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The Bryan High School product
ranks seventh on the team in tackles,
and tied for a game-high eight in the
season’s first game against Louisiana
State.
However, though tackles have
come easily for him this season, they
haven’t always.
Playing as a true freshman in
1986, he played backup to a backup
for starting outside linebacker How
ard, also from Bryan. Robinson
posted only two tackles all year.
The backup the next two years for
All-American Roper, Robinson had
26 tackles. With Roper’s graduation,
he looked ready to inherit the out
side linebacker position.
But coaches moved him to the
starting inside linebacker spot after
an impressive showing in the spring.
He waited three years for the
starting shot at linebacker, but Rob
inson finally is ready to make his
mark.
“It was hard at first, but when you
have NFL-caliber guys in front of
you, there’s nothing you can say,”
Robinson said. “You have to wait for
your chance, and when your chance
comes you have to make the best of
it.
“That’s what I’m trying to do.”
Robinson isn’t alone. One of
Coach R.C. Slocum’s biggest worries
heading into the season was an un
proven defense.
They performed well against
LSU, and Robinson said that perfor
mance might help the young squad
gel quickly.
“It’s basically a young group of
guys,” he said. “In the LSU game, a
chemistry formed and we came to
gether. We played real well. I hope
we can continue that tradition of
great linebackers here.”
That tradition will be a hard one
to maintain. Since 1987, six Aggie
linebackers have been drafted by the
NFL.
Roper in 1988 came one sack
away from breaking Seattle Seahawk
Jacob Green’s school-sack record.
This year, senior All-American Aa
ron Wallace needs only three to
break the mark.
“Last year, you had so many line
backers to draw from,” Robinson
said. “You had Dana, Roper and
Wallace. It’s a cycle. It just keeps
going.”
Last year, an experienced group
of linebackers returned to A&M. In
1989, the only proven player is Wal
lace, a preseason All American and
candidate for the Butkus Award.
Although he is the squad’s emo
tional leader, Wallace isn’t a loud
player — he leads by example, Rob
inson said.
“Aaron’s quiet, but he leads just by
his playing,” he said. “He plays hard,
and the other guys who see him play
hard have to try to come up to his
level of play.
“The other guys draw from Aa
ron and we all just come together.”
The last two Aggie defenses have
been called the Wrecking Crew. Af
ter the squad’s dominating game
against LSU, Wallace suggested this
year’s team be called Wrecking Crew
III.
Robinson went one step farther.
“We’re still the Wrecking Crew,”
he said. “It’s plain and simple.”
Even so, the crew didn’t wreck too
much against the University of
Washington last weekend in Seattle.
Washington piled up 386 offensive
yards, almost double the amount
A&M gave up to LSU.
The defense that looked so effec
tive the week before never showed
up in Seattle. Husky quarterback
Cary Conklin passed for 224 yards,
much of it coming from short passes
over the middle — right in front of
Robinson and company.
“They nickel-and-dimed us to
death,” Robinson said. “It was frus
trating. We just had to stay in there
and try to adjust to it. You could tell
the guys were getting a litde frus
trated. I have to give Washington
credit. They had a good game plan
going in.”
That game plan worked so well
against A&M that Robinson said he
thought Texas Christian would use
the same offensive scheme Saturday
in Fort Worth.
“They have a new offense, but
we’re going to be able to adjust to it
well,” he said. “In a way they’re a lot
like Washington — that quick pass
ing game. After seeing what Wash
ington did to us, they probably will
throw a lot of nickel-and-dime
throws. But we’ll be ready for that.”
Being ready for TCU’s defense
could mean Wallace’s breaking of
Green’s sack record this weekend.
Robinson said the publicity sur
rounding Wallace this year has only
helped to build a better defense.
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‘The more sacks, the better,’
Aggies
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errors. The final point came on an
ace.
The Lady Aggies did’t ease up in
the third game. Although Hier-
holzer. Van Brandt, Kellen, Bella,
Gonzales and sophomore Moniki
Daniels started the game, only Gon
zales finished.
The Lady Aggies fell behind 1-0,
but grabbed a 3-1 lead after their
second service, and never looked
back. Using a Daniels ace, kills by
Bella and Ponder and blocks by Kel
len and Daniels, A&M took a 9-2
lead.
With the game in hand, the start
ers were replaced by the freshmen
and sophomores.
Despite the lack of experience,
A&M gave up the other two points
only after they had scored four more
points, and the issue had been de
cided. The final point of the night
came when SHSU failed to return a
Sheri Hermesmeyer serve.
The quick sweep was just what
A&M needed, said Van Brandt.
“We needed a match like this,”
Van Brandt said. “We’ve been strug
gling lately, and we needed a chance
to come out and get our our game
established. It’ll give us a some mo
mentum going into the tournament
this weekend.
Givens said the victory over a tal
ented SHSU team would give the
Lady Aggies a boost in confidence.
The Lady Aggies’ next action will
be Friday and Saturday in Colum
bus, Ohio, for the Buckeye Invitatio
nal Tournament. Other teams in the
tournament will be Ohio State, Illi-
nios-Chicago and Iowa State.
Tech’s Gray, TCU’s
Davis get SWC honor
LUBBOCK (AP) —When they
turned on their TV sets last weekend
to watch the college football high
lights, a lot of Southwest Conference
coaches likely thought the same
thing: oops!
That’s because Texas Tech was
the only Southwest Conference
school to recruit James Gray, the
running back who rushed for 234
yards and two touchdowns to lead
Texas Tech to a 24-14 victory over
20th-ranked Arizona. His powerful,
quick moves also made him the
Southwest Conference offensive
player of the week.
