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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1978 Page 11 la Wait and see, says Metcalf *V WWAII By SEAN PETTY Battalion Staff If head basketball coach Shelby etcalfhad a slogan for his 1978-79 xas A&M University team it wldprobably be, “Wait and See.” Metcalf and his young team will playing the waiting game to see w long it will take before they iy “outstanding basketball” as stcalf says. The main thing I want to stress is itourteam is young, real young,” etcalfsaid. “I don’t know when we II jell but when we do, it will be a ry exciting brand of basketball. "I don’t know if we are a year iay or if we’ll be ready by the time nference play comes. So far. I’ve en very pleased with the work- ts. The players have demonstrated me in practice that they are going work hard this year and play as a im," he said. Ihe Aggies cannot ease into the 11 °f Curtis ison by any means. They open up tfywasheM [Ji North Carolina State, one of astweeldo ; nation’s perennial powers in or the SMC and ready to ling him oat him get ora 1) Belchera! it tailbad y back-upi r Armstaf ek. With finally hau ' back. ,y these Mus- je, spring. Ik their plas be great fa he throw the rushi 3 lus, thedf- ffect on on bowl tl« :k the h i 6-1 at tli Meyer. Th ison isahei blue. N? basketball, at the Alaska Tourna ment in Anchorage. The game will be televised to add to the pressure on the young Aggies. “Our biggest problem is that the players have to learn how each other plays,” Metcalf said. “Three of our top nine players are new and we will just have to see how they react when they start the clock in Alaska. “The tournament is definitely going to help us. My only regret is that we will not have a game before that. If we could get a couple of games under our belts it would give me a chance to see how these younger players are going to per form on the court with the rest of the team in a game situation. “All in all, I feel very good about where we stand at this point.” The Aggies have been putting the roundball to the hardwood since Oct. 15 and will have an open house Nov. 16 at G. Rollie White Col iseum. The Aggies will have a scrimmage then so that the public can get an idea of how the Ags will look this year. Metcalf would not say who the starting five are at this point because it would “take away some of the competitiveness” but he did say that freshman Rudy Woods would start this year. “Rudy will start because he has worked so very hard this fall,” Met calf said. “Although he is a super talent, he realizes that he has a lot to learn and he is working hard all the time trying to get better.” Metcalf said that eight or nine of the players are coming along real well and that there is more competi tion at the guard position than at the front line. “We have a lot of guys who started for us at one time or another back this year,” he said. “We’ve got Vernon Smith and Rynn Wright who both started a lot as freshmen last year. Dave Goff, Steve Syles- tine and Joey Robinson have started for us as has Doug Pederson. So we just have to get all these guys play ing together.” Metcalf talked about this year’s Southwest Conference race and Bait Fix 0 Week 9 A.ME David Boggan Mark Patterson exasA&M-SMU Texas A&M by 10 Texas A&M by 9 SMU by 3 ir-Texas Tech Baylor by 13 Texas Tech by 7 Baylor by 7 CU-Houston Houston by 27 Houston by 16 Houston by 24 ice-Arkansas Arkansas by 20 Arkansas by 24 Arkansas by 21 aryland-Penn State Penn State by 5 Penn State by 7 • • • .Penn State by 6 otre Dame-Navy Navy by 10 Navy by 6 Navy by 3 Wahoma-Colorado Oklahoma by 14 Oklahoma by 20 • • • Oklahoma by 17 allas-Miami Miami by 4 Dallas by 7 Dallas by 6 leveland-Houston Houston by 6 Houston by 13 Houston by 14 ashington-Baltimore Washington by 9 Washington by 9 ■ . . Washington by 7 it week’s record 6-4. ison’s percentage 700. .6-4 .687 .6-4 .650 MSC ARTS Committee leads you on spoke realistically about the Aggies’ chances. “I guess Texas and Arkansas would have to be the favorites,” he said. “Texas has four of its five start ers back from last year’s team and Arkansas has six of its top nine players from last year back. Al though Arkansas lost two of the trip lets (Ron Brewer, Sidney Moncrief and Marvin Delph) Moncrief will be back and Arkansas coach Eddie Sut ton says he (Moncrief) is the best player in college basketball. “If nobody gets hurt or flunks out or anything, we (the Aggies) will be an outstanding basketball team. “All I know is that we are going to go out there every game and repre sent A&M the way it should be rep resented. If we play hard and give it a great effort, the wins will come. So as long as we go up to Alaska and give 100 percent, I will be pleased with this team. What the upcoming basketball season holds for the Texas Aggies, only time will tell. Holtz unsure of his future United Press International FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Ar kansas Coach Lou Holtz has indi cated he is unlikely to be hired by any of three schools where his name has been mentioned for coaching jobs, but he apparently does not rule out the possibility of leaving Arkansas. “When the season is over, I will sit down and evaluate where I’m going and what I want to do with my life,” Holtz said Wednesday in an interview with KTHV-TV. Holtz has been mentioned for jobs at Florida, Ohio State and Louisiana State. His future wih the Razorbacks has not officially come into question, but he has experi enced his only two consecutive losses at Arkansas in the past two weeks, dropping Southwest Confer ence games to Texas and Houston. 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