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Twin City Honda Why Rent When You Can Own! Save $150 Page 10/The BattalionAThursday, April 9, 1987 Pavlas (continued from page 9) ticing two hours a day, four days a week during spring practice. Since he and Stump are competing for the starting role, Pavlas is getting plenty of work. “It’s my first spring practice,” Pav las said. “It’s a learning experience. I’m getting a lot of repititions. With our offense, you learn through ex perience. And with the repititions, I’m getting more of a chance to learn our offense through experience and not just observations.” Pavlas is concentrating a lot on making quicker decisions on the field and releasing the ball quicker during practice. “Those just kind of work hand in hand,” he said. Pavlas said he is excited about get ting an opportunity to play, but he doesn’t think at all about starting. “It is exciting to have an opportu nity to play,” he said. “But I know I’ve got a lot of improving that needs to be done. I’m just really working hard this spring to capitalize on this chance I have to improve. “All those decisions on who starts are up to the coaches. The main thing for me to do is just go out there and do my best every day and try to help the team improve any way I can. That’s the main thing spring practice is all about.” Pavlas knows that because of his accomplishments and his well publi cized talent, expectations will be high, and some people may never be satisfied with his performance. But that doesn’t worry him. “The only person I have to please is myself,” he said. “All I can do is do my best. And if that isn’t good enough for some people, that’s just the breaks. “The main thing to remember is that the only people who are going to be there are yourself and your family. I don’t worry about pleasing other people. All I want to do is be a positive contributor to my team do the best 1 can do for my team for myself. And 1 hope well some good results.” Although pro football Hal Famer Namath is not included Vinny Testaverde, Roger Staul John Elway and former A&M terback Gary Kubiak on Pavlas’ terback wall of fame in hisrooa is the quarterback Pavlas' minds a lot of people of. I tries to keep these comparison! perspective. "It’s quite an honor," he said.'| I haven’t thrown one pass or ial« one snap at the college level. 1 ’ A comparison sucn as thatisir of pressure to put on a college^ hristopl man athlete. But the youngs terback seems to be handling it.* Jionorabh “You can allow the pressure^ put on yourself,” he said. “Butij again, the only person I’vek prove anything to is myself Juj ; pore ref my best, that’s all 1 can do.' College baseball tries to prove diamond-in-the-rough reputation GROS! denial oose. 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And lo and behold, guess what I found? Baseball. 1 guess it shouldn’t have been that much of a surprise, especially since Monday w'as opening day around the Major Leagues. But this wasn’t the Astros vs. the Dodgers or New York vs. Pittsburgh. This was Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State. Big deal you say. Well I’d agree, except for the fact that it made me think back to the last time I had seen a college baseball game on television. I remembered watching Texas in the College World Series last year and some of the other championship games. But I sure couldn’t remem ber watching a regular season con ference matchup, even if it was the Mississippi showdown. But now think about how many collegiate basketball games we see each season on television. Saturday and Sunday afternoon television are filled with the grating voices of A1 McGuire, Billy Packer, Brent Mus- burger and Dick “the mouth that never shuts” Vitale. But before we even get to basket ball season, the major television net works have fought out the ratings wars starting in early September by televising college football. This sea son alone, A&rM played four of its 12 football games on national tele vision. Other teams such as Notre Dame and Oklahoma played on live television five or six times. So if by now you’re wondering what all of this is about, then try and answer this question: If baseball is our national past time and each year millions of fans pay billions of dol lars to watch professional baseball games, then how come college base ball doesn’t command the same amount of drawing power as colle giate basketball and football? For starters, one has to Icxik at the difference between the league struc tures in the three sports. Most base ball experts will tell you, the secret to an organization’s consistency is a strong minor league development program. Every Major League club has its own farm system where play ers who have been drafted out of high school or college can develop their skills against players in a higher caliber league. These players usually start out at the single A division and work their way through A A ball and AAA ball until they get a shot at the Major Leagues. Very few big leaguers ever join their professional teams without doing time in the minors. Just the opposite, however, is true in football and basketball. With the exception of the Canadian Football league, the Continental Basketball Association, the Italian basketball league and semi-pro teams, basket ball and football don’t have devel opmental leagues. It’s a make or break scene for rookies in those leagues. And as evidenced through the play of the Indiana Pacers’ Chuck Person or the Los Angeles Rams’Jim Everett, rookies in the those sports are able to come in immediately and contribute to their team’s play. 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The number of pro baseball ers that have jumped straighll c (>llege to the pros is limited. Earlier ibis season Texas Head Baseball Coach Markjob]_ vi id (here was obviously a uleoi^B tvv0 ^ u f between collegiate and profeaB cei baseball, hut lie felt peoplekei:® e j 11,1 n.illx iK-giiming to (nine aronti j c , t0 the excitement and entliiis'“ :vv ° orn found in the college ranks. “I think |>eople are fmalh iiiug to see that there areaia things happening in collegekiii as far as the entertainmemii goes." Johnson said. "We fun ninth in the nation lastyearii attendance because we triedii ate a family atmosphere at tlitji We want the students to con here and enjoy being part of ik citement.” Johnson attributes the rise tend.uhi to a competititttan ec | one i < .i m u 1.1 i lu im i c.imiu' hi bj u m | college players. luld bar "IVople are beginning to sen ■ p ay a same players they seeatourbal|i l lc j s ; -• on the professional teams,"lies ■“Nothin i olh-gr kuh air iiniumi a , quicker than they did in tile pal | instance, the first two pin; | di alled last year were out ( conference (Jeff kingfromf sas and (■!eg Swindell Iromli d skin wny pc; ars, aboi After 2l led by cr tably B loodlettir urse, dii tain inco ristophi | The dif man am eper tha “What v But if you’re looking fort baseball to be a television | house in the upcoming years,] probably be disappointed. But heck, I’d rather goouttotl park and watch the gameinptiil At least that way you don'tbtj listen to an announcer like unless of course you gotoan.l home game and listen to dies of Derrick Grubbs. STRETCI Your Doi!a:>i , WATCH FOR BARGAINS IN THE BATTALIOI