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      Deverell Biggs dismissed from the team



      Deverell Biggs

      Biggs will be working to finish up his degree in the hopes of transferring to a new school with one year of college eligibility left.

    http://www.omaha.com/article/20140127/HUSKERS/140128733

    By Lee Barfknecht / World-Herald Bureau

    LINCOLN — It appears that Deverell Biggs' Nebraska basketball career is over after just 15 games in two years.

    The junior guard out of Omaha Central was dismissed from the team Monday evening for repeated disciplinary woes, two sources with knowledge of the action told The World-Herald.

    Looks like Trey Dickerson just became an even hotter commodity for Miles and staff.




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    Listening to Damon on the radio and reading between the lines leads me to the exact opposite conclusion. Remember that the info provided by Deverell by Damon was raw and unfiltered...the truth.

    Not necessarily. Even if it was raw and unfiltered, it's still only one side of the story. Talking in the middle of an emotional situation doesn't always lend to a clear mind when trying to express things.

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    Why the heck would Biggs even bring the AD's name into this situation? What would make him think to do this? If it had been solely Miles decision then Deverell would have said so to Damon. He would have put all of the blame on Miles sort of like this: "Everything was fine. I was to be suspended for Minny and then was to come back with the admonishment to communicate better in the future. Then out of now where Coach Miles dismisses me from the team." That's what he would have said in an emotional situation if the AD hadn't gotten involved.

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    Miles this past weekend: “It’s a tough deal, but we’re going to figure it out," Miles said. "Dev’s a good kid.” 

    Miles now: "..the decision was mine" 

    If the 2nd statement is true he sure changed his opinion quickly. 

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    Why the heck would Biggs even bring the AD's name into this situation? What would make him think to do this? If it had been solely Miles decision then Deverell would have said so to Damon. He would have put all of the blame on Miles sort of like this: "Everything was fine. I was to be suspended for Minny and then was to come back with the admonishment to communicate better in the future. Then out of now where Coach Miles dismisses me from the team." That's what he would have said in an emotional situation if the AD hadn't gotten involved.

    Maybe, but I don't generally thing clearly when big emotional things happen in my life, much less when they happen publicly. It's easy for things to get misinterpreted in the moment. I'm not saying that he's lying, just that there's more to the story than any of us (probably) know.

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    I say we made a decision in context to things happening in family all the time.

    But anybody who knows my family knows damn well it was my wife's decision and I am only following along because I know what is good for me.;)

    Guess it means don't really care how he said it earlier. We/me doesn't make any difference to me.

    The right choice was made.

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    Wow. What a radio clip. I tend to believe Biggs and Benning in this situation.

     

    Miles seemed like releasing Biggs was one of the last things he wanted to do. Like he knew the dangers Biggs was dealing with in his personal life and was trying to keep Biggs close to the program to keep him out of trouble. 

     

    I hope Biggs gets this figured out. Such a great talent, in a tough situation

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    Not sure whose decision it was or wasn't but Biggs is the only person at fault here. Biggs is the one who has missed multiple practices and film sessions. Biggs is the one who got a DUI and continued to frequent bars late into the night, during the season. Biggs is the one who got busted running a stop sign in a vehicle he wasn't supposed to be driving at 2 in the morning. Biggs is the one who chose himself, not to sit on the bench with the team after he got tossed from the morning shoot around on sunday.

     

    I loved Biggs the player and I loved the idea of having a spark plug from Omaha run the show for us. Big Biggs didn't want enough as much as the other guys apparently. He should be held to the same standard and time after time, he didn't meet them.

     

    My only flaw in Miles decision making was allowing him to live off campus with the people that he lived with. He would of been much better in the dorms or staying with a trusted teammate that could set the example he needed set in his life.

     

    Best of luck to D Biggs moving forward. Hope Benny steps up!1

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    It's ok to be upset everyone... But you can only blame Biggs... Not Miles... Not the AD.

     

    100% true.  If Dev came to work like Terran, Shavon etc on the team then he would still be on the team today. Man in the mirror must hold the accountability for all actions.

