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Tuesday, December 1,1992
The Battalion
Page 5
Victory-greedy
ADs are ruining
college football
here are
many who
would like
to see college
football as we
know it done
away with. It's
already an infor
mal minor
league feeder
system of talent
for the NFL, so
why not go
ahead and make
it official?
The answer to
that question,
like every other one the NCAA ad
dresses, will come about only when it
can be determined how much money
can be made out of the deal. But re
cent events in the college coaching
ranks have proved that at least a few
athletic directors around the country
think that they are now general man
agers.
New head football coaches have
been named or will be named in the
near future at Arkansas, Auburn, Bay- 1
lor, Colorado State, Pittsburgh, Tem
ple and Tennessee. In case you're
counting, that's only two coaching
changes less than the NFL had
throughout all of the most recent off
season. And this off-season is just be
ginning, so the number of coaching
changes left is anyone's guess.
More disturbing than just the
amount of turnover in the NCAA is
the fact that of the six recent changes,
only the ones at Baylor, Pitt and Tem
ple do not involve questionable cir
cumstances.
Joe Kines was removed from the
picture in Arkansas Sunday, just two
days after his players carried him off
of the field following the Razorbacks'
30-6 humiliation of Louisiana State.
Colorado State bid Earle Bruce a not-
so-fond adieu last week, even though
he has been the only coach in recent
history to lead the Rams to a bowl
game.
Johnny Majors had his contract
bought out at Tennessee despite years
of Top 10-caliber football and a recent
comeback from life-threatening heart
surgery. And Pat Dye completed the
inevitable just before Thanksgiving,
resigning at Auburn with the dark
cloud of an NCAA investigation hang
ing over his head, as well as his own
set of physical problems.
The message the respective athletic
directors at Arkansas, CSU and Ten
nessee have sent is obvious - a head
coach with character and loyalty
See Norwood/ Page 6
DON
NORWOOD
Columnist
Student tickets for Cotton Bowl go on sale Wednesday
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Tickets for the 1993 Mobil Cotton Bowl
Classic will be available to Texas A&M
students starting on Wednesday at 7 a.m.
at the ticket windows in front of G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
More than 5,000 tickets will be avail
able to students at a cost of $40 each. Stu
dents must provide a valid I.D. card with
either the all-sports pass or the football
ticket fee option for every ticket pur
chased. A maximum of six tickets can be
purchased by one student. No guest tick
ets will be available.
All eight ticket windows will open at 7
a.m. and will be accessible until the ticket
office closes at 4 p.m.
At least half of the I.D. cards used to
draw tickets must be either senior or
graduate student classification when
drawing tickets on Wednesday. On
Thursday, half of all I.D. cards used can
be of junior classification, provided that
tickets are still available. On Friday, half
can be sophomores, and freshman draw
on Monday, Dec. 7.
No tickets are currently on sale for the
general public.
The Aggies, who finished their regular
season undefeated at 12-0, will play in
their second straight Cotton Bowl on Fri
day, Jan. 1 at noon against a yet-to-be-
named opponent. The Cotton Bowl and
the other members of the Bowl Coalition
will announce matchups on Dec. 6.
Mobil
Cotton Bowl
Classic
Another season to go
Genny Wood (left) reaches for the
ball while Kim Mitchell (right) dives
for the set as Karen Richards
stands awaiting the kill.
Lady Aggies get late call to postseason with NIVC bid
By DON NORWOOD
Spw/s Writer of THE BATtAttdbl
Christmas came a jnonth early for
the Texas A&M volleyball team as the
Lady Aggies received a surprise bid
Sunday night to the National Invita
tional Volleyball Championship in
Kansas City, Mo.
Up until finding out about the invi
tation, the Thanksgiving break was a
fairly dismal one for the 16-16 Lady An
gies. They lost two straight matches in
the Albuturkey Classic in Albuquerque,
N.M., with 18th-ranked New Mexico
beating A&M in four games on Friday,
and Colorado State sweeping them in
three straight on Saturday.
As the Lady Aggies arrived back in
College Station following the tourna
ment, they did so with a resigned atti
tude about a season that was suddenly
over. Then came "the call."
When women's athletic director
Lynn Hickey relayed the good news to
A&M head coach A1 Givens, it was, to
say the least, a pleasant surprise for the
players.
"We were very shocked," senior out
side attacker Elizabeth Edmiston said,
the excitement still painted all over her
face. "L as a senior, was in a bit of a de
pressed state (before being informed of
the invitation).
"It's awesome to have another shot."
The question of how a team with a
.500 record gets to play in a postseason
tourney is easily answered - toughness
of schedule. The Lady Aggies played
the 15th-toughest schedule in the na
tion in this season, making that .500
record look a little better. And the
Southwest Conference, despite having
only six members that field volleyball
teams, ranks among the most competi
tive in the country with three teams in
the NCAA Tournament and one in the
NIVC
"I think the reason we ended up get
ting the invitation was our tough
schedule," setter/attacker Genny Wood
said. "(The number of ranked teams
A&M played) shows that we can play
t level."
at that
See Lady Aggies/ Page 6
Lady Aggies
open 1992-93
season tonight
Oklahoma State serves
as first test for A&M
FROM STAFF AND WIREREPORTS
The Lady Aggie basketball team opens
its 1992-93 season on the road tonight in
Stillwater, Okla. against Oklahoma State
at 8:30 p.m. at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Texas A&M finished last season with a
15-13 record and a 7-7 mark in Southwest
Conference play. The Lady Aggies have
two starters back from that team, senior
forward Yolanda Brown and sophomore
forward Twylana Harrison, both of whom
were named to the preseason All-SWC
second team.
Brown averaged 12.1 points and 7.0 re
bounds a game last season and averaged
13.5 points and 10.0 rebounds in the Lady
Aggies' two exhibition games this season.
Harrison, who also was named All-Amer
ican in track last season, averaged 8.5
points in the two exhibition games.
The Lady Aggies also have true fresh
man guard Lisa Branch of Desoto, who
led the team with a 14.5 point average in
exhibition games. Also, freshman center
Kelly Cerny of Corpus Christi (8.0 ppg)
and junior forward Beth Burket of Jour-
danton (6.5 ppg) are listed as possible
starters.
A&M lost its Wo exhibition games to
the Houston Flights by a 76-71 margin,
and the Talinn Meents of Estonia, 67-66.
The Cowgirls of Oklahoma State are
coming off an 11-17 season in 1991 which
was good enough for sixth place in the
Big Eight conference.
The Czechoslavakian team, Cassovia
Kosice, defeated Oklahoma State in an ex
hibition game, 62-57. In the game, senior
forward Lisa McGill had 15 points and 24
rebounds, sophomore guard Regi Briley
picked up 13 points.
A&M head coach Lynn Hickey, who
enters her ninth season at the helm , also
will have the services of freshman center
Martha McClelland of Duncanville, who
averaged six points a game in exhibition,
and senior forward Karol Decuir of
Spring, who averaged 4.5 points.
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