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10 Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, April 6, 1983 rp vpy (n By Randy VVymore In accordance with a new NCAA rule concerning the number of part-time and full-time coaches allowed each Division I football team, Nebraska coach Tom Osborne announced two major coaching assigments Monday. Current Cornhusker junior varsity coach Frank Solich will replace Mike Corgan as the varsity backfield coach, while Omaha VVestside High School Coach Dan Young will take Solich's vacated position. The new rule, which was passed in January at the annual NCAA conference in San Diego, states that each school will be allowed nine full-time coaches - one more than the old rule allowed - and must eliminate all coaches of part-time status. Osborne said that Corgan, a 12-year member of the Nebraska staff, will remain employed by the Nebraska Athletic Department until Jan. 1, 1984. He will turn 65 in October and will then be eligible for retirement. Although the new rule does not officially go into effect until Aug. !, 1983, Solich has already started to assume his new responsibilities. Solich is taking over early because of Osborne's desire to make the spring practices as close to a fall situation as possible. Young, whose six-year term at Westside included a 55-1 1 record, will assume his duties as the JV coach in a month or so, according to Osborne. As a graduate assistant, Young can only receive roughly S5,000 ot $6,000 - the equivalent to a full scholarship -and must be enrolled in at least six hours of class work. He will begin work in computer science, and already has e'er;' - n s lJ . - , - k 4 :jt C , ? t J' I . . 1 $ K" s XAx k .:i Staff photoby JohrTZoz Nebraska's Marc Adam runs on the indoor track at the Bob Devaney Sports Center Tuesday. Adam recently broke the Nebraska record in the 3,000 meter steeplechase in a meet in Arizona. earned a master's degree in mathematics. Graduate assistants are also prohibited from traveling to away varsity games. Young said that he was applying for a coaching job at Iowa State and had asked Osborne and Husker coach Cletus Fischer for a recommendation. "At that point, I think they (Osborne and the Nebraska athletic administration) knew that I was in terested in moving up," he said. "And that started the ball rolling." Young said that his addition to the Husker coaching staff is a "real challenge and a great opportunity." "I felt that this was an excellent opportunity," he said. "It's easier to move up to a college position from Nebraska than from Westside." After making about $30,000 a year at Westside, Young said that the move will also be quite a Financial burden. "My wife teaches," he said. "So that's one source of income." He also said that he has put away some money in anticipation of a move of this nature, knowing that he would probably have to take a cut in salary. In order to accept the job at Nebraska, Young first had to get a one-year leave of absence from the District 66 school board. Young said that if things work out this year at Ne braska, he plans on asking for another leave of absence next year. After that, he will not be able to make a third, due to NCAA rules restricting graduate-assistants to two years, but he said at that time he should know where the best opportunity lies - either in college coaching or back in a high school program. The leave of absence does not leave open the option for him to return to Westside as head football coach, but only as a teacher. Young's Westside teams of the past two years have each Finished 12-0 and as state champions in Class A. Solich, whose four Husker JV teams have all finished undefeated, also sees the move as a positive one for him. "It's very good to get to work with the varsity backs," he said. "I've had a chance to work with these guys in the freshman program" and he feels that he is familiar with them. Solich says that his coaching methods will probably be a combination of his own and Corgan's. "There's no question that he's done a tremendous job with the backs," Solich said. "I think some things he's done have rubbed off." Before Young can turn his full attention to his new job, he has one more duty to fulfill at the high school coaching level. He has been selected as the South coach in the 1983 Nebraska Shrine Bowl. Young said that he intends to keep that obligation, and according to the Shrine Bowl committee, that is fine, as long as he assumes the Husker position after the game is played in August. In other news relating to Nebraska football, it was announced on Monday that next year's game with Okla homa has been moved back one week. The game was moved from Nov. 19 to Nov. 26 to accomodate regional television coverage. Steeple By Jeff Korbelik eit breaks irecwd