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    So, we have Miles directly saying it was his call and not the AD's call.

     

    And we have inferences being made from a radio show conversation between Damon Benning and the guy who got booted.

     

    So, there's a controversy about Shawn Eichorst because why?

    It came across as more than an inference by Benning if what he said Biggs told him was accurate

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    Norm, controversy surrounding SE is because Biggs said it was his decision, not Miles.

     

    Could be a case where SE took the 'bad guy' approach in the conversation with Biggs, even though Miles was on board. I can't imagine Miles being happy about all the different issues Biggs was brining upon himself and the team.

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    I think the thing that has most people fired up is the idea that Eichorst pulled the plug and the implications of that if true. And there's contradictory information out there as to what his involvement was, if any.

    Nailed it.

    Biggs did most of the damage to himself here.

    The details of how he was kicked off the team are important in this situation. 

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    Norm, controversy surrounding SE is because Biggs said it was his decision, not Miles.

     

    Could be a case where SE took the 'bad guy' approach in the conversation with Biggs, even though Miles was on board. I can't imagine Miles being happy about all the different issues Biggs was brining upon himself and the team.

    If Miles did that, and I don't believe that he did, then that would be chicken poop. 

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    It's ok to be upset everyone... But you can only blame Biggs... Not Miles... Not the AD.

     

    100% true.  If Dev came to work like Terran, Shavon etc on the team then he would still be on the team today. Man in the mirror must hold the accountability for all actions.

     

    How it happened in this situation is important.

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    Listening to Damon on the radio and reading between the lines leads me to the exact opposite conclusion. Remember that the info provided by Deverell by Damon was raw and unfiltered...the truth.

    You gotta do a lot of "reading between the lines" to get to the "exact opposite" of what Miles specifically and directly stated in no uncertain terms:  He, and he alone, made the call.

     

    What you describe as "raw and unfiltered" and "the truth" is merely 2nd hand hearsay:  Benning's oblique interpretation of something Biggs apparently said.  An "Eichorst issue."  That doesn't mean jack.

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    It's ok to be upset everyone... But you can only blame Biggs... Not Miles... Not the AD.

     

    100% true.  If Dev came to work like Terran, Shavon etc on the team then he would still be on the team today. Man in the mirror must hold the accountability for all actions.

    How it happened in this situation is important.

    Why?

    He broke the rules, to me it doesn't matter who made the call, it was the right one.

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    The biggest takeaway for me from what Benning reported of his conversation with Biggs was NOT that Biggs hinted that, in some way that Benning would not discuss the particulars of, it was an "Eichorst issue."  The biggest takeaway for me was that Biggs has major issues dealing with the people in his inner circle leading him astray and by the time he asked for help from the coaching or athletic dept staff, he'd used his last mulligan already and it was too late.

     

    And then they went on to talk about these issues with Benning's bad influences in his inner circle or the people who influence him also having a profound impact on football recruiting across the river at Iowa Western.  That was the big "Aha!" in all of that for me.  There's apparently a cesspool of bad character problems flowing up there in Omaha making multiple coaches in multiple sports at Nebraska a little reluctant to offer some of those kids.

     

    And Benning said that a lot less obliquely than he did the part about Eichorst supposedly micromanaging the hoops team's internal issues.

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    I always wondered why the football staff didn't recruit Iowa Western.  I'd read some things from time to time about the number of high majors playing football over there who had offers from all kinds of other schools but not us.  Curious, if true.  Although I'd never really dug into it.  Just looked at it at face value.

     

    But if you really listen to that Benning clip, there's very little discussed or revealed that leads to the conclusion that it's an "Eichorst issue" and a lot of info that says that there's apparently something really rotten in Denmark.  And, by Denmark, I mean metro Omaha.

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    It's a lot deeper than just bad character problems.  Omaha's facing some serious issues related to that article on the murder rates that have been steadily growing for he past several years. There's a lot of good people doing hard, difficult work confronting this issue, but there's a lot of work left to do. Calling it a character issue doesn't really do it justice. It's a lot deeper than that.

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