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Battalion/Page 15
January 27, 1983
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by Joe Tindel Jr.
Battalion Staff
Meet the Renaldo Nehemiah
of Texas A&M — sort of.
His name is Rod Richardson,
and like Nehemiah, he holds a
record in track. Like Nehemiah,
he’s decided to try his luck at
football. But unlike the NFL’s
new wide receiver, Richardson is
holding on to his track career at
Texas A&M.
Richardson, the 5-10, 170-
pounder from Shreveport, La.,
set an NCAA record for the 60-
yard dash last spring. But long
before that accomplishment, he
had everything planned out
nicely. He’d hold out on football
until his third year.
Right on schedule, the fleet-
footed junior joined the ranks of
the Aggie gridders this past fall
as a wide receiver and kickoff
return specialist. Now he’s in the
final stages of nursing an ankle
injured during the season in
football practice.
That injury may cause him to
miss the indoor track season this
spring, but Richardson has no
reservations about his decision.
“I feel like I’m very competi
tive, and track was consuming a
lot of that competitive spirit in
me — but I don’t think it was
getting all of it out of me,”
Richardson said in an interview
Tuesday.
“I think had all things re
mained normal, football would
have provided me with an extra
edge as far as competition goes
going into the track season.
“Football tends to give an
athlete more explosiveness be
cause you have to concentrate
on moving fast all the time and
not just at the race time.”
Former head coach Tom Wil
son wanted to recruit Richard
son as a wide receiver out of high
school, but the time wasn’t right
for Richardson. Through the
grapevine, however, Aggie track
coach Charlie Thomas caught
wind of the young speedster’s
availability and brought him to
College Station as a runner. But
Richardson said he had plans to
return to football eventually.
“Coach Wilson and I had dis
cussed it (playing) right before
the coaching change,” Richard
son said. ” At that time it was
fairly well set that he was going
to allow me to come out.”
But the picture changed
somewhat at the hiring of Head
Coach Jackie Sherrill.
“When Coach Sherrill came
in, I didn’t know where I stood
as far as my opportunity to play,
and I was in limbo at that point,”
Richardson said.
“When he (Sherrill) got here I
had really just dropped the idea
until he approached me, be
cause maybe I was just afraid of
being rejected if I approached
him with the idea.”
And after three years’ abs
ence from the gridiron, with his
memory of high school experi
ences a bit foggy, Richardson
was born again with that first
contact.
“I had never performed in
front of that many people be
fore, and I guess I felt like any
other incoming freshman,” he
said. “I think that after the first
lick you forget about all that.
Things that I’d done before
started to come back to me.”
Now Richardson regrets the
injury, one of those bothersome
things that can frustrate any
body who relies heavily on how
quick his feet move, but he
doesn’t regret re-experiencing
football.
“I feel like at the time I got
injured, I was about to become a
good wide receiver — not great,
but good,” Richardson said.
Conflict between the two
sports? For Richardson, track is
tops in spring, football in fall.
You get yelled at more in foot
ball, he said, but he’s adjusted to
that, and his mental determina
tion has carried over to football.
As Texas A&M’s Nehemiah
puts it, track is number one right
now, and, if his ankle heals soon,
he hopes to be back in competi
tion by the middle of March.
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