-Football1992—
Coaches’ expectations run high
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter
It’s only August, but Kenny Wilhite
is already looking for a better Com
husker secondary in 1992.
Wilhite, a senior cornerback, fore
sees this year’s secondary covering
opponents from all angles.
“We’ve got a lot of talent back
there,” he said. “It’s a lot of talent. All
we have to do is prepare these two
weeks in two-a-days and things will
come our way.”
Th ings came hard to the secondary
last year in Nebraska’s two losses to
passing teams, Washington and Mi
ami. The Husker secondary gave up a
combined 540 passing yards in those
two games.
In the home victory over Kansas
State, Wildcat quarterback Paul
Watson burned Nebraska for 340 yards
and two touchdowns.
Add to that the loss of two starters
in comerbacks Curtis Cotton and
Tyrone Legctte. Nebraska was forced
to the junior college ranks to fill its
holes and to shore up its passing de
fense.
To help Wilhite at comer and re
turning starters Tyrone Byrd and Steve
Carmer at safely, Nebraska landed
two highly touted junior college re
cruits who arc expected to contribute
this year.
One of those recruits, Karecm Moss
of Garden City Community College
in Kansas, runs a 4.5-second 40-yard
dash. He was one of the Jayhawk
Conference’s top defensive backs
before breaking his leg at mid-season
last year. Moss will compete for time
at corncrback.
Toby Wright, a junior college All
American, played safety at Phoenix
College in Arizona, and led the team
in tackles. Nebraska secondary coach
George Darlington said Wright could
play comerback and safety this year.
Juniors John Recce, Mike Heins
and Vernon Powell will also compete
for time at corncrback. Junior Ernie
Bcler will back up Carmer at strong
safety and sophomore Troy Dumas
will back up Byrd at free safety.
Darlington agreed with Wilhite
about the secondary’s potential.
“We expect to be real good,” he
said. “We expect to have an excellent
secondary.”
But he faces many questions head
ing into the season, such as who will
be starting at right corncrback.
Another concern is the status of
Wilhite, who suffered a season-end
ing knee injury against Kansas last
year. He tied for the league lead in
interceptions with six — one short of
a Comhusker record — despite miss
ing the final two games of the year.
Wilhite’s problems continued a
month ago when he suffered a pulled
back muscle. He said the injury had
been bothersome, but wasn’t serious.
“I fe$l like I’m ready,” he said. “I
worked real hard in the off-season to
lose a lot of weight, to strengthen my
knee up, so I feel like I’m ready.”
Wilhite said he wasn’t focusing on
leading the league in interceptions
again this year. But he does want to
win the Big Eight and gel a chance to
play in the Orange Bowl that his knee
injury forced him to miss last year.
“There was nothing I wanted more
than to play against (Miami),” he
said. “Hopefully we can repeat our
performance with a Big Eight cham
pionship and get back there.”
Defensive coordinator Charlie
McBride said only lime would tell
how good the secondary would be
this year.
“The thing is with our secondary
right now is the depth factor,” he said.
“If we get some guys to help, then we
will be in pretty good shape.”
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Experienced
kickers hope
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By Scott McNeal
Staff Reporter
If you’re talking kicking this year
at Nebraska, you’re also talking ex
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Punter Mike Stiggc and place kicker
Byron Bennett both return from last
year’s team with goals of improving
last year’s performances and making
the most of their opportunities.
Stigge, who had his best year as a
Comhuskcr last year, is reluming for
his senior season with hopes of im
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