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But at the Big Eight Champion ships, Nebraska couldn’t dethrone two-time conference champion Oklahoma. Hartung said it was difficult to compete at Oklahoma. “We have a great arena here at Nebraska because the fans are close to the floor and- its well lit, plus the fan support was enormous,” Hartung said. “But down at Oklahoma their arena is sort like a pit— it’s dark, the fans arc far away from the floor and there is never anybody at the meets except our fans that year. “We didn’t like being there more than anything. There were words going on between our coaches at the time so it was a bad atmosphere for gymnastics.” The Huskers went on to win their first NCAA championship later that year by defeating Okla homa by more than two points. Hartung said that in the first round of the NCAA meet, he wasn’t sure whether Nebraska was going to win. “(Former Huskcr) Larry Wil liams was hurt and Oklahoma was much better in the compulsorics then we were,” Hartung said. “We were t vo-tenths of a point behind Oklahoma going into the finals. “Everything was very tense in the warm-ups for the finals and they seemed to be more uptight then we were. One of the boosters sent Francis a singing telegram and at the end, he was presented with a wrench because the year before, the Oklahoma coach had called the rest of the gymnastics teams a bunch of plumbers because they plumb through their routines. It caused everybody to just loosen up.” Hartung said his two favorite years were 1979 and 1981 because everything went right. He said Nebraska’s defeat of Oklahoma in front of 8,500 fans in 1981 is the NCAA meet he remembers the most. “I loved to perform in front of the large crowds, and when we stepped out on to the fkxtr that year, the crowd just went crazy,” Har tung said. “But I finally beat (for mer Oklahoma gymnast) Bart (Connor) in a major competition and thai *vas a big thing to me.” Hartung said he and Connor had a rivalry going in 1981. “By '81, me and Bart had a little personal battle going,” Hartung said. “What really hurt me was before I came to Nebraska, me and Bart were pretty good friends and that slowly deteriorated over the years. It’s almost like I had to hate Bart to get fired up enough to beat him.” Hartung said the rivalry got in tense during the 1979 Big Eight meet. “I remember a guy on the team, Kirt Fredrick, who was aboutb feet tall,” Hartung said. “He needed the high bar adjusted and Oklahoma’s coach said no. I think that’s the closest I’ve ever seen Francis and (former Oklahoma coach Piul Ziert) almost getting in a fight.” Hartung said he will never for get the four years that he competed at Nebraska. While competing for the Huskcrs, he won seven individ ual NCAA titles and a combined 11 NCAA Gold Medals. In 1982, he was awarded the Nisscn Award, which is awarded to the nation’s top senior gymnast. “I grew so much as a person in those four years that it helped to succeed in other things,” Hartung said. “For now, those four years were some of the happiest days of my life, and 1 hope Nebraska will continue to have the reputation of being the best gymnastics program in the United States.” NU swim team hopes to stay unbeaten By Jeff A pel Senior Kdilor Nebraska men’s swimming coach I Cal Bcniz will be trying to continue | his season-long dominance when the | Comhuskers face Utah today at the Bob Dcvaney Sports Center. Bent/, whose Huskcrs have rolled | to a No. 10-ranking this season while compilinga 2-0record, said Nebraska will have to perform to the best of its ability to defeat Utah. He said the 3 0 Utes pose problems because they possess several outstanding swim mers. “They have some fast people,” Bent/, said, ‘‘so we need to be ready.” Bent/ said the meet is also impor tant because the Huskcrs will be chas ing several NCAA standards that eluded them during the Huskcr Invita tional last weekend. He said he would like to see Sean Frampton qualify in the 100-yard backstroke and Nebraska’s 800-yard freestyle relay team also meet its NCAA standards. “Our feeling is we like to move forward,’’ Bent/ said. “So we would like to gel the cuts out of the way.’’ Bent/, said the meet may help the Huskcrs make their cuts because they will be focusing strictly on Utah. He said that during the 10-tcam Huskcr Invitational, it was easy for Nebraska to focus on the team race rather than individual performances. “In a big meet like we had last week sometimes your times can get fragmented and you can get into your own thing,*’ Bent/ said, “but in the smaller meets you have to focus in on the competition.” Bent/ said he hopes Nebraska’s victory over No. 8-ranked Arizona Suite at the Husker Invitational shows coaches across the nation how power ful Nebraska is. He said the times that some Huskers swam would gel some attention. “I think the times will be as impor tant as the win itself,” Bent/, said. Utah coach Don Reddish said he was impressed by the limes Nebraska has posted this season. He said the Utes will need lobe in top form if they are going to defeat Nebraska. Reddish said Nebraska will enter the meet as the favorite even though Utah hasn’t lost a dual meet in two years because the Huskers arc ta pered. Tapering is a process in which sw immers hope to reduce their times by shaving and resting. Reddish said the Utes won’t taper until the Western Athletic Confer ence meet in March. “It’s just a difference in coaching philosophies,” Reddish said. Forward Vick accepts leadership role as young Huskers battle age dilemma The players should have known they were in for a tough practice. Nebraska coach Danny Nee showed up wearing black. All black. Nee decided a few players were loafing in three-on-two drills. He’d had enough. “All right, everybody on the line except for Derrick (Vick) and E.J. (Eric Johnson),” Nee said. “We’re going to run.” Vick, Nebras ka’s top returning scorer, and John son, a transfer from Baylor who is a starting guard, stood on the side tak ing turns at the drinking fountain. Kent Endacott { Vick ux)k off during the National Invitation Tournament last season, leading the Huskers to a third-place finish. He was named to the All-NIT first team. This season, he said, big things are expected of him. “He (Nee) is looking to go to me more this year because I’m one of the lop returning men,” Vick said, “and also because we have a lot of young guys. He has to look to the seniors for leadership until the freshmen come around and mature. 1 ’vc accepted this role.” Nee said that for the Cornhuskers to win this year, Vick will have to score and guard Henry Buchanan will have to run the team. “We’re going to have to build around them,” Nee said. “No two players contributed more than Buchanan and Vick going down the stretch and in the NIT. They were both big game players for us.” And Vick should be again. Nee has said Nebraska will run even more this season than they did last year. At 6 !oot-6and 200 pounds, Vick’s mobil ity should help him score more often off the fast break. “Thai’s a way of getting me open, and I can do what I want,” the senior forward said. Considering Vick’s credentials coming out of Hutchinson (Kan.) Junior College, it seems amazing that he chose Nebraska to do what he wanted. He earned honorable-men tion Junior College All-America consideration and was recruited by Kansas Stale, South Carolina, Oregon and Oregon Slate. Nee had just been hired at Ne braska when he met Vick at the Na lional Junior College Tournament. Vick said he liked Nee immedi ately and wanted to play his up-tempo style. Nee hired Vick’s junior-college coach, Gary Bargen, hut Vick said that had nothing to do with his deci sion to become a Huskcr. “I decided before he said he was going to Nebraska,” Vick said. “Well, 1 didn’t really decide it, but I had a feeling I was going to like it up there with the new coach and his persua sion-type of recruiting and his hon esty.” Bargen said Vick has improved since he coached him in junior col lege. “He’s developed. It’s a little dif ferent type of a style,” Bargen said. “He’s the kind of guy you watch the whole ball game and you don’t sec a lot of stuff, and then all of a sudden the game’s over and he’s got his 12-15 points and his eight or nine re bounds.” This season, Vick said, he knows he’s going to get a lot more attention from opponents. He said he’s ready. “I’m looking forward to that chal lenge,” Vick said. “Everybody really knows about me now. I’ll be heavily guarded. If I do a lot of scoring, then 1 II know I’ve improved over the years because now everyone will be keying on me.” Kndacott is a senior news-editorial major and a Daily Nebraskan sports reporter.