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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.'
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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
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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
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break scene for rookies in those
leagues.
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Person or the Los Angeles Rams’Jim
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are able to come in immediately and
contribute to their team’s play.
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played college ball and lool;
tie’s done.
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.”
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college players. luld bar
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