While most students went home over spring break, the Nebraska men's track team traveled to Arizona to train for the outdoor season and compete in two track meets. On March 26, Nebraska tied Brigham Young for second place in the Willie Williams Classic hosted by Arizona, winner of the meet. Mark Gunby in the 800-meter run and pole vaulter Glen Loontjer were the only individual winners and the foursome of Mike Cielocha, Dennis Wallace, Jim Hayek and Jon Jones won the 400-meter relay. But an impres sive performance was turned in by junior Marc Adam as he Finished second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8:43.10, breaking his Nebraska school record (9:12.90) and setting a national qualifying mark. "I trained a lot harder this year, worked harder on my technique, and I am adjusting to the system," Adam said. "It was hard to adjust as a freshman," Adam said. "In high school there were not as many high level athletes and the coa;h could concentrate on two or three athletes, and you only had to compete on a high level two or three times a year. Here at Nebraska there are 30 athletes a coach has to look after and we compete on a high level week in and week out." Adan is from Oshawa, Ontario, where he was the high school steeplechase champion and is the holder of Canadian interscholastic record in the 2,000-meter steeplechase. "They do not offer athletic scholarships in Canada and the competition and facilities are better in the states," Adam said. "If athletes want to improve, most Canadians go to the states." In indoor competition, Adam ran the mile (4:08.29) and two mile (8:55.37). Outdoors he has run the 1,500 meter run (3:52.46), distance medley and said he will probably run the 5,000 meter. Adam said he runs better outdoors. "Because I am taller, I'm a little slower because of the turns," Adam explained. "The conditions obviously can be a factor outdoors, but if there are ideal conditions, and the same effort is put forth, the times will be better outdoors." Adam said the Big Eight indoor championships were very disappointing. "We are not an eighth-place team. We should be at the top of the conference and we plan on showing that outdoors." "I believe I have the fastest time in the conference (steeplechase) and my goal is winning the conference," Adam said. This weekend Nebraska will be on the road again as they travel to the University of Texas' Memorial Stadium for the Texas Relays. Teams will come from the Southwest, Southeast, Western Athletic and Big Eight conferences. Kansas State is the only Big Eight school not competing. Adam will not be competing in the Relays, making it the only weekend he will be home for the rest of the semester. "It takes up a lot of your time," Adam said. "The weekends are shot, I miss school, and there is no time to do homework." 0 o n remisirv mw c mm. 1 Editor's note: This is the second part of a nine-part series looking at position-by-position outlook for the 1983 Nebraska football team. The team continues practice until the April 23 spring game. By Jack Denker If Warner Brothers were to make a movie featuring Nebraska's defensive secondary, they might just call it "The Return of the Fourth-Year Junior." This is because four of the Cornhuskers top five returning defensive backs fall into that category. Returning starters Bret Clark, Neil Harris and Dale Burke, all fourth-year juniors, will be looked upon to provide leadership early on this spring, defensive back coach Bob Thornton said. "I have a lot of confidence in our defensive backs," Thornton said. "Right now we are ahead of where we were at this time last spring, but we're not as good as we were at the end of last season." Another fourth-year junior who saw extensive duty as a reserve last season, is Mike McCashland from Lincoln. McCashland is currently listed as the number one monster back on the Husker depth chart. "It's been a long time coming," said McCashland of his starting role. "But it's been worth the wait. I feel great now, but I hope I can just keep it there." McCashland said that the experience he gained last season will benefit him this spring, but he also feels that everybody else is going to benefit from being a year older as well. b i . "! thnk, with a11 of us being the same age (Clark, Harris Burke and McCashland), we'll work more as a unit, McCashland said. "I also think we're a little closer as a group than last year." Although the most important part of spring football is to find replacements for graduated seniors, it is also important building depth, Thornton said. "During the spring we do a lot of technique drills mK-iPa S m ortM for US to evaluate the players' abihty Thornton said "We try to keep it simple so as to limit confusion and find out if the players have a good Continued on Page 1 1
