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The Texas A&M wom-en’s soccer team, host-
ing its fourth game in as many matchups this season, fell to the Pepperdine Waves in a 3-1 contest Sunday after-noon at Ellis Field.
After squandering mul-tiple offensive opportunities throughout the game, the
A&M defense eventually broke, allowing three quick goals by the Wave during the second half.
Texas A&M head coach G Guerrieri said the amount of Pepperdine scores to close the game was unaccept-able, noting the young Ag-gie squad still had a lot to work on.
“I can’t remember the last time we gave up three goals on our own field and especially three goals in one half,” Guerrieri said. “I’m disappointed. We can’t
point fingers. We’ve got a lot of areas that need work. Our backline has got to get sorted out.”
The No. 19 Aggies (2-2-0) kicked off the home matchup with a high level of energy, easily controlling the tempo throughout the first half. An intense offensive at-tack was marked by a 12-6 edge in shots and a 6-1 mar-gin in corner kicks, but solid defense from Pepperdine goalkeeper Hannah Seabert
At approximately 2:07 p.m. Satur-day, before a sold out Kyle Field
crowd that was perspiring and tiring, Texas A&M’s best football player took the field.
As 86,686 fans erupted in chants of, “Johnny! Johnny! Johnny!” Aggie quar-terback Johnny Manziel walked out on the field, saluting the student section.
It was just the beginning of Manziel’s day, which was cut in half by a suspen-sion from the autograph allegations that loomed throughout fall camp. In his first play of the 2013 season, Manziel checked through his reads, tucked the ball and ran for a 12-yard gain.
“Ladies & gentleman, I give you John-ny Manziel! #GigEm #BTHOrice,” was a tweet sent just after.
After a Taylor Bertolet field goal, Manziel was once again on the field, this time driving the Aggies 34 yards down the field and passing the ball just once. After an 8-yard rush, he appeared to make a signature motion toward one of the Rice players in a highlight that
has been shown on SportsCenter countless times since.
The next play, Manziel stayed in a collapsing pocket and fired a strike to Mike Evans for a touchdown.
“Johnny Manziel just air signed an au-tograph after one play then threw a TD and rubbed his fingers togeth-er like getting money,” an-other tweet read.
Manziel finished the day 6-of-8 passing for 94 yards and three touchdowns with 19 rushing yards on six carries. His day was not over, though, until an incident occurred fol-lowing A&M’s final score in the fourth quarter after Man-ziel once again connected with Evans.
Following the touch-down, Manziel rubbed shoulders with two Rice players. As the two began jawing at each other, exchang-ing comments, Man-ziel opted to have the last laugh in a taunting gesture
toward the scoreboard. The move resulted in a 15-yard
unsportsmanlike conduct pen-alty and landed Manziel a spot in head coach Kevin Sumlin’s
counseling chair. “I felt he was pressing it a
little bit early, first play he missed a read but he had
some good touchdown drives, good scrambles, but a foolish penalty at the end,” Sumlin said.
“No matter what the comments are, he’ll be play-ing every week with people chirping, and [chirping back] is not okay. Obviously I ad-dressed that on the side-line. But it’s something he’ll have to deal with ev-ery week.”
College football fans around the country had opinions that varied, but
it appeared the majority had gone from excitement to
frustration in record time. “I love Johnny Manziel, but he’s
a leader. Now he needs to start acting like one,” another tweet
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Manziel debut sparks fluctuations in fan acceptance
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Quarterback Johnny Manziel, seen on the sideline with sophomore center Mike Matthews, made his season debut Saturday and threw three touchdowns.
(Left) Junior forward Kelley Monogue directs the offense during a 3-1 loss to Pepperdine on Sunday. (Right) Freshman forward Liz Keester celebrates her Friday goal with sophomore forward Kristi Leonard.
Monogue scores lone goal in 3-1 loss
Matt Kinsel, Charles Shewchuk and Josh
Lewis all have one thing in common, success.
These three friends and colleagues have worked to-gether for more than a year, building their futures, their incomes and their lives. All decided to take a risk, gamble on a dream and do something most young men only imagine. Traveling the globe committed to what they love, they found their calling in life and are sharing it with the world.
Kinsel, senior finance ma-jor, started at A&M unsure of what his future had in store for him.
“I didn’t know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life because I thought my choice included the word ‘job,’” he said. “I
didn’t want my degree in fi-nance to dictate the path of my life.”
He started a computer services business, and al-though successful, he began to realize the hold it had on him.
