called nothing when a guy would get hammered. The announcers even said that a few times. I think NU was expecting a few more fouls to be called on some of those missed layups.
I know you really dislike Miles as a coach and think they can do so much better. Well he is going to be around for at least one more year. The problem is if you fire him next year or whenever who you going to get? Is it the coach or is it Nebraska basketball in general? Nebraska has 100+ years of playing basketball and have never seen any sort of sustained success.
Four times since Mo Iba was fired they have hired mid major coaches that have had decent success at their previous schools and only one of them, Nee, really had any success and he eventually wore out his welcome. Why is that? Is it bad luck? Were all of these guys not good coaches and Devaney, Byrne, and TO don't know how to pick BBall coaches.
NU has some of the best facilities in the country for bball. Back in the day when the Devaney Center opened it was considered a palace. It didn't make a difference. Allen Field house is a barn doesn't make a difference at Kansas.
Is it because NU has basically no local talent and has always competed in pretty tough power bball conferences. NU has by far the least amount of local talent of any team in the B1G. I think that is a big problem, others don't. I know NU has some decent talent right now, but that talent is gone next year.
Unlike a lot of you guys I think NU is a lot tougher place to win at BBall consistently than some do. I think it is a much more complicated problem than just getting "The Coach", because the really good established coaches aren't coming to Nebraska. Hey Tubby Smith just got fired for the 4th time or so. We could go with him.