Antone Oseka
Big 12 loses
its sparkle
after losses
Note to Big 12 Commissioner
Steve Hatchell: Change your confer
ence’s name to the Less Intimidating
League (LIL) of XII.
The new LIL XII will have no
football powerhouses. Conference
rules state that each team must try to
lose to, or at least struggle with, every
opponent. Even in conference games.
The new name is retroactive to
last Saturday.
So much for the powerhouses (or
lack thereof): Nebraska barely beats
Central Florida. Texas and Colorado
combine to score six whole points
against teams they were favored to
beat. Kansas State wins by three over
Ohio.
As for the future powerhouses
(we don’t want to stunt their potential
growth): Iowa State loses by 24
points to former LIL XII Coach Glen
Mason’s new team, Minnesota.
Kansas and Missouri fight to a 15-7
Jayhawk win. KU could face league
sanctions for beating another team in
the LIL XII. It should at least try to
tie.
The only LIL XII team that post
ed a decent victory was Oklahoma
State, which beat Fresno St. 35-0.
The Cowboys are under considera
tion to join a more intimidating
league - Conference USA. Texas
Tech posted a good win, 59-14 over
Southwest Louisiana, and will be
reviewed for league eligibility by the
LIL XII committee on fairness.
The LIL XII is the conference of
the future. The kinder, gentler confer
ence that isn’t concerned with win
ning, but with how the teams feel
after the contest. Sure, many of the
players will miss out on bowl games
and postseason awards, but someone
in college football has to sacrifice,
and that someone will be the LIL XII.
Texas, last year s Big XII champi
on, will be the role model, showing
the other teams in the league (through
a clinic in Austin) the proper form for.
laying down to get stomped by 63
points. For the coaches^ CU’s Rick
Neuheisel will show die proper form
for gently prodding a quarterback to
get his head into the game.
Further, to ensure the conference
stays out of the national spotlight, the
two teams with the least number of
losses at the end of the year will play
each other, keeping at least one, if not
both, from a shot at the national title.
That way, the other conferences can
play for that big, ugly trophy and all
that money.
I can see it now... Games against
LIL XII teams will be a guaranteed
win for schools from all the other
football conferences. No team will
jump off a LIL XII schedule for fear
of traveling and losing a game.
Wouldn’t that be a great confer
ence to play in?
Oseka is a senior news-editorial
major and a Daily Nebraskan
senior reporter.
Ryan Soderlin/DN
SCOTT FROST follows the block of fullback Joel Makovicka last Saturday during Nebraska’s 38-24 win
over Central Florida. Frost will lead Nebraska into Seattle against No. 2 Washington Saturday.
Experience aids Frost
By David Wilson
Senior Reporter
Scott Frost vividly remembers
his first trip to Husky Stadium.
Filling in for injured Stanford
quarterback Steve Stenstrom, Frost
helped lead the Cardinal to a 46-28
upset over the Huskies as a fresh
man in 1993. But the circumstances
of Frost’s return to Washington will
be a little different this Saturday.
“It’s a fun stadium to play in,”
Frost said, “but the crowd is defi
nitely going to be into it. And it’s a
huge game so we’re going to have
to be prepared for that.”
When the seventh-ranked
Cornhuskers travel to Seattle this
Saturday to face No. 2 Washington,
Frost, Nebraska’s senior quarter
back, has a good idea of what to
expect.
“I think it’s just a comfort
Qjig
L_ p.
thing,” Frost said. “I know the set
tings, and I know the surroundings.
It’s always good to know where
you’re going - what the locker
room looks like, and what the stadi
um looks like. I think it will be a lit
tle bit of a benefit to me.”
In Frost’s first road game as a
Husker last season, Nebraska was
upset 19-0 by Arizona State. The
Sun Devils tackled Frost for two
safeties, and Frost fumbled a ball
out of the end zone for another. But
this year’s first road game is a much
different situation, Frost said.
“It’s like night and day,” Frost
said. “Last year I was still trying to
understand things, and get comfort
able with things. This year, it’s just a
matter of getting sharp and under
standing what to do with this partic
ular type of defense.”
The Huskies run a 4-4 defense -
similar to the defense the Huskers
§aw last year against the Sun
Devils. But Nebraska can deal with
any defensive scheme, NU coach
Tom Osborne said, it’s the athletes
that make the difference.
Nebraska handled a similar
Arizona State defense in 1992 with
a 45-24 victory over the Sun Devils
in Lincoln. Last year’s Arizona
State team had athletes similar to
those on the Washington this sea
son, Osborne said.
But senior offensive guard
Aaron Taylor said the Huskers
learned from their mistakes last
season, and will be ready to take on
the Huskies.
“A lot of us guys played last
year in the Arizona State game, and
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KATIE JAHNKE, a redshlrt freshman middle Mocker on the Nebraska volleyball team, heads tome to Wisconsin
this weekend for the Big Ten-Big 12 Challenge in Madison. HU faces No. 1 Penn State and No. 14 Wisconsin.
Missouri
edges NU
in Texas
From Staff Reports
Despite finishing with the low
score in the third round, the Nebraska
women’s golf team still finished sec
ond at the Jeannine McHaney
Memorial Golf Tournament in
Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday.
The Huskers shot a final round of
299 and finished with a three-round
total of906,12 strokes behind tourna
ment champion Missouri. The Tigers
also beat the Huskers in their first
tournament of the season, the Chip-N
Club Invitational earlier this month in
Lincoln.
NU’s 54-hole total of 906 was the
Huskers’ lowest in school history.
Nebraska’s previous 54-hole record
was 909 set at the Big 12 Fall Preview
last fall and at the NCAA Regionals
on last spring.
Overall, 1 was really pleased with
our performance,” Nebraska coach
Robin Krapfl said. “We could have
scored a little better. We still need to
get more consistency from all our
players.”
One of the Huskers, junior Hanne
Nyquist, didn’t perform consistently
but still finished fourth overall in the
tournament. Nyquist shot a first- and
third-round score of 71, but during the
second round Monday afternoon
Nyquist became overwhelmed by the
heat and shot an 82.
Krapfl said Nyquist suffered was
n’t the only member of the team who
suffered from heat exhaustion as the
Huskers shot 18-over par in the sec
ond round.
Senior Shirin Homecker also did
n’t perform consistently, shooting a 74
and 73 in the first two rounds. She
then shot a 79, her highest round of the
year in the third round. After the first
two rounds, Homecker was one shot
off the lead but finished the tourna
ment with a 226, tied for eighth place.
Junior Gretchen Doerr struggled
the first two rounds of the tournament,
shooting an 82 and 83 but shot a 72 on
Tuesday to finished tied for 24th.
Sophomore Elizabeth Bahensky fin
ished with a three-round total of 230
for 12th place, and senior Rachelle
Tacha shot a 234 to finish in a tie for
22nd.
Trip home
thrills NU
freshman
By Andrew Strnad
Staff Reporter
This weekend will be one of the
biggest weekends of the year for
Comhusker road trips.
In addition to the Nebraska
Washington football game Saturday
in Seattle, die Husker volleyball team
, travels to Madison, Wis., to compete
j in the first ever Big Ten-Big 12
Challenge
One Husker, Katie Jahnke, has
been eagerly awaiting the volleyball
. trip, which will feature three of the
top 10 teams in die nation.
The redshirt freshman circled
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