“All I did was own a job and if I didn’t show up ev-ery day, I wouldn’t generate any income and the com-pany would suffer,” Kinsel said. “It wasn’t true wealth, which is time and money freedom.”
Shewchuk, who left school to pursue business ventures, was the one to get the ball rolling in Col-lege Station. He showed the business to friends, one of which was Lewis.
“A little over a year ago, one of my best friends [Shewchuk] gave me a call and shared this idea with
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sports opinion | 3No cause for concernThe quantity of suspensions on the defense matters, but not because A&M has a serious culture problem or because the Honor Code has been thrown out. Alabama is coming, and experience is important.
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left on the field against LSU and had a hurricane not delayed the scheduled opener against Louisiana Tech (and forced a team under a new scheme and quarterback to open against Florida, a game it almost won), A&M would have played Georgia for the SEC championship.
Regardless, A&M came close last year. When you’re close enough to running the table that you can (overly) simplify it like that, it’s a good season.
So couldn’t the absence of eight suspended players (in-cluding six defensive starters) for parts or all of the first two games be this year’s Bertolet-and-hurricane? This defense is big, quick and inexperienced. It had two tune-ups before Alabama and it trashed them both. The first time the defense plays together, it will face the best offensive team Nick Saban has ever had at Alabama.
I don’t judge the character of our players based on an unspecified violation that docked four guys a couple games, a passionate freshman taking a swing, a garbage targeting flag and a quarterback (whose cockiness has never been in doubt) acting cocky.
That doesn’t overly concern me. I’m too busy looking ahead — to Saban and beyond. Because whether this team is a mob of thugs or a troop of Boy Scouts, Alabama will bring the same grudge to town.
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No cause for concern
We have to be worried about something because that’s what we do. So a some-times-rocky, suspension-sapped opener — with rusty play, sure, but a never-in-doubt win — became a national story. This is the new Texas A&M.
Or is it? Are we so different? Some fans have taken up arms against a perceived new football culture, one that has Johnny Manziel and Kevin Sumlin written all over it. After all, the old A&M never seemed to have eight suspended players at one time or quarterbacks who mime autograph gestures (after, you know, almost losing a season for that same signature).
The old A&M never won many games, but that’s of little account. Winning isn’t everything. Traditions matter. Those things are still true.
So what happened Saturday, when two players were eject-ed, four were suspended hours prior to kickoff and Manziel was benched and flagged for taunting?
I don’t buy into the thinking that because Manziel can get away with doing whatever it is he does, his teammates now follow that example. I don’t think Kirby Ennis reportedly flashed a gun at a driver because of Johnny. I don’t believe Floyd Raven and Deshazor Everett got mixed up in assault charges because Johnny signed autographs and may or may not have been paid for them.
And I don’t think it’s a “team culture” thing. Running onto the field to Kanye West’s “Power” does not field a team prone to suspensions.
Here’s what happened: the best recruiting class in recent program history took the field for the first time. Fifteen of them played along with the first sophomore to open a season having already won a Heisman.
And after an offseason spent pegging A&M as a trendy pick for the national championship, the nation waffled on its opinion of A&M as Manziel’s status came into question.
We had similar preseason expectations for the 2011 team, with Cyrus Gray, Von Miller and Ryan Tannehill returning. So why didn’t that team act out, get pitched from the game for fighting and draw unsportsmanlike conduct penalties for
scoreboard pointing? Because that team was cowed in the Cotton Bowl by LSU
after six straight wins. The talent returned but the confidence didn’t. They left that 2010 season muttering things like, “wait until next year,” under their breath.
In contrast, the 2012 Cotton Bowl team ripped through the Oklahoma defense like tissue paper. Each player in that locker room knew they would have done to Notre Dame in the national championship game what Alabama did. No team in the country had more confidence at season’s end.
That confidence didn’t leave. Sumlin is that confidence. Well-behaved teams are capable of winning. Off-the-field
antics don’t make a team more competitive in the SEC, and by no means do I condone the actions of the suspended players.
But this isn’t 1990’s Miami. This isn’t the Isaiah Thomas Pistons. This is a young wad of football players who think they’re unbeatable and who are talented enough to make it so.
The Aggie Honor Code still exists, even on the football team, and no one — not Manziel, Sumlin or, at this point, Daeshon Hall — thinks it’s okay to fight during a game.
As a fan base, haven’t we seen the “aw shucks” brand of good-guy football? Sherman’s players behaved. They also blew six second-half leads in 2011.
We’ve tried it the squeaky-clean way. And then we al-lowed the Sumlin “yessir” swagger to take hold last year and won 11 games. Slow down before you condescend to it, because this fan base seemed perfectly fine with Sumlin’s control of his team at the Cotton Bowl after-parties.
