Keith Coleman, who signed a basketball letter of intent with Nebraska last November, was released from that commitment when Tim Miles replaced Doc Sadler as coach this spring.
Now, Coleman has found a new school.
The 6-foot-9, 245-pounder has signed with North Texas, now coached by former Nebraska and Sadler assistant Tony Benford.
Benford, who was an assistant at Marquette, replaces Johnny Jones, who took the LSU job. North Texas has averaged 21 wins a season over the past six years.…
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Tim Biere, the starting tight end at Kansas by way of Omaha Westside, has signed a three-year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs as a priority free agent, according to family members.
Biere was an all-stater at Westside. At Kansas, Biere started for four seasons playing for coaches Mark Mangino and Turner Gill.…
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Former Nebraska basketball coach Doc Sadler confirmed Tuesday that he has interviewed for the job at Southern Mississippi. Sadler said he is one of seven coaches USM plans to talk with.
Southern Mississippi is looking to replace Larry Eustachy, who left for Colorado State to replace Tim Miles, who left CSU to replace Sadler at Nebraska.
One former Husker player has found a new basketball home. Freshman wing Josiah Moore will transfer to Tennessee Tech. Moore, from Norcross, Ga., will join three other players from the Atlanta area on that roster. Tennessee Tech was 19-14 last season overall and 9-7 in the Ohio Valley Conference.…
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Progress is being made on finalizing the contract for Nebraska men’s basketball coach Tim Miles.
Marc Boehm, NU’s executive associate athletic director, said details should be released soon after some minor tweaks and collecting some necessary signatures.…
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The worst-kept secret in Nebraska men’s basketball became public knowledge on Sunday morning.
That’s when former Omaha Central all-state guard Deverell Biggs told new coach Tim Miles he wants to be a Husker. When Biggs signs his letter of intent later this week, he will be the first in-state scholarship signee at NU in 10 years.
The most recent in-state signees were for the 2002-03 season: Wes Wilkinson of Grand Island and Jason Dourisseau and Roy Enright of Omaha Burke.
Biggs was a first-team All-American this season at Seward County (Kan.) Community College, where he averaged 14.8 points and 3.3 steals a game.
Said Biggs: “It was a real great weekend. I am a Husker.”…
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Many Nebraska fans probably don’t know who Tippy Dye was, but they should.
The former Husker athletic director, who died Wednesday at age 97, hired Bob Devaney to coach NU football in 1962 and Joe Cipriano to take over men’s basketball in 1963. Those proved to be two of the best hires in school history.
Dye was an All-Big Ten football and basketball player at Ohio State in the 1930s. He later coached basketball, leading Washington to its only Final Four appearance in 1953. After stops at Nebraska and Northwestern as athletic director, Dye retired in 1974.…
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“Getting close to another.”
That was Nebraska basketball coach Tim Miles’ text response Monday at noon to an inquiry about how his search for two more assistant coaches is progressing.
Miles is at the Final Four in New Orleans, taking advantage of the national coaches convention that goes along with the NCAA championship.
Speculation has emerged that Northern Iowa assistant Ben Johnson could be in the mix at Nebraska. Johnson and Miles know each other, and Johnson has Big Ten ties that would be attractive.
He was an all-state high school player out of Minneapolis. He played four years in college in the Big Ten — two at Northwestern and two at Minnesota. He was a team captain three times.
Miles has two spots to fill on his …
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Strong indications emerged Friday morning from sources in Lincoln and Ft. Collins, Colo., that Colorado State’s Tim Miles has emerged as the top candidate to become Nebraska’s next men’s basketball coach.
Two sources said Miles was in Lincoln on Friday, and that plans for a press conference on Saturday morning are being prepared.
Miles, 45, just finished his fifth season at CSU. The native of Doland, S.D., previously coached at Mayville (N.D.) State, Southwest Minnesota State and North Dakota State.
At Colorado State, he went from 7-25 and 9-22 his first two seasons to 16-16 and a spot in the CBI tourney, 19-13 with an NIT bid and 20-12 with a trip to the NCAA tourney this season.…
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Northwestern has decided to keep men’s basketball coach Bill Carmody for a 13th season.
The Wildcats have never played in the NCAA tournament, but have reached the NIT the past three years despite a decrepit arena, strict entrance requirements and no tradition.
Still, Carmody was under fire because this appeared to be the breakthrough year. But an overtime loss to Minnesota in the first round of the Big Ten tourney ended NCAA hopes.
Northwestern is the toughest basketball job in the six power conferences. The school needs to figure out how to help Carmody get over the hump instead of looking for someone new.…
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So Tom Osborne says he hasn’t offered the Nebraska men’s basketball coaching job to anyone.
I believe that he believes that.
What I don’t just believe but instead know is there are a thousand shades of gray over the meaning of the term “job offer.”
Schools trying to hire coaches often ask a candidate what consideration he would give to a certain length of contract at a certain salary. The candidate interprets that as an offer. The employer — because of the nuanced phrasing — can deny rightfully that an official “offer” was made.
That doesn’t make anybody a liar or poor business person. It offers wiggle room for certain sides to save face. It’s all part of the art of negotiation, which we will …
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