Could Otz be the end of Hoiberg's coaching career?
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Miles was mediocre overall, but he did make a tournament and a few NITs.
His second to last year he went 13-5 in conference, but the B10 was so weak that year they didn't make the dance.
So, he wasn't a smashing success, but they were at least competitive. Really no reason for Fred to be doing as poorly as he has.
The tournament is a crapshoot. Hoiberg in particular with having to play one of the best teams of the decade in the second round (UK), a last second, adversity filled loss to Ohio St in a 10 vs 2, Georges injury, and then Hoiberg being a warm suit in 2015. Obviously the last part is all on him, but not as much a measure of his coaching acumen
I blame them more for not having better regular seasons. Do better before the tournament and you’re not playing UK and Ohio St.
That’s definitely a fun fact!Fun fact: Hoiberg is 6-50 in P6 games so far at Nebraska.
He was 32-4 at Hilton his last 4 years in Ames against the Big 12.
True, but the tournament is a crap shoot. Plenty of Duke, Kentucky, Michigan State, etc. teams that lost in the first or second round that were loaded with NBA players.
And it isn't easy. Some of these comments reminds me of the conversations with coaches when my kid was visiting JUCOs about the challenge of turning over your roster so quickly. Eye opener. With all the agendas coaches deal with that now comes along with the portal environment, glad TJ found right players to make it work so successfully.
Yes they 100% should have fired Miles. They just should have hired someone better than Fred. Miles was bad at Nebraska. In his 7 years he finished 10th or worse 5 times. One of the year they finished 4th they still didn’t make the tourney because the Big 10 was so bad.
I remember it like yesterday. Was sick to my stomach for weeks. It was the only time in my life I couldn't bring myself to watch the rest of the tournament. The Niang broken foot game was still the worst I've ever felt as a Cyclone fan though.
Since that (14-15) team never really put together 3 well played games consecutively I would not have been surprised to see them lose in the (real) 2nd round so it took a bit but I was over it much quicker than the game that shall not be mentioned ('01).
Still a couple of train wrecks though.
Honestly it wasn’t the most surprising thing. That team was on shaky ground and the chemistry was crumbling at the end of the year. Even that Big 12 tournament took some lucky bounces along the way.
I was in Vegas for UAB... the alcohol helped dull the pain. I remember hating the damned frosted tips for weeks after.
Royce's team in 2012 played UCONN on a Thursday night if I remember correctly.
The 14-15 team didn’t underachieve because they lost to UAB. They were inconsistent and had several perplexing losses throughout the year. They controlled their own destiny to win the Big 12 regular season and blew it with a home loss to Baylor and loss at KSU.
If we don’t come back to beat OU and one of those KC games goes the other way we wouldn’t have gotten a 3 seed.
If we don’t come back to beat OU and one of those KC games goes the other way we wouldn’t have gotten a 3 seed.
It’s possible. Though Hogue had that many opportunities simply because he was forced into the role. And he went 15-19. It might have been the one game in 100 that he’s going to go 15-19, but it happened to be that game when pushed into that role.
This wasn’t a good player having a really good game. This a guy that didn’t get plays run for him typically forced into that role and having a completely off the charts, all-timer type of efficient game.
At Tech too.
South Carolina loss early on was also weird.
The buzz phrase lately has been 'return to the mean' and the UAB game was that.
