The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 16, 1974, Image 10
GAMECOCK
"It is a newspaper's duty to print the neivs, and raise bell."
WILBUR F. STOREY
BILL GRANT, Editor
BILL OUTLAW ART FRANK
Editorial Page Editor Advertising Manager
Eeptember 16, 1974
Carolina football:
Same old story
Great GROD! Here we go again.
For the benefit of newly arrived students on campus,
GROD means "Get Rid Of Dietzel." It is a yearly slogan
that crops up after Carolina loses its first (and sub
sequent) football games each year.
The Gamecock neither originated nor are we now
advocating the GROD slogan, but ~ like many othei
football fans at the University and across the state we
are disappointed once again.
Coach Paul F. Dietzel's yearly statement that one
game does not make a season is a justifiable one, but
saying it time after time and year after year wears the
listeners sympathies down.
When USC first acquired Dietzel's services in 1966,
many Carolina football fans unfairly assumed we would
have an instant winner and would be at the top of the
rankings in a matter of several years. These ex
pectations have been lingering on Dietzel's shoulders
ever since.
This year was to be the year. Dietzel was quoted in a
local newspaper as saying Carolina is approaching its
"Golden Age" in football. That "Golden Age" appears
to be at least a few years away.
Pre-season publications listed South Carolina's
football fortunes as having good prospects for a winning
year. Most forecasters predicted a 7-4 and 8-3 season as
most likely. Playboy predicted a 9-2 year and a major
bowl bid. Almost all of the forecasters visions included
Georgia Tech as the first victim of the season for South
Carolina.
What makes last night's looss to Georgia Tech so
disappointing is the Carolina football fan was led to
believe we were going to be a national powerhouse. We
may still have a winning season, but an opening loss to a
team that was supposed to be in a rebuilding year has
quickly brought the Gamecock football fan down off
cloud nine and a victory in the orange Bowl.
The Gamecock does not want to sound like Herman
Helms in its criticisms of Dietzel, but frankly we are
getting fed up with visions of football splendor being
painted by the Athletic Department.
The promises of "wait till next year" and "we are an
inexperienced football team" and "that was as fine a
football team as I've seen, they could have beaten
anyone in the nation out there tonight" have all been
over used over the past nine years.
The sobering fact of the matter is South Carolina is not
and probably never will be a national powerhouse in
football. Once the football fan here acknowledges this,
losses such as the one to Georgia Tech will be much
more easy to accept.
The publicity surrounding this year's football team
appears to be a plJoy to fill the expanded football stadium
with season ticket holders. The .Athletic Department
would do well in the future to win the games first and
publicize them later.
--WNO
- USCho
From Staff Reports
" ode Knoodie" announced
toda that he will not cancel this
Sunday's jump across the Pickens
Street "gap" near the Harold
Brunton Memorial bridge.
The University originally
refused Knoodie permission to
build a launching ramp and to use
the reflections pond for splash
down purposes, but Knoodie ap
pealed the decision to the Board of
Trustees who granted him per
mission when he convinced them
this fad would catch on with the
students and take the place of
streaking on campus.
Knoodie will make his jump at 6
p.m. this Sunday on a 25 cc super
charged scooter complete with red,
white and bulue mud flaps and
fender skirts. blue
In an exclusive interview with
The Gamecock, Knoodie said he
first became interested in jumping
when he was a kid and jumped over
sidewalks with his tricycle to avoid
breaking his mother's back.
He said his first pracical ex
perience in jumping came when he
was 15-years old. "I had just
bought myself a used Honda
motorcycle and was testing it for
speed. I remember hearing a
LETTERS...
Freshman
Observations
TO THE EDITOR:
Never a dull moment. This is the
well-worn cliche that rings
through my head following last
Wednesday evening. Granted this
university has no shortage of ex
citing and interesting en
tertainment to occupy one's leisure
hours, but the night proved the
icing on the cake to me, an
astounded frosh. What the hell
am I rambling about?' you ask.
Allow me to capsulize the
evening's activities in a brief
chronicle.
It all began at 7:30 p.m. Wed
nesday last when I attended the
Heep, Quatro, Willie concert at the
Coliseum. Besides some hard
driving rock-n-roll that just
couldn't be beat, my nostrils
delighted to that aromatic scent
that many of us know only too well.
When -this Wonder World
presentation concluded at approx.
11:30 p.m.,!I began to ponder, since
the night was still young and I am a
devout hedonist, just what would
be the most epicurean manner ini
which to pass the wee hours that
lay ahead. My uncertainty was
short but sweet.