Last season, A&M was a freshman kicker and a hurricane away from the national championship. So goes the popular thinking: Had Taylor Bertolet (a confident, perfect 8-of-8 Saturday) made the seven points in kicking opportunities he
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Senior running back Ben Malena faces off with Rice junior defensive end Zach Patt during A&Ms’ 52-31 win.
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Half the fun of comic conventions is pulling
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Sophomore biomedical science major Agatha Molski said she does cosplay because it’s fun and stems from a love of theater.
“It brings characters to life for me,” Molski said. “The-ater also has always been an attractive topic to me. I didn’t get to do it in high school, so this is basically an alterna-tive.”
For freshman biomedical science major Spring Garcia, cosplay is an opportunity for her to open up and express herself around people while making new connections.
“It brings me out of my shell,” Garcia said. “I have fun making new friends and building new relationships through cosplay.”
Molski said a good cosplay isn’t the stereotype of spend-ing money on expensive cos-
tumes and entering contests, but instead is one where the wearer loves doing it.
“A good cosplay is one where you’re having fun and enjoying yourself,” Molski said. “This is a fun thing we do and it’s like theater for us. It’s not something extremely competitive.”
Garcia said one common misconception about cosplay is that the outfits have to be spot-on accurate, which she said isn’t the case.
“People think you have to be correct, that the outfit has to be correct,” Garcia said. “For me, it’s all about the attitude and about interact-ing with people who like the same things you do.”
Melissa Galarza, freshman early childhood education major, said the best cosplay-ers are the ones who stay in character.
“What makes a good co-splay for me is attitude,” Galarza said. “As long as you’re in character and hav-ing fun, it’s a good cosplay.”
Putting together a cosplay doesn’t have to be expensive. Both Molski and Garcia scour thrift shops for parts of their costumes, even hand making certain pieces or commis-sioning others to make it for them.
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Josh Lewis (left) and Matt Kinsel (center) vacation in Mexico through their business venture.
(From left) Agatha Molski dresses as the angel Castiel from “Supernatural” while Spring Garcia dresses as Ronald Knox from the anime “Black Butler.”
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me,” Lewis said. “I treated it like the next Facebook, and I was one of the first to hear about it. I knew it was going to be big. I made the decision that day to go all in.”
Lewis and the others de-scribe the business as a “net-work marketing company.” Lewis said it works like Mary Kay, Amway, and Avon, but it is positioned in the largest in-dustry in the world — travel. The company sells member-ships to be a part of the club, where members gain access to wholesale travel and other daily perks.
Lewis and the others are independent representatives of the company, which allows them the ability to promote the membership.
After Shewchuks’ initial in-volvement, Kinsel and Lewis jumped on board.
“I knew I was prepping myself to work for the rest of my life,” Kinsel said. “I en-joyed business but I had other passions I wanted to follow. This [business] looked like it would be a way to give me time back to do those things. I
have earned a residual income through the company. I will be paid for the work I have done for the rest of my life. It’s a willable asset I can leave for my family because it is a multi-generation wealth.”
Shewchuk decided to leave A&M after his first semester to pursue this business model.
“I don’t want my parents’ life,” he said. “I want to build a business now that in a cou-ple of years, I don’t have to be physically there for it to pay me for the rest of my life. I want to put in the effort now so that my business pays for me whether I am here building it or on the beach.”
All three said that initially they were fearful and skeptical of taking a risk on this compa-ny, but each now say that this is one of the best financial and relational decisions they have ever made
“You earn success [in this business] by helping others find success,” Kinsel said. “The ca-maraderie I have learned from being an Aggie has bled into this. I work with my best friends — help them have success while building pas-sive income. This all streams together and has an impact on thousands of people’s lives.”
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“I actually suck at sew-ing, so I buy a lot of pieces for my costumes online or commission a friend,” Gar-cia said. “For one of my co-splays, I actually found the pieces for it at a thrift store for $25.”
Both Garcia and Mol-ski cosplay from an anime comic called “Hetalia,” which depicts foreign na-tions as people, but they also cosplay from other shows and films. One of Molski’s characters is the angel Castiel from the TV show “Supernatural.”
Garcia, in addition to her many “Hetalia” co-splays, also dresses as a char-acter from an anime called “Black Butler,” the popular video game series “King-dom Hearts” and the web comic “Homestuck.”
“Cosplay is not limited to anime,” Molski said. “It’s really whatever you like.”
Molski has many future projects in mind.
