Nub hoops off to a great start!!!!!!!
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I'm just going to go out and say it......Fred walked into a bigger dumpster fire at Nebraska than he did at Iowa State. At least McDermott was trying to actually bring in some recruits and get something done here. First and last time you'll ever hear me give credit to McDermott.
Love Fred and wish him personal success....just not sure he's going to find it at NU.
If Hoiberg is going to lose to any team with a pulse, I hope he coaches at Nebraska for decades.
McDermott left Fred DG, Vanderbeken, Scotty C and freshman Ejim. Good group of players, but not exactly formidable. Even then Fred didn’t have any ‘bad’ losses his first year like he’s having now.
Awesome. Love seeing those Fred losses.
Funny how the “Prohm sucks, Fred was going to win natties” crowd hasn’t been making very many complaints about things lately.
Sort of. It’s just that these losses so far at Nebraska are really head scratching. We didn’t see anything like this his first year, even if it was a slightly better situation
Maybe someone should tell Fred it does you no good to tank in college Basketball. That's an NBA thing.
I think we need to relax on declaring Fred tenure at Nebby a failure after 5 games. He's reshapping the roster and installing his system along with an number of transfers sitting out this year. I am sure a lot of other fanbases thought his time at ISU wouldn't work after year 1 in Ames too.
While I agree with this, and I'm sure Fred's first year here and his first year at Nebraska are quite different situations, Fred actually put a competing team on the floor in the non-con his first year at Iowa State. Hell, he was 6-0 to start off the year, we were 13-2 going into the Big 12 slate, and we had wins over Virginia, Iowa, and Creighton. The two losses were @ UNI by 6 and at home against Cal by 3.
I'm sure there are different circumstances in Lincoln, but I for one am very astounded by his team's inability to even keep games close. They are getting run out of the gym by teams that a P-5 school should not be getting run out of the gym by.
You forgot to add the more important distinctions, too --
He's never going to have a home court like Hilton.
The cache of transfers he has right now are a very far cry from Royce White, Will Clyburn, DeAndre Kane, and those other Transfer U legends.
College basketball has seemed to learn and absorb the lessons of the pace-and-space offense. Many teams run it, or at least understand that outside shooting gives slashers and big men room to work inside, and teams have far more experience trying to defend it than they did 5-10 years ago. Everybody recruits transfers now, too.
I know this year is a throwaway for Nebraska.
Fred's first year in Ames, however, he...
-- was very competitive, even salty, against a decent non-con schedule
-- got the most out of a roster lacking very much for talent
-- fixed the broken culture from the previous regime in the locker room
-- made it abundantly clear we were headed in the right direction, even though they did not win many Big 12 games, and that it was going to be fun
None of those things are true in Lincoln so far this year.
Still would love to have Fred's team beat down the Hawks.
Those guys are way better than anyone he has at Nebraska. I think the Freshman they have from France could turn out to be be pretty good but that's about it.
