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Page 5 • Tuesday, October 1,2002
Football team still remembers Tech melee
lUESDAY
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Troy
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Holy Hying goalposts! The
Texas A&M football team is host
ing the Texas Tech Red Raiders this
Saturday at 1 p.m. at Kyle Field.
With all the media guide fiascos
and post game melees, Aggie fans
might want to take cover when they
see black and red around College
Station this week.
Last year. Raider fans charged
the field after a 12-0 upset of the
Aggies in Lubbuck. tore down a
goalpost, marched it across the
field and hurled it into a section of
Aggie fans.
“1 didn’t appreciate (the goal
post),” said freshman safety J ax son
Appel. “I’m just glad that we don’t
have fans that do things like that.”
In 2000, Raider fans visiting
College Station spray-painted the
double T on A&M campus build
ings the night before the game.
"First thing to come to my mind
is their fans,” said senior safety
Terrance Kiel. “My first year we
went up there they were throwing
tortillas and spitting on us.
" They have some rude fans.
Luckily we got them here this year.
Our tans will let them have it when
their offense is on the field.”
Speaking of offense, Texas Tech
has one ot the best in the country.
Head coach Mike Leach has turned
the Red Raiders into an aerial cir
cus by running a spread offense
since he was hired in 2000.
Senior quarterback Kliff
Kingsbury leads the Tech offense
by gaining 326.2 yards per game
and completing 30.2 passes per
game.
The way the Aggie defense
handles the aerial attack will be
the key to this game and the
Aggie schedule plays perfectly
into their hands.
“No doubt it’s to our advan
tage,” said head coach R.C. Slocum
about playing Louisiana Tech
before Texas Tech. “It’s helpful to
have a game in between (Virginia
Tech and Texas Tech) that has a
similar philosophy.”
They are more similar than one
might think when just looking at the
two teams. Louisiana Tech quarter
back Luke McCown is ranked No.
10 in total offense and fifth in com
pletions per game. Kingsbury is
fifth and first, respectively.
Before playing A&M,
Louisiana Tech averaged 436.75
yards per game, 324.5 of those
yards through the air. Texas Tech is
No. 12 in the nation in total offense,
averaging 456.60 yards per game ,
349.2 yards passing.
Kingsbury’s added intangible is
his toughness. The last time Tech
traveled to College Station,
Kingsbury was leveled repeatedly
but continued to get up and play.
After being sacked seven times,
Kingsbury still completed 28 of 50
passes for 291 yards in a 33-15
Aggie win.
“I don’t know if he has any
weaknesses,” Kiel said. “He takes a
lot of hits. I know he had a concus
sion or two (in 2000) and he came
right back in the game.”
The Aggie secondary was touted
as one of the best in the nation
before the season started.
Senior Sammy Davis will play
despite injuring his calf in the
Louisiana Tech game. Junior
Sean Weston and sophomore
Byron Jones will have to play
tight on the line of scrimmage
because Tech likes to throw plen
ty of short passes.
Fans know the Aggie defense
can stuff the run, but now the ques
tion is if it can stop the pass. If it
can, then this defense is truly some
thing special, and one that can carry
the load to a Big 12 Championship.
“It’s a rivalry on the field,” said
senior linebacker Brian Gamble.
“When we get on the field we play
for blood.
“The tenacity in the rivalry is
definitely elevated.”
Hopefully this time the rivalry
will stay on the field and away from
the stands.
FILE PHOTO • THE BATTALION
Texas Tech fans raided the field and tore down a goalpost after
the Red Raiders upset Texas A&M 12-0 in Lubbock last season.
Rockets starting camp, hope to leave injuries behind
HOUSTON (AP) — Yao Ming
impressed his Houston Rockets team-
mates-to-be Monday, even if he was only
in two dimensions.
A life-sized poster of the 7-foot-6
Chinese basketball star was on the wall
in a practice gym as the team posed for
pictures, chatted with reporters and
prepared to begin training camp in
Austin today.
Everyone was there except Yao, who
isn’t expected in camp until later in
October after fulfilling his Chinese com
mitment to the Asian Games. The poster
was impressive enough for some.
"Look at his legs. They’re like tree
trunks." coach Rudy Tomjanovich mar
veled, dismissing concerns the 296-
pound Yao might get pushed around by
physical NBA centers looking to school
the No. 1 overall draft pick.
While much of the talk centers on
Yao, Tomjanovich says he’s just glad to
see several of his returning players back
on their feet again. Houston, wracked by
injuries up and down its roster last sea
son, went 28-54.
Forward Maurice Taylor was lost to a
right Achilles tendon injury before the
season started, then Glen Rice was out
after just 20 games with a partial tendon
tear in his right knee.
On top of that, star point guard Steve
Francis missed 25 games with left foot
injury, a strained right shoulder and debil
itating migraine headaches. Francis has
healed from his injuries and is success
fully treating the headaches, and says he’s
ready to start earning his new six-year
contract that could pay $90 million.
“1 just think it’s time, it’s time for us
to be in the playoffs.” said Francis, the
No. 2 overall pick in the 1999 draft who
never has tasted the postseason in three
years as the Rockets rebuild.
Team owner Les Alexander is a lit
tle more bullish, often calling it “one
of the great teams ever assembled” in
the last few weeks. He reiterated his
belief Monday.
“The intention (of hailing the team)
was to send a message to the people of
Houston and the nation,” said
Alexander, who lamented that the
impending arrival of Yao and the last
season at Compaq Center haven’t
sparked season ticket sales.
“Players don’t sell tickets, winning
does,” Alexander said.
However, the team hopes if Yao’s
addition doesn't sell more tickets it will
at least help sell some Chinese beer.
On Monday, the Rockets announced
the team’s official import beer will be
China’s popular Yanjing Beer.
Yao isn't the team’s only newcomer.
The Rockets also are excited about/
Slovenian forward Bostjan Nachbar,
another first-round pick, and also will
give rookie guard Tito Maddox a shot to
earn a job.
Tomjanovich noted that all three are
still college age — Yao and Nachbar
would be seniors and Maddox would be
a junior.
Mostly, the coach says he’s anticipat
ing being able to use the same lineups
day in, day out, as long as the injury bug
doesn't bite again.
“What I’m really excited about is that
thing called continuity,” he said.
The Rockets, back-to-back world
champions in 1994 and 1995, haven’t
been to the playoffs since a first-round
loss to the Lakers in 1999. Taylor says
the owner’s words are meaningless in
October.
“I know Les is excited about the tal
ent we have,” Taylor said. “But we have
to prove it.”
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