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}e 12 Texas A&M The Battalion Sports November 11, 1982 Page 13 VG jVOT 'book -MSC it Wil- Park. :en- id his d in a Iso, a 1903 Football evolution Aggies' Hallman has seen many changes during career Curley Hallman describes coaching as ‘exact science’ by Joe Tindel Jr. Battalion Staff Curley Hallman is a first-hand wit ness of the evolution of college football over the last 15 years or so. As a mem ber of then-coach Gene Stallings’ Texas A&M squad that knocked off Alabama in the Cotton Bowl, Hallman had the job of helping halt opponents’ passing games. Now he teaches Aggies how to do that same job under slightly different ’ circumstances. Hallman’s fear of facing Jerry Levias of SMU, then the Southwest Conference’s only real speedster, has evolved into a fear of facing as many as four or five such speedsters on just one team. “Boy, everywhere you go there’s guys with Jerry’s speed or better speed,’’ Texas A&M’s secondary coach said. “Every Saturday you line up you’re playing against people that are in Jerry’s category.” Hallman has seen the changes in the game from more than one point of view, though. Coaching stints at Alaba ma, Memphis State and Clemson have provided him with several sources from which to draw his observations. Now, as Coach Jackie Sherrill’s secondary coach, Hallman is coaching in a football era that features more folks with more speed doing more com plicated things. “When I was here, (as a player) and I think it was pretty much the philosophy across the country defensively, you didn’t play that many defenses to start with and you didn’t play that many cov erages, because people were not that sophisticated and complicated in their passing games,” Hallman said. “At that time, offensively, people were not that sophisticated as far as one-man backfields, all the different kinds of motions and all the different formations.” As if things aren’t complicated enough, Hallman must try to teach his players how to see through those sophisticated offenses and stop several Levias-types each week. “There’s more speed at the wide re ceivers now,” he said. “Everybody you play has got outstanding people at the wide-outs. They’ve got great speed in the backfield — guys that can catch the ball — and they’ve got a lot of guys that can throw it. “That in itself has made you stop and change a little bit in regard to disguis ing coverages and playing a lot of diffe rent coverages.” As a cornerback on Stallings’ 1967 team, Hallman learned to respect the good passers, including his teammate, Edd Hargett, who was one of the con ference’s top signal-callers, SMU’s Chuck Hixon and Arkansas’ Bill Mont gomery. But Hallman said the quarterbacks of then and now are similar and that the change of the game’s tempo has made today’s quarterbacks shine more. “I really don’t believe there’s any dif ference,” he said. “You’ve got a bunch of Hargetts that are playing this day and time that are good.” Although Hallman may have to deal with a few more variables as a modern- day secondary coach, he said the basic approach to coaching and the mental factors needed to win are the same. “Coaching is teaching,” he said. “It’s an exact science. Coach Stallings and his staff were very intense, and they really tried to do a greatjob of teaching. I think we’re trying to do the same thing, and other places that I’ve been it’s the same. “A lot of people think Coach (Paul “Bear") Bryant has changed over the years. He’s changed a little bit, but Ala bama still probably works harder than any football team in the country. They stay on the football field in practice ses sions for a long, long time.” The mental factors of the game, which might be categorized with coaching as an “intangible,” have re mained constant as long as Hallman has been involved with football, he said. In 1967, the Aggies desperately needed something positive to happen for the team to get out of a slump that led to a disappointing 0-4 start. In 1982, the Aggies are in a similar predicament. The difference between the two seasons is that in 1967, some thing positive did happen to boost the Aggies’ confidence in time to capture the title, Hallman said. It was necessary for something good to happen to the secondary if it was going to have confidence that would help the Aggies during the course of the season. “If bad things happen to the secon dary, they happen to the whole de fense, and vice versa,” he said. “I can go back when we were 0-4 in 1967, everybody and their dogs had given up on us, and we kept working hard and all of the sudden Hargett runs that thing in the last play of the ball game at Tech. All of the sudden something good started happening to us. We knew we had a good football team. “The next couple of games, ... we had some confidence,” Hallman said. “That’s the thing we don’t have right now. I think we’ve improved on it a little bit. Our guys have played hard.” Cubs, Padres to contend for Garvey r sur- 1206. riilbt tote urdi. ,o women first-floor he then litzer in a wn. She g. 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