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SidehatchHusker

SidehatchHusker

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There's a first time for everything right?

Just wanted to give you a quick heads up on Nebraska basketball in case you were worried we'd come in and take over the conference.

We're a football school, so for decades, Nebraska basketball has been mostly ignored by our athletic department. To this day, we are one of only 3 BCS schools that have not won an NCAA tournament game (Northwestern and South Florida are the others). But at least we've made the tournament where NW hasn't. We're 0-5.

Our best runs were in the early 90's under Danny Nee. Nebraska had a rare spurt of home grown talent that put a respectable 4 year stretch together, but since then, it's been over a decade of middle to bottom finishes in the Big 8 and Big 12.

There is hope on the horizon. After falling to dead last in the Big XII in terms of facilities. Nebraska received a 10 million dollar donation that has spearheaded an 18 million dollar practice facility that is breaking ground this month. And to top that, in May the city of Lincoln voted and approved the construciton of a $350 million dollar new downtown arena for the basketball teams to play in. It won't be ready for use until 2013, but after 50+ years of being ignored, the program is getting a serious shot in the arm.

Doc Sadler (my avatar) is our coach and is 100% defense first. I understand this will transition nicely into the Big Ten. His players play with 110% effort, but generally lack in talent. He's tried the international recruiting route with little success, but now is switching gears to recruiting the Big Ten states.

Doc opened some eyes his first 3 years, but 2009 was a huge step backward. NU finished dead last in the conference at 2-14. Hadn't happened in over 20 years. If he has a similar season this year (which he won't) he'll likely be fired. I'm hoping he can hang on long enough to recruit to the new facilities and conference.

OK so that wasn't quick, but I wanted to at least put it out there once so you guys knew SOMETHING about our bball program....
 
SidehatchHusker;1718380; said:
Nebraska received a 10 million dollar donation that has spearheaded an 18 million dollar practice facility that is breaking ground this month. And to top that, in May the city of Lincoln voted and approved the construciton of a $350 million dollar new downtown arena for the basketball teams to play in. It won't be ready for use until 2013, but after 50+ years of being ignored, the program is getting a serious shot in the arm.
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That's outstanding news - thanks for the info!
 
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SidehatchHusker;1718380; said:
There's a first time for everything right?

Just wanted to give you a quick heads up on Nebraska basketball in case you were worried we'd come in and take over the conference.

We're a football school, so for decades, Nebraska basketball has been mostly ignored by our athletic department. To this day, we are one of only 3 BCS schools that have not won an NCAA tournament game (Northwestern and South Florida are the others). But at least we've made the tournament where NW hasn't. We're 0-5.

Our best runs were in the early 90's under Danny Nee. Nebraska had a rare spurt of home grown talent that put a respectable 4 year stretch together, but since then, it's been over a decade of middle to bottom finishes in the Big 8 and Big 12.
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Think most of us basketball junkies are a little familiar with Nebraska basketball especially when they were under Nee. He was the HC at Ohio University, which is a small school down the road from Columbus:) , and when there they did pretty well.

There is hope on the horizon. After falling to dead last in the Big XII in terms of facilities. Nebraska received a 10 million dollar donation that has spearheaded an 18 million dollar practice facility that is breaking ground this month. And to top that, in May the city of Lincoln voted and approved the construciton of a $350 million dollar new downtown arena for the basketball teams to play in. It won't be ready for use until 2013, but after 50+ years of being ignored, the program is getting a serious shot in the arm.
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It is good to see that you guys are building a basketball arena in downtown Lincoln but I would be interested to know if building an off-campus basketball arena will hurt you guys attendance wise. Ohio State's basketball arena (Schottenstein Center) is adjacent to the Ohio State campus and I think, to a certain degree, it affects our attendance. Plus, there might be a few other things to do in Columbus Ohio than Lincoln Nebraska:biggrin2:

Doc Sadler (my avatar) is our coach and is 100% defense first. I understand this will transition nicely into the Big Ten. His players play with 110% effort, but generally lack in talent. He's tried the international recruiting route with little success, but now is switching gears to recruiting the Big Ten states.

Doc opened some eyes his first 3 years, but 2009 was a huge step backward. NU finished dead last in the conference at 2-14. Hadn't happened in over 20 years. If he has a similar season this year (which he won't) he'll likely be fired. I'm hoping he can hang on long enough to recruit to the new facilities and conference.

OK so that wasn't quick, but I wanted to at least put it out there once so you guys knew SOMETHING about our bball program....
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I think the Big Ten gets a little bit of a bad rap when people refer to it as a defensive conference. Maybe you are correct when you look at Wisconsin and Iowa (for whatever they're worth) but the rest of the conference has some pretty good offensive talent and will run if necessary. In my opinion, Ohio State is fairly well-stocked in basketball talent for the next couple years and we will welcome a new school to our conference who we can put a good licking to:)
 
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He's tried the international recruiting route with little success -SidehatchHusker
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"Walter has a great recruiting network throughout the world," Arnold said. "His connections will allow us to take a global approach to our recruiting efforts."

