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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1980
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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-
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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.
TOP 20
United Press International
NEW YORK — The United Press
International Board of Coaches Top
20 college football ratings after six
weeks, with first-place votes and re
cords in parentheses.
1. Alabama (29) (5-0)
2. Southern Cal (7) (5-0)
3. Texas (3) (5-0)
4. UCLA (2) (5-0)
5. Notre Dame (1) (4-0)
6. Georgia (5-0)
7. Florida St. (5-1)
8. North Carolina (5-0)
9. Nebraska (4-1)
10. Ohio State (4-1)
11. Pittsburgh (4-1)
12. Penn State (4-1)
13. Baylor (5-0)
14. South Carolina (5-1)
15. Arkansas (4-1)
16. Iowa State (5-0)
17. Missouri (4-1)
18. Oklahoma (2-2)
19. Miami (Fla.) (4-1)
20. Brigham Young (4-1)
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