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"Not be- ire pihysical ig well, and e only thing and Derrick is." on the back Friday, September 27, 1991 The Battalion Page 9 . 5, 1991 ::;j Graham remembers Glenn Continued from Page 7 Kicking coach John Pearce had already gathered the kickoff team together. Slocum ran Glenn down the sideline and told Pearce he wanted the freshman to handle the kickoff chores. Pearce looked at Slocum strange ly but filled the request. "That kid was grinning from ear to ear," the coach remem bers. "At the time you don't think anything about that, but looking back, it's strange that you would have a notion like that, es pecially after you had planned to do something just the opposite." Graham was already on the field when he saw Glenn running in. "I saw him and said, 'James, are we going to make it hap pen?'," Graham explained. "He said, 'I'm going to kick it. Are you going to tackle him?" The question soon was an swered. Glenn kicked the foot ball to the opponent's 6-yard line and Graham wrapped up the re turner 12 yards later. Glenn would get the opportu nity to kick two more times be fore the day was over. "We talked about it on the bus after the game. I'm glad that before all of this happened, he got to experience that," he said. "I really think there was some type of divine providence," Slocum testified. Slocum said the freshman had a certain magnetism about him despite the less-than-promi- nent role of a walk-on kicker. "The death of any youngster would have been difficult, but he had a magnetism about him," Slocum said. "The guys he was in competition with were some of his closest friends and admirers. "The whole coaching staff and the whole team as drawn to this young man, and not just for his ability, but because of the kind of kid he was." This Saturday will be quite different for the Aggies. This time they will be without the ea ger Glenn on the sidelines wait ing to make a dream come true. Glenn's No. 30 will be stuck in their minds, as well as to the back of their helmets in memori- am. Sunday, and in future days to come, they will wake up and ponder the reasons for his sud den death and the frailty of life in general. They will not forget James Glenn, and the effect he had on their lives. O'Brien Continued from Page 7 The ace. Freshman quarterback Jeff Granger has been impressive in the Aggies' first two games, but the heart and soul of the A&M offense remains senior Bucky Richardson. In A&M's opener against LSU Richardson strained the arch in his left foot and was forced to sit out last week's Tulsa game. If tomorrow's game was against Baylor or Texas you can bet Richardson would be play ing. For now, though, Slocum holds the ace. Another week of rest will ensure Richardson's health for next Saturday's game against Tech. The pair of jacks Freshman running sensation Greg Hill is a player for the fu ture and for now, but he's only that much better when teamed with senior tailback Randy Sim mons. The two have different enough running styles to keep the defense guessing. Hill slashes and jukes and uses his break-away speed. Sim mons uses his straight-ahead, pain-inflicting running style. Saturday these two aren't held back. And with Simmon's apparent return to health, these cards only become more valu able. The wild card. Or should we say the " Wild Man?" Quentin Coryatt is one of the nation's hardest hitting linebackers, and don't think op posing ball carriers don't know it. Against LSU, Coryatt drove a Tiger running back out of bounds and delivered a patent ed, execution-style Coryatt love tap. The hit could have been tak en as a late one, but the LSU run ner wisely walked back to his huddle. Most runners would have gotten up and yelled at the de fender and gotten in his face. Re alizing it was Coryatt who drove him out of bounds, the Tiger runner chose health over the hos pital. The Wild Man is hurt but the Red Raiders had best get ready to 'just wisely walk back to the huddle.' Slocum keeps Coryatt in his hand to ensure good health for the start of conference play. The suicide king. Sophomore Patrick Bates was supposed to make us forget Lar ry Florton, but it's too soon to tell if Bates will have an affect on our memories. He's played exceptionally well in spurts, but then had an average perfor mances last Saturday against Tulsa. The season is far from over and Bates, who possesses great size and speed, and is the proto type blitzing safety. We haven't seen much of it yet (and proba bly won't Saturday) but confer ence quarterbacks best get to runnin'. Opposing players don't have many options. The marked cards. Two of A&M's most explo sive players were in high school five months ago. Wilbert Biggens and Rodney Thomas still make freshman-type mis takes, but they also make Rocket like runs when they get the ball. Thomas, with Simmons at less than a 100 percent, may be the Aggies' second-best runner. That's saying a lot for a guy who's only had his driver's li cense for two years. Biggens is the other young stud for A&M. It's been awhile since the dwellers of Kyle Field have seen a kick returner like this. He's had problems holding on to the ball but he's fast and knows how to read holes on returns. But remember, no matter how good the cards are, you have to know when to play them. Coach Slocum and his staff have been around long enough to know who to play and when to play them. 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"Now you're faced with the additional problem of the Tulsa game and do you put on a bunch of additional offense," Slocum said. "Do we go in with a lot of new stuff or do we try to go in with a pared-down version of our old offense and hope to win?" If Richardson doesn't play Saturday, the Aggies will use an offense that has been slightly al tered to his style of play, Slocum said. "We're in the same situation this week as last and that con cerns me," he said. "But we will put on a couple of new things. Slocum said he wants his of fense to be able to adjust to differ ent signal callers. "It would be unfair to put those guys out there, who aren't a guys and say we've got this offense and we're going to keep running it.' "I want to go get us some oth er things that these kids are capa ble of doing and start developing them. When Bucky's in there we can do those things and when he's not, we've got some other things." But Slocum has much more to deal with than a change at the quarterback spot. Two key com ponents in the Aggie defense will be missing. Senior linebacker Quentin Coryatt, an All-American and Butkus Award candidate, suf fered a dislocated shoulder against Tulsa and is not expected to play Saturday against USL. Senior defensive lineman Mark Wheeler suffered a pulled groin in last weekend's game and will also miss Saturday's contest. Injuries on defense ad to Slocum's concern over Saturday's game. "We're very much aware of their capabilities and respectful of their capablities to move the ball and play defense," he said. "They held Arkansas to three field goals. Last year, they had two or three linebackers hurt and their quarterback, who is now their starter, came off the bench and ruhsed for 125 yards." Football games don't always go as planned and last Saturday proved that. The Aggies are hoping things go according to plans Saturday. 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