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Tuesday, October 30, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9
See page 11
Ags bewitch Cougars
By BRANDON BERRY
Reporter
On a night in which all fans in
Halloween costumes got in for free,
the Dunn Hall cheering section at
last night’s A&M women’s volleyball
victory against the Houston added
its own ghoulish chapter to the an
nals of “The Holler House on the
Brazos.”
“Where I come from, they
wouldn’t have let that harassment
during the serve go on,” Houston
Coach Dave Olbright said. “The
large crowds are good for volleyball,
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A&M Coach Terry Condon to walk
icross the court to talk with the bois
terous “Aggie renegades.”
“I told them to keep it clean,”
Condon said. “Houston was rehlly
complaining, but that’s their prob
lem. Everybody else that’s come here
ras been impressed with our crowd.”
As if the crowd wasn’t spellbind-
ng enough, the Cougars (19-13)
nust have had a black cat cross
Highway 6 on their way from Hous
ton.
Houston’s leading hitter, senior
athy Metz, pounded a match-high
;16 kills, but also committed a match-
igh seven errors.
A Cougar comeback attempt in
he fourth game went for naught as
ggie middle blocker Sherri Brink-
an slammed two aces to end the
atch.
Olbright also lost one match in a
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s . W “There’s a natural rivalry when
&M and Houston play,” Olbright
aid, '“Terry and I both went to
CLA, so that adds a little some-
hing extra.”
Brinkman led the Aggies with 13
ills and a .400 hitting percentage,
largaret Spence and Chemine Doty
dded 11 and 10 kills respectively.
Olbright said the Aggies’ best of-
ensive weapon was their defense.
“They do a good job of keeping
he ball in play,” he said. “They
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really don’t have six strong players
across the board, but they play good
defense and get the ball to the good
players they do have.
“They’re a good team — I think
they should be in the playoffs and I
think they’ll do pretty well.”
Condon was not pleased with her
team’s execution, despite win No.
29.
“They thought, ‘it’s no big deal —
it’s Houston, we’ll win,”’ Condon
said. “They need tea learn that you
just can’t take people lightly.”
Ag blocker Chemine Doty said the
quality of competition shouldn’t be a
factor, but it does frequently affect
A&M’s performance.
“We tell ourselves that we need to
play our best all the time,” Doty shid,
“but saying it and doing it are two
different things. We’ve beaten them
so many times.”
Condon said the team’s upset win
over San Diego State Friday had a
negative effect Monday night.
“We almost lost it because we just
didn’t get ourselves fired-up and re
ady to play like we were against San
Diego,” she said.
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Texas A&M’s Chris Zogata (left), bumps the ball as teammate
Chemine Doty waits to help out during the first of four games
against Houston. A&M won the match by scores of 15-6, 9-
15, 15-4 and 15-13. The Ags play Baylor in Waco Wednesday.
Agents are bad
apples in NCAA
United Press International
Many star athletes are lured
into signing contracts with agents
before their college careers have
ended, but the practice is almost
impossible to police.
The practice of early signing
has been disclosed recently by
some pro football players. Phila
delphia Eagles wide receiver
Mike Quick sAys the practice hap
pens every day.
Earlier this month, 1983 Heis-
man Trophy winner Mike Rozier
disclosed that he signed with an
agent before the end of his career
at Nebraska.
Most coaches sAy individual
schools have a responsibility to
warn their players of the ramifi
cations of signing early, which is a
violation of NCAA rules, but they
had no solutions to the problem.
“We talk to our players repeat
edly about NCAA rules and what
it can do to their eligibility,” says
Tom Osborne, Rozier’s coach at
NebrAska. “But there’s a certain
percentage of athletes who, if
given the opportunity for a little
extra money, are going to take it.
“The people that are offering
these type of inducements are
people, as far as I know, I’ve
never seen. They come to their
homes in the summer or some
how get the guy’s phone number.
They hang around in the shad
ows, see a guy after practice,
meet him At his apartment or his
dorm room. Unless you just lock
your players up and somehow try
to control every person they’ve
met or saw, it’d be virtually im
possible.”
Lee Steinberg, a football “su
per-agent” who was responsible
for the multi million-dollar con
tract signed by Steve Young with
the USFL’s Los Angeles Express,
says the practice is one few
NCAA officials or coaches care to
confront.
“At least one third of the top
athletes in college football and
college basketball are signing
early each year,” Steinburg says.
“It usually is in return for money
payments and is an open secret
that no one wants to talk about.”
Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer
says, ‘There’s nothing you can
do. It’s kind of like an athletic de
partment trying to police the
alumni from not breaking NCAA
rules. There’s no way you can.
We talk to our Athletes, try to ed
ucate them and give them super
vision.
“We have A faculty group to
advise our athletes About the
problem but if An agent wants to
come in the back door, which is
the way they always operate, and
go to the athlete without our
knowledge, they’re going to do it.
An athlete in many cases, if he’s
offered a lot of money, he’s going
to take it. It’s human nature. We
all know that and we should rec
ognize that.”
West Virginia coach Don Neh-
len saya a university has a bur
densome responsibility to edu
cate players. He said he knows of
no Mountaineer athletes who had
signed before they left school.
“We talked to our kids about
agents,” Nehlen says. “The coAch
has to educate the players but it’s
hard to keep with each player.
The agents have a responsibility,
too. Any agent who tries to in
duce a kid to sign before he’s eli
gible is a bad apple.”
Oklahoma StAte coach Pat
Jones says, “As coaches, we have
to continually remind the players
that agents are basically in for
one reason — to make money.
“There are a lot of reputable
people who are agents, but the
bottom line is that they are in to
make some money for them
selves. Any time a player loses
sight of that, he’s kidding him
self.”
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