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Associated Press
HOUSTON — Deposed Hous
ton Oiler Coach Hugh Campbell
said Thursday he leaves the Na
tional Football League club in
better shape than when he took
over two years ago.
I “I haven’t coached anywhere
that I haven’t left a team in better
shape than the way I’ve found it
— and that record’s still intact,”
lumipbell said in an interview
with Houston radio station
KODA. “My position right now is
to try to land on my feet and take
note of what’s going around.”
I Campbell was fired Monday af
ter the Oilers assured themselves
of another losing season by drop
ping Sunday’s game against the
New York Giants. He said he was
disappointed about losing his job,
but acknowledged that “some
times it’s time for a change.”
H Campbell, who has been reluc
tant to comment in the wake of
his firing during the second year
of his tenure as Oiler coach, re
fused to criticize General Man
ager Ladd Herzeg.
I Herzeg this week called the
hiring of Campbell, a highly suc
cessful Canadian Football League
coach, the “worst mistake of my
professional career.”
K The owner of the CFL’s Cal
gary Stampeders has expressed
interest in Campbell, who won
Grey Cups with Edmonton be
fore joining the United States
Football League’s Los Angeles
Express and then the Oilers two
years ago.
■ “At this time I haven’t even
considered that, although some
one has told me that somebody
else has considered that,” Camp
bell said. “I haven’t experienced
being fired before and I have no
blueprint to follow in what steps
to lake.”
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
AUSTIN — Superstitious? Not
the Texas A&M volleyball team.
As long as the players go through
their pregame rituals, avoid walking
under ladders and keep black cats
from crossing their paths, they say
Friday the ISth might he their lucky
day.
“Yeah, and il will be full moon,”
A&M Coach Terry Condon said.
No. 19 A&M laces No. 8 Texas to
night in Gregory Gymnasium at 7
p.m. in the semifinal of the NCAA
Championship Tournament’s South
Regional.
Since the Aggies have already lost
to the Longhorns twice this season
and, in fact, haven’t defeated them
since 1981, it appears they will need
“Lady Luck” on their side tonight.
“What’s everyone saying?,” A&M
setter Chris Zogata asked. “Third
time’s a charm? It’s starting to sound
like a broken record, but I hope it’s
true.”
Three weeks ago, the Ags won the
first two games against the ’Horns in
College Station but lost the next
three, losing a match to UT for the
ninth straight time.
“We’re just very tired of losing to
Texas,” A&M All-America Sherri
Brinkman said. “We’ve always had
the skill to beat Texas. We just
haven’t had the right mental atti
tude. Everyone makes such a big
deal about beating Texas. They’re
no different than anyone else we
play. Just because they’re Texas
shouldn’t affect the way we play.”
So besides the mental attitude,
what else do the Aggies need to do to
finally defeat the Longhorns?
“We just need to play like we did
in the first two games last time,” Zo
gata said. “I’m confident. I wasn’t
real excited about playing them
again when I first heard we might.
But now, with the way we’ve been
playing and thinking about that last
match against them, I think we can
do it.”
Condpn. too, believes A&M can
win, <7 they conjaj^JUT’s fierce.put-
side hitting game, speai headed by
the Southwest Conference's Player
of the Year, Diane Watson.
“Their key is the outside game,’
Condon said “We have to try and
Control them on the outside We
have to serve real tough And we
can’t make many mistakes.”
After watching films of UT 1 ues
day night and remembering how
close they came in the last meeting,
the Aggies seern to have a different
attitude about playing Coach Mick
Haley’s Horns.
“We've been talking n- • ,*e
more about strategy than m the
past,” Condon said Ihey’vc teally
been concentrating on knowing
where lex,is’ weaknesses aic It’s
like one ol them clinked to a spot
and the others stopped and said.
‘That’s what they do. I hat’s exactly
where they hit the hall.
“Maybe this time will be different.
They seem to he real mellow about it
all — not uptight as usual.
Even the players admit they’re
more confident.
"We’re all saying, ‘We’re going to
beat Texas,"’ A&M outside hitter
Stacey Cildner said. “We know what
we have to do to win. We’ve been
working on it all week in practice.
And in two days, Terry’s even gotten
us into excellent shape. We’re le-
ady.”
AGGIE VOLLEYBALL NOTES:
No. 3 UCLA, the NCAA clefend
ing champion, faces Georgia at 5:30
p.m. Friday. The winner of that
match will face the winner of the
A&M-UT match on Saturday in
Austin. . . . Condon said the Austin
American-Statesman ran a story
about Texas looking past A&M at
UCLA. “They were saying, ‘UCLA
this and UCLA that.' But 1 think
when it comes down to it, it will he
A&M playing Texas. That uP! ri
valry will come through.'. ..Condon
would like nothing better than to
face her alma mater. L’CLA, for a
chance to make n to the Final l out
next weekend in Kalamazoo, Midi .
. . . The Aggies .prac ticed l lnusday
flight from 6.8 run. Friday, practice
was at noon. .t.
AH eyes are on A&M s Margaret Spence (fore
ground) as she tries to set the ball up fbt a spike
Photo by JOHN MAKEL Y
in A&M’s NCAA tourney win over Texas-Arling-
ton. No. 8 Texas hosts No. 19 A&M tonight.