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ANALYSIS
Inexperienced but ready
Vanessa Pena — THE BATTALION
Sophomore outfielder Nick Banks slides into third base during the
series win over Missouri.
Texas A&M is the first team to
reach 30 wins despite losing
two weekend pitchers
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his year’s narrative for sports
has followed a common story
line: a team doesn’t necessarily
need experience to be at the
top.
Let’s look at Ohio State for
example. The Buckeyes rummaged
through three quarterbacks, includ
ing Cardale Jones, who didn’t start
a down until the 13th game of the
season. A little over a month later, the
sophomore hoisted a national champi
onship trophy over his shoulders, and
was projected high in the draft before
deciding to return.
Kentucky basketball coach John
Calipari experimented with this
phenomenon recently, and gathered
a national title and four Final Four
appearances in the process with the
Wildcats.
Even Duke basketball coach Mike
Krzyzewski, who historically features
teams with seasoned veterans and
chemistry, won the national cham
pionship last night with his youngest
team in his 35 years of coaching the
Blue Devils.
Rob Childress and the No. 1 Texas
A&M baseball team fit in well with
this narrative.
Blake Allemand, Mitchell Nau and
Jason Freeman are the only players
that were part of the 2011 College
World Series squad. Leadership was
needed coming in to this season, and
it was surely provided.
Over the weekend, Texas A&M
became the first collegiate baseball
team to reach 30 wins, securing its
spot at No. 1 in the country. This is
no coincidence, for the Aggies have
shown all the right tools to prove its
top-ranked position.
A relatable story that could explain
the Aggie’s success is the Louisville
basketball team of 2012-2013. In the
Elite Eight, Cardinals guard Kevin
GERMANWINGS CONTINUED
around inside the aircraft and bumping
into things.”
A few days after the crash, inves
tigators uncovered the plane’s black
box, which provided insight on how
the plane went down and which in
vestigators finished looking into over
the weekend. Talreja said a black box
provides a complete picture on how a
flight is taking place.
“A black box records all sounds
coming from the cockpit as well as any
conversations,” Talreja said. “It records
altitude at any point and signals from
various parts of the aircraft, such as the
wings, backside and front.”
In this particular case, the black box
recorded the flight’s entire descent,
including the screams of the passen
gers, the frantic knocking of the cap
tain and Lubitz’s silence all while the
plane descended rapidly from 38,000
feet (about the height of 380 Rudder
Towers stacked one atop the other) to
100 feet.
Brak said Lubitz’s actions do not re
flect the norm.
“That’s just not normal pilot mental
ity,” Brak said. “Most pilots love their
job and want their ride to be as smooth
Ware suffered a gruesome injury in
the national spotlight against Duke.
Moving forward, Louisville used that
as inspiration, and the Cardinals even
tually won the title game. Similarly,
A&M faced adversity with the loss of
two weekend pitchers, Tyler Stubble
field (ACL) right before the season,
and AJ Minter (Tommy John surgery)
in the midst of this season.
Nevertheless, A&M ranks second in
the country in ERA at 2.03. Chil
dress’ recruiting success and defensive
mindedness gave him the luxury to
bring in arms at the level of the play
ers lost to injury.
But the credit doesn’t all go toward
the pitching staff, and that’s what
makes the Aggies top notch. The
A&M hitting is just as good, if not
better, than the pitching with the
depth of the lineup. Every Aggie
hitter in the order has collected a
home.run, with Ronnie Gideon and
Logan Taylor leading the way with
six apiece. Eight players also have 20
or more RBIs, while seven are batting
higher than .300. Through April 1,
A&M stood at No. 5 as a team in bat
ting average.
An even spread is A&M’s strong
suit on both sides, but it has specific
players that can step up when it mat
ters the most. Nick Banks bats .431,
as possible. Most of the time, the sky is
our happiest place where everything is
just so beautiful and awesome.”
Shannon Smith, clinical psychology
doctoral candidate, researches models
of psychopathic personality. She said a
possible motive as to why Lubitz hid
his tendencies is because mental illness
is stigmatized and encourages people to
“tough it out” rather than seek help.
“People who commit large-scale
acts of violence such as this may do
so for reasons such as seeking notori
ety or wanting to be remembered after
death,” Smith said. “Another factor is
personality features involving a self-
centered focus through which the per
son is unconcerned about the impact
of his or her actions on other people.”
Though Lubitz was diagnosed with
mental instability, Smith said she en
courages caution in all regards as people
diagnosed with mental illnesses are no
more likely to exhibit violent behavior
than people who are not.
With the increasing presence of air
line crashes publicized in recent years,
questions of an automatic flying system
controlled from the ground have been
gaining traction. Talreja said while
some automation is necessary, relin
quishing the pilot of all control is un
realistic.
ranking fourth among all player.
Two of the Aggies weekend pitchers,
Grayson Long and Matt Kent, remain
undefeated at 6-0 each, aiding in only
allowing five home runs and 87 total
runs all season, which both rank best
in the SEC.
The Aggies boast a 30-2 record
after opening the season 24-0 as they
host the No. 15 Rice Owls at 6:30
p.m. Tuesday. A&M remains unde
feated in midweek series, despite usu
ally throwing out freshmen in Turner
Larkins and Brigham Hill, proving
again that experience isn’t every
thing. This game provides the Aggies
with their first ranked opponent in
a midweek series, and a win with a
freshman at the mound could add to
the bevy of impressive feats collected
this year.
The young, promising Aggies came
into this season with one goal on their
mind: making the College World Se
ries again. Despite losing two of their
best players and calling on freshmen
and sophomores for help, A&M has
shown the nation that its season might
just end with something more: a title
shot.
Carter Karels is sports editor for The
Battalion and a freshman journalism
major.
“You can’t account for all situations
from a control tower, such as when a
passenger within the aircraft is being
difficult,” Talreja said. “It is unwise
and dangerous to completely unman
an aircraft.”
Brak said passengers often exaggerate
cockpit technology and forget planes
are manned by actual people, not ro
bots.
“On some airbuses, there is some
ground control in which altitude is au
tomatically adjusted if the aircraft is too
close to dangerous terrain,” Brak said.
“But I don’t know how much more
automation they can put in there, espe
cially if a pilot strays off the established
course. It’s not going to function com
pletely without pilots.”
Despite the Germanwings incident
and other plane accidents within the
last year, such as the missing Malaysian
Airlines flight and AirAsia crash, Tal
reja said flying still remains the safest
mode of transportation. According to
an MIT statistics report on flying safety,
a global average of 100,000 flights land
safely every day.
“Aircraft inspections happen every
day and are extremely thorough,” Tal
reja said. “It’s essentially pilot error left
to cause disasters.”
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