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Hoiberg finalizes deal and is Nebraska’s new head basketball coach









Florida Husker said:
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This is huge. Love seeing us spend the money on good coaches and assistants. If we're going to play with the big boys the days of TO and loyal assistants staying for less cash are over (and TO refusing to spend big money to hire a coach and staff as AD).

It might not be "right", fair, or whatever, but if we want to compete it's going to take the type of money we're spending right now plus more.

As Sip points out this morning, facility upgrades are coming next. Expect that to be announced during the football season.
 




LJS article link...
First, forget Hoiberg's now-infamous line from a couple years ago about "(expletive) hating recruiting.

“There were a lot of things I didn’t like about recruiting and a lot of things that sometimes are out of your control when you’re recruiting,” Hoiberg told the Ames Tribune in February. “The things I did enjoy about recruiting were building relationships with the kid and building a relationship with the family. I liked that a lot. I felt like I was pretty good at it. We had some really high-level players here (at ISU) as transfers and also as four-year guys."

Iowa State did take in 14 transfers during Hoiberg's five years in Ames. It became a calling card of sorts for the Cyclones, who infused players such as Royce White, Chris Babb, Korie Lucious, Abdel Nader and others into existing ISU rosters and turned the conglomeration into a cohesive unit.

But while Hoiberg became known for using transfers to build out his Iowa State rosters, he and his staff's work in getting prep players to Ames resulted in some of the most decorated players in Cyclones history.

Start with forward Georges Niang, who played four years for the Cyclones and scored 2,228 career points, the second-most ever at Iowa State. Niang is in his third season with the Utah Jazz. His 6-foot-8, 230-pound frame is nearly identical to current Nebraska forward Isaiah Roby.

Another four-year forward, Melvin Ejim, scored more than 1,600 points in four seasons under Hoiberg, and is second on Iowa State's all-time rebounding list.

And guard Monte Morris is considered one of the best players in ISU history: more than 1,700 career points and a 4.65 career assist-to-turnover ratio that is the best in NCAA history. Morris has four of the top seven single-season assist-to-turnover ratios that have been recorded by the NCAA (since 2008).
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Florida Husker said:
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From the above I caught this:

You've probably heard that Tom Osborne recruited Fred Hoiberg to play football for the #Huskers. But did you know Hoiberg's grandfather (Jerry Bush) recruited Osborne to play basketball at Nebraska?
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And...

Tom Osborne was recruited by the Nebraska football and basketball teams. But he wanted to play both sports, and he wouldn't get to do that with the Huskers.
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Talk about a small world. :)
 
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