The Glen Mason dilemma
Yeah, except Minnesota hadn't poured a ton of resources into the program to give Mason arguably the best facilities in the conference to work with. And Mason was at least decentish, just couldn't get over the hump.
Miles seems like he's at least had Nebraska decent, but not really.
In seven years he's made one NCAA tournament. I'd say making the tournament now is comparable to making a bowl when Mason was here, generally it's like 5-7 teams, 4 last year, 8 this year. And he's only even made 2 NITs. Four times, it's been no postseason. He's finished in the bottom 4 of the Big Ten in 5 of his 7 seasons. Mason at least had Minnesota in a bowl every year, ranked a couple times.
Miles seems like a really cool dude, and we all like him. He hasn't failed spectacularly, but Nebraska didn't put all that money in to be a bottom 4 team every year in the conference. Plus, while Mason's successors did worse than he did, is there really any risk in firing Miles? Any drop is negligible, no difference in being 12th and not in the postseason vs. 14th and not in the postseason, so there's no risk. This is a senior-laden team, so next year is going to be rough no matter what. If you are going to fire him after another bad year next year, might as well fire him now, so at least a bad 2019-20 is the first year if a potential new era, rather than the final year of the last one.
