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rushing for his first 100-yard game
as an Aggie, which came in last Sat
urday’s 63-14 win over Southwes
tern Louisiana.
Simmons, No. 3 on the depth
chart behind Lewis and junior Keith
McAfee, said he’s just waiting for a
chance to play regularly in A&M’s
offense.
“I’m not jealous of anybody,” Sim
mons said. “Darren worked hard
and he’s getting what he deserves. I
envy him because he’s exactly where
1 want to be. Sooner or later, I want
to be at the plateau where he’s at.”
•
Simmons ran in McKinney head
coach Ron Poe’s I-formation attack
for 3,818 yards and 63 touchdowns
in high school. He wanted to play
football close to home, so he nar
rowed his college choices to Arkan
sas, A&M, Texas, Oklahoma and
Baylor.
Simmons chose A&M the morn
ing of signing day, and said the deci
sion between the Aggies and Long
horns was so hard to make that he
almost flipped a coin.
But Simmons soon started won
dering if he had made the right
choice. He redshirted his freshman
year after knee surgery.
He returned in 1988, but carried
only 19 times. Coaches tried to
switch him to fullback, and he spent
the season backing up true freshman
Robert Wilson while watching Lewis
ramble for 1,692 yards — second in
the nation behind Heisman winner
Barry Sanders.
Simmons switched back to tail
back, but didn’t play until the third
game of the 1989 season — a 44-7
win over Texas Christian. However,
he suffered a shoulder separation on
a routine pass play and missed the
next five games.
He returned for the 63-14 win
over Southern Methodist. He hasn’t
been injured since, and Simmons
said he’cl like to keep it that way.
“I didn’t have any injuries since
(the TCU game) and haven’t had
any injuries since then and don’t
want any injuries,” he said. “I want
to play in the big games too, not just
the ones where we’re so far ahead.
Any playing time is good playing
time. You get the experience as you
on.”
But if it hadn’t been for Sherrill,
Simmons would have ended up with
no experience — at least in an Aggie
uniform.
His 1987 freshman year was a
tough one. His weight ballooned to
dose to 250 and his work habits
slacked off. For the first time, he
said he started having doubts about
his choice to play at A&M and
thought about transferring.
Once Sherrill talked him out of it,
Simmons rededicated himself to
practice, and reduced his weight af
terteammates started teasing him.
“I had never been fat in my life,”
Simmons said. “It was just friendly
ribbing from teammates, but you
start thinking that if that’s how they
see you, then how do other people
see you? I didn’t want to be known as
somebody that came here and ate a
scholarship. So I started working
harder.
“I was determined that I was
going to earn my keep here. I’m not
going tojust sit around and let some
body pay my way while 1 hang on by
the skin of my teeth.”
•
With Lewis gone next year, Sim
mons figures to be doing more than
just hanging on — he and McAfee
should be vying for the starting job.
A&M head football coach R.C.Slo
cum, who was an assistant coach at
Southern California in 1981, com
pared Simmons to former Heisman
Trophy winner Marcus Allen of the
NFL’s Los Angeles Raiders. Coin
cidentally, Allen is Simmons’ favor
ite professional athlete.
“When I was at USC, Marcus
didn’t make a lot of long runs, but he
made a bunch of eight-yard runs,”
Slocum said. “I think Randy has that
capability. It’s hard to stop him. He’s
going to slash on you and four-yard
ybu to death. That’s a trait of a good
running back.”
Simmons finally is getting the
chance to play like one. Other peo-
placed expectations on him when
and Lewis came out of high
school, but Simmons said that wasn’t
fair because the two backs are as dif
ferent as night and day.
“Darren’s got the moves and sha
kes,” Simmons said. “On the other
hand, I figure there’s only two ways
to run—north and south. Those are
the only ways I know how to run. I
don't have that many moves. I don’t
try to fake anybody out. Four or five
yards a pop is good enough for me.”
Simmons once rushed for 280
yards in a game at McKinney, but
getting his 141 against USL was his
game of a lifetime, he said.
“Games like that are the kind of
games you don’t want to end, where
you’re having the greatest night of
your career," Simmons said. “The
more you play, the more confidence
you build up.
“I never forgot how to run. A run-
ling back never forgets how to run.”
Where once a 250-pound fresh
man redshirt sulked his way through
thoughts of transferring, Simmons
tow waits for the chance he hopes
villcome.
"It doesn’t frustrate me because I
:an’t control any injuries I get,” Sim
mons said. “They happen. I’ve had a
few setbacks here and there, but
lon’t count me out. You can say that
I'm often-injured, that I hardly ever
get to play, you can call me whatever
ou want, but you’ll never be able to
me a quitter.”
Battalion file photo byj. Janner
A&M coach R.C. Slocum said he believes the team has to work together to reach Its potential.
CHEMICALLY BALANCED
Slocum: No star players, just winners
By DOUGLAS PILS
Of The Battalion Staff
Chemistry’s periodic chart con
sists of 92 elements making up
the world’s existence, but in Col
lege Station there are 111 el
ements of which the scientific
world may not be aware.
