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ENLARGEMENT
The University Athletic ALTERNATIVE
Desrtment, which has grown by First, the University could cut
Wger and larger increments over the number of student tickets by
th past fiva years, has now on-third and maintain the present
tesehed a point where it must level of season ticket sales, or
either tap a new source of revenue second, they could enlarge the
or stop its present rate of growth. stadium, allowing both season
According to Athletic Director ticketsales and the present ratio of
Paul Dietzel, the University has student attendance at the games.
about reached Its limit in asking Seas ticket sales, which have
for alumni contributions, and one risen from 3,400 to 22,000 during
of the other sources of athletic Dietzel's term at Carolina, have
funds-gate receipts at football put the department's budget into
gaes-i also a static figure. the black~. Dietzel also said that the
The OFther sourcer revenue from University makes only a relatively
student fees, will be raised by $4.50 small profit on basketball, since
so that the University canl flund it general admission tickets were
expansion of Carolina Stadium. sold only to the point of breaking
Detzel said that approximately even.
12 per cent of present department With football the only profit
funds came from the student fee, making sport, that part of the
while 25 per cent came from athletic program must support all
football gate receipts and 67 per non-revenue producing sports such
t came from alumni con- as baseball, track, swimming and
tributions.rThe stadium expansion tennis.
and increasing student enrollment Dietzel said that al of the
poses a problem for the athletic department's profit thus far had
department, Dietzel said, in that to been plowed by into capital im
maintain the present level of provements within the department
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and pointed to the new baseball
field at the Roost, the new all
-weather track at the'Rex Enright
Center and the $70,000 worth ot
fixtures for the Roost as examples
of the department's capital in
vestments.
The fixtures at the Roost were
paid for in full through athletic
department funds. Dietzel said
that normally the fixtures would
have been paid for by the
University the same as with any
other residence hall, but that the
department felt that because there
were only athletes at the Roost,
they would pay for the fixtures.
LAST INCREASE
As for the stadium expansion,
Dietzel said the $4.50 per semester
increase would be the last increase
in~the student athletic fee to pay for
the stadium, and that the fee would
not increase by $4.50 each
semester, as some critics of the
proposal thought it might.
The stadium expansion is a step
in Dietzel's overall expansion
program. As soon as 1979, he has
scheduled such teams as the
University of Texas and the
University of Mississippi. The 1980
schedule has Georgia Tech,
Michigan, Georgia and Vanderbilt,
plus an away game with the
University of Southern California.
Carolin'a will play Southern Cal at
home in 1983.
"You can't get teams like that on
your schedule unless you pay
them, them," Dietzel said. Visiting
teams get 50 per cent of the gate.
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The decision to fund stadium
expansion through a $1 seat tax,
which the student's will not have to
pay, and the fee increase was
made by the University ad
ministration, the attorney general
and the state treasurer.
As -fer consulting the students
about the increase, Dietzel said
that he did not think the increase
was that huge, and that he knew of
no time when a university ad
ministration or board of trustees
would consult the students about
an increase.
PAYS FOR ITSELF
He added that if the athletic
department.wasn't able to pay for
itself, the University would have to
start subsidizing them two years In
advance.
He repeated that he did not want.
to raise the fees, but that it was
either raise fees or limit the
number of students at the games if
the department was to keep
making its necessary profit.
The $4.50 increase will bring the
fee to $13.00, Harold Brunton, vice
president for business affairs
yesterday told a group of students
in the Faculty-Student Commons
Room that the present fee was
$8.50 per semester.
The $13.00 fee, divided among
the 5% home games per season
(four one year and six the next)
amounts to a cost of about $2.30 for
football alone, $4.70 below general
admission prices. Basketball
tickets also come out of the $13.00
fee reducing the price to about
$1.18 per ticket.
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By JOHN GASH
Sports Writer
Take a dash of Lew Alcindor, a
pinch of Joe Namath, a dab of Pele
and a touch of the world's greatest
kick-the-can player. Mix and stir
gently. What do you get? A very
ungentle rugby player.
Believe it or not, the University
of South Carolina has about 40 such
athletes. They are unusual people
in an unusual sport.
Whether he is lost in a human
mass of knees and elbows in a
thing called a "scrum", or
sprinting towards the goal only to
be speared by an ex-professional
football player (as is USC's Dr.
Frank Walton, who was drafted by
the Detroit Lions), the rugger has
to love contact. He can't be playing
the sport for the glory or the fame
because there is none.
"We're just a bunch of guys who
like to occasionally bang heads,"
states Jack Clasen, a rugger
himself. "To be a (rugby player,
you have to be big, fast and a little
crazy."
Clasen couldn't find the exact
words to explain how the sport is
played. To define it the best he
could he gave an example of what
he overhead a spectator tell his
girlfriend: you're out on this big
field trying to get the ball (a
pregnant football so called by the
players) from one end of the field
to the other , using anything short
of guns.
Rugby can be very bloody as was
witnessed in a recent match in
which a Gamecock rugger was
kicked in the head. The blood
completely covered his face but he
kept on playing. But this type of
injury is not so uncommon because
the ruggers use no padding at all.
When asked if they retained
physicians for the matches, Clasen
only smiled. He once tried to get
insured, but the company said that
the sport was too risky unless they
insured the whole team.
(TERRY ROSEN)
GUITAR STUDIOS
)HARRY CJAMES
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Clasen explained how the match
was going to be played when he
said that they would need a big
crowd just to carry the N.C. State
owies off the field.
In what may be the last home
stand of the season, the match will
take place at the Intramural Field
B this Saturday at 2.
Jim
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Sports Editor
ll.
able to change part of the
ge baseball the Gamecocks
e Roost, but maybe it won't
t pageantry that is football
curry that is basketball, the
ays seems a little anti
ds written about the causes
i baseball in general. The
es say, is such that the fans
3nd pageantry.
nental attachment for the
Aid who lived within walking
:w pasture played baseball.
not lie with the game, but
it it's their fault that they
aball that isn't there. They
and that commodity at a
infrequent at best.
~ball remains. Tomorrow at
imber of frustrated former
ol stars. They will eat their
ilonger respond to the crack
s5 their senses every spring.
hat ''dull and boring'' game
>n is here now, and his very
>ack the stands with curosity
Bobby Richardson really is
resence to the USC program
o add a lot of hustle and a lot
les last season had little of
uld add even more incentive
armer stars may rediscover
female companion and a
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Stnce rugby is mostly a
European sport, many people don't
understand what it is all about. But
the team is making many strides
towards becoming popular. Each
turnout is larger than the last.
The next home match should be
largest to date because USC plays
the N.C. State ruggers.
H
rhey call it dull and borin4
rhey call it college baseba
Bobby Richardson may be
situation. It will still be colle
will be playing tomorrow at t
be dull and boring.
After a season of the violer
and the breathless, relentless 4
college baseball season alv
climatic.
Fhere have been a lot of wor
tor the decreasing interest ii
temper of the times, the scrib
demand action and violence,
But the fans have a sentil
game, nonetheless, for every I
distance of a vacant lot or a c
Perhaps the problem does
rather with the fans. Not the
expect something out of basi
expect heart-racing action
baseball game is sometimes
But the attachment for bas4
the Roost there will be a nt
Little Leaguers and high schc
hearts out because they can nc
of ball against bat that invadi
And they might even enjoyi
at college baseball. Richards<
presence should be enough to I
seeker s who want to see if T H I
the baseball coach.
Richardson has added his pl
and hopefully he will be able t
of wins to a team that at tin
either.
A packed set of bleachers cc
to win, and those frustrated f
that a spring day, a pretty
baseball game Is a very ple4
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