Aggie Flashback with former DE/LB Scott Polk

Key quotes from Scott Polk interview

"In the SWC days, they left it up to the schools to determine what constituted lettering. At A&M it was playing 16 quarters. My freshman year I tore an ACL in the offseason. I went ahead and played 4 games and redshirted. I remember going to the office and they said you have a four-year letter award but you lettered five, they told me to pick any four I wanted."
 
"I remember driving around Tech’s campus and they talked about the horse facing west so the back went towards College Station. I remember thinking, 'I cannot wait to come beat y’all in Lubbock.'"
 
"We would win eight or nine games a year so there were always college coaches around my high school and one of them was R.C Slocum. When he started recruiting me, I pretty much told him, 'If you offer, I’m there.'"
 
"On this team you have to have guys that lead. Typically you would think of that as verbal, but I would take it further than that. It is often not in words, its guys in the weight room, running pass routes after practice, doing whatever it takes to be successful."
 
"If you interviewed fifty guys on the '84 team they would tell you, it was as much of a corporate resolve to say, 'We are not going to stink. We have to redeem this season.' I don’t want to take anything away from Coach Sherrill because he did do a lot, but it has to come from inside. We have to win."
 
"We were on defense and had practiced block side or scoop and score side. They were going into score, we stopped them and they set up for a field goal. We sent Domingo in to block it and really nothing happened special on my side, I just caught it and started running the other way. I got to midfield and wondered where is everybody. After about 50-60 yards the monkey jumped on my back. I was good at running the 40 not the 80."
 
"The older the Aggie, the more they think I scored a touchdown on that blocked field goal. I used to correct them, but now I just let them go."
 
"Kevin Murray did rally the troops but he was one of those guys that worked hard. He was a guy that came in and earned it. It is easy and fun to be led by a guy like that."