Those 1 1 1 constitute the Texas
A&M football team and in a team
sport like football those elements
working together are essential for
the team to reach its potential.
A willingness to work for the
team’s best interest, rather than
personal interests, is one of the
strong points of this team said
head coach R.C. Slocum. He said
this was especially evident in last
Saturday's victory over Southwes
tern Louisiana.
“We don’t have anyone with a
star mentality," Slocum said. “I
don’t think Darren (Lewis) sees
himself dial way. I don’t think
Lance (Pavlas) or Buck) (Rich
ardson) see themselves that way.
“When I took him (Darren) out
of the game at halftime, he was
just as thrilled as he could he for
the other guys who got to play
and make tneir yards."
Lewis rushed for 141 yards in
the first half and Slocum said he
didn’t think twice about taking
him out.
“To he totally honest, I would
love for Darren to stay in there
and get those yards,” Slocum
said. “However, I would have a
difficult time explaining why in
the third quarter Darren Lewis
was out there carrying the foot
ball and gets hurt with a 42-7
lead."
The same was done with the
quarterbacks. In the first quarter,
Pavlas picked the Cajun second-
“We don't have
anyone with a star
mentality. I don't
think Darren sees
himself that way. I
don't think Lance or
Ducky see
themselves that
way.”
— R.C. Slocum,
A&M football coach
ary apart, completing 7-olT
passes for 162 yards and thre*
touchdowns.
Slocum, who stated that he
would use his two quarterbacks
on a ‘feel basis’, said he wanted to
put Richardson in the first quar
ter hut chose not to because of
Pavlas’ hot hand. One can only
ponder about the numbers he
(ould have posted had he played
the entire game.
“We’ve got two quarterbacks
here who have both been starters
and they’re pulling for each
other.” Slocum said. “After the
Hawaii game, Bucky did not have
one problem. He was just as posi
tive as he could he.”
The unselfishness showed by
his top players, Slocum said, is an
intangible that is not often
thought of when it comes to a
great football team.
“You kind of take that for
granted,” he said, “because there
are a lot of guys who couldn’t do
that. There are guys who’d sit on
the bench, griping the whole sec
ond half because I took him out
of the game.
“Then he’d go into the locker
room griping. You get those
things going on your team, and
pretty soon you have a problem.
You can’t have a team like that."
Slocum couldn’t he happier
about having his leaders demon
strating their unselfishness in the
heat of a game.
“They (teammates) see how
Darien is handling that,” he said,
“and how Lance and Bucky are
handling that, and it kind of
starts permeating your team and
that’s when you have a good foot
ball team.
“Because of that we don’t have
guys on the team looking at these
guys with contempt. There’s not a
guy on this team that’s got the
least bit of selfishness about him.”
For A&M to be successful this
year and in the future, Slocum
believes in using games like USL
and North Texas to allow his
younger players time to develop
and to build up their confidence.
“My responsibility is for the en
tire team and the entire pro
gram,” Slocum said. “It is in our
best interest to get those young
guys some playing time.
“just from a practical stand
point, what you gain and what
you stand to lose is not worth it.
That will always be my philoso
phy.”
Based on that philosophy, Slo
cum made it clear that he is the
orchestrator of A&M's chemical
make-up.
“This a team sport, if you want
to play here vour not going to
worry about, how many carries
you get or any of that,” he said.
“We’re going to worry about how
many games we’re going to win as
a team. That’s where I w ill always
make decisions.”
Country dub
adds to bylaws
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Just
weeks before hosting the Texas
Open PGA tournament, leaders of
Oak Hills Country Club voted to add
a non-discrimination statement to
the club bylaws, officials said Thurs
day.
The country club has no black
members.
The announcement was made the
same day it was reported that Oak
Hills has reached an out-of-court
settlement with former San Antonio
Spurs forward Larry Kenon.
Kenon filed suit against Oak Hills
over an incident in which his daugh
ters’ tennis program at the club was
discontinued, allegedly because the
girls are black.
Club officials claimed the
cancellation had nothing to do with
the Kenons but with a club policy
that prohibited people not spon
sored by dub members from taking
part in such classes.
Terms of the settlement with Ke
non were not disclosed.
Club president John Yantis said at
a Thursday evening news confer
ence that after the incident he of
fered Kenon a club membership.
“I just felt that we didn’t want him
to feel like the cancellation of the
tennis lesson was pointed at him di
rectly,” Yantis said.
Kenon has declined to publicly
discuss the settlement details.
“It’s between myself and Oak
Hills. It’s all been taken care of.
We’re moving on to bigger and bet
ter things,” Kenon told the San An
tonio Light.
Yantis said club officials began
considering adding a non-discrimi
nation clause after membership con
troversy shrouded the PGA event at
Shoal Creek Country Club in Ala
bama.
“For a number of months we have
been considering a change in our by
laws that would make an affirmative
statement about the recruitment of
minorities at Oak Hill Country
Club,” Yantis said.
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Kelly Krauskopf, who resigned last
month to take a position with the
Southwest Conference
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