This will be Doc's last season. There is no way he will survive the brutal Big 10 basketball schedule with a winning season. Doc is a good guy and a good x and o coach, but just not good enough at recruiting to coach at this level.
Any coach worth a damn could turn NU into a basketball power....how come Xavier, VCU, Butler, Gonzaga and others can do it and have nothing on us what so ever. when first year D1 team has more talent than a 6th year program you have REAL problems. TO is not a basketball man imo.I hope Doc stays a lot longer. Nebraska is a dead zone for basketball. There isn't a kid out there with a future in college basketball that started out dreaming of playing for us. It's Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, etc. Any coach that's worth hiring is going to need a lot more time to make a winner here. Thank God TO is the decision maker.
Yes, they DO have something on us. Not one of them is a football school in the middle of nowhere. Every one of those schools has had more basketball tradition than Nebraska. You can bitc* and moan all you want about Doc but he's the best we've had here and don't kid yourself, NO big name coaches are banging on the door to try their hand. The word on Nebraska basketball is that it's a place that will take a monumental effort to erect and it doesn't help when so-called fans are constantly clamoring for a change.Any coach worth a damn could turn NU into a basketball power....how come Xavier, VCU, Butler, Gonzaga and others can do it and have nothing on us what so ever. when first year D1 team has more talent than a 6th year program you have REAL problems. TO is not a basketball man imo.
TO is not a basketball man imo.
Yes, they DO have something on us. Not one of them is a football school in the middle of nowhere. Every one of those schools has had more basketball tradition than Nebraska. You can bitc* and moan all you want about Doc but he's the best we've had here and don't kid yourself, NO big name coaches are banging on the door to try their hand. The word on Nebraska basketball is that it's a place that will take a monumental effort to erect and it doesn't help when so-called fans are constantly clamoring for a change.
Yes, they DO have something on us. Not one of them is a football school in the middle of nowhere. Every one of those schools has had more basketball tradition than Nebraska. You can bitc* and moan all you want about Doc but he's the best we've had here and don't kid yourself, NO big name coaches are banging on the door to try their hand. The word on Nebraska basketball is that it's a place that will take a monumental effort to erect and it doesn't help when so-called fans are constantly clamoring for a change.
Yes, they DO have something on us. Not one of them is a football school in the middle of nowhere. Every one of those schools has had more basketball tradition than Nebraska. You can bitc* and moan all you want about Doc but he's the best we've had here and don't kid yourself, NO big name coaches are banging on the door to try their hand. The word on Nebraska basketball is that it's a place that will take a monumental effort to erect and it doesn't help when so-called fans are constantly clamoring for a change.
Amen fRED. Doc deserves patience even if it takes twice as long. I firmly believe there are only a handfull of coaches that could come in here and win within the first couple years and they coach top of the line basketball schools. On top of that, they'd get players just because of their names.Unless everything totally collapses, Doc deserves to be able to take advantage of the practice facility as a recruiting tool. The new arena as well.
The best we've had here? Really?
Do we need to list other football schools that have had significantly greater success than Nebraska in hoops? I can see multiple such schools in the Big Ten currently.
Your entire post is making excuses for mediocrity... basically stating "this is as good as it's going to get." And that's what makes a great fan?
We don't have a natural recruiting base as many other schools do, so we need a little something extra.
Kind of like the advantage Creighton has 60 miles away.