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score that barely missed All
American status.
The sophomore from Kearney,
Kendig said, was showing good
improvement during the preseason.
“It takes away a lot of our depth
and flexibilit,.” Kendig said.
“Surgery went well and we know it’s
a healing process both mentally and
physically. v
“When this thing heals, and she
feels good, I think she will come back
with a stronger vengeance.”
But for now, Dority’s new role is
to be there for her teammates.
“Its hard for her to sit along the
sideline and just watch,” Brink said.
“It means so much to us to have her
sitting there and cheering us on and
knowing that she is behind us.”
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By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
It’s been almost two months since
the Nebraska football team was last
seen in action.
And it’s likely another two months
before they’ll be seen again.
Now the team is out of sight and
out of mind to most observers, as the
winter sports take center stage. But
the NU players and coaches hope the
work done during this “off period”
will focus them squarely in the lime
light next fall.
Defensively Coordinator Craig
Bohl said the dreary winter months
following the season are the best time
to reflect and build on last season.
“The first thing we want the play
ers to accomplish is a foundation of
strength, speed and power,” Bohl said.
“They get bigger, stronger and faster
right now.
“What we try to accomplish as
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coaches is to take a critical look at
what we did last year. We want to see
what we did well and not so well to
stay on the cutting edge and make the
necessary adjustments.”
Coming off a 12-1 season that cul
minated in a 31-21 victory over
Tennessee in the 2000 Fiesta Bowl,
the team doesn’t have many adjust
ments to make, Bohl said.
But a No. 2/3 finish in the nation
al polls will only increase motivation
for the team to make those changes, I
back Dan Alexander said.
“We still need to improve a lot to
hopefully go undefeated next season,”
Alexander said. “Being that close to a
national title and not getting it, being
one step away has motivated everyone
to work harder to play for the national
title.”
NCAA regulations prohibit
coaches from direct coaching contact
with players until spring practice
starts at the end of March. So the
coaches try to stay in contact with the
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players at the position they coach, and
they formulate plans for spring prac
tice.
“We obviously try to have daily
contact with them,” Bohl said. “We try
to see how they’re doing with winter
conditioning. What you do is to try to
stay in the loop with them.”
Therefore training regimens are
set up by the strength coaches under
Boyd Epley and by the players them
selves.
The players workout with others at
their positions in specialized work
outs. Alexander said it’s in these group
workouts that the team chemistry
comes together and eventually, lead
ers emerge.
“This is the time when that kind of
stuff starts getting established,” he
said. “No one person is the leader, but
the seniors help to set up regulations.
“The coaches aren’t allowed to
have contact and discipline us, so the
seniors step up to be the coaches. They
are the leaders and the motivators.”
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