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were looking forward to next season.
“With three starters back and win
ning the NIT, we really have some
thing to build on,” Markowski said.
“I’ve really never thought about leav
ing with those opportunities.”
With Nelson’s departure, the Husk
ers are left with two open scholarships
to fill in the spring signing period,
which begins today and runs until May
15.
One of those spots may be filled by
Rodney Fields, an all-state guard from
Tampa, Fla.
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Fields, a 6-foot-3 190-pounder
helped Tampa Bay Tech High School
within one game of the Class 5-A state
tournament. He averaged 20.9 points,
14 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game
and was named first-team all-area by
the Tampa Tribune.
Tampa Bay Tech assistant coach
Leo Haggerty said Fields would make
a decision in the next two days. Fields
is strongly considering Nebraska after
visiting Lincoln this past weekend,
Haggerty said.
“He told us he had a great visit,”
Haggerty said. “We’d love to see him
go there.”
Duke, Michigan, Connecticut and
Miami, (Fla.) are ail bidding to sign
Fields.
Haggerty, who coached with Ne
braska assistant coach Jimmy Will
iams at Minnesota and with Nee at
Notre Dame, compared Fields’ offen
sive skills with those of former Husker
Jaron Boone.
Fields is still waiting for the results
of his ACT, which he took during
basketball season.
“We want him to be happy,”
Haggerty said, “and I think Nebraska
would be a great place for him.”
Kris Hunter, a 6-10, 210-pound
center from Tallahassee, Fla., also has
made a visit to Nebraska. Hunter aver
aged 15.5 points, 14 rebounds and
eight blocks per game at Class 2-A
Florida A&M Developmental Re
search School.
Hunter’s high school coach, Ronnie
Lang, said Hunter already had visited
Nebraska and Virginia. Hunter has a
visit scheduled to Auburn this week
end, Lang said, followed by a visit to
Georgia the next week.
“He’s a strong rebounder,” Lang
said. “He’s a great shot blocker. He’s
very quick on his feet, and his best
days are still ahead of him.”
Like Fields, Hunter has not quali
fied academically. He has met his core
course requirement, but doesn’t have
the ACT score necessary to become
academically eligible. He plans to take
the test again soon, Lang said.
Lang said Hunter would not choose
a school during the first few days of the
spring period.
Another player showing interest in
Nebraska is Midland, (Texas) Junior
College guard Devon Phillip.
Phillip, 6-2, said he could play ei
ther the point guard or shooting guard
position. He has narrowed his list of
schools to Nebraska and St. John’s.
“I haven’t set any specific time to
choose one of those two yet,” Phillip
said.
Phillipaveragcd 17 points per game
his freshman year, and last season he
averaged 20 points per game, helping
to lead Midland to an 18-12 record. He
said he had not made an official visit to
Lincoln or to Jamaica, N.Y., home of
the Red Storm.
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Gymnastics coach
gets reality check
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
When Francis Allen lies in bed
al night, frightening thoughts enter
his mind.
The coach of the fourth-ranked
Nebraska men’s gymnastics team
dreams that his leading all-arounder,
sophomore Jim Koziol, is suffering
from a lower-back injury.
He dreams that J.D. Reive, a true
freshman with unlimited potential,
also is slowed by back problems.
And he wakes up in a cold sweat
thinking that one more injury on his
team will virtually eliminate the
Cornhuskers from contention in the
NCAA Midwest Regional on Sat
urday at the Bob Dcvaney Sports
Center.
But this nightmare isn’t a dream.
It is reality.
“I’m always optimistic this time
of year,” Allen said. “But now, op
timism is out the window. It’s time
to look at reality.”
The reality is that the Huskers
will have to place in the top three
Saturday to advance to the NCAA
Championships in Stanford, Calif.,
April 25-27. Considering the com
petition and Nebraska’s current
condition, that may be easier said
than done.
Allen said X-rays on Koziol’s
lower back found no broken bones,
but the Omaha native still would be
questionable for this weekend.
Reive, who saw his first compe
tition of the season two weeks ago
against Ohio State, will be avail
able for rings, and questionable on
the vault and parallel bars.
The regional will feature No. 3
California, eighth-ranked Okla
N.Y. Jets eye Phillips
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) —
Lawrence Phillips, whose slock has
soared in postseason workouts, has
impressed the New York Jets enough
that they’re considering taking him
with the top pick in next week’s NFL
draft.
