Sports Tuesday, October 15,1991 The Battalion Page 5 §1 i< Maroon isn't in season in Dallas . . . yet W hen the nights start getting colder, when the leaves on the trees abandon their green color, and when the calendars have reached October, the city of Dal las plays host to a unique event. Just east of the Dallas skyline, ad jacent to where Big Tex greets the public, and right next to the colossal Texas Star ferris wheel, lies the site of what is, year in and year out, one of the best football games and one of the biggest parties ever held. It's UT-OU weekend. More than 75,000 fans flock to the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park every year to see the interstate matchup between the Longhorns and the Sooners. However, it's not the best place for an Aggie. In fact, it's one of the least likely places on the planet that you're likely to find anything even resembling maroon. When the leaves turn red and orange, so do alle giances. Nevertheless, a group of brave Aggies, myself included, went on a fact-finding mission to see exactly what the big deal was all about. Unfortunately for us, and for ev eryone else who despises that school "down the road," the wrong team won. From what I gathered, someone fumbled a ball and someone else in burnt orange picked it up for the winning touchdown. Texas pulled the upset, 10-7. It was not difficult to tell the re sult of the game after the crowd start- ' ed emptying the stadium. The See Whitley/ Page 6 Barone Basketball team holds first practice under new coach the ball rolling By Scott Wudel The Battalion Today is like Christmas Day for first- year Texas A&M basketball coach Tony Barone. The Aggies begin fall practice this af ternoon, and Barone has been waiting for months to see what lays under the tree when it comes to his 1991 basketball team. A&M begins its season against Prairie View A&M on Nov. 25, but today will be Barone's first chance to get a peak at the 14 players that make up the A&M roster. The coach said the next month will be an unusual time for him and his team of new faces. A&M returns four players from last year's troubled 8-21 team, and only ore with any significant playing ex perience. It will be a change for Barone, who said he's been acclimated to a team of veterans the last few years at Creighton. "The last three or four years at Creighton we had a veteran-oriented team," Barone said. "So I looked for im provement, for any dramatic changes in ability, but I pretty much knew what we were going to do. "I knew the kind of kids we had. I knew that they were growing, getting bet ter, and getting stronger. There was an equation there that meant we were going to have a better basketball team each year we were together. "Now, here, its like Christmas," he said. "You're going to the Christmas tree and you see all these presents, and you open them up and sometimes you find peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and sometimes you find steaks." Barone was hired April 9 to take over a troubled A&M basketball program un der former first-year coach Kerixut Davis Jr- The University is still awaiting ah NCAA judgement concerning 10 rules vi olations that ocurred in the program un Aggies ranked No. 19; Baylor falls eight spots Texas A&M continued to sneak up the Associated Press Top 25 Poll this week despite being idle last Saturday. The Ag gies moved from No. 21 to No. 19 in the poll and will face 16th-ranked Baylor this Saturday in Waco. The Aggies and the Bears remain the only Southwest Conference teams in the poll for the third straight week. A&M holds a 3-1 overall record, 1-0 in the SWC. The Bears, 5-1, slipped eight spots in the AP poll and are 2-1 in the conference after a 20-17 loss to Rice last Saturday. Battalion file photo First-year A&M basketball coach Tony Barone said he expects commitment and discipline in his players.The Aggies begin fall practice today in G. Rollie White Coliseum. A&M begins its season Nov. 25 against Prairie View A&M in College Station. der Davis'. A&M's penalty could range from probation to the NCAA death penal ty- The NCAA is expected to make an an nouncement in the next few weeks. Until then Barone will have the A&M team fo cused on practice. Dgring practice the coach said he will look for elertients of commitment, disci pline, effort and togetherness — things he has been stressing to the each player since they became part of his program. Ele ments he wants each player to learn off- the-court as well as on-the-court. Barone said fans typically view what happens on the court as the entire basket ball program. But he said there is nothing farther from the truth. "What takes place off the court, what See Barone/ Page 6 The Top Twenty Five teams in the As sociated Press 1991 college football poll, with first-place votes in parenthe ses, records through Oct. 12, total points based on 25 points for a first- place vote through one point for a 25th -place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Florida St. (56) 1 6-0-0 1,472 1 2. Miami (1) 5-0-0 1,392 2 3. Wash. (2) 5-0-0 1,384 3 4. Michigan 4-1-0 1,282 5 5. Notre Dame 5-1-0 1,236 7 6. Florida 5-1-0 1,179 10 7. California 5-0-0 1,021 13 8. Tennessee 4-1-0 998 4 9. Nebraska 4-1-0 922 14 10. Penn St. 5-2-0 883 9 11. N. C. St. 5-0-0 856 16 12. Oklahoma 4-1-0 760 6 13. Illinois 4-1-0 744 20 14. Alabama 5-1-0 691 19 15. Iowa 4-1-0 664 17 16. Baylor 5-1-0 629 8 17. Georgia 5-1-0 571 22 18. Ohio St. 4-1-0 504 11 19. Texas A&M 3-1-0 382 21 20. Pittsburgh 5-1-0 316 v 12 21. Clemson 3-1-1 239 18 22. Colorado 3-2-0 229 25 23. East Carolina 5-1-0 170 — 24. Syracuse 4-2-0 138 15 25. 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