Lewis heavily recruited by top football teams
LEWIS from Page 15
‘Wow what is going on here.'”
Lewis, a USA Today Kansas
player-of-the-year and an All-State
selection, made a recruiting visit to
Kansas State. He said the K-State
alumni in Scott City understood his
decision to attend Nebraska.
Lewis said he knew a lot about
Kansas Stale and Nebraska before he
was recruited. Rick Lewis, Lance’s
brother, attended Kansas State, and
Lance attended a football camp at
Nebraska.
“I came up before my senior year
to a football camp and that is what
kind of made up my mind,” Lance
said. ‘‘I mean, after that I thought,
‘Wow, that kind of ruins all the fun of
ail these (recruiting) trips I wanted to
take.’ I really don’t want to take one
now that I’ve seen what Nebraska has
to show me.’"
Lance said all the Big Eight
schools recruited him, as did Iowa,
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Arizona Slate and UCLA. But, Lance
said, he took recruiting trips to just
Nebraska and Kansas State.
He said that being six hours away
from home was another advantage to
attending Nebraska.
“My brother came to watch me last
weekend,” Lance said. “I got to hear
him tell me what I did wrong and then
I got to go to meetings and hear
coaches tell me what I did wrong. It
was kind of fun."
Lance said his brother has helped
him on and off the field. When he saw
Rick being recruited, Lance said, it
gave him encouragement that he also
could be recruited.
Rick was recruited when Lance
was in 7th grade. Lance said that gave
him the chance to see the recruiting
tactics of different colleges.
Rick was recruited by Nebraska,
but only as a walk-on. So he attended
Kansas State where he started last
season for the Wildcats, Lance said.
Rick’s decision to play for Kansas
State didn’t help the Wildcats in its
recruiting of Lance.
“I was just there (at Kansas State)
so much watching all his games it just
wouldn’t have been an experience to
go there, it seems like,” Lance Lewis
said. “It was like my second home. I
wanted to go somewhere where not
all the coaches knew me.”
Lewis said he also wanted to attend
a program with a winning tradition.
Kansas State’s last winning season
was in 1982.
Lewis said it’s exciting to be a p?ut
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isn’t trying to make the starting team
sight away. He said he already has
accomplished his first goal at Ne
braska, which was to make the travel
ing squad.
“I’m 3rd team right now and they
(the coaches) want to bring me along
slow,” Lewis said. “All along they
thought I might have a chance to play
a little bit. It’s kind of a day by day
deal.”
Lewis said he doesn’t deserve a
starting position right now. He real
ized that when senior Tyreese Knox
switched to fullback and moved
ahead of Lewis on the depth chart
after one week of practice.
He said he can see a starting role in
a couple of years, but if people were
injured, he would be ready to step in.
UNLV dreams to become reality
Saturday at Memorial Stadium
UNLV from Page 15
currently a running back for the Na
tional Football League's Cincinnati
Bengal s.
“That’s one of the things that we
felt going into the season . . . that
Tommy was a good replacement for
Icky,” Nunnely said. “He's an excel
lent running back.”
Nunnely said the Rebels have a
“decent” quarterback to go with
Jackson.
Rcdshirt freshman Charles Price
completed 9 of 16 passes for 158
yards and a touchdown against Ohio.
His touchdown pass was an 80-yard
strike to Mike Reddick, the 4ih-!ong
esl touchdown pass in Rebel history.
It was also the first touchdown pass
the Rebels have completed this year.
‘That's one of the
thing that we felt..
. That Tommy was
a good replace
ment for leky.’
— Nunrtely
But Nunncly said slopping Ne
braska quarterback Steve Taylor will
be necessary.
Taylor, a senior from Fresno,
Calif., rushed for 116 yards on 17
carries in Iasi week’s 47-16 win
against Arizona Stale.
But the Huskers’ quality running
backs to go with Taylor make him
even more dangerous, Nunncly said.
I-backs Ken Clark and Terry
Rodgers gained 122 and 113 yards,
respectively, against the Sun Devils.
“If you stop Steve, he pilches and
the back runs for 100 yards,” Nunnely
said. “If you slop the pitch, he hands
off and the fullback gains big yard
age. They have so many variations on
offense that they can attack you with
anything you try lo do defensively.”
