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of fresh mascot for A&M
My dreams have been filled
with visions of “Fighting War
Owls” lately, and so I think it’s
time to address a problem that
has plagued me for minutes at a
time — Texas A&M’s mascot.
After having been to Houston
for the A&M-Rice football game,’
I started to make mascot compa
risons. My eyes couldn’t help out
wander to that smelly (if you get
dose enough), blue, arrogant,
fake Owl that insists on the classi
fication “War Owl.”
That bird is just plain pushy,
but I have to admit it has some
style. Now it’s not nice to wave
flags with slogans like “Reveille is
fixed,” but I’ve never met a War
Owl yet with a discerning sense of
humor.
And so the terrible scrutiny of
this column swings to that grand
of guard dog — Reveille.
You know, the “new Reve-
flea,” the one that isn’t fixed —
forget what that mangy bird says.
That hairball of Aggie spirit.
My worry, and it should be the
worry of any “Super Aggie,” is
that we’re losing the battle of the
mascot — the batde to control the
hearts and minds of football
feverish freshman and bored
couch potatoes watching the
game on the tube.
Who wants to watch a flea-bit
ten pup, when you can watch a gi
ant blue Owl, elephants, eagles, li
ons, horned frogs, and black
bears rampage along the sidelines
of other football fields?
Sure it’s fun to see of Rev nip
at a yell leader or maul an inno
cent fan— but it’s... it’s passe.
ED CASSAVOY
Sports Viewpoint
With my fingers on the pulse
of Aggieland, I’ve noticed, no I
feel the growing fear that A&M
may become just another state
university — emphasizing stuff
like academics. I’m with you Ags
when I say, “enough is enough.
But the first step is awareness
of the problem. That’s solved.
The second step is to see how
we can turn the corner.
A&M thinks big and, the more
mindless and irrelevant the
statement, the greater the
statement.
So why not let our mascot do
the talking?
Dump the dog and go Holly
wood.
Raise the banners, uncrate the
guns and march in cadence to
Kyle Field (oops, stay off the As
troturf) and scream to the gods
above, or to the press box,
“Dump the dog and make us
free!”
And free you will be my sons
when you discover the wonders
of velcro, green fake fur, paper
mache or real wild animals.
Who, for example, has a gi
raffe for a mascot? 1 can’t think of
one. What a glorious sight to see a
stately giraffe whipped into a
Fightin’Texas Aggie fury, gallop
ing around the track at Kyle
Field.
But why not something bigger?
Why not a whale? The Texas
A&M Blue Whales. Then the fans
could be the Whalers. Yeah, I like
that. Just imagine a live whale,
swimming feverishly in a special
pool encircling the football field.
The yell leaders could ride on
their backs, whipping up the
crowd, throwing scraps of horned
toads in to the gaping mouths of
their slippery steeds.
Or the Texas A&M Fightin’
Fruit Bats. The yell leaders and
the members of the Aggie Band
could be strapped to the bellies of
giant fruit bats to conduct stun
ning aerial maneuvers. The fans
would eat it up.
For the sentimental, a giant
Zepplin could be filled with
10,000 starry-eyed Aggie coeds,
babbling the Aggie War Hymn —
clad only in maroon and white
silk jump suits — who would par
achute on to a giant mum in the
middle of Kyle Field after every
A&M penetration to the oppo
nent’s 20-yard-line.
Wow!
But folks, why not look closer
to home? Why not change the Re
veille we have?
There must be some sort of
twisted scientist on campus who is
experimenting on some poor
monkey. A growth formula might
do the trick.
Imagine one freshman cadet
trying to control a 90-foot-tall
dawg.
Or why not graft another head
on of Reveille? Then the barking
would be twice as loud when the
Aggies scored a touchdown. Of
course, no t.u. head please.
Nah. On second thought, that’s
too flashy.
By DOUG HALL
Sports Writer
With six freshmen and four ju
nior college transfers on her 1985-
86 women’s basketball team, Texas
A&M Coach Lynn Hickey said that
“rebuilding” describes her program
well.
“This is a new beinning for Lady
Aggie basketball,” said Hickey, who
also serves as A&M’s assistant ath
letic director for women’s sports.
“We have a whole new team — 11
new players.”
Prior to Hickey’s arrival at A&M
in the ’84-85 season, the Lady Aggies
had finished below .500 five years in
a row. However, in only her first sea-
spn, Hickey led A&M to a 14-14 re
cord.
Unfortunately, graduation
claimed all but four players off last
year’s squad. Hickey then used her
ten available scholarships to recruit
top prospects from around the
country.
With the help of A&M assistant
coaches Eileen Feeney and Shelley
Hughes, Hickey signed six freshmen
recruits: center Nette Garrett, a 6-
foot-B all-state player out of Center
High School; Veronda Roundtree, a
5-11 forward from Huntsville High;
and Donna Roper, an All-Greater
Houston guard from Yates High.
In addition to Hickey’s other
three freshmen, the Aggies signed
Debbie Lorenzen from Gridley,
Calif., Mary Leahy from Ramsey,
NT. and Lisa Jordan from Talmage,
Calif. A&M also picked up junior
college transfers Evelyn Sanders,
Paula Crutcher, Rosalind Brown
and Tamara Jackson.
With this unusual amount of new
talent, Hickey said her coaching will
be put to the test.
,! I don’t think we realized how
much work we’d have to spend on
Photo by FRANK HAD A
Texas A&M Women’s Basketball Coach Lynn Hickey (above) —
“Generally you have six or seven (players) return so that you have a
little bit of continuity, but we have so many things to go over. We are
so young and so new that it’s going to take us a while (to mature). ”
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a little bit of continuity, but we have
so many things to go over.
“We are so young and so new that
it’s going to take us a while. But the
talent is there. We’ve got some really
good athletes. I think we’ll put a
team on the floor that will be much
better than any team we’ve had befo
re.”
But, like most young teams,
Hickey said the Lady Ags have their
shortcomings.
“Our biggest weakness is just basic
fundamentals . . .,” she said. “That is
going to be our biggest struggle until
January and February when we can
get our (the coaches’) philosophy
across and execute very very well.
“Another thing we may be lacking
right now is a pure outside shooter.
Itlooks like we have some good nat
ural ability, but I don’t know if some
of our ball handling and shooting
skills are where we need them. But
those are things you can teach them.
I can’t teach them how to run and
jump.”
Almost lost amongst this youth
movement are two important upper-
1 Lis
classmen
senior forward Lisa
Langston and junior point guard
Beth Young.
Hickey said Langston, A&M’s sec
ond all-time scoring leader, and
Young, last year’s team leader in as
sists, will play a critical leadership
role for the Aggies by letting ability
do their talking.
“Neither Beth nor Lisa are what
you might call verbal leaders,”
Hickey said. “Right now they are
very much leading by example. I
think we’re still struggling to find
someone who can be a leader. And
until we get roles defined on playing
time and positions it’s going take us
some time to develop someone that
can step out and take charge.”
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