Aggie Flashback with former LB Aaron Wallace

Key quotes from Aaron Wallace interview

“I get people coming up to me all the time and I always tell them, 'I had 41 other sacks.'  Stealing Andre Ware's helmet always stands out in people’s minds. I enjoy it right now, as you get older and reflect on times, it was a great moment in Aggie history. It seems like a long time ago, but when I talk to people it feels like yesterday.”

“I had a bad case of turf toe coming in, so I was playing pretty hard on a wrecked toe. When it came to that play, I was like 'If I went through this to play this game, I’m going to get to him.' When the ball was snapped, I basically ran over the guy and when I got to Andre, it just so happened the way he fell and I hit him, his helmet came off.”

“You had to block one or the other of me and John Roper, you couldn’t block both of us. That saved us a lot of the time and made it a lot of fun. We were competitive, we wanted to see who got more sacks and more plays. When it came down to competing on the field, we both wanted to be the best.”

“When I was in Los Angeles, we had the Rams and the Raiders and it was like two gangs. You had a gang for the Raiders and a gang for the Rams. When we would have cross town games, there would always be some fights.”

“In high school my basketball coach got so mad because there would be so many scouts at practice that he had to get them out. It was a different time back then. My dad wanted me to get out of Dallas and go somewhere different. Right before I signed, the word came out that SMU was going to get the death penalty. I followed my Dad’s advice and I tell him all the time that was the best thing I ever did and the best advice he ever gave to me was going to A&M because I had a great career.”

“When you came down to College Station, you had to compete to be relevant. If you didn’t compete you wouldn’t see the field, you weren’t going to make any noise, you had to come to play. My thing was getting sacks. Kevin used to call me the sack master, which was my first nickname. We had this thing called Monday Night Football, where the freshman would go against the second team offense. We would get out there and hit those guys and we weren’t scared. That set the tone for everybody that came in, if you were sacred you better act like you aren’t scared. That was the attitude of that defense.”

“The whole defensive side of the ball was prepared. If you got hurt, you might not see the field again. We had two or three deep that could play. There were guys that came in as number one players at their position and never saw the field. That is just the way it was.”

“When R.C. Slocum stepped in, I don’t think we missed a beat. Coach Slocum came in and guys rallied behind him. We already had the mentality and wanted to keep it. Slocum could still recruit and get the guys he needed and it kept going for a while.”

“Kyler Muray is very good. He’s an excellent athlete and our game plan at Skyline was to get a few stops. For two and half quarters we did, then he threw a pick and our linebacker returned it. After that, we never stopped him again. I talked to him after the game and he seemed like the nicest guy, I think Kevin had a little more attitude. If he can beat you to the corner, he turns it up and he is gone.”