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The North Texas Daily
Wednesday, September 30,1998
NT football team heads into off-week
“The off-week will help a lot to get We’ve had to pick up the pace.”
Quarterback Jason Attaway, who
Injuries have been less significant isn’t crazy about the break.
Our beloved Mean Green foot-
“rags-to-riches” schedule, in which
sky Banks and Michael Hickman have finally starting hitting our stride.”
Allred agreed with Armour about
been slowed all year.
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healed,” said running back Hut Allred, he said. “Sometimes the off-week can things down.”
The NT defense ranks sixth in the
“The defense is more banged up than knock your rhythm off a little bit.”
The week will also give the offense Big West and 103rd in the nation.
us.”
FOOTBALL
rently ranked 110th in the nation and unit’s focus. .
‘We have to start back to playing
5th in the Big West.
passing yards with 125 against the
“In the past we haven’t run the ball fundamentally sound,” Michael said.
football guru Jeff Sagarin.
in the season,” said center Phillip that well against these teams either,"
Allred said.
“Tubby [Coleman] has been doing three hard days of practice this week.”
Men’s soccer team to build on last year’s success
The offense has also dominated
offense, and played to the team’s
key people on defense?
plish great feats and beat their returning player from last year in ing for the season since the middle of tition from the club teams around the
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“We have a lot of faith in Franco ability of anyone on this team.” Practices center on drills combin- Dewolf said. ' .
because he has helped build the team One of the newer players, Steven ing conditioning and skill work. “We’ve had trouble with them in
up,” said Phillip Schweichler, a play- Swykert, also believes the team is The players work mostly on the past, and they haven’t dropped
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100 percent before next week.” to heal the bumps and bruises, but he assignments, and penalties.”
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deserved week off.
“We’ve had four
physical tough foot-
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beat up and bruised,”
said NT head foot-
ball coach Darrell
In fact, I think the team is miles Aggies.
away from that and that it will sur- Most of those yards went to
prise some people. flanker Jay Young, as he pasted
When Darrell Dickey took over A&M for career-highs in both yards
for Matt Simon last year, he knew he (105) and catches (11).
That’s pretty good numbers for a Zeb Comist on the defensive line,
guy who played wide receiver last and you have the makings of a solid
year. Not to mention that the best defense.
runner on the team, sophomore Dickey’s patience with this team
Ja’Quay Wilburn has been in Dick- is finally starting to pay off. Both
ey’s doghouse. sides of the ball are staring to come
Both quarterbacks, LaDarrin around, and things could get quite
McLane and Jason Attaway, have interesting.
worked well as a tandem after a So, don’t give up on the fighting
shaky first two games. Eagles just yet.
, strongest opponents. Tomomitsu Kunii.
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this will be a great time to get them “I like to keep it rolling sometimes,”
But, this is not a team that is era- McLane threw for a career-high
tering on the edge of a winless season. 139 yards and the first aerial score of
Nor is this a team that deserves the year for NT to a wide-open Ron
the label as the 100th best team in Sterling in the ASU game. Attaway
Division I-A, according to college then established his career-high in
Tailback Tubby Coleman showed those turnovers.
the first signs of life on the NT Phillip Littlejohn has been all
offense two weeks ago with a 74- over the field for NT, and has played
yard rushing day against a tough Ari- through an early injury to lead the
zona State team. secondary.
He then followed that up 51-yard Add in the play of Fred Pertile at
effort against the “Wrecking Crew” linebacker, Heath Moody and
that he has been able to help the time they have had to prepare. two-hour practices twice a week,
players improve the skills they “The team has really come The team usually wraps up the
already have.” together in the past three weeks,” practice with a 30-minute inter-team
The team members said they have Swykert said. scrimmage.
a strong squad, despite only one “Other schools have been prepar- The team will face strong compe-
There were more questions than time of possession in the last two
answers about the football team, games, holding the ball a season-
Who was going to play quarterback? high 34 minutes, 48 seconds against
Could the team adapt to the new the Sun Devils.
offensive system? Could the team All these improvements came
make up for the losses of so many after Dickey watered down the
on offense, due to the deepest part of “I would rather not have the week has started all four games for the
the team at running back. Backs Stark- off,” he said. “It feels like we have Eagles, said the offense can use the
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thing in stride, and slowly began to The Mean Green started running
work themselves into shape. more two tight-end sets, and began to
He preached patience, both with pound the opposition with one of the
the players he inherited and the fan biggest offensive lines in the Big
base here at NT. This team knew that West.
they would be the underdog in most While the offense has made
of their games, and they have been, improvements, the defense has been
However, do not try and gauge doing the same thing.
this team after the first four games. The Mean Green forced four
The Mean Green played the turnovers against Texas Tech, and
toughest non-conference schedule in have already picked off more passes
the Big West Conference according this year (six) in four games than all
to Sagarin’s rankings. of last year (five).
They also showed flashes on both Scott Blank and Corbin Mont-
sides of the ball that they will be a gomery have played well and have
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