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The Battalion
Tuesday, November 29,1988
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SPORTS EDITOR:
It was most interesting to read the recent
columns by Hal Hammons concerning the *
allegations of impropriety on the part of Jackie
Sherrill. Mr. Hammons professes his belief in
the original testimony of George Smith, citing
the credibility of the Dallas Morning News as
evidence of the truth of Mr. Smith’s initial
statements. He further claims that the Dallas
Morning News is regarded among journalists
as the finest newspaper in the region.
I am sure that Mr. Hammons holds the
Dallas Morning News in even higher regard,
since he is the A&M sports correspondent for
the publication.
Since he has seen fit to question the
credibility of both Mr. Sherrill and the A&M
Board of Regents, I feel it would be fair to ask
Mr. Hammons how much he is imbursed for
his contribution to the Dallas Morning News. I
am sure Mr. Hammons would no doubt relish
the opportunity to work for that publication
upon leaving A&M. It is apparent that Mr.
Smith is not the only person with a credibility
problem.
Personally, I don’t know whether Mr.
Smith’s allegations are true or not. If Coach
Sherrill paid hush money he should be
dismissed. The penalties for such a violation
should be left to to the NCAA, not a Battalion
lynch mob.
The death penalty would have a tremendous
economic impact on the community. Is it worth
the jobs of hundreds of local residents to
impose the death penalty when a five-year
probation would accomplish the same
objective?
Regardless, the guilt of the school in both the
eyes of the public and the minds of its students
should be determined by the appropriate
investigation, not by the decree of the press.
Paul A. Brinkley ’89
SPORTS EDITOR:
We are writing this letter in response to Hal
Hammons’ article on Monday about T/ieBai
talion’s handling of the Jackie Sherrill-George
Smith controversy.
In his article, Hammons said he felt Sherrill
was guilty of wrongdoing. I really hope that he
is not basing his condemnation solely on
Smith’s story (or stories). Smith has shown that
he is not a credible source — which should bt
apparent to Hammons, considering thatheisj
journalist.
He also says The Battalion prints the facts.
Let’s see how The Batt prints the facts and how
they could have printed the facts. It seemed
that on Friday the Batt had already condemned
Jackie Sherrill and the football program. The
Battalion staff could have stated their opinions
in a more positive light — or at least less slanted
than they were.
In his Monday article, Hammons stated that
the student body was confusing “innocent until
proven guilty” and “innocent until confession."
That’s strange, I thought being innocent until
proven guilty was what America was all abont.
Being a journalist, Hammons should know
about accusation and constitutional rights.
Finally, I would like to encourage the stu
dent body to stand behind Sherrill and the
football program until it has been proven guilty
by either the NCAA or the internal investiga
tion by A&M, not the Dallas Morning News or
The Battalion. T hen, if Sherrill happens to be
found guilty of wrongdoing, regretfully let him
go and not drop him like a hot piece of char
coal.
Greg Bankston ’91
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Aggies don’t taunt
Doctor, Doctor!
SPORTS EDITOR:
Texas A&M and Southwest Conference
football is sick and needs to be returned to
health through an infusion of proper ethics,
sportsmanship and enforcement of the rules.
Here are some restorative measures:
• Fire Jackie Sherrill. Whatever the findings
in the Smith incident, he is responsible for the
present NCAA penalties.
• Disband or bar from further contact with
the athletic program the Aggie Club or
whatever group of powerful alumni is
misdirecting A&M athletics.
• Hire a young high-potential coach at a
salary consistent with those of other University
heads of departments.
• Adopt a code of ethics stating that any
coach, athlete or alumnus accepting or giving
money, material gifts or compensation other
than University-approved scholarships and
coaching salaries will be dismissed from and
barred from the program.
• Recommended that the State of Texas
adopt similar rules for all state-supported
colleges and universities and that the NCAA
require member schools to meet such
standards. This would level the playing field
and maintain healthy competition.
College football has become semi-
professional and non-representative of student
bodies. An increasing number of fans and
former supporters are repelled by abuses of
the rules and are unable to relate to the
participants as fellow students and alumni.
Let’s clean up A&M athletics and restore it to
its rightful role in building school spirit and
tradition in healthy, fair competition.
Herbert G. Mills ’51
SPORTS EDITOR:
A&M defensive back Gary Jones
unquestionably deserved to be flagged for
unsportsmanlike conduct in Saturday’s football
game against TCU. I refuse to argue with
anyone who considers celebration in the faced
a seriously injured player to be
“sportsmanlike”. (TCU quarterback Scott
Ankrom was apparently unconscious on the
field and was later reported to have suffered a
concussion.) This letter is not a criticism of
Cary Jones. He is an Aggie, and I’m sure he is
normally a very sportsmanlike player, but the
fact remains that he demonstrated
unsportsmanlike behavior.
This letter is written, instead, in criticism of
the yell leaders and the crowd who
subsequently did the “horse laugh” yell. This
was yet another instance of the overuse of that
yell in the past few years. I am a maroon-
blooded, dyed-in-the-wool Aggie, and I love
this school and its traditions. I believe that
there are circumstances which warrant the use
of the yell, but it shouldn’t be done with every
call against our football team. We make
mistakes too. Including facemasking, roughing
the passer and even unsportsmanlike conduct.
When these calls are made against us
undeservedly, let’s give ’em the horse laugh.
When we’re guilty, however, let’s just yell
encouragement for the Ags and keep the horse
laugh to ourselves, lest we show poor
sportsmanship as a crowd.
Jerry Tennison ’87
Michael Wilhite ’86
Scott McKinney ’86
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Warning — the trek will be difficult and arduous but
worth it.
The cable news stations sometimes report on hockey
scores and show footage — sometimes. But two or three
seconds of various teams racing around the ice does not
make up for the time spent trying to hunt down when
the station is going to run its sports break blurb.
There needs to be more coverage of hockey. You
may say hockey isn’t a priority sport in Texas, but it is of
greater interest than high school football.
The large newspapers in the state run more stories
featuring high school football than they run hockey
related items.High school football over professional
hockey? Unbelievable.
Finding hockey results in a Texas newspaper is close
to impossible. If hockey ever finds its way into a local
newspaper it is used only sparingly to take up while
space.
Most of the time hockey is stuck back at the end of
the sports sections near the wildlife and fisheries
reports.I recently found out the score in a Philadelphia
Flyers game and the level of an area lake at the same
time.How convenient.Fish, fowl and hockey.
But most of the time hockey can’t even fight its wa)
into the lake level and hunting back sports pages. In
that case, there is usually one final way to find outjust
who played who and who won what. T he boxscoresin
the newspaper.
The only problem with this is that the pi intis so
microscopic that you begin to get the feeling that
somebody is trying to hide something.
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