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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
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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
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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
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exists. It is the great Indian rhi
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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.”
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