Bank examiner quits job to coach NU team
By Todd Cooper
Suff Reporter
In 20 years, Bill Weber wants something
more to look back on.
That is why the former Nebraska all-confer
ence defensive end said he quit his four-year
job as a bank examiner to come back and
voluntarily coach football last year.
What Weber really wants, he said, is to
someday coach a NCAA Division I program.
“It just came to the point where I thought,
4 In 20 years, did I want to say I had been a bank
examiner all my life?”’ Weber said. “I think
most of us (the freshman football coaches)
would like to come up with a Division l coach
ing job. It’sa tough business, but we’ll see what
happens.”
After coaching the Nebraska junior varsity
receivers last season, this year Weber moved
up as the JV’s graduate assistant head coach.
He replaces another volunteer coach, Shane
Thorell, who was bumped to the varsity to
assist secondary coach George Darlington. The
JVs reported Monday and began practicing
Tuesday.
“When the opportunity came, I took it,”
Weber said. “I really believe in athletics at the
college level.
“The things I learned as a college athlete
are invaluable. They’re things that you cannot
pick up in a classroom. The demands, both
athletically and academically, are very strin
gent.”
Based on his career at Nebraska from 1981
to 1984, Weber, a three-year starter, knew how
to balance those demands. He was voted three
times to the all-academic Big Eight with a 3.50
GPA, graduating with a degree in finance.
Weber said his experiences on and off the
field as a former player, and the exposure of his
assistants to the game at the major college level
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will help the new, younger players.
Weber will be assisted this season by gradu
ate assistants Bill Kucera, Turner Gill, Steve
Stanard and Kevin Miller, and undergraduate
assistant Scott Olson.
Kucera, who coached at Schuyler High
School, will work with the offensive line; Gill,
who quarterbacked Nebraska from 1981 to
1983, will coach the quarterbacks and running
backs; Stanard, a former Husker defensive end,
will coach the linebackers; Miller, a former
Husker defensive lineman, will coach the de
fensive iine; and Olson will ccach the defen
sive backs.
“I think the best thing we have to offer is
what it takes to make it at this level,” Weber
said. “We know what it takes, so we have to
lead them in some fashion to that goal.”
Weber remembers how he was led 10 years
ago when he first reported as a college fresh
man under then coach Frank Solich, who is
now the Huskers running DacKS coacn.
“The glaring thing I remember from Coach
Solich was his competitiveness,” Weber said.
“As most people know, you’re required to do
well on every play for him.
“Most of his teams were successful, bu* no
matter what, they always were tough-hearted.
That’s how I hope to influence my players. It’s
not necessarily a player’s ability that deter
mines success, but how much he is willing to
sacrifice to achieve his goals.”
Weber said he also has witnessed several
sacrifices by Nebraska coach Tom Osborne.
“You simply can’t work with a better coach,”
Weber said. “He definitely was a strong influ
ence in my decision to try coaching.
“Throughout the years, he has been a tire
less worker, totally committed to ihe team. He
always demands the best out of himself and out
of the people around him. Those arc the types
of things I’m working for.”
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Calvin Jones, #32, a running back for the South squad, is brought down by North linebacker
Peyton Wayne, #37, during the Shrine Bowl game.
North defeats South in Shrine Bowl;
six of seven NU recruits participate
By Cindy Wostrel
and Mark Munn
Staff Reporters
Among the 70 participants in Sat
urday’s 32nd-annual Shrine Bowl
football game were six of Nebraska’s
seven 1990 scholarship players.
With recruits Cory Schlesinger,
Jon Pedersen, Zach Wiegert and Terry
Connealy as members, the North team
defeated the South 19-16 in front of
about 2,000 Memorial Stadium fans.
The South featured recruits Calvin
Jones and Rob Zatechka. Absent was
Sutton’s Jay Spearman, who opted to
play in Friday’s All-Star basketball
game at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center.
It was the North’s seventh victory
in the last nine years, but the South
leads the series 16 to 13 in the classic
that be^an in 1959. Three games have
ended in ties.
The South’s Matt Wibbels of
Central City was named the game’s
most valuable defensive player by the
media. Kevin Stein of Chadron, who
completed eight passes for 116 yards
for the North team, was named the
most valuable offensive player.
The North amassed 307 yards in
total offense compared to the South’s
179. The North rushed for 159 yards
and completed 10 of 20 passes for 148
yards. Tlie South gained 111 yards
rushing and also threw 20 times,
completing six for 68 yards. The North
registered 18 fust downs to the South’s
10.
Schlesinger, a two-time state wres
tling champ at Columbus High School,
outgasned the South’s Jones, who was
considered one of the nation’s top
prep running backs last year. Schles
inger, playing fullback, rushed for 82
yards on 17 carries and two touch
downs.
Jones, of Omaha Central where he
established himself as Class A’s all
time leading rusher with 3,965 career
yards, carried 13 times for 67 yards
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