Could this be NU’s year?
I ms is it. 1 ne Dig one. l he toot
ball season everyone has been wait
ing for. Gather ‘round, everyone, and
get the kids out of bed.
This is important, damn it!
Ah-hem . .. drumroll, please . . .
the Comhusker football team is going
to win the national championship this
season.
No more excuses. No more whin
ing. No more patsies on the schedule.
This is it, baby.
The 1991 Huskers are going to be
unstoppable. They’re going to pass
more than usual... maybe even on
first down. Ooooh ... ahhh!
It’s going to be a hot fall this year
in Lincoln. Coach Tom Osborne is
hot. He’ll be tanned, rested and ready
for another major Division I onslaught.
Even if some of his players can’t
remember what lime — or days — to
show up for football practice, he’ll be
primed.
No prisoners will be taken this
year by the Huskers. This is serious
business, and the Blackshirt death
squads will be out for blood.
Nebraska’s schedule is hot, too.
No more Minnesota, Northern Illi
nois or Montana Cub Scout Troop
451. Next season is chock full of
Washingtons and Arizona States and
Oklahomas and Colorados. Even
Colorado State, a bowl winner last
season, will make an appearance at
Memorial Stadium.
But it won’t be bowl time for the
Rams in September. The Huskers will
butt heads with them until the paint
peels from their helmets.
Speaking of helmets, some of those
crazy Huskers had X’s on their hel
mets throughout the spring, and even
during the Red-White game. How
can you lose with that kind of frolick
ing, fun-loving spirit?
There will be X’s on Nebraska’s
helmets and O’s under the other team’s
name on the scoreboard in ’91. It will
be a regular tic-lac-toe on the gridi
ron.
Chuck
Green
Footballs will fly in Memorial
Stadium, and an unusual number of
them will be thrown by Husker quar
terbacks. Most of those passes will be
caught by wingbacks and split ends
with blistering speed.
But back to the Blackshirts, a.k.a.
the defensive starters. Gone arc Mike
Croel, Kenny Walker, Pat Tyrance
and the regular names in the defen
sive backficld. Most of them are off
to the National Football League.
Good luck, guys, and take care.
Your teammates here will carry on
your tradition, as always.
The Husker defense that is left has
a lot to prove, to itself and its critics.
They’ll be hitting a little bit harder,
covering opposing receivers and run
ning backs that much closer and gen
erally making life miserable for play
ers and coaches who come to Lincoln
looking for a win at Nebraska’s ex
pense.
Not this year. Recess is over.
This team will look a lot like the
1971 Huskcrs, revered by many —
especially in Nebraska — as the great
est college football team of all time.
But 20 years later, the Huskcrs will be
a trip down memory lane. They’ll
play alike.
Sometimes they’ll walk alike and
talk alike ... what a crazy pair.
Any way you look at it, ’91 will be
remembered throughout the college
football community as “The Year of
the Husker.”
Add to all that Inc fact that Ne
braska won’t be ranked highly to start
off the season, and you’ve got the
main ingredients of a national cham
pionship season.
Miami, Notre Dame, Oklahoma
and Washington, with their legions of
returning starters, will be the August
favorites of coaches and sports writ
ers alike to compete for the right to
party hearty in January, with their
index fingers pointing to the humid
Miami or Tempe skies.
But they’ll all be sadly mistaken.
The Huskers will go about their busi
ness quietly, demolishing teams,
ranked and unranked throughout
September and October, then taking
aim at the Big Eight crown and a trip
to the beach.
Before anyone knows what hap
pened, Nebraska will be 11-0 and
ranked atop the Division I heap.
After the smoke clears from the
Orange Bowl game, the Huskers will
be dancing on Biscayne Boulevard
and being fitted for their national
championship rings.
Yessiree, this is the year die Husk
ers finally win the big one. People
around here have been saying it for,
oh, about 20 years now, and have
always ended up disappointed for one
reason or another.
But this is the year the Huskers
take all the marbles. Right? Right.. ?
Uh-huh.
And this is also the year Santa
Claus and the Easter Bunny will break
dance on the Sower’s head atop the
State Capitol on Christmas morning
while eating a plate of nachos and
sour cream.
Recess IS over. The Huskers will
lose four games, including the bowl
game, and finish third in the confer
ence.
But don’t fret. Eight wins in a
season is a great accomplishment.
There are lots of teams and coaches
who would love to have Tom Osborne’s
record in January.
Or so I’m told ... and told ... and
told ...
Green is a senior news-editorial major, a
Daily Nebraskan senior sports reporter and
a copy desk editor.
repm says more qualifiers needed
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
After one of Nebraska’s best-cvcr
performances at the Drake Relays,
track and field coach Gary Pepin is
still restraining his optimism about
the Comhuskers’ chances at the NCAA
outdoor championships.
The Husker men and women each
captured two event titles in the Re
lays last weekend, but did not qualify
any more athletes for the NCAA out
door championships, which will be
held May 29-Junc 1 in Eugene, Ore.
“It does concern me. It always
docs,” Pepin said. “You always want
more qualifiers than you have. But
there’s just not much you can do. I
don’t sit around and dwell on it.”
But, Pepin said, he hopes more
Huskcrs will use the season’s three
remaining meets — two of which are
at home — to qualify.
i nc Huskers will travel to Seattle
Saturday for a triangular with Wash
ington and Washington State.
After that, Nebraska will host the
Twi-Light Invitational on May 11
and the Big Eight championships May
19-20.
“We just need some good weather
and some good performances, and
we’ll be just fine,” he said.
In the men’s competition at Drake,
Anthony Adkisson won the 100-me
lerdash in 10.49 seconds and Stephen
Golding won the 110 high hurdles in
a personal-best time of 13.9 seconds.
The women’s 3,200 relay team
won in 8:37.25 — the second-best
time in school history — and the
1,600 relay won in 3:34.89.
The Huskers came close in other
events. The men’s and women’s 400
rel; learns were second.
crall, Pepin said, the Husker
teams had “a terrific meet.”
“The meet went pretty much as
expected," he said. “We did well in
the events we’ve done well in all
year, and we didn’t do so well in the
other ones. It was one of the best
meets Nebraska’s ever had out there,
so it’s hard to cut it down.
“But there still arc areas we need
to work hard on.”
One area in particular is the
women’s jumping events. But, Pepin
said, Nebraska suffered from a lack
of competitors at Drake. The Huskers
were without entrants in both the long
jump and high jump.
“It’s not a true concern, where we
have weaknesses, but we do hope we
can make more improvement,” Pepin
said. “Time is running out.”
Pepin said Saturday’s triangular
with Washington and Washington State
won’t be easy to qualify at, either,
because of the weather and the com
petition. Washington State is one of
the favorites to win the NCAA men’s
championship.
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