“There are literally about
20 cosplays that I plan to do in the future,” Molski said. “I feel like this will be something that I’m not getting out of very quickly, like I’m going to be doing this for at least the next four to five years.”
Garcia plans on trying to do Flynn Rider from Disney’s “Tangled,” more characters from “Homes-tuck,” as well as characters from live-action films such as Eddie Valiant in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and possibly one of the hobbits from “The Lord of the Rings.”
Garcia said, for those looking to get into cosplay, that a person’s physical ap-pearance should not be a limitation
“Don’t let your weight or your height limit you,” Garcia said. “If you’re hav-ing fun, don’t let others get you down because you might not fit their vision of a character. There are no rules, no limits for cosplay.”
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read at 4:47 p.m., an hour after fans had time to think about the 52-31 win.
The best college football player from a year ago was back, but so was his swagger.
“I felt like he represented himself with a nice swag,” said defensive back Toney Hurd Jr. “He came out and he played well. He took a few chances, but who doesn’t take chances on the football field? He came out and had fun. We got the ‘W’ and that’s what really matters.”
Debate has raged on as the hours and days have passed since Manziel’s last ac-tions. Countless members of the media have questioned whether Manziel has become a cancer to the A&M team or if he, along with the entire Texas A&M squad, is simply college football’s villain.
The mom of a boy who watched Manziel become a star at Tivy High School in Kerville wrote in a blog post titled “An Open Letter to Johnny Manziel” that she is now faced with tough ques-tions from her sixth grade son.
“My sixth-grade son teach-es me a lot about life,” Beth Bates of Kerville wrote in her post. “And even after today’s game he sees redemption for you [Manziel]. As I sat, as a very frustrated fan and mom, watching you trash talk and wondering if you’ve learned a single lesson lately… as I sat and told you to get the chip off your shoulder and just play … I listened to my son see the
good.” As Texas A&M prepares
for it’s second game of the season Saturday against Sam Houston State, Manziel will likely be analyzed each hour of every day until he picks up another game day football.
Once he hits the grass at Kyle Field, though, he’s the player his teammates, coaches and fans remember — for better or for worse.
“That’s how he is,” said junior right tackle Cedric Ogbuehi. “He is a fiery guy and that’s what we love about him. He is not quiet and he’s not shy. He is loud and ag-gressive and that’s what makes him Johnny Football so we love it.”
held the Aggies at bay throughout the half.
Following halftime, the
Wave offense jumped into high gear, earning two goals in the first four minutes. The A&M offense attempted a response behind star junior forward Kelley Monogue, who cut the lead 2-1 with a score at 35:37 remaining in the match.
During the 62nd minute, Monogue missed a chance to knot the score, as her strike sailed inches over the Pep-perdine crossbar. The Wave quickly answered in the 71st minute, adding an insurance goal to cut A&M morale
heading into the final stretch. Monogue said the loss will
serve as a learning experience for the young team.
“I think we needed to fin-ish our chances and work on our organization in the back,” Monogue said. “We just got spread apart too much. That was a good learning game for us.”
For Guerrieri, though, the overall effort, or lack thereof, was responsible for the loss.
“It didn’t appear to be a good effort out there and the result certainly proved it,” Guerrieri said. “Our effort has got to be better. If we expect to win anything, our effort has got to improve.”
Friday evening, the Aggies faced off with Pac-12 oppo-nent Arizona State, dominat-ing the Sun Devils 3-1 at Ellis Field.
The A&M offense was buoyed by three separate scorers — Monogue, junior midfielder Allie Bailey, and freshman forward Liz Keester — who each found the net once during the game.
For Keester, her score was the first of her career and was an opportunity she was thankful to have with a pro-gram as high-caliber as A&M.
“It took more focus and staying positive, knowing that it’s eventually going to come,” Keester said. “I’m just thankful to be getting the op-portunities.”
Texas A&M faces off with San Diego on Friday and for-mer Big 12 rival Baylor on Sunday at Ellis Field.
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Chase Krumholz — THE BATTALION
Junior forward Kelley Monogue scored A&M’s lone goal during the Aggies’ 3-1 loss to Pepperdine Sunday afternoon at Ellis Field.
That’s how he is. He is a fiery guy and that’s what we love about him. He is not quiet and he’s not shy. He is loud and aggressive and that’s what makes him Johnny Football so we love it.”
— Cedric Ogbuehi, junior
right tackle
This was one of those games where we did a lot to come close but we didn’t finish off our chances. Our effort has got to be better. If we expect to win anything, our effort has go to improve.”
— G Guerrieri, Texas
A&M head soccer coach
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