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Paid for by friends of Phil Gramm Monday, November 5, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 SMU cornin’ around the Aggie mountain see page 10 s JV I •> ■ Fat lady ends Sherri It’s upset bid i By TRAVIS TINGLE Assistant Sports Editor '/ IRVING — Whoever the football guru was that once said, "The opera ain’t over, ’til the fat lady 'sings,” must have had Jackie Sherrill and Texas A&M in mind. In A&M’s 28-20 loss to SMU Sat urday, the “fat lady” belted out her song of doom and gloom for the Ag gies with 1:() 1 left to play in the third quarter. It was then that Aggie quarterback Craig Stump was jolted by Mustang linebacker Anthony Beverly and tumbled at the SMU 19-yard line. A&M’s defense had con tained...no...dominated the No. 19 Ponies’ high-powered veer offense for nearly three quarters. Barring a total defensive breakdown or a Texas Stadium earthquake, there was no way SMU could drive 81 yards for a touchdown against A&M. Quicker than you could say, “Mockingbird Lane’s Miracle Mus tangs,” SMUiquarterback Don King put the Ponies in the end/one in just five plays. The only “shaking” in Texas Sta- ww dium after that was the Aggie de fense — they were beginning to break. At that point, football’s most in tangible element reared its ugly head — momentum. A&M had it for nearly three quarters, but now that the A&M lead had been cut to six, the Ags’ favorite son "Mo” had run off to the Mustangs.' Mo never made it back to Aggies’ sideline. Sherrill couldn’t explain Mo’s un timely departure, but he knew that when the Ags lost him, things liter ally got out of Stump’s hands. “When we fumbled the ball, that was definitely the turning point of the game,” Sherrill said. Any time you have a momentum change, il really makes a difference. You’ll find there’s a lot more scoring after turn overs than after normal changes of possession. “There’s no question this game is a step forward. But you’r6 looking for the W’s, not the L’s. If we were play ing poorly, it would be different. But we’ve been playing well each game. I give the players a lot of credit. They played hard again today. The young players will remember how hard we played. Is our day coming? Yes. Have we had a lot of bad luck? Yes. I’m just trying to smile a little bit right now.” _ . — Sherrill hasn’t had much to smile about lately. A&M’s defense, led by Johnny Holland and Ken Ford, pro vided Sherrill with a chance to flash his “pearlies” for a change. The Ag gie offense, however, continued to give Sherrill gray hairs. The Aggies had first-and-goal at SMU’s six-yard line and at the eight during the first half. Both drives sputtered inside the three, prompt ing Sherrill and his staff to settle for Alan Smith field goals rather than gamble on fourth down. The cliche states that hind-sight is 20/20, but A&M Offensive Coordi nator Golden “Pat” Ruel said the Ag gies’ decision not to gamble was made with their heads, not their hearts. “We should have gotten the thing in the endzone,” Ruel said. “We made the right coaching move. There’s no way of knowing that those plays would turn out to be so critical. We are just not c\ great foot ball team yet.” On both fourth-and-goals, the Aggie offense squad looked to the bench and pointed in unison toward the goal line. The A&M coaches hes itated, but sent Smith in to get six easy points, instead of 14 hard- earned points. Stump, who turned in his best showing as as starter in completing 14 of 25 for 207 yards and two touchdowns, said the offense would have like to have gone for the touch downs, but they respected the coaches’ decisions. “Whatever the coaches want, we do it,” Stump said. “We just wanted to get points on the board at the time.” Tailback Thomas Sanders, who led the Ags in rushing with 67 yards, said he was confident in both goal line situations. “I felt like we could have made both of them, if we had gone for it,” Sanders said. Though Sherrill’s hair turned See AGGIES, page 11 Photos by PETER ROCHA and JOHN MAKELY Above, A&M Head Coach Jackie Sherrill tries to get an offi cial to see things his way during the Aggies’ 28-20 loss to SMU Saturday at Texas Stadium. At left, A&M quarterback Craig Stump (9) is wrapped up by SMU linebacker Anthony Beverly and fumbles the ball during the Ags’ last major drive at the end of the third quarter. 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