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Gridiron rivals to end
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A&M gains winning knowledge
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By TONY CORNETT
Sports Writer
I The Aggies have entered stage
two.
That’s the stage when a team
Inows how to win.
According to Aggie Football
toach Jackie Sherrill, there are
tree stages to winning. The first is a
earn learning how to win. The sec-
|nd is a team knowing how to win.
The third is a team lighting lot the
|ational championship.
‘ The University of Texas, 7-2-1
Ind the Aggies’ final opponent in
this long season, has a fair amount of
Experience in stage three.
“They (Texas) have had two great
botball teams the past two years,”
|herrill said. “They were not aver-
|ge football teams in ’82 and ’88 and
they’re not average now. I think they
have a team now that knows it can
win. There are definite distinctions
in levels of winning.”
Sherrill has respect for the Texas
football team. He also knows that
Texas will be more than ready to
take out the frustration of a loss to
Baylor last weekend on the Aggies.
“Going into the Texas game, let
me say this right off,” Sherrill said.
“We will not be playing the same
team that played Baylor. Texas has
the ability to play extremely well.
Texas has the ability to play any
body. It’s a - game where the emo
tions will be there. The determin
ation will be there.”
T he emergence of the Aggies as a
team that knows how to win from a
team that’s just learning has been ag
onizingly slow and painful to watch.
But Sherrill is happy to see that his
team has learned. The 35-21 upset
of TCU saw the Aggies move into
the second stage and a record of 5-5-
0.
“I was extremely happy for our
players,” Sherrill said, “because of
the adversity they had gone through
and the things that they had to
suffer. They had all the reasons not
to play well. We talk about emotions.
We talk about peaks and valleys. The
game last Saturday really had abso
lutely nothing to do with X’s and O’s.
It was very satisfying to see them
reach the point, where I think that
they realized for the first time, that
they know what it takes to win.”
It’s taken this long to get some
thing going for the Aggies and Sher
rill isn’t about to make changes now
just because Texas will be an emo
tional game. And he’s certainly not
about to change anything just to im
press a national television audience.
(The game will be televised on
ESPN).
“You really can’t change,” he said.
“You always take risks and we’ll take
risks Saturday in certain things. But
as far as completely changing your
offense? No. As far as changing your
defense? No. You’ve got to do well
what you can do. I don’t play on
emotions like being on national tele
vision. It’s wrong to play on the emo
tions of your players. (National tele
vision) has nothing to do with what
happens out on the field.”
Sherrill says that the Aggies do
have a big plus going into Saturday’s
clash with the Horns.
“The plus, I think, is the way (the
team) performed last week,” he said.
The Ags go into the game pretty
healthy. Tight ends Rich Siler and
Duncan Webb are still limping. FYic
Franklin will do the placekicking
chores for the Ags as he did in the
TCU game.
Defensive end Ray Childress gets
Sherrill’s highest praise.
“He has become as good as any
player that I’ve bt;en around in his
position,” he said.“Ray’s future is
really ahead of him.”
Don’t look for any big changes for
the Aggies. It’s a big game for them
and they’ll go with what’s brought
them this far. Still, there’s that big
emotional factor and running back
Thomas Sanders is one of the few
members of the team who can say
he’s played on an Aggie team that
beat Texas. He even scored a touch
down in that game back in 1980 at
Memorial Stadium —- the Aggies
squashed the Horns 24-14.
“It’s exciting for me to be able to
play them,” Sanders said. “It’s an ex
citing game. Everybody thinks that
they can’t be beaten. I feel different
about that. As far as I’m concerned
they’re not any different than any
body else. They have a good team,
but if we play up to our potential we
can play with them.”
Incidentally, that 1980 Aggie win
came after a Texas loss to Baylor
and an A&M win over T CU — deja
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Saints negotiate to
stay in Superdome
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, United Press International
I NEW ORLEANS — A firm owned by the A.N. Pritzker family of Chi-
I ago is negotiating seriously with John Mecom Jr. to buy the New Orleans
liaints and keep them in the Superdome.
A Denzil Skinner, president of Facility Management Group, a subsidiary
|>f the Pritzker family trust holding company, said Wednesday he has been
jneeting for several months with president Doyle Mize of the John Mecom
ompanies.
The wealth of the family was estimated last year at $ 1.5 billion.
“I believe it is a reasonable shot for us being able for us to pull this thing
ogether and develop a long-term commitment to ensure this franchise stay-
nghere for 25 or 30 years,” he said.
The Pritzkers, Skinner said, would not buy the Saints. Instead, he said
he team would be purchased by a Pritzker-owned company, possibly Fa-
ility Management Group.
The family’s vast holdings include the Hyatt Corp., which operates the
-lyatt Hotel chain, and Braniff Airlines. Facility Management operates five
onvention centers and sports arenas, including the Superdome.
“Our people have the wherewithal! to handle it,” Skinner said. “We
vould like nothing more than to do, the deal.”
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Texas AAM at Texas
Texas by 14
Texas by 7S
Ags by a dream of 3
ASM by 3
Texas by 25
Texas by 4
Rice at Houston
Houston by 21
Houston by whatever
Coogsby 3
Rice by 1
Houston by 21
Houston by 20
SMU at Nevadalas Veaaj
SMU by 10
SMU by 14
SMU by 102
SMU by 7
SMU by 10
SMU by 1
Auburn at Alabama
Auburn by 7
Auburn by 12
Tigers by 7
Auburn by 7
Auburn by 3
Alabama by 7
Army at Navy
Army by 14
Army by 31
'O! Army by 72
Army by 1
Army by 7
Navy by 5
Georgia Tech at Georgia
Georgia by 10
Georgia by 7
'Dawgs by a tail
Georgia by 7
Georgia by 10
Georgia by 8
Florida at Florida State
Florida by 3
Florida by 6
'Holes by 6
Florida by 7
Florida by 10
Florida State by 2
Tennessee at Vanderbilt
Tennessee by 7
Tennesse by 10
Vanderbilt by a pair of leans
Tennesee by 7
Tennessee by 10
Tennessee by 13
Dallas at Philadelphia
Dallas by "11"
Dallas by default
Pokes by a "Bum"
Dallas by 7
Philadelphia by 1
Dallas by 6
Pittsburgh at Houston
Pittsburgh by 14
Pittsburgh by a whole bunch
Oilers by 16
Pittsburgh by 14
Pittsburgh by 10
Houston by 3
Bryan at Highland Park
Bryan by 17
Bryan High by a Matt
Vikings by 18
Bryan by 7
Bryan by 100
Highland Park by 2
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Eleventh Week Totals
Overall; 86-46; Pet. — .652
Overall: 80-40; Pet. — .666
Overall: 85-47, Pet. — .644
Overall: 82-50; Pet. — .621
Overall: 82-50; Pet. — .621
Overall: 81-51; Pet. — .614
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