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Battalion Sports
July 1, 1982 Page 7
Slocum guides defense again; stresses intensity
bur-man front to stay
b part of Aggie scheme
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1 Although the local football
enthusiast has no doubt encoun-
^ T 7 Bred former students’ tales of
1 V Be awesome Texas A&M de-
/ lenses of the mid-’70s, he may
Rot be as familiar with the men
■sponsible for fashioning those
defenses.
I After a year in sunny south-
jern California, one of those men
vould camejps recovered the reins of the
hen warnuMggie defense. R.C. Slocum,
Bho returned as Texas A&M’s
tve about iBefensive coordinator in Janu-
t>y theendBy. plans to stick to the same
te USDAisBasic defensive alignment used
e said. “Vein the past
valley, alonB The 37-
>allas-Fort * defensive coach at Texas A&M
cksburg, aB -001 1^72 until 1980, when he
citrus conieB cce l )tec * t * ie c l e l ens ' ve coordi-
it fruitsareB ator s job at Southern Cali-
have a little lB :)m ' a -
apsthisyearB "We’re a four-man front
Bam with three linebackers,”
Blocum said of his plans for the
rapsaredi(*ggj es i‘\y e w jn continue to
s, but I exasBok very similar to what we’ve
mnd amedB| wa y S | 00 |ced as far as the align
ing “S bents.”
Slocum will add a few odds
ig did com nc | en( i s t Q compensate for the
detect ill ariety of offenses the Aggies
could goal /i|| encounter this fall, but the
before it bn ariations will be built around
said. he 4-3 alignment, he said,
i, Ivie’sassii "We’re a multiple 4-3 team,
■iculturedt| nd we base everything we do as
officials atBstarting point from the 4-3 de-
t with theftense,” Slocum said,
onitor thefl Slocum praises the 4-3 for its
lexibility since it makes easier
[he adjustments to multiple
menses used in college football
today.
[ “You’ve got to have a basic
icheme defense,” he said, “but
t’s got to be flexible enough to
be able to defend against all
jhose different styles of play. I
is itself
rowed some things that Clemson
did that were good and some
things that (defensive end
coach) Bobby Roper did in his
background," he said.
Slocum said changes in the
defensive line over the years
have been necessary because of
the evolution of the game. Last
year, for example, college teams
nationwide piled up more pas
sing yardage than ever.
Slocum’s defensive unit will
face a variety of offenses from
week to week, and he said varie
ty is what makes college football
rially oriented teams, Slocum is
putting his faith in zone pass
coverage.
“We will have a number of
different coverages,” he said,
“so if a team is trying to attack us
in any particular area, we should
be able to adjust to it with a
change in coverages.”
“We (Southern Cal) played
against John Elway out at Stan
ford last year, and a lot of your
concepts in pass defense change
when you play against one of
those guys.”
Although Slocum said the
secondary is the weakest part of
t , the Aggie defense, it has
> Oil VC got to have a perhaps shown the most im-
basic scheme defense, ,)ro '.f™ en [ , ,
. , ii* We had a good spring
but It S got to be flexible training; we had a minimal
enough to be able to de- amw . unt of injuries, Slocum said.
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concerned
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fend against all those
different styles ofplay. I
think the 4-3 defense
lends itself to flexibil
ity. ” — Texas A&M de
fensive coordinator
R.C. Slocum.
exciting as well as a challenge to
coaches and players.
"One week you play a team
that’s a heavy option team, and
the next week you may play an
all-out drop-back passing team,”
he said.
To prepare for the likelihood
of confronting some of those ae-
“We improved quite a bit on
our technique. I think our line
backer positions will be strong
and I think our defensive line is
good.”
He said 6-2, 220-pound
senior linebacker Will Wright “is
on the fringe of being a real
good player.”
The potential for an out
standing defense is present, Slo
cum said. The quality that
helped those Aggie defenses in
1975 and 1976 to become so
powerful was intensity.
Slocum once again seeks that
intensity.
“I see us being a good defen
sive team, and the one thing that
we have to do to be the kind of
defensive team that we want to
See SLOCUM page 10
Defensive coordinator R.C. Slocum, back at Texas
after a one-year stint at USC, has big plans for the
Aggies during the 1982 season. The 37-year-old has
think the 4-3 defense lenc
to flexibility.”
Slocum said that although
[Head Coach Jackie Sherrill de
ermines the overall style of de-
ense the Aggies will use, their
mmpatible philosophies will
xmtribute to the team’s defen-
iive plan.
Slocum drew his 1982 defen
sive package from several
lources.
“I’ve borrowed some of the
hings we did at Southern Cal
hat were good, and we’ve bor-
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