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2 4gs hustle for Radar THE BATTALION Page 15 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1980 'ing in o By RICK STOLLE Battalion Staff Hustle is the name of the game as r as receiving coach Dick Radar of ‘ us a bijl sxas A&M University is concerned, intheeifeln fact, his favorite expression is, •erry, tfc Mien you hustle, good things hap- CitybowynBo you.” He said he felt the ? runners ggies out-hustled the Cougers well >pened by-lough to win Saturday, en battedfcyne had the intensity, execution ve a shottF - desire,” the receiver s coach ie run. id. “You just can’t turn the hall >int the verto the other team as much as we ^eith Mo: d and expect to win.” le by Balt The Ags intensity showed late in Schmidt ie jpurth quarter when the team HSed to lay down and die even handedtb pugh Houston had a ten-point made en fdilt was a challenge to the team, ive eight ire* sa id, and it responded with a su- Manager Jr*effort that came close to winning ght we L * game. jrryhaskf r^was the kind of effort we like to He justd®’I he said. It is that extra some- ing that will take a team over the nay have im P to a winning season, hey are \ believes the Aggies destiny is her all 97 ^ * n their own hands. With hustle, Bmsitv. desire and excution, the said the Ags will become a very >od team. “If we win the rest of the games,” Hlatecf, “we re in the Cotton owl. ^ I* He realizes the task is not an easy /lie but said the team has the ability do it. It is not a team that will lay iwn and die for anyone, t and tai “This team can win and we expect nards cai pj a y well,” he said, ece suit Yet, turnovers are the key. A tur- rpreter l ,vef will turn the game around fas- ine20pen*y t}) an anything else. Radar ex- o see chained. It is hard to overcome the ;e boxen jange in momentum that a fumble amanian, in|erception will bring. iestoimiti “We can’t have turnovers and ex- ,yweiglit >ct to beat Baylor,” he said. “The “I coulc »ars have a very good defense and imebecai inot have many turnovers. ” Baylor it this titis one of the lowest number of movers in the conference, to fight m “We have a very good team now cause hes it need to work on some prob in Months. ” If the team can eliminate the rise me istakes it has been making, it can e doesnl ovethe ball against any defense, he will bearfi.- The attitude of the team is much bo is cofitter than it was three weeks ago. cilities EoMe coach believes the difference in ; boutas itude comes from the example the ;htwillbe irters give to the other players. Revision icy show by example instead of satellite ti lling everybody what they can do, will ben said. r radio br “The best example I can think of is :s and Ki 'nt Adams,” Radar said. “Hework- s interest hard over the spring and summer ghest prict get better. He epitomizes desire; for this fit 1 has one speed and that is flat out o the reewyhe time. ” He got his chance after AndinaW drug thing and the team shake- re’ll be mb he said, and has not let up any ensity from the starting position. He said David Beal is another pd example. Beal does not talk ch but raises the level of play just his effort. The people who had been star- took notice and saw what kind of it we coaches wanted,” he said. this new attitude, the team :ed acting and playing like win- Hanging Baskets 6" reg. 10.99 ners.” The new starters showed they wanted to play and were willing to fight to win. The new second teamers saw the coaches would not put up with lack adaisical effort and practices became intensified as they tried to win back their jobs. The team spirit, morale and intensity picked up with the in creased effort. Radar said. The team in now a unit cheering for each other and making each game a team effort. “The team is now enjoying football and the players are playing for each other,” he said. “Our problems are out of the way and everyone wants to win.” “It is a total change from the start of the season when everyone was out there hating practice and complain ing,” he said. “We were just going through the motions and it showed in our first three games.” “The team is now excited about playing,” he said. “They are getting ready to play, hitting hard, getting after it and hustling. We expect good things to start to happen. “People who get after it and play with intensity will win.” Yet, play will only be as good as the practice, he stated. “As coaches, we have to teach with as much intensity as the team plays with,” the coach said. The coaches want to challenge the players to get them as ready as they possibly can. “We put the kids in as many game- type situations as we can during practice, he said, “to bring out the best in them. “We have a lot of young, good players that need experience. The lack of experience is the biggest problem this team has.” He said the Ags have a bright road ahead with the youth they have now. With one more good recruiting year, the team and program will be well on its way to conistent winning. The program was one of the reasons he left Rice University after only five weeks to come to A&M in March. “I always thought of A&M as a place you left to go to instead of a place to leave from,” Radar said. “I was impressed with the other coaches, facilities, alumni and stu dents. “A&M has everything going for it and that makes it easier to recruit good, quality athletes.” He said he thought A&M was one of the 15 or 20 universities in the nation that have a legitimate chance of winning big consistently. Radar said he left Rice suddenly because he felt the move to A&M was the right thing for him to do. It is hard to go in to the boss and tell him after a few weeks on the job to get someone else, he said. “But my heart was at A&M,” he said. “I was offensive coordinator at Rice and took the receiver’s job here and do not regret the move at all.” He knew most of the staff when he arrived and the adjustment was easy, he said. The staff is enjoyable with everyone working hard to make the team the best it can be. “All of us have integrated our ideas into the team,” he stated, “so the offense is ‘ours’ as is the defense.” It is a team effort in the coaching staff as well as the players. Radar said he worked with Paul Register at Houston Spring Branch High School and Euless-Hurst Bell High. Ted Unbehagen, Jess Stiles, Tom Wilson and Radar were on the staff together at Texas Tech. Radar was a running back for Ri pley High School in Ripley, W. Va. He attended the University of West Virginia and in 1967 began his coaching career with Register at Spring Branch. He then went to Bell and Breckenridge High School be fore leaving to go to Tech. He stayed at Tech for two years. In 1975, he went to South Carolina where he coached in the 1975 Tangerine Bowl. He then moved on to West Virginia in 1978 and re turned to Texas in 1980. 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