Spring Break
Football team chooses assistant coaches
By: Kenny Ryan
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: News
The winners had been decided, but Martin said they were not ready to share the names yet because they wanted to add flair to the affair.
The Athletic Department organized a Wednesday news conference in which Sherman introduced the honorary student assistant coaches Courtney Roland and Joseph Delgado. The three of them answered questions from the press, and Roland and Delgado were introduced in the same manner that Sherman would introduce any member of his coaching staff.
Roland is a freshman agricultural communications and journalism major whose dad, Steve Roland, Class of 1974, played football for Texas A&M nearly 40 years ago.
Delgado is a junior communication major. "This is it, it's exciting as it gets as a football fan," Delgado said.
Roland and Delgado will get exclusive inside looks at the football team in the days leading up to the Maroon and White game. They will be invited to practice on Thursday and encouraged to talk to the athletes and coaches.
"This will be a good experience to be around the student athletes around the coaches," Martin said. "There's talk that they will give a pregame or halftime speech in the locker room. In terms of putting on the headsets and calling nickel packages, it's really not as much about that, as [it is about] the opportunity to be on the sidelines … with the team, learning a little about football. The interaction is really what the focus is about."
Martin said that it will make for an opportunity for the students to really get to know Sherman. He said Sherman is far from intimidating, despite his large stature, and that he is one of the most approachable people he has ever met.
Aggies will have an opportunity to see the submitted videos at the Maroon and White game. Plans are to intersperse the videos throughout the scrimmage during time outs and halftime.
"[The videos] ran the gamut of very serious and very heartfelt to skits and comedy hour, or comedy two minutes," Martin said. "It really impressed us because there were times the coaches were looking at them and really thought it just reinforced everything we knew about Aggies.
The Athletic Department organized a Wednesday news conference in which Sherman introduced the honorary student assistant coaches Courtney Roland and Joseph Delgado. The three of them answered questions from the press, and Roland and Delgado were introduced in the same manner that Sherman would introduce any member of his coaching staff.
Roland is a freshman agricultural communications and journalism major whose dad, Steve Roland, Class of 1974, played football for Texas A&M nearly 40 years ago.
Delgado is a junior communication major. "This is it, it's exciting as it gets as a football fan," Delgado said.
Roland and Delgado will get exclusive inside looks at the football team in the days leading up to the Maroon and White game. They will be invited to practice on Thursday and encouraged to talk to the athletes and coaches.
"This will be a good experience to be around the student athletes around the coaches," Martin said. "There's talk that they will give a pregame or halftime speech in the locker room. In terms of putting on the headsets and calling nickel packages, it's really not as much about that, as [it is about] the opportunity to be on the sidelines … with the team, learning a little about football. The interaction is really what the focus is about."
Martin said that it will make for an opportunity for the students to really get to know Sherman. He said Sherman is far from intimidating, despite his large stature, and that he is one of the most approachable people he has ever met.
Aggies will have an opportunity to see the submitted videos at the Maroon and White game. Plans are to intersperse the videos throughout the scrimmage during time outs and halftime.
"[The videos] ran the gamut of very serious and very heartfelt to skits and comedy hour, or comedy two minutes," Martin said. "It really impressed us because there were times the coaches were looking at them and really thought it just reinforced everything we knew about Aggies.
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