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Husker walk-ons have 36 holes to prove they belong
GOLF from Page 12
He had walked off the course,
another victim of dashed hopes at
die most pressure-packed college
sporting event you have never
heard of.
“It was easy to see he was a
good player,” said Romjue. “But
he couldn't bring it to the course
today. That was all she wrote.”
That was the stark reality fac
ing 12 walk-ons as they teed it up
on Saturday for the first day of the
two-day tryouts. Each had been
accomplished high school
golfers. Each felt they had been
overlooked, or they had received
other offers from smaller schools
Hie goal was the same - make
the team. This was their last
chance. This was their only
chance. Each thought they could
do so.
Romjue knew better.
"Only a couple of kids out here
have any kind of a chance,” he
said after he watched the final
walk-on group hit their initial tee
shots.
Romjue said he wouldn’t
absolutely rule out anyone before
he saw their nine-hole scores. But,
in his 30 years as coach, he has
learned a thing or two about these
tryouts.
"The best of walk-ons are
going to be comparable to my
worst players,” he said.
An hour later, the nine-hole
scores proved Romjue right. The
NU players, all ofwhom were par
ticipating, shot between 33 and
38. The walk-ons ranged from 38
to near 50.
Romjue seemed excited,
maybe a little relieved, that his
players trounced the walk-ons,
even though he had history on his
side.
“Since I’ve been here, I’ve
never found any player out here
that I didn’t know about coming
in. I’ve heard about guys before
hand, but nobody has ever
walked in here cold and made the
team.”
Three decades. Zero
Cinderella stories.
But while most of the 12 walk
ons fell by the wayside very early,
several tried to buck those seem
ingly impossible odds.
Justin Borzych, Joel Monahan,
Nathan Salmon and JT Douglas
each broke 80, bringing them
bade for a second day of tryouts at
Holmes Golf Course, and at least a
small chance at making the team.
Borsych, a junior, had carded
the best walk-on score, a 76. It still
left him well behind many of the
NU golfers.
The competition had been
whittled, but the pressure had
not
Now the golfers had only 18
holes left to prove themselves.
They weren’t playing the golf
course or each other, but rather
some invisible line they had to
cross to make the team.
The man they had to convince
remained unconvinced.
“I think Justin (Borsych) is the
only one with a real shot right
now,” Romjue said, standing on
the practice tee before the round.
“He’s going to have to have areally
good round today to have a shot”
That invisible line was looking
unreachable. The walk-ons
seemed to know it. While the
Husker golfers talked, joked and
hit shots at one side of the driving
range in preparation for the sec
ond round, die walk-ons silently
pounded balls at the other end.
For many, the strain was evi
dent
"I was feeling quite a bit of
pressure,” Borsych said. “I was
thinking I had to shoot a really
good round to make up for yester
day, when I didn't play really good.
“It was a lot of pressure. But
when it came right down to it, I
didn’t think I had a chance”
But Borsych proved himself
wrong, shooting a 69 at Holmes to
place him second, behind only
top Husker golfer Seth Porter, who
shot 68.
He made a believer out of
Romjue-sort of
“We are going to bring Justin
back and have him play some
tougher courses,” Romjue said. “I
have a feeling he might struggle a
little more on them, but right now
he’s going to continue.”
The others may or may not be
so lucky. Romjue has yet to decide
on the status of several others
who impressed him but didn't
score wdL
Most likely, there is just
Borsych, a junior transfer student
from Colorado State.
He didn't play golf in college.
Infect, last year, he didn't play golf
at all after severely injuring his
wrist Borzych couldn't even pick
upadutx
Romjue knew little or nothing
about him before Saturday.
He is the new fed-good story
of the tryouts, but Romjue offers a
word of caution.
“Guess there is a first time for
everything,” he said on Sunday
night“Butte's still gotaway toga
There are no guarantees yet*
No one knows that better than
Ken SoelL He is a one-handkap
per at Woodland Hflls. He works at
the course. He may have been the
best of the walk-ons.
After 14 holes of golf, he is
right where he started off
“I felt it was a little unfair.... I
fdt it was very up to chance," he
said. “Two bad holes and I was
out
“It was so...unfair"
JT Douglas and Ken Sod, two wak*ous
trying to make the squad, react to their
Quarterback question
at center of Texas A&M
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tious A&M fans will have to
lower their expectations in 2000.
A disappointing 8-4 record in
1999 may look like something to
shoot for in 2000 with Kansas
State, Texas and Oklahoma on
die schedule.
But Slocum said he is look
ing at the glass as being half full.
"We’re a good football
team,” he said during the Big 12
Media Days in July. "This team
reminds me of our Big 12 cham
pionship team. Nobody picked
us to win it that year. I don’t see
ourselves as an underdog, that’s
why you play the games."
That’s where A&M might run
into some problems, if they do
any running at all
A rushing game that was
practically nonexistent last year
(the leading rusher had 583
yards) forced the Aggies to rely
upon the arm of departed quar
terback Randy McCown.
A one-dimensional offense
doomed the Aggies to go from a
5-1 start and a ranking as high as
fifth to a 3-3 finish and being
outscored by an astonishing
112-6 in those last losses -
blowouts to Oklahoma,
Nebraska and Penn State
University.
“When you suffer losses like
we did,” said senior linebacker
Jason Glenn, “it shouldn’t take
much to motivate you. That's
been the case this summer.”
The summer and fall work
outs have been spent trying to
improve the predictable Aggie
offense of last season.
But without a talented quar
terback like McCown to throw
the ball, Slocum had a big deci
sion about who would be under
center.
Going into fall camp, com
petition for starting quarterback
was between three inexperi
enced signal callers: sopho
mores Vance Smith and Mark
Farris, and redshirt freshman
Colby Freeman. They have com
bined for 30 career pass
attempts.
Farris, a drop-back throwing
quarterback, has since emerged
as the leader, with Slocum nam
ing him the starter for the open
er at Notre Dame. But the coach
said in July that just because a
Quarterback starts one game,
doesn’t mean he’ll be the starter
all season.
“Some guys just make good
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things happen on the field,”
Slocum said. “We're looking for
that guy.”
Receiver Chris Tfeylor said it’s
of no importance to him who’s
delivering the ball
"All three can really play,”
the senior said. “It's not a ques
tion of which guy I like best All
three are capable, and on any
given Saturday, any of them
could lead us on the field to vic
tory."
If Farris can’t get the job
done with his arm, A&M may
have trouble getting it done on
the ground, even though
Slocum said he expects to be a
better running team this year.
The return of fullback Ja’mar
Toombs and three returners on
the offensive line help that
causealitde.
“Toombs is a well-molded
fullback,” Slocum said of the
265-pounder. “When he carries
the ball, he’s a load. We’ll defi
nitely give him his chances to
carry the ball"
Toombs is the only semi
proven weapon in the rushing
attack, with a freshman and
sophomore occupying the top
two spots at running bade.
“We have a number of young
backs that didn’t play last year,
and we’ll see how they stack up,”
Slocum said.
With expectations always
high at Texas A&M, a repeat of
last year’s second half will not be
permitted by die faithful, Glenn
said.
“Our strength coaches
remind us of those games last
year each time we work out" he
said. “We won’t ever forget it"
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