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By TRAVIS TINGLE
Assistant Sports Editor
It’s funny how one big play can
change a coach’s game plan — even
make him change quarterbacks in
midstream.
In the third quarter of Saturday’s
game, Iowa State quarterback Alex
Espinoza exploited a one-on-one sit
uation between All-America split
end Tracy Henderson and T exas
A&M’s Wayne Asberry and con
nected with a 71 -yard scoring strike.
That touchdown cut A&M’s lead
to just seven points with a whole
quarter of football remaining.
So like 'any good baseball man
ager, Sherrill pulled Stump from the
bullpen and hoped he could post a
save and hand Murray the win. The
Texas Rangers could take a few les
sons from “Sparky” Sherrill.
“At 17-10, I felt like at that time
we weren’t doing anything offen
sively and they weren’t doing any
thing either,” Sherrill said. “When
they scored I had to make a decision.
But now it’s 17-10 and they had the
momentum. We had to do some
thing. At that time a f elt like I had to
play Stump. Because if the game got
tight and we had to throw the ball
every down, I wanted Kevin (Mur
ray) fresh.”
Sherrill said Stump was supposed
to generate the ground game and
drain time off the clock. Not even
Sherrill expected Stump to have to
throw as much as he did.
“At that time we were going to
run the option,” Sherrill said. “We
felt like they could not defend the
option, being from the Big Eight. I
didn’t want to throw the ball. But on
those third and long situations we
had no choice.”
Sherrill was pleased with Stump’s
poise on the field.
“The relief pitcher always has the
advantage,” Sherrill said. “You take
a quarterback off the bench, he al
ways has the advantage unless things
are going great. He has the advan
tage psychologically. He has the ad
vantage crowd-wise."
The Port Arthur Jefferson prod
uct completed 8 of 1 1 passes for 100
yards and two touchdowns, convert
ing on six out of six third down situ
ations. Sherrill didn’t know quite
what to say about Stump’s passing.
“He completed most of them,”
Sherrill said. “I mean what can you
say about a pitcher who throws stri
kes?”
What can you say about a pitcher
who gets pulled in the seventh in
ning because he loads the bases with
the winning run on third?
You can say that Kevin Murray is
looking forward to his next start on
the mound.
Murray didn’t have that bad of a
game statistically. He completed 11
of 26 passes for 141 yards and was
intercepted only once. Murray’s
problems lied with Iowa State’s nine
man front defensive scheme which
had him scrambling in every passing
situation.
Sherrill took the blame for Mur
ray’s performance.
“We didn’t do a very good job
with Kevin. I’m talking about from
the (coaches’) press box all the way
down,” Sherrill said. “If you guys
(sports writers) are going to try to
write that Stump was the savior of
the day, no that didn’t happen.
Stump came in and we didn’t make
some of the same mistakes that we
made with Kevin, but that’s not be
cause of Stump, it was just because
our offense started doing some
things.
Six third down conversions were
really made, not because the quar
terback did anything extra special,
but because the receivers (Shea
Walker, Jimmy Teal and Jeff Hol
ley) made some good efforts.”
Sherrill quickly dispelled any ideas
about a quarterback controversy, ala
the Dallas Cowboys, with one sen
tence.
“Kevin’s the quarterback,” Sherrill
said.”
When reporters asked Stump if
he expected to start next week
against Arkansas Atate, he echoed
Sherrill’s sentiments.
“No.” Stump said. “Kevin’s the
starter. Like Kevin said, in the third
quarter the offense was moving a
little slow, but you can’t blame Kevin
for everything that happened.”
A&M fullback Roger Vick didn’t
Texas A&M quarterback Craig Stump fires the ball to a re
ceiver downfield during the Aggies’ 38-17 victory over Iowa
Photo by BILL HUGHES
State Saturday at Kyle Field. Stump replaced starter Kevin
Murray and passed for two fourth quarter touchdowns.
want to choose a favorite, . when
asked if Stump’s presence sparked
the offense.
“Well, Kevin and Stump are two
great quarterbacks, there’s no doubt
in my mind,” Vick said. “I really
can’t say what the deal was, but we
just had to pull ourselves together
and play.”
Murray made no excuses for his
lacklustre play.
“Today was just a bad day for
me,” Murray said. “ It’s just one of
those things, you can’t always have a
great day. In the third quarter when
they started to take control of the
game, coach (Sherrill) told me he
was going to give me a rest. The pro
tection broke down quite a bit, but
it’s nothing we can’t straighten out.”
Did Sherrill see any improvement
in the Ags from the UTEP scare?
“The biggest improvement I saw
came after 17-10,” Sherrill said. “We
had a chance at that time to become
a football team or not. I think our
players made a decision to do some
things. Offensively and defensively
we played together. All of a sudden
we went from 17 points we scored
38.”
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