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The Battalion Sports
June 15, 1982 Page 9
What’s new in sports:
j Carpenter ready for task as sports information director
Ralph Carpenter
by Joe Tindel Jr.
Battalion Staff
When the phones are tied up
with calls from the press con
cerning an athlete or athletic
event at Texas A&M University,
it’s a great day for Ralph W. Car
penter.
Informing the media and
answering scores of questions
about athletics is what Carpen
ter enjoys, and the opportunity
to coordinate that function at
Texas A&M as Assistant Athletic
Director for Public Relations
was one he couldn’t pass up.
Carpenter was the sports in
formation director at Texas
Christian University until being
hired by Athletic Director and
Head Football Coach Jackie
Sherrill to replace Spec Gam
mon, the long-time sports infor
mation director at Texas A&M.
Gammon retired during the
spring.
Carpenter said the overall
competitiveness of the athletic
program and the presence of
Sherrill at Texas A&M draws
national as well as state and local
attention to the University.
“I really think that when
you’re dealing, as we are, with a
program that’s going to be com
petitive in every way, you’re
really traveling at the apex of
what ... anybody in public rela
tions wants to be,” Carpenter
said.
The 47-year-old Carpenter is
a graduate of Texas Tech Uni
versity and a native of Texas.
Before entering the public rela
tions field, he was a newspaper
journalist.
He was sports information di
rector at Texas Tech University
from 1967 until 1977, and he
served as director of publicity
for the Coaches All-American
Football game. Prior to his job at
TCU, he was sports information
director at the University of Mis
sissippi for four years.
Carpenter has also assisted
the NCAA with media opera
tions at the national semi-finals
and finals of the national cham
pionship basketball tourna
ment.
Of his return to public rela
tions in the Southwest Confer
ence, Carpenter said: “I’ve felt
like most of my ties really were
back in the Southwest (Confer
ence). That’s where I have most
of my experience.”
He said he was set on getting
the job at Texas A&M.
“Having been at Texas Tech
... and having known Spec Gam
mon over the years ... Fve always
felt a kind of closeness to the
school even though we were riv
als at times,” Carpenter said.
Carpenter has been traveling
with Sherrill this summer to
cities throughout the state,
where Sherrill has been speak
ing to Aggie Clubs. The trips be
gan with a May 3 visit to Conroe
and will end Aug. 6 in Houston.
The main thrust of the 28
trips is to meet with Aggie Club
members in each city and
answer their questions concern
ing the athletic program, Car
penter said.
He said Sherrill gives the for
mer students an overview of the
athletic program while meeting
with the press in each city.
Carpenter said turnout has
been exceptional for Sherrill.
“Everywhere we’ve been so
far this summer the crowds have
been larger than ever before,”
he said.
Carpenter said although the
trips have involved a lot of
traveling, they have given him a
chance to renew some old ac
quaintances with the media and
meet the Aggie club members.
“It’s a real opportunity for
me to renew acquaintances with
a lot of the media and to meet
the Texas A&M people who are
just as eager to be a part of this
institution as the students are,”
he said.
With regard to his role in the
Sports Information Office, Car
penter said he wants his depart
ment to set the standard for
other schools in handling sports
information.
“We want to be sure that we
have the best possible program
that can be in place at a universi
ty the magnitude of Texas
A&M,” he said. “We’re going to
try to be a model for other
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Lamar’s Vint hired as Aggie basketball assistant
by Frank L. Christlieb
Sports Editor
Bob Vint, an assistant basketball
oach at Lamar University during the
1981-82 season, Monday accepted a
similar position at Texas A&M Univer-
ity.
The 33-year-old Vint, an assistant
oach at Arkansas from 1972 to 1974,
will fill the position vacated by former
Aggie assistant Barry Davis. Davis took
the head coaching post at Western
Texas College in April.
Vint said Monday that he’s eager ab
out the chance to coach under veteran
Texas A&M coach Shelby Metcalf.
“I’m really^xcited about the move to
Texas A&M,” Vint said. “I’ve been
associated with the Southwest Confer
ence since 1966, when I played for
Arkansas.
“I think A&M’s dbne well under
Coach Metcalf and has had a lot of win
ning seasons. It’s a good ball club with
players like Claude Riley, Reggie
Roberts and Tyren Naulls, and I think
Coach Metcalf and (assistant coach
John) Thornton are extremely pleased
with the recruiting this year, too.”
While playing for the Razorbacks,
the 6-8 Vint was chosen Academic All-
SWC during the 1970-71 season. Dur
ing his two years as an assistant at
Arkansas, Vint coached with Pat Fos
ter, now the head coach at Lamar.
From Arkansas, Vint moved into
high school basketball, compiling a
122-95 record in eight seasons with
three Arkansas high schools. During
the 1980-81 season, Vint coached Rus
sellville High School to a 24-8 record
before the team lost in the quarterfinals
of the state tournament. Vint coached
at West Fork High from 1974-77 and at
Lincoln High during the 1971-72
season.
Vint said he’s looking forward to
moving back into the SWC as a coach.
“The Southwest Conference has
really improved a lot during the past
few years, and I think the quality of
play has gone up a lot,” Vint said. “I
have mixed emotions about leaving
Lamar, because Coach Foster and I
have known each other a long time.
“We felt like this would be a better
opportunity for me to broaden myself
professionally and hopefully to lend
something to the A&M program. A&M
is the type of institution where you can
go into anyone’s home and they can
identify with it. The emphasis they’ve
put on athletics is widely known, and I
feel that’s an advantage from my stand
point.
“I think maybe A&M (basketball) is
hitting a new era as far as the schedule
being upgraded and the quality of our
. opponents being upgraded, too,” he
said.
Vint described his high school
coaching career as a successful one in
terms of building the programs at West
Fork and Russellville.
“I can say that the programs I left... I
left them in good hands as far as re
turning starters go,” he said. “The
thing that I tried to do as a high school
coach was to establish a program that
would feed on itself and prosper in that
way. I was real pleased that I could
leave something and it would be good
from one year to the next.”
His duties here will involve several
phases of coaching, Vint said.
“From what Coach Metcalf and I
have discussed, I will have responsibili
ties in all areas — coaching on the floor,
scouting, and recruiting,” Vint said. “I
imagine the emphasis will be one
coaching defense, though. My philoso
phy of basketball is built around de
fense.
“There’ll be some strategy adjust
ments because of the new 45-second
shot clock they’re going to use next
year. You may have to put in some
quick-hitting plays if you get down to
five seconds and you haven’t gotten off
a shot.
“Coach Metcalf and I will basically
share philosophies,” he said, ” and
hopefully I can contribute something
to the program.”
Metcalf, who will be in his 20th year
as the Aggies’ coach, said:
“I was coaching in the conference
when Bob was playing. Bob was a fine
player and a fine young man. ”
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