Crossing Main Street and ap
proaching the Towers complex, I
noticed a large throng gathered
about theperimetersof Baker Hall.
Drawing within hearing distance.
for my hearing had been essen
tially reduced to that vague anc
monotone drone which generall3
results from having been bom
barded by tbose characteristic
piercing wails of sound for up
wards of three hours, I was af
fronted by the demanding
evocative cries of "panty raid."
More than hundred shreikinj
aficianados partook in th4
festivity, risking the battere<
limbs and sore necks that ensue<
from the rough treatment one wa:
liable to encounter in the jumps foi
the descending drawers. A
impressive array of gossamei
s its own d
strange noise behind me and then I
saw flashes of blue in my rear view
mirror, which I was holding in my
right hand. Itried outrunning him,
but I hit a bump about a quarter of
a mile down the road and flew
about 50 feet in the air. When I
landed, I broke my shoulder and
crushed my hip, but I knew I had
found what I was looking for."
After recuperating for the next
six months, Knoodie decided to
explore this exciting hobby as a
means of livelihood.
Knoodie has decided to go on
with the jump despite pleas not to
do it from his three mistresses
and 15 illegitimate children. His
favorite mistress, Cornelia Sue,
said she doesn't want him to make
the jump, but she knows a man has
got to do what he has got to do.
In making a farewell speech to
his children, Knoodie said he told
them not to grow up and be like
him because "What I'm doing may
not be right for you, but it's right
for me. A man has got to do
what he has got to do."
The details of the jump were
worked out between Knoodie and
Dean Brunton. It was decided last
year that Pickens Street. would be
lowered and a bridge would- be
built to add glamour to the event.
Panty raids.,
your-heart supporters, falsies,
sanitary napkins and water
drenchings were the reward for a
job well done.
Even the officers of the law
didn't have the heart to break up
this good, clean fun. After all, their
red-blooded male libidos are just
as subject to passionate whimsies
as are those of the student body.
However, to those girls whom it
may concern (those who were
requesting streakers) tragedyavas
that the law officers just refused tc
Another season in
Well gang another fall season of
television bonanza is upon us. So
it's time once again for all of us
college addicts to move.
Rhoda, the new situation comedy
spin off from the Mary Tyler
Moore Show, appears to be headed
for similar success.
Valerie Harper as Rhoda, proves
she can carry a show withs comedy
of Lucy and the grace of Mary, all
in her own unique style. The Mary
Tyler Moore Company has wisely
surrounded Miss Harper with a
superb array of support. Nancy
Walker has got to be the Queen of
.mothers, she's a scream and utter
delight to watch. Diavid Groh and
Julie Kavner as the boyfriend and
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The street was lowered to give the
cameras better angles with which
to film the event.
Knoodie plans to'counter any
pain he might suffer when he lands
by takinglO Quaaludes before
taking off.
Knoodie said he not only wants to
clear the gap, but also to make it
over the Humanities building and
intothe reflections pond. The
Marion L. Gressette Memorial
Ramp has been built to help him
accomplish this feat. It is 75-feet
tall and built at a 90 degree angle
perpendicular to the road bed
below.
He said he is not doing this for
the money, although he admitted to
signing a multi-dollar contract
with Mackie Quave and WOLO-TV
in Columbia.
Ticket prices for observing the
jump will be $1 per person or $.50
and two price tages from a
"Goodie Knoodie" daredevil
jumpmobile for kids aged 6 months
to 70 years.
The iGamecock; would like to
extend our best wishes to a man
who is truly doing his own thing.
Strenth of convictions is becoming
a lost human characteristic. A man
should always do what a man has
to do.
.TV critic
stretch their indifference that far.
So come on, let's bear it! One big
resounding applause to those
fellows whose lusting charisma
contributed to an evening that was
both curiously refreshing and high
py unforgettable. And to all those
fun-loving-girls who so generously
-donate4 their unmentionables,
whether clean or dirty, hats-er
"panties off'.
HENRY ROHLING
front of the tube
sister, portray likeable characters
that will mature as the series
progresses.
Although first shows are unfair
judges, Rhoda come' across with
such certainity, and with the light,
warm, and realistic comedy at is
found in The Mary Tyler Moore
Show, you know it's going to be an
instant success. Besides, after
watching the hilarious acid tougue
of Maude, a lItttle Rhoda is just the
right cup of tea.
Till then, keep the door locked,
T.V. down low and don't forget
them COVERS!!!
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