the sports !!!?Metcalf pleased with debut business tni I jfk+'k'k'k'k'k'k'kir'klr'k'k J RUNNERS WILL BE AT J J “THE MARATHON” * J NOV. 29th. J •Ar'Ar'A"A"A' , A"iAc THE BATTALION Page 9 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1978 business t»i By MARK PATTERSON S ; V6re “»<* Battalion Staff icu ar proo;; ^ was a t j re( } Happy Shelby e 0na ' IMetcalf who returned to the met- who calls i! K>pl ex Monday after a week-long 'dine of ]o!> to the Alaska and the Sea Wolf mter-econoit P ass * c - U was there that the Aggies Tide*market took two out of three games to finish ctis beingfjj r *th the consolation prize in the restigious tournament. study by $ts "We learned more about our iteandaHarj pam in three games up there than which sho. we did in six weeks of practice,” ans are del-i Metcalf said. “Before the tourna- simplerwatj ligh techw he Joneses, 'trikingpolj londentsfelliJ inflation car |J • buying i is short in , rather tliaii ods to nent we had gone as far as we could go working against ourselves in practice. We need game experience that we can’t get against ourselves. Games are the only place we can get the work we need to improve.” The Aggies had three chances in Alaska, facing North Carolina State in the opening round and Indiana and Alaska in the consolation brac ket. The Aggies dropped the opener to the Wolfpack 81-65 but re bounded to take a 54-49 decision against the Hoosiers and a 100-70 win over the host team, Alaska. “We didn’t have any problems or aylor worms its way out of loser’s image my also r zardous d j aggressive! ziled will) United Press International DALLAS — Baylor coach Grant Teaff used a weeklong psychological Fort, highlighted by a surprising ploy moments before kickoff, to epare his team for what turned t to be a stunning 38-14 triumph over the Texas Longhorns last iturday. I worked on the players and my self all week,” Teaff admitted londay. “Sometimes you get a bad otherhoode Hf image and you start to think of ourself as a loser. Well others can link of you that way, but if you rtant reason k n ’t y 0 u will find some way or risingirnle; jmehow to win. That’s what we imptionini re ssed all week.” ply no lone His plan was climaxed just sec- whatadveK Lds before the team took the field she said Saturday when Teaff dropped a I i E'e-inch worm into his mouth to I ^nJEnphasize a story he had told the a! econonw r . . . . J c ealized. H r am the ni S ht before. m ountt0jB"When you just say I put a worm iot mcludil mouth it sounds crazy,” Teaff • l, said But you have to look at the for the context of the thing. We had 1st our first five games by 22 points, ie had been plagued by turnovers hd when we lost to Rice (the week U/j pfore the Texas game) it was the DC its. iB“Anybody who has been around is game knows that when you win Wis easier to win more and when | Bu lose it is easier to lose more, lavve. “We knew that in order to beat jlexas we would have to turn this national kt eam around mentally. You could 'heHousel^e it each week. We were getting nittee bio that depressed state. This vestigatio iwhole week was based on restoring ng Jr. muiwtofidence. e it failedl: Teaff began his campaign on the piracy invfSunday night following the Rice ■me. I met with the team for an hour id a half, just on a gut level,” he d, “The team made some strong mmitments to me and to each her that they would be willing to lay the best they could possibly |ay.” Teaff also decided on Sunday that e FBI si he would use running back Mickey ated theB a m at quarterback, a decision that s brotbp'd °ff handsomely during the Id haveWfs game. Blakeyf, Then on Monday afternoon I onse “toa i Um ped on them real good trying to contacts! khe their attention away from Rice others, ]« a, d trying to make them mad at mesbeM me ’ said Teaff. He told all of his i and tlm Payers they would have to shave off 4, 1968. facial hair. | “I thought they would be mad,” e indtoliV 63 ^ sa ^- But it didn’t work out iciatjon v that way. They were all anxious to e myste.pt- ^ have te# ^ he* 1 Aggie notes “On Friday I worked the team by myself. The coaches were on the road recruiting. We had been talk ing all week about three basics — re-establishing confidence, being physically and mentally tough and doing that little extra something that makes the difference. “So many times we an were just an inch or six inches away or one batted down pass or one play away from being one of the six top teams in America. “That’s where the worm thing came in. I told them a story about two Eskimos in the northland who were fishing. “They went out on a frozen lake to fish. They were 10 feet apart and used the same type pole, same type line, same size hook, same bait, ev erything. But one fisherman caught fish every day and the other one did not. “Finally the unsuccessful fisher man went to the successful fisher man and said. Hey, I want to know your secret.’ “And the successful fisherman reached in his mouth and pulled out a worm and said, ‘you have to keep the worm warm.’ “The point I was trying to make was that the successful fisherman was doing that little bit extra. “On Saturday morning, after our team meeting and devotional, I drove all over town to find a place where I could find a worm. I finally found a box of those big old whop pers. I chose one that was about half as big around as my little finger and four or five inches long. I took him in my office and washed him up real good. “Then I got a vase from our trainer and put the worm in the vase and put the vase in my pocket.” Teaff then went out to watch his team warm up for the game. “Every now and then I’d look to see if he was OK, but the rascal died on me. I had left the rest of the worms in my car. “Five minutes before the game we called the team together, I reemphasized all the points we had talked about all week and then I told them, ‘I’ll be the toughest coach on the field. I’ll be keeping the worm warm’ “Then I cocked my head back and dropped the worm in my mouth. I didn’t swallow him, though. The team went beserk. One of the coaches said when they walked out of the locker room they looked as if the weight of the world had been lifted off their shoulders.” Ags win consolation notable J iation' in® tion by I* ,eys. He<< his may! The Texas A&M women’s basket- lations! ball team won consolation in the FBI and® Southwest Missouri State Tourna ment over the weekend. Joselyi^ The Aggies defeated Oklahoma vious de* University in the consolation game >ut, be 52-45. The victory was a team effort st onceis the Aggies’ leading scorer was ton Bunn with only 10 points. ie coito 11 Texas A&M lost in the opening atestba 1 ; aund to Southern Illinois- 1, as wf! Carbondale 70-64. Again Bunn led ment, jibe Aggies with 18 points. In the cond game the Aggies defeated is not it i Uaremore College 89-48. Peggy ie seat Pope was high scorer for Texas re been ion. A&M with 20 points. The Aggies are now 5-1 for the season going into the Geore West Tournament this weekend. Max King and Hendrik Roller will represent Texas A&M in the NCAA Indoor Doubles Tennis Tournament Friday in Wichita, Kan. The team qualified by winning eight of its nine matches this fall. “The national exposure is going to do us good,” said Aggie coach David Kent. “It is going to be tough com petition but I think they can play with anybody or they wouldn’t be there.” have any areas of concern that we shouldn’t have at this point in the year, ” Metcalf said. “Besides block ing out on rebounds we need to learn to run our offense against a pressure defense, something we ha ven’t been able to work against in practice. We don’t have the depth we need to run it in practice. “The three teams we faced all ran that kind of a defense. And we need to develop more speed and quick ness on both offense and defense. We ll take a look at the players we left at home and see what we have in these areas.” Metcalf took 11 players up to the three-day tournament. Getting the starting nod in the three games for the Aggies were Dave Goff at point guard, David Britton and Vernon Smith at the wings, Rynn Wright at the high post and Rudy Woods at the low post. Coming off the bench were Joey Robinson, Roy Jones, Steve Syles- tine, Doug Pederson, Jarvis Williams and Bruce Baird. “Our starters had a real fine tour nament,” Metcalf said. “And Joey (Robinson) and Roy (Jones) were the best for us off of the bench. Against Alaska Joey went six for six from the field and four for four from the line. And Vernon went 13 for 13 in the same game. That’s some pretty good shooting.” Goff and Wright were named to the 10-man all-tournament team and were the most consistent players for the Aggies, Metcalf said. But the man in the bubble is freshman Rudy Woods, who made his collegiate basketball debut in the weekend tourney. Woods is the player most teams are looking at as the key to the Aggies’ season. In his first games as a college player Woods played as his coach had ex pected. “He might be 6-11 but he’s still a young man inside,” Metcalf ex plained. “He has so much to learn, but he still has that real good at titude. He wants to learn. “People need to be patient with him. Rudy needs experience, ex perience we haven’t been able to simulate in practice. He went up aganst 7-footers and one guy 7-foot-4 up in Alaska. All he needs to gain is confidence in himself, and he did with each game he played in the tournament.” Before the season Metcalf made the statement that this year’s team, with the pre-season schedule it has, has the potential to become a good team. After their showing in Alaska, Metcalf maintains his earlier opin ion. “We re not a good team yet, but we still can be,” Metcalf said. “After this weekend we know what we have and what we still need to work on. “But hey, we re 2-1 and we’ve played two powerhouse teams. 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