"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.
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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.
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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
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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. Last
week we only had two penalties cal
led — and both of them were
wrong,” he said.
“That’s probably the hardest thing
to adjust to in the whole NFL, that
one week you can play exactly the
same way, use your hands the same
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Two fumbles and Phillips’ admit
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kicker Toni Fritsch a shot at a 49-
yard field goal, all of which occured
in the fourth quarter Sunday, kept
Houston from probably taking its
biggest win of the season.
Campbell’s fumble with 4:31 left
to play was converted into a Tampa
Bay touchdown, and Rob Carpen
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deep Oilers drive.
Fritsch missed the field goal try,
his only miss in 11 tries this season,
giving the ball to the Bucs on their
32 ;.
“It was a bad call on my part. In
the first place it would have given
them field position in a bad spot for
us, which is really bad.”
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