NU will announce Tim Miles as NU's new coach!

Tim Miles will be named Nebraska's new head basketball coach on Saturday!!

The full contract, according to ESPN, would be an estimated $8.7 million over
six years.

Miles, 45, replaces former head coach Doc Sadler, who was fired after
six seasons in Lincoln earlier this month. Miles had just received a three-year
contract extension in May to stay at CSU, which would have increased his salary
to $750,000 annually through 2016.

Tim Miles is 45 years old and took Colorado State to the NCAA tournament this year. Tim Miles is from Doland, South Dakota.

Before taking over at CSU, Miles coached at North Dakota State (2001-07),
Southwest Minnesota State (1997-2001) and Mayville State (1995-97). His career
record as a head coach is 285-227, and he was 71-88 in five seasons at Colorado
State.

One factor that obviously made Miles attractive is that he built his team around Nebraska players this year. Four of his players wer Jesse Carr of Ainsworth, Wes Eikmeier of Fremont, and Dwight Smith and Greg Smith of Ralston.

He also had a couple of regional players such as Colton Iverson of Yankton and Dorian Green of Lawrence, Kansas.

Eikmeier (15.5 points per game), Green (13.1 ppg) and Greg Smith (9.4 ppg)
were Colorado State's top three leading scorers this past season.

Miles' Colorado St. roster this year consisted of four players from Colorado and Nebraska and one each from Arizona, Minnesota, Kansas, South Dakota and Florida.

He definitely likes Midwest kids. Will there be enough local kids to take Nebraska to the next level. One plus for Nebraska is that he obviously knows a lot about our State. The Nebraska high school coaches seem to like him.

His assistant coaches are Niko Medved, who also serves a key role in recruiting, Craig Smith, who was named NAIA Coach of the Year in 2007, and Ron Coleman, who was a star basketball player for Lamar and played some NBA ball and served as CSU's recruiting coordinator this past year. Coleman has experience in the AAU ranks also. It is unknown how many of these coaches will come with him to Nebraska but they all look like great assets to the new coach.

Colorado State's top recruit coming in this fall is Jermaine Morgan, who was recruited by Coleman due to his ties to Chicago. He is a 6'7" power forward.

It will be interesting to see what Nebraska ends up with this fall. Don't expect too much from Miles and the Huskers the first year.

Florida and Kansas, who were both in Omaha last weekend look like they BOTH will make it to the Elite Eight. Pretty cool.