At one point Lincoln used to have a cleaning company you could hire where the maids would clean your house topless.
Hoiberg to Huskers
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The great Zach Lowe:
The bottom line is this: If you know after those three-plus seasons that Hoiberg is either a good or a bad NBA coach, I am both impressed and a little worried about the confidence you have in your convictions. I freely admit I have little idea. The Bulls have had zero on-court identity over that entire span, and a lot of that confusion -- likely most of it -- lays at the feet of Gar Forman and John Paxson above him.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25442532/the-bulls-fred-hoiberg-ton-work-left
Reinsdorf is clearly more concerned with making money than winning games.
I must be getting old. I first read that as they'd clean my house spotless and I got kind of excited. :-/
Says the pot to the kettle....Yeah, UCLA is the model of ncaa compliance.
Yeah, UCLA is the model of ncaa compliance.
You might just want to sit that conversation out, Champ.
I''m full on with OUR COACH Prohm, full on! That said I care about what Hoiberg says and did and will do because he's a legend and I feel like he would be doing us dirty. I care dammit, I care..
I live around a few Husker football fans here in Omaha and the vast majority seem to be passionate and hopeful that their team can return to being a nationally competitive team. Same as how the vast majority of ISU basketball fans I know were before Hoiberg was hired and it happened. They fill Memorial Stadium every game even when they are struggling, same as ISU does for their teams. Not one Husker fan I know thinks they are ever going to rip off 3 national titles in 4 seasons again. Both fan bases have a delusional 2% at the extreme end of the spectrum. Don't base opinion of any fan base off your interaction with folks from the delusion 2%.
Ames is a total fishbowl for the Hoibergs. I have no idea if they liked it but if I was as popular, in my hometown, as Freddy was, it would drive me crazy. I'm fairly introverted and I couldn't handle having to talk to people ALL OF THE TIME. Lincoln would at least be a little better in that regard.
I have lived in Nebraska most my life including the last 12 years and most of the fan base is one 8 win season away from thinking they will win the Big 10 and challenge for the title. I guess you missed the ‘Frost Warning’ shirts this last preseason. I heard 9 win a from multiple people at work alone up to the Colorado game. The delusion is just lying dormant.
I don't have hate for him, but I also don't have this strong liking for him now either. I know he helped to turn around the program, but we also helped him tremendously. We were the only P5 team that would give him a shot at that point. We took a HUGE risk hiring him. If you want to know what it could have looked like, look at wrestling with KJ. You have a guy who never had coached before, never recruited before, was never the "CEO" of a major team before; we rolled the dice hard with him.
To emphasize that no one else was going to hire him, he was pining for the job when Mac was hired and Pollard said he wasn't ready and he was still available when Mac left.
Then he went and stopped recruiting although he left a great team here, but so front loaded that it would be a mess to fix until after a year or two. We helped each other at the beginning, but he also bent us over when he left. That is why I'm more meh about him.
Have to agree with this. Didn't his kids go to Gilbert HS? In Lincoln he would just be "coach" Hoiberg. And if he can set his dislike for recruiting aside.......he just might do it.
A lot of booster cash was spent getting, and keeping, the All-Americans on campus during the Wooden dynasty.
For the most part, everything north of Bloomington Rd is in the Gilbert district. This includes his (former) house.
As long as he is not in the Big12 or Iowa City. Prefer he stayed in the NBA
If I was an honest coach and didn't like recruiting, UCLA seems like the easiest place to recruit to in the country without cheating. Best weather in the US, beautiful campus, beautiful glamorous neighborhood, historic program, highly ranked academics, solid local recruiting base, and what we're all thinking...the most beautiful women in the country.
Nebraska seems like one of the hardest places and programs to recruit basketball players.
Assuming Fred didn't cheat at ISU, he could have UCLA as top five talent almost instantly without bending any rules and probably a lot less recruiting effort to be honest.
Somehow everyone took these facts and read "UCLA has never cheated".
Can you imagine Fred and his family, the godchild of Ames, living in his hometown,qb and bball stud, trying to live a normal life? Even average fans living in town seeing Fred and thinking "hey he's a great guy, I'll just say a quick hello" he won't mind. Fred and his family sitting there, stopping mid chew on a Hoiberger, having to put down his Coke, gulp down the bite and politely react with the calm demeanor that is Fred. Meanwhile his wife Carol is shooting daggers at the incessant and constant, well meaning fanbase disrupting there daily lives. After dinner they retreat back to the Gilbert compound never to be seen in public again. .......then in Chicago......Fred is sitting at a normal popular gathering spot right inside the door with his family and having a great meal. People walking in recognize him and know he's the bull's coach.....meh...who gives a ****....he'll be here today and maybe gone tomorrow....that's life..... Carol smiles, Fred smiles........at the same time they both utter "this is the life!"
