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‘Frog Fever’
Wacker gets cult-like support
United Press International
FORT WORTH — One of those
games that can honestly be said to
have captured the public’s imagina
tion will take place Saturday at
Amon Carter Stadium. While there
will apparently be as many people in
the old grandstands as there have
ever been before, the focus will be
on a single individual.
“No matter what you do in life,”
TCU coach Jim Wacker said the
other day in a philosophical mo
ment, “you always like to feel appre
ciated.”
Wacker is currently being appre
ciated beyond his wildest dreams.
In a matter of just a few weeks the
Horned Frogs have made an almost
unworldly transformation. Instead
of being bad, TCU is good. Instead
of being ignored, TCU has given ev
eryone a bad case of “Frog Fever.”
Instead of being in the running
for last place in the Southwest Con
ference, they are in first place.
And if the Frogs defeat the Texas
Longhorns next Saturday before
ABC’s television cameras and only
the second sellout crowd in the his
tory of the stadium, they will have
taken a giant step toward represent
ing the SWC in the Cotton Bowl.
All of this is being attributed to a
lone person. One who took the job
of head coach at TCU a year ago and
who, in his effervescent way, has de
veloped a cult following.
Now he will take his Frogs into the
arena against the traditional bully of
the SWC. Saturday’s showdown with
Texas is the most important game
TCU has been associated with in
over a quarter of a century.
How has Wacker and his
cheerleading manner motivated a
group of athletes use to hard times?
Does he have a special magic?
A few weeks ago Wacker took the
time to talk about motivation. The
bottom line is Wacker said he feels
young people are just as motivated
now as they’ve always been and there
are all sorts of different ways to mo
tivate. It just so happens that this
year Wacker’s methods have found a
larger audience than usual.
“There is no question,” Wacker
said, “that there are more diversions
for a youngster growing up today
“People say they feel sorry
for my insurance agent
when they see me jump
ing around on the side
lines, but, man alive, can
you imagine me trying to
hold it in. I guarantee it
would be over. ”
— TCU’sJim Wacker.
outside the athletic field — more dis
tractions, temptations, I guess you
would say, than when we were grow
ing up.
“To start with, the key to motiva
tion in our program is to get a strong
character kid to motivate. If a kid
has been into the drug scene and all
of that kind of garbage, I don’t want
to have to try to motivate him be
cause he is not going to lit. I've had
to get rid of some here because of it.
“I want good citizens. I don’t
coach outlaws. Some people coach
them well and that’s fine. I have all
the respect in the world for them.
But I don’t handle them very well.
“As for motivation, most of it
comes from having a genuine enthu
siasm for what you are doing. My
coaches have to have that enthu
siasm. If they really get excited
about getting out there and working
every day, then it is going to rub off
on the players and it will be easier to
get pumped up and have fun play
ing.”
It’s an understatement to say
Wacker has enthusiasm for the
game. On the sidelines he does an
excellent imitation of a volcano. But
in this day and age, does it take that
kind of personality to properly moti
vate? Thinking about it for a mo
ment, Wacker decided it did not.
“One of Vince Lombardi’s things
was that he was a screamer and a yel-
ler and obviously a great motivator.
Coach (Bear) Bryant coached that
way to some extent.
“Then you have the Tom Landrys
and the Bud Grants on the other
side of the coin. I think you have
seen both kinds being successful.
“I think the one thing nobody
ever questions about Landry or
Grant is their genuine enthusiasm.
Now it shows differently. I’m not
saying it has to be a rah, rah, scream
ing enthusiasm. But it has to be a
deep seated love for the game. It
permeates everything.
“Coaching is teaching. The more
the kids see your enthusiasm, the
more they have. But you have got to
be true to yourself. If 1 tried to be
like Landry I would go stinking nuts.
I would die of a heart attack.
“People say they feel sorry for my
insurance agent when they see me
jumping around on the sidelines,
but, man alive, can you imagine me
trying to hold it in. I gurantee you it
would be over.”
The TCU phenomenon has
mushroomed so rapidly, it is diffi
cult to determine when it started. It
wasn’t an avalanche when it began,
but it is now.
“I’ll tell you when it started,”
Wacker said. “It started against Ar
kansas.”
It was against the Hogs, TCU’s
fourth game, that the Frogs rallied
for 15 points late in the contest in
cluding a two-point conversion in
the final seconds to down Arkansas
by 1.
“I saw a totally different team that
day,” Wacker said. “The early suc
cess we had (against Utah State and
Kansas State) helped. I don’t think
we could have pulled it off at Arkan
sas without those games.
“You talk about the great teams
like Texas and ask why they win.
Well once you win as much as Texas
does, you expect to win. That is the
kind of thing we are starting to see
some now at TCU.
“They have got to do it individu
ally. We talk about that a lot. We
have got to have a kid make the su
per catch or under pressure make
the big throw or pick off three passes
instead of almost intercepting them.
“Last year (Wacker’s first year at
TCU in which the Frogs went 1-8-2)
we had the same shot at the intercep
tion and we would drop the stupid
ball. We weren’t believing yet. It’s
that crazy intangible. You can’t ex
plain it, but you know it when you
see it.”
Men’s volleyball team
wants spiker spotlight
By MARCY BASILE
Sports Writer
With all the hoopla over the win
ning women’s volleyball team, Texas
A&M’s other volleyball team is left
standing on the sidelines.
The Texas A&M Men’s Volleyball
Team is an extramural sport club
started six years ago. Logan Am
mons, the team’s treasurer, said the
clubs’ members were, and still are,
out to promote volleyball at A&M.
“Since the Olympics we’ve had so
many people interested in volley
ball,” Ammons said. “I’ve had so
many people come up and tell me
volleyball was their favorite sport in
the Olympics.
“I really didn’t know if they were
saying that because they knew I
played volleyball or if they really
meant it. I’m beginning to believe
they meant it more and more
though.
A&M’s men’s team is a member of
the United States Volleyball Associa
tion (USVBA). USVBA volleyball is
played by independent and colle
giate teams.
“We enjoy playing USVBA ball
and representing A&M,” Ammons
said. “We are trying to develop vol
leyball at A&M mote as a school
sport, so we play other colleges.”
To increase match attendance, the
men’s team is taking advantage of
the public’s increasing awareness of
volleyball.
“The main way we are trying to
support it (volleyball) is by playing
other college teams after the A&M
women’s team plays,” Ammons said.
The club is attempting to draw
more college teams to A&M for
matches.
“Just this year, we have been try
ing to contact other Texas schools
that have teams,” Arnmons said. “A
few weeks ago we had some teams
come down for a small tournament
here. We want to play more colle
giate volleyball. We think more peo
ple would be inclined to come watch
us play another college team or
teams from Texas.
“In our past tournaments, we’ve
contacted the teams. It’s kind of
hard to find out which schools have
teams because some are under ath
letics, some are in the P.E. depart
ment and some are collegiate
sports.”
The men’s volleyball team is actu
ally three teams — one for experi
enced players and the other two for
players who just like playing volley
ball.
“The first team is made up of the
best players,” Ammons said. “The
other two teams also compete, but
they mainly just provide other play
ers with a chance to play and com
pete with some good teams.”
“What we try to do is get everyone
playing together, but it really doesn’t
help the experienced players to play
continuously. We do try to give ev
eryone a chance to play.”
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