If the season ended today and I think he will. I don't think there is a doubt after the performances in the last 3 games that this team will win some games this year in a down year for the Big 10. IMO if he finishes with a winning record and secures an NCAA/NIT bid Moos will give him year 7. This is the most athletic team I've seen at NU in quite some time. While last night hurt and not a fan of moral victories, but that was a team that could go toe to toe with Bill Self and co even if it is a down year for KU hoops.
Tim Miles should get another year
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Slow down. KU may be vastly overrated. Let’s see how the team does in the B1G.
People down here in Tempe think they have the best team ever because they hammered KU at Kansas no less. My advice to them is the same. See how they do in the PAC before getting too excited.
People down here in Tempe think they have the best team ever because they hammered KU at Kansas no less. My advice to them is the same. See how they do in the PAC before getting too excited.
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I agree if he makes the post season NIT or NCAA he will get another year and should.
I’m glad that Moos will let the season play out to avoid making a rash decision. No doubt we are much improved compared to what we looked like three weeks ago. But, we are 2-5 against teams with a pulse. We need to find a way to win ten big ten games. While the Big Ten is down...I think that still may be tough but if we continue to play defense like we have been and protect home court we can get it done.
Miles's fate will be determined by how the team does in conference play. I think the Big Ten is "middle-heavy" this year - only a couple of outstanding teams (MSU and Purdue), but the teams that are usually bad seem to be improved. So it won't be easy, but NU has a good opportunity to move into the middle or upper-middle of the pack of the Big Ten and qualify for the postseason. If they do that, Miles will probably get more time.
What I don't want to see is a 10th or 12th place finish in Big Ten play and people start arguing for Miles to get more time because he exceeded expectations. That nonsense has gone on long enough. In your sixth year, you shouldn't be rewarded for your team being projected to finish 13th in a 14-team league.
What I don't want to see is a 10th or 12th place finish in Big Ten play and people start arguing for Miles to get more time because he exceeded expectations. That nonsense has gone on long enough. In your sixth year, you shouldn't be rewarded for your team being projected to finish 13th in a 14-team league.
Big Ten might be the worst I have ever seen it. If NU can't get 9 or 10 wins this season...well...
Indiana is going to be nasty next year
OSU is going to be nasty next year
This is the year.
Indiana is going to be nasty next year
OSU is going to be nasty next year
This is the year.
Good looking team. Imagine what they could do next near with a real coach.
Wrong time for this.
He may not be the best guy but after a gut-wrenching game against top shelf talent where they came seconds from an upset is not the time
It is just like Riley. The same people who wanted Riley to have another year now want Miles to have another year. It's just Sad. Miles has never done anything at Nebraska to justify he continues as the men's basketball coach.
Wrong.
Again, I’m not saying Miles is THE guy to get it done. But he did get an NCAA appearance and has assembled the most talented team since Danny Nee. Also from a program that has never accomplished anything of note.
Let’s see if this bunch of players can get into a better rhythm through conference play and see how the year ends.
If Nebraska beats KU last night, they are 8-4, with 2-2 in a daunting 4 game stretch in which they were dogs in all 4 by 10 points +.
7-5 sure seems a lot different, but frankly a KU kid nailed his 3 and Nebraska didn’t.
I swear some fans would be less emotional if the team lost by 15. Instead because it’s close, everyone is out for blood.
Not nessasary true,some of us would like the season to play out I believe this team maybe his best and if this team turns south like all but one of his team's no question it's time for smiling Tim will need to go.
I get tired if all this fire coaches BS. With the hiring of Moos I think Miles gets a few more years. I think this year's team will continue to get better and have a decent year. Having said that, the effort coming from our starting center is pathetic! Someone needs to light a fire under his ***.
Jordy should not be playing, unless Duby and Roby are both in foul trouble. He is giving us nothing this year.
Miles will get another year, mostly because no other coaches out there want to touch this job with a 10-foot pole. It is seen as a coaching graveyard in coaching circles.
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Everyone knows you can simply pin everything on the coach. Fire Miles. Hire Lue. Miles does not understand what it takes here, only Lue can.
He"s not a good in game coach. Another year isn"t fixing it. Tourney or bust, he's had time.
Not out for blood. I want the same thing I wanted before the KU game: for the AD to set reasonable expectations for how this team finishes, and then stick to those expectations. I don’t want Miles canned no matter what, nor do I want the same old rationalizations if this season turns ugly the way the past few have.
