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Aggie Flashback with former DE/LB Scott Polk

November 4, 2014
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Key quotes from Scott Polk interview

"In the SWC days, they left it up to the schools to determine what constituted lettering. At A&M it was playing 16 quarters. My freshman year I tore an ACL in the offseason. I went ahead and played 4 games and redshirted. I remember going to the office and they said you have a four-year letter award but you lettered five, they told me to pick any four I wanted."
 
"I remember driving around Tech’s campus and they talked about the horse facing west so the back went towards College Station. I remember thinking, 'I cannot wait to come beat y’all in Lubbock.'"
 
"We would win eight or nine games a year so there were always college coaches around my high school and one of them was R.C Slocum. When he started recruiting me, I pretty much told him, 'If you offer, I’m there.'"
 
"On this team you have to have guys that lead. Typically you would think of that as verbal, but I would take it further than that. It is often not in words, its guys in the weight room, running pass routes after practice, doing whatever it takes to be successful."
 
"If you interviewed fifty guys on the '84 team they would tell you, it was as much of a corporate resolve to say, 'We are not going to stink. We have to redeem this season.' I don’t want to take anything away from Coach Sherrill because he did do a lot, but it has to come from inside. We have to win."
 
"We were on defense and had practiced block side or scoop and score side. They were going into score, we stopped them and they set up for a field goal. We sent Domingo in to block it and really nothing happened special on my side, I just caught it and started running the other way. I got to midfield and wondered where is everybody. After about 50-60 yards the monkey jumped on my back. I was good at running the 40 not the 80."
 
"The older the Aggie, the more they think I scored a touchdown on that blocked field goal. I used to correct them, but now I just let them go."
 
"Kevin Murray did rally the troops but he was one of those guys that worked hard. He was a guy that came in and earned it. It is easy and fun to be led by a guy like that."
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Aggie Flashback with former DE/LB Scott Polk

6,991 Views | 4 Replies | Last: 9 yr ago by dcbowers
Gabe Bock
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Aggie Flashback with former DE/LB Scott Polk
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I was in Austin in 84!!!! The entire A&M student section moved about 2 yards to the left trying to egg him into the endzone. His head went striaght into the air at about the 15 yard line, not sure he ran much after that. I believe Akers caught him at the 5.

That game was the turning point for all of Aggie football!!!

Awesome...

37 - 12. Is as significant as 13 - 0
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I remember that play very well.
Me & a few of my Aggie buds were watching the A&M vs tu game in my new home. I had a new 50" projection TV, so it was easy to get fellow sports guys to come over to watch sporting events.
Ags had struggled but jelled late to give us Aggie fans hope that we could upset the mighty horns.
Lo & behold, we played a great 1st half & took a good lead into the half. Horns got the ball 1st in the 2nd half and charged down the field, hoping to close the gap, but the Aggie D stiffened & forced t.u. to kick a FG.
Domingo Bryant blocked the ensuing FG attempt & the ball took a friendly hop right into the arms of Scott Polk, who proceeded to rumble down the middle of the field, all the way down to the horn 6 yd line.
What I remember most was the excitement/yelling/euphoria that the guys in my living room displayed while Polk was returning that blocked kick. It was so loud that my wife had to come out of her room to inquire what the heck was going on?!
Ags end up kicking a FG, but that was the straw that broke the horns back & the Ags cruised to an easy victory. It was the 1st of 6 straight wins for the Ags over the horns. I bought & wore a sweatshirt for several years that boasted of an Aggie 6-pack victorious win streak over the horns.
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the band was playing when the fg was blocked and in my excitement I quit playing and in my enthusiasm accidently hit the trumpet player in front of me with my cornet. Sorry about that BM
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I was a high school senior watching the game in Crocker Hall with my brother who was a junior. I remember the spontaneous celebrations afterwards at Northgate and the CS police closing down University Drive.

Lots of people think that game was the beginning of the Jackie Sherrill dynasty, but the realy beginning occured a week earlier when we beat the Jim Wacker's TCU team (minus Kenneth Davis, who was suspended) at Kyle Field.
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