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Reader's Opinion
Might haves
proving fatal
for 1990 Ags
The Aggies could have been in
the national title hunt if they had beaten
Lousiana State. The Aggies would have
been in the thick of the conference race if
Layne Talbot had
made that fourth-
quarter field goal
against Baylor.
Those
s h o u 1 d ’ v e s ,
could’ves and
would’ves are kill
ing this year’s
football team.
And although
those should’ves, could’ves and
would’ves are ambiguous in nature, they
do a good job of describing the level at
which the Aggies are playing.
The main question that needs to be
asked is why the team seems to lack the
knockout punch it needs to put teams
away it has the opportunity. Why is it
that this team lacks the appetite to go out
and dominate another team for more
thanjust one quarter of play?
Did they read their press clippings
and prognostications about their sup
posed dominance of the SWC before
they started their play?
Anyhow, there are many fans out
there who think the coaching staff is to
blame for the stumbling Ags. The team
was supposed to be so loaded with talent
that they probably could have won the
conference all by themselves —no
coaches, no nothing.
But it’s that notriing that has plagued
the Aggies this season. The coaches
aren’t inspired and the team is even less
motivated.
These young men should be beyond
high school pep rallies and spastic rav
ings of coaches looking for that extra
edge. Most coaches have to depend on
the want and desire of the players any
way. Unfortunately the Aggies haven’t
shown that want and desire, with the ex
ception of the first quarter of the Hous
ton game.
This lack of desire, evident in the sec
ond half of the Houston game, the first
half of the Texas Tech game and too
See Lemmon/Page 10
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Aggie team tries to bounce backRi ce ’s Hollas
By DOUGLAS PILS
Of The Battalion Staff
Last week, in a do-or-die situation, the
Texas A&M football team didn’t ‘die’ —
but it didn’t ‘do’ either.
What the Aggies did, was fall flat on
their face in a 20-20 tie with the Baylor
Bears. The tie doesn’t knock A&M out
of Cotton Bowl contention, but it made
the road to hoe a lot tougher.
Aggie head coach R.C. Slocum said in
□ A&M offensive coordinator
answers critics/Page 8
his weekly press conference Tuesday
that he’s not going to worry about which
team has to beat the other for A&M to
fulfill its preseason expectations.
“I’m more concerned about us playing
well this week against Rice,” Slocum said.
“We’ll take care of whatever else hap
pens down the road.
“Unless we can play at a better level of
consistency and intensity it’s no use wor
rying about any of that.”
Slocum said the team, which is 1-2-1
in the last four weeks, wasn’t psyched up
for the Baylor game after an emotional
36-31 loss the week before to Houston.
“To play that hard (against Houston)
and come away shorthanded takes some
thing out of a team emotionally,” he
said. “I thought we played flat against
Baylor and our team saw that game as a
loss. It felt every .bit as bad as a loss
would have felt.
“We’re faced again with the situation
of coming back and taking that game
and putting it behind us and coming out
and playing against, an improved Rice
team.”
The lack of emotion exhibited by the
Aggies particularly showed on the de
fensive side of the ball where A&M gave
up 303 yards rushing — the most since
the Bears racked up 320 yards in 1982.
“I was particularly disappointed with
the play of our defense in the Baylor
game,” he said. “If I had to single out
anything, it was more a case of us being a
step short on our emotions and the in
tensity it takes to play defense.
“Defense is kind of strange. If you’re
one notch below wide-open, then it looks
Hollas
Battalion file photo by J.Janner
The last time A&M faced the Owls in Kyle Field, Rice quarterback Donald Hol
las was a safety (right). Hollas was named AP offensive player for this week.
like every play’s going to score and that’s
about where we were the other day
(against Baylor).”
A&M cornerback Kevin Smith said he
doesn’t know why the team’s perfor
mance is sub-par of late, but he added
that he has full confidence that the team
will come around.
“Although we’re not playing to the
top of our ability we’re still just a few
missed reads or missed tackles from be
ing 6-1,” Smith said. “We’re not winning
but we’re learning a lot from these
games.”
Slocum said that the team will get back
to the basics to try to correct its defensive
woes.
“We’ll go back to the fundamentals of
how you play defense,” Slocum said.
“You have chances to make plays and
you’ve got to make those plays when
they come up.
“In two situations (against the Bears)
we had a stunt called anticipating the op
tion and we ran the perfect defense for
the play they ran but didn’t execute the
defense. We end up missing the quar
terback on the stunts and they make the
first down. We have to get back down
and focus attention on the little things.”
If the team doesn’t get those little
things accomplished, Slocum said, they
See Bounce/Page 10
named offensive
player of week
HOUSTON (AP) — Playing football
at Rice University has always been a fam
ily affair for the Hollas family. They just
don’t always agree
how to pronounce
their surname.
Quarterback Don
ald Hollas (he’s a
HA-liss) identified
himself indelibly to
the Texas Tech Red
Raiders last week
end with a 5-touch
down performance
that earned him As
sociated Press offen
sive player of the
week honors.
But back in Schulenburg where many
of Hollas’ family resides, it was Donald
HO-lass who helped the Owls beat the
Raiders 42-21 with their biggest point-
production in a Southwest Conference
game since 1961.
“If you go back to Schulenburg it’s
Hollas (HO-lass),” Hollas said. “I’ve al
ways been Hollas (HA-liss).”
There was only one way to pronounce
Hollas’ effect on the Red Raiders — L-
O-S-S.
He completed 7 of 18 passes for 97
yards, including a 5-yard touchdown to
Courtney Cravin and rushed 35 yards
on 12 carries and had touchdown runs
of 8, 5, 4 and 5 yards for a 132-yard eve
ning of total offense that improved
Rice’s record to 3-4. t
“The start of the season was a night
mare for me personally,” Hollas said.
“Until the Houston game, I wasn’t play
ing up to par. Until then, our running
and passing game weren’t complement
ing each other. We got it together
against Houston.”
Hollas has been moving up on the
Owls’ statistical charts since the season
started. The Owls almost upset the No.
6-ranked Cougars before losing 24-22 in
the final 10 seconds.
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