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PANELISTS:
NORM HITZGES Sports talk show host, KTCK-AM, Dallas
JOHN P. LOPEZ Sports columnist, Houston Chronicle; talk show host, KBME-AM, Houston
Hollister: I'm expecting to see pigs fly any day now, because Texas A&M can call itself a basketball school--legitimately. Where the heck did these guys come from?
Lopez: Well, the main ingredient was there already: Acie Law. I don't know if I have ever seen, in Texas, a more clutch player than him.
Hitzges: Even before Law, though, A&M was a sleeping giant. It simply needed the right person--maybe that was the right coach, in Billy Gillispie, or the right player, in Law--to awaken the program. There are a handful of Texas A&Ms around the country: enormous institutions with really strong fan bases that for some reason just don't click as basketball schools. Now, you can say that that's the state of Texas, that football is king here. But A&M had the potential to be a powerful basketball team. The only negative about this whole situation is, Can they keep Gillispie? Because you know programs around the country are gonna look at what he has done here and think, "Oh, my. He can...
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