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The Battalion
Thursday, October 11,
Horned Frogs’ pummeling of
Razorbacks an incredible feat
times
FORT WORTH (AP) — It’s not
deja vu all over again for Frog foot
ball. It’s worse.
“Incredible,” says Jim Wacker,
Texas Christian’s delightfully neu
rotic coach. In fact, he said it 17 tii
Tuesday while
describing last
weekend’s 54-
26 upset of
2 1 st-ranked
Arkansas.
Maybe the only two things that
weren’t “incredible” were the
Horned Frog offense and defense.
They were “fantastic” and “unbe
lievable.”
And the largest Frog Club crowd
of the year loved it. They roared
over phony congratulatory notes
from Richard Nixon, Ronald Rea
gan and George Bush and cheered
the discovery of a new species of
Horned Frog.
It is something called “Kickus
Buttus.”
Wacker never met a superlative
he didn’t embrace, but what’s really
incredible is that he may be right.
The Wonder Frogs just might be
back.
For the first time since the 8-3
Bluebonnet Bowl season of 1984,
TCU is off to a 4-1 start, winning
four in a row after a season-opening
loss to Washington State.
It was also in 1984 that TCU last
beat Arkansas, a 32-31 thriller.
The Frogs are 2-0 in Southwest
Conference play, which hasn’t hap
pened since 1958 when they wound
up in the Cotton Bowl.
And as Wacker says, the ambush
in the Ozarks Saturday night was no
fluke.
“It was one of those games where
it all came together,” he said. “But
never in my wildest dreams did I
think it would come together like
that. We got the ball 10 times. We
scored five touchdowns and four
field goals and had to punt only
once.
“That’s incredible.”
Equally remarkable, he said, was a
defense that blocked a punt for a
touchdown, recovered a fumble, in
tercepted two passes and staged a
goal fine stand just before halftime.
“That was the biggest play of the
lid. “Fir
game,” Wacker sakf. “First and goal
on the 2, and to be able to hold them
four plays and not let them in, that’s
incredible.”
Wacker’s eyes almost glazed over
when he spoke of the post-midnight
reception after the flight home.
“I can not tell you how much it
meant to the players when they saw
that crowd at the airport, 2,000
strong,” Wacker said. “That was
really special.”
And he could not camouflage his
enthusiasm when he spoke of quar
terback Leon Clay, who has passed
for 11 touchdowns and run for four
while directing three late come-
from-behind victories.
“He’s been on an unbelievable
roll, and it’s the triggerman who has
to make things happen, whether it’s
the Cowboys or junior high or what
ever. If the quarterback has an off
day, you’re in trouble. And everyone
has off days, even Joe Montana.
“When Clay has an off day we'rt
going to have to claw, sweat and
fig ht ”
Tempering his euphoriajustakit
Wacker pointed out that with all ttiii
early success, “Now is when the pro
sure builds. If we don’t get a grej
effort every week, anybody can beai
“We’ve got to keep our headoui
of the clouds and our feet on ikt
ground."
The Frogs entertain SWC oppo
nent Rice in a regionally televised
game Saturday, and Wacker said tke
Owls, "with one of the best quai
terbacks in the country,” are tough.
“This is by far the best tear,
they’ve had in 25 years,” he insisted
Pointing out that TCU's perfor
mance at Little Rock “was one of
those rare moments...when we had
about 60 guys that exploded ai
once,” Wacker said the Frogs art
primed for an upset by the Owls.
“It’s scary coming off onelikethis.
because you can nave a letdowi
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SWC coaches' views of proposal
From Staff and Wire Reports
Most Southwest Conference
coaches say the new proposal
that may keep some high
school students from playing
sports in the league is a step to
ward keeping academics ahead
of athletics.
However, some found stan
dardized tests, used in deter
mining eligibility, unfair and
prescribed broader academic
performance standards.
At Texas A&M, head foot
ball coach R.C. Slocum said the
rule will have no
bearing on how
the University’s
athletics are run.
“The presi
dents’ decision
will not affect us
here at A&M, be
cause we were ac
tually operating
under those
guidelines alrea
dy,” Slocum said.
“I don’t see it
having a big af
fect on us other
than the other
people we play in
this league will all
have to fulfill the
same rules.”
SWC presi
dents finalized
Spike Dykes
a proposal this
week that would eliminate par
tial qualifiers from ever com
peting in athletics at an SWC
school.
