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https://twitter.com/RobinWashut/status/313751818679238656

Fair enough.

Saying "we'd be better off using his scholarship elsewhere" is open for being interpreted differently.

Never said we should cut him. Just said I think we'd be better off using his scholarship elsewhere. That just seems like a semantical argument to me. Don't really see much difference between the two unless Parker leaves on his own, which it doesn't sound like will happen.

the guy that tweeted it out seems like he's been around enough that he'd be more than aware of the difference. Now, if he got is info from the kid, and he didn't know the difference, that's possible.

If you can't replace Parker...than Miles isn't who we think he is. I'm not too worried about filling the void that Parker's absence would cause. But that doesn't make it wise to just kick him out the door. We're not the L.A. Lakers or even the Kentucky Wildcats. I realize it probably has happened and will happen again, but that doesn't mean it should. If Parker decides to move on, so be it, but i'm not in favor of moving a capable player out just because you can. Real real debateable as to how capable he is. At least if you have expectations of being a quality team. The Laker and Wildcat argument could be used against your point in this case. not really. I'm saying we're not a professional organization moves players as they see fit or a program that should be turning over players just because they can.

https://twitter.com/HuskerExtraBR/status/313740485376217090

http://nebraska.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1485018

If you can't replace Parker...than Miles isn't who we think he is. I'm not too worried about filling the void that Parker's absence would cause. But that doesn't make it wise to just kick him out the door. We're not the L.A. Lakers or even the Kentucky Wildcats. I realize it probably has happened and will happen again, but that doesn't mean it should. If Parker decides to move on, so be it, but i'm not in favor of moving a capable player out just because you can.

Assume a lot or a little, these things often don't go as planned. I don't think it's wise to be casting off players.

I'm not viewing it as an advantage, I'm viewing it as we're assuming a lot that the newcomers will autmoatically be better than Parker. On paper, they probably should be, but it doesn't always work out as assumed.

I'm switching over to Yahoo! this year. It's easier for me to keep track of this way. All the other brackets I'm in are here or on ESPN... Anyway, here's the group: http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/group/114282?ng=1&b=cga It's a public group so you shouldn't need any passwords or anything to join. Good luck!

I would contend that we need guys just like Benny to fill in the gaps.

Of course he does, I'm not disputing that, but that doesn't mean you can afford to just let him go.

That was me. I'll get it all set up tomorrow.

Right but the majority of players sign in November so Nebraska can only sign 3 players this fall due to the oversigning rule of the B1G and hope that one player leaves. Now if one left this year you could sign 3 with a 4th possible to oversign. Sorry, I just don't think we're in a place where we can just let capable players go because we might, maybe, perhaps get a better player in here. But don't you go into your class a little differently knowing how many spots will be open or not. Not really. I trust Miles knows what he's going and will do what's best for the program and has his pulse on what will or won't be available to work with. The incoming freshman will more than likely experience growing pains next season as most do, but hopefully the transition will be less arduous for them as it appeared to be for Parker. I'm hoping all three are able to contribute closer to the level that Shields did this year. I like Benny, but have a hard time finding minutes for him if the new guys are as good as we hope they are. Maybe. I think Fuller or Hawkins could redshirt, but I don't think you can assume that they'll have easy transitions. The best teams have freshmen that are impact freshmen, but the vast majority of frosh don't become major contributors the moment they step on campus. Shields was the exception, not the rule. I don't care how highly touted the freshman is. What if one or more of them (or someone else) gets hurt or just flat struggles. Then we go from being nine or ten deep to being back to seven. You're going to want a guy who's been through it before. We played with 6 this year...so don't think it's a given there are minutes there for him if he doesn't make us better. Webster, Fuller and Hawkins will likely struggle at times next year...of course all 3 are all likely to be better players than Parker and with a deeper team won't be as obvious. And for the record...I don't think it was the transititioning to the Big 10 level that is behind Parker's struggles. It's size, talent and ability. He's got talent, I absolutely believe that. We're making dangerous assumptions if we think Webster, Fuller and Hawkins will walk on campus and automatically be better than anyone currently on the roster. We might think that, but we don't know that. We've seen several guys in this program make progress every year and become quality players by the time they were done. I have a hard time believing we're in a place where we can just be cutting bait with capable players, which Benny is. His height will always be something he fights against, no doubt, but that doesn't mean he can't contribute to this program. If what Haymarket Husker says is true, this whole conversation is academic.

Of coure they do. They don't count against next year's scholarship numbers the day they sign. They won't be on scholarship until a year from June or July or whenever that calendar starts.

2014? We don't need to figure out where that scholarship is going to come from for another year. You've got that year to see how guys like Parker and Vucetic develop with another year of coaching, strength and conditoning and such. If one or both of them don't progress, you can cross that bridge then, but we're not to it yet. Considering we're going to have 4's playing the 5, 3's playing the 4 and some 2's playing the 3, there will be minutes for Parker, especially as Webster, Fuller and Hawkins will likely struggle at times with the transition like Benny did this year.

yes but they also said Peltz had been playing on the knee that required surgery the whole time. Though Benny brought better speed I felt Peltz had a better game as a distributor. Sorry man, the numbers really don't bear that out. Parker was playing hurt much of the season, too. I don't think we saw all of what Parker is capable of.

and Creighton, Oregon, Wake and USC...which I think helps your case.

I'd agree in terms of upside. In terms of production, they were pretty similar this season.

Well, I'd assume so since we've had a rash of bigs that have had more trouble than you'd expect from a post player finishing at the rim...

Parker put up better numbers than Peltz, slightly. There's not really much difference between the two. They both hustled their tails off, couldn't score much and have better hair than me.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130316/HUSKERS/703169869/1002#barfknecht-shades-of-bill-snyder-in-miles-approach Lee B had what I assume is his season capper on Nebrasketball. In it he compares how Bill Snyder built KState football to what Miles' challenge here at Dear 'Ole Nebraska U. Couple quotes that caught my eye: "At the league tourney on Thursday, two student journalists from the Daily Illini walked into the press room, put down their work bags and considered whether to go courtside for Nebraska vs. Purdue. “Not a great game,” one said. To which the other replied, “Yeah, but let’s go get us some Tim Miles. I love that guy.” If Miles can motivate students from 500 miles away, maybe even the Husker fan base — a group that ex-Iowa State coach Johnny Orr once likened to dead dogs — has hope. Going forward, we’ll need to see if Miles can emulate how Snyder got Kansas State football from poor to fair to pretty good to good to really good." *** "Ask Miles about the three players he has sitting out — 6-foot-6 Texas Tech transfer Terran Petteway, 6-10 Florida transfer Walter Pitchford and 6-1 Omaha Central guard Deverell Biggs — and you’ll get one of his classic no-bull responses. “They look good at times,” the coach said. “But when the thumb is on them, we’ll find out. “I mean that as a challenge to them, and I mean it honestly. You don’t know how guys are going to react when pressure is applied. It’s a different beast. They aren’t being judged in public this year. They are playing with house money.” *** "But with Miles, like Snyder, it’s not about a single player. It’s about development of all players. “Our style of play is motion offense,” Miles said. “Actually, motion offense is not an offense — it’s a way of life. So you’re only going to go as far as your player development. “If you’re not doing that and your players aren’t getting better with their skill and decision-making, then you’re in trouble. In fact, you’re going to be brutal.” *** I like that scale Poor >> Fair >> Pretty Good >> Good >> Really Good. I think we went from poor to fair this season. Next season let's go from fair to pretty good.