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Nebraska basketball = Kansas football every once in a while there pretty decent but most the time suck, and I don't think it makes a difference who's the coach. We're never going to get a coach K or bill self or Roy Williams it just not going to happen
Nobody is asking for a legend for a basketball Head Coach... With the facilities we have for basketball we should be a lot more competitive in this conference and should be in the middle of the pack instead of playing the first day of the conference tournment..
Plenty of Coaches out there could turn this program around and not have losing seasons like the last 3 years we have had.
That's BS. Brand new facilities, g
That's BS. Brand new facilities, good fan support, and low expectations should make it an attractive job for a lot of coaching candidates.
The only reason it would be seen as a coaching graveyard is the coaches we've hired weren't good enough to win here. The reason they failed is they were poor coaches, not that Nebraska made them fail.
I remember when the BDSC was being built in the mid 1970s by building it we were supposed to get all these great players it never happened, there just something about Nebraska basketball, except for a few good years under Danny Née we've been pretty much irrelevant. I understand there are good young coaches out there, lot of people thought Doc Sadler would be the guy it didn't happen, Tim went to the dance once. Didn't Nebraska offer bill self the job? They had several opportunities to hire Dana and for some reason didn't. Nebraska just isn't a basketball school. And yes I'd love to see them be successful
Miles was one of the hottest up-and-coming coaches when we hired him. He had turned around every program he'd coached. Sadler is one of the most well-liked guys in coaching circles. Barry Collier built the Butler program. That's 3 guys who had promising coaching careers ruined by taking this job.
Facilities can only get you so far. Every major-conference program these days has facilities. We have zero tradition and zero in-state recruiting base. We are the KU Football of College Basketball.
Miles turned around those other programs because he had a great assistant helping him, Craig Smith. Sadler is a decent coach but couldn't recruit. The Butler program has been doing better since Collier left. Their coaching careers were ruined because they weren't good coaches.
Same things were said about Nebraska baseball. Unfortunately, Dave Van Horn used us as a stepping stone, but still, for 5 years we were a force in a big-time college baseball conference. I don't buy for 2 seconds it can't be done in basketball. Nor am I calling for Miles' head at this time.
WRONG!!!
One appearance in the NCAA? Big Wow? Did the Huskers win a game? No. Best team since Danny Nee? Double Big Wow? How many NCAA Tournament games did Nee's teams win? ZERO. I am not basing it on one game but on the overall performance and accomplishments of the team under Miles. Keep banging your head against the wall.
Let the season play out, of course - but there is no reason to expect Nebraska to be anything other than some degree of mediocre. Miles is not a difference maker, that is clear at this point.
Totally agree. We are not gonna woo another successful major conference basketball coach away. This is not Husker football where there is tradition. For all of you saying Lue is the answer, there is no guarantee he won't be coaching the Cavs next year and even if he did leave, would he be a good college coach? Think of the transition from the administration that Miles has survived. Hired by Osborne, Eichorst, and now Moos. Having stability at the top will help Miles IMO. Would we hire an up coming mid major coach? That's what Miles was in 2011.
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That is exactly why Nebraska is irrelevant in basketball. No one asks for a great coach. College basketball is all about having a great coach. Until Nebraska gets a great coach the team will have little to no success
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This is nonsensical. The biggest misnomer that Husker fans can throw out is "stability at the top" excuse. The product is Miles, there is no imaginary dark side of the force not letting him succeed, unless you also believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
Just like we were laughed at by everyone for hiring Riley as our Football Coach.
Everyone knew the Riley hire was going to be a disaster, at least Miles was looked at as a good hire at the time.
Everyone knew the Riley hire was going to be a disaster, at least Miles was looked at as a good hire at the time.
That's not the perception in coaching circles. They are all well-liked and highly-regarded by other coaches, and they've all failed here.
Sure, as die-hard Husker fans, we believe the job has many positives. But you have to put yourself in the shoes of coaches who have no ties to Nebraska. To them, the program is the equivalent to KU Football. A basketball wasteland. The right coach could change that perception. But you're not going to convince a proven great coach to take this job.
There's a reason why we had to give Tim Miles a 7-year contract to take the job.
How exactly has Miles been held back by the transition from Osborne to Eichorst to Moos? Was Miles led to believe that T.O. was going to be his long-term AD, against all evidence to the contrary? I'm dying to hear how this "instability" in the AD's office contributed to three straight sub-.500 seasons and dropping 13 of their last 16 games last season.
I'm for setting very reasonable expectations for the NU basketball coach, and they don't include Final Fours, Sweet Sixteens or conference championships. But I get the distinct feeling that some people here just don't want Miles held accountable for anything, and don't think he should meet any performance standards whatsoever.