Emory Bellard Resigns

Student constitution on the line • Defeating the student • Say “Howdy” this week and body constitution Thursday you might win a prize. See page could be the first step to reor- 8. attalion ganization of the student gov- B ernment. Or passing it might be • College Station utility rates Wednesday, October 25, 1978 News Dept. 845-2611 best. For both sides, see page face changes — up and down — on page 9. College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611 10. Emory Bellard resigns By DAVID BOGGAN mendous disappointment,” the new ath athletic director and head football coach at and foremost to obtain a university educa Battalion Sports Editor letic director said. “The kids had worked Texas A&M. tion.” In the wake of two consecutive losses hard. He had worked hard. Things were In his six full seasons as the Aggies’ head What was the reaction of the athletes to and rumors of alumni pressure, Emory positive before Houston. The Baylor loss coach, Bellard had records of 3-8, 5-6, 8-3, their coach’s resignation? Bellard has resigned as Texas A&M Uni was tough because we had so many people 10-2, 10-2 and 8-4, for an overall record of “The team’s reaction was anger at first versity’s athletic director and head football hurt. 48-27. He took the Aggies to three con and then deep sadness,” Wilson said. coach. “Winning seasons and bowl games secutive post-season bowl games starting “They loved Coach Bellard very much and Texas A&M President Jarvis Miller an didn’t seem to satisfy people. Coach Bel in 1975: the Liberty Bowl, the Sun Bowl respected him a great deal. nounced Tuesday afternoon that Bellard’s lard just got fed up with it. He’d fought the and the Bluebonnet Bowl. In 1975 the Ag “The mental attitude is the thing we resignation had been accepted, effective battle for years and he felt the best thing to gies were Southwest Conference co have to combat. We have a great bunch of immediately. do is get out of this now. He was not forced champions with the University Arkansas young men and they’ll come back and Miller also approved the Athletic Coun out. It was just a decision he made at this and Texas. fight.” cil’s recommendations that Associate Ath time,” Tate said. “We sincerely regret Coach Bellard’s They will have to make a fast comeback. letic Director Marvin Tate become the Tate said Bellard spoke very little of his decision to resign,” said Dr. Charles Sam Saturday the Aggies, who have a 4-2 sea interim athletic director and that Offen plans for the future. son Jr., chairman of the Athletic Counsel. son record, host the Rice Owls, a team sive Coordinator Tom Wilson become the “No coach could be more committed to with a 1-4 season record. Wilson did not interim head football coach. See related stories, page 11 achieving excellence in intercollegiate rule out the possibility of offensive “Under the existing circumstances,” athletics than Emory Bellard. He has changes for Texas A&M. Bellard was quoted as saying in an athletic “The only thing he told me is that he’s worked in complete cooperation with our “There might be a few things,” Wilson department release, “I feel that it is best going to get out of athletics,” he said. He athletic council toward this end.” hinted. “I have a few things that I believe that I resign my position as director of ath was interupted by an Aggie alumnus cal Bellard also was praised by Miller as an in offensively that I want to try out. Of letics and head football coach at Texas ling to “start a movement to bring back outstanding man. course, it’s going to be hard to change A&M University. Emory Bellard.” “He has been more than a head football much. This is Tuesday; that only leaves us “Texas A&M is a great university and “There’s going to be a segment of A&M coach,” the University’s president said. three days (before the Rice game.)” will always have a special place in my people most upset that he’s leaving,” Tate “His integrity and dedication is reflected Wilson joined the Texas A&M staff in heart.” said. “There are also those who are un in the outstanding overall athletic pro January 1975 as offensive coordinator and After the Aggies’ regularly scheduled happy with the wishbone and Bellard’s grams at Texas A&M. quarterback coach. He graduated from practice Tuesday afternoon, Wilson spoke conservative brand of football.” “Coach Bellard effectively meshed the Texas Tech in 1966 where he was an all- with reporters who had gathered in Col Bellard’s brand ol fbotball came to A&M athletic program with the academic SWC quarterback. He was the Raiders’ lege Station for Bellard’s weekly press con in 1972 when the then-assistant coach at environment and stressed to all of our quarterback coach from 1966 until he ference — a press conference that was not the University of Texas accepted the job as athletes that they were at Texas A&M first joined the staff at Texas A&M. to be. “It happened so suddenly,” the new Aggie head coach said. “I haven’t even had time to call my wife and tell her what hap pened. Coach Bellard brought the staff into his office at 3 o’clock and told us his decision. Dr. Miller called me into his of President asks U.S. fice at 3:45 to ask if I would take over as head coach. And I was on the field practic ing at 4:30. It all happened very, very quick. ” What does a new coach say to his pre to ‘sit down’ on inflation decessor under such circumstances? hen I am “There wasn’t a whole lot to say other ng- than that we’re sorry and we ll do anything United Press International The president gave the public a quick employee’s pay “up to some reasonable •jgjnal tho economics lesson. limit.” nory Bellard, former Texas A&M get out of athletics. we can for him,” Wilson said. WASHINGTON — President Carter Tate speculated about the reasons lead wants “every business, every union, every “Most companies raise their prices be Carter called it a “real wage insurance tad football coach, says he plans to Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley ing to Bellard’s decision. professional group, every individual” in cause they expect costs to rise,” he said. policy against inflation which might be obviously “After the Houston game he had a tre- the nation to join a new campaign against “Unions call for large wage settlements caused by others.” i ho inflation. because they expect inflation to continue. “This will give our workers an additional I to have In a televised address Tuesday night, he Because we expect it to happen, it does incentive to observe the program — and H urged workers to limit their wage de happen, and once it’s started, wages and will remove their only legitimate reason )Ur campus! mands to 7 percent, proposing a new kind prices chase each other up and up. not to cooperate,” he said. ms ride to oach s resignation met of “insurance” against rising prices if they “It is like a crowd standing at a football His proposed voluntary price standard sometliii do. stadium. No one can see any better than jgy in froi for business — limiting increases to a 0.5 when everyone is sitting down — but no [T joked. He called on business to hold price in percent below 1976-77 increases — would one is willing to be the first to sit down.” ut it turns! creases at least 0.5 percent below the not apply to each product, but rather to a cith mixed reactions amount of increase in 1976-77. Specifically, Carter set a voluntary firm’s average price. standard of 7 percent for wage increases r win eiM Beyond that, the president proposed to Companies claiming unavoidable costs during the coming year in private business |s we hast By ANDY WILLIAMS trim federal spending, cut federal hiring, could demonstrate that their before-tax Kerry Kuttler, a junior physics major and state and local governments. It would land the in Battalion Staff eliminate “needless” regulations, encour profit margins are no higher than in the from College Station, asked one of the not apply to workers earning less than $4- games wk ^ age increased competition and oppose fur best two of the last three years. studen reactions to the news of most immediately important questions. an-hour or to already-signed labor con t the ach Emory Bellard’s resignation were “What’s he going to do now?” ther income tax cuts until inflation is re stand up tracts. “As far as I’m concerned,” the president ted, almost all interviewed expressed One frequently recurring feeling was duced. mad Agj! It would apply not to an individual’s told Americans, “every business, every ne sympathy for Bellard. voiced first by Greg Crawford, a senior He called the package “tough” and stay ali' wage, but to the average within each of union, every professional group, every in ^ Students were interviewed on the cam- range science major from Strawn. “He was “fair,” and promised no “quick or dra these groups in a given firm: management, dividual in this country has no excuse not is to spi Tuesday between 4:30 p.m. and 6 a good football coach, but he just lacked a matic’’ results.

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