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Reveille’s critics should
shoot arrows elsewhere
The January issue of Texas Sports maga
zine was sitting there, waiting to be read.
“The Best and Worst of 1980,” its cover
screamed. I stopped, and being an avid
sports enthusiast, I couldn’t resist.
While I was Hipping to the cover story, I
wondered what type of biased arrows the
magazine had decided to fling at Texas
A&M this year. I have nothing against
Texas Sports, but I have come to expect
uneducated digs against the University
from it.
I wasn’t disappointed. Right there, in
black print, on white paper and complete
with color picture, was our own Reveille,
underneath the headline “Worst Mascot.”
The copy stated that, “This scraggly mutt
looks like it’s ready for ‘Taps.’” Ouch. That
one hurt, but what hurt worse was that
Texas 5pdrts called the Baylor Bear the Best
Mascot in Texas, saying: “It’s cute and cudd
ly with a personality to match.”
I was outraged. How could Texas Sports'
editors let such blasphemy reach news
stands? I realize that they are entitled to
their own opinion, but still ...
I think Reveille is a good mascot. She’s
cute and cuddly also. She knows to bark
when the Twelfth Man breaks into a yell and
she certainly isn’t as dangerous as a big black
bear. I don’t think she looks scraggly, and
she doesn’t look ready for ‘Taps’ to me. In
fact, I think Reveille is the best mascot in the
Southwest Conference.
If you ask me, I would guess that the
editors of Texas Sports are Longhorns.
They have to be, because everyone knows
that Bevo is the worst mascot a school could
have. If they were graduates of any other
school in the country, they would be quick to
give that big lug of a school mascot the du
bious title they awarded Reveille.
When the Texas Longhorns came to Kyle
Field the past season, I was able to see Bevo
up close. What a disgrace! He’s big, ugly,
and not very mobile. I’m not sure, but I’d bet
my life he was on some type of drug. Hejust
stood there, and the game passed him by. I
was so interested in watching him, the game
passed me by also.
If you missed this spectacle, you’ll have to
wait until next year. Unfortunately, Bevo
doesn’t do basketball games. The Lon
ghorns have a person in a costume to cheer
for the indoor sports. I’m not sure what he’s
Surprise-filled SWC race half over
United Press International
The Southwest Conference
will spin the wheel again this
weekend, and the way things
have been going there is no way
of knowing which number is
going to come up.
Arkansas should whip Rice in
Fayetteville, but don’t bet on it.
Texas Tech will be the favorite
against SMU, but who knows?
And anything is apt to happen in
Houston Saturday night when
the Cougars face the Baylor
Bears.
Whatever the result of this
weekend’s activity — which
brings the SWC to the midway
point of its basketball race — the
early portion of the schedule
shows that this is not your nor
mal year.
“I really don’t think the
media in this part of the country
realizes yet just how good this
league is,” Baylor coach Jim Hal
ler said Tuesday night after his
Bears had stunned the Fifth-
ranked Texas Longhorns. “I’m
really kind of excited about it.
“I hear talk on a national level
about our league. I would be
very surprised if our league does
not have five teams in the post
season tournaments — either
two in the NCAA and three in
the NIT or vice versa.”
Rice, 2-4 in league play and
with three of those losses being
by either one or two points, will
be at Arkansas this evening to
kick off the conference’s
weekend slate.
Arkansas, 5-2 in the confer
ence, has pulled off two straight
victories in the final seconds
over Houston and Texas A&M.
Saturday’s action begins at
noon with Texas A&M visiting
Texas for a regionally televised
game. Both teams are coming
off depressing outings, with the
Longhorns’ loss to Baylor being
particularly devastating because
of the injury to Mike Wacker.
Wacker will play no more bas
ketball for Texas this season,
and the Longhorns, who
seemed so sensational a week
ago, could suffer drastically
without him.
SMU, at 1-6, will host Texas
Tech, 3-4, at 4 p.m. as the Red
Raiders try to get back in gear
for a stretch run.
Then at 7:30 p.m., Baylor
takes its 3-3 conference mark to
Houston. The Cougars, 2-4 in
the league, have lost four in a
row and have to be in a mild state
of shock. They could well be a
team this year than we were last
year when we won our first five
conference games and Finished
tied for second in the league.
“Last year we played Arkan
sas at home and Texas A&M at
home and Texas Tech at home
and won close ball games against
all of them early in the season.
This year we played all three of
those teams on the road early
and lost all three.”
After the conference action
on Friday and Saturday, the
league will be involved in a rare
Sunday game when Arkansas
plays Wake Forest in Little Rock.
victim again because the Bears
are obviously better than they
were at the start of the season
and are on quite an emotional
high from their 10-point win
over Texas last Tuesday.
When asked whether he
thinks his club is post-season
material, Haller responded with
the appropriate optimism: “Be
fore we were upset in the post
season tournament (by TCU)
last year,” Haller said, “we had
an NIT bid sewed up. I heard an
NIT official say that.
“ Fhe thing that people don’t
realize is that we are a better
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called, but that doesn’t matter. Reveille al
ways goes to basketball games, and she nev
er has to wear a costume.
Don’t get the wrong idea. I’m not picking
on Bevo; Fmjust trying to prove that Reveil
le is a better mascot. She is man’s best friend.
She is not a horned frog, nor is she a threat
to local wildlife. What would happen if the
University of Houston turned its cougar
loose? She’s compact, she can go on the
road, and it’s always a thrill to have her show
up in your class.
I’m not sure what possessed Texas Sports
to slander Reveille in such a manner. Last
year, the magazine had the brilliance to call
our yell leaders the “worst cheerleaders in
the conference.”
Texas Sports explained: “They shave
their heads, not their legs.” Great. This year,
the magazine is picking on an animal that
can’t even write a letter to the editor.
Maybe Reveille isn’t the best mascot in
the SWC, but she certainly isn’t the worst.
And I’ll even defend the yell leaders. They
may not be the prettiest, but they are defi
nitely the most organized. I am one Aggie
who is really tired of seeing and hearing
Texas A&M and Aggies being made the butt
of jokes. If you are too, don’t write The
Battalion. We have enough problems deal
ing with letters about regents and football
coaches.
Here’s my vote for Worst Sports Maga
zine in Texas — nab, it’s just not worth it.
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