Chris Heine
NU changes
columnist's
view on team
A crystal-ball column written
Saturday about 1:30 p.m.:
Nebraska secured a 4-0 record
Saturday against Washington; how
ever, in the long run, a loss might
have better served a Husker team
deep with young talent.
In college football, it is better to
lose early than it is to lose late.
With a loss today, Frank Solich’s
club would’ve had the chance to look
in the mirror, get mad, and then get
even.
They could’ve maybe pulled off
one of those rare one-loss national
championships with enough soul
searching. Maybe.
To the chagrin of the Husker
seniors, the future isn’t now for the
men in scarlet and cream.
In a far, far away place called
reality, NU is the favorite to be pre
season No. 1 in 1999.
Nebraska’s freshman class
already is earning its scholarships
with the defensive play of Keyou
Craver, Jason Lohr and Jeremy
Slechta.
By this time next year, these
young pups will be junkyard dogs.
They’ll join Kyle Vanden Bosch
with Mike and Ralph Brown to once
again dose the Blackshirts with
Charlie McBride’s south-side-of
Chicago ferocity.
What about this year, you ask?
Let’s continue to discuss the defense.
Where’s the exceptional leader
ship we’ve heard about all summer?
Nebraska’s defense at times has
looked like a mess of loose ends just
asking for a little gel.
Chemistry isn’t cheap, folks.
And those of you who think three
patsies, a week off and a Pac-10 team
will be enough preparation to win the
resurgent Big 12 need to take off your
Fiesta Bowl sunglasses.
Kansas State has the most talent
ed, experienced team this side of
Ohio State. And one of these days
Colorado is going to decide not to
take it anymore, and actually fight
the Big Red bully.
Not to mention Oklahoma State,
Texas A&M and Missouri.
So far, Nebraska’s usually brutal
offense has resembled Auburn or
Clemson and their throw-first and
option-second attacks.
Those two programs don’t reload
- they rebuild. It looks like they have
some unfamiliar company in
Nebraska this year.
Saturday about 7 p.m.:
DeAngelo Evans. A surprisingly
deep (who’s Russ Hochstein?) and
strong offensive line. A fast, aggres
sive defense playing as a unit. Bobby
Newcombe in the open field. 55 to 7!
Nebraska is in the process of
making another legitimate run at yet
another national championship.
You can learn a lot in one game.
Heine is a senior news-editorial
major and a Daily Nebraskan staff
writer.
NU pounds Tigers, Cyclones
By Andrew Strnad
Staff writer
Swift and methodical.
That was the recipe for victory
this weekend for the Nebraska vol
leyball team.
The No. 3 Comhuskers found lit
tle challenge from Missouri or Iowa
State taking all six games in a com
bined two hours and fifteen minutes.
Saturday night the Huskers
pushed their record to 11-0 with a
15-7, 15-3, 15-4 win over Missouri
in front of 3,689 fans at the NU
Coliseum.
Like Friday night, when senior
middle blocker Megan Korver had
10 kills on 10 attacks, Korver domi
Volleyball
Nebraska 15 15 15
Missouri 7 3 4
Kills: NU 43 (Korver 11)
_MU 34 (Maune 8)
nated Saturday as well, with 11 kills
and just one error.
“Korver had a great weekend. If
she’s not Big 12 player of the week,
Aaron ought to be fired.” NU Coach
Terry Pettit said, referring to volley
ball information director Aaron
Babcock. “She only had one error
the entire weekend.”
For the weekend, the 6-foot-1
Panama native had 21 kills and hit
.714.
Korver, who left to attend a wed
ding after the match, wasn’t the only
Husker on fire. The team hit .402 for
the match after hitting .438 the night
before.
The wealth was spread evenly
with seven players having at least
three kills.
“We played a lot of people. I sus
pect, as time goes on, we’ll play
fewer and fewer people, but I want to
give everyone a fair shot.” Pettit said.
Defensively NU held the Tigers
(8-6) to a meager .080 hitting per
centage, and the Cyclones (2-12) to
.024.
While statistically the Huskers
have shown to be dominant, Pettit
said it’s a little too soon to call
Nebraska a great defensive team.
“Missouri’s well coached and
well organized, but physically it’s
hard to judge that they were a good
defensive team,” Pettit said. “I think
if you play Texas, Colorado, some of
the stronger teams in our conference
and do the same, then you can take a
little bit more from that.”
