Why can’t
we all just
love Frost?
Why does everybody hate
Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost?
Why does he deserve to be
booed at by a number of Husker
fans who were loud enough to
make their objections of Frost’s
playing time known to the coaches
and players on the field?
Do they despise him because
the Wood River graduate and all
state athlete decided to go to
Stanford and play football for Bill
Walsh, instead of donning the
crimson and cream.
Of course, it is terrible that an
18-year-old kid can’t make a deci
sion to go to a university with a
coach known for his preparation
and teaching of NFL quarterbacks.
God forbid Scott wanting to give
himself an opportunity.
Or are people upset at Frost for
not being Tommie Frazier?
This seems to lack validity,
because in Frost’s first year as
quarterback he completed 52 per
cent of his passes, while Frazier
completed just 44 percent. Frost
rushed for 438 yards while Frazier
had just 399.
Granted, Frazier had 704 yards
rushing his sophomore season and
604 his senior season (he had 248
his junior season but was injured
for most of the year), but in the
first two games this season, Frost
has 175 yards. If he stays healthy,
he should finish the year with
more than 700 yards.
Also in Frazier’s best season he
was just a 57-percent passer.
Do people blame Frost for last
season’s losses to Arizona State
and Texas, which cost the Huskers
a chance of winning their third
straight national championship?
Frost was sacked three times in
the ASU game for safeties but
where was the protection from the
offensive line. Against Texas,
theFrost-led Husker offense scored
27 points, what should been more
than enough for the Husker
defense.
Do Nebraska fans think
Frankie London is the next
Frazier?
Surely, that was the hype when
London was recruited. He would
be the next Frazier. But London is
just starting to live up to expecta
tions.
London is content and happy
with being the No. 2 signal caller
rig’-t now. So, why does Frost
deserve the booing?
“He’s our best quarterback,”
Coach Tom Osborne said. “Other
than one or two plays today, (Frost)
played flawlessly. For heaven’s
sakes, you watch Joe Montana, and
he didn’t compete every pass.”
But for Frost the fans expecta
tions may always be greater than
any of his accomplishments.
Kluck is a journalism gradu
ate student and the Daily
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Saturday morning and (Mrio State on Saturday night to win the Arby* Classic for the sixth straight year.
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By Shannon Heffelfinger
Assignment Reporter
Mistakes and miscues by Ohio
State transformed a battle of ranked
teams into an easy victory for the
Nebraska volleyball team Saturday
night.
The Comhuskers - who swept Oral
Roberts and Tennesse earlier in the
Artoy’s Classic - needed less than two
hours to defeat OSU 15-5,15-13,15-11
in front of 4,221 at the NU Coliseum.
Several kill attempts by the No.
17 Buckeyes were either halted by the
hands of the Husker blockers or bob
bled by the attackers.
Momentum-swinging service
opportunities resulted in OSU service
errors nine different times, and late
«= block set-ups seldom phased the
fifth-ranked Huskers (8-1).
“We did hang in there,” Ohio State
coach Jim Stone said. “But every time
we made a mistake - whether we free
balled it over or we didn’t get a good
swing or we didn’t serve tough,
Nebraska, just like any good team
would do, capitalized on it.
“As a team, we’re just not at that
point where we can keep going and
going and not make any critical mis
takes.”
With one chance to extend the
match and avoid its second loss of the
day, the Buckeyes (6-3) turned to
their outside hitter tandem of Vanessa
Wouters and Andrea Pankova. The
two seniors, who had 126 of the
Buclpeyes 188 kills in three matches
during theHoumament, fell short in
the final minutes.
The All-American Wouters
attempted two kills jduring the short
span, the first sailing out of bounds.
Krondak adds spark
By David Wilson
Senior Reporter
Jamie Krondak thrives on
emotion.
As a returning starter for the
Nebraska volleyball team this sea
son, Krondak has become more
1
vocal on the court in an effort to
help her teammates. But concen
trating on her own game has not
come as easily.
Her goal at the beginning of
the season was never to hit below
.220. Through the Cornhuskers’
first eight matches, Krondak was
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Then with OSU trailing Nebraska
13-11 and Denise Koziol serving,
Pankova slammed the ball beyond
NU’s serving line. Down by two, the
Buckeyes again set Pankova, but her
second consecutive attempt flew
wide and out of bounds. Nebraska
ended the match with Jaime
Krondak’s 13 th kill of the night.
Wouters finished with 22 kills,
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NU soccer team drops two games
Huskers lose in regular season for the first time since 1995
By Jay Saunders
Assignment Reporter
Games against Texas and Texas
A&M in the same weekend made for
what Nebraska soccer coach John
Walker called the toughest road
weekend of the year.
The No. 5 Nebraska soccer team,
which had not lost a regular season
soccer game in its last 23 outings, lost
1-0 to Texas Friday, and fell to Texas
A&M by the same score Sunday.
It was the first time the Huskers
(4-2 overall, 2-2 in the Big 12) lost a
regular-season game and consecutive
games since losing to USC 4-0 on
Oct. 27,1995, and UCLA on Oct. 30
iiv the final two game* of the ’95 sea
son.
“I find it disappointing in every
aspect,” Walker said. “We needed to
execute better.”
Against Texas (2-2, 2-1), the
Huskers out-shot the Longhorns 19
13, but a shot by Texas’s Rachael
Safirstein at the 47:56 mark made the
difference in the game.
Safirstein, a junior forward, put a
shot by Husker goalie Rebecca
Hombacher from 25 yards out on a
Bonnie McAuliffe pass.
Texas sophomore goalie Cami
Vamadore finished the game with six
saves, including two off shots taken
inside thesix-yard box by junior Kim
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“We didn’t compete at an appro
priate level,” Walker said. “We had a
lot of pressure after we were behind,
but we shouldn’t have put ourselves
in that position.”
Walker said despite the same
result, the Texas A&M match was a
vast improvement. The two teams
played in front of an Aggie Sports
Complex record crowd of 1,368.
Both the Aggies and the Huskers had
four shots on goal and eight shots
overall.
The two teams battled to a score
less tie at halftime.
The only score of the game came
at the 52:31 mark, when Sharon
Peters.
Walker said the game was typical
of the Nebraska-Texas A&M series.
Last season, NU handed Texas A&M
two losses both by one goal, with the
second coming in the Big 12 champi
onship game in overtime.
“We battled unbelievably,”
Walker said. “It was just a tight, one
goal game. They finished one of their
chances and we didn’t.”
Walker said the Huskers lacked
execution and the ability to finish
scoring opportunities throughout the
weekend.
NU outshot its foes 23-17 but
failed to get one past either team’s