The new rule requires re
cruits and walk-ons to score at
least 700 on the SAT or 18 on
the ACT entrance exams and
to have at least a 2.0 high
school grade point average in
core classes.
Junior college players who
were partial qualifiers from
high school may not be able to
transfer to a SWC school de
pending on the outcome of a
junior college option being
studied.
The proposal must first
stand up to the scrutiny of
league lawyers, but SWC Com
missioner Fred Jacoby said he
is certain the pol
icy will be in place
by August 1991.
Current policy
requires student-
athletes who do
not meet both
standards to sit
out of competi
tion during their
first year, but al
lows students
three years of
athletic eligibility
if their grades im
prove.
Baylor coach
Grant Teaff said
he thought the
ruling wouldn’t
make a big differ
ence in the league
presidents’ ruling and that it
should eliminate some athletes
who may not be ready to step
into a big university like A&M.
“I really think it’s a step in a
positive direction,” Slocum
said. “I think for too long ath
letes and univer
sities have been
abused by bring
ing in a guy who
is not qualified to
be at a particular
school.
“You abuse the
university by
bringing a guy in
and with implied
F ressure on the
acuity and
coaches to do
whatever to keep
that person in
school and keep
him eligible when
that person
should not have
been at that
school to start
Jim Wacker
background, not intelligence.”
Texas Christian coach Jim
Wacker said admissions are ra
cially biased. He and other
coaches recommend using an
alternate grading system that
balances a student’s GPA with
his performance
on entrance tests.
Despite
coaches’ support
for ensuring a
player can make
the grades, most
said partial qual
ifiers should be
given another
chance to prove
themselves acade
mically.
“To say you
can never play in
this conference?
That’s pretty se
vere isn’t it?”
Texas Tech
coach Spike
Dykes said. “1
thought this
with without some type of ju
nior college or prepatory cour-
because most of the borderline
students have been eliminated
by Proposition 42’s impending
restrictions next year. That
rule bars scholarships to par
tial qualifiers.
Slocum said he supports the
But Jack Pardee, coach at
University of Houston for
three years before moving to
the Houston Oilers this year,
saw problems with the SWC’s
proposal.
“When you’re recruiting a
lot of kids, you don’t know
they’re Prop 48 (partial qual
ifiers) because they haven’t
taken their tests yet,” he said.
“In many cases, being a
Prop 48 athlete is because of
whole deal was for kids and it
looks like to me like that’s the
last thing ever considered.”
Dykes said he has had seve
ral players on his teams that
were admitted into Tech as
partial qualifiers and went on
to graduate and become suc
cessful professionals.
“I’m concerned that we in
the conference give youngsters
who are Proposition 48, who
don’t qualify, an opportunity
to go to a conference school
with the junior college (op
tion),” Teaff said.
McWilliams uses speakers to motivate
football team to drop negative thoughts
AUSTIN (AP) — On Wednesday night before Texas
played Penn State, motivational speaker Lewis Timber-
lake told the Longhorns to first believe they could win.
Though Timberlake takes no credit for Texas’ 17-13
victory, Longhorn football coach David McWilliams
wouldn’t bet against it. He has used a procession of
speakers such as Timberlake to lift a football team
whose spirits might have sunk along with its record the
last two seasons.
Timberlake, 58, is one of several McWilliams has en
trusted with helping the team believe in itself.
Others include Tena Bradley, a 32-year-old Oklaho
man who formed Tena Bradley Inner Prizes a year ago,
and Glebe McCleary, a Vietnam war veteran who sur
vived 32 operations and lost an arm and an eye when he
jumped on a grenade in a foxhole to save his friends.
“He came in his Marine-dress uniform and gave as
good a talk as I’ve heard,” McWilliams said.
Another is professional basketball star A.C. Green,
who speaks on behalf of Athletes In Action.
Bradley meets individually with Longhorn players
and coaches to reinforce positive self-images.
McWilliams said: “I’m always looking for speakers.
Nebraska’s been doing this for years.”
SMU women’
coach retires
DALLAS (AP) — Southern
Methodist women’s basketball
coach Welton Brown announced
his retirement effective after tht
season.
Brown, 45, said he is needed
more at home since his fathers
death earlier this year.
He has a 153-214 record in H
years,
SMU Athletic Director Forrest
Gregg said a replacement seatdt
di
will begin immediately.
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