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Rogge Heflin, Special to the Battalion
Freshman Randy McCown led the Aggies to a
38-19 win against Oklahoma State Saturday.
By Matt Mitchell
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Football Team’s recent foray in Okla
homa brought more than a much-needed victory. It raised
a bit of a quarterback controversy as well.
While the Aggies are still enjoying the feeling of winning
a game by a large margin, the hottest topic among arm
chair Aggie quarterbacks is whether junior Branndon Stew
art or redshirt freshman Randy McCown will start Saturday
against Baylor. Despite coaches’ and players’ best efforts to
squelch the growing inquisition, rumors abound as to who
will be calling the signals come game time.
“We have no controversy because I decide who plays,
and whoever I decide, that’s who is going to play,”
Head Coach R.C. Slocum said. “Both
of them are practicing; actually,
I should say all three of them. I
anticipate that Randy and
Branndon will play.”
Offensive Coordinator Steve
Ensminger said the insertion of McCown un
der center early in the third quarter was an effort to
give the offense a jump-start, and he did just that.
McCown led the Aggies on impressive drives the rest of
the second half, but Stewart said he took his abrupt demo
tion to the sideline in stride.
“It wasn’t a reflection of if I did this badly or that
badly, it was just that they were trying to get something
going,” Stewart said. “A lot of people put a lot of em
phasis on it because there are so many people that
watch the quarterback position; they handle the ball
every play. But I think it’s just like any other position.
Some guys have tough times during the season and
someone else comes in and plays.”
But the junior quarterback adds that it was disappoint
ing not being on the field helping the team.
“I’m pleased that we won the game, and having a
chance at a bowl and everything, but it’s frustrating
to sit there and not take part in what was going on,”
Stewart said.
McCown shrugs off his performance as something that
was expected.
“I don’t want it to be made into a big deal,” he said.
“They put me in there and that’s what I was supposed to
do, so I just want to be treated like one of the guys, just like
always, instead of making a big deal out of it.”
The big deal aside, the Aggies’ win comes at a junc
ture of the season that could have a profound carryover
effect to next season. According to many players, the
team was beginning to think it was snake-bit, with
frustrating losses to Kansas State and Texas Tech, re
sulting in part from breaks that would not go the Aggies
way. Saturday, it was the Aggies on the receiving end of
good fortune, as they capitalized on several Tech
turnovers in the second half to pull away.
“The win feels good,” senior outside linebacker Keith
Mitchell said. “I think we’re at a point like Coach was
saying, where everything bad has happened to us.
See Controversy, Page 10
McCown or Stewart?
Stewart follows tradition of falling below expectations
Jamie Burch
Senior speech
communications major
en will the Texas A&M Football
Team ever find the Prodigal Son
that it has been looking for since
the departure of for
mer quarterback
Bucky Richardson?
Each presea
son, the Aggies
create a me
dia and fan
frenzy by
hyping the
heir appar
ent to the
quarterback
throne. The list
starts with Jeff
Granger in 1992
and ends with the latest godsend of
quarterbacks — Branndon Stewart.
Before these athletes have
the opportunity to demon
strate and prove their tal
ents on the collegiate
gridiron, some mysti
cal source places an
enormous pressure
to instantaneously
metamorphosize the
Aggie offense into a
prolific scoring ma
chine. Inevitably
these mortal men fail
to measure up to the
godlike expectations
imposed on them.
Granger started
the 1992 season as the leader of
the Aggies’ offense. He led the Ag
gies to a 7-0 start and a 3-0 record
in the Southwest Conference en
route to an undefeated season.
However, Granger suffered a con
cussion in the first quarter against
Southern Methodist University and
freshman sensation Corey Pullig
entered the ball game.
Pullig led the Aggies to a 41 -7
victory on the strength of Greg
Hill and Rodney Thomas’ five
rushing touchdowns. Pullig
ended the season 56 of 111 for
839 yards, three touchdowns,
and two interceptions with an
undefeated 12-0 season.
However, the freshman sensation could
not carry the Aggies to a victory in the biggest
game of the season.
