Daily Halfaskan
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Friday, April 24, 1987
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By Lois Lane
Staff Reporter
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Nebraska men's basketball cosch Lenny Gee reacts to the news that DH sports editor Chuck Green and five other
members of the DH sports department were cited for NCAA-SNIC violations.
"I knew that kid was up to something ail along," Gee said. "He's probably going to court, but I'm sure he'll find a way to
win."
Hi ho! Rec centerpractice field not enough for f-ballers
Enough is enough sometimes.
Last February, I wrote a column that
said the proposed indoor practice field
and student recreation center was a
bad idea and another good example of
the football team's getting whatever it
wants.
Boy! I don't know what I was think
ing that day.
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The debate is moot It's not even
important. What is important, though,
is that Big Tom and the Bobfather get
whatever they want whenever they
want it, and that's that.
My, imagine my surprise when the
alcohol wore off and somebody told me
what I had done for my column that
week. How could I have been so stupid?
But then, those are the risks one takes
when consuming two cases of Coronas.
But let's get back on track here and
t&lk about that important building.
Anyone who can't see its importance is
a jerk. How could we have been so blind
for so long and wait until now to build
the thing? After all, how many thou
sands of football-playing toes have suf
fered the cold through the years? A lot,
I guess.
When that dairy company kindly
donated the space for Big Tom and the
Bobfather to beg. . .er, ask the fine
citizens of this wonderful state for
their nickels and dimes and paychecks
to construct the building, everyone
should have realized how important it
was. After all, it's much more important
than those worthless missing children
that valuable milk carton space was
devoted to for so many years before
now.
But come now. Is a new indoor prac
tice field enough? No! We don't need
these buildings all over campus that
are only used for pardon the expres
sion classes. After all, students
who study in the library now won't
even be here in four years, so what do
they care? The Bobfather should go
straight to the Legislature and de
mand. . . er, ask for tax money to con
struct a new football residence hall,
completewith an indoor swimming
pool and maid service. Those poor, cold
football players who carry on the glory
of Nebraska shouldn't be expected to
clean out their own closets, which are
full of thousands of dollars worth of
clothes. They practice hard every day,
so how can anyone in his or her right
mind ask them to wash and wax their
own Corvettes and Trans Ams and
380ZXs? They certainly can't clean and
polish all those gold chains they wear
around their necks or the gold watches
that so many of them own. That would
be like asking a milkman to go milk the
cow.
Why are people in Nebraska so
ignorant? Every year, millions of dollars
are poured into academic aspects of
UNL Where are the priorities of this
state? Doesn't anyone want to sit and
daydream about national champion
ships anymore? I know I do. Hi ho!
Some day, Nebraska is going to
buy. . .er, win a national championship
everybody knows that.
But the wait doesn't have to be that
long.
The best plan is to get rid of useless
colleges like the Business and Arts and
Sciences colleges. Who cares? We need
a domed stadium and brand new foot
ball jerseys and equipment. Blue-chip
recruits certainly don't come to Ne
braska to get an education, so let's give
them what they want: lots of money.
That's probably an unenforceable rule,
anyway.
Hi ho!
Green is a junior news-editorial and
criminal justice major from Lincoln and
is being hunted by several large men
who don't like his writing. Hi ho!
DH should rot,
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Nebraska basketball coach Lanny
Gee said he was pleased and disap
pointed with his 1987 recruiting class.
"We got some pretty fair kids, but
some of them might have some prob
lems gradewise getting here," Gee
said.
Gee's first Cornhusker recruiting
class has already been tabbed as the
No. 1 class in the nation by Gerald
Hoffmeisterson, a basketball recruit
ing analyst from Dallas.
"I can't believe it," Hoffmeisterson
said in a telephone interview Thursday.
"How Gee got these players, I'll never
know, but he could start a pro team
right now with that kind of talent."
The prize catch of Gee's recruiting
class is 7-10 Naginder Smith, a Niger
ian who attended Brooklyn's Sisters of
the Poor High School on a student
exchange program. Smith, who aver
aged 88 points and 45 rebounds per
game, was recruited by 789 other
schools. He said he chose to attend
Nebraska "because I like cows."
"I don't know what it is about
them," Smith told the Daily Halfaskan,
"but I've always L en drawn to them.
Maybe it's because of the fact that I
feel that I was a cow in an earlier life. I
kind of like corn, too, but not as much."
Smith said he plans to major in
nuclear science with a strong emphasis
on biology for a minor.
Emmitt Meriweather, a 7-6 forward
from Our Lady of 24th Street High
School in Dubuque, Iowa, also will
attend Nebraska. Meriweather turned
down offers from Kentucky, Kansas,
Indiana and the Colorado Institute of
Mimes to accept Gee's scholarship
offer.
Meriweather's coach, Sam Straight
arrow, said he feels Meriweather will
do "very well" as a Husker.
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"Now if he could just learn how to
dribble the ball, he could be an Ail
American someday."
Bruce Gibson, a 7-7 guard from
Switchblade High School in Miami,
also plans to attend Nebraska. Gibson
averaged 27 points and three techni
cals per game last year for the Monarchs.
His coach, Gino "Lefty" Vichelli, said
Gibson was "detained downtown" and
could not come to the phone, but he
expressed gratitude for Gee's decision
to offer Gibson a scholarship.
"It warms my heart to think that
those kind folks up there in Nebraska
want Bruce so bad,' Vichelli said.
"Hell, everybody wants him down here,
too, but they all wear badges."
The final recruit in Gee's class is
Scott Pumpernickle, a 5-3 forward from
Lobster Anus, Maine. Pumpernickle
averaged three points and half a rebound
per game for the Whalers last season,
which was disappointing, he said, after
his junior season.
Pumpernickle averaged 34 points
and seven rebounds per game two sea
son ago.
"I don't really know what happened,"
Pumpernickle said. "I had such a great
year two seasons ago, and now this. I
guess it could have had something to
do with the fact that I lost both legs in
a skiing accident last winter, but I
don't know. I think I can still make a
comeback."
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