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By RICHARD TUERINA
Of The Battalion Staff
T alking big and hating
Texas. No place but
Anthony Williams.
The verbal barrage between
Austin and College Station has
become expectedduring the
week of the annual Texas A&M-
Texas game, the third longest
series in collegiate football. For
Williams, taking potshots at the
Longhorns is as common as
Christmas.
“I suppose it’s tradition,”
Williams said. “It’s like Christmas.
It’s something that has to happen
during the year, or it’s something
that’s missing from my life.
Before I got here, I watched it on
television in high school. It didn’t
mean anything to me.”
It does now, on both ends of
Highway 21. The verbal bashing
began Monday, when several
Longhorns spoke out on this
Saturday’s game in Austin.
“I hate (the Aggies),” UT
offensive tackle Stan Thomas told
the Houston Chronicle. “I can’t
stand them. You live and learn to
hate the Aggies ... I think we’re
going to beat them pretty bad.
We’re going to party on those
guys. Bv the third quarter, I
should be over there on the
sideline with my pads off, eating
hot dogs and telling Aggie jokes."
A&M quarterback Bucky
Richardson responded to
Thomas Tuesday, trying to
downplay the exchanges by
saying “hate” is the wrong word
to use.
'Td like to play all four
quarters and be in there the
whole time,” Richardson said.
“But that’s fine if (Thomas) wants
to do that. He’s welcome to. I
won’t say I hate them because I
don’t. I don’t hate them, but
certainly we want to win.”
The Aggies have won the last
six times the two teams have met,
A&M’s longest winning streak in
the series.
The last time Texas won, a 45-
13 win at Kyle Field in 1983,
Jackie Sherrill and Fred Akers
stalked the sidelines. Richardson
was a skinny ninth grader,
looking forward to his first year
at Baton Rouge Broadmoor High
M. MULVEY/Tho Battalion
Pregame emotions promted a fight between A&M and UT players a war of words between both teams this week. □ Redshirt fresh-
in last year’s 21 -10 win at Kyle Field. Saturday’s game has drawn man Jason Atkinson prepares for first start /Page 8.
Words turn ugly for UT, A&M
"f don't hate anyone, but I don't respect any
t.u. players- They haven't shown me anything,
outside ef Brian Jones- Gardere's a scrub-1
have no respect for him at all- His receivers
make him what he is-"
— Anthony Williams,
A&M linebacker
School.
“I don’t think there’s too much
love lost over here,” Richardson
said. “That’s the way it is. The
week sure started out with a bang,
that's for sure. They’re having a
good year and feel like they’re a
better ballclub than us. We feel
we’re a better ballclub than them.
There’s going to be some talk.”
A&M head coach R.C. Slocum
said the harsh words between the
two teams wouldn’t produce
much “bulletin board material,"
because the game already is filled
with emotions.
“Fans get concerned, thinking
it’s going to get the other team all
fired up,” Slocum said. “They’re
going to be fired up. We’re going
to be fired up. All this talk’s been
going on forever. David
(McWilliams, Texas coach) isn’t
going to stop that, and I’m not
either.”
UT defensive end Tommy
Jeter, talking about Aggie fans,
said, “You think maroon and
white, and you think of
skinheads.” Williams called UT
quarterback Peter Gardere a
“scrub.”
“It’s almost getting out of
hand,” A&M cornerback Kevin
Smith said. “I don’t know if it’s all
for fun and jokes, or it’s emotions
that are taking over. You have to
be careful what you say. In a
game like this, you can get carried
away.”
Prior to last year’s 21-10 A&M
win, the two teams brawled on the
middle of Kyle Field. As the
Aggies traditionally lined up at
midfield to sing the “The Spirit of
Aggieland,” Longhorn players
lined up directly m front of them.
Words were exchanged.
Then shoves.
Then fists.
Soon, fights were breaking out
all over the field in front of a
nationally televised ESPN
audience. It took minutes before
order finally was restored. Still,
the Aggies were able to finish the
song a small moral victory in a
fight both sides said showed a
lack of class.
“Hopefully, we won’t have to
go through all that on Saturday,”
Williams said. “We’re going to
allow them to sing their fight
song, if they have one.”
Now A&M players are hearing
rumors that ITT players have
claimed victory in last year’s
pregame battle this week.
Richardson said that was fine.
The Aggies have won the war.
“Oh yeah, they won the fight,”
Richardson chided. “They win it
every year. I wasn’t even dressed
out (for last year’s game). I was on
the sidelines. I wasn’t in the
middle of all that. That’s the kind
of game this is —just an intense
rivalry, and that’s the way it’s
always been.”
Saturday’s game is the most
important one of the season for
the Aggies. Left out of the
national rankings the past five
weeks, A&M has its last two
games against No. 5 Texas and
No. 4 Brigham Young. Two wins
over the top five teams would
give A&M a 10-2-1 record.
Texas also has a lot to play for.
With the lone blemish on their 9-
1 record a seven-point loss to No.
1 Colorado, the Longhorns are
looking at a possible national
championship. They clinched the
Southwest Conference
championship last weekend, and
are waiting for to a Cotton Bowl
matchup with No. 2 Miami.
“They have a right to say what
they want to say,” Smith said.
“They’re doing well this year.
They have a lot of confidence,
and that’s evident by what they’re
saying in the papers.
“I haven’t been that affected by
it. They've been a cellar dweller
who now are trying to bad mouth
A&M. But they’re winning, and
they have all the right to talk.”
Williams disagreed, saying the
Longhorns’ comments only nave
showed a lack of class.
“I don’t hate anyone, but I
don’t respect any t.u. players,” he
said. “They haven’t shown me
anything, outside of (UT
linebacker) Brian Jones. He’s the
only athlete I see on their team.
And the (UT receivers Keith and
Kerry) Cash brothers because
they make Gardere.
“(Gardere’s) a scrub. Below
average. I have no respect for
him at all. His receivers make him
what he is. He’s no overpowering
quarterback.”
Williams’ comments won’t
make him popular with the
Memorial Stadium crowd, and he
may not even play. A severe groin
injury in last week’s TCU game
has left him doubtful to play
against Texas.
“My teammates believe in what
I’m saying,” Williams said. “They
stand behind me 100 percent.
Whatever I don’t back up, they
will. I’ve gotten a few pointers of
what to say and what not to say,
but they stuck me with (former
A&M linebacker who wore No.
48) Dana Batiste’s old number, so
I have to live up to his
reputation.”
Batiste was a media darling
because he always spoke his
mind. But Smith, who earlier in
the year created a controversy
when he made statements about
distractions on the A&M team,
said the Aggies have to be careful
this week.
“Some guys’ emotions take
control,” Smith said. “The Texas
guys are talking a whole lot.
Coach Slocum is telling us not to
talk so much. I don’t need to talk
too much before the game.
During the game, you can say
whatever you want to say.”
Williams guaranteed reporters
before the Arkansas game two
weeks ago that A&M would beat
Texas. He didn’t back down
Tuesday.
“(The verbal war) started with
them,” Williams said. “They
thought they could rattle us, but
that was stupid. We have more
composure than that. The
guarantee still stands. I’m not
retracting any statements I made
throughout the season.
“I’m confident in my
teammates and myself that we’re
going to do what it takes to win.
it’s going to be real bloody.”
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