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THE BATTALION
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By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
The story of Karl Godine’s col
legiate basketball career at Texas
A&M is an involved one, to be sure.
In Chapter 1 of his story, Godine
arrived at Texas A&M along with his
Houston Kashmere teammate, Jar
vis Williams, in 1975.
Earning a starting position on a
SWC championship-bound team,
Godine averaged 12.6 points per
game as a point guard. He had a high
game of 24 points and 10 rebounds
against Texas that season.
Midway through their freshman
season, the Kashmere duo was sur
rounded by controversy. They were
accused in a letter by then head bas
ketball coach at Texas, Leon Black,
of accepting illegal recruiting in
ducements from Texas A&M.
The outcome of this was a one-year
suspension by the SWC and a first
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Last season, the NCAA allowed
the reinstatement of Godine and
Williams, beginning Chapter 2 of
Godine’s story.
After sitting in the stands for a sea
son, Godine had returned. And his
basketball game was, in a word,
sluggish. He and Williams were
playing with an entirely new team
and they were having trouble adjust
ing.
This resulted in less game time
than Godine was accustomed to in
his freshman year. He was benched
for two games.
On Jan. 30, Baylor came to G. Rol-
lie White Colesium. Godine was
having a good game. In fact, he was
beginning to look like the Godine
that played on the championship
team.
Then, with six minutes remaining
in the first half, Godine went to the
basket for a layup. As his feet re
turned to the floor, he grabbed his
knee and limped off the court. He
was not to return to the Aggie lineup
for the rest of the season, sidelined
with a torn tendon in his knee.
, Last week, Godine wrote the third
and final chapter to his Texas A&M
basketball career when he an
nounced that he would not return to
Texas A&M next season. Instead, he
proposes to go to an NAIA school,
where he will be eligable to play bas
ketball for two years.
“I feel like I need two years of
college basketball, and at A&M, I
only have one year left,” Godine
said. “I never had the chance to
reach my peak. I need a chance to
show the people that I can play col
lege basketball; I know what I’m ca
pable of.
“But it seems like I’ve been held
back. So, I talked to Coach (Shelby)
Metcalf, and he felt like I needed two
years of basketball. He told me to
make my best choice.”
Metcalf said that he feels Godine
made a wise decision.
“I think this will inhance Karl’s
chances of getting his basketball
game together,” Metcalf said.
“I think that two years more than
doubles his chances of playing pro
ball and that is something Karl —
should strive for.
“ Realistically, I think Karl is doing
the right thing. I have contacted
NAIA schools for him, with his per
mission.”
Godine said that Stephen F. Aus
tin State University and a school in
New Mexico were the main two
schools he was considering.
“I’ll have to sit out for the first 18
weeks of school. That’s an NAIA
rule,” Godine said.
Godine describes his years at
Texas A&M as being filled with
“plenty of frustration.” But he says
that he “learned a lot” while he was
here.
One gets the feeling that he was
not speaking merely of academics.
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Karl Godine drives the basket for Texas A&M
last season while Baylor’s Vinnie Johnson de
fends. It was to be Godine’s last game as an
Aggie. An injury sidelined him for theresti
the season and now he plans to transfertoii|
NAIA school.
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HOUSTON — The acquisition of
Rick Barry is a continuation of the
headlong crash being made by Hous
ton Rockets President Ray Patterson
in his pursuit of a second NBA cham
pionship.
As their fans can quickly tell you,
the 11-year-old Rockets have never
won the NBA title. But the 1971
Milwaukee Bucks, with Patterson as
chief operating officer and Lew Al-
cindor as center, did. And since 1972
Patterson has been wheeling and
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“I hope,” Patterson said after he
announced the free agent signing of
Barry, “this will serve notice to
Houston that the Rockets are going
to do whatever we have to do to pro
duce a champion. We aren t just say
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something.”
There was doubt about that before
the Rockets traded for the right to
the No. 1 selection in the 1976 draft
to take a playmaking guard, John
Lucas, instead of many more
acclaimed players, and before the
Rockets traded several draft choices
to obtain center-forward Moses
Malone from Buffalo early in the
1976 season.
That 1976-77 season, Houston ad
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playoffs.
There was still something missing,
Patterson said at that time. He
wanted a high-scoring, tough re
bounding forward to set opposite
Rudy Tomjanovich and keep de
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janovich.
Last season injuries decimated the
Rockets, but Patterson was busy,
nevertheless, working on a way to
afford Barry, 34, one of the high
est priced athletes in pro sports.
Patterson let center Kevin Kun-
nert, who did not figure in the Rock
ets’ plans, play out his option after
last season and go to Boston. If Barry
can perform at or near his career
scoring average of 25.1 points,
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