Roese most recently served as an assistant at Nebraska the last two seasons. During his first season in Lincoln, he helped the Huskers to 18 wins and a second straight postseason berth in the National Invitation Tournament. The Huskers also earned an 8-8 record in conference play in 2008-09, their first .500 or better mark in a decade, while also leading the Big 12 Conference in scoring defense for the second straight season
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University of Hawai'i at Manoa Athletics Department - 2010-2011 Men's Basketball Coaching Staff

Great. So this means that the University of Hawaii has hired a former USC basketball assistant (no involvement with Mayo supposedly) as its head coach, and a former Nebraska assistant as the associate. Any opinion of Roese? Good luck to your Huskers this season, and welcome to BP.
 
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SidehatchHusker;1718380; said:
but now is switching gears to recruiting the Big Ten states.
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That's the right move long term, but is going to be a struggle for quite a while. There's a lot of competition, and not just from the Big Ten -- MVC, Horizon and even MAC pull very good talent from the same states. Within the conference, OSU, MSU, Illinois and Purdue generally get the pick of the litter, and recruit the entire region extremely well. Wisconsin has dibs on all the big white guys with buzzcuts, so you're out of luck there also.

You guys pretty much jumped from the frying pan straight into the fire in hoops. :wink: Good luck with PSU, though!
 
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So glad to see some hoops junkies around here. You can imagine how quiet it is on the Husker bball board's.

To answer a few questions:

Walter Roese was supposed to be the "ace" recruiter for the staff. His specialty was international players. He himself was a player in Brazil and spoke fluent Portuguese. Some of his recruits are promising underclassmen that are still on the team, and others fizzled out. He wasn't here long enough to make a solid opinion. Sadler actually lost two assistants this year and still has one openning to fill. I believe he waited until this conference change happened so he could make a strategic hire.

I agree with the poster that said it would be difficult to recruit the Big Ten states. There's a TON of relationships that have to be started. Doc has tried Minnesota and Illinios in the past, but has lost out to other Big Ten schools. However, in the long run, this should be easier recruiting grounds than Oklahoma and Texas.

Regarding the dowtown arena and the general Lincoln area: NU's campus is actually located downtown. The bar district, the football stadium, baseball complex, everything is bunched up together. It makes for awesome gamedays. The new arena will be closer than the old one for some students, but it's still prob a 1/2 mile walk.

Lincoln is no Columbus, but it's the second biggest city of the Big XII schools (Austin is 1st). Lincoln actually has 200,000+ people. There's plenty more to do than you think!
 
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Walter Roese can recruit but I think some of his success comes also from the fact he has an LDS background which probably helps more at Hawaii than Lincoln. He got some nice players at San Diego and got Jonathan Tavernari at BYU.

As far as Nebraska hoops I'm not sure the Doc is the guy for them. It doesn't seem like he's found a recruiting niche their and from the few games I've seen of them they really lack the horses to compete for post season play.
 
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SidehatchHusker;1718487; said:
So glad to see some hoops junkies around here. You can imagine how quiet it is on the Husker bball board's.

To answer a few questions:

Walter Roese was supposed to be the "ace" recruiter for the staff. His specialty was international players. He himself was a player in Brazil and spoke fluent Portuguese. Some of his recruits are promising underclassmen that are still on the team, and others fizzled out. He wasn't here long enough to make a solid opinion. Sadler actually lost two assistants this year and still has one openning to fill. I believe he waited until this conference change happened so he could make a strategic hire.

I agree with the poster that said it would be difficult to recruit the Big Ten states. There's a TON of relationships that have to be started. Doc has tried Minnesota and Illinios in the past, but has lost out to other Big Ten schools. However, in the long run, this should be easier recruiting grounds than Oklahoma and Texas.
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If you think it is quiet on the Husker B-Ball thread, the Buckeye Planet board can get pretty quiet at times and especially when football practice begins. Football, as I am sure you well know, still reigns king at Ohio State just like Nebraska.

If you think that Illinois is going to be easier to recruit then Oklahoma good luck with that:) Almost every big 10 school recruits Illinois pretty heavily and I am sure that you know Missouri goes in there quite a bit. You might be able to recruit Minnesota but I don't know what's up there to recruit. They don't turn out many top 100 recruits.

Not trying to slam your program but I just think it is going to take some time for you guys to catch up to the elite programs of the Big Ten and with Indiana coming back in the next couple years it will make it even more difficult.

You might want to check out our recruiting forum. It has some good info on recruits and who Ohio State is in on along with other schools. Now we will have to start mentioning the Huskers or at least keep an eye on them:wink2:
 
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Yep - Nebrasketball is about right.

It's going to take some time to build recruiting relationships, but I stand by my comments about Illinios being easier than OU/Texas when talking long term. As far as recuiting top 100 kids? That's so far of NU's radar, I wasn't even thinking about that. I just mean the mid level players out there might consider NU more than they did before while in the Big XII.
 
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SidehatchHusker;1718733; said:
Yep - Nebrasketball is about right.

It's going to take some time to build recruiting relationships, but I stand by my comments about Illinios being easier than OU/Texas when talking long term. As far as recuiting top 100 kids? That's so far of NU's radar, I wasn't even thinking about that. I just mean the mid level players out there might consider NU more than they did before while in the Big XII.
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I just hope that your program can get to the point, sooner rather than later, that they can handle TSUN, as known to some, or sCum , as known to others and just plain old shit as known to others:) I would also like for you to give Indiana a beat down every now and then.

Maybe the Big Ten network and you knew basketball center will help you guys in recruiting but I think it's going to take you quite a while.
 
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