Senior outside hitter Jaime
Krondak also downplayed the team’s
strong defensive numbers, which
included 13 team blocks.
“Defense is not exactly our
strong point right now. Don’t quite
know what the problem is, but that’s
what were primarily working on
right now,” Krondak said.
The Huskers will get their chance
to improve on their defense on the
road die next two weekends.
NU will play at Kansas on Friday,
followed by Oklahoma on Saturday.
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NU MIDFIELDER AMY WALSH wins the ball over two Southwest Missouri State University defenders Sunday at the
Abbott Sports Complex. The Huskers won 7-0.
By Darren Ivy
Staff writer
Not even 10 Southwest Missouri
State defenders inside the penalty
box could stop Nebraska women’s
soccer team Sunday at the Abbott
Sports Complex.
The No. 21 Comhuskers (6-2)
rolled to a 7-0 victory to complete a
perfect weekend. NU defeated
Loyola-Chicago 11-0 Friday night
Despite the lopsided wins, the
Huskers thought they accomplished
what they had to this weekend, fresh
man striker Kelly Rheem said.
“I felt we improved in a lot of
areas,” Rheem said. “We needed to
do that”
Against SW Missouri State, NU
struggled to a 2-0 halitime lead.
Freshman midfielder Meghan
Anderson set up the first goal by
drawing a penalty in the box.
That enabled senior Kim
Engesser to knock in a penalty shot
in the eighth consecutive game she’s
scored a goal. That streak is a NU
school record.
Husker Coach John Walker said
the packed-in Bear defense frustrat
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‘ESPN GameDa/ crew
impressed with crowd
ByLisaVonnahme
and Brandon Schulte
Staff writers
“Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns
N’ Roses played in the background
while a makeup man blotted sweat off
Kirk Herbstreit’s forehead.
The crowd chanted “Go Big Red”
as Herbstreit, Lee Corso and Chris
Fowler, members of the “ESPN
College Football GameDay” crew,
prepared for a live show Saturday at
10 a.m. from east of Memorial
Stadium.
Fowler, a Colorado graduate,
addressed the crowd: “To the socially
challenged who slept here last night,
you guys are sickos.”
But overall, the trio agreed the
Nebraska fans and the atmosphere
they create on football Saturdays are
the best in the nation.
“There’s no place better than
Nebraska,” said Corso, a former
Indiana coach who was defeated by
die Comhuskers twice. “Of all the
places I’ve visited and coached, I think
the Nebraska fans are the most knowl
edgeable and have the best sportsman
ship of any place.”
Herbstreit, a former Ohio State
quarterback, was impressed with his
first visit to Lincoln and compared the
Husker fans to those of the
Southeastern Conference. But
Herbstreit noted one major difference.
“The people from Nebraska are
very friendly,” Herbstreit said. “You
get down South and the people get
kind of wild. It’s probably the alco
hol.”
ESPN’s “GameDay” is known for
attracting large crowds of people who
cheer loudly hoping to get a spot on
TV The Nebraska fans were no differ
ent, creating so much noise that it was
difficult to hear the threesome during
the show. It’s that fanfare that reminds
Herbstreit of his playing days at Ohio
State.
“The louder, the better,” Herbstreit
said. “The distractions make me focus
more on my job. It’s exactly like play
ing football.”
All three had predicted an NU vic
tory before No. 2 Nebraska thrashed
then-No. 8 Washington 55-7. All were
impressed by the Huskers’ intensity.
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“ESPN’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMEDAY” Commentator Chris Fowler (left)
and analyst Kirk Herbstreit laugh as analyst Lee Corso puts on a cornhead
hat after saying he was picking Nebraska to beat Washington.
“You could kind of see the win
coming from the minute (the
“GameDay” crew) hit the ground,”
said Fowler, an Associated Press poll
voter. “I didn’t get the feeling from
talking to Washington’s players and
coaches that they really knew what
they were in for.”
The crew from Bristol, Conn.,
began setting up the stage Thursday in
preparation for the Saturday show. A
few die-hard fans anticipating
“GameDay” camped out Friday night
to guarantee a spot in the background
of the show.
A few of those “sickos,” as Fowler
called them, were University of
Nebraska-Lincoln junior Brian
Langbehn and University ofNebraska
at Omaha junior Tony Smiley.
“We camped out because the show
is fun and it shows the spirit of college
football,” Langbehn said. “Everyone
gets crazy for the show.”