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"flOut of the blue by Rick Stolle iears’ win embarrassing I knew we were in trouble early in the game as torrents descended upon us from above. The scoreboard sign read, “When it rains at .ggieland, it pours.” Unfortunately, I did not have any wood to knock on. The sign proved prophetic as the Baylor Bears poured it on the uapless Aggies by the worst score in their series since 1901 when the Bears beat the Ags 46-0. At least this year we scored seven points, naking it 46-7. It would have been the first shut-out in Kyle Field since 1971 had the /Vgs not scored with 24 seconds left in the game. As the Aggies slip-slided away in the rain, the Bears waltzed to their Lxth win without a loss. They manhandled the Ags without so much as ireaking a sweat. The beleaguered, bewildered and befuddled Aggies stumbled round the field. They had no leadership, little direction and lots of listakes. They fumbled, bumbled and slid their way to a devastating, demoralizing defeat. I seem to remember another game in the recent past that was similar 3 this one. Ah yes, I remember, this was the same song the Ags sang in kthens, Ga., second verse, a little bit louder and a whole lot worse. The entire team should be embarrassed. The Baylor game cannot be plained on any one person; it was a team loss. photo by Pat (ft® Analysis e against I the Ags had a number of problems Saturday. Little things like Field. iunning, tackling, kicking and holding on to the football. I The Aggie team was a totally different one that took the field against fech and Houston. There were a bunch of individuals going through the motions of football against a team. I almost did not recognize them but the jerseys were a dead give-away. 'V'\ (T There was no spirit on the team. They seemed to be ready to give up I /\ fter Baylor kicked its first field goal. And after the safety, the sidelines eemed to melt of players as a number started to dig holes to bury their sd the Mali eads. Scovell, onei Even a number of the Aggie players recognized it. Darrell Adams, iind the seem 'ary Kubiak and Mack Moore said they see the problem. They said the football, k :am needs to find itself and come together. rapport with! Yet, the only place the team can come together is in the coaching. It ryant. 'has to solidify the Aggies into a team that wins and loses as a team, es go throum Tom Wilson has had only two years in which to begin and implement tbeaten, Alibis program. Two years is a long time in anything except football. The i go to any loftuits from any given football program are at least four years away from wo obviousth|barvest. ;r the Ora* Ron Meyer at SMU has had five years to develop his program and it ■ showing in the program SMU has now. Not many coaches can walk I in the pasthinto a program already established like Barry Switzer and Fred Akers play the hit fho followed great coaches at the University of Oklahoma and the 'ailable in i iniversity of Texas, respectively. >e Bowl hasii [Yet, I’m not making any excuses, Saturday’s loss has to be blamed on ^ht Conferen Wilson. The Aggie coach did not have the team as well prepared as here will lib feylor was for A&M. The only thing he can do is try harder and hope or Oklahomi pmeone on the team will stand up and become the leader the team has ns alreadyhai pn searching for all year. f The team has been searching for someone to take charge. A player ceivable thal who will lead by example, without much talk, and become a field unbeaten, coil nera h Last year, Jacob Green was the leader of the defense and 3 top two or irtis Dickey and Mike Mosley ran the offense, ition, whiclu This year, even though Mosley is still here, the Ags are hurting for a ssibility of All l ^ er - Mosley is a good athlete but he lacks the leadership abilities a ig each otheii arterback must have. He needs to be returned to the defensive sources closel condary and leave the offense in the hands of Gary Kubiak. idicate they kubiak did a repsectable job against Baylor Saturday. Granted, it s mostly against second- and third-teamers but he still was able to >ve the offense which is more than Mosley has been able to do. A&M has the athletes and program to compete with many schools in 5 nation. The team simply needs to find itself and a leader. Also a l le pride in itself would help. St ^ ® a yl° r player laughed at the demise of the Aggies and how they iply could not come back after getting behind. Many were simply ve ir history ^ r ’ Sec ^ at ^ ow eas y t ^ le Aggies were beaten as were all the Aggie 1 with nint w dl come together and find a little pride before , W1 r> u v | 1 ^ ce game. They will have to because Rice is no longer an easy Lrl Rillv) ^ ‘^ er bating LSU and TCU and scoring 21 points on Texas in quarter, the Owls have become a team to be reckoned with. udd want t inference. irdon s steji e Astros ffon in baseball l! | A s at seve ^ | uc £ an( j a team e £f or t the Ags can come back to have a xi »uir s P e( ’ ta M e season. Without it, the Aggie fans can start to look forward ? N 7 q ;; basketball season, i in 1974,» i ew York Yaa ^ u this year, I 3NANCY (NATIONS inancy Te ial Couns 1 New Fall Arrivals at the Locker Room! arm-Ups by: G-JOY hang ten WINNING WAYS OPEN 9:30-6:00 369-5211 jKlOViLLA MARIA RD. th Central en’s Ce# Texas ' 7k l ockn- Room "SPORTSHOES UNLIMITED" ACROSS FROM MANOR EAST MALL 779 9484 Phillips not worrying THE BATTALION Page 11 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1980 United Press International HOUSTON — Coach Bum Phil lips Monday said he is not losing sleep over his Houston Oilers’ 16- points-per-game average and their uncanny knack of converting lop sided victories into cliff-hangers. “Obviously I would have to say, ‘Yeah, our yardage should have pro duced more points’. But it didn’t. You can’t fumble the ball, get penal ties and do all that and make points,” he said. In the team’s latest soft-hearted performance on Sunday, Earl Camp bell ran for a pro career high 203 yards on 33 carries, Kenny Stabler passed for 242 yards on 19 passes and the Oilers needed an interception in the final minute to hold on and beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20-14. No changes are planned as the Oil ers prepare this week to host the Cincinnati Bengals, Phillips said. “Earl will continue to carry the ball, maybe not as many times as he’s carried it in the last two games, but probably 25 to 30 times. He’s more effective the more he carries the ball,” the coach said. Despite Campbell’s having mis sed two of the first seven games, his two-game total of 381 yards against the Kansas City Chiefs Oct. 12 and Tampa Bay Sunday moved the two- time NFL rushing king into third place on the league rushing list with 605 yards. “It seems like the more he carries the football, the better he does,” Phillips said. “It seems to me that he gains momentum as the ballgame goes on.” The difference between the win over Tampa Bay and a 21-20 loss to the Chiefs was execution on big plays. Also, the “inconsistency” existing between refereeing crews hurt the Oilers Sunday, Phillips said. Nine penalties were called and accepted by the Bucs Sunday despite the Oilers playing “the same way this week as we played last week. 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