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by Ritchie Priddy
Silence not always golden
Whoever said that athletes should be seen and not heard must have
been talking about some of the Texas A&M student-athletes who
attend ballgames.
I mean, you would almost think they were forced to come.
Losing wouldn’t be so bad if, at least, the teams had more support
from the other athletes on campus. After all, they all have the same
goal: to win. So it would seem only natural for them to give each other
some encouragement and support during their games.
The A&M-Rice basketball game Tuesday night is a good example of
this. Not only basketball, though, but almost every other sport as well.
I know that we lost the Rice game. We’ve lost a lot of games in
football and basketball. You name the sport and we’ve lost a game at
one time or another.
Many athletes were in G. Rollie for the Rice basketball game — most
didn’t do anything except sit and look pretty. Some yawned, others
looked around and a few just sat and talked to one another.
I guess that’s their prerogative. But one would think that at a school
— a big school, like A&M, long known for its spirit and support of its
athletic teams — you would find the same kind of support from the
other athletes that the students give.
It’s downright pathetic, if not hypocritical, at times the way they ask
for fan support but don’t show much themselves,
I believe that if athletes ask for support from the student body they
should be willing to show that same support to their fellow athletes.
I’m sure that all of them are not at fault. I saw several really getting
into the excitement of the game. A fewwere even cheering. 5omeeven
stood for the yells.
It’s sad that they are the minority, though, for the majority seem to
be the ones who show up just simply to show up — for appearances
sake only. Sit and look pretty; be seen and riot heard.
Fan support involves athletes, even off-season athletes, as well as
the student body and others. I don’t know about the rest of the student
body but I think I can speak for them in saying that I was proud to be a
part of the crowd Tuesday night. There was not one of us that would
have hesitated to jump out on that court to help out the team. After all,
that’s what the 12th Man is all about isn’t it? To help out if needed.
I can’t help but think that most of us would have.
The strange thing about it is that Texas A&M currently doesn’t even
have a team, except for some of the smaller team sports, that consis
tently performs on the major collegiate level that is expected from a
school this size.
How many times in recent history has A&M finished where they
were picked to finish in any major sport? Not many. It’s not that they
haven’t had the fan support or the talent for that matter. Many sport-
swriters and coaches as well believe A&M has, overall, the most talent
in the conference (in several sports). And what crowd can compare to
the A&M student body?
I don’t pretend to know the reasons for our teams’ failures, but it
seems that it could only help if some of the athletes, as good as they are,
would really get out and support the school that supports them.
Hill nowrecupera ting
after shoulder operation
United Press International
DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys’
wide receiver Tony Hill is recover
ing in California from shoulder
surgery, the team announced
Thursday.
Hill, Dallas’ leading receiver the
past two seasons, was operated on
Tuesday for a chronic shoulder dis
location by Dr. Fred Behling of Stan
ford University Hospital.
Hill was expected to be released
from the hospital Saturday. The
team said he was expected to recover
from the operation in time to attend
training camp in July.
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take on Coogs Saturday
By GLENN KRAMPOTA
Battalion Reporter
Fresh off a two-week training program in Hawaii, the
Texas A&M University swim teams travel to Rice today
for a dual meet, then return to host the powerful Hous
ton Cougars in a dual meet Saturday afternoon.
Of the two upcoming events, A&M Head Coach Mel
Nash is most concerned about the Cougars.
He said both their men’s and women’s teams are very
strong and rely heavily on foreign athletes. The Cougar
women are ranked in the top 10 nationally and are
considered second only to Texas in the conference.
Meanwhile, Houston’s men’s team will be an odds-on
favorite over the Aggies, Nash said.
“Last year we pulled a big upset at their place and
they may be gunning for us this time,” he said.
Nash, who is in his second year as swim coach, said
Texas A&M may have an advantage in sprints, strokes
and relay events. However, the Cougars look tough in
distance and diving events, he added.
The Aggie men will take some of their less experi
enced swimmers to Rice today because according to
Nash, the Rice team is a small one and is not considered
to be especially strong.