See Quarterbacks, Page 10
Tim Moog, The Battalion
Junior Branndon Stewart is 125-245 for 1,608
yards with eight touchdowns and seven interceptions.
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By Jamie Burch
The Battalion
for Distance Leant:
1 On Oct. 30, the construction of Reed
Center for Distanct Arena suffered a slight setback when a
ai Park, off FM20 CVdne carrying a support beam buckled and
ilibsequently caused the roof area to col-
ernet-based Corse'lapse. The A&M Athletic Department must
:ies low assess the damages not only to the are-
million revolving l«na, but to the athletic programs, which will
state Energy CorsRg g rave iy affected by the setback.
SSSwl s P ecial Event Facilities Director
repay the loansirtt Steven Hodge said the completion date
vings. As otAugust of the arena is estimated to be pushed
Texas over35mill®b ac k three to six months. The previous
/consumed in state date of completion was late 1 9 97) w hi c h
1 program is the would have been during the middle of
uildingstomeasuteThe 1997-98 basketball season. Hodge
network includes Te 1 said there is not a new estimate for when
be University olleitjjg f ac jp t y scheduled to be completed
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let overviewolthe The primary question now is to what
the internetlontts degree w in the collapse affect A&M ath-
. __tic programs?
teEnSneelgV Both the A&M men’s and women’s
echanicai Enginef bpskethall teams planned to utilize the
ichanical Enginet'l
new facility to bolster their respective
programs. Now both squads must wait
until the beginning of the 1998-99 season
to play in the new arena.
A&M Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tony
Barone said his concerns lie with the inabil
ity to schedule marquee teams.
“It will affect scheduling problems,”
Barone said. “We’ve had an impossible
task of trying to bring other strong pro
grams in here. It’s really tough to do be
cause they just don’t want to play in G.
Rollie White. I can’t blame them. We
now have to try and convince other
programs to come in and play when we
know we’re not going to have the avail
ability for it.”
However, Barone said the
delay will not hurt the squads’
recruiting ability.
“It will not affect our reemiting
class for this year,” Barone said. “The
kids who we will go after this year will
have three full seasons to play in the new
arena. So I don’t think it will have a huge ef
fect from that standpoint.”
What the collapse might have an af
fect on is the A&M Women’s Basketball
Program.
A&M Head Coach Candi Harvey feels
that the collapse
could impact the reemiting program.
“It might indirectly affect recruiting,”
Harvey said. “We certainly hope not, but
when you’re in the heat of battle, people
will stoop to some pretty low levels. That
wouldn’t necessarily be negative recruit
ing; it’s just a fact that we’re going to
be a year late getting in there. But my
position on that is, if a young lady is
coming to Texas A&M solely for the
arena, then she’s coming for the
wrong reasons.”
While Harvey is concerned
about the possible negative
impacts, she said the team will
only worry about what is with
in their reach.
“The only thing that we
can control is to keep
putting an entertaining
basketball team on the
I court,” Harvey said. “Hope
fully our fans will enjoy so
much what we do on the court
that they’ll continue to come re
gardless of whether it’s in G. Rollie or Reed.”
When construction plans of Reed Are
na were announced, ESPN considered
the possibility of televising an early sea
son marquee game. But because of un
certainty as to an expected date of com
pletion, no plans were concrete.
A&M Athletic Director Wally Groff said
the Athletic Department is still hoping to at
tract ESPN coverage with a top game, when
the arena opens for the 1998-99 season.
“Originally we were talking about
opening the 1997-98 non-conference
season with a big name basketball team
that might be on ESPN,” Groff said.
“Nothing was concrete because we didn’t
know exactly when the arena was to be
completed. Maybe we can again rejuve
nate those plans and look for a marquee-
type team to open the arena.”
While the collapse can be seen as a
negative situation, Groff looks at the situ
ation as a blessing.
“In one respect it can be a blessing,”
Groff said. “It would have been difficult
to sell non-conference games in G. Rollie
and conference games over at Reed for
the same year. This way it will push it all
back to 1998-99.”
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