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I once seen Vucetic play a scrimmage. Offensively, he's a lot more skilled than people think. He gets the ball relatively deep, he's pretty dang efficient. Defensively though....he's an extreme liability. Miles pretty much straight shoots it with us about him, his footwork on defense is just too slow right now. I've always been told, if you take in a project, you better make sure he's not a liability defensively and you better make sure he's athletic. Miles and the staff obviously knows 10x more about basketball than I could ever know, but that said, I think they were a little too impressed with his offensive skills that they took him thinking they could coach him up on defense. I would argue that it needs to be the other way around. If you have a 7'1" project who can play post defense, run the floor, and rebound, take him over the offensive counterpart. I totally agree though, we need players who can come in and play. If he can come in off the bench and be the Benny Parker of our defense, than I'm all for it. If it's another Vucetic situation, than I'll pass.

Worked out well in High School Musical, why not here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eijxwE3jm2M

Nebraska 65 Illinois 62

Ready for a bold and premature prediction? Two years from now, as we are conversing about how high of seed we are going to receive in the NCAA's, we are going to be darn glad we have a kid coming off the bench who's not afraid to get in someone's jock. Benny's a weapon, fellows. Very limited offensively? Sure. There's all different types of weapons though, and Benny is worth his 160 lbs in gold as a perimeter defender. The more he continues to improve as a ball handler, the better. In the next two years, if the kid gets better at hitting a jumper, he will be a good role player on a pretty good team.

Nebraska 61 Northwestern 57

We still have games left to play. So there's that.

Nebraska 69 Indiana 67

Nebraska 65 Minnesota 76

Nebraska 67 Penn State 63

Nebraska 68 Ohio State 76

Nebraska 71 Purdue 70

Nebraska 69 Michigan 76

Nebraska 59 Ohio State 78

Nebraska 65 Iowa 84

Nebraska 61 Cinci 67

You are spot on, Parker and Biggs are playing much better. However, if it really is a confidence issue, that might not be the best approach to fixing the problem. Unfortunately, we are quickly running out of time. Starting Saturday, we are going to need maximum production out of every starter and major minute bench player from here on out. Personally, I think he will answer that dinner bell. If he doesn't though, he doesn't. That's a lot of freshman. I still think his future can be very bright here, even if he struggles this season.

Nebraska 82 The Citadel 59

Nebraska 77 Arkansas State 59

Creighton 75 Nebraska 67

Nebraska 72 Miami 65

Nebraska 82 NIU 59

Nebraska 81 Georgia 76

Nebraska 73 UMASS 77

Nebraska 78 S. Carolina St. 55

Nebraska 77 WIU 58