Rice’s women’s team is designated as a Division II
squad, as opposed to the Aggies’ Division I standing.
But, Nash said. Rice is ranked nationally in Divisimj
and Owl Kay Snell was the high point scorer in lastyi
national meet.
The Rice meet will begin at 5 p.m. in Horn
Against the Cougars, women’s competition wi
noon Saturday at the P. L. Downs Natatorium on
A&M campus and the men’s competition
p.m.
So far, the Aggies record in dual meets is 2-4 for
men and women, a fact that Nash said is surp:
considering how well they have been swimming;
season.
The most important part of the season is looming!
swimmers with conference championships comingif
late February and early March.
“That’s what we re pointing toward,” Nash
“We’ve made people across the state sit up and
notice of the improvements we’ve made over theli
year.
Nash said as things stack up now, the Ags looktofii
fifth at the men’s conference meet. Texas A&M finislt . .
at that position last year, but they will be a much cb .
fifth this year, he said, with Texas, SMU, Arkansas® ^ nc
Houston still above them. | ^ ‘^ us
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conference meet point total. Dual meet recordshavti
bearing.
Phillips signs contract
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — The New
Orleans Saints, who lost more games
during the 1980 season than any
team in the history of professional
football, Thursday hired recently de
posed Houston coach O.A. “Bum”
Phillips to lead them out of the
depths.
Phillips’ five-year contract made
him the eighth coach in the 14-year
history of the Saints. He thus goes to
work for one of his oldest friends in
football. Saints’ owner John Mecom.
“It’s probably the shortest con
tract in the history of the NFL,” said
Mecom, the Houston oilman who
fired Saints’ coach Dick Nolan with
four games left in the regular season.
“It’s not more than a page. All
Bum wanted was a handshake.”
The hiring of the colorful, tobacco-
chewing Phillips by the Saints had
been expected from the moment he
was fired on New Year’s Eve by Oil
ers’ owner Bud Adams.
Adams said Phillips, 57, was dis
missed because of his refusal to hire
an offensive coordinator, but those
close to the Oilers’ franchise said it
was strictly a personality conflict that
had been building for the past few
years.
During the interim between Phil
lips’ firing and hiring, Saints’ general
manager Steve Rosenbloom and vice
president of personnel Dick Stein
berg resigned their jobs.
They said they had philosophical
differences with Mecom over the
structuring of the front office should
Phillips be hired as coach. When
their resignations became official, it
became all but certain that Phillips
would become coach of the Saints.
New Orleans lost its first 14 games
of the season before beating the New
York Jets. The Saints then dropped
their final regular season game, mak
ing them the first team ever to lose
15 games in an NFL season. Tampa
Bay lost all of its games in its inaugu
ral year, but the season was only 14
games long at the time.
Phillips will have the freedom to
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wind up handling the duties oL . T „^ ni
two men by himself. He was f™ ’
manager in Houston and also in
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turned from a downtrodden cluH Vorld Set
a playoff team — one that read Schmidl
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NEW ORLEANS — Maybe by
the time the Oakland Raiders and
Philadelphia Eagles get around to
playing football Sunday somebody
will be mad about something.
Or maybe there will be some bit of
startling information worth mention
ing about the clubs that will fight it
out in Super Bowl XV.
But thus far it has been a very tame
week.
Oh, there was a bomb threat at the
hotel where the Raiders are staying,
but it was such an obvious hoax Oak
land Coach Tom Flores didn’t even
know about it until 24 hours after the
fact.
The Raiders and Eagles, mean
while, have merely gone about the
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and as the week goes along thfii
ing increases the game has a dll
to be a good one. Or at least ail
one.
“It’s probably going to be life
last game we played,” Flores
Wednesday, referring to the!
Eagles’ victory' over the Raiderst
ing the regular season. “There 1
be one or two plays that tell the 1
ference. Philadelphia has no oh** THEfnpf.
holes on defense that you canhit
big plays against.”
“I think we can beat any tea
the league if we play up to ourdl
bilities,” retorted Eagles’Co*
Dick Vermeil. “Neither of th*
teams can dominate the other, sow
mistake will play a big role.”
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