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Coaches surprised by loss Texas A&M celebrates win overHuskers By Jay Saunders Staff writer The streak is over. After 19 consecutive wins, and 40 Roberts straight confer ence wins, Nebraska lost. Texas A&M’s 28-21 win Saturday over the Cornhuskers made some waves through out the country. The news of A&M’s upset was on the mind of Big 12 coaches after a weekend the conference showed its strength to the rest of the nation. For the first time since 1992, Nebraska was humbled by a confer ence team. Even though the Huskers have struggled for two straight weeks, coaches said they don’t see any dents in the Nebraska armor. “Any time a defending national champion gets beat you are always surprised to see them come up a little bit short,” Iowa State Coach Dan McCamey said. “I sure haven’t seen any chinks though.” One thing that has never been a problem for Nebraska is running the ball. But in both the Oklahoma State and A&M games, the Huskers had a hard time jump-starting their rushing Big 12 report card I Rising Comment Week grade Texas A&M Defense keys big win for Aggies. A Kansas St Defense is as good as advertised vs. Colorado. A Texas Pounded Oklahoma something fierce 34-3. A Texas Tech Tech just keeps on winning. B Missouri Devin West ran wild against Iowa State. B Baylor Good win vs. Kansas. Offense still going strong. B Stable Nebraska Offense shut down against Texas A&M. C Colorado Couldn't hold up against K-State. C Oklahoma St Lost another one to Texas Tech. C Falling Iowa State No run defense vs. Missouri. No run defense vs. anybody, for that matter. D Kansas Kansas now 0-4 in the Big 12 conference. C Oklahoma U-G-L-Y vs. Texas. F MattHaney/DN offense. “I wouldn’t say that is an upset,” Baylor Coach Dave Roberts said. “I have never seen Nebraska struggle like they did running the football. (A&M’s) defense is pretty salty.” This win has people at Texas A&M buzzing. Nebraska, ranked at No. 2, was the highest-ranked team the Aggies have ever beaten. The win was so big, people in College Station are gleaming about the win outside of Kyle Field. A&M Coach R.C. Slocum said he was singled out in church on Sunday morning. Yesterday, Slocum received phone calls as soon as he got into the office at 6 a.m. “Clearly this is not your ordinary win based on the reaction of the fans,” Slocum said. After every big win, there is another game. Texas A&M travels to Waco, Texas, on Saturday to play Baylor. Roberts said he hopes the Aggies cel ebrate until game time. “Nebraska is a heck of a football team and A&M just waxed them,” Roberts said. “I hope (A&M) stays out all night for a week.” The Aggies’ win also benefited Kansas State. With the Husker loss and KSU’s 16-9 win over Colorado, the Wildcats moved up to No. 3 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll and No. 4 in the Associated Press Top 25. Kansas State still has Nebraska on its schedule November 14. KSU Coach Bill Snyder said he is still wary of the Huskers. “As they say,” Snyder said, “stuff happens. I have no doubt they will bounce back from this.” Weiberg signs on as conference leader By Jay Saunders Staff writer There is a new boss in town for the Big 12 Conference. Kevin L. Weiberg, 42, was named the new commissioner of the Big 12 last week. Weiberg comes to the con ference after serving nine years with the Big 10 conference. “It is good to be here,” Weiberg said. “My thoughts are focused on the tasks ahead.” The new commissioner officially begins his job on January 1,1999. Until then, Weiberg will be work ing with interim commissioner Dave Martin. Martin took the job as interim commissioner in April 1998 after Steve Hatchell left the post because of staff problems. Martin took the job in addition to his tasks as the Associate Director of Athletics at Oklahoma State, where he is anxious to get back to, Weiberg said. “This conference has great univer sities and athletic programs,” Weiberg said. Weiberg served as Associate Commissioner of the Big 10 in August of 1989. He was promoted to Deputy Commissioner in August of this year. The Kansas State graduate has also worked in the athletic depart ments at Wichita State and the University of Maryland. He also worked at Wayne State College in Wayne. “My first priority is to focus on the transition here,” Weiberg said. “I hope to use these next couple of months to « “People have told me that I am sitting on the hot seat. Based on a lot of the strengths of this conference, this is a great hot seat to be sitting on.” Kevin Weiberg Big 12 commissioner > / - c do some relationship building here in the conference.” Another relationship Weiberg is hoping to establish is between the Big 12 and his former place of employ ment, the Big 10. Weiberg said the two conferences can work closely together to tackle problems in athletics. “My hope as commissioner here is that the Big 12 and Big 10 can work closely together on some policy issues that go past football.” In only its third year, the Big 12 is having a lot of national success. 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