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sports Battalion/Page 13 June 24, 1982 Bam os MU ItFNAMAUA by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds ; OM TUE. AMU^EMEMT5> I4E REF09EC? TO BE SEMT PtWN tO COVER MINOR-LEA&UE BAU— W JIM &MiPFei? In an »w»»oit>« d»fUv of editing,writing ond ptwioydph^, | 0 Eleven Spielberg ran his hrt ^ ai/eratge. akxr/e .fcOO as his, new movie 'E.T'crushed the , audience. Pr ida^ at the Wood wood Mall Cinema l^l • "m.. No suspense yet during normally exciting Wimby By Alvarez and lida Beautiful craftsmanship and a crisp quality tone make these banjos perfect for the experienced or beginner. K irdon (continued from page ID liundredths of a second while ifimming his best time ever in the event. ■“That was when I finally fi red it out,” Nash said. “I Kch a lot on the power of the mind, and my claim to fame was always when I would get ready foir races. Everyone else would Sways get nervous for three weeks, and I was real loose. ■“Right before the meet, I fiould go over to the side, put my [towel over my head and if I had 110 minutes, I was OK. If I was lying bacliilfrty P s y c h e d U P — an( l th' 5 > s Park) thouf® en I started getting the name actice" ' Py c h°’ — 1 would get up on the Hocks with my big red Indiana Hwel on my shoulders. When Herybody else was sitting back # Hlaxing, I’d be there staring at "I tO ff T ^ ane - IVlNash said his swimming ex- ^Hriences, both the positive and negative ones, will assist him |roughout his coaching career. think it’s going to help me ' R the long run,” he said. “I nev- Jmade it to the Olympics and idalumpii; dm st M grates. I think if I can ic hitters cti WP as many folks as I possibly |n to get to the Games, that’s p>ing to be very satisfying to me/’ Before he accepted the assis tant coaching positition at In- Jana, Nash said, Counsilman jovided him with some much- needed inspiration. “Doc pulled me aside and lid: ‘Mel, if you go into i struck oM coaching, you’ll be a better coach fore singlinj than you were an athlete.’ «“Everybody kept telling me is with Me/, no t to go into coaching, because at the hell I you don’t make too much money as a coach,” Nash said. “Most loaches in swimming are age- 11 j l c int n !8 r °i J p coaches, they’re there for 'f- i n 10,000 year and they’re living third on I* ■ 7 7 ° ns playing i tremenni )ack, but 1 stency/'Coi orderline ai I percent. ;r Doc Met pen theinm ve Hostetlft nine injus is seventh In strength’s “He’s goii it I’m not know thetS id tonight in a tiny little apartment with eight roommates. “All my life, I wanted to coach, partly because of my father and the experiences I saw him have. He was not a coach as a profession, but he did it pri vately and he enjoyed it so much. Nash said when he started coaching, he went in with the objective of being not a mediocre coach, but one of the best in the business. Although he describes his coaching career as having been rough at first, Nash said his second job began pushing him upward and on ward. When he took over the head coaching job at UT-Arlington in 1978, Nash said, two athletes on the team were older than he. To add to the situation, Nash had the distinction of being the youngest head swimming coach ever hired in the NCAA. “It was really rough,” he said. “I’m very conservative, and I don’t believe in smoking dope. When I came into college, I was flabbergasted. Marijuana was running rampant and I had to battle it. I had to battle it at Arlington and I had to battle it here. “I’m realistic enough to say that I know that at some point or another, a lot of folks are going to play around with dope. It’s just something of value that I’ve (fought) on my team and I want to stick by it. We did a lot of weeding out, to use a poor pun. “At Arlington,” Nash said, “it didn’t work because I was so naive that I thought if I told them not to do anything wrong, they wouldn’t. Then I figured out that you can only change the program by dropping the peo ple that won’t change, changing the people you can and bringing in the new people that already Now You Know I United Press International An animal that typically weighs about two tons but can gallop over 50 miles an hour still exists. It is the great Indian rhi noceros. This vegetarian be hemoth normally flees only from men on elephants. But be cause man has occupied most of its former range in Asia, only a few hundred remain. have your values. “So that’s what we’ve been doing at A&M and I think that we’ve changed the personality of the team a lot. When I came in, I had to clean up a rat’s nest. We dropped some and we brought in some others, and I had to use some rather bizarre methods.” As for the Aggies’ outlook for the near future, Nash said the program still continues to prog ress. “We’ve got a good shot at the Top 20 next year,” he said. “Ev erything would have to go abso lutely perfect for that to click. It’ll be a goal. “It’s the recruiting that’s tough, because you need two solid people in each stroke, so that’s eight off the bat. Then you need an ultra-swimmer and an ultra-distance man, too. You need 12 people to take you to the Top 20, but you can’t get all 1/ in one year. You can’t bring in three recruits and revolutionize a team.” Nash says it’s easy to pinpoint his top objective as the Aggies’ coach. “My No. 1 goal in coaching is to make the team feel close ... and to care about each other where you live and breathe with the people on the team. If you get up on the blocks and you see 18 people who are just going to live and die with you, you’re going to feel good.” And, Nash said, he has another personal goal for his coaching career. “I want to retire here,” he said. “Texas A&M is not a step ping-stone for me. As long as I stay in coaching, this is where I’d like to be.” VISAS PERMANENT TEMPORARY STUDENT MATTERS CITIZENSHIP LABOR CERTIFICATIONS JIM B. CLOUDT A riv AT I AV\ 3HI0 wEDICAl u ARkWAV «2U AUSTIN. 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