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Gronowski

I'm so glad we've got our '25 QB, and we're not still in the Gronowski waiting game.

Waiting for Gronowski...it got to be like waiting for Godot.
What if: Gronowski had come with Lukan for 2024?

Preston Stone looks like a winner based on his 2023 performance.

It doesn’t matter now. Lujan has a QB ready to go (Lausch should play a Colter type role - he’s too talented not to be a WR with some real Wildcat potential).


Rashawn Slater heading to the Pro Bowl

Lions center, Frank Ragnow, also made the Pro Bowl. Ragnow is another Kurt Anderson disciple, having played for him at Arkansas.
Anderson did a really nice job for our NFL linemen too: his coaching of Slater, Skoronski, and Ragnow proved that he can develop elite talent as well.

The new OL coach we have is solid too.

What hurt Anderson is the same thing that hurt other OL coaches at NU: the lack of a comprehensive system.

An offensive, defensive, or special teams philosophy is essential and relies ln leadership from the top.

Anderson was also an entertaining cat. I hope he is doing well.

Lujan will be more interesting with Preston Stone.

Officiating in this game



If the refs wanted to get nit-picky while reviewing they could have easily called PSU #14 for a second goaltending or basket interference, as his hand smacks the rim while the ball is in the cylinder



The whistle first blew at 6.1 and the ball is out of Barnhizer's hand.

(If the images didn't load they are here: https://postimg.cc/gallery/WZ6spt3 )

This really is nasty work by the refs, going to great lengths with a five minute review to try to take away Barnhizer's basket when a) it was on the scoreboard, and b) they know full well the whistle didn't affect that basket. The whistle was no earlier than 6.1, and yet they tried to cover their tracks more with the explanation of going back to the point in time when the referee "thought the goaltending occurred"... it's just atrocious referee work all around.

This crew honestly was so poor and so one-sided the entire game, they should never officiate in the Big Ten again. If there is no discipline, then we have confirmation the Big Ten doesn't give a sh*t about fairness, officiating quality, or frankly have any respect for NU... sad for a founding member since 1896, getting absolutely disrespected 129 years later. What a farce.
Thanks for confirming what I thought I saw as well. An overall total joke by the officials to mess up multiple facets of the review process.

Officiating in this game



If the refs wanted to get nit-picky while reviewing they could have easily called PSU #14 for a second goaltending or basket interference, as his hand smacks the rim while the ball is in the cylinder



The whistle first blew at 6.1 and the ball is out of Barnhizer's hand.

(If the images didn't load they are here: https://postimg.cc/gallery/WZ6spt3 )

This really is nasty work by the refs, going to great lengths with a five minute review to try to take away Barnhizer's basket when a) it was on the scoreboard, and b) they know full well the whistle didn't affect that basket. The whistle was no earlier than 6.1, and yet they tried to cover their tracks more with the explanation of going back to the point in time when the referee "thought the goaltending occurred"... it's just atrocious referee work all around.

This crew honestly was so poor and so one-sided the entire game, they should never officiate in the Big Ten again. If there is no discipline, then we have confirmation the Big Ten doesn't give a sh*t about fairness, officiating quality, or frankly have any respect for NU... sad for a founding member since 1896, getting absolutely disrespected 129 years later. What a farce.

Officiating in this game

Not sure what you guys are watching. Ball is out of his hand. 6:33 of the video above.
Just use the pause button until the ball leaves his hand.
If you haven't heard a whistle yet, then the shot was up.

At the very least the ball is leaving his hand - and wiping out a shot attempt simultaneous with an inadvertent whistle is totally idiotic.
Nobody on the court was affected by the whistle. The shot went up and THEN everybody stopped - because they heard a whistle.
Definitely the ball was released from barnhizer hands when whistle had gone off and it was much less time than the 6.7. Overall the review which they spent minutes on makes little sense.

Officiating in this game

It was when the game was tied at 75. Was a high momentum swing especially after they gave the NBA continuation to the PSU player at the other end.
Too bad that we did not have anything close to that on Barnhizers 3 pt shot at the buzzer in another game (was it IA or Butler) and they called the foul but waived off the shot, Would have tied the game and given him an and 1

Officiating in this game

Not sure what you guys are watching. Ball is out of his hand. 6:33 of the video above.
Just use the pause button until the ball leaves his hand.
If you haven't heard a whistle yet, then the shot was up.

At the very least the ball is leaving his hand - and wiping out a shot attempt simultaneous with an inadvertent whistle is totally idiotic.
Nobody on the court was affected by the whistle. The shot went up and THEN everybody stopped - because they heard a whistle.
I have tried it several times and just really really close and unfortunately when you get to that point the rules are what they are and it just really worked against us

Officiating in this game

Not sure what you guys are watching. Ball is out of his hand. 6:33 of the video above.
Just use the pause button until the ball leaves his hand.
If you haven't heard a whistle yet, then the shot was up.

At the very least the ball is leaving his hand - and wiping out a shot attempt simultaneous with an inadvertent whistle is totally idiotic.
Nobody on the court was affected by the whistle. The shot went up and THEN everybody stopped - because they heard a whistle.
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I don’t buy the health of the starters angle. Injuries can happen if you play 15 minutes a game or 40. They are rarely caused by fatigue. I know the second one of our core 7 are tweaked with an injury there will be some “ I told you so” that will surface, but to me it’s way more random than predictable.

Not the I told you do that you planned for. Sorry nobody had to get hurt.

Kings English please.
Sorry - dropped a word. Not the ‘I told you so’ that you planned on in that instead of injury, it simply took whistle happy refs to force them into action. So sorry you didn’t get the injury you contemplated for the kids to get to play and themselves worthy.

Officiating in this game

Ball was not in cylinder so it wouldn't be unless the movement of the rim would have made a difference. The officiating of the whole game was bad but once you got to this point not much you can do.

And if we had gotten into OT, almost everyone had 4 fouls. Barnhizer, Berry, Mullins, Leach, and Chello, So it would have been really tough in OT to keep tha team on the floor. But still we should have had the opportunity
Honestly I expected if we'd tied it in regulation that the game would've ended with Baldwin at the FT line, where he'd spent the rest of the game.
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