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Fat lady ends Sherri It’s upset bid
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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. A&M’s Matt Darwin (78) and
SMU’s Monte Goen (35) dive for the loose ball. Goen, how
ever recovered for the No. 19 Mustangs (5-2^.
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