Psychiatric analysis suggested before
dealing with angry athletes, coaches
GREEN from Page 15
traveling, though, is having fans at
opposing universities stare in silent
wonder at your portable VDT, on
which your story will be written and
sent back to the office's system.
If the oress section is not separated
from the fans, they will often read over
your shoulder and tell you how to
improve your story.
Deadlines. Over your head, like a
hungry vulture, hangs the deadline,
waiting to unravel the very fabric of
your sanity. It has no sympathy. It has
no mercy. You can’t reason with it,
and you can’t escape it. It’s always
there, bringing tears to your eyes, a
throb to your head and high blood
pressure to your veins. Enough said.
Angry coaches The first thing a
DN sports writer will learn is that you
can’t please everybody. When you’re
talking about Husker coaches, you
may as well give up — you won’t
please anybody.
Coaches are close cousins of sports
writers. They are immersed in sports
and stress. The big difference is what
they’re paid. Coaches generally make
more than we do. Not that all of them
deserve to, but it just works out that
way.
If you write your opinion, as I do
every week, you’ll get bagfuls of let
ters and earfuls of complaining and
sniffling — and that’s just from
coaches.
Angry athletic department offi
cials. The only difference between
mad athletic directors and mad
coaches is that the ADs are paid more
and know more about sports — just
ask some of them.
Angry players. Players often are
upset by things that are written about
them, but my experience has been that
most players don’t gel involved in
opinion columns. They know more
than the coaches do about what’s
being written, and they know when the
columns are correct
More often than not, players have
laughed about a column blasting
them. They’ll say the DN was right
and then proceeded to tell us more
than what we wrote in the first place.
This usually happens right after
their coach calls the DN office to deny
everything in the column.
A.igry sports information direc
tors. Tnts goes along with the trials
and tribulations of traveling to cover
sporting events. "Misplaced" media
credentials, standing room only press
box accommodations and dirty looks
are all sports information specialties.
Not here at Nebraska, mind you, but
nearly everywhere else.
College of Journalism professors.
Sports writers, to them, are the enemy.
Journalism professors see a certain
amount of evilness in the eyes of those
who make their living going to foot
ball and basketball games.
They’ll try to steer you away from
this field. They will constantly convey
to you the merits of a career as a farm
feature writer at The Hooterville
Bugle as opposed to a job as a nation -
ally syndicated columnist for The
Chicago Tribune and a contributor to
Sports Illustrated.
Beware!
Recognition. This isn’t always
what it’s cracked up to be. It’s nice to
be recognized, but not always. Some
one may say, "Hi. Good story today"
to you on campus, which is nice, but
then you spend the rest of the day
wondering who it was and why they
know you. What did she really think of
my column? Is she single? Does she
have a boyfriend on the football team?
Will he be waiting in the bushes out
side my apartment when I get home?
That’s how ulcers are formed.
Stereotypes. Sports writers are
drunken, stressed-out loonies who
used to play sports. Now, their organ
ized athletic careers are over because
of injuries or whatever, and they just
can't seem to get away from the field
or the court or the diamond or the pool.
Right?
Well...
Internships. After you’ve written
for the DN for a while, you try to snag
an internship at some hot daily news
paper during the summer. Most DN
sports writers have had at least one
internship. They’ve worked at places
like The Chicago Tribune, the Omaha
World-Herald, The Raleigh News and
Observer and so on.
out me most interesting mings are
the rejection letters. The Boston
Globe sends out the funniest ones.
They’ve gotten rejection down to an
art—you’d have to see it to believe it.
Heartbreaks. Face it. you’ll never
get every story you get a tip on and
you’ll never live a month without
being scooped.
In 1985, when I started working at
the DN, a Husker freshman football
player told me of his recruiting adven
tures. He named six different schools
that offered him. among other things,
$2S,000 signing bonuses, cars,
monthly payments, jewelry, clothes
and anything else necessary for a
normal, happy, healthy college life.
For various reasons, the story never
ran. Now, all but one of the schools are
either on NCAA probation or are
being investigated. None of them
were when I heard of it three years
ago.
Of course, that’s only the begin
ning of what a student sports writer’s
life is like. There's more, but this is a
decent, law-abiding newspaper (stop
laughing!), so I won’t write about it
If you choose this profession, con
sult you family psychiatrist first
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Justice major, and Is the Dally Nebraskan’s
copy desk chief and First Down Magazine
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