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Slocum, Toledo put focus on game, not pi
DALLAS (AP) — UCLA coach
Bob Toledo bears no ill will against
Texas A&M and R.C. Slocum even
though he was fired as offensive co
ordinator in 1993.
“The Cotton Bowl is not going
to be a Bob Toledo versus R.C.
Slocum thing,” Toledo said on
Thursday. “R.C. did what he had to
do and I moved on to where I am
today. There is no animosity to
ward A&M. I still have a lot of good
friends there. It’s just a lot of water
under the bridge.”
Alumni pressure came down on
Slocum after A&M had lost two con
secutive Cotton Bowl games to
Florida State and Notre Dame with
out scoring a touchdown.
“I had ambitions for us to be
better (offensively),” Slocum said.
“Bob did a good job and we never
had an argu
ment. I thought
we would be
better off going
in a different di
rection. I
thought we
needed to turn
over stones. It
was not a good
move on my
part.”
Slocum said
the Aggies
“haven’t been as good
since Toledo left.
aIm
offensively
“I’ve told Bob if I had it to do over
again I wouldn’t make that move,”
Slocum said. “Neither one of us want
it to be an issue
for this game.”
No. 5-ranked
UCLA, winners
of nine consec
utive games af
ter close losses
to Washington
State and Ten
nessee to start
the season, will
play the No. 20-
ranked Aggies
(9-3), who won
the Big 12 South division but lost
54-15 to Nebraska last week in
the title game.
“I think a strong argument can
be made that UCLA is the best
team in the
country,”
Slocum said.
“They are every
bit as potent as
Nebraska.”
Toledo said
that although the
Bruins were not
picked for an Al
liance bowl his
team was excited
about coming to
Dallas.
“I’ve been to the Cotton Bowl
with Texas A&M and I’ve told the
team what great hospitality they
have there,” Toledo said. "It should
be a great game. A&M has a great
tradition, a great
legacy.”
The two
schools have not
played each other
in 42 years. UCLA
beat A&M 21-0 in
1955 after losing
two previous
games against
the Aggies 7-0
and 21-14.
Toledo has
guided UCLA to
its highest ranking since 1988.
“UCLA hasn’t won nine games
in a row since 1973,
“We're proud ofthai.
a couple of plays am
undefeated."
Slocum said the As
they have anotherg;
the Nebraska lossi
against UCLA.
“They may be the
going right now,"Sic
will give our team
bounce back. 1 toldth
feel bad about Nebras
the same thing to Ho:
esta Bowl. Nebraskav
sion against us."
The game, sponsor
western Bell, is set for
New Year’s Dav, onCE
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