The Jets seem set on picking eiliter
Southern California wide receiver
Kcyshawn Johnson, Illinois linebacker
Kevin Hardy or Phillips, the former
Nebraska running back who was sus
pended for six games last season after
being convicted for assaulting an ex
girlfriend.
“We evaluate every player very
thoroughly,” Jets coach Rich Kotite
said. “We feel Lawrence Phillips is a
very good player. We don’t discuss the
personal sides of people.”
Several NFL teams have expressed
added interest in Phillips since his
private workouts.
“We talked about his career and
being in New York, and 1 think it was
a very positive conversation,” Kotite
said. “I think he felt relaxed in the
conversation, and so did I.”
Phillips was in New York Tuesday,
meeting with both the Jets and the
Giants.
“It’s evident to everybody that he is
a big-time running back,” Jets person
nel director Dick Haley said. “He’s
225 with excellent speed and explo
siveness, and he catches the bal 1, some
thing we have not seen at Nebraska
very often.”
Johnson, Hardy and now Phillips
certainly have No. 1 potential, Haley
said.
“I don’t believe there is a down side
to Lawrence Phillips,” he said.
After signing tackles Jumbo Elliott
and David Williams, the Jets don’t
appear as high on UCLA tackle
Jonathan Ogden. So, barring a trade,
which Kotitc admitted remained a pos
sibility, Phillips, Johnson or Hardy
will be bound for New York on draft
day.
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do it,” Dishman said. “I won’t second
guess the coach. That’s why they call
him coach.”
Winning three straight national titles
would enable Nebraska to stand alone
in college football history. According,
to Dishman, that is a common goal
among the offensive linemen.
“Wc definitely want the third one. I
think we need to work twice as hard as
wc did last summer,” Dishman said.
“Wc need to step it up a notch to be at
that top level.”
At left tackle, Adam Treu, a senior,
will move into a starting role. Despite
not starting last year, Treu saw exten
sive playing time. The Lincoln Pius X
graduate is a former walk-on who has
waited his turn.
“My first couple years, I wasn’t
playing as much as 1 wanted to,” Treu
said. “He (Tenopir) told me to just
keep working at it and my time would
come.”
Many times, offensive linemen are
recognized for the wrong reasons, such
as penalties. The Huskcrs, however,
are known for delivering countless
pancake blocks. A year ago, the line
did not yield a sack cn route to
Nebraska’s second straight national
title.
“I take pride in not getting mental
penalties like jumping offsides,” Treu
said. “But we don’t throw the ball that
much, so it’s not too difficult not to
give up a sack.”
Nebraska’s strong tradition docs
not appear to be in jeopardy. Accord
ing to Tenopir, several nonstarters al so
have shown promise, including jun
iors Fred Pollack and Josh Heskew
and redshirt freshmen Adam Julch and
JefT Clausen.
Junior Eric Anderson is set to re
sume action at right tackle. The Lin
coln Southeast graduate said Tenopir
helped each player strive for excel
lence.
“He never settles for second best,”
Anderson said. “He pushes us harder
to get better and top everything we’ve
already done.”
As a native of Lincoln, Anderson
has seen Nebraska’s offensi ve-linctra
dition firsthand.
“You look at the Rimingtons, the
Steinkuhlers, the Wiegerts and Will
Shields,” Anderson said. “You just
want to be like them.”
homa, No. 10 New Mexico,
Brigham Young and defending na
tional champion Stanford.
California won the Mountain
Pacific Sports Federation Champi
onships last weekend, followed by
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Ne
braska. Stanford finished fifth.
Allen said the Husker coaching
staff was working hard this week to
alter routines and fill the scoring
holes left last week by the injuries.
“What we’re trying to do is take
out any mistakes that they could
make so we can reach our highest
possible score,” he said.
Junior still rings specialist Ted
Harris, who placed second in the
rings at the MPSF Championships
with a 9.5875, said the injuries to
Koziol and Reive had unified the
team.
“I think we’re reacting well,” he
said. “We’ve really got to come
together now, and I think it has
brought us together. It’s really fo
cused us on what we have to do.”
What the Huskcrs will have to
do, Harris said, is hit 100 percent of
their routines, especially on the
horizontal bar and floor exercise,
where only four of the possible six
gymnasts will compete for Ne
braska.
Harris and Allen both said they
thought a flawless performance
could give the Huskers a berth in
the NCAA Championships, and if
they perform to near perfection, a
win over California.
“We can’t go into Saturday’s
meet and have a disaster,” Allen
said. “If we were healthy, wc could
alTord that, but we can’t with the
shape we’re in now. Every guy has
to hit or it’s over.”
