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The Battalion Sports
February 25, 1982 'Page 17
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by Frank L. Christlieb
Sports Editor
| Mike Thomas, a 6-6 junior
forward on the Texas A&M bas
ketball team, says he will find out
today whether he will remain on
the squad the rest of the season.
h After Aggie coaches had
attempted to correct defensive
mistakes by Thomas during the
cond half of Tuesday night’s
83-74 defeat of the TCU
Horned Frogs, the forward
stalked out of G. Rollie White
oliseum and knocked down a
chair in the process.
Thomas had entered the
jame with 18:44 left, but was
taken out by Texas A&M coach
Shelby Metcalf at the 17:53
ark after committing a foul,
fits, inclai »ngry at being removed from
s FreriA the game, Thomas strode by
Metcalf and assistants Barry
Davis, John Thornton and
David Goff and sat at the end of
the Aggie bench.
■ Texas A&M coaches tried to
| rectify Thomas’ mistakes while
| he was still in the game, but he
Blade the same error twice. So
Betcalf took him out of the
■ | game to explain the mistakes to
Bm on the bench.
B However, Thomas never gave
Metcalf and his assistants a
Biance to clear up the problem.
[riving dieB 9°^’ the A SS ies ’ g ra d uate
^ ihe diiy jpssistant coach, said mental mis-
ce to see v ^es by Thomas prompted
, i ,.,, Metcalf to take him out of the
said. “He was out there in a man
defense, and we talked to him
twice to try to correct it. He was
completely out of place in a man
defense when we were playing a
zone.
“As far as after that, the next
thing I knew, he was gone. I’m
sure he was real upset, but he
overreacted to the whole thing.
Something like that is hard to
excuse.”
Goff said that Thomas wasn’t
taken out for committing the
foul.
“I’m sure the foul had no
thing to do with it,” Goff said.
“He had definitely missed a cou
ple of assignments. He got real
upset about being pulled out of
the game. Everything else he
did, he did on his own. He got
in the game and he really didn’t
know what defense we were in.”
Goff said a decision would
See STATUS page 19
What do we do now, Barry?
University of Texas head basketball coach
Abe Lemons looks at assistant Barry Dowd
(right) as if to ask for a solution to the Lon
ghorns’ numerous problems during the
past five weeks. To the right of Lemons is
Longhorn guard Ray Harper. Texas lost
staff photo by Oavid Fisher
this game to the Texas Aggies 91-70 Satur
day in G. Rollie White, and has now lost
nine of its last 10 games.
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