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Husker Extra live chat: Chris Basnett, 3/8/17
Talk Husker hoops with Chris Basnett live from the Big Ten Tournament in Washington, D.C., prior to Nebraska's opening-round game vs. Penn State.
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I'd say the seat is a lot warmer than it was a couple weeks ago, but I don't know that anyone knows yet what's going to happen, including Tim Miles. I'm not sure what getting rid of Boehm does. He doesn't hire or fire coaches. That responsibility falls on Shawn Eichorst.
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Ha, I doubt WIlilams' seat is anywhere near warm. Everyone knew that was going to be an enormous rebuilding job. It's an interesting question on Eichorst. I certainly haven't heard anything in that regard. I would guess he's OK, unless there's a complete and total meltdown by the football team ala the Callahan years.
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Webster will play professionally somewhere, whether it's in the states or abroad. I bet he gets an NBA shot as a free agent, but he'll have to prove himself in summer league and probably the NBDL, similarly to what Shavon Shields and Terran Petteway have been doing. That will be a fun story to watch.
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That's the weirdest thing of this whole deal. The confidence and fire just disappeared out of nowhere, it seems like. The big thing I see is that so many of these guys aren't vocal leaders. They lead more by example. With that said, I think if Watson gets going today that would be huge. He's struggled the last couple weeks and Miles has said it's job 1A to get him going. So I think it starts with him.
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The players are saying all the right things. You have to hand it to them in that regard. Their demeanor, at least around the media, has been good. Obviously they're disappointed, but the message from yesterday was that it's a new season and a chance to start fresh.
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That's an interesting question. Right now Miles' contract runs through the 2019-20 season, or three more seasons once the current one ends. You would have to think there would be at least a one-year extension to get it back out to four years, but we won't get any insight into that until an announcement is made.
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On 1/26 before the Northwestern game, I said on here that there was a good chance Nebraska finishes 3-8 in their last 11 and Tim's seat would be very hot. You did not think they would finish that way. Do you have any insight on who the player was who said NU should not play in the BIG tournament in his meeting with Tim?
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Here's where I drop some serious beat writer knowledge: They have to play better.It's really that simple. Get off to a better start. Hit some shots. Play with a lead. Play with the energy and fight they played with when they beat Indiana, Maryland, Iowa, Purdue.Nebraska has shown it can play with anyone in this conference (other than Michigan State and Minnesota, who would be the next two opponents, but who aren't invincible), and weird things happen in conference tournaments. If Nebraska somehow gets hot for a few days, who knows what could happen?
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I think it's a non-story. Sounds like a case of an angry parent yelling at the coach because their kid (or in this case, their kid's boyfriend) didn't play enough. Webster played 35 minutes. He had his chances. And the streak while fun, really doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. I think Tai would say the same thing. He was much more upset with the way his team played than not scoring 10 points.
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Right now? I imagine the Huskers would take him in a heartbeat. That was some performance last night.But I don't like the notion that Nebraska "whiffed" on Daum. He got in the perfect situation for him, and he developed. When he first got to SDSU, the coach who recruited him almost asked him to leave because he was so out of his element. But he put in the time and got better. Tough to say how his situation would change if he would have come to Lincoln.
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I assume it's here for the same reason the conference won't let me hook more than one device up to their wifi.The real answer, of course, is that the B1G wanted to do this because of their eastward expansion to Maryland and Rutgers. There are tons of Big Ten alumni on the East Coast, and the conference is wanting to tap into that market. Next year the tournament is at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It's all about expanding that footprint. After next year the tournament goes back to Indianapolis/Chicago, and I bet it doesn't come this way again for quite some time.
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Eichorst is here. He tweeted this yesterday: Great to be in DC supporting @HuskerHoops in Big Ten Tournament. GBR! I'll be keeping an eye out for him.
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You have to wonder. Blow out Penn State, win a tough game at Ohio State, and then, splat. I haven't seen anything that suggests something happened when we've gone to practice for interviews, and I haven't seen anything before games when the guys are out warming up.
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I realize that money is a big reason for everything, but other than money the Huskers move to the Big Ten conference is bad news for fans and players. No rivalries, great deal of travel, and they do things like have conference tournaments in the middle of school at distant locals with no local teams present. How awful.
And by the way, the Big 12 is still going strong, so I don't want to hear the "stability" argument.
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I wouldn't call it terrible. UNL is about to start getting its share of the Big Ten's massive academic research budget. For the University as a whole, it's a good move. There's going to be a lot of dollars flowing into NU's academic programs. Sports is the part everyone wants to talk about, but the university will benefit in more ways than just in the athletic department.
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