Taylor anchors NU line
By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska’s offensive linemer
expect to be among the best in the
nation-again.
Led by three-year starter Aaror
Taylor, one of three returning starters
Nebraska has 63 games of starting expe
rience on the line and 14 letters betweer
them.
“We’ve been playing together a long
time,” senior right tackle Eric Andersor
said. “We’re pretty much ready to go.”
Last year, NU was forced to mov<
players around due to injuries and grad
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left guard position, Taylor played at cen
ter most of the season. Also, Jor
Zatechka needed to settle into his posi
tion at right guard.
This spring, NU was faced with
adversity again as starting center Josh
Heskew went down with a broken foot
and Anderson missed the last two week*
of spring practice with a sore shoulder
Now with the injuries fully healed, play
ers think they can avoid the adjustmeni
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Offensive Unema
Name Ht Wt Yr.
Fred Pollack *4 305 Sr.
Aaron Taylor 6-1 305 Sr.
Josh Heskew 6-3 280 Jr.
JonZatechka 6-2 290 Sr.
EricAnderson 6-4 305 Sr.
problems that befell them early in 1996.
We ve worked so much getting
everything together and getting our line
calls down,” Taylor said. “The two-a
day practices in the fall have made up for
what we lost in the spring as far as
injuries.”
The only offensive lineman who
will be starting his first game will be
fifth-year senior Fred Pollack at left
tackle. Pollack played in every game last
year for the Huskers, totaling 25 pan
cake blocks. He was a 1996 finalist for
Aaron Taylor could become the first
Husker to earn first team All American
n honors at two positions, (center and
- left guard)
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left Tackle
Left Guard
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Right Tackle
lifter of the year at NU and is again up
for the award this year.
Heskew, a junior, broke into the
starting lineup in Nebraska’s 41-21 vic
tory over Virginia Tech in the Orange
Bowl. Heskew said despite the broken
foot in the spring, he will feel no ill
effects during the season.
“There’s a two-inch screw in there
that will make sure it never happens
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But the biggest confidence boost,
Frost said, came in last year’s Orange
Bowl win over Virginia Tech. Frost
completed 11 of 22 passes for 136
yards and rushed nine times for 62
yards and two touchdowns.
“Personally, I feel a lot less pres
sure,” Frost said. “I performed well
the second half of the season, but it’s
still not as good as I can play. I
learned from the Orange Bowl that I
just need to go out and relax and play
and things are going to come. That’s
the way I expect things to happen this
year.”
At Wood River High School,
Frost learned to deal with the media,
but not the criticism. Over the course
of his high school career, Frost rushed
for 4,278 yards and threw for 6,859.
As a senior in 1992, Frost rushed for
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and was named a Parade All
American.
A highly touted quarterback out
of high school, Frost narrowed his
college choices to Nebraska and
Stanford before eventually deciding
to play for former San Francisco
49ers Coach Bill Walsh at Stanford.
“I guess if you’re an 18-year-old
kid and the most famous coach - as
far as developing pro quarterbacks
goes - tells you he wanted you, you
^ would be swayed,” Larry Frost said.
“Bill Walsh told him that, and he went
out there with the idea that Bill Walsh
would help him become what he
wanted to in life. It wasn’t anything
bad here at all. He loves Coach
Osborne and the program, but most of
us would have a little trouble turning
something like that down.”
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dreams became blurred a bit at
Stanford. As a freshman in 1993,
Frost completed 2 of 9 passes as a
backup to starter Steve Stenstrom. In
1994, Frost also saw time in the
Cardinal secondary. Frost started five
games at free safety while serving as
the No. 2 quarterback.
“At the time I played safety, I real
ly wasn’t nuts about it,” Frost said. “I
wasn’t sure I wanted to do it. But
looking back on it now, I really value
that, and I wish I’d have been a little
more serious about it.”
In practice, Frost would practice
at quarterback until Thursday, when
he would participate in the walk
through as a safety. Trying to learn
both positions was not easy on Frost,
his father said.
“It’s hard enough learning the
ropes about what your doing in a
complicated program just playing one
position,” Larry Frost said. “I don’t
iiiiiiK. oieve ioung or any or mose
guys would be as proficient at quar
terback if they spent half their prac
tice time playing on defense.”
When Walsh left Stanford after
the 1994 season, Scott Frost trans
ferred to Nebraska.
“As far as maturity goes,” Larry
Frost said, “he’s really learned to deal
with a lot of things - both good and
bad. I think he’s grown emotionally as
much as anything.”
Scott Frost said he is looking to
put last season behind and start this
fall with a clear mind.
“Looking back on it,” Frost said,
“everybody learned a lot. We lost two
games, but that’s the breaks. You have
to say, ‘The hell with it,’ and go.on and
play this year. We’re a tougher team
because or what happened last year,
and I think everybody has more char
acter and more heart. That’s going to
help us out.”
Though team goals come first,
Frost said, he will enter his senior sea
son looking to be remembered as one
of the top Husker quarterbacks of all
time.
“I hope they compare me to
Frazier this year,” Frost said. “I expect
to be as good as anybody that has
played here at Nebraska at quarter
back. That’s the goal that I have for
myself. The way I expect to play this
year. I won’t mind whoever they com
pare me to.”
NU Quarterbacks Coach Turner
Gill said he has worked with Frost’s
on his throwing motion and has seen
improvement in Frost’s mechanics.
“He’s a lot more consistent with
his passing,” Gill said, “and he has
improved running-wise also.”
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Nebraska to have a solid start to the
season, unlike last year when the
Huskers lost to Arizona State in their
second game of the season.
Frost said he hopes to put up good
enough numbers to be selected in the
NFL draft next year and live a dream
he has carried since high school. Frost
said he would put his NFL goals aside
in order to win a national champi
onship.
“This would be -1 wouldn’t want
to say sweet revenge - but after every
thing that’s gone wrong, this would
really be a great way to end it,” Frost
said. “There’s a lot of people out there
that probably still doubt my ability
and probably doubt the team in gener
al. It would be great to go out and
show them that they’re wrong.”
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