Tim Miles bans his players from talking to reporters, using locker room

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Following his team's 74-46 home loss to Iowa on Sunday, Nebraska coach Tim Miles blocked his team's access to its locker room and lounge. He also banned players from speaking to the media.

Nebraska, an NCAA tournament team last season, has lost five in a row and seven of its past eight games.

"If we're not going to play with pride, play to represent our fan base and our university better than we did today, then they'll get their voice back when they earn it," Miles wrote to ESPN.com via text message.

Miles said the bans on locker room access and media interviews will continue for an undetermined amount of time.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...ities-blowout-loss-iowa?ex_cid=sportscenterTW

Go Gophers!!
 


Maybe the U of nebraska should withhold his pay checks and lock him out of his office until he "earns" it
 

If Terran Petteway is the leader of your team, which appears to be the case, that's probably a problem. Good player (but not as good as last season), but he looks like he could be a major headache.
 



Yep, I heard that. Cancer is a b*tch. Hopefully Petteway gets his his anger in check & gets his act together on the court. Definitely not the same player he was a year ago.
 

They're in so much the same place as the Gophers. I like Miles, and I feel for him. It's so hard to motivate players, keep them engaged and getting better. Although the buck stops with the coaches, one has to note that players under good coaches sometimes take steps backward.
 

Bad Gopher said:
They're in so much the same place as the Gophers. I like Miles, and I feel for him. It's so hard to motivate players, keep them engaged and getting better. Although the buck stops with the coaches, one has to note that players under good coaches sometimes take steps backward.
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Sounds like they may be in a worse place than us after the Iowa game. Looks like the players checked out totally and that's something that we haven't seen here. Tough situation.
 

bga1 said:
Sounds like they may be in a worse place than us after the Iowa game. Looks like the players checked out totally and that's something that we haven't seen here.
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I didn't think the Gophers looked all that interested in competing vs. Northwestern. That was a flat performance against a team we should beat at home, at a time (5-8 B1G) when there there was still a sliver of hope for a NCAA bid. Fortunately Gophers competed better the next game vs. Wisconsin, will be interesting to see if the 'Huskers do the same @ Ohio State.
 



SelectionSunday said:
I didn't think the Gophers looked all that interested in competing vs. Northwestern. That was a flat performance against a team we should beat at home, at a time (5-8 B1G) when there there was still a sliver of hope for a NCAA bid. Fortunately Gophers competed better the next game vs. Wisconsin, will be interesting to see if the 'Huskers do the same @ Ohio State.
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I think they felt like they just had to show up against NW and they'd win. It - to me wasn't a case of quitting it was a case of taking the win for granted. Once they figured out there was a game- NW already had confidence and couldn't miss from 3pt range. The biggest margin of defeat we have had was against Indiana and even there I thought we played really hard and for the most part, well. To me I haven't see this team quit, ever, but I have seen them be mentally weak (often). Losing to Iowa by 28 at home- that's quitting.
 

Bad Gopher said:
They're in so much the same place as the Gophers. I like Miles, and I feel for him. It's so hard to motivate players, keep them engaged and getting better. Although the buck stops with the coaches, one has to note that players under good coaches sometimes take steps backward.
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The big difference is that while fans here continually bemoan the lack of facilities, Nebraska spent a fortune trying to make their basketball team relevant. It is similar in that they had some decent success last year and didn't lose much and had a new coach to be excited about.
 

I think it's becoming harder to deal with young athletes. College and high school coaches in multiple sports suffer major headaches trying to get players to buy into systems and approach their sport from a team perspective rather than as an individual. Saturday a Louisville player drove the length of the court while Pitino screamed for him to slow down the play. Great individual effort but not what his coach wanted at a critical time. Last month I ventured south to watch my HS alma mater take on a traditional hockey rival. Great game, but players from both teams whined and complained to the officials nearly nonstop. Unfortunately, that behavior met with no objections, neither from refs nor coaches. That pretty much told a third party observer who was in control.

After every game there are questions from fans, wondering why the coach could have let certain things happen, why he didn't make the right decisions at the right times. I'm certain that coaches often make mistakes, but as a rule do not believe they don't comprehend their sport or its circumstances. More and more I find myself wondering how often athletes just decide they see something different, know better, and ignore instructions.
 

bga1 said:
I think they felt like they just had to show up against NW and they'd win. It - to me wasn't a case of quitting it was a case of taking the win for granted. Once they figured out there was a game- NW already had confidence and couldn't miss from 3pt range. The biggest margin of defeat we have had was against Indiana and even there I thought we played really hard and for the most part, well. To me I haven't see this team quit, ever, but I have seen them be mentally weak (often). Losing to Iowa by 28 at home- that's quitting.
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The last time I can recall us really 'quitting' was the OSU game in Tubby's last season.
 



Bad Gopher said:
They're in so much the same place as the Gophers. I like Miles, and I feel for him. It's so hard to motivate players, keep them engaged and getting better. Although the buck stops with the coaches, one has to note that players under good coaches sometimes take steps backward.
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Agree. Tough, tough season in Lincoln, and I feel for Miles too, as I believe he's a good basketball coach and an equally good dude (plus he's from South Dakota, which means he's gotta be aces!). Anyhow, I also see those parallels between their season and ours, as both teams seemingly had a lot of quality experience returning, and coming off last season, both squads had valid reasons for high levels of optimism coming into this season, but yet both have disappointed equally. It's hard to know what happened with Nebraska this season, as with that returning veteran troika of Petteway, Pitchford and Shields, by almost any measure they should probably be a much better team than they have been this season. Maybe that baffling, inexplicable home loss to Incarnate Word was just a harbinger that this season was simply not meant to be for them, but at any rate, now the wheels appear to have fallen fully off the wagon, as not only are they losing (7 of their past 8), but they are losing badly, with all but one of those losses coming by double digit points. Difficult if not impossible to explain, somewhat similar to our season, other than maybe it's simply just 'one of those years'.
 

Seany said:
Agree. Tough, tough season in Lincoln, and I feel for Miles too, as I believe he's a good basketball coach and an equally good dude (plus he's from South Dakota, which means he's gotta be aces!). Anyhow, I also see those parallels between their season and ours, as both teams seemingly had a lot of quality experience returning, and coming off last season, both squads had valid reasons for high levels of optimism coming into this season, but yet both have disappointed equally. It's hard to know what happened with Nebraska this season, as with that returning veteran troika of Petteway, Pitchford and Shields, by almost any measure they should probably be a much better team than they have been this season. Maybe that baffling, inexplicable home loss to Incarnate Word was just a harbinger that this season was simply not meant to be for them, but at any rate, now the wheels appear to have fallen fully off the wagon, as not only are they losing (7 of their past 8), but they are losing badly, with all but one of those losses coming by double digit points. Difficult if not impossible to explain, somewhat similar to our season, other than maybe it's simply just 'one of those years'.
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I remember an SI article about Jerry Tarkanian a number of years ago, and he was interviewed and quoted extensively by the author. Tark named teams of his that he simply did not like, and he said it just like that: "I didn't like that team." Interestingly he may have liked the team he had the very next year with many of the same players, but obviously there was something about that one year, that one mix of players and personalities and chemistry, where he could say with candor he didn't like them.
 

Was just listening to the latest One and Done podcast from 105 the Ticket (the best Minnesota hoops podcast I've heard, check it out) and Marcus Fuller just casually threw it out there that Coach Pitino banned the Gophers from their locker room at some point during this season, but just didn't tell the press about it initially. Supposedly, Pitino said it on the radio so it must have been an interview that the vast majority of us missed.
 

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