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[Steve Stone]

Remarks to the effect that some HuskerListers had high expectations 
goiing into the USC game make me wonder. The midweek news that senior 
center Curt Mann would not play pretty much squelched thge few high 
expectations I had previously entertained.

Current Weird Harold articles analyzing the game should be printed 
and framed as masterpieces of superficiality.

1. Phenom Dwayne Jarrett constituted the primary element of the 
talent difference(s) between USC and NU. Most likely he'll declare 
for the NFL draft at season's end and ought to have an immedidate 
impact at the pro level. Perhaps there does exist somewhere a college 
cornerback who could effectively negate him, but I doubt it. I can't 
think of a single NU cornerback in the past two decades who could 
have stopped him. And we've had some good ones.

2. Unpleasant as the loss was, it wasn't even Jacks For Openers 
compared to the 1996 ASU game.

3) Aside from his passing skills, sophomore punter Dan Titchener is 
developing into a reliable replacement for Sam Koch.

4. If memory serves, true sophomore Ndamukon Suh got the only one-man 
sack of the Trojan quarterback.

5. USC did have control of the game in the fourth quarter, but not to 
the extent that Carroll was willing to send in reserve QB Mark Sanchz.

6. The O-line started one true sophomore (Slauson), one redshirt 
sophomore (Huff), one true junior (Patrick), one redshirt junior 
(Byford), and one senior (Austin). By NU standards, that's a green 
and inexperienced front five. We have to wonder they as well as they 
did against the Trojans.

Steve Stone