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I have to graduate this summer and I’m mad
der than Eddie Chiles about it. Just as Aggie ath-
k tics, particularly football and basketball, are
miiAg around, I’m going to be kicked out into
the real world.
In the four years since I graduated high
school, the Aggie football team has a combined
cord of 21-23-1, the basketball team is 63-45.
Both teams are much too mired in mediocrity for
a school that likes winners as much as Marcus
Dupree likes quitting.
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atshethoufl The A&M football and basketball teams have
(unisaid 'llenough pure talent for Bum Bright to move the
ts." $ummer Olympics to College Station. But the im
portant part is their age, or lack of it.
J It is well documented how Jackie Sherrill
TCP Started an all-freshmen backfielcl for much of
* |983: beginning with quarterback Kevin Murray,
then choosing between running backs Rod
■Nfl Bernstein, Roger Vick or Keith Woodside. Last
year those guys were only “high school boys”
playing on Friday nights. This year they started
Iforthe highest paid college coach in America,
f While these are just some of the freshmen that
(tarted, there are more waiting on the benches.
Sherrill’s recruiting crop was rated fifth best in
the country by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football
hetoffltl aud almost, all experts place it at (east in the top
them. 10 nationally. Blue chip quarterbacks Craig
haveHj Stump and Jay Hess were red-shirted. They’ll
d to sbptill be freshmen. /
itncn * Besides the freshmen, the Aggies have some
experienced and talented sophomores, like de
fensive backs Domingo Bryant, Wayne Asberry
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But Sherrill isn’t the only coach doing some
baby-sitting. Shelby Metcalf has some players
which are also new to the land of maroon-and-
white.
Leading scorer Todd Holloway is a first year
Aggie. Add to him Winston Crite, Mike Clifford
and Phil James along with sophomores Jimmy
Gilbert, Kenny Brown, Doug Lee and A1 Pulliam
and you’ve got a team that could tame a few Cou
gars, butcher those Hogs and saddle some Ponies
in two years. They might have a way to go yet,
but all they need is the two years experience, and
a little more depth.
I here are problems with success and Jackie,
Shelby and Co. will soon find that out. After they
have won SWC championship after SWC
championship, people will become accustomed to
it, they will expect it, they will demand it. All
Sherrill and Metcalf have to do is talk to Tom
Landry.
Poor of head coaches, what problems they will
have just lor doing their jobs. Jackie and Shelby
are going to create a bunch of success-spoiled
Aggies.
Ibis year’s freshmen, the non-athletes, at
Texas A&M will be the worst of the lot. By the
time they graduate in 1988, whenever the Aggies
are mentioned people will no longer think
“joke,” they will think “winner.”
In four years, being an Aggie will be too easy,
it will take all the fun out of it. People are going
to forget what it’s like to grin-and-bear an endless
series of Aggie jokes told by loving relatives.
The poor freshmen students here, they just
won’t know what it is like to stay for yell practice
for most of the football games. Or to have UT
spit in the face of our blazing bonfire.
It’s just not fair that “lowly” freshmen get to
have all the fun while I have to graduate this
summer. But then I suppose I could change by
major, again. There’s nothing wrong with a ninth
year senior. Besides, I’m ready for the problems
of success.
(Dave Scott is a senior journalism major and is a
sports writer for The Battalion.)
The young Aggies maX trade X outh for for some -
thing a little more subs* 3 ”' 131 next V ear as experi
ence and talent raise hdP es of a promising season.
Aaaie Women fall
to Arkansas 83-70
By BONN FRIEDMAN
And this year’s recruiting crop may bring more
biuechippers. National signing date is Feb. 8 and
the Aggies are hoping to sign many prospects.
The Texas A&M women’ 5
basketball team fell 83-70 to lh e
Arkansas Razorbacks at BarP'
hill Arena Monday night.
During one stretch, the Ag'
gies fought back from a lT
point deficit to a 30-all tie. BU L
the Hogs charged back to lea^
45-40 at the half.
For the first 8 minutes of th e
second half the Aggies held
close, but then the Hog 5
changed defensive sets, putting
6’2” center Amanda Holley a 1
the top of a 2-3 zone.
The Arkansas defensive
change and the Aggies fatigu^
allowed the Hogs their fifth
straight victory, raising their
season record to 11-9, 8-2 in
Southwest Conference play.
Center Michell Tatum led
the Aggies in the scoring de
partment with 16 points, fol
lowed by Beth Young and Jenni
Edgar with 15 and Lisa Lan
gston with 14.
The Aggies had a good rea
son to be tired out; they have
played four games in the last
seven days.
“We just played so many
games — it seems like we’ve
been playing every other day,”
Coach Cherri Rapp said.
.TEXAS AGGIE MOTORCYCLE CLUB
The Texas Aggie Motorcycle Club
presents:
“Take It To The Limit”
starring
Eddie Lawson & Kenny Roberts
7:00 p.m. Wed. Feb. 8
at Rumour’s
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Meet Neeley Lewis
Candidate
for
State Representative
February 7,1984
8:30 p.m. 401 Rudder
10:00
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• Organizational Meeting
• Officer Elections
• Discuss T-shirt Sales
• Discuss first party
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