Texas Christian right end Darrell
Davis became defensive player of the
week for his 11 tackles — including
three sacks for 22 yards in losses —in
the Horned Frogs’ 14-10 loss to Mis
souri.
Gray overshadowed every other
SWC player Saturday with the best
game of his career. But only Texas
Tech and Texas-Arlington recruited
him from Fort Worth Trimble Tech.
“That’s one of those lucky things,”
said Tech offensive coordinator
Dick Winder, who visited Gray at the
urging of a teacher he knew at Trim
ble Tech. “Those things just happen
once or twice in your lifetime.”
The high school class of ’84 was
full of running backs and Gray
didn’t get the attention some others
did, Winder said.
The 5-10, 200-pound senior is
getting plenty of attention now,
some of it from pro teams. Winder
said.
“I think he’s definitely got a
chance,” Winder said. “He’s such a
deceptive runner. He’s so football
smart — he reads the defense real
well. Lots of players just look at the
ground, but he looks at the defense
and tries to figure out what they’re
going to do.”
Head Coach Spike Dykes said he
believes Gray made two or three of
his best runs at Tech during the Ari
zona game. Gray lost 10 pounds dur
ing the offseason and is a step faster,
he said.
Dykes tries to dampen hoopla sur
rounding his only “name” player by
pointing out that Gray has a strong
offensive line and a good blocking
fullback in Louis Sheffield.
“James won’t let you (give him all
the credit),” Dykes said. “He’s always
giving the other players the credit.”
That’s what Gray did Saturday
night, praising his offensive line.
The soft-spoken tailback said he
didn’t know he had set Tech’s career
touchdown record with his first
score in the Arizona game until one
of his linemen told him. He now has
34 TDs for the Red Raiders and sets
a record each time he scores. He’s
four yards shy of breaking James
Hadnot’s Tech rushing record of
2,794 yards.
Photo by Jay Jamti
Jeroy Robinson closes in on LSU’s Tommy Hodson.
Robinson said. “We’re just one team
out there. We want Aaron to get
sacks. We want everybody to get
sacks. Nobody selfish is out there in
our defense.”
Robinson has heard the criticism
that the young Aggie defense is re
ceiving, and he thinks it’s unjusti
fied. Just give them time and 1989’s
they’re just as good as past yean,
said.
“We can be a lot better thanwl
everybody gave us credit for (ai jhe le;
the Washington game),” Robins ution
said. “They saw a little bit of tbai
Wash.
the LSU game. They were talk gsary
about how thin we were.
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Wrecking Crew will show that
out there and play.” They
worry about that.”
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A&M Women’s Golf team
places fourth in toumamen
The Texas A&M women’s golf
team stroked to a fourth place finish
in the SMU Women’s Golf Classic,
contested Monday and Tuesday at
Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas.
The Lady Aggies totaled 914
strokes over three rounds to place
behind first place SMU with 899, La
mar with 905 and TCU with 911.
The University, of North Texas
Baylor followed A&M.
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226 for the three rounds totiefi
seventh place. Caroline Basarabai
Kellie Kifer tied for eleventh
scores of 229 and Leigh Dickey ti
for 15th, shooting 231 forthetoi
nament.
Spur’s Elliot waits
for appropriate deal
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — It’s a
waiting game — at least for a few
more days — in contract negotia
tions for Sean Elliott, whose agent
is indicating he may ask the San
Antonio Spurs to pay the NBA
rookie more than $2 million a
year.
“We’ve just asked the Spurs to
be patient with us. We want to see
what the market tells us,” said
agent Bob Woolf of Boston.
Woolf represents Elliott, the
No. 3 overall pick drafted by the
Spurs, and Glen Rice, the No. 4
overall pick drafted by the Miami
Heat.
In published reports Tuesday,
Woolf said he doesn’t expect con
tract negotiations for Elliott to be
gin until other top college draft
choices are signed — primarily
No. 1 pick Pervis Ellison, who was
drafted by Sacramento.
“I’m not trying to be unreason
able, I just want to make sure
Sean and Glen Rice are not short
changed,” Woolf said.
Ellison reportedly has been of
fered a five-year contract worth
$14 million, or nearly $3 million
per year.
“I consider Sean and Pervis
just about interchangeable,”
Woolf said, in reference to the
possible money Ellison is being
offered. “Actually, I think Sean is
the best player in the draft. I
would say that Sean’s figures
would have to be in the same vi
cinity as Pervis’.”
Other top draft picks have
signed multimillion-dollar con
tracts during the summer, includ
ing Atlanta center Jon Koncak
who signed a six-year deal will
the Hawks worth $13.2 million
He’ll receive $2.5 million nexi
year.
Referring to that contract
Woolf said, “I mean, if Jon Kon
cak can get $2 million....”
The Spurs player drawing the
biggest paycheck next season so
far is center David Robinson, the
first choice in the 1987 draft who
will receive $2 million. All-Stat
forward Terry Cummings will
earn $1.7 million.
Spurs owner Red McCombs
said no talks have been scheduled
with Woolf about Elliott’s con
tract.
“He said he would call us when
he’s ready to negotiate
McCombs said. “If he wants to
wait until Ellison is signed, that
fine.”
A 6-foot-8 guard-forward
from Arizona, Elliott recenth
participated in a promotional
tour with team officials in South
Texas. He will be moving to San
Antonio within